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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
31-08-2018
UFO sighting: Strange lights over San Diego prompts extraterrestrial speculation
UFO sighting: Strange lights over San Diego prompts extraterrestrial speculation
UFO hunters were on high alert when strange lights were spotted over San Diego prompting speculation of an alien invasion.
Another resident of San Diego, Nicky Fox, wrote on Twitter: “Extraterrestrial lights randomly appearing in the air of Pacific Beach, San Diego.”
One user, Fluttergirl9, posted on Reddit: “I’m in the San Fernando Valley right now and I couldn't believe how many UFOs were in the sky tonight.”
However, Government officials moved to calm the nerves of San Diego residents and came out with an official response to the sightings.
UFO sighting: Strange lights over San Diego prompt extraterrestrial speculation
(Image: GETTY • YOUTUBE)
They state that the strange lights were actually flares released as part of a military test drill 30 miles (50km) off the coast.
But this official explanation still did not conspiracy theorists chins from wagging.
Spirit Walkers commented on a YouTube video of the event: “The most hilarious thing about all these videos is the DESPERATION of all the gov shills trying to explain away each anomaly. ‘Go back to sleep, it's flares…Drones!’.”
While Twitter user Joe Martin contacted prominent conspiracy theorist and former Blink 182 band member Tom DeLonge, who is now a self-proclaimed truth seeker for UFO activity, to ask: “Howdy @tomdelonge , what do you make of this? It was in our (San Diego) night sky tonight. The official word is that it was a military flare exercise. I don't agree.”
New play In Your Skies is partly inspired by the infamous UFO incident in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk.
Picture: Getty
Lights in the sky, alien space craft, military cover-ups in the woods, they are the stuff of science fiction and conspiracy theories.
Now a Norfolk theatre company is hoping to combine the two in a new play and is seeking people with real-life stories of strange goings-on to help them.
Diss-based The Keeper’s Daughter is currently developing In Your Skies, a play that will explore the life of ufologists and the wider UFO phenomenon.
As part of the research in October, the theatre company are holding two public events at Flying Saucer Cafe in Ipswich and Biddy’s Tea Room in Norwich and they hope UFO investigators and anybody who has seen unexplained lights in the sky will share their experiences.
Mark Finbow, The Keepers Daughter artistic director, who is seeking stories for new play In Your Skies.
Picture: Tom McCall
The play is partly inspired by the infamous 1980 incident in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk that has become the UK’s most famous alleged UFO sighting.
American officers stationed at the former RAF Woodbridge site reported seeing strange lights and an alien craft on two occasions. The mystery has inspired for books, documentaries, a feature film and even a UFO trail in the Forestry Commission woods.
Mark Finbow, The Keeper’s Daughter artistic director and co-founder, said: “It’s fascinating and over the years there have been so many versions of the story. Whatever the truth is that people are seeking they are never going to find it. I think something happened but I don’t believe it was aliens and most of the people I’ve spoken to so far don’t believe that either.”
In Your Skies is being developed in conjunction with Eastern Angles, DissCorn Hall, and The Garagre in Norwich.
Picture: Keepers Daughter
To research the play, he has already met investigator Brenda Butler, who published a book on the Rendlesham incident in 1984 called Sky Crash. Now he hopes to get other stories too.
The resident theatre company at Diss Corn Hall, The Keeper’s Daughter specialise in science fiction stories. Recent productions includes sci-fi rom com Tomorrow is Your Hope and Wandering Spectre, a children’s ghost story inspired local memories from the people of Diss.
Mr Finbow said: “I prefer the human stories so really this play will be about people who search for UFOs, why they search for them, why this has become a compulsion, possibly obsession, for some of them. They want to believe and you are much more likely to see something if you want to see it.”
Press cutting relating to the Rendlesham UFO incident from 1980.
Picture: Archant Library
The first results of In Your Skies, which is being developed in conjunction with Suffolk theatre company Eastern Angles, will be unveiled in Ipswich and at The Garage in Norwich in February, before it tours the region later in 2019.
Some people thought this meteor in Australia was a UFO
Some people thought this meteor in Australia was a UFO
A meteor seared over Australia on Tuesday night, lighting up the sky over Perth.
According to the ABC, the local Department of Fire and Emergency Services received calls from "more than one concerned caller" who thought the meteor could be a UFO.
As Lisa Barnes points out, if the meteor managed to make it to land, you probably shouldn't grab souvenirs. Remnants belong to the state and any discoveries should be reported to Gravity Discovery Centre.
Lisa Barnes✔@Barnsy_Lisa
Lots of reports coming in about a meteor in the sky over Perth last night. Senior astronomer at Gravity Discovery Centre Richard Tonello tells @6PRbreakfast even if a piece hit the ground, it technically belongs to the State Govt & should be reported to the museum #perthnews
Finding actual pieces of meteor is questionable — according to Professor Phil Bland, director of the Desert Fireball Network which studies the fallen space rocks, only about 2 to 3 percent of visible meteors make it to the ground.
But Bland is hopeful. He told ABC that considering how bright it appears on camera, the object must have been large. Larger meteors have a greater chance of making it through Earth's atmosphere intact.
"So that is really exciting," he said.
ABC reports that the Desert Fireball Network should be able to pinpoint where the meteor landed by the end of the day.
Videos : UFO camouflage? Rare clouds that look like UFOs Or is it really a UFO camouflage?
Videos : UFO camouflage? Rare clouds that look like UFOs Or is it really a UFO camouflage?
Different UFO enthusiasts are convinced that aliens are hiding behind the big cloud and that the clouds should be just their cover, with which they can discreetly observe people. However, experts are more skeptical about this theory.
Such a view of the sky, it do not often comes along. This is an interesting, quite rare, lenticular clouds or almond shaped. Even has its name – altocumulus lenticularis. It occurs when air rises rapidly through the topographic barrier
Simply put: if the airflow is obstructed, such as high mountains, begins to rise and is condensed. This provides the cloud, often consisting of two or more layers. When to add extra shine and illuminate them nicely, they may resemble massive fixed object, such as a UFO. Beauty!
Germans . Beyond time and space. NAZI UFO 1935-1945. part3. Secret Nazi Experiments.
Germans . Beyond time and space. NAZI UFO 1935-1945. part3. Secret Nazi Experiments.
At the end of World War II, when the defeat of Nazi Germany was almost certain, the US Army began to discover secret underground laboratories and factories throughout the territories. Missile systems, new cannons, jet planes, an atomic bomb, this is just a fraction of what has come to the surface. German advanced technologies and research were miles away from the rest of the world.
But what happened to the best scientists of the Third Reich and state-of-the-art research? Workers in secret factories used prisoners from concentration camps. Almost everything that has been found in these strictly classified places has come to an end in the US. This in essence reflected the world’s power from non-human research. But what did the Germans also prepare, and what were their plans, which never saw the light of the world?
German UFOs
During World War II, flying plates were developed. This fact is really incredible, although research has probably never achieved the desired results. There are theories that should have been used to transfer a planned atomic bomb.
Atomic bomb
Official testimonies say that the Germans were far from developing a real atomic weapon. So they told the Nuremberg court. On the other hand, what is the fact? In 1945, Kurt Diebner’s scientific team had to test the atomic bomb at a German shooter in the Jonastal Valley, where we can now look for increased radioactivity. There are also several witnesses gathered by German historian Rainer Karlsch in the book Hitler’s Bomb. Other sources say that Hitler considered nuclear physics to be a Jewish science, and he did not want to share anything with nuclear research.
Solar weapon The project led by renowned rocket scientist Hermann Oberth had planned to create 22 miles above the ground a huge mirror that would be 100 meters wide and the Nazis would be able to burn any city on the sunny rays or arrange a nice weather on the Rimsko Seme. The metal sodium colossus was supposed to be (fortunately) finished up to 50 or 100 years after designing it.
Project High Jumptajny vyskum
In 1946, one year after the war, 27 US military ships, 4,000 soldiers and 400 scientists flocked to the shores of Antarctica. After two weeks, however, they have suffered huge losses, and so far this megalomania action is only talking about harmless research. Even after almost 70 years we still wonder what is hiding in Nové Švábsko? It was during the Second World War, when the Germans declared part of Antarctica as their territory and was named after New Swabia, and there were many mysterious German submarines that did not go back on its shores. Allegedly, there have been research institutes in newly-discovered warm lakes. But what really happened there?
Too many unanswered questions, many concealments and few answers. It is definitely a phase of history that needs to be deeper. But it could be a dangerous game.
New Videos Of What Could Be The New Space Force In Action. But Why Now? Something Is Going On Over Florida! Special Thanks To The People Who Shared There Video With Thirdphaseofmoon!
With Mars Dust Storm Clearing, Opportunity Rover Could Finally Wake Up
With Mars Dust Storm Clearing, Opportunity Rover Could Finally Wake Up
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
This June 2017 photo by NASA's Opportunity Mars rover shows the area just above "Perseverance Valley,” which lies on the rim of the 14-mile-wide (22 kilometers) Endeavour Crater. Opportunity has been silent since June 10, 2018, as a dust storm has raged around it.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.
If NASA's Opportunity Mars rover is still alive, we should hear from it relatively soon.
The solar-powered Opportunity hasn't made a peep since June 10, when a worsening dust storm plunged the rover's environs — a spot on the rim of the 14-mile-wide (22 kilometers) Endeavour Crater called Perseverance Valley — into deep darkness.
"The sun is breaking through the haze over Perseverance Valley, and soon there will be enough sunlight present that Opportunity should be able to recharge its batteries," John Callas, Opportunity project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement.
Mission controllers are already trying to hail Opportunity three times a week, beaming beep-eliciting commands via the big radio dishes of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) during times when the rover might be awake. But as soon as a measurement of atmospheric opacity known as "tau" dips under 1.5, the DSN communication campaign will step up significantly, Callas said. (At the dust storm's height, tau got all the way up to 10.8. More recently, it's been down in the 2-to-2.5 range.)
The clock will start ticking for Opportunity upon the initiation of this campaign.
"If we do not hear back after 45 days, the team will be forced to conclude that the sun-blocking dust and the Martian cold have conspired to cause some type of fault from which the rover will more than likely not recover," Callas said.
"At that point, our active phase of reaching out to Opportunity will be at an end," he added. "However, in the unlikely chance that there is a large amount of dust sitting on the solar arrays that is blocking the sun's energy, we will continue passive listening efforts for several months."
Opportunity has been exploring the Martian surface for more than 14 years. The golf-cart-size rover and its twin, Spirit, touched down in different locales on the Red Planet three weeks apart in January 2004.
Both rovers embarked on 90-Earth-day missions to hunt for signs of past water activity on Mars. And both found lots of such evidence, and then kept rolling along. Spirit last communicated with Earth in March 2010, but Opportunity remained healthy and productive until the dust storm forced it into a sort of hibernation.
The biggest threat to the rover in its current state is cold weather, mission team members have said. Opportunity cannot operate its onboard heaters, so if temperatures drop too much, some of the robot's critical internal components could break. But there's a silver lining to the dust clouds: Dust traps heat, making the potentially dangerous Martian nights a little warmer than they otherwise would be.
"In a situation like this, you hope for the best but plan for all eventualities," Callas said. "We are pulling for our tenacious rover to pull her feet from the fire one more time. And if she does, we will be there to hear her."
I thought I’d check out what ufo videos are out there caught on a flir camera, well actually I mean thermal imaging camera Flir is a brand name. Nearly all flir ufo captures are by military and police forces.
but there are some or atleast one guy I found on YouTube, capturing ufos on a thermal imaging camera. At first I thought there was 2 guys, 1 called UFO MAN and 1 called UFO HUNTER but I’m pretty certain it’s the same guy.
I really want one of these things but at $2500 or £4000 in the U.K for a small camcorder sized one, to $125, 000 for a second hand military grade looking job on eBay, I think I’ll give it a miss.
Ive quite frankly had enough of this shitty little island being ripped of by everyone ...including its own people
$2500 is £2000, so who ever is buying them into Britain is being ripped off .....or the fecker is ripping us off, I suppose it don’t matter cause I can’t afford one.
anyway, I got 3 videos, one is military footage caugh by the puertorican authorities and the other 2 are by the guy called ufo hunter. But this first one is completely mind blowing, not only is it a good capture but it’s what happens towards the end! The ufo goes into the sea and comes out split into 2 separate ufos and although that’s pretty awesome, that isn’t the bit that gets me ...it’s the fact that when it enters the sea, it does not appear to effect it in anyway ....no slowing down, nothing! It doesn’t even seem to make a splash??
To me it just confirms that ufos are not really there “ physically” there is something else going on? But it’s anyones guess what
heres the first video and it’s the military one:
the next 2 are from that ufo guy and are no less impressive. And let me say before anyone calls birds. Birds fly in unison and tend to only over take the other, when taking turns to lead the pack and it is not done at such speed as they are already flying nearly as fast as they can!
ive never seen ufos like this before, they are flying in formation and look to me like an intelligent organic living thing, like someone mentioned the ufos could be in the first video. I’ve always thought orbs could be somekind of living thing ....sky jelly fish or summin? 😆
Let’s face it there could be anything out there beyond human comprehension
Stars is not what you think they are - they sing together like an orchestra!
Stars is not what you think they are - they sing together like an orchestra!
This is such a great video depicting stars in real time filmed by amateur photographers not NASA and the difference is astonishing- Stars are not what we think they are.
"Beyond the Sky" reveals the truth behind UFOs and Alien Abductions
"Beyond the Sky" reveals the truth behind UFOs and Alien Abductions
Fulvio Sestito is having a real moment in Hollywood with his second movie ‘The Curse’ entering pre-production just as his directorial debut ‘Beyond the Sky’ is set to light up the theatre screens.
This autumn, critics have suggested, the world will be stunned by what has been hyped as the terrifying UFO movie to hit the big screen in years.
Beyond the Skies shines a new light on alien abductions
The movie centres on a UFO sceptic named Chris Norton. Norton has spent his life surrounded by stories of UFO abductions and alien encounters, and he believes with all his heart that they are nothing more than nonsense and delusion. He sets himself the mission to debunk claims of alien abductions once and for all and heads into enemy territory to just that.
At a UFO convention, Norton seeks out alleged abductees to confirm his suspicions that they are either lying or just crazy. At first, it seems like Norton’s suspicions are about to be approved until he meets Emily who claims that she has been abducted every year for the past seven years on her birthday. Chris is intrigued by Emily and thinks that there might be more to her story than meets the eye, and so he agrees to accompany her on her birthday which is only a few days away.
What happens next will change Norton’s mind about the UFO phenomenon and open up a seriously terrifying new reality that he could have never imagined existed.
Critics who have seen the film have praised its high-stakes thrills and superb writing team along with the all-star cast of cult movie darlings including Ryan Carnes, Jordan Hinson, Peter Stormare, Dee Wallace, Martin Sensmeier and Don Stark.
The trailer for what is guaranteed to be one of the must-see movies of this year can be viewed below.
WETENSCHAPNa drie maanden is de enorme stofstorm op de planeet Mars eindelijk gaan liggen. Door de storm kon de onbemande verkenner Opportunity, die op zonne-energie werkt, de afgelopen maanden geen onderzoek doen omdat de accu leeg was. Nu de zon opnieuw begint te schijnen op mars, kan de Mars-rover zijn batterijen weer opladen. Als hij het nog doet tenminste.
Volgens de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA “breekt de zon door de wolken boven Perseverance Valley”, de plek waar de verkenner geparkeerd staat. Als de lucht op Mars helder genoeg is, probeert NASA een signaal naar de Opportunity te sturen om een idee te krijgen hoe de verkenner eraan toe is. Als ze na 45 dagen nog niets hebben gehoord, gaan ze ervan uit dat de verkenner onherstelbaar beschadigd is door de stofstorm.
De stofstorm werd op 30 mei voor het eerst waargenomen. Op 10 juni liet de Opportunity voor het laatst van zich horen. In 2007 overleefde de Mars-rover een nog veel grotere storm. De kou die daarmee gepaard ging, betekende volgens de NASA vermoedelijk wel het einde van tweelingbroer Spirit, die toen ook op Mars rondreed.
De Opportunity werd in juli 2003 gelanceerd en landde in januari 2004 op Mars. De verkenner rijdt al ruim veertien jaar rond op Mars, terwijl de missie oorspronkelijk negentig dagen zou duren. Hij heeft inmiddels iets meer dan 45 kilometer afgelegd en vond een paar weken na zijn landing al sporen van water. Nader onderzoek wees uit dat de Opportunity op de kustlijn van een opgedroogde zoute zee stond. Later vond de verkenner nog meer bewijs dat er miljarden jaren geleden water stroomde op Mars.
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Coördinaten van Grote Piramide komen overeen met lichtsnelheid. Is dit bewijs voor buitenaardse invloed?
Coördinaten van Grote Piramide komen overeen met lichtsnelheid. Is dit bewijs voor buitenaardse invloed?
Als je de afmetingen van de Grote Piramide afzet tegen de exacte coördinaten van de evenaar, kom je tot de ontdekking dat het bouwwerk een soort schaalmodel is van het noordelijk halfrond. Dat wordt gesteld in het nieuwe seizoen van het tv-programma Ancient Aliens.
Aan de hand van satelliettechnologie is recentelijk nog iets opmerkelijks ontdekt.
Als je de locatie van de Grote Piramide weergeeft als een coördinaat, komt dat coördinaat exact overeen met de snelheid waarmee het licht reist.
Niet zomaar
Ook andere bouwwerken op aarde, zoals de Meso-Amerikaanse piramides en Ziggoerats in Mesopotamië, blijken niet zomaar ergens te zijn gebouwd.
“Deze gebouwen zijn neergezet onder goddelijke leiding,” zegt Jonathan Young, curator van de Joseph Campbell Archives.
“Dit is een merkteken van de goden,” vervolgt hij. “Ze hebben bepaalde dingen in die gebouwen gestopt om ons te laten weten dat ze niet geheel van menselijke oorsprong zijn.”
Uitgelijnd
“Ze staan voor iets groters,” aldus Young.
Het zou om die reden geen toeval zijn dat bepaalde sterrenbeelden zijn uitgelijnd boven oude bouwwerken.
Zo komen de drie piramides op het Gizeh-plateau overeen met de drie sterren in de riem van Orion. Datzelfde geldt voor drie piramides die in Teotihuacan staan.
Lying just off the southern coast of Italy is a small archipelago of islands that comprises the island nation of Malta. The country has a unique and colorful history, first settled in 5,900 BC and then passed through a succession of rulers over the millennia, including the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Sicilians, Spanish, French, and British, due to it Naval importance, and finally becoming a British colony in 1814, before gaining independence in 1964. With such a long history spanning back for millennia, Malta is known for its splendid ruins, historical monuments, and ancient sites, but one of these places stands out; a mysterious underground complex that holds with in it many enigmas and oddities that remain unsolved to this day.
The place known as the Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni, or also just simply the Hypogeum, was found quite by accident, when in 1902 some workers were digging cisterns at a housing development in the town of Paola when they broke through into what seemed to be an immense chamber of some kind. This chamber seemed to be part of some larger structure that had sat down there in the darkness away from human eyes for a very long time, but for some reason the workers decided to cover up their discovery, meaning that the true extent of this bizarre place would not be uncovered until later.
When word got out that there was a mysterious subterranean complex of unknown origin lying down there right under the town, archeologists were quick to swarm to it, and it would soon prove to be one of the most important and interesting archeological discoveries of the century. Dated to as old as 4,000 BC, it was and still is thought to be the oldest underground complex in the world, and here was a Neolithic structure that held temples, shrines, altars, vast warrens of tunnels that meandered off into the dark, burial chambers, all painstakingly cut directly into the surrounding rock and littered with countless objects such as statues, figurines, pottery, stone and clay beads, shell buttons, amulets, axe-heads, and many, many others. Yet, perhaps the most notable and macabre discovery down there in this ancient place long buried and forgotten down in the bowels of the earth were the remains of an estimated 7,000 individuals, along with numerous burial tools, leading to the theory that this massive complex was meant as a necropolis, or basically a city of the dead, a giant tomb.
The Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni
It was already all a mystery as to who had built this place, how it had remained hidden for so long, and why it was packed with thousands of dead people, but these were by far not the only mysteries awaiting discovery in this dark, forgotten place. By far one of the most well-known mysteries of the Hypogeum is the discovery of numerous very anomalous skulls scattered amongst the many remains found there, and uncovered at what appears to be a sacred well adorned with statues of a goddess.
The skulls in question were immediately striking in that they were abnormally elongated and larger than normal human skulls, and further analysis showed that some displayed some kind of mysterious genetic abnormality, while others held evidence that their skulls had been intentionally bound to make them that way, similar to a practice among priests in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and South America. A few of the skulls are very odd indeed, showing an inconsistent pattern of, and in one case a complete lack of, the cranial “knitting,” a line across the skull denoting the fusing of cranial plates, also called the fossa median, which are the plates of the skull that are separate in infancy and later join together into adulthood. This baffled the researchers who looked at them, as there is no known genetic abnormality or mutation in humans. Most of the strange skulls also demonstrated evidence of having undergone some mysterious surgical procedure, with three small holes drilled into the head for unknown reasons.
These bizarre skulls prompted wide speculation at the time, and still do. Why did these individuals have these mysterious elongated skulls and what was its significance? One of the earlier ideas was that these remains represented a whole new race of humans or a new mutation, while others suggested it had some religious implication or was some sort of sign of status. There was also the idea that these could have been settlers from Egypt, where the elongation of skulls was a documented practice, or were descendants from an unknown Maltese tribe or lost civilization. Other more far-out theories have been that these are the remains of ancient aliens or interdimensional travelers, while others say that they were attempts to enhance psychic abilities, or even that they were the remnants of the displaced population of the lost continent of Atlantis.
One of the mysterious Malta skulls
It is hard to say for sure because the skulls themselves have been so little-studied, and remain cloaked in shadow. After their discovery, 11 of the bizarre skulls were put on display at the Archeological Museum of the Valletta, after which they were suddenly removed without explanation, with access strictly limited, making it nearly impossible for anyone to adequately study them. Indeed, some of the only evidence that we have that they ever even existed at all are some photos and records by Maltese researchers Dr. Anton Mifsud and Dr. Charles Savona Ventura. Adding to the mystery is the fact that apparently several of the skulls have gone missing over the years, with only 6 of the original 11 remaining. What happened to the others? No one knows, and it has added a layer of dark government conspiracies and cover-ups upon the whole thing. As a result of all of this, the weird skulls of Malta have remained hotly debated and their exact origins unknown.
While we don’t know exactly where they came from or why they were there, these skulls are not even the most outlandish mystery of the Hypogeum. In the 1930s, a worker from the British Embassy by the name of Lois Jessop came forward with a truly bizarre account from down in the depths of the Hypogeum. She claimed that she had been exploring the ancient subterranean tunnels on a guided tour by candlelight when she came to burial chamber with a steep drop that plunged down into the murk. When she used her candle to look down through the darkness she claims that she saw something very strange down there in the abyss, and she looked down there as someone held onto her sash to keep her from falling, and would explain of what happened next:
I held my candle higher and peered down into the abyss, thinking that with this dangerous drop it was better not to go on further without a guide. Then I saw about twenty persons of giant stature emerge from an opening deep below me. They were walking in single file along another narrow ledge down below. Their height I judged to be about twenty to twenty-five feet, since their heads came up about half way on the wall on the opposite side of the cave. They were covered in long white hair, combed downward and shaggy looking. They walked very slowly, taking long strides. Then they all stopped, turned and raised their heads in my direction. All simultaneously raised their arms and with their hands beckoned to me. The movement was something like snatching or feeling for something, as the palms of their hands were turned down.
Things get even spookier a few weeks later, when Jessop claimed that there had been a group of 30 students and some teachers who had gone down into the very same chamber, only to mysteriously vanish after the cave collapsed behind them. Screams and cries for help could purportedly be heard echoing out from somewhere within for days, even as search parties looked and failed to find them, before finally giving way to silence. Their bodies were never found. After this, the government then supposedly went in and boarded up the tunnels, closing them to the public. Jessop’s tale was published in the publication The Journal of Borderland Research, but her veracity has been controversial since she would go on in later years to express an intense interest in UFOs and even become head of a UFO research organization. Was her account true, and if so what did she see down there? Who knows?
Other oddities of the Hypogeum have been uncovered in recent years as well. For instance, it has been found that the cave consistently produces sound frequencies that fall within the range of 110 to 111 hertz, which is known to have physical and mental effects and is too consistent to have been an accident. It is thought that this place was specifically chosen and designed for this effect, and that it served some as yet unknown purpose for these people or beings. With its air of mystery, unclear origins, unidentified remains, mystical features, and its otherworldly skulls, the Hypogeum of Malta, which managed to remain hidden from civilization for thousands of years, just may hold many of its enigmas for thousands more.
A rod was seen shooting past a security cam just as a Tesla shoots past and became airborne. It appears the the rod, an alien probe was following along side the Tesla to observe its technology and abilities. I mean, how often do you see Tesla cars flying past? Its a rare thing, but probably going to become more common since they are lighter and faster than their gas counterparts.
Now youtube videos can be slowed down. Hit the settings button in the video bar, hit speed, then hit .24. That will make it 1/4 the speed. This way you can see the UFO and the Tesla both.
Scott C. Waring
Video states:
A four-door Tesla crossed the steep Little Avenue railway tracks at a high rate of speed Tuesday evening and became airborne before losing control and crashing into the parking lot of Assikinack Public School.
Three Mile Long UFO Found On Google Moon, Aug 31, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Three Mile Long UFO Found On Google Moon, Aug 31, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Aug 31, 2018 Location of discovery: Earths moon Method: Google Moon Coordinates: Unknown, northern region I was looking at Google Moon map at a UFO that was parked near a crater edge so it was partly hidden in the shadows, when all of a sudden Google Moon crashed. It happened just a second before I was about to copy the Google coordinates. I did not expect that to happen. Its almost like Google was trying to keep me from devolving the location of this UFO. I will however still make a post about it, and one day, someone else will find the coordinates of it again. I did get some great screenshots of it before it crashed. The UFO is 3 miles long and 1 mile wide. Its standing on legs in the shadows. Why did Google Moon crash when my mouse curser was on the coordinates to copy? Could be a program glitch or it could be Google is helping to hide the existence of aliens. Since Google is the largest search engine in the world in control of the worlds total Internet knowledge...it only make sense to use it to the governments advantage. Scott C. Waring
Fireball Lights Up Sky Over Western Australia (Videos)
Fireball Lights Up Sky Over Western Australia (Videos)
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Dash cam footage shared on Twitter shows the bright blue light
A fireball lit up the sky over the Australian city of Perth late Tuesday (Aug. 28), reportedly generating a powerful shockwave that rattled houses in the area — and some observers caught the dramatic event on video.
Perth's fire and emergency department started receiving calls about the meteor today at 7:40 p.m. local time (7:40 a.m. EDT and 1140 GMT), according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Several people captured fireball videos with CCTV cameras and dash cams and sent the footage to the Perth Observatory.
"We heard the boom; we saw the light. We just thought it was lightning to start with, but the boom that came after it was definitely not thunder," Robyn Garratt, a resident of York — which lies about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from Perth, the capital of the state of Western Australia — said in an interview with ABC Radio. [The Dazzling Perseid Meteor Shower of 2018 in Photos]
"In York, people felt a lot more than that," Garratt added. "They all went running outside, thinking the sky was falling, basically."
Meteors are incoming space rocks that hit Earth's atmosphere, sometimes producing a powerful light show and/or shockwaves detected by people on the ground. Any pieces of that space rock that make it to the ground are called meteorites. (A fireball is any meteor that blazes more brightly than Venus in the sky.)
Scientists from Curtin University in Perth are among the people trying to determine if any meteorites were generated from the fireball. With so many videos available, university researchers are working to triangulate observations to narrow down the search, Phil Bland, director of the Curtin University-run Desert Fireball Network, told ABC.
On CNN, Bland also gave advice about what any such meteorite would look like, for those who are searching for one. (He urged anybody who found a meteorite to give him a call.)
"It will look strange. Iit will have a black crust on it, and it'll be kind of slightly rounded in a way that most terrestrial rocks aren't," Bland said. "It will look distinct; it'll look odd. Also, they're usually a little bit heavier than average rocks."
Earth gets hit by space rocks every day, in sizes ranging from tiny pebbles to much larger objects. While most of these impacts are harmless, occasionally a meteor generates more damage.
A prominent, recent example of a more damaging eventtook place over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013, when a meteor broke up in the atmosphere and its shockwave shattered thousands of windows in the city below, injuring about 1,500 people. This particular space rock was probably about 65 feet (20 meters) wide when it crashed into the atmosphere, but much smaller fragments were retrieved on the ground.
NASA has a Planetary Defense Coordination Office that keeps an eye out for the largest space rocks that threaten Earth, through a network of telescopes that watch the skies for asteroids. Astronomers worldwide have found more than 8,000 near-Earth objects that are at least 460 feet (140 m) in diameter — big enough to destroy a U.S. state in the event of an impact.
The network isn't designed to pick up smaller space rocks. But NASA researchers say they have not yet found an imminent threat to Earth among the big ones.
It’s no secret that humans (well, at least presidents) are aching to go back to the Moon. And now, we have more concrete plans on how we might do that. Earlier this week, the Human Exploration and Operations Committee for NASA’s Advisory Council presented the most detailed plan to date of how, exactly, it will go about it.
NASA’s plan involves something called the Deep Space Gateway, aka the Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway. First announced in March 2017, the Gateway would be a small habitat that would orbit the Moon and would act as a “spaceport for human and robotic exploration to the Moon and beyond.”
In other words, it would act as a basecamp to explore the surface of the Moon, conduct experiments into the viability of prolonged space travel, and prepare for much (much) farther destinations. According to the presentation this week, NASA plans to have the completed Gateway in lunar orbit as soon as 2024 — that is, if everything goes according to plan.
“Right now, our near-term focus is the Moon and returning humans there,” Kathryn Hambleton, a NASA spokesperson, tells Futurism. NASA’s teams are planning to use the space beyond Earth’s orbit near the Moon “to build up our technology capabilities, test our systems, and test our operations while we are still a few days from Earth before we are ready to take on the multi-month journey to Mars.” To do all that, though, it needs the Gateway in place.
During its meeting, which was open to the public, the Advisory Council noted that the Gateway will be made up a couple of main components:
The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE): The component that powers the Gateway and allows it to move to different orbits.
The Airlock: A point of exit that could be used for astronaut spacewalks or permit other types of rockets to dock to the Gateway.
The Habitat: Pressurized sections of the Gateway that will house up to four crew members for up to 90 day missions.
But before astronauts can populate the Gateway, NASA has a lot of work to do. And it’s gotta do it all in the next six years.
Step 1: Build a giant rocket called the Space Launch System (SLS). Here’s how it would go. The SLS will launch major components of the Gateway into lunar orbit between now and 2024. In 2024, NASA’s Orion Spacecraft that’s currently in development would nudge those pieces into place, making the Gateway ready for human inhabitants.
To send a crew of astronauts all the way to the Gateway, SLS is going to need a rocket capable of sending 37 metric tons (81,000 lbs) of cargo into orbit around the Moon. Right now, we don’t have a rocket that can tow that much — SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy’s max payload to the Moon is estimated to be around 18 to 22 metric tons. Engineers are going to have to figure out how to double that capacity to make the SLS happen.
Complete the SLS and the Orion Spacecraft, and find funding for all components of the Gateway, and launch it into lunar orbit, and send the first couple of astronauts there by 2024? Pretty darn ambitious. Especially since so far the SLS’ development hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing.
The private space industry might help NASA get there. The space agency is hoping that a private space company will take on the substantial task of developing the lander that Gateway astronauts will use to travel from their habitat to the surface of the Moon, but no official partnership has been announced yet.
The Gateway’s doors (or airlock) will be open to rockets launched by both government space agencies and private companies. Since companies like SpaceX are making giant technological leaps — they’re launching rockets that are more powerful and cheaper — they could take a big a big load off of NASA’s back. “There will definitely be opportunities for a variety of rockets to deliver supplies and logistics to the Gateway,” says Hambleton.
Even with private space companies on board, NASA will inevitably face some major roadblocks to getting the Gateway up and running. There’s still the inherent risks that astronauts face during deep space travel – intense levels of radiation, isolation, a lack of gravity, and harsh environments.
Luckily, NASA’s research is well underway, particularly from studies conducted on the International Space Station. “We are working towards greater reliability of systems and more of a closed-loop kind of system in terms of recycling air and water, so we’re less reliant on Earth for those consumables,” Hambleton tells Futurism. No matter the outcome of these experiments, however, NASA still plans to make the Gateway happen in the stated timeframe.
Yes, NASA has a lot of work to do before the Deep Space Gateway is peacefully orbiting the Moon. Six years go by pretty fast, but making things happen in that timeframe is no impossible. With the right public-private partnerships and international collaborations, NASA has a much better shot at getting astronauts back onto the surface of the Moon, and maybe to Mars before we even know it.
WATCH HOW A LIGHTNING STRIKE TEMPORARILY DISABLES THIS UFO’S CLOAKING SHIELD
WATCH HOW A LIGHTNING STRIKE TEMPORARILY DISABLES THIS UFO’S CLOAKING SHIELD
It seems electrical disturbances have an impact on a UFO’s cloaking device, as evidenced by the following video.
An unidentified flying object’s cloaking shield is one of its best assets since it allows the craft’s occupants to remain undetected while performing their obscure activities on Earth.
Visible light can be considered an oscillating electric and magnetic field and because the cloaking shield works on a visible level, it must operate on some kind of electromagnetic principle we’ve yet to discover. You know what else is electromagnetic? The immense power surge caused by a lightning strike. So it makes sense that when a camouflaged UFO is hit by the thousand or so Giga Watts discharged by a lightning bolt, some interference may occur.
In the following video we are treated to the rare sight of such a phenomenon.
During a recent thunderstorm in the U.S., a large, circular UFO became visible after coming in contact with the immense voltage of an electrical discharge between clouds. It is unclear whether the craft was accidentally hit or it was there exactly for that reason. Perhaps these advanced vehicles are able to harvest energy from a variety of sources, including, but not limited to volcanoes, lightning and solar wind.
After lightning touches its surface, the UFO becomes visible for approximately 30 seconds during which it remains lit and illuminates the sky and clouds surrounding its massive body. Once the UFO disappears, the surrounding area returns to its normal luminosity.
Although videos like this are rare, they are not unheard of. In a previous article, we showed you a fleet of UFOs recharging their batteries during a thunderstorm. Another video that quickly went viral featured a creepy UFO exiting a lightning storm at a high velocity.
It’s obvious that aliens always need two things: human specimens and a whole lot of power.
This Group of NASA Veterans Wants to Build Their Own Space Station
This Group of NASA Veterans Wants to Build Their Own Space Station
Axiom also hopes to revive orbital tourism, with tickets priced at $55 million.
At first Axiom’s modules would be attached to the International Space Station. Eventually, the company wants to have a separate station in orbit. (Axiom Space)
As a NASA astronaut for 20 years, Michael Lopez-Alegria conducted 10 spacewalks and set a U.S. record for total spacewalking time (67 hours and 40 minutes) that still stands. Now he heads business development for Houston-based Axiom Space, which aims to send private “spaceflight participants” up to the space station (for $55 million a seat), then to attach its own commercial module to the International Space Station, followed eventually by a free-flying commercial station of its own. Lopez-Alegria talked to Senior Editor Tony Reichhardt in June.
Air & Space: The Russians were taking paying customers up to the space station every couple of years in the early 2000s, but we haven’t seen any of those spaceflight participant flights in almost a decade. What happened?
Lopez-Alegria: Pretty simple. At the time, the station had three crew members, and we were rotating one of the three on shuttle flights and the other two on a [three-seat] Russian Soyuz, leaving a third seat open. Once the shuttle stopped flying, all three crew members started rotating on the Soyuz, so there were no more seats available. The demand was still there, but there was no supply.
What was the idea behind Axiom Space?
Our co-founder, Mike Suffredini, was NASA’s program manager for the International Space Station for ten years until he retired in 2015. He went to work with the other co-founder, Kam Ghaffarian, who at the time owned a company called SGT, which is a large contractor with NASA. They wanted to investigate the viability of a commercial space station, and after studying it for about a year Mike thought it was doable. And here we are.
Bigelow Aerospace already has an experimental module attached to the station, and is planning a commercial module of their own. How is your plan different?
We’re largely appealing to the same markets, which, in the beginning anyway, will be foreign professional astronauts as well as spaceflight participants. There are a couple other lines of revenue—research, space manufacturing, advertising, and something called exploration systems testing. When NASA starts going to points farther than Low Earth Orbit, like cislunar space or Mars, they want to have tested the support equipment and other critical components in space before they deploy them to places that are a lot harder to get to. It’s a lot easier to go fix something in Earth orbit than it is to fix something orbiting the moon. So that’s a sixth line of business, working for the companies and governments developing hardware for exploration.
We’re different from Bigelow in that they use expandable technology, which is sort of like a balloon that they inflate. We are going with a more proven system, basically an aluminum cylinder. Our module is going to be manufactured by the same guys, Thales Alenia, who have built something like 40 percent of the habitable volume on the space station. We don’t want to try anything that’s super hard. I mean, we don’t have much time to get this done. The ISS is going to be de-orbited somewhere between 2024 and 2028, maybe a little later. But this is still a pretty ambitious endeavor. It will take time, and we want to make sure we can get this stuff up there and activated. Trying that with new technology doesn’t seem like the path to success for us.
What does NASA have to do to make it happen?
They have to grant access for somebody to use one of the space station’s berthing ports. There’s only one port located in a place where you could attach something big enough to call a space station, or the beginning of a space station. So we think NASA needs to get on with whatever competitive process they want in order to decide which company is worthy of putting their confidence in.
If you’re an investor, and I come to you to invest a whole bunch of money, you’re going to say “What are the risks?” And if I say, “One of the risks is that we may not win this docking port,” you’re going to think twice. So until that docking port is granted, it’s going to be very difficult to raise a lot of money, and until you raise the money you can’t start constructing a module. So the first domino has to be the granting of the docking port. Then construction comes, and we can launch and dock and activate and start making revenue, and prove our worth to NASA so they can say okay, now we can retire the ISS, because we are confident we’ll have a place to go [in low Earth orbit]. Because we really don’t want a gap in our capability to work in Low Earth Orbit.
Has NASA given any indication of when they might start this competition for the docking port?
Oddly, two years ago, in the summer of 2016, they issued a request for information where they asked industry, “If we wanted to give away [the docking port] what criteria should we use?” A bunch of companies, 19 of us, responded, and NASA indicated that the responses were going to form the basis of a solicitation. But then the election happened, and I don’t pretend to know why it’s taken so long, but they still haven’t done it yet. Recently they issued what’s called a NASA research announcement, asking a lot of the same questions they did in 2016. So we’re encouraging them to use the data they already have to develop a [solicitation].
What agreements do you already have in place with NASA? Even before you attach your own module to the station, you want to send up paying customers, right?
Yes, that’s right. We’re getting a lot of interest from investors in spite of the lack of a docking port, because [flying private customers to the ISS] is already a sustainable business in and of itself. We would like to get NASA and other ISS partners comfortable with our operation. Flying to the ISS and demonstrating that we know what we’re doing is going to be good for them and for us, although we already have a ton of NASA experience within our company. So that’s a real reason to do these precursor flights. We have one planned in 2020, and another one or two planned in 2021. Then we’d like to get our modules up there in 2022.
We have a Space Act Agreement with NASA , and the first phase is complete, a kind of feasibility study to outline what services and utilities we would need from the station. We need to get some power and cooling capacity, et cetera, and we’d need to know how our module affects the mass and center of gravity of the station. So they’ve done all that preliminary work.
Have you already got customers lined up for the 2020 and 2021 flights?
No, we’re talking to [potential customers]. We only recently [in June] announced our campaign to market spaceflight participant flights. We’re agnostic as to which launch vehicle we’d use. It could be Soyuz, which has three seats, it could be the SpaceX Dragon, which has four, or it could be Boeing’s Starliner, which has five. Let’s take the Dragon case in the middle. On short duration flights, which are about ten days, we’d like to have at least one professional astronaut and up to three spaceflight participants. We could have more professionals—it doesn’t really matter to us, the price is effectively the same except for the training. We are fairly far along in negotiations with some countries to provide professional astronauts, but we have just started looking for spaceflight participants.
Are you thinking of astronauts from countries that don’t have their own space programs?
Two different categories: One would be countries that are fairly technologically advanced but don’t have human spaceflight programs. We can help with everything from astronaut selection to training. We have quite a bit of experience within our company. SGT [Ghaffarian’s former company] is a contractor to NASA, and today does all the training for NASA astronauts as well as all the flight control functions in Mission Control for the ISS. So you have a huge knowledge base accessible to our company. We would be able to select and then train and then fly astronauts for these countries. The second category are countries that already have astronauts, but don’t get to fly often enough. And a lot of those are in Europe.
One of the barriers to signing up spaceflight participants in the past was the amount of time required to train in Russia. Will your training be shorter?
Yes, and they won’t have to learn to speak Russian, either. I flew with two of those spaceflight participants, and both of them were in Russia for several months. We’re talking about being able to do our training in about 15 weeks, and it would all be in the U.S., with potentially a one-week trip to Russia to understand the Russian part of the space station.
Most of the space tourists a decade ago actively participated in the onboard experiments, and really tried to pitch in. Do you see that happening on your flights as well?
They can do whatever they want, is the bottom line. But I’ll tell you a story. When I was an astronaut and found out I was going to be flying with tourists, I wasn’t terribly excited about it. I figured this is a place for steely-eyed test pilots, and didn’t think very highly of the concept. I ended up flying about ten days with Anousheh Ansari, and she completely inverted that perspective. I saw how she and the guy I flew home with, Charles Simonyi, were both extremely professional, very courteous, and extremely willing to help. More importantly, she wrote a blog that reached millions of people on the ground and really kind of democratized the experience. It kind of opened my eyes to this notion that space is such a unique and magnificent experience that it ought to be shared with as many people as possible.
With all the experience at Axiom, do you see ways to build or operate a space station that might be better than the way NASA does it?
I hate to say it, but things that the government buys are always going to be more expensive just because they have a lot of bureaucracy and a lot of requirements. That’s the advantage of having a team that’s so experienced, that has sat through all the safety reviews. We can tell which [requirements] are valid, that we really need to consider, and which ones are kind of fluff. I think anybody who’s honest would tell you that you a lot of stuff happens that is just a function of the size of the organization.
Secondly, the ISS was built with pretty old technology, basically 386 processors and 1553 [military standard] data, which is kind of overkill for what we need, and drives costs out the roof. With the speed of processors today, you can do so much more with so much less in terms of weight, volume, and complexity. For instance, some of the gear on the ISS was so big that it had to go outside on the truss structure. And if it breaks it’s a real pain to go fix it. You have to have a spacewalk, or use very complex robotics, whereas now, because of miniaturization, we can put something like that inside, behind a cupboard door. So those are the things that will help us save money.
In his 20 years at NASA, Lopez-Alegria conducted 10 spacewalks and set a U.S. record for total spacewalking time (67 hours and 40 minutes) that still stands.(NASA)
If everything goes according to your plan, how do you see Earth orbit in 10 or 15 years? Will there be several space stations?
I think probably just one company will benefit from the ISS, which is in a particular orbit. Other companies might want to go to different orbits. But once that one company proves the market, then I think you’ll see more investment, other companies trying to build independent space stations. For the first one, it would be advantageous to start attached to the ISS. Once the market gets proven, and I’m confident it will be, I do think you’ll see a proliferation of stations.
Would you like to go up again yourself?
I’ve had kind of a tongue-in-cheek conversation with Mike [Suffredini]. He said “You can be the first guy to go as soon as you write me a check for $55 million.” [Laughs] I don’t think it’s gonna happen any time soon.
It’s the stuff of thriller movie plots and space travel nightmares. A meteorite crashed into the International Space Station and pressure started dropping on the Russian side as oxygen began leaking out of the hole. A good screenwriter could spin this opening scene into 90 minutes of heart-thumping action, but NASA decided to let the crew continue to sleep and deal with it in the morning. Does NASA Need better technicians or better screenwriters?
“As flight controllers monitored their data, the decision was made to allow the Expedition 56 crew to sleep since they were in no danger. When the crew was awakened at its normal hour Thursday morning, flight controllers at Mission Control in Houston and at the Russian Mission Control Center outside Moscow began working procedures to try to determine the location of the leak.”
The current ISS crew consists of station Commander Drew Feustel, Flight Engineers Ricky Arnold and Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Upon awakening (to the music of “Fixing a Hole” by the Beatles?), NASA sent them all over to the Russian side to look for the leak. Really!
Soyuz spacecraft
And? They found it! The hole was no more than two millimeters (.078 inches) in diameter and located not on the ISS itself but in the Soyuz spacecraft currently docked to it. That spaceship has been attached there since June, so it’s considered part of the station. The hole appeared to have been caused by a micrometeorite impact and was apparently found by ESA astronaut Gerst who reportedly … get ready for this … put his finger over the hole! The little Dutch boy with his finger in the dikewould be so proud.
It gets better. The space news website NASASpaceFlight.com was monitoring communications between ground support and the crew gave these updates on the initial repairs:
“Russian ground controllers say they are now into a deep dive evaluation of the hole. Sergey Prokopyev is still trying to hunt down a repair kit. They have taped the hole as a band aid. Plan is to clean up the area and add more permanent patches.”
Tape! Patches! And then …
“Now told to use a toothpick on the hole (likely to aid photography and scale). Then will apply sealant and cover it with a patch. General ISS pressure is holding stable now.”
Toothpicks! Glue!
This is no space thriller movie … this is a sitcom for aliens watching Earthlings in their feeble attempts at space travel.
We’re glad the crew is safe and the hole is repaired. This shows how risky space travel is and how dangerous even a tiny meteorite or piece of debris can be. A permanent fix will most likely have to be made from the outside on a spacewalk.
NASA has probably already put in orders to ship up some Bondo, sandpaper and paint.
DE GOUDEN BIBLIOTHEEK VAN ONZE VOOROUDERS ( VIDEO )
DE GOUDEN BIBLIOTHEEK VAN ONZE VOOROUDERS ( VIDEO )
Wanneer de aarde dreigt te vergaan door allerlei mogelijke rampen, dan doet de mensheid vaak toch pogingen om een boodschap voor toekomstige generaties of volken achter te laten.
Ook onze verre voorouders hebben dat gedaan in de vorm van een ondergrondse bibliotheek in Zuid Amerika.
Ongeveer vijf jaar geleden kwam er een claim van een aantal mensen die beweerden een enorme ondergrondse bibliotheek in Ecuador te hebben ontdekt, of beter gezegd, herontdekt.
Een team onderzoekers heeft bekendgemaakt dat zij de legendarische metalen bibliotheek en diverse andere schatten hebben gevonden in het Tayos grottensysteem in Ecuador.
Zij maakten ook bekend dat ze per ongeluk enkele verborgen tunnels hebben ontdekt die lang geleden door iemand of.... iets gemaakt zijn.
Het team was in staat om één van deze tunnels bijna een kilometer lang te volgen en kwam uiteindelijk uit in een grote kamer die de gouden bibliotheek en diverse andere waardevolle objecten bevatte. Hier volgt een lijst van wat de onderzoekers zeggen te hebben gevonden:
1) Een bibliotheek met duizenden metalen boeken. Het team was nog niet in staat om te vertellen welk metaal gebruikt was voor de boeken, maar het leek op zilver. 2) Iedere pagina bevatte symbolen en vreemde tekens. Individuele platen met tekens erop die eruit zagen alsof ze van goud waren. 3) Honderden verschillende beelden van insecten, dieren en mensen, verspreid door de grote kamer. 4) Veel metalen staven, zowel van (wat eruit zag als) goud en zilver. 5) Ook werd er kinderspeelgoed gevonden en juwelen van goud of zilver. 6) Een grote sarcofaag met daarin een menselijk skelet, versierd met juwelen en goud. 7) Het team vond tenminste nog drie deuren die naar meer kamers zouden kunnen leiden, maar die waren afgesloten.
Tot nu toe zijn de claims van dit team alleen nog gedaan via een radioprogramma en zijn er (nog) geen verdere mededelingen gedaan. Ze meldden verder dat ze voorbeelden hadden van tenminste één van de metalen boeken, een gouden plaat en verschillende kleine beeldjes die aangeboden zullen worden voor professioneel onderzoek. Hopelijk zullen er binnenkort meer berichten volgen.
Daarna is er nooit meer iets vernomen voor zover ons bekend.
Desalniettemin zijn de grotten en de verhalen over die bibliotheek wel echt.µ
Mensen die zich al eerder met deze bibliotheek hebben beziggehouden zijn onder andere Erich von Däniken en de Schotse onderzoeker Stanley Hall. Deze laatste kwam in de jaren zeventig van de vorige eeuw in contact met een Italiaanse priester, Crespi genaamd. Crespi had zich jarenlang onbaatzuchtig ingezet voor de belangen van de plaatselijke indianen en had als beloning ondermeer een soort gouden plaat gekregen, met daarop allerlei vreemde tekens. Ook had hij diverse andere voorwerpen in zijn bezit die erop wezen dat deze bibliotheek inderdaad bestond en gezien de vormen van de aangetroffen beelden, er inderdaad een verband mogelijk is met buitenaardse beschavingen. Stanley Hall heeft diverse expedities georganiseerd in de vorige eeuw, waaronder één waarbij ook de voormalige astronaut Neill Armstrong van de partij was. Alhoewel ze wel in het grottensysteem zijn geweest, zijn ze er niet in geslaagd om de bibliotheek te traceren. Hall is inmiddels overleden, maar zijn werk wordt voortgezet door zijn dochter. Deze kwam er ook achter dat de gouden plaat samen met vele andere waardevolle voorwerpen van de priester, na zijn dood in 1982 ineens waren verdwenen.
Toch is het verhaal over de tunnelcomplexen zeer interessant. Want dit soort tunnelstelsels bestaan namelijk echt. Erich von Däniken vertelde in 1973 in zijn boek ‘Het Goud der Goden’, dat hij ter plaatse foto’s had gemaakt van een enorm tunnelcomplex in Ecuador. Hij vertelde dat de Hongaarse Argentijn Juan Moricz, dit gangenstelsel vond en er via een notariële akte in 1969 eigenaar van werd. Dit klopt als een bus. Dit is middels akte en handtekeningen gedocumenteerd. Moricz ontmoette in 1972 Erich von Däniken en nam hem mee naar de plaats waar hij een rondleiding kreeg. Dit werd wonderlijk genoeg naderhand door Moricz zelf, tegenover de Duitse pers ontkend toen zij hier naar vroegen (hier zodadelijk meer over – want Erich von Däniken moet daar weldegelijk geweest zijn!). Erich von Däniken schreef in zijn boek vol lof over het enorm grote gangenstelsel.
von Däniken schreef hierover:
“Voor mij is het het ongelofelijkste, onwaarschijnlijkste verhaal van de eeuw. Het zou een science-fiction-story kunnen zijn, als ik het niet zelf gezien en gefotografeerd had. Ik heb het met eigen ogen gezien. Het is droom noch fantasie, het is realiteit. Onder het Zuidamerikaanse continent ligt een reusachtig door wie en wanneer dan ook aangelegd tunnelsysteem. Het ligt heel diep onder de aarde en is meerdere duizenden kilometers lang. In Peru en Ecuador werden honderden kilometers betreden en uitgemeten. En dat is nog maar het begin van iets waar de wereld niets van afweet.”
Op de volgende afbeelding zie je Von Däniken samen met Juan Moricz.
Wie meer wil lezen over dit bijzonder interessante verhaal raden wij om hier of hier verder te lezen.
Wie nu precies wel of niet dat grottenstelsel heeft ontdekt is wellicht minder belangrijk dat het feit dat ze er wel degelijk zijn.
Wat opvalt in vooral de eerste video met Stanley Hall en Father Crespi is dat er via dat gevonden beeld weer wordt gerefereerd aan de Soemeriërs en Babylonië.
Waarom werd dit enorme grottenstelsel gemaakt en waarom werd een dergelijke uitgebreide bibliotheek opgeslagen? Hoogstwaarschijnlijk omdat er rampen plaatsvonden of zouden plaatsvinden op aarde, waardoor complete beschavingen zouden worden weggevaagd.
Bij de mainstream wetenschap hoef je niet aan te kloppen voor antwoorden op dit soort vragen, want daar doet men alle mogelijke moeite om mensen in voorgeprogrammeerde gedachtepatronen vast te houden en daar horen dit soort werkelijkheden niet in thuis.
Misschien iets voor Evert Jan Poorterman om hier eens wat dieper in te duiken? Of iemand anders natuurlijk.
Large cone shaped metal looking UFO in the sky over Lake Erie
Large cone shaped metal looking UFO in the sky over Lake Erie
On July 11, 2018 a resident of Huron, Ohio captured a strange large cone shaped metal looking object with two triangular bright lights came out of it over Lake Erie before it all disappeared.
The witness states: I live on a golf course on Lake Erie approximately one quarter mile from the water.
I was out on my patio early evening and looking up the sky and noticed that there were no clouds in the sky, just overcast.
I saw this strange looking grayish vapor like cloud that almost looked like a short jet stream.
There were no planes in the air at that time and the altitude was somewhat low. It appeared to me that it was out over the lake.
I used my phone and took a picture of the cloud and then I took two more within 5 or 6 seconds after that, then the cloud and all objects were gone.
When I looked at the pictures which I have attached this is what I saw. I am the type of person who has to see it to believe it and I can assure you that this was not photoshopped or faked in any way I'm a very skeptical person anyhow this one has me. Your thoughts?
The photographer has submitted the images to Mufon case 94503.
Large cone shaped metal looking UFO in the sky over Lake Erie
Amazing UFOs caught on tape over Las Vegas, Nevada
Amazing UFOs caught on tape over Las Vegas, Nevada
This really shocking footage was filmed over Las Vegas on 24th July back in 2015 and it was just published online.
Witness report:
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of July 24, 2015. The location where these were filmed was above and beyond the Las Vegas Mountain Range which is at least 22 miles from my home where I was filming and is restricted airspace. I know they were a minimum of 22 miles away because you can see them go behind the mountain which is 22 miles away at 21:16:56 on the time stamp in the lower right-hand corner of the video. I know some of you don’t like it when I speed the video up but in this case, there was a lot of footage I wanted to show so I sped it up by five times. There are many times that these amazing objects perform stunts that are unheard of with our current technology and it’s much easier to see when the video is running at a faster pace. I also know that some of you don’t like the music but many others do so I add background music because the night vision camera does not record audio.
Turn your sound down or mute the video if you don’t like the music and it will be a win-win situation for all viewers. I recently decided to put MUFON to the test and turned a video in that is just as amazing as this one and they are the very same objects. It has been two weeks and I still haven’t heard a peep. I am very curious to find out whether or not they will even contact me. Finally, I have some great news… I have been wanting to buy a Nikon Coolpix P900 which gas an 83X optical zoom and 16.1 million megapixels for a long time now and I finally got it about a week ago. It will be great for taking close up photos of where I film and hopefully some of the objects I film. Right now I am just learning how to use it so I can take the best photos possible. I will put a slideshow video out soon showing you how sweet everything works.
Author (UFOs Over Vegas – Steven Barone @ youtube)
Dyson spheres are hypothetical megastructures built by extraterrestrials for the purpose of harvesting all of a star’s energy. Here’s how the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission might help find one.
Artists’ concept of a Dyson sphere. Notice the little moon or planet on the left side, being ravaged for raw materials. This image – called Shield World Construction – is by Adam Burn. More about it here.
When contemplating extraterrestrial intelligence, one of the most tantalizing ideas is that a super-advanced alien civilization could build an enormous structure around its home star, to collect a significant portion of the star’s energy. This hypothetical megastructure is popularly known as a Dyson sphere. It’s a sci-fi-sounding concept, but some scientists have also seriously considered it. This week, a story emerged about how the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission – whose primary purpose is to create a 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy – might be instrumental in the search for Dyson spheres.
In the past, searches for Dyson spheres have focused on looking for signs of excess infrared or heat radiation in the vicinity of a star. That would be a telltale signature, but those attempts have come up empty, so far. The new peer-reviewed study – which was published in the Astrophysical Journal on July 18, 2018, and later described in Astrobites – proposes looking for Dyson spheres with little or no infrared excess. In other words, it describes a technique not attempted before.
Erik Zackrisson at Uppsala University in Sweden led the new study. It focuses on a type of Dyson sphere that would’ve been missed by prior searches focused on infrared radiation.
Suppose you were looking toward a Dyson sphere. What would you see? The visible light of the star would be reduced significantly since the Dyson sphere itself – by its nature – would mostly surround the star for purposes of energy collection. The star would continue shining; it would be shining on the inner portion of the Dyson sphere. Presumably, the star’s radiation would heat the sphere. According to earlier thoughts by scientists on the subject, a Dyson sphere should have a temperature between 50 and 1,000 Kelvin (-370 to 1300 degrees Fahrenheit; -220 to 730 degrees Celsius). At that temperature, radiation from the sphere would peak in infrared wavelengths.
That was the earlier idea, until Zackrisson’s study.
An all-sky view of the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies from the Gaia mission. This view includes measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars.
Image via Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC)/A. Moitinho/A. F. Silva/M. Barros/C. Barata – University of Lisbon, Portugal/H. Savietto – Fork Research, Portugal.
His study suggests the possibility that the sphere might be composed of a different kind of material than what had been previously supposed. Suppose this material had the ability to dim the star’s light equally at all wavelengths? That would make it a so-called gray absorber and would significantly affect methods used to search for Dyson spheres. If you measured the star’s distance spectrophotometrically – by comparing the star’s observed flux and spectrum to standard stellar emission models – then the measurements would suggest that the star is farther away than it actually is.
But then if you measured the star’s distance using the parallax method, you’d get a different number. The parallax method compares the apparent movement of a nearby star against the stellar background, as Earth moves from one side of its orbit to another across a period of, say, six months. The size of a Dyson sphere could be determined by comparing the difference in distances between these two methods. The greater the difference, the greater the amount of the star’s surface that is being obscured by the sphere.
Now, thanks to new data from the Gaia mission, astronomers can do these kinds of comparisons, which could – in theory – detect a Dyson sphere. From the new study:
A star enshrouded in a Dyson sphere with a high covering fraction may manifest itself as an optically subluminous object with a spectrophotometric distance estimate significantly in excess of its parallax distance. Using this criterion, the Gaia mission will in coming years allow for Dyson sphere searches that are complementary to searches based on waste-heat signatures at infrared wavelengths. A limited search of this type is also possible at the current time, by combining Gaia parallax distances with spectrophotometric distances from ground-based surveys. Here, we discuss the merits and shortcomings of this technique and carry out a limited search for Dyson sphere candidates in the sample of stars common to Gaia Data Release 1 and Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) Data Release 5. We find that a small fraction of stars indeed display distance discrepancies of the type expected for nearly complete Dyson spheres.
In other words, using this new method, astronomers have found candidate Dyson sphere stars.
Graph showing distribution of covering fractions for all stars in the Gaia-RAVE database overlap (left) and just those stars with less than 10 percent error in their Gaia parallax distance and less than 20 percent error in their RAVE spectrophotometric distance (right). If the parallax distance is smaller than the spectrophotometric distance, that is interpreted this as a negative covering fraction, and could be an indication of a Dyson sphere surrounding that star.
Image via Zackrisson et al. 2018.
The Gaia mission is currently charting a three-dimensional map of our galaxy, providing unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the highest accuracy ever. The goal is to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and throughout the Local Group of galaxies.
As it happens, these data are very useful when searching for Dyson spheres.
Using the parallax distances from the first data release of Gaia, Zackrisson and his colleagues compared that data to previously measured spectrophotometric distances from the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), which takes spectra of stars in the Milky Way. This resulted in an estimate of what percentage of each star could be blocked by Dyson sphere material.
Illustration of how Gaia is measuring the distances to most stars in the Milky Way with unprecedented accuracy.
Image via S. Brunier/ESO; Graphic source: ESA.
Of course, figuring out if any of these could actually be Dyson sphere candidates required further analysis. Zackrisson and his team decided to focus on main-sequence stars (like the sun), spectral types F, G and K, and narrowed those down to those which displayed a potential blocking fraction greater than 0.7. Larger giant stars were removed from the data set since their spectrophotometric distances tend to be overestimated compared to main-sequence stars.
This alone left only six possible candidates. Those in turn were then narrowed down to only two, after eliminating four candidates due to problems with the data itself. One of those, the star TYC 6111-1162-1, was then considered to be the best remaining candidate.
Artist’s concept of Gaia in space.
Image via D. DUCROS/ESA.
So … has the first Dyson Sphere been found? The simple answer is we don’t know yet. The star, a garden-variety late-F dwarf, seems to exhibit the sought-after characteristics, but more data is needed. No other glitch-related weirdness was found in the data, but the star was also found to be a binary system consisting of two stars (the other being a small white dwarf) which might explain the results – but none of that is certain yet. Additional study of the star will be required, including using future Gaia data releases, to determine what is really happening here. From the new study:
To shed light on the properties of objects in this outlier population, we present follow-up high-resolution spectroscopy for one of these stars, the late F-type dwarf TYC 6111-1162-1. The spectrophotometric distance of this object is about twice that derived from its Gaia parallax, and there is no detectable infrared excess. While our analysis largely confirms the stellar parameters and the spectrophotometric distance inferred by RAVE, a plausible explanation for the discrepant distance estimates of this object is that the astrometric solution has been compromised by an unseen binary companion, possibly a rather massive white dwarf. This scenario can be further tested through upcoming Gaia data releases.
A handy illustrated guide to Dyson spheres – massive structures which could be built to surround a star and harness its energy by an advanced alien civilization.
Image via Karl Tate/Space.com.
Bottom line: Discovering an actual Dyson sphere, or something similar, would be incredible. This new study proposes a new method of searching which shows some promise. It’s even possible that a Dyson Sphere-type object has already been found in the preliminary data, but that will require more follow-up to either confirm or disprove. Regardless, this new search method will prove valuable in future searches as well.
What Would It Take to Land on Mercury? It's Time to Find Out, Scientists Say
What Would It Take to Land on Mercury? It's Time to Find Out, Scientists Say
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
A 2010 mission study examined the possibility of landing on Mercury, but the challenges were too substantial at the time.
Credit: Illustration: Space.com; NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington; JHU/APL/NASA
Mercury has been devoid of spacecraft companions since NASA's Messenger mission ended in 2015, and while the next mission bound for the innermost planet launches later this year, it won't arrive until 2025.
Scientists are passing the time digging through Messenger's data and planning what the new mission will bring, of course. But, they've also begun to think about what's next for the littlest planet in the solar system — and to revive dreams of finally putting a robot on its surface.
"That's going to really be unprecedented, with two spacecraft observing Mercury at once," Nancy Chabot, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, told Space.com. Chabot was referring to the BepiColombo mission, which consists of a pair of orbiters that will be launched in October. "We all know that we're going to get a lot of amazing data and make a lot of discoveries about the planet, but we also know that mission has been in development for decades." [10 Strange Facts About Mercury (A Photo Tour)]
Chabot is one of the lead authors of a newly published white paper calling for a detailed study to examine the feasibility of putting a lander on Mercury. Although such a study was conducted in 2010, no mission ever came of it because the planet is such a challenging target — but new technology may make a Mercury lander more feasible. And a lander would fit with the typical rhythm of planetary exploration: fly by, orbit, land, rove.
But NASA decides its missions in accordance with reports called decadal surveys, which are produced every 10 years by the National Academies of Sciences. Committees will soon begin working on the next one for planetary endeavors, which will cover 2013 to 2022. And when they do, Mercury scientists want them to consider their favorite planet.
"We need to get working on this now for us to see a Mercury lander in the 2030s," Paul Byrne, a planetary geologist at North Carolina State University and one of the lead authors of the white paper, told Space.com. "Our job will be complete if we can convince people to do one of these studies."
Why send a lander?
There are plenty of questions haunting Mercury scientists, especially in the wake of the Messenger orbiter, which gathered data from 2011 to 2015. And that situation will only improve once BepiColombo reaches the planet in 2025 and begins sending back more orbital data.
Mercury itself is a weird, wonderful world. "Mercury is sort of a planet of extremes — you've got the hot and cold temperatures, you've got the fact that it spins on its axis three times for every two times it goes around the sun," Steven Hauck, a planetary scientist at Case Western Reserve University, one of the lead authors on the white paper and a key figure in the mission study completed in 2010, told Space.com. "There are places on the planet where you can see double sunsets and double sunrises." And then there's the bit where the planet is almost entirely made up of core, with thin shells of mantle and crust surrounding a giant metallic ball.
All that weirdness means that while individual scientists have their own preferences for what a mission could look like, they say that right now, the details are much less important than looking at the feasibility of any mission at all. That's why the white paper doesn't specify any particular landing site or instrument suite — or even what the lander's primary goal would be. [Mercury Photos from NASA's Messenger Probe - Part 2 (April 2011 through 2012)]
"With any of those [mission goals], there's still amazing, compelling science that you could do on the surface of Mercury," Chabot said. "I think I'd be willing to go with a lot of different options, just because there are so many different science questions that a lander could answer."
What makes Mercury so difficult
But missions aren't solely about scientific merit: NASA and its fellow space agencies need to be pragmatic about their resources as well, and that puts Mercury at a disadvantage. "For decades, people have argued that Mercury is just as — if not more — scientifically compelling than Mars, but Mars is much easier to get to," Byrne said. Mars is also easier for a spacecraft to land on and survive, whereas every step of a Mercury lander would be challenging.
First, getting there: "You essentially need three rockets to get to Mercury," Hauck said: one to get off Earth, one to get from Earth to Mercury and one to carefully land on the planet (because it lacks an atmosphere that can slow down a spacecraft). Oh, and the entire process takes six or seven years because of the complex trajectory a spaceship would need to follow in order to reach the tiny, innermost planet.
And it doesn't get easier after landing, given a host of threats on the surface — most notably the incredible temperature extremes on the planet. "It's exceptionally hot on the day side and the exact opposite on the night side," Hauck said.
But since the last mission study was conducted in 2010, a host of new technologies have become available, or close enough for researchers to reasonably consider using them for a mission in the 2030s. That includes high-power rockets like SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, which could help send a mission on its way. And technology developed to enable the Parker Solar Probe to fly just 4 million miles (6 million kilometers) above what we consider to be the surface of the sun may be adaptable enough to allow a lander to survive out of the shade on Mercury, Byrne said.
The team's hope is that a new, detailed mission study could determine whether these factors combined, plus administrative changes — such as, no longer needing to include the cost of the launch itself in a mission plan — might make a Mercury lander affordable under NASA's New Frontiers program, which has created the Juno, New Horizons and OSIRIS-REx missions. That program caps mission costs at $850 million. [Most Enduring Mysteries of Mercury]
The group behind the white paper knows that a detailed-consideration study may not return a favorable result. "A Mercury lander is challenging, we all know this, we're not being naive," Chabot said. But the group's scientists worry that without a study, NASA will simply assume a lander isn't feasible — and in the process, shortchange the scientific merit of the smallest planet.
"We don't know why Mercury is the way it is, only that it's kind of important we understand that," Byrne said. And landing on the tiny planet may be the key to solving some of its many mysteries — if only someone can figure out how to do it.
Archaeologists Find Massive Underground World Belonging To A Long Lost Civilization In Peru
Archaeologists Find Massive Underground World Belonging To A Long Lost Civilization In Peru
Researchers in Peru have discovered a complex underground world belonging to the ancient Chavín culture that has been identified as burial chambers that date back thousands of years.
The culture developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru from 1,300 and 550 BC. The Chavín extended its influence to other civilizations along the coast. The Ancient Chavin civilization developed advanced knowledge not only in metallurgy, but in soldering, and temperature control. The ancient Chavin used early techniques to develop refined gold work.
Seen in this image are the new underground galleries that have been found containing the first human burials of the Chavin period. Image Credit: Juan Ponce / El Comercio).
Not, researchers have discovered galleries, ceramics and even a place where this civilization carried out burials, located beneath the surface. They say it’s the most important archaeological discovery made in the last 50 years.
Since June of 2018, a team of archaeologists has unearthed three new galleries in an area adjacent to the circular plaza of Chavín. In the place, they have found remarkable pieces of ceramics, utensils and intact human burials.
According to American anthropologist and archaeologist John Rick, in charge of the Archaeological and Conservation Research Program of Chavín, the three discovered galleries come from the late period of this civilization that developed between 1,300 and 550 BC.
The Ministry of Culture estimates that to date only 15% of the area has been explored. Image Credit: Juan Ponce / El Comercio
“What these galleries show is that Chavín has a much larger underground world than we think,” said Rick.
Inside one of these underground galleries, archeologists discovered artifacts that belonged to the later Huaraz culture.
These successive occupations, found at different levels in the archaeological complex demonstrate the cultural and religious importance that Chavin had in the central highlands for centuries.
The project’s specialists used small robots with built-in micro-cameras to carry out the explorations. These machines – designed on site by engineers from Stanford University – entered very small areas and discovered cavities in the Chavin labyrinths, where pottery was preserved.
Chavin de Huantar was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. So far 35 interconnected underground passageways have been found at the site, Peru’s culture ministry said.
Is the President afraid of aliens? I’m not sure, but there is a legit reason some lawmakers want to create a sixth branch of the military the President is calling the Space Force.
Here's a recipe for freaking out Twitter: Borrow a video of a realistic humanoid robot strolling up a driveway. Post it on Twitter. Wait for world famous mentalist Derren Brown to retweet it. Gather nearly 5 million video views. Enjoy the comment fallout as people question whether it's real.
Brown's retweet of a short robot video on Saturday helped spread the footage across Twitter, whose users described it as "scary," "creepy," "terrifying" and "my worst nightmare." It helped that Brown wrote, "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE" in his tweet caption.
Blomkamp didn't have anything to do with the driveway video, though he chimed in on Brown's Twitter thread, writing, "Props to the artist who implemented Adam into live action footage."
The artist behind the video appears to be 3D artist Maxim Sullivan, who originally posted the video to Twitter on Aug. 12 with the message, "Glitchy test of Adam from the @oatsstudios Unity film, going for a walk."
Sullivan answered some questions in his own Twitter thread, saying the creation is indeed CGI. While Sullivan's original tweeted video has almost 13,000 views, the version tweeted out of context by another Twitter user (and retweeted by Brown) has almost 5 million.
While Adam isn't real, there are plenty of actual robots out there that can give you the willies. Boston Dynamics' running robot Atlas is a top candidate that should slot nicely into your robo-fear nightmares.
There are fears that tend to come up when people talk about futuristic artificial intelligence — say, one that could teach itself to learn and become more advanced than anything we humans might be able to comprehend. In the wrong hands, perhaps even on its own, such an advanced algorithm might dominate the world’s governments and militaries, impart Orwellian levels of surveillance, manipulation, and social control over societies, and perhaps even control entire battlefields of autonomous lethal weapons such as military drones.
But some artificial intelligence experts don’t think those fears are well-founded. In fact, highly-advanced artificial intelligence could be better at managing the world than humans have been. These fears themselves are the real danger, because they may hold us back from making that potential a reality.
“Maybe not achieving AI is the danger for humanity.”
As a species, Mikolov explained, humans are pretty terrible at making choices that are good for us in the long term. People have carved away rainforests and other ecosystems to harvest raw materials, unaware of (or uninterested in) how they were contributing to the slow, maybe-irreversible degradation of the planet overall.
But a sophisticated artificial intelligence system might be able to protect humanity from its own shortsightedness.
“We as humans are very bad at making predictions of what will happen in some distant timeline, maybe 20 to 30 years from now,” Mikolov added. “Maybe making AI that is much smarter than our own, in some sort of symbiotic relationship, can help us avoid some future disasters.”
Granted, Mikolov may be in the minority in thinking a superior AI entity would be benevolent. Throughout the conference, many other speakers expressed these common fears, mostly about AI used for dangerous purposes or misused by malicious human actors. And we shouldn’t laugh off or downplay those concerns.
We don’t know for sure whether it will ever be possible to create artificial general intelligence, often considered the holy grail of sophisticated AI that’s capable of doing pretty much any cognitive task humans can, maybe even doing it better.
The future of advanced artificial intelligence is promising, but it comes with a lot of ethical questions. We probably don’t know all the questions we’ll have to answer yet.
But most of the panelists at the HLAI conference agreed that we still need to decide on the rules before we need them. The time to create international agreements, ethics boards, and regulatory bodies across governments, private companies, and academia? It’s now. Putting these institutions and protocols in place would reduce the odds that a hostile government, unwitting researcher, or even a cackling mad scientistwould unleash a malicious AIsystem or otherwise weaponize advanced algorithms. And if something nasty did get out there, then these systems would ensure we’d have ways to handle it.
With these rules and safeguards in place, we will be much more likely to usher in a future in advanced AI systems live harmoniously with us, or perhaps even save us from ourselves.
Pour les adeptes du paranormal, les crop circles qui apparaissent dans les champs de blé seraient l'œuvre d'aliens. Pour les sceptiques, ils seraient d'origine humaine. Pour trancher le débat, des youtubeurs ont réalisé une petite expérience instructive.
Ce crop circle est apparu dans un champ de blé de Sarraltroff en Moselle. Il est l'oeuvre de youtubeurs et non d'extraterrestres.
ARNAUD THIRY
Cette fois, ils ont frappé à Sarraltroff (Moselle). Ils ? Les extra-terrestres bien sûr ! C'était le 9 juin et comme à leur habitude, ils ont laissé une trace de leur passage dans un champ de blé : un immense crop circle ou cercle de culture en français ou encore agroglyphe. Le dessin géant est formé d'épis couchés par “une technologie alienne”. Il est composé de plusieurs cercles disposés de manière énigmatique voire ésotérique et dont la "géométrie parfaite” ne peut s'apprécier que vue du ciel. Selon les exégètes de la chose, cette géométrie est d'ailleurs trop parfaite pour être l'oeuvre de simples êtres humains. La preuve, donc, qu'il s'agit bien d'une production extra-terrestre... Le champ est alors devenu un véritable lieu de pèlerinage New Age, chargé “d'énergie”, “de vibrations” et autres fluides cosmiques obscures.
Malheureusement - pour les exégètes - ce crop circle a bel et bien été réalisé par des humains ordinaires… ou presque. Effectivement, le 24 août, de joyeux youtubeurs ont révélé qu'ils étaient les auteurs de l'agroglyphe de Sarraltroff. Ces mordus de science, sont surtout adeptes de la zététique, l'étude rationnelle de phénomènes prétendument extraordinaires (paranormal, pseudo-sciences, pseudo-médecines etc…). Ils étaient aidés par deux ufologues sceptiques, rompus à l'analyse des phénomènes supposés extra-terrestres. Armés de simples mètres rubans pour les mesures et de quelques bières, les membres du commando ont agi en pleine nuit à la lueur de leurs torches frontales. Une planche sous le pied tenue à chaque extrémité par une ficelle, ils ont écrasé minutieusement les blés dans le champ d'un agriculteur complice (voir les explications de la méthode dans la vidéo). L'opération a duré à peine une heure. Et à la différence d'insaisissables extra-terrestres, les youtubeurs ont tout filmé. Les séquences sont diffusées et largement commentées sur Astronogeek, la chaîne Youtube d'Arnaud Thiry, l'initiateur du projet (trois épisodes sont prévus).
“L'objectif n'était pas de se moquer de ceux qui croient aux extra-terrestres, nous assure Arnaud Thiry. Nous voulions tester la méthode qui permet aux experts d'affirmer si un crop circle est une oeuvre extra-terrestre ou humaine.” Une véritable expérience en aveugle. En d'autres termes, est-ce que ces experts, ne connaissant pas l'origine du crop circle, sont capables déterminer, comme ils le prétendent, s'il a été produit par des humains. La réponse est clairement non. “Tous ceux qui sont venus sur place ont affirmé qu'il s'agissait bien d'une réalisation extra-terrestre", confirme Arnaud Thiry.
« Ce crop est tellement élaboré. C’est vivant, comme dans les cathédrales ou devant un menhir. Un humain n’aurait pas pu le faire. »
Umberto Molinaro, le plus populaire d'entre-eux, est lui aussi tombé dans le panneau. Ce conférencier français, auteur de quatre livres sur le sujet, s'est rendu sur place. Entouré de nombre de ses fidèles qui le suivent notamment sur Facebook ou lors d'une émission diffusée sur la chaîne Youtube CTVM TV, il a pu observer le nouveau “message” laissé par ceux qu'il appelle tantôt “les Etres de Lumière” tantôt “les Galactiques”. Ainsi, interrogé par une journaliste du Républicain Lorrain, il ressort l'argument de la complexité du motif : " Ce crop est tellement élaboré. Chaque cercle est lié aux autres par des rapports particuliers. C'est vivant, comme dans les cathédrales ou devant un menhir. Un humain n'aurait pas pu le faire. " L'occasion d'improviser avec ses amis une séance collective de captation d'énergies et de vibrations assurément cosmo-telluriques.
Alors forcément, quand deux mois plus tard il apprend que les cercles de culture ont été réalisés non pas par des Galactiques, mais par des humains, il change de version. Il affirme notamment qu'il n'a jamais dit qu'il s'agissait d'un “vrai crop circle” (d'origine extra-terrestre). Contacté par téléphone il nous confirme : “Je n'ai jamais authentifié ce crop circle. Pour le faire il faut prélever de la terre et analyser sa résistivité.” (sic). Il poursuit : “J'ai tout de suite vu que c'était un faux.” Pourtant, sur Facebook et sur Youtube, l'expert français n'a pas cessé de gloser sur l'authenticité de l'oeuvre, assénant, photos à l'appui, tous les indices qui permettent de distinguer la main de l'Etre de Lumière du pied de l'être humain.
Outre la complexité du motif, les partisans de l'hypothèse extraterrestre évoquent par exemple la présence de blés coudés. Il s'agit en fait de tiges qui se redressent partiellement vers le ciel. Le phénomène serait l'oeuvre “d'une résonance vibratoire” caractéristique de la technologie alien. Pourtant, comme l'ont montré les youtubeurs, la technologie terrestre consistant à aplatir le blé avec une simple planche de bois, produit les mêmes effets. Le blé coudé s'explique par l'héliotropisme, littéralement une attirance pour le soleil, qui pousse une plante vivante, dépendante de la photosynthèse, à s'orienter naturellement vers la lumière.
Mieux encore, Umberto Molinaro commente la présence de mouches mortes collées sur les épis de blé. Là encore, il s'agit pour lui des effets secondaires de la méthode extra-terrestre. Et pour l'affirmer avec plus de force, il fait appel à une autorité dans le domaine : Valentin, un jeune homme décédé depuis plusieurs années et en contact direct avec les Galactiques... L'explication de Valentin relayée par Umberto Molinaro est alors limpide : “Les insectes sont immobilisés sous les effets vibratoires. Ca les scotche sur place. Ils n'ont plus la force de réagir.”
Au téléphone, le malaise est perceptible. Umberto Molinaro nous confie qu'il a été piégé. Il accuse les youtubeurs d'avoir étudié sa technique pour l'induire en erreur. Mais comme le montre la vidéo, la bande de sceptiques n'a fait qu'écraser le blé en suivant la méthode de la planche de bois abondamment décrite sur Internet. Mieux, le rapport VECA, rédigé par Gilles Munsch du Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés (GEIPAN) au Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), révèle tous les éléments qui permettent de montrer qu'un crop circle a été réalisé par l'homme. Un rapport consultable par tous car en accès libre sur Internet. Gilles Munsch est d'ailleurs venu lui-même, à titre personnel, sur le champ de Moselle : “En quelques minutes il a conclu que c'était l'oeuvre d'humains. Il m'a même décrit comment ils avaient procédé, dans quel ordre ils avaient dessiné les cercles. J'ai du rapidement lui avouer que c'était nous”, raconte Arnaud Thiry.
Coincé par la simplicité de la démonstration, Umberto Molinaro s'emporte et lâche un argument inattendu : “Quand j'emmène des gens sur un crop circle, on est à un autre niveau. On n'est pas là à chercher le vrai et le faux parce qu'on s'en fiche. Ce qu'on retrouve dans un vrai ou un faux crop circle n'est pas lié au crop circle lui-même. On est lié déjà à quelque chose de plus grand que nous.”
Cette histoire de vrai ou faux extraterrestres pourrait faire sourire, faisant passer les adeptes des crop circlespour de doux rêveurs. Mais une vidéo filmée en caméra cachée par Arnaud Thiry sur le site de Moselle, montre un toute autre visage de l'univers parallèle dans lequel ils évoluent : celui de “vibrations” ou encore “d'énergies” bienfaitrices laissées par les Galactiques et qui seraient dotées d'un pouvoir guérisseur.
Unstable Monster Galaxy Hosts Runaway Star Formation
Unstable Monster Galaxy Hosts Runaway Star Formation
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
An artist's impression of the ancient, huge galaxy COSMOS-AzTEC-1, which researchers have found has three dense, star-forming regions. The galaxy can be seen forming stars at an extremely fast rate.
Credit: National Astonomical Observatory of Japan
Some 12.4 billion light-years from Earth, a monster galaxy can be seen forming stars 1,000 times faster than the Milky Way does. It's less of a mess than researchers expected — but its frenetic pace can't last.
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory in Chile have gotten the closest look ever at the galaxy, called COSMOS-AzTEC-1. So-called extreme starburst galaxies may be the predecessors of modern galaxies like the Milky Way, and so understanding them lends insight into how today's galaxies formed and evolved.
"A real surprise is that this galaxy seen almost 13 billion years ago has a massive, ordered gas disk that is in regular rotation instead of what we had expected, which would have been some kind of a disordered train wreck that most theoretical studies had predicted," Min Yun, an astronomer at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and co-author on the new work, said in a statement.
The ancient galaxy's structure held other surprises, as well. With ALMA, they saw that instead of just one dense cloud of material in the center, there were two extra blobs of star-generating gas.
"We found that there are two distinct large clouds several thousand light-years away from the center," Ken-ichi Tadaki, the study's lead author and a researcher at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Japan's National Astronomical Observatory, said in the statement. "In most distant starburst galaxies, stars are actively formed in the center. So it is surprising to find off-center clouds."
And its off-the-charts star formation comes from an inherent instability, the researchers said. In most galaxies, clouds of gas collapse and form stars, which eventually explode into supernovas, pushing gas outward again and slowing the pace of star birth. But in this galaxy, gravity is winning: More and more gas is collapsing into stars, without being pushed outward strongly enough to slow down.
Researchers have been wondering for a long time how early galaxies could form stars so quickly, the researchers said.
"How these galaxies have been able to amass such a large quantity of gas in the first place and then essentially turn the entire gas reserve into stars in the blink of an eye, cosmologically speaking, was a completely unknown question about which we could only speculate," Yun said. "We have the first answers now."
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory in Chile provided these new views of the monster galaxy COSMOS-AzTEC-1 — on the left, you can see the distribution of molecular gas, and on the right, you can see the distribution of dust. Those high-density zones are the key areas for the galaxy's rapid star formation.
Credit: Tadaki et al./ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
If the early universe were populated with galaxies with structures like this one, they could have accumulated huge amounts of gas before suddenly blasting out stars in a runaway effect — although the researchers still don't know how the galaxy was able to build up gas in so stable a fashion before the reaction began.
And the ancient galaxy's life is likely fleeting: The researchers said it will be completely consumed in 100 million years, 10 times faster than other star-forming galaxies.
The researchers speculate that colliding galaxies could have merged to create the behemoth but would need more research — and to look at more ancient galaxies in this much detail — to evaluate how likely that origin is, and to learn more about our mammoth galactic predecessors.
The new work was detailed today (Aug. 29) in the journal Nature.
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains.
For reasons unknown, the travel fare aggregate Orbitz has decided to create a series of extraterrestrial tourism posters they have made available free online. They are really cool and commemorate potential incidents from around the world of alien visitations.
The website reads:
We are not alone.
Reports of UFO sightings, and encounters of the first, second, and third kind date back to Ancient Egypt, and continue throughout the course of history.
Ruimtestation ISS kampte vandaag met een klein gaatje in de wand. Daardoor is de druk aan boord donderdag een beetje weggevallen. Het gaatje van 2 millimeter is gedicht met afplaktape. De situatie aan boord is onder controle.
Wellicht tengevolge van de inslag van een micrometeoriet is er in de nacht van gisteren op vandaag een noodsituatie in het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS geweest, zo heeft het hoofd van het Russische ruimtevaartbureau Roscosmos bekendgemaakt. Dmitri Rogozin beklemtoont dat het probleem is opgelost en dat de bemanning niet in gevaar verkeert.
In de loop van de nacht ontstond er zo drukverlies en een zuurstoflek in het ISS te wijten aan een gaatje van twee milimeter. De Amerikaanse bemanningsleden en de Duitser Alexander Gerst voegden zich bij hun Russische collega’s in het Russische segment van het complex. Daarop werd segment per segment afgesloten om te onderzoeken waar en wat er gebeurd is. “Uiteindelijk lokaliseerden wij het probleem, aldus Rogozin.
Micro-meteoriet
Het gaatje zat in een Russisch gedeelte van het ruimtestation, de zogeheten Rassvet-module. Dat is de plek waar capsules die vanaf de aarde komen, worden aangekoppeld. Nu zit er het vaartuig waarmee een Duitser, een Amerikaanse en een Rus in juni bij het ISS aankwamen. Het is nog niet bekend of het lek gevolgen heeft voor hun geplande terugkeer eind dit jaar.
Wellicht is er een micro-meteoriet ingeslagen, waardoor een gaatje ontstond. Het is ondertussen gerepareerd. Een ruimtewandeling voor verdere reparaties is niet nodig, aldus Rogozin.
Popular UFO researcher Graham McHardy who ran the YouTube channel 'Streetcap1' has died. The death news was revealed by Scott C Waring, another alien researcher. Waring revealed that Streetcap1 died of a sudden heart attack in June 2018, and he added that the UFO researcher was in a decent health at that moment.
"I am saddened to say that the great UFO researcher Streetcap1 (Graham McHardy) passed away in June. I just found out today. I contacted his family and they said he died of a sudden heart attack, and that no one was expecting it. He was in decent health at that moment," wrote Scott C Waring on his website UFO Sightings Daily.
In his UFO research career, Streetcap1 had pointed out several anomalies in lunar photos taken by various NASA missions. Some of the anomalies pointed out by Streetcap1 were so convincing, and it made many of his viewers believe that space agencies like NASA are covering up something sinister.
The last time he uploaded a video on his YouTube channel was on June 7, 2018. As Streetcap1 did not upload any videos since then, many of his followers asked him whether anything has gone wrong.
Tyler Glockner, another popular UFO researcher also uploaded a video about Streetcap1 on his YouTube channel 'Secureteam10'. After Glockner published the video about Streetcap1's death, viewers also expressed their suspicions regarding the untimely demise.
"Tyler you must continue your mission in honor of StreetCap you must carry this legacy and represent all of us in the seeking of Truth! We are not alone!," commented LP Ripper 24 TV, a YouTube user.
"I had a feeling..He talked about it in the last few videos..It didn't seem right then..It doesn't seem right now..He was one of my favorite, if not my favorite researcher..He will be sorely missed..RIP STREETCAP1..If you haven't seen his work..please do," commented Ancient Knowledge, another YouTuber.
Populaire UFO-onderzoeker plotseling overleden. Is hij uit de weg geruimd?
Populaire UFO-onderzoeker plotseling overleden. Is hij uit de weg geruimd?
De populaire UFO-onderzoeker Graham McHardy, eigenaar van het YouTube-kanaal Streetcap1, is overleden. Dat schrijft de International Business Times.
Scott C. Waring, een andere UFO-onderzoeker, liet weten dat Graham in juni dit jaar plotseling een hartaanval kreeg. Hij voegde toe dat de man op dat moment in goede gezondheid verkeerde.
“Met droefheid deel ik mee dat de grote UFO-onderzoeker Streetcap1 (Graham McHardy) in juni is overleden,” schreef hij op zijn website UFO Sightings Daily.
Prima in orde
“Zijn familie heeft laten weten dat hij is gestorven aan een hartaanval, en dat niemand dat had verwacht,” voegde hij toe. “Zijn gezondheid was op dat moment prima in orde.”
Streetcap1 ontdekte onder meer onregelmatigheden op maanfoto’s die tijdens diverse NASA-missies waren gemaakt.
Veel van zijn volgers zijn ervan overtuigd dat ruimteagentschappen zoals de NASA informatie voor ons achterhouden.
Twijfels
Op 7 juni jongstleden plaatste Graham zijn laatste filmpje op YouTube. Sindsdien vroegen velen zich af of hem misschien iets was overkomen.
Sommigen hebben zo hun twijfels over zijn vroegtijdige overlijden.
Een gevoel
“Ik had een gevoel. Hij sprak erover in zijn laatste video’s,” reageerde YouTube-gebruiker Ancient Knowledge. “Het klopt niet.”
“Het is misschien wel mijn meest favoriete onderzoeker,” klonk het verder. “Hij zal erg worden gemist. Rust in vrede Streetcap1. Bekijk vooral zijn materiaal.”
Psychic spies: Inside the government's secret ESP program
Psychic spies: Inside the government's secret ESP program
While scientists question whether extrasensory perception exists, for decades the Defense Department took an offensive interest in studying psychic phenomena.
Many people claim (and many others question) the existence of ESP -- Extra Sensory Perception. Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours" has gone searching for answers (Originally broadcast March 18, 2018):
In the 1970s, a handsome ex-Israeli army paratrooper popularized extrasensory perception, or ESP. Uri Geller claimed he could bend spoons with his mind, see inside sealed containers, and even read other people's minds.
It was great television. But off-stage, Geller had also caught the eye of the intelligence community.
"This is where it got very interesting, because scientists would consider, 'Wait a minute, maybe we can read the minds of other government officials; maybe we can see inside a nuclear facility in Russia,'" said national security reporter Annie Jacobsen.
LITTLE BROWN
It sounds incredible, but it's true. Relying on now-declassified documents, Jacobsen has written about the U.S. government's decades-long to attempts to use Uri Geller, and others like him, for psychic espionage.
"It's sort of like a highly-classified black program inside of a black program," Jacobsen said. "One, because you don't want the Russians or the Chinese to know what we are doing; and two, because a lot of scientists didn't want their colleagues to know what they were doing, because of the embarrassment factor."
And there had long been reports, said Jacobsen, that the Kremlin was also experimenting with ways to weaponize people with ESP.
"There's a declassified report that talks about the Pentagon's real fear -- citing Uri Geller by name -- that if he was able to bend metal with his mind, he might be able to use his mind to interfere with the delicate electronic systems on a nuclear-tipped ICBM," Jacobsen said.
But Uri Geller's skills turned out to be unreliable, as on his now-infamous appearance on "The Tonight Show" in 1973.
Johnny Carson: "Uri was telling me, you don't feel, what, strong tonight? Is that…" Geller: "I don't feel strong. I can't…" Carson: "Well, I'm not trying to pressure you. I'm really not."
Still, that didn't stop the government experiments. In the 1980s, the Defense Intelligence Agency began "Project Star Gate," which was, according to Dean Radin, a scientist who worked on the program, top secret. "It's actually beyond top secret."
The program employed about a dozen psychics and mediums. Its aim: espionage.
PENGUIN
Moriarty asked, "To see whether someone in the United States could spy on other countries from here, just using their minds?"
"Right."
"Did it work?"
"It did work, yeah," Radin replied.
Angela Ford was with Project Star Gate for nine years. She calls herself a medium; the Defense Department preferred "remote viewer." "I was good at finding people," she said. "I was good at locating things."
Moriarty asked, "In a sense, were you hired as a psychic spy?"
"I guess, yes!" she laughed.
Her assignment? To look for missing hostages and fugitives without ever leaving a building at Fort Meade in Maryland.
She recalled one assignment, in 1989, when she says she was able to psychically track down a former customs agent who had allegedly gone rogue.
"I was called into session," Ford said. "My boss asked me, 'Where is Charles Jordan?' I said, 'The man is in Lowell, Wyoming.' And I spelled it: L-O-W-E-L-L."
Ford was off by one letter -- it was Lovell, Wyoming.
"Well, when my boss went to Customs and said, 'We're still getting the Wyoming feeling,' Customs said, 'As we are speaking, we are apprehending Charles Jordan, 100 miles west of Lovell, Wyoming.'"
"So you were right?"
Ford said, "We were right."
There is no obvious explanation for how Ford obtained the intel that turned out to be accurate. But could it have been ESP?
Not according to physicists like Cal Tech's Sean Carroll. When asked if there is such a thing as extrasensory perception, Carroll replied, " No. I think we know enough about the brain to say, no, it really doesn't work that way. We'd be able to test that, be able to put a little receiver next to your head and pick up those signals if they were actually coming."
Angel's Ford's response: "They can't detect it yet."
Moriarty asked her, "But you believe ESP exists?"
"Yes, it does. Yeah, of course."
In 1995, Project Star Gate was shut down. But government interest in the paranormal has not been completely abandoned. Writer Annie Jacobsen says the military is working to see if certain soldiers have "enhanced perception," or "precognition" -- sensing what will happen before it does.
Dean Radin, now at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (which studies ESP), put Moriarty through a test: "This experiment is going to see if your body responds before you see an emotional picture as compared to before a calm picture."
If the pupils of Moriarty's eyes dilate before the disturbing pictures appear on the screen, that's precognition.
CBS NEWS
Does she have any special powers? Yes! She reacts five seconds before seeing an emotional picture.
"Whoa -- I sure didn't see that coming … which is why I have my doubts," Moriarty said.
But those who have seen people like Uri Geller and Angela Ford in action say you can't dismiss the idea that some people may have ESP.
Radin said, "What we're talking about is something like a talent, similar to musical talent or sports talent. So, there will be some people who are at the Olympic level; most of us aren't there."
Journalist Annie Jacobsen said, "There's instances of unusual situations, but there is no proof. It does not pass scientific muster."
Overheid zette jarenlang in het geheim helderziende spionnen in, en met succes. Een uniek inkijkje
Overheid zette jarenlang in het geheim helderziende spionnen in, en met succes. Een uniek inkijkje
In de jaren zeventig trok de Israëlische ex-soldaat Uri Geller de aandacht van de inlichtingengemeenschap door te beweren dat hij lepels kon buigen met zijn gedachten en gedachten van anderen kon lezen.
‘Als we de gedachten van andere overheidsfunctionarissen kunnen lezen, kunnen we misschien een kijkje nemen in een nucleaire installatie in Rusland’, zo dachten de inlichtingendiensten.
De Amerikaanse onderzoeksjournaliste Annie Jacobsen heeft zich verdiept in het decennialange onderzoek van de Amerikaanse overheid naar mensen zoals Uri Geller.
Bang
“Het is een soort topgeheime black operation binnen een black operation,” zei Jacobsen tegen CBS News. “Ze wilden niet dat de Russen of Chinezen erachter zouden komen.”
“Ze wilden ook niet dat hun collega’s erachter zouden komen, uit schaamte,” klonk het.
De journaliste merkte op dat het Kremlin ook al geruime tijd experimenteerde met buitenzintuiglijke waarneming.
“In een vrijgegeven document staat letterlijk dat het Pentagon bang is dat Uri Geller mogelijk met zijn gedachten de elektronische systemen van een kernraket kon verstoren,” zei Jacobsen.
Beyond top secret
In de jaren tachtig startte de Amerikaanse militaire inlichtingendienst DIA het Stargate Project.
Volgens Dean Radin, een wetenschapper die eraan meewerkte, was het project ‘beyond top secret’.
De Amerikaanse overheid huurde helderzienden en mediums in om te spioneren. En dat werkte, aldus Radin.
Angela Ford werkte negen jaar voor het Stargate Project. Hoewel ze zichzelf ‘medium’ noemt, gebruikte het ministerie van Defensie liever de term ‘remote viewer’.
Nog steeds
“Ik was goed in het vinden van mensen,” zei ze. “Ik was goed in het vinden van dingen.”
Ford lokaliseerde gijzelaars en voortvluchtigen vanuit een gebouw in Fort Meade in Maryland.
Hoewel het programma in 1995 werd beëindigd, doet het Amerikaanse leger hier nog steeds onderzoek naar.
Zo wordt onder meer gekeken of soldaten aanvoelen wat er gaat gebeuren, ook wel precognitie genoemd.
In my recent article,”U.K. Government UFO Research: The Real Picture,” I shared the story of how the U.K.’s police – specifically Special Branch – secretly opened, in the 1950s, a surveillance file on George King, the founder of the Aetherius Society. But who, exactly, was George King? Well, that’s the subject of today’s article. George King was born in Wellington, Shropshire, England in 1919 to parents George and Mary, and went on to become one of the most well-known of all the Contactees of the 1950s and 1960s. Even from a very young age, King was surrounded by distinct high-strangeness. His mother and grandmother both claimed to be psychics; and, in his book You Too Can Heal, King related how, at the age of eleven, and while his mother was seriously ill and confined to bed, he headed deep into the heart of nearby woods, where he prayed intently for her speedy recovery. As he did so, King said, an “angelic being” manifested before him in the ancient woodland, instructing him to return home, as his mother was now fully cured. After excitedly racing home and learning that she was indeed restored to full health, a realization came to King that his life was not at all like that of the other kids in the neighborhood.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, King – a “conscientious objector” who refused to fight for his country against Hitler’s hordes – took a position in London with the National Fire Service, ultimately becoming a section-leader. By the time the hostilities were at a close – in 1945 – King was in his mid-twenties, and had begun to develop a deep interest in yoga, alternative therapies, and new-age-style belief systems. This radical change in the mindset of King came to the fore on a Saturday morning in May 1954, when, while doing nothing stranger than washing the dishes in his Maida Vale, London apartment, he heard a loud, disembodied voice cry out: “Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament!”
Allegedly, in the days, weeks and months that followed, said King, he became the recipient of countless channeled messages: from a “great Yogi adept” who materialized in his apartment and warned him of “the unfeeling march of science into the realms of the atom.” Further messages came from a highly spiritual, Venusian being named Aetherius, who bestowed a wealth of words of wisdom upon a shocked, yet profoundly elevated, King. Indeed, so elevated and changed by the cosmic experiences was King that he quickly quit his job as a taxi-driver, and established the Aetherius Society, believing that space-aliens held “the key to the salvation both of the planet as a whole and of every individual on Earth.”
On July 23, 1958, King, somewhat outrageously, claimed a close encounter with none other than Jesus Christ atop Holdstone Down – a 330 meter-high hill above the village of Combe Martin, in the English county of Devonshire. So the story went, thirteen days earlier, King received a channeled message from Aetherius, who advised him to travel to Combe Martin where he would receive instructions from an “adept from Mars.” Seeing nothing strange in this at all, King dutifully did as he was told. Sure enough, upon taking his position on Holdstone Down he could see a “blue sphere” hovering over the waters of the Bristol Channel; after which Jesus – dressed in a flowing and glowing robe, and sporting a wand – manifested in the skies above.
The researchers Dr. David Clarke and Andy Roberts say: “Waves of energy passed between the entity and King who was plunged into a religious rapture before ‘Jesus’ stepped into a beam of light and vanished. King realized that Holdstone Down was now charged, a spiritual power battery whose energies were inexhaustible.” It seems King’s own energies were inexhaustible, too: one year later, he founded an American branch of the Aetherius Society – in Los Angeles, where King ultimately moved to live permanently, and where he continued to spread the words of wisdom bestowed upon him by the various other-worldly entities with whom he claimed to have communed.
Clarke and Roberts add: “The Aetherius Society were never a huge organization, indeed their numbers rarely totaled more than one thousand members worldwide…The Aetherius Societywas not for everyone but, for those seekers who wanted or needed a spiritual dimension to their saucer beliefs, they provided a philosophy, structure and network of sincere like-minded souls.”
George King suffered a heart-attack in 1986, underwent a multiple heart bypass in 1992, and died in Santa Barbara on July 12, 1997. The Aetherius Societycontinues to thrive.
Two Arm UFO Seen Over Cedarhurst, New York On Aug 29, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two Arm UFO Seen Over Cedarhurst, New York On Aug 29, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 29, 2018
Location of sighting: Cedarhurst, New York, USA
Source: MUFON #94490
Here is a unique sighting from New York. A craft that has several long thick arms floated over the city. The eyewitness caught only several seconds of footage before it moved past them, but it was enough to get some good screenshots. I added light to one photo (above only) and left the originals below. We can see in the screenshots that the object has an unrecognizable shape and design. Its like nothing I have ever seen before. I do love when a UFO is reported with a shape that I have never seen before...it really challenges the imagination. If seeing is believing, then this is it.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
It was very odd looking, moving very smoothly. At first I thought it was a helicopter carrying something, I had to stop and get a closer look. It was almost floating.
Black Disk Caught By Tourist Over Argentina Mountains, Aug 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Black Disk Caught By Tourist Over Argentina Mountains, Aug 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 25, 2018 Location of sighting: El Hornocal Jujuy, Argentina Source: MUFON #94500 This UFO was caught by accident when a woman was having her picture taken and later noticed the black disk in the background. The UFO is moving horizontal to the mountains and looks like its moving very fast since it does have a slight blur to it. The blur could also be due to the crafts alien propulsion system causing a distortion around the craft. The disk may have come from an underground base nearby. Often aliens chose to make bases 4-6 miles under volcanos and steep mountains where humans are less likely to travel. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I identified a strange object in a picture I took on my vacations, it is not a picture defect.
Will Mars Rover Opportunity Survive Monster Dust Storm? It's Still Too Soon to Tell
Will Mars Rover Opportunity Survive Monster Dust Storm? It's Still Too Soon to Tell
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover took this self-portrait in March 2014, shortly after wind had cleaned accumulated dust off its solar panels. Opportunity has been silent since June 10, 2018, forced into a sort of hibernation by a powerful dust storm.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
NASA's Opportunity rover has been quiet for 80 days now on the Martian surface, but that doesn't mean the plucky robot is dead.
Indeed, mission team members say it's still too soon to draw any conclusions about the fate of Opportunity, which has been sidelined by a monster Martian dust storm since June 10.
"We simply don't know what's going to happen," mission scientific principal investigator Steve Squyres, a professor of physical sciences at Cornell University in New York, told Space.com. "There's only one way to find out, and that's to listen." [Mars Dust Storm 2018: How It Grew & What It Means for Opportunity]
Opportunity goes silent
The golf-cart-size Opportunity touched down on Mars in late January 2004, three weeks after its twin, Spirit, landed in a different part of the Red Planet.
The two solar-powered rovers embarked on three-month missions to hunt for signs of past water activity. Both found lots of such evidence in relatively short order and then continued exploring, rolling through the red dirt for years after their warranties expired.
Spirit finally gave up the ghost in 2010 after getting bogged down in a Martian sand trap, but Opportunity has remained remarkably healthy and resilient over the years. No vehicle, robotic or crewed, has ever traveled farther on the surface of another world than Opportunity, whose odometer currently reads 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers).
In late May of this year, however, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a dust storm swirling near Opportunity's locale, the rim of the 14-mile-wide (22 km) Endeavour Crater. The storm intensified over the ensuing days, throwing so much dust into the Martian atmosphere that Opportunity couldn't harvest enough sunlight to recharge its batteries.
The rover fell silent on June 10, apparently putting itself in a sort of hibernation mode. And the storm kept growing; by June 20, it had become a global maelstrom, encircling the entire planet.
The danger to Opportunity is very real. The rover cannot operate its onboard heaters in its current state, so Opportunity could freeze to death if the ambient temperature drops low enough.
"If things get too cold, they can break," Squyres said, citing soldering joints and other key pieces of internal hardware as examples.
How cold is too cold? Nobody knows. During pre-launch tests, both Spirit and Opportunity survived extended exposure to temperatures as low as minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 55 degrees Celsius). But Opportunity has endured about 5,000 taxing day-night thermal cycles on the Red Planet over the past 14.5 years, so it's unclear how resilient its internal components are today.
"At what temperature do they break now? We don't know," Squyres said.
Somewhat paradoxically, the dust storm mitigates this problem a bit. All of that airborne dust prevents a lot of sunlight from reaching the surface during the day, but it also traps infrared radiation (heat) at night. The result is cooler days but warmer-than-usual nights — and supercold nights are the biggest concern for Opportunity. (In case you were wondering: NASA's other active Mars rover, Curiosity, is nuclear-powered and is therefore largely unbothered by the dust storm.)
The dust is clearing
The storm began abating last month, and the skies are continuing to clear, Squyres said. However, it'll probably take an extended period of relatively sunny weather — not just a single good day — to rouse Opportunity, if the rover is indeed still alive.
Squyres said he's not sure if that good-weather threshold has yet been cleared.
"But with the storm well into its decay phase, we have now reached the point where it really makes sense to start listening closely," he said.
The team is doing just that, scouring all the communications from NASA Mars-exploring robots for any peep from Opportunity. Mission team members are also pinging the rover regularly during scheduled "wake-up times," then listening for a response, NASA officials have said.
If Opportunity does pull through, the rover almost certainly won't get back to business as usual right away. The six-wheeled robot has been through quite an ordeal, Squyres stressed; it'll therefore probably take a few weeks to bring Opportunity out of whatever "fault mode" it has fallen into and assess its health and capabilities.
But again: It's premature to speculate about such things right now, with Opportunity's fate so up in the air.
"It's either going to be a miraculous recovery, or an honorable death," Squyres said.
Incredible NASA Photos Show Jupiter's Marbled Atmosphere
Incredible NASA Photos Show Jupiter's Marbled Atmosphere
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
Four images of Jupiter taken over a 15-minute period in July 2018 show off the complicated dynamics of the atmosphere in the planet's northern hemisphere.
A stunning series of photographs captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft highlights the complicated dynamics of Jupiter's atmosphere.
The images, taken July 16 between 12:54 a.m. and 1:11 a.m. EDT (0454 and 0511 GMT) by the JunoCam camera on board NASA's Juno spacecraft, show the atmospheric features in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, NASA officials said in a statement when releasing the image yesterday (Aug. 27).
Those features include an anticyclone storm marked by a white oval, most easily seen in the second image; a storm nicknamed the Little Red Spot, visible at the bottom of the second and third images; and an orange stripe called the North North Temperate Belt, visible in the last two images.
The images were captured during Juno's 14th close skim over Jupiter's surface, when the spacecraft came as close as 3,900 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the planet's clouds. JunoCam is controlled by the public, and members of the public process the raw photographs from the camera and turn them into stunning images like these.
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and has been studying the gas giant planet since July 2016. The spacecraft is due to remain at work for almost three more years, which means scientists can keep watching these atmospheric features as they change over time.
The Anunnaki Creation Story: Humanity's Biggest Secret
The Anunnaki Creation Story: Humanity's Biggest Secret
I found this presentation really very palatable and quite easy to understand and ingest.
The information in here is maligned and played down by some/many, but although Sitchin's work has been questioned by certain types, a good argument for its validity is made in this video by saying (paraphrasing):
“Look, A, B, and C are all verifiably attributed to this civilization with zero doubt or controversy…yet somehow D isn’t? Come on. Let’s look at D and see what it says and what’s really going on here.”
Adding to the mystery has been claims that all the monuments of Giza in the African nation were perfectly aligned with certain constellations.
Many have argued for decades that ancestors in Egypt were physically unable to build the incredible Pyramids of Giza.
They suggest that advanced lifeforms from space passed on their knowledge or created the monuments before civilisations emerged.
One conspiracy website outerworlds.com dedicates a whole section to the argument that "aliens built the pyramids”, reports Express.co.uk.
DAILY MYSTERIES
IMPOSSIBLE: Theorists claim it would have been impossible for humans to build the Pyramids
DAILY MYSTERIES
MYSTERY: Some believe intelligent lifeforms were responsible for the Pyramids of Giza
The theory then says because two diagonal lines extend from the pyramids on either side of the Nile River delta, the early Egyptians could not have known this when building them.
It says: "How could the Egyptians possibly have built their pyramid facing the exact magnetic North Pole without even having a compass?
"Those aliens, abundant in their knowledge and drowning in technology, came along and using their compasses, they landed on earth and found the actual magnetic north and south poles.
“Then they built the pyramids."
“Those aliens, abundant in their knowledge and drowning in technology, built the pyramids.”
Outerworlds.com
But theorists claim the Pyramids were just one of a number of incredible structures built thousands of years ago when it would not have been possible with technology of the age.
The potential alien buildings include Stonehenge in Wiltshire which boasts stones weighing as much as 50 tonnes, and a 1,000-year-old interlocking stone fortress outside the Inca capital of Cusco in Peru.
In the same South American country, the 800 long and straight Nasca Lines which feature 300 geometric shapes and 70 figures of animals are another creation of wonder linked to ancients ETs.
And some claim aliens were also responsible for the 900 human stone figures on Easter Island in the South Pacific Ocean, which date back more than 1,000 years.
In Perth, in het westen van Australië, is gisterenavond een vuurbal waargenomen in de lucht. Inwoners van de stad konden het natuurfenomeen vastleggen op video. De vuurbal was zichtbaar rond 19.40 uur ’s avonds. Een vuurbal ontstaat wanneer een brokstuk(je) uit de ruimte in de atmosfeer belandt en verbrandt.
Being called “The Bermuda Triangle of ____” is never a good thing … just ask the people who have disappeared the Bridgewater Triangle (Massachusetts), the Bennington Triangle Glastenbury), the Dragon’s Triangle (Japan), the Michigan Triangle (you can figure this one out yourself) and the Matlock Triangle (Derbyshire Dales). These other triangles are on land or in the ocean, but none are on ice. That unique distinction belongs to Piteraq Alley, the Bermuda Triangle of Greenland, and this mysterious area is in the news because researchers announced they have found a lost World War II P-38 from the infamous Lost Squadron under over 300 feet (91 meters) of ice in the Piteraq Alley.
Credit for the discovery goes to businessman Jim Salazar and Ken McBride from the non-profit Arctic Hotpoint Solutions and Fallen American MIA Repatriation Foundation (FAMIARF), who have spent a number of years searching for planes and crew remains lost in the area, especially the Lost Squadron – a group of two B-17 bombers and six P-38 fighters flying from the U.S. to Britain in July 1942 as part of Operation Bolero, delivering planes, pilots, equipment and supplies for the war. The path they followed was known at the time as the Snowball Route – a string of secret bases from Maine to Newfoundland to Greenland to Iceland to Scotland. Greenland was a crucial stop – it was the only reliable source of cryolite, a mineral used to produce aluminum for the planes.
“It’s Greenland’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’ … the weather there shifts in a matter of minutes. As a pilot, you can clearly understand why there were so many difficulties in that area.”
By “difficulties,” Salazar means that the Lost Squadron planes weren’t the only ones lost in Piteraq Alley. While the indigenous Intuits didn’t know about airplanes or Bermuda, they did know about the dangers of the Alley – Piteraq means “that which attacks you” and is their word for Greenland’s severe snowstorms that can appear in just minutes. Despite searches, a piteraq likely covered the downed planes quickly and nothing was found until 1992, when the first P-38 from the group was discovered, recovered and restored. Salazar himself has been leading searches since 2011, but it wasn’t until July 2018 that one of his drones using ground-penetrating radar found evidence of something unusual in the ice. They then used a thermal probe to melt through the ice to a depth of 300 feet, where they found red i5606 Hydraulic fluid from the P-38. As Live Science reports, further investigations identified it as P-38 “Echo,” piloted by Army Air Corps Lt. Col. Robert Wilson. (Pictures of the drone and the expedition can be seen here.)
That’s as much as Salazar’s team can do for now … it’s Greenland and winter is already blowing through. Next summer, he plans to dig and melt through the ice to recover the P-38 and any remains, then return it to the U.S. for possible restoration. He will also be looking for two other victims of the Greenland Triangle – a C-53 cargo plane (a converted DC-3 civilian aircraft) which crashed in late 1942 and a U.S. Coast Guard Duck aircraft which crashed in a futile attempt to rescue the survivors.
Are there any other victims of the Greenland Triangle? It appears planes have avoided the area due to the severity and unexpectedness of piteraqs. Also, piteraqs are a low-altitude weather phenomenon. These high-density katabatic winds start on Greenland’s icecaps and are pulled by gravity down the slopes like ground-hugging hurricanes. The Danish Meteorological Institute has measured speeds from 50 to 80 m/s (180-288 km/h; 111-178 mph). On February 6, 1970, the community of Tasiilaq was hit by the worst documented piteraq ever in Greenland, with winds estimated at 90 m/s or over 200 miles per hour. Since then, the Danish Meteorological Institute has been issuing piteraq warnings.
Piteraq Alley has definitely earned its title as Greenland’s Bermuda Triangle. While not as mysterious, it’s unquestionably as deadly and worth avoiding in the air or on the ground.
Russia’s undeniable and outrageous meddling in things that are none of their business has a significant bearing on the UFO issue of yesteryear. With that in mind, I thought it would be timely to bring to your attention a few intriguing and eye-opening issues. Firstly, the pro-Russia stance of a certain famous UFO Contactee. That man was George Adamski. He was arguably the most famous and controversial of all the Contactees: he claimed multiple encounters with human-like aliens from other worlds, including Venus, no less (yeah, right…). The facts concerning the Russian issue are contained in Adamski’s FBI file, which is in the public domain, thanks to the terms of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. An FBI document of May 28, 1952 reveals that the FBI had a credible source who, back in 1950, had shared with them certain data on Adamski. The file states:
“On September 5, 1950, [source] advised the San Diego Office that he first met Adamski about three months ago at the café which is named the Palomar Gardens Café, owned and operated by Adamski, at the road junction, five miles East of Rincon, California, at a point where the highway branches off leading to Mount Palomar Observatory. [Source] advised that Adamski has four or five women working in the café and according to [source] business does not warrant the employment of four or five persons. [Source] stated that on August 20, 1950, the occasion of his last visit to Adamski’s café, he [source] and a [deleted] of San Diego, became involved in a lengthy conversation with Adamski during which Adamski told them at great length of his findings of flying saucers and so forth. He told them of a space ship which he said he saw between the earth and the moon, which he estimated to be approximately three miles in length, which was flying so fast that he had to take about eighty photographs before he could get three of them to turn out.”
The story continues: “At this time, Adamski showed [source] and [deleted] a number of photographs which he has taken of what he purports to be flying saucers. [Source] commented that one of these photographs was published in the ‘San Diego Union’ under the caption of ‘What is it?’ Adamski stated he had first submitted this particular photograph to the Navy but when it appeared they were not interested, he, Adamski, released it for publication in the ‘San Diego Union.’
“According to [source] Adamski stated that the Federal Communications Commission, under the direction of the ‘Military Government’ of the United States, has established communication with the people from other worlds, and has learned that they are so much more advanced than the inhabitants of this earth that they have deciphered the languages used here. Adamski stated that in this interplanetary communication, the Federal Communications Commission asked the inhabitants of the other planet concerning the type of government they had there and the reply indicated that it was very different from the democracy of the United States. Adamski stated that his answer was kept secret by the United States Government, but he added, ‘If you ask me they probably have a Communist form of government and our American government wouldn’t release that kind of thing, naturally. That is a thing of the future – more advanced.’”
This is, of course, all highly controversial. And, it’s very easy to understand why the FBI should have taken such a deep interest in Adamski’s opinions on extraterrestrials and communism. Let’s not forget that at the time – the very early 1950s – Joseph Stalin still ruled ruthlessly over the Soviet Union. I suspect that if Adamski had actually visited Russia in that period, he would have headed back to the United States in rapid-time. And without a look back. The FBI file continues: “Adamski, during this conversation, made the prediction that Russia will dominate the world and we will then have an era of peace for 1,000 years. He stated that Russia already has the atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb and that the great earthquake, which was reported behind the Iron Curtain recently, was actually a hydrogen bomb explosion being tried out by the Russians. Adamski states this ‘earthquake’ broke seismograph machines and he added that no normal earthquake can do that.”
There was even more, too: “Adamski stated that within the next twelve months, San Diego will be bombed. Adamski stated that it does not make any difference if the United States has more atom bombs than Russia inasmuch as Russia needs only ten atom bombs to cripple the United States by placing these simultaneously on such spots as Chicago and other vital centers of this country. Adamski further stated the United States today is in the same state of deterioration as was the Roman Empire prior to its collapse and it will fall just as the Roman Empire did. He stated the Government in this country is a corrupt form of government and capitalists are enslaving the labor.”
The FBI also recorded the following: “[Source] advised that when Adamski left the group for a brief period, one of the women working in the café came over and entered into the conversation. She stated that some of our servicemen who stopped there to have drinks during World War II and subsequent thereto, told ‘Professor’ Adamski of the atrocities which they were forced to commit, murdering women and children on orders of their superior officers. [Deleted] exhibited a great deal of animosity against the United States, stating the United States committed more atrocities during World War II than did the Japanese but since the Japanese were the ones who lost the war, they were the ones who were tried as war criminals.”
The source had more to say, as the FBI papers demonstrate: “This woman added that a friend of hers who recently returned from Russia stated he was very pleased with everything he found there. He stated to her that the people in Russia received seven tickets per month for the opera and cinema. These tickets are free, being issued by the government. The woman added ‘The people there (in Russia) don’t have to be worrying about where their next meal is coming from. Everything is fine in Russia and in the United States we have to fight for everything we get.'”
There was this, too, from the FBI: “[Source] advised that Adamski returned to continue his conversation stating that the United States will soon be in the same condition that Europe was in during the last war. He added that ‘It is a good idea to be quiet now. Right now if you talk in favor of Communism you will be spotted as a Communist and if you talk against Communism you will be spotted by the Communist, so it’s best to just shut up.’ Adamski stated to [source] that ‘The United States hasn’t a chance to win the war. Russia will take over the United States.'” This was all deeply inflammatory. It’s no surprise, at all, that the FBI made Adamski a person of interest.
Now, let’s focus on the matter of potential Russian meddling and the UFO Contactee movement – way back in the 1950s, no less. Truman Bethurum was someone who, in the early-to-mid 1950s, claimed flirty, close encounters with a beautiful alien space-babe named Aura Rhanes. Most people, very understandably, dismissed Bethurum’s tales as fantasies run wild. After all, at the time, his second marriage was on the rocks. It’s intriguing, however, to note the following words from Bethurum:
“Two or three fellows who had sons in Korea and who read a lot in the newspapers about the Communist underground in this country, were convinced in their own minds that I was, if making contact with anyone at all, making it with enemy agents[italics mine]. They even went so far as to tell me belligerently that they intended to get guns and follow me nights, and if they caught up me having intercourse with any people from planes, airships of any kind, they’d blast me and those people too.” Was Aura Rhanes a figment of Bethurum’s imagination? Could she have been an alien? Or, might she have been one of those “enemy agents” to which Bethurum referred? Just maybe, a Russian enemy agent seeking to manipulate the UFO scene?
Now, let’s take a look at the words of the late Jim Moseley, who, for years, ran the Saucer Smear newsletter. Moseley said of his time spent in 1950s-era Ufology: “…I had fallen under the influence of Charles Samwick, a retired army intelligence officer. Both a saucer fiend and very concerned about Communist subversion. Samwick was active in New York City-area saucering circles. Quite sincere and most convincing, he told me…‘the Communist Party has planted an agent in every civilian saucer club in the United States [italics mine].’”
Interestingly, in the June-July, 1955 issue of his other newsletter, Saucer News, Moseley stated: “…Let us give some very serious consideration to the many alleged space men being called to the public’s attention – all of whom invariably tell us of the dangers of war and the exploitation of atomic energy. No one desires peace any more sincerely than we do, but let us remember too that it is part of the Communist ‘peace line’ to frighten the American people into ceasing our atomic experiments. It is quite possible that some of these ‘space men’ are unwittingly playing into the hands of the Communists.” Or, maybe, the “space men” were communists: Russiancommunists. Moseley also offered this: “Could it be that Orthon[one of George Adamski’s alleged, extremely-human-looking alien visitors] was a Communist agent [italics mine], maybe from the Red Planet – or at least the Kremlin – rather than Venus?”
Orfeo Angelucci was another of the early UFO Contactees. Although he never gained the level of popularity that George Adamski achieved, he certainly left his mark on Ufology. His books included The Secret of the Saucers and Son of the Sun. Angelucci made an intriguing statement in the early years of his time as a Contactee. He revealed that on one occasion, and while on a “tour of the East,” he met with what he described as a “subversive element.” That same subversive element attempted to “convert me to Communism” and – more significantly – to “slant my talks along the Party Line [italics mine].”
Whoever these meddling communists were, Angelucci made his position very clear: “Communism is the negation of all that is honest and good in the world and in humanity. They would enslave the human mind. Their obstructiveness is willful and planned. We must eventually meet this murderous element at Armageddon; when it will be victory for one side or the other. Good will triumph, or evil! Every entity in the world and the adjoining planes is now aligned definitely upon one side or the other. No matter what the outcome of the conflict, the positive element of good will ultimately attain a greater life and progression; whereas the negative will meet death, destruction and a new beginning in a more hostile environment. As you have made your choice, so be it!’”
Was there a concerted, meddling effort on the part of the Soviets, back in the early 1950s, to use the UFO Contactee issue as a means to promote communism and the Russian way of life? Was George Adamski’s clear admiration for communism provoked by him having been influenced by the very same people that approached Orfeo Angelucci? Maybe Truman Bethurum too? And, maybe even to create hysteria and fear in the United States? Don’t bet against it. Take, for example, the matter of the CIA’s Robertson Panel, which, in part, addressed the matter of UFOs and how the phenomenon could potentially be manipulated for sinister purposes. In the very same time-frame that the Contactee movement was at its height, the panel’s members feared that Russian interference might have an adverse effect on U.S. national security. On this matter, I will leave you with the words of the Robertson Panel and their thoughts on the matter of UFOs, the then-Soviet threat, and possible Russian manipulation:
“…although evidence of any direct threat from these [UFO] sightings was wholly lacking, related dangers might well exist resulting from:
A. Misidentification of actual enemy artifacts by defense personnel.
B. Overloading of emergency reporting channels with ‘false’ information [italics mine].
C. Subjectivity of public to mass hysteria and greater vulnerability to possible enemy psychological warfare [italics mine].”
'Sporen van eerder universum ontdekt in de kosmische achtergrondstraling'
'Sporen van eerder universum ontdekt in de kosmische achtergrondstraling'
Vivian Lammerse
Ons universum is mogelijk niet het eerste. En ook niet het laatste.
Onderzoekers denken bewijs te hebben gevonden van een vorig universum. Dat wil zeggen; de overblijfselen van zwarte gaten uit een ander universum. Het onderzoek borduurt voort op het kosmologische model dat kortweg CCC wordt genoemd (dat staat voor Conformal cyclic cosmology). Volgens dit – niet onomstreden – model volgen verschillende universums elkaar op.
Hawking-punten Het bewijs komt in de vorm van Hawking-punten, vernoemd naar Stephen Hawking. Hij theoretiseerde dat zwarte gaten straling zouden uitzenden, die bekend staat als Hawking-straling. Volgens de onderzoekers zou deze straling overspringen van het ene universum naar het andere. En ze denken nu, na een analyse van onze nachtelijke hemel, 30 van deze punten gevonden te hebben in de kosmische achtergrondstraling.
Zwart gat Even een stapje terug. In het centrum van onze Melkweg bevindt zich een superzwaar zwart gat. Over ongeveer 4 miljard jaar zal onze Melkweg botsen met Andromeda, onze dichtstbijzijnde buur. Tijdens die gebeurtenis zal het grotere superzware zwarte gat van dit sterrenstelsel samensmelten met het onze. Als deze zwarte gaten om elkaar heen draaien en samenvloeien, wordt er een enorme energiepuls afgegeven. In de daaropvolgende periode botsen andere sterrenstelsels tegen het onze, waardoor er een enorm zwart gat overblijft, omringd door een uitgestorven stofwolk. Maar dit is niet het einde…
“WAT WE BEWEREN TE ZIEN IS HET LAATSTE OVERBLIJFSEL NADAT EEN ZWART GAT IN EEN VORIG UNIVERSUM IS VERDAMPT”
Overblijfselen Ons universum breidt zich uit en terwijl het afkoelt, zullen de zwarte gaten gaan branden. Hoewel deze gloed buitengewoon zwak is, valt deze wel voor enige tijd aan de nachtelijke hemel te aanschouwen. Dit zijn de Hawking-punten, die vanuit een volgend universum gezien kunnen worden. En waarvan de onderzoekers dus denken er een aantal ontmaskerd te hebben. “Wat we beweren te zien is het laatste overblijfsel nadat een zwart gat in een vorig universum is verdampt,” verklaart co-auteur Roger Penrose.
Of deze theorie juist is, valt nog te bezien. Want op dit moment moet het echte bewijs van deze Hawking-straling, of Hawking-punten nog aangetoond worden. Er is dus nog veel werk te verrichten voordat iemand het definitieve bestaan van een vorig universum hard kan maken.
A future mission to Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter, could send a probe through the ice to explore what’s thought to be an ocean beneath. (NASA / JPL Illustration)
Instead of cave dwellers gathered around a campfire, roasting mastodon meat, imagine an octopus tribe floating around a hydrothermal vent at the seafloor, boiling lobsters.
That’s the scenario sketched out by Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Germany’s Technical Institute Berlin who’s also an adjunct professor at Arizona State University and Washington State University.
Earth’s oceans provide an example in the form of cephalopods. Octopuses and squid are thought to have evolved strictly in the oceans, in contrast to dolphins and whales, which spent part of their evolutionary history on land. Octopuses are also arguably tool users, based on what they can do with coconut shells.
Under the right conditions, could such water-dwelling creatures develop technology on an alien water world? That may be more challenging than it was for our forebears, Schulze-Makuch says.
“Fire can’t exist underwater, and fire is thought to have been essential for humans to develop technology,” Schulze-Makuch notes. However, there’s one potential avenue that he and co-author William Bains explore in their book, “The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds.”
“Perhaps smart ocean creatures could use thermal vents on an alien planet’s seafloor to supply concentrated heat energy,” Schulze-Makuch says. “Such energy wouldn’t be as portable or controllable as fire, but the underwater civilization could farm fish without fire, or perhaps use other resources to make tools and technology. As an example, long strands of kelp could be ideal for making rope.”
The prospect of finding life on water worlds isn’t merely a matter for science-fiction speculation: Astrobiologists suspect that hydrothermal activity could support life within the hidden oceans of Europa and Enceladus, ice-covered moons that orbit Jupiter and Saturn.
Credit: Photo: Georg Oleschinski/Rendering: Thomas van de Kamp
Fossilized fly pupae are about as exciting to look at as a handful of dingy, stale Rice Krispies. But despite their humdrum appearance, fossil pupae can hold fascinating secrets inside; in some cases, they preserve deadly examples of insect parasitism.
Scientists recently investigated hundreds of fossil pupae — the inactive life stage between larva and adult — dating to the Paleogene period (about 65 million to 23 million years ago). They found unexpected stowaways inside: four new wasp species.
The wasps reproduced by parasitism, with females laying their eggs inside the bodies of pupating flies. Then, as the wasp larvae grew, they used the flies as a convenient, all-you-can-eat buffet. In most cases, the flies were entirely consumed, and the wasps died and became fossilized while still inside the flies' chrysalis shells. [The 10 Most Diabolical and Disgusting Parasites]
The researchers discovered the wasps by peering into pupae with X-ray scans, then reconstructing what they found inside with 3D computer modeling. They named the most common wasp Xenomorphia resurrecta— the first part of its name alludes to the terrifying, parasitic Xenomorphin the "Alien" sci-fi movies, while the second part of its name refers to the extinct species' "resurrection" through digital imaging, the scientists reported in a new study.
Many species of parasitic wasps are around today, targeting caterpillars, fly maggots, spiders and ladybugs as living meals for their ravenous young. One enterprising wasp species — named Euderus set, after the Egyptian god of evil and chaos — chooses targets that are in its own family, parasitizing other species of parasitic wasps.
But fossil evidence of parasitism in ancient wasps is exceptionally rare. Previously, the only example came from a single mineralized fly pupa from a site in Quercy, a region in southwestern France, dating to about 40 million to 30 million years ago, the researchers wrote.
Mineralized fly pupae held parasitic wasps inside them for more than 30 million years.
Credit: Georg Oleschinski
For the new study, the scientists examined 1,510 pupae, also from the Quercy site in France. They found 55 pupae that showed signs of being parasitized, and 52 pupae preserved the bodies of adult wasps. It's possible that the tough exoskeleton of adults was more resistant to decay than the softer tissues of their earlier developmental stages; this could explain why adult wasps were more abundant in the fossils, according to the study.
In addition to X. resurrecta, the scientists found more wasp species inside the fly pupae: Xenomorphia handschini, Coptera anka and Palaeortona quercyensis. Digital reconstruction of the fossilized wasps' delicate bodies pointed to subtle differences that defined the wasps as different species, and even hinted at the ecological niches they may have filled; the head and body shapes of C. anka and P. quercyensis suggested that they would have been better adapted to life on the ground than their Xenomorph-named cousins, the study authors reported.
The findings were published online today (Aug. 28) in the journal Nature Communications.
Now, a team of German scientists has decided to make the connection between insects and aliens legit by naming newly discovered parasitic wasp species after the Xenomorphs from the sci-fi horror movie Alien.
In the movie, a baby chestburstercrawls out of actor John Hurt's torso in an explosion of blood and guts. The surviving movie characters realize to their horror that humans make perfect hosts for aliens to lay their eggs.
A new study, published Tuesday in Nature Communications, shows that in the real world, parasitic wasps have been using similarly creepy tactics for millions of years.
Parasitic wasps make hosts of other insects just like the the Aliens, laying eggs inside or on top of other insects.
As the young wasps grow, they eat the hosts' bodies from the inside out, and often burst through their hosts' abdomens, just like the chestbursters in Alien.
For the study, scientists from Germany examined 1,510 fossilized fly pupae in total from the Paleogene period found in France.
Fossil evidence for insect host–parasitoid interactions is considered extremely rare, so ideas about parasite evolution has been considered assumptive, until now.
Using synchrotron X-ray imaging, the scientists discovered four new parasitic wasps hiding inside 55 mineralized fossils of fly larvae dating back 30 million to 40 million-years-old.
"It's the first time we definitely have proof of a developing parasitoid wasp inside its host in the fossil record," Thomas van de Kamp, an entomologist from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and lead author, told the New York Times on Tuesday.
The German team, who identified the specimens of the newly discovered wasp species, have officially named two of the species Xenomorphia resurrecta and Xenomorphia handschini.
In the spirit of Aliens, maybe it's time to nuke these wasps from space.
A spider's erection, and other cool things trapped in amber
Lasting forever
In many ways, amber is nature's historian. As a tree resin, it starts as a sticky flowing substance that often traps flora and fauna in its path. Then, as volatile compounds in the resin evaporate and other chemical changes take place, it becomes fossilized, preserving its contents for millions of years.
Not only is amber prized by jewelry makers, it's also valued by scientists, who can peer into it to look back at the past in a very real way.
Perhaps one of the most striking examples of amber's ability to freeze time is this specimen of a harvestman spider, also known as a daddy long legs. This particular critter was about to have sex, as evidenced by its erect penis, which is normally hidden inside the body in its less excited state.
The spider is estimated to be about 99 million years old, which certainly adds new meaning to lasting forever. The spider's discovery was reported in The Science of Nature journal in January 2016.
"This is the first record of a male copulatory organ of this nature preserved in amber and is of special importance due to the age of the deposit," reads the paper on the find.
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Noah’s Ark was a PYRAMID and he may have been a Pharaoh, Dead Sea Scrolls findings reveal
More than 50 years ago, a shepherd found seven scrolls in the Qumran Caves in the Judean desert of the West Bank near to the Dead Sea.
The findings formed a larger manuscript which have been come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The papers contain Biblical and non-Biblical stories and have offered scientists a glimpse into the past and shed new light on Abrahamic religions.
The latest discovery, which was found by scientists who scanned a piece of the Dead Sea Scrolls using different wavelengths of light at 28 times higher resolution than standard scans, revealed that Noah’s Ark was pyramid-shaped.
The Qumran Cave, where some of the scrolls were found
Experts had been unable to read a word following the Hebrew phrase “the ark’s tallness” on the scrolls, but thanks to the high-tech scan, they have now discovered that the word is ‘ne’esefet’.
The translation of ne’esefet from Hebrew to English means “gathered”, which Dr Alexey Yuditsky from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem says means that the ark’s ribs were gathered at the top to form a shape of a pyramid.
and the discovery is actually backed up by previous findings.
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The scrolls revealed Noah's Ark was pyramid-shaped
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This discovery has led some to believe Noah was actually a pharaoh
Dr Yuditsky says the Septuagint, which is a Greek translation of the Bible which dates back to the third century BC, also describes the ark’s shape as a pyramid, while medieval authors such as Maimonides also suggested the same.
This discovery has led some to believe Noah, who escaped from ancient Egypt, was actually a pharaoh, as pyramids were a sign of high standing in the North African empire at the time.
Blogger Jesse Waugh writes on his website: “Many 'alternative' historians now believe that Moses was Akhenaten, who escaped to Amarna with his people and his Queen Nefertiti, and where he set up a new society dedicated to the veneration of the monotheistic sun-god Aten.
“Is the Old Testament actually the story of the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt?”
Open Minds UFO Radio: Ryan is the author of Somewhere in the Skies: A Human Approach to an Alien Phenomenon and is also a contributing writer to the anthology, UFOs: Reframing the Debate. He is the creator and host of the Somewhere in the Skies Podcast on the Entertainment One Podcast Network and is a frequent contributor to the Rogue Planet news site. Speaking on the UFO topic, he has been featured on ABC News, Fox News, The Science Channel, and is a regular on The Travel Channel’s hit television series, Mysteries at the Museum.
In this episode, Ryan and Alejandro discuss their recent visit to Pasadena for the AlienCon, and other recent events in UFO research. The landscape has changed greatly since the New York Times came out with their article regarding the secret Pentagon UFO study. UFOs are taken more seriously. However, not everyone in the UFO Community is excited about it. Why not? Ryan lends his insight into why this may be and his thoughts regarding other recent UFO news, including a picture he took of Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Duchovny that is going viral!
During a lightning storm strange spherical object shoots out of the clouds
During a lightning storm strange spherical object shoots out of the clouds
We may wonder whether it was a UFO or some sort of ball lightning or something that is connected to the UFO/Lightning phenomenon, a phenomenon that is assumed that UFOs are using the electromagnetic energy from lightning storms.
Police in Argentina Claim They Have Taken the First Photograph of a Real Alien
Police in Argentina Claim They Have Taken the First Photograph of a Real Alien
If anyone can be trusted to give an accurate description of something, it would be the police, right. Well, police officers in Argentina have claimed that they have taken a photograph of a real-life alien.
While many people have claimed in the past to capture photos of aliens, the images have been blurred, with the supposed alien away in the distance or mostly hidden. This time around, it is different as the photograph came from an official body that is trusted, the Argentinian police force.
Photograph of Alien Has Shocked People
The image had shocked many people, both believers, along with disbelievers when it made its way around conspiracy websites after it was revealed on Facebook, according to Alien-ufo-sightings. com.
Reports attached to the photograph suggest that police officer in Argentina were called out to investigate a disturbance after someone reported strange behaviour occurring in the region of Parque Mitre in Corrientes.
When police responded to the call out, they came across what could only be described as a humanoid-like being. Quick to act the police officers managed to take out their mobile phone to capture a photograph of the creature among the trees.
Some Disbelievers Have De-Bunked the Photograph
As always, there are disbelievers with them saying that the photograph has apparently been edited. Some people say it is a modified version of the alien that was in the movie starring Mel Gibson, Signs or it came from the alien horror movie, Ovni.
Others believe that the photograph taken by the police officers is the best evidence so far that aliens are on Earth. Terry Larch spoke out on the Freaklore website is saying, “In the country of Argentina, one of the most magnificent alien photos ever taken has been recently captured.
“The photograph is incredible and may be the best evidence of aliens living among us yet.”
He went on to report that the local police had attended the scene in Argentina on September 13, 2017, when teenagers in the region reported they had seen an alien in woodland and reported the sighting to the police. He said the teenagers had reported seeing a strange creature lurking around. A group of officers then arrived at the scene. The police found the teenagers, who were said to be in a state of panic, where they found an alien being among the trees.
The police walked slowly over to the being among the trees and at that point realized that it was not a human being. Larch said, “It appeared to be a rather traditional looking extraterrestrial, typically seen in movies or drawings.”
The Alien Creature Disappeared into the River
Reports from the police officers said the creature had fled when they approached too closely. The creature went into the Parana River where they lost sight of it. Larch did say that this is the first time someone has captured the photograph of an alien so closely along with being in such clarity, so it does raise suspicions.
Larch said, “Clearly while glancing at the photograph, the shape and size of the alien is rather remarkable to see. It has the oval head shape and almond dark shaped eyes. Its hands appear to have only three fingers protruding outward. “From the distance of where the photograph was taken, it appears to be fairly tall in height as well.”
The Alien Photograph Has Caused a Stir among Believers
The photograph of the alien was first published on the Facebook page of radio station LT7AM 900 from Argentina. It was then published on conspiracy websites along with Diarioprimeralinea.com.ar. The website said they did not know if the photograph was a fake or the real deal.
Malcolm Robinson who attended the Paraforce Paranormal UK convention recently showed the image. Robinson was giving a lecture about real aliens coming to Earth along with showing photographs and this one was among them.
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Alien caught in #Corrientes#Argentina? That pic is a frame from Spanish horror movie OVNI
ALIEN HOAX: UFO researcher Malcolm Robinson revealed the image in the UK at Paraforce today.
Paranormal researcher Malcolm Robinson revealed the image to the UK at the Paraforce paranormal convention in Witham, Essex, on Sunday.
It was during a lecture he gave on pictures that could potentially be real aliens visiting Earth, and he said it was the latest one to emerge.
He said he did not know if it was real or a hoax, but argued aliens are visting Earth, and it was worth looking into further.
Mr Robinson said: "I do believe we are being visited by these creatures. The evidence for me is absolutely overwhelming.
"Just because something looks and sounds ridiculous, it does not mean to say it is."
One debunker with the user name Newdawnrising commented of the image: "Fake. Image taken and reversed from the movie "Signs".
"The face is the only change.
"The exact body positioning only flipped to face exact opposite.
"CGI. Debunked you're welcome."
Scott Brando, who debunks hoax videos through his website ufoofinterest.org, said the image was in fact just a still from a Spanish alien horror movie.
With a video showing the footage that includes the alien lurking behind the same tree, he tweeted: "Alien caught in #Corrientes #Argentina? That pic is a frame from Spanish horror movie OVNI."
He told Express.co.uk: "This is a fake story I debunked. Most likely a fake story created by a blog."
Robinson said it was one of the latest to be revealed. He admitted that he did not know if the picture had been edited or not, but did say that aliens are real and they do visit Earth. Robinson said the authenticity of the photograph should be looked into further.
He concluded by saying, “I do believe we are being visited by these creatures. The evidence for me is overwhelming. “Just because something looks and sounds ridiculous, it does not mean to say it is.”
Scott Brando debunks hoax videos along with photos. He said that he thought the image had been edited with the alien taken from a Spanish horror movie about aliens. He pointed to a video showing footage of an alien between trees. He went on to say most probably it was a photo from a fake story on a blog.
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Reis mee naar de komkommerkomeet
Reis mee naar de komkommerkomeet
Snel instappen allemaal, we hebben haast. Ons reisdoel vliegt met een onvoorstelbaar hoge snelheid bij ons vandaan, ongeveer 26 kilometer per seconde.
Om het raadselachtige langgerekte hemellichaam in te halen, vergen we het uiterste van de motoren van ons ruimteschip. Het gaat om de eerste interstellaire bezoeker die we ooit konden waarnemen. Een telescoop op Hawaï fotografeerde hem bijna een jaar geleden voor het eerst. Al snel bleek dat het geen planetoïde in ons eigen zonnestelsel is, maar een kosmische binnendringer. Het hemellichaam kreeg de Hawaïaanse naam ’Oumuamua.
We volgen natuurlijk niet hetzelfde traject dat ’Oumuamua aflegt. Dat voerde in het najaar van 2017 op zeer kleine afstand langs de zon. We kiezen een andere route die de baan van ’Oumuamua kruist.
Onze boordtelescoop heeft het hemellichaam inmiddels in beeld. Het is inderdaad extreem langgerekt, met de vorm van een overmaatse komkommer. Dat leidden aardse wetenschappers al af uit de helderheidsvariaties. Je ziet ook duidelijk dat de stenige sigaar op een vreemde, buitelende manier ronddraait.
Landen is er natuurlijk niet bij. ’Oumuamua is hooguit een paar honderd meter lang. In onze telescoop kunnen we duidelijk zien dat het oppervlak extreem donker is, met een enigszins rode tint. Dat is het gevolg van langdurige blootstelling aan kosmische straling.
Ja, op aarde suggereerden sommige fantasierijke lieden wel dat ’Oumuamua in werkelijkheid een ruimteschip is van een andere intelligente beschaving, maar daarvan is niets te zien: geen raketmotoren, geen ramen, geen symbolen. Ook onze gevoelige radioantennes vangen geen enkel teken van leven op.
Maar wacht, er is toch iets merkwaardigs aan de hand. ’Oumuamua lijkt zich niet op de voorspelde positie te bevinden. Hij is al op veel grotere afstand van de zon aangekomen dan de oorspronkelijke baanberekeningen voorspelden. Hoe is dat mogelijk?
Alles wijst erop dat ’Oumuamua iets minder sterk door de zwaartekracht van de zon wordt afgeremd dan je zou verwachten. Anders gezegd: het hemellichaam is een tikje aan het versnellen, alsof het toch een kleine raketmotor aan boord heeft.
Onze navigator berekent een nieuwe onderscheppingskoers, anders valt de geplande scheervlucht in het water. Ondertussen breekt onder de bemanning een verhitte discussie los. Is het dan toch een buitenaards ruimteschip? Proberen de aliens zich aan pottenkijkers te onttrekken?
Terwijl we de ruimtekomkommer aan de dagzijde op kleine afstand passeren – wat een schitterend uitzicht levert dat op! – horen we plotseling zacht getik dat al snel overgaat in een soort mitrailleurvuur van scherpe knalletjes. Ons ruimteschip wordt bekogeld en gezandstraald door een bombardement van stof- en gruisdeeltjes.
Heeft ’Oumuamua het vuur op ons geopend?
Nee, onder invloed van de zonnewarmte is toch wat ondergronds ijs verdampt, waardoor stofkorrels en kleine kiezeltjes van het oppervlak losraakten. De wegstromende waterdamp voeren die mee in de richting van de zon, alsof er sprake is van de vervuilde uitlaatgassen van een raketmotor.
Het effect is hetzelfde: een kleine versnelling van het hemellichaam in de tegenovergestelde richting. Dat raketeffect namen astronomen eerder waar bij kometen. ’Oumuamua is geen dode, uitgebluste planetoïde, maar toch een ijsrijke komeet.
Kijk, daar tuimelt hij weg, de uitgestrekte ruimte buiten ons zonnestelsel in. Vaarwel, ’Oumuamua. Wij keren terug naar de aarde. Het heelal heeft nog veel meer voor ons in petto.
Phobos II was the last space probe designed by the Soviet Union. It was designed to explore the moons of Mars. Unexpectedly, we lost communication with it, and multiple insiders have said we weren't told the truth about what really happened.
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Reflect on the fact that there is no so much evidence showing we are not alone, it's overwhelming, yet to a certain extent, society still ignores the biggest story in human history.
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. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubbishing’ 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)
Russian Mars probe was downed by aliens - OFFICIAL
Witness testimony when it comes to ‘credibility’ is not really seen as a good source of information within the mainstream world, except when it fits into the accepted view of reality, or the reality that’s given to us by the global elite. At this point, it’s not hard to see the consistent stream of lies, in almost all realms from health to politics, that’s dished out by establishment media on a regular basis. When information is presented which goes against the grain no matter how credible the source, even if it goes far beyond simple witness testimony and into hard evidence, it’s always greeted with a harsh response. We see this today with science, and findings that challenge belief systems and have paradigm-shifting implications (like non-material science).
Things, however, are changing, the collective mind is definitely opening and willing to accept the fact that there are concepts of our reality that we may have overlooked, especially towards things that don’t fit the frame.
One of these topics is intelligent extraterrestrial life. Judging by global polls alone, a large portion of the world seems to believe that we are not alone in the universe and that there is intelligent life out there, it’s not just us…
A large portion also believes that intelligent extraterrestrial life has, and could still be, visiting our planet.
Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, Et’s, etc…They are visiting Earth NOW; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking. – Theodor C. Loder III, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)
When it comes to the UFO phenomenon, it’s not really taboo to discuss anymore. Dozens of governments have admitted to the existence of UFOs, they’ve released electrooptical data (radar tracking, video footage), and more. The phenomenon is real, and that really can’t be debunked or argued against. The U.S. government has also started a slow process of disclosure, having released multiple videos of their own through to the stars academy.
When it comes to the extraterrestrial hypothesis for the explanation of some of these UFOs, we have hundreds of high-ranking people from within the military, politics, aerospace, and education sector who have been telling the world that yes, some of these UFOs are indeed extraterrestrial space-craft.
There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time… that these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems…That seems to be a common denomantaor of the UFO phenomenon. – Dr.Brian O’leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor. (source)
We’ve written a lot about the phenomenon, and to sift through the articles we’ve published for the past (nearly) 10 years, you can visit the disclosure section of our website. I thought it was important to briefly mention the information above.
Phobos II
Space is a strange place, a place we don’t know much about, and an area that seems to be dominated by Black Budget Special Access Programs (SAP’s), and Unacknowledged Special Access programs. These are programs that are so secretive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to Congress. This has been made clear, not only by those who have investigated black budget programs (not many, more on that in the article linked above), but also by whistle-blowers, and people like Gary Mckinnon, who performed the largest military computer hack in history, finding strange pictures of space-ships floating near the Earth, as well as a list of “off-world officers” and “fleet to fleet” transfers of materials.
So, what happened to Phobos II? Phobos II was (from what we’re told), the very last space probe designed by the Soviet Union. It was designed to explore the moons of Mars, Phobos, and Demimos. It was launched on July 12th, 1988, and entered into orbit on January 29th, 1989.
The Probe got close to the surface of Mars, investigating its surface and atmosphere as well as returning approximately 40 images. The probe was also supposed to approach Phobos within 50 meters and release two landers, but all of a sudden, the mission ended and contact with the probe was completely lost. The ‘official’ answer from NASA was that there was a malfunction onboard, but according to others, with ‘credibility,’ this is not what happened.
As Jim Mars points out in one of his books, Our Occulted History:
In mid-1991, six former U.S. Army remote viewers were commissioned by officials within the Russian space program to study the cause of Phobos II’s disappearance. Remote viewing is the term given to a controlled psychic ability that allows one to perceive persons, places, and things at a distance without the use of the normal five senses. Such techniques were studied by both academic and government scientists before the creation of a remote-viewing unit witin the U.S. Amy’s Intelligence and Security Command (INSOCOM) in the early 1970s.
Remote viewing was part of the US Government’s STARGATE program.
Anytime I mention remote viewing in an article, I always have to throw this in there from the declassified literature,
Successful replication of this type of remote viewing in independent laboratories has yielded considerable scientific evidence for the reality of the (remote viewing) phenomenon. Adding to the strength of these results was the discovery that a growing number of individuals could be found to demonstrate high-quality remote viewing, often to their own surprise. The CIA even participated as remote viewers themselves in order to critique the protocols. CIA personnel generated successful target descriptions of sufficiently high quality to permit blind matching of descriptions to targets by independent judges. (sources)
According to Mars, in 1991, the remote viewers issued a report titled “Enigma Penetration: Soviet Phobos II Space Craft Images Anomaly.” The report outlined how a disc-shaped object arose from the surface of Mars as Phobos neared, all while a second object moved even closer, scanning the probe, and then shooting some sort of, what appeared to be, a particle beam device, which disrupted the communication and guidance equipment.
This isn’t the first time a UFO has been said to shoot some sort of beam disrupting Earthly equipment, Colonel Ross Dedrickson, a high-ranking Air Force Officer who had a long stint with the US atomic energy commission provided an example in thisinterview, he also said extraterrestrial destroyed nuclear weapons that the US government wanted to detonate on the moon for scientific purposes… Here’sanother video of Professor Robert Jacobs describing another similar incident.
So, it’s not the first time we’re hearing about something like this.
Back to Phobos, according to Mars, the remote viewers said that “this may have been no accident, as it seems that all of the technology put into space from Earth is scrutinized closely by nonhumans. If it would reveal alien activities, then it is decommissioned. After being struck, Phobos II spiralled down crashing onto the Martian surface.
The remote viewers aren’t the only ones who spoke of such an incident. In 1991, a retired Soviet Air Force colonel and cosmonaut trainee named Marina Popovic, pictured belw on the far right, expressed that one of the last photographs received by the Russians from Phobos II showed “the silhouette of an odd-shaped object approaching the spacecraft.” Popovich said the picture was taken on March 25th, 1989, in deep space near Phobos (moon of Mars) shortly before contact with the craft was lost. She said the object very well may have been an alien spacecraft.” Her belief that this happened was also poorly expressed by the New York Times.
She is holding the photo below.
Why would she be lying? Especially when she is one of dozens of global astronauts to confirm the existence of “UFOs”, and some have confirmed the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
Alexander Dunayev, chairman of the Society Space organization responsible for the Phobos II project, said that “the doomed probe had photographed the image of a small odd-shaped object between itself and Mars. He speculated that the object might have been “debris in the orbit of Phobos” or even jettisoned parts from the spacecraft. His tone was anything but certain.
Here’s another picture:
What’s most intriguing about this story is that the photograph drawn by the remote viewers matched the description of the disc above, which is something that was quite common in the remote viewing program. Again, it had an extremely high success rate, with viewers able to peer into secret Russian military bases and describe weapons facilities, naval facilities and more. They even used the program to locate a lost spy plane in Africa. There are multiple examples found within the declassified literature, and even more from the participants from within that program, like Ingo Swann, Pat Price, Joseph McMoneagle, Paul Smith, and many more.
The military-trained remote viewers, however, said they saw Mars Observer meeting the same fat as Phobos II as well as other, secret space launch that same moe month in 1993. They noted the similarity of fates between the Phobos missions and Mars observer. This pattern may have continued in another failed Russian attempt to probe the secrets of Phobos. In the fall of 2011, control over Phobos Grunt (literally, Phobos Soil) was lost, and fears grew that its ten-ton load of toxic fuel and oxidizer might wreak havoc when the failed craft reentered Earth’s atmosphere. The stricken craft reportedly crashed into the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, January 15th, 2012, with no reported consequence. Why would all these probes be failing? Could it be that something on Mars doesn’t want us observing the planet? One thing seems clear – someone or something continues to operate far outside Earth. (Our Occulted History)
I’ll leave you with this interview, where Buzz Aldrin said that there is a “monolith” on the moon of Mars.
Debbie Jordan-Kauble, describing what's known to Ufologists as "The Copley Woods" encounter. It's one of many supposed encounters that have happened for a very long time. She describes her strange experience in the video below.
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All of this information is emerging into the mainstream. All of the people who have had these types of experiences should not be labelled as 'crazy.' Many of them are clearly 'sane' and have had what appear to be genuine contact experiences.
It’s almost 2019, and we now have statements about ET encounters from many credible people who’ve held some of the highest security clearances and positions within the intelligence/military communities. It’s overwhelming sometimes, with hundreds of them from all over the world continuing to speak out about a supposed extraterrestrial presence that is and has been engaging this planet and the human race for a very long time. UFOs are finally accepted within the “mainstream,” and it doesn’t really seem too taboo anymore to talk about them. But when it comes to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, there is not the same level of mainstream acceptance.
Mainstream media outlets have been nothing but mouthpieces for the establishment, one that has a long track record of ‘fake news,’ disinformation and downright deception. Caution and critical thinking should always be exercised in tuning in to them. They are always using topics for ulterior motives, and it’s hard to take anything they say seriously, especially with regards to UFOs. You can read more about my thoughts regarding mainstream UFO disclosure in the article linked below.
That being said, there are many people around the world who have had what seems to be genuine contact experiences with ‘otherworldy’ beings, for lack of a better word. These could be visits with what we call extraterrestrials, they could also be extra-dimensional experiences as well. There is still so much to comprehend and probably so much we would have no way of perceiving, perhaps similar to an intelligent human trying to communicate what they know to an intelligent wasp or bee, for example.
These contact experiences have existed within the lore of UFOlogy for ages, dating back thousands of years and embedded in the stories of Ancient Babylon, within indigenous cultures throughout the world and all the way up to the present day. What’s interesting is that it’s a topic that continues to gain more credibility, but there are many people out there who’ve had what seem to be genuine experiences that I’ve been completely ridiculed for sharing. Many of these experiences come with physical evidence, and an entire host of other factors and correlations that, for someone who has done the research, make it nearly impossible to deny.
“Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it askes us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical wold, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off.” Dr. John Mack (source)
The Case Of 60 Zimbabwe Students
One interesting case Mack investigated was one where approximately 60 young elementary school students and school staff in Zimbabwe witnesses a large craft and what appeared to be “alien beings.” Some of the children still speak of the experience today; they were implanted with visions of the destruction of Earth by humans, something many contactees have experienced, visions of forest fires and oceans smothering major cities.
The list of such cases is long; those who choose to dive into it can travel down a virtually endless rabbit hole. One thing is certain: the time has long past where people should be worried to speak openly about their experiences for fear of being ridiculed or labelled as mentally ill.
You can read more about this case in more detail here.
The Copley Woods Encounter
Below is a clip from a woman named Debbie Jordan-Kauble, describing what’s known to Ufologists as “The Copley Woods” encounter. She eventually ended up with the late Bud Hopkins, because he was one of the few who took her seriously. He is one of the world’s most prominent abductee researchers in the field. If you’re interested in the phenomena I suggest you look him up. He wrote a book about this specific encounter.
They are at various spots in the yard. At the same time, they all seemed to line up and slide to the left, back to this egg shaped thing in front of me. They were smaller than me. Shorter. I thought they looked like children. Bullet-shaped children. Bigger in the head and getting narrow at the feet. I couldn’t see much detail, mostly just silhouettes.
It’s a very fascinating story, listen below!
If you’d like to check out all of our articles in chronological order that deal with the extraterrestrial/UFO topic that we’ve written for nearly the past 10 years, you can check out the disclosure section of our website.
The 20 Weirdest Aliens in the Marvel Universe - PART I
The 20 Weirdest Aliens in the Marvel Universe - PART I
By Jasmin Malik Chua, Space.com Contributor
Photo Credit: Marvel
0. Marvel Aliens
When "Guardians of the Galaxy" opened in theaters in 2014, it marked a distinct tonal shift in the way Marvel told its stories on the silver screen. Gone were the brooding heroes struggling to cope with the crushing onus of destiny. In their place, we got a motley crew of misfits and mercenaries who were humanoid, if not entirely human.
With Peter Quill (aka Star-Lord) as the sole Earthling lead among a polychromatic cast, the Marvel Cinematic Universe opened itself to a cosmos of possibilities. Even then, the movie studio has only begun to scratch the surface. From household names like Rocket Raccoon and Groot to the boozy aliens known as the Ciegrimites, here are 20 of the strangest species Marvel has to offer.
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1. Rocket Raccoon
A member of the Guardians, Rocket is a genetically and cybernetically engineered raccoon from the planet Halfworld. He cracks wise, totes guns, pilots ships and conceals a heart of gold underneath his prickly exterior. Together with Groot, a sentient, ambulatory tree, he roamed the galaxy picking up bounties until Star-Lord recruited him to help him sell an orb containing an Infinity Stone to Taneleer Tivan, also known as the Collector.
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2. Groot
The aforementioned tree, Groot is a Flora colossus from Planet X. Despite being a timber of few words—"I am Groot" is his sole refrain—Groot is an expert inquasi-dimensional super-positional engineering. Near the end of the first movie, Groot sacrifices himself to save the lives of his new friends, but Rocket saves a sprig, which is seen sprouting into a Baby Groot in a post-credits scene.
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3. Gamora
Dubbed the "most dangerous woman in the whole galaxy," Gamora is a green-skinned Zen-Whoberi who was adopted by Thanos the Mad Titan as a child and raised to be a ruthless assassin. At least, until she betrays him in the first movie by stealing the orb and attempting to pawn it off to the Collector. When Ronan the Accuser makes off with the orb, Gamora makes a last stand with her fellow Guardians to reclaim it.
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4. Yondu Udonta
Yondu Udonta may not technically be Star-Lord's father, but he's probably the closest thing he has to one, even if the Centaurian space pirate was responsible for kidnapping young Peter Quill in the first place. In the comics, Yondu is depicted with blue skin and a large red mohawk-like fin on his head. He's able to control arrows made from yaka, a sound-sensitive metal found only on his planet, by whistling.
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5. Howard the Duck
Howard the Duck, an anthropomorphic, well, duck, from Duckworld makes a cameo in a post-credit scene in the first "Guardians of the Galaxy, but he's probably best known for his widely panned foray into film in 1986. How he wound up among the Collector's exhibits remains a mystery, but his comic-book counterpart found himself in the middle of the Florida Everglades after a demon known as Thog the Nether-Spawn used his magic to tilt the interdimensional cosmic axis.
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6. Ego
Ego the Living Planetis a member of a god-like race known as the Celestials. An intelligent, self-aware planet that feasts on unsuspecting interplanetary travelers, Ego possesses a brain-like organ, a digestive tract and an immune system that can dispatch antibody-esque beings to fend off intruders. Besides its ability to shape its terrain at will — it frequently manifests a giant face when speaking to others — Ego can also spawn humanoid avatars if it so chooses.
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7. Mantis
Eschewing her human comic-book origins in favor of a more extraterrestrial one, the cinematic Mantis is an alien with antennas who uses touch to experience the feelings of others. She can also use her powers to manipulate emotions or induce sleep.
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8. The Collector
Taneleer Tivan, better known as the Collector, only looks like Benicio del Toro, at least in the movies. In reality, he's a powerful alien billions of years old and virtually immortal. To occupy his time, Taneleer began scouring the universe for artifacts and life-forms he found rare, valuable or interesting, enough to fill up about 10 museum-worlds.
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9. Phoenix Force
Immortal, indestructible, and one of the oldest cosmic entities in the universe, the Phoenix Force is described in the comics as the "embodiment of the very passion of Creation — the spark that gave life to the Universe, the flame that will ultimately consume it." It famously transformed Jean Grey of the X-Men into Phoenix, and later, Dark Phoenix, who inadvertently destroys a planet of 5 billion people after exhausting the energy of a nearby star.
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The 20 Weirdest Aliens in the Marvel Universe - PART II
The 20 Weirdest Aliens in the Marvel Universe - PART II
By Jasmin Malik Chua, Space.com Contributor
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10. Lockjaw
A member of the Inhuman Royal Family, Lockjaw resembles a giant bulldog with a two-pronged antenna on its forehead. Whether he's an Inhuman dog or an Inhuman who just looks like a dog is unclear, but Lockjaw can teleport himself — and up to a dozen people — across incalculable distances and dimensions.
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11. Venom
Brought to Earth by Spider-Man, Venom bonded with the web slinger for a time as a black suit before going on to possess Eddie Brock, Deadpool and Flash Thompson, among others. It hails from a race of extraterrestrial parasites known as Symbiotes, which endow their hosts with extraordinary physical abilities in order to feed off their adrenaline.
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12. Galactus
Galactus, the "devourer of worlds," emerged from the death of a previous universe. Likely the most powerful character in Marvel's pantheon, he maintains his near-omnipotent powers by consuming the life energies of entire worlds.
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13. Silver Surfer
The Silver Surfer is exactly that: a surfboard-riding humanoid clad in metallic skin. As one of Galactus' "heralds," he coasts through interstellar space and hyperspace, seeking planets for Galactus to devour.
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14. No-Name of the Brood
No-Name is a member of a species of parasitic insectoids known as the Brood, which scour the galaxy to find hosts for the spawn. A gladiator on the planet Sakaar, where she meets the Hulk, No-Name is characterized by her fangs, wings and a giant stinging tail.
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15. Skrulls
Depicted with green skin, pointy ears and furrowed chins, the Skrulls are warlike aliens who can take on the appearance of almost any form, organic and inorganic. Besides being masters of infiltration, they can also use their abilities to sprout weapons from their bodies, making them formidable combatants as well.
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16. The Dire Wraiths
The Dire Wraiths are a branch of Skrulls that evolved into their own distinct species. Like their distant relatives, the Dire Wraiths can also shape-shift. Through vaguely humanoid in shape, their true forms include red or orange skin, small beaks, pincer-like limbs and long, spike-tipped tongues, which they use to suck out the brains of their prey.
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17. The Phalanx
Similar to the Borg in "Star Trek," the Phalanx is a cybernetic species that shares a hive mind. Phalanx result when organic life-forms are infected with the Transmode virus by the Technarchy, a techno-organic race with shape-shifting powers.
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18. The Badoon
The reptilian-like Badoon consist of two factions split across gender lines: the militaristic Brotherhood of the Badoon, who live on the planet Moord, and the more pacifist Sisterhood of the Badoon, who dwell on Lotiara.
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19. Druffs
The Druffs are short-statured creatures that reproduce asexually and possess a childlike intelligence and timidity. Considered pests by the Skrulls, Druff populations are routinely culled. The fuzz-covered aliens have managed to proliferate on other worlds, however, by stowing away aboard various starships.
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20. Ciegrimites
Resembling upright snails, the Ciegrimites have eyes on stalks and a carapace that wraps around their backs and torsos. They're described as capitalistic, hedonistic and particularly talented in the art of making alcohol, which they use to barter for technology.
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STICHTING SKEPSIS HEEFT HET NIET ZO OP BUITENAARDS LEVEN ( VIDEO )
STICHTING SKEPSIS HEEFT HET NIET ZO OP BUITENAARDS LEVEN ( VIDEO )
Het is moeilijk om je een buitenaardse beschaving voor te stellen die bereid is gigantische investeringen te doen om de aarde te bezoeken, zonder officieel contact te willen leggen noch winstoogmerk.
Dat is wat men zegt bij stichting Skepsis, maar misschien toch hoog tijd dat ze die mening enigszins bijstellen.
Toen wij in een eerdere publicatie Stichting Skepsis een verlengstuk van de overheid noemden, reageerden ze als door een wesp gestoken.
Het ging om dit artikel waarin een burger een UFO melding doet bij 112 en vervolgens wordt teruggebeld door een medewerker van Skepsis.
Stichting Skepsis dacht er het volgende van:
Het getuigt van hysterische vooringenomenheid en ziekelijke achterdocht van de kant van Niburu wanneer ze hier een grootschalige en kwaadaardige samenzwering ontwaren – een samenzwering tussen alarmcentrales, politiekorpsen, inlichtingendiensten en de Stichting Skepsis.
Tja, dat is dezelfde stichting die zegt geen enkele bemoeienis te hebben met de overheid, maar die wel met overheidsgeld in het leven is geroepen:
Skepsis heeft de eerste vier jaar van haar bestaan een startsubsidie van de overheid (de Stichting Publiek, Wetenschap en Techniek, PWT)
Waarschijnlijk ontbreekt het woord “ontvangen”, maar een kniesoor die daar op let. Wij, en waarheidszoekers in het algemeen, krijgen geen overheidssubsidies, maar dat berust op louter toeval en daar mag niets achter worden gezocht.
Het is ook deze zelfde stichting die nu nog steeds amalgaamvullingen op haar website promoot als duurzaam en veilig.
Het is ook de stichting die als taak heeft te proberen de mensheid zoveel mogelijk te laten stoppen met zelf nadenken en zonder morren de gangbare wetenschappelijke theorieën te laten accepteren. De overheid en de door de grote industrieën betaalde wetenschap weten tenslotte wat goed is voor de burger.
Zo hebben ze bij Skepsis uiteraard ook een mening over het ontstaan van de mensheid en buitenaards leven. De arrogantie van Skepsis kent geen grenzen, getuige het volgende stuk op hun website:
Wereldwijd zijn er iedere dag vele ufowaarnemingen en met regelmaat verschijnen meldingen van mensen die buitenaardse wezens hebben waargenomen of er zelfs door zijn ontvoerd. Aangezien er volgens officiële organisaties nooit een dode of levende alien is gevonden, moeten we op onbevestigde observaties vertrouwen om ons een beeld van de wezens te vormen. Het is moeilijk om je een buitenaardse beschaving voor te stellen die bereid is gigantische investeringen te doen om de aarde te bezoeken, zonder officieel contact te willen leggen en zonder winstoogmerk. Nog vreemder is het dat deze wezens, al hun superieure kennis ten spijt, vaak in betrekkelijk simpele ruimtevoertuigen reizen, regelmatig betrapt worden en dan ook nog eens sterk op ons lijken.
Zonder bewijsmateriaal voorhanden, maar open voor iedere claim, kunnen we alleen maar meedenken over het bestaan van buitenaardse bezoekers en daar waar mogelijk is de waarnemingen met logica en wetenschappelijke kennis ondersteunen. Helaas! Tenzij het leven op aarde het resultaat is van intelligent design, is de kans dat zoveel waargenomen ruimtewezens op mensen lijken, nihil. Maar ook intelligent design biedt geen goede verklaring voor de toevalligheden die het leven op aarde gemaakt hebben zoals wij het nu kennen. Als we terugkijken naar hoe het leven zich heeft ontwikkeld, dan had het proces volgens alle bekende chemische regels en biologische wetten ook heel anders kunnen verlopen. Een ander oersoeprecept had wellicht een prima functionerend zelfreplicerend molecuul opgeleverd, met een andere structuur en samenstelling, maar met dezelfde genetische functies als DNA. Als de Proterozoïsche ijstijden hadden aangehouden, had leven zich alleen diep in de oceanen kunnen afspelen. Als door een toevallige botsing met een meteoriet de dinosauriërs niet waren uitgestorven, hadden zoogdieren zich nooit ontwikkeld tot de dominerende klasse.
Als antwoord op deze overheidspropaganda volgt hierna een zeer verhelderende video. Deze duurt 22 minuten en gedurende die 22 minuten krijg je een scala aan wetenschappelijk onderbouwde feiten te horen en te zien.
Aan het einde is er slechts één conclusie mogelijk en dat die haaks staat op die van de stichting Skepsis zal niemand verbazen:
Als je aanneemt dat de maan echt is, kom je uiteraard weer op de aloude vraag terecht of wij daar nu wel geweest zijn of niet en tenslotte is er nog de vraag of er misschien buitenaardse wezens actief zijn op de maan of dat de machthebbers daar een aantal geheime locaties hebben.
Op 18 mei vond de lancering plaats van de vierde bemande ruimtevlucht naar de maan onder de naam Apollo 10. Hier werd het testen van de maanlander uitgevoerd ter voorbereiding van de eerste vlucht naar de maan, Apollo 11, waar daadwerkelijk mensen op de maan zouden worden gezet. Wat ook gebeurde volgens de mainstream kanalen en zij die geloven dat wij mensen op de maan zijn geweest.
Er is nog zoveel dat we niet weten over de maan, ongeacht of wij er wel of niet zijn geweest, maar daar begint nu toch een beetje verandering in te komen.
Wat te denken van de volgende opname:
Hier is duidelijk een gebouw op de maan te zien en deze foto is eveneens afkomstig van NASA en het betreft hier een wat men noemt gerestaureerde foto.
In de video hierna zie je voorbeelden van het werk van een aantal mensen die druk zijn met het bestuderen van het maanoppervlak en de vele bijzonderheden die ze daar ontdekken. De man die bovenstaande foto weer zichtbaar heeft gemaakt, heeft nog veel meer dingen ontdekt en claimt dat er zich complete steden op de maan bevinden. Iets waar wij eerder over schreven.
Dat de maan en wat daar nu wel of niet gebeurt iets is dat leeft onder de lezers, blijkt onder andere uit het volgende wat een lezer schrijft (dank!):
Ik heb op YouTube een zeer interessante lezing gezien over de vraag of de maanlandingen echt waren of niet, met als duidelijke conclusie dat alles fake was.
Op mijn Facebookpagina heb ik geschreven:
The only "rock from the moon" ever scientifically investigated, in the Netherlands (!), turned out to contain a petrified piece of wood! 100% proof that the photos taken on the moon are fake. Very convincing evidence. At 1:22:27 "I find it fascinating how so many people can be manipulated to believe something which, when you get the evidence together, is quite evidently fake. [...] It is easier to fool people than it is to persuade them that they had been fooled."
Hier is de video:
Ik heb zelf eigenlijk lang getwijfeld over de vraag of de maanlandingen wel of niet echt gebeurd zijn. Ik weet het nog als de dag van gister dat ik samen met mijn vader en moeder en broer voor de televisie zat toen de eerste man voet op de maan zette. De filmopnames gemaakt op de maan zijn de duurste filmopnames uit de geschiedenis van de mensheid, en NASA beweert keihard dat de oorspronkelijke opnames verloren gegaan zouden zijn, hetgeen natuurlijk volstrekt ongeloofwaardig is. Er moeten dingen op de oorspronkelijke filmopnames staan die het daglicht niet kunnen verdragen. Ik heb altijd twee mogelijkheden open gehouden: misschien zijn er buitenaardse ruimteschepen gefilmd, of misschien hebben de maanlandingen nooit plaats gevonden. Na het zien van deze lezing kies ik toch voor optie 2.
Misschien zouden jullie nu of in de toekomst nog een keertje aandacht kunnen geven aan de maanlandingen? Ik vind het in ieder geval een interessant onderwerp. De spreker haalt dus ook de Nederlandse maansteen aan, al duizenden keren gefotografeerd door bezoekers. En nu blijkt er dus versteend hout in te zitten! Tenzij er bomen op de maan hebben gestaan, bewijst het dat de door NASA aan Nederland afgegeven steen helemaal niet van de maan afkomstig was!
Over the next several weeks, I’ll be conducting interviews with leading UFO researchers from countries around the world in an effort to paint a picture of global UFOlogy today.
This week, our global UFO trek takes us to Denmark, and to Pia Knudsen. Pia has had an interest in UFOs since a childhood sighting in British Columbia, Canada. In 2009 Pia co-founded Exopoltics Denmark, which now operates as UFO Denmark. Pia has been interviewed on national radio and for the National Geographic channel; she has written articles on the UFO topic and lectured in both the UK and Norway. In her current role as director of UFO Denmark, Pia says that she “strives to make the best research and documentation available for the Danish public.”
Pia Knudsen, director of UFO Denmark.
RG: Who have been the defining figures in Danish UFOlogy over the past 70 years (for better or for worse), and why?
PK: Major H. C. Petersen was a pioneer in Danish ufology, founding the first nationwide ufo group, Scandinavian UFO Information (SUFOI), in 1957.
As a captain lieutenant in 1952, Hans Christian Petersen was sent to Wright Patterson Airforce base in Ohio for training. During his stay, Petersen became astonished to learn that the Americans took the UFO topic seriously. Project Blue Book had headquarters at the base and the young officer became convinced that UFOs were real. In the mid 1950s, Petersen had his own UFO radar sighting at Skydstrup Airforce base, which fuelled a lifelong interest in UFOs. Due to disagreements regarding George Adamski, H. C. Peterson left the SUOFI group in 1965 and went on to create a second group, IGAP (International Get Acquainted Program) to promote Adamski’s tecahings. Both UFO groups still exist. While the SUOFOI group has become increasingly skeptical of the topic and refers to UFOs as a myth with earthly explanations for all sightings, the IGAP group is slowly diminishing and now has very few members. H. C. Petersen passed away in 2013.
Hans Christian Petersen, a pioneer of Danish Ufology who passed away in 2013.
Early Danish UFO groups include UFO-Fyn, DISC and Nordisk UFO Organisation. FUFOS (Frederiksberg UFO Studygroup) had quite a following in the 1970s, promoting not only UFOs but a mix of topics. The group eventually changed its name and focus; it seldom focusses on UFOs nowadays.
In 2009 I co-founded the Exopolitics Denmark group, focussing on political and environmental activism surrounding UFOs. Each year we invite leading researchers to Denmark. In 2014, you [Robbie Graham] joined George Knapp and Terje Toftenes in Copenhagen to speak about UFOs and the media. Other speakers have included Richard Dolan, Robert Hastings, Timothy Good, Suzy Hansen, Gary Heseltine, Jeremey Corbell, Mary Rodwell, Steven Bassett, A. J. Gevaerd and more. In May 2018, Grant Cameron visited both Copenhagen and Kolding.
In late-2017, Exopolitics Denmark voted to change its name to UFO Denmark. We now have a broader focus to create debate and provide information surrounding the UFO topic.
RG: What do you consider to be the most compelling Danish UFO incident on record, and why?
PK: Police officer Evald Maarup Hansen twice spotted a UFO above his police car on a romote country road in 1970, and again in 1973. Both the car and police radio shut down during the event, but Evald Maarup managed to take three pictures of object. He reluctenly spoke about the event after collegues had contacted the media. In 2010 I located a radar operator, Nis Krog, who had been on duty at the nearby Skydstrup Airforce Base and had seen an unidentified object on his radar at the time and in the area Maarup had his encounter. This case was included in a National Geographic documentary I worked on in 2013 and Nis Krog went public for the first time confirming his radar observations.
RG: What is the Danish government’s official stance on UFOs? When was the last time it issued a statement on the subject?
PK: The Danish airforce released their UFO files in january 2009. There was a big hype in the press. The airforce stated that they had collected 15,000 files since the mid fifties but in fact only released 228 cases on the day. They claimed all files from before 1978 had gone missing. On average, 250 cases were rapported each year, so I estimate that 7,500 cases should have been released in 2009. No members of the press or the SUFOI UFO group questioned why so few cases were released. The airforce’s offical website recommends all new incoming cases be reported to the SUFOI group. I have done much more research into the file release and have an article on the subject. The governement no longer comments on the topic.
RG: Has the Danish government shown more or less transparency on the UFO subject than the US and British governments?
PK: Early on, in the late 1950s the airforce were quite open and even defended Major H. C. Petersen’s right to have a hobby studying UFOs when questioned about his abilty to work as an airforce officer. Since the 1970s the airforce has become much less open regarding UFOs and, since 2009, no longer comments on the subject.
The Danish Ministry of Defence building. The Danish Air Force released some of its UFO files in 2009.
RG: What is the role of your organisation, UFO Denmark (previously Exopolitics Denmark)?
PK: UFO Denmark does not collect UFO reports or do field work. Our role is to create a platform for information and debate. Some indiviuals in our group do independent research and we provide an email address so people can share their sightings.
RG: How many smaller Danish UFO groups or organisations are you aware of?
PK: There is one small UFO group and others who organize CE-5 events. Nowadays social media plays a key role in connecting peole who seek information. UFO Denmark is the only group organizing events and inviting reseachers to speak.
Copenhagen, Denmark on the Nyhavn Canal.
RG: What are the most active regions of Denmark for UFO sighting reports (hotspots)?
PK: I am not aware of any hotspots at the moment. Sightings seem to be spread equally across the country. Very rarely do people see disc-shaped UFOs; it is mainly orbs being reported. There seems to be an increase in contact cases.
RG: Have you personally had any UFO sightings?
PK: Yes, I have had three sightings. I had my first in 1971, together with four other people. It was a daytime sighting of a silver disc (approx. 30 meters away and 40-50 metres in the air). This happened in Surrey, B.C., Canada.
In 2012, together with Gary Heseltine and my Norweigan friend Ann, I had a sighting of a large white glowing orb close to Bergen in Norway.
My last sighting happened in Denmark in 2016 at my summer cottage on the outskirts of Copenhagen. My husband and I saw five white orbs, the size of a frisbee, flying silently opposite the wind pass by our house. I managed to take six pictures (the camera elongated the orb, but it was completly round. You can see the flagpole in the picture).
Photo taken by Pia Knudsen of one of five luminous orbs sighted in the presence of her husband in 2016 near Copenhagen, Denmark.
RG: How long have you been involved in the UFO subject; roughly how many cases have you personally investigated; and what conclusions, if any, have you drawn about the underlying nature of UFO phenomena?
PK: Since my first sighting at the age of 10, and also hearing about my mother’s sightings, I’ve been intrigued by the subject. I have seriously studyed the topic for the past 15 years, and since 2009 together with UFO Denmark members. I have investigated very few cases in a nuts and bolts fashion, but many have shared their experiences with me. The brightest minds in this field have not been able to conclude much about the nature of the phenomena and nor can I, but I do agree that it is much much more than just lights in the sky.
As you may have seen, last week I wrote three articles here at Mysterious Universe on the involvement in the UFO subject of the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). It’s the U.K.’s equivalent of the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA). You can find the three articles at these links: one, two and three. It’s worth noting, though, that there are more than a few agencies of government in the United Kingdom that have been involved in the investigation of (a) UFOs and (b) those involved in the subject, whether researchers or eyewitnesses.
Nick Pope is someone who is well known to many people in Ufology. Between 1991 and 1994 he handled UFO reports for a body within the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense (MoD). When Pope’s first book was published (Open Skies, Closes Minds – in 1996) his publicist billed him as “the Real Fox Mulder.” Well, no, he wasn’t. Pope – when he was working in a branch of the MoD called Secretariat (Air Staff) 2a – told me that: “There is no specific ‘UFO budget,’ except the staff costs, i.e. around 20 % of my salary, together with a tiny percentage of some other salaries, reflecting my line management’s supervisory role.”
The Freedom of Information Act has shown that when Pope received letters or calls from people who may have seen UFOs, it was the job of Secretariat (Air Staff) 2a to forward the reports onto the Defense Intelligence Staff (DIS) and it was the DIS that did the work to determine if the witnesses had seen satellites, aircraft, etc. Their evaluation would then be shared with Secretariat (Air Staff) 2a, who would reply to the caller/letter-writer who wanted answers regarding what they had seen. Notably, too, there was no budget for Pope to travel around the country to investigate cases. It was all done from within the MoD Main Building. So, we have an office that investigated UFOs in the MoD, but which had a budget of only 20 percent of Pope’s salary, plus a “tiny percentage” of funding from “some other salaries.” On top of that, the work was actually done by the far more secret DIS, and Pope never had the ability or the funding to hit the road to investigate even a single case in that 1991-1994 period.
As my earlier articles showed, this is very much at odds with what GCHQ was doing in regards to UFOs. They were intercepting military messages concerning UFOs, investigating cases, keeping Robin Cole under surveillance, and working with the U.K. Police’s Special Branch. On the matter of Special Branch, they opened files on George King and his Aetherius Society in the late 1950s, specifically because of the society’s stance on atomic weapons. Now-declassified files on the Aetherius Society show that Special Branch sat in on lectures given by the society and hung around in the crowds when George King and his followers were expressing their views on atomic weapons at various locations in London. Here, then, is an example of how Special Branch personnel were given funding to investigate UFO-connected issues, and to hang out at Aetherius Society meetings and prepare reports. There is also a Special Branch file on Matthew Williams, the first man in the U.K. to be arrested, charged and fined for making a Crop Circle (the actual charge was criminal damage).
Moving on, there is the matter of what used to be the U.K.’s Provost and Security Services, an arm of the British Royal Air Force that got involved in matters relative to national security and counter-intelligence. When we once again turn our attentions to the U.K.’s Freedom of Information Act, we find that in the 1960s, the P&SS were very active in visiting UFO witnesses to UFO activity. The 1960s equivalent of the office that Nick Pope worked in played no role in any of those visits. In February 1962, the P&SS was involved in the investigation of a “UFO/vehicle interference” case in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England. It was in the early hours of February 16 when Ronald Wildman encountered a Flying Saucer-type craft that affected the lights and engine of his vehicle. A P&SS team was soon on the scene – and a file was quickly created.
P&SS personnel were also quickly on the scene when Anne Leamon saw a strange light (strange in the sense that it seemed to hover, reverse and move in ways that a regular aircraft could not) over the hills near her Taunton, Somerset, England home. Anne contacted the Air Ministry and was amazed when a Sergeant J.S. Scott of the P&SS turned up on the doorstep one night – and returned on several, subsequent nights. He suggested to Anne that she not discuss the encounter outside of her family. The P&SS were also involved when, in November 1966, a woman named Diane Foulkes encountered a low-flying UFO at Great Ness, England. The object had adverse effects on the engine and the lights of her vehicle. And, she felt “very ill” and traumatized. Once again, the P&SS opened a detailed file.
What all of this tells us is that various agencies, offices and bodies in the U.K. have had deep involvement in the UFO subject: GCHQ, Special Branch, the P&SS, and the Defense Intelligence Staff. All of them seemed to have had significant funding – and the ability to travel around the country – to carry out research into notable cases. Ironically, the publicly visible office that Nick Pope worked in had no budget to allow for travel, no budget to interview witnesses, and no budget to keep a watch on controversial figures in Ufology.
If you’re a fan of Spielberg-flavored sci-fi entertainment (kids chasing aliens around their neighbourhood while being pursued by spoilsport authorities and all that jazz), you may want to seek out a new movie written and directed by Alexander Murillo.
The movie, Watch the Sky, is based on the graphic novel of the same name and was released on August 21 of this year through iTunes, Amazon Instant, Google Play, Xbox, Vudu, Fandango, and On Demand through local cable/satellite providers.
The synopsis reads as follows:
“It all began with a simple question: it’s just one balloon in the entire sky, what’s the worst that can happen? In an effort to capture amateur video of outer space, two young brothers unexpectedly find themselves in harm’s way when an innocent Science experiment becomes a day filled with unearthly events threatening their sleepy coastal town.”
Co-President of distributor Breaking Glass Pictures, Richard Ross told BroadwayWorld.com:
“Murillo does a wonderful job capturing the ‘awe and wonder’ innocence of two brothers in a small coastal town, when they find themselves in the middle of an alien sighting. This is an engaging family-friendly film, with a tip of the hat to Spielberg.”
A number of movies in recent years have sought –with varying degrees of success– to recapture and pay homage to the magic of Spielberg’s sci-fi productions of the 1970s and 1980s, most notably J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 (2011), Dave Green’s Earth to Echo (2014), and Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special (2016).
Watch the Sky (title surely inspired by dialogue from Spielberg’s Close Encounters: “… Okay, watch the skies please…”, or by the working title for Spielberg’s abandoned movie based on the Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO case from 1955) is produced by Renée O’Connor (of Xena: Warrior Princess fame) and Jed Sura. It stars J. Nicole Brooks (Chicago Med), Luke Albright (Devil’s Pass), Christopher Corbin (Jane the Virgin), Amie Farrell (American Sniper), Miracle Laurie (Dollhouse), and Carol Mansell (Desperate Housewives).
Could this be the year that the Loch Ness monster is found? Is something stirring up the loch and forcing it to surface more frequently? Could that DNA testing experiment have spooked it … or was the experiment a cover for placing something in the loch to bring Nessie out of its lair? These rumors and more are flying after monster sightings were reported at the same location within 12 hours of each other … sightings that include one of the “best photos ever” (according to a local expert) and bring the 2018 total to seven, with another still under study.
The magic Nessie day was August 17th. According to The Scottish Sun, Lynn Locke of Ontario, Canada, was at the loch for a vacation with her husband and daughter. Standing 50 yards from the water at about 9:40 am near Urquhart Castle, a popular spot for spotting the monster, Lynn was ready to see something after seeing nothing on a Ness cruise. Noticing a strange abject 50 yards off shore, Locke locked onto the loch with her smartphone for a minute and recorded … something. (See the photos here.)
Lynn’s pic has now been officially logged
Lynn spotted the object
A young girl took this picture of what could be the Loch Ness Monster on the first day of her holiday
“While we were visiting the castle I noticed something moving in the water, with trails of bubbles leading up to it. It went under the water a couple of times and reappeared.”
Before you say it, Lynn already knows what you’re thinking.
“I do think I saw Nessie – maybe the tail. I’ve seen a stick floating in the water before and that didn’t look like one to me.”
It doesn’t look like a boat.
Well, that plus the photos was enough for Gary Campbell, keeper of the official Nessie sightings register, to enter Lynn’s account into the official log. Little did he know that this would turn out to be one of the biggest days in that log’s history. At around 7 pm, Charlotte Robinson saw something just 12 miles away and only 15 yards from the shore and snapped her “best ever” photo which was also logged in the log. Still waiting for approval is what Campbell described as a similar sighting the day before – perhaps the owners of the photo, if one was taken, are holding out for the highest bidder, rather than taking their chances on the Inverness Courier’s Loch Ness Monster monster photo contest with its $2000 prize.
Gary Campbell, keeper of the official Nessie sightings register, hasn’t seen this much activity since … well, since last year, which had a record number of sightings – 11. This year’s are different because they’re so close together in times and locations. Meanwhile, the DNA collectors have collected their DNA, but don’t plan to release their findings until January 2019. Would they release them sooner if someone gets a conclusive photo? WILL someone get a conclusive photo? Anyone? Bueller?
Whatever they are, sightings in Loch Ness are up — two years in a row. The local tourism bureau and Inverness businesses are certainly reaping the benefits. Are they also floating the logs?
A drone has captured two “Fastwalkers” flying over a lake. Remarkable, this is the first time that two “Fastwalkers” have been filmed instead of a single “Fastwalker”.
Owner of the drone: I need help figuring out what this is. It almost took out my Phantom 4.
The video shows it twice, first at regular speed then in slow motion.
Look up at the top, it comes from the center, then passes by in the upper left at a very high rate of speed. It made no sound that I could hear. It looks like two bright lights flying side by side.
'ET told me to do it' UFO alien landing pad built in Argentinian desert
(Image: YOUTUBE)
The strange monument is believed to have been built by a Swiss man called Werner Jaisli.
The landing pad is a collection of white and brown rocks placed in the shape of an ‘ovniport’ – a monument which resembles a star which conspiracy theorists have linked with extraterrestrial activity.
Mr Jaisli built the monument in the Argentinian desert just outside of the small town of Cachi in the province of Salta.
The larger monuments is surrounded by smaller pieces and can be seen from the skies, which would be handy for any UFO’s driven by aliens as they near Earth.
The site attracts hundreds of visitors a year and Mr Jaisli decided to build it when he claims he received a “telepathic message” from extraterrestrials in which they told him they needed a place to land when they arrive at our planet.
He told Argentine newspaper El Tribuno: “I was in Fuerte Alto with my neighbor Luis. It was midnight on November 24, 2008.
“'It's a UFO night,' I said to Luis. And the sentence was not over, when two luminous objects advanced about 200 meters above the Calchaquí River.
“They were solid, circular and like burnished metal. I do not know why, but mentally I asked them to come closer. And they did it!
“They were solid, circular and like burnished metal." (Image: GETTY)
“They landed about 100 metres above our heads and projected on us a beam of light that made us both see their own brightness.
“The funny thing is that it did not affect our vision. Something began to bubble through my brain: it was an order.
“They asked me telepathically to build the airport.”
After supposedly receiving the message in 2008, Mr Jaisli immediately got to work in constructing the star which has 36 points and measures 48 metres in diameter.
Visions of an other-worldly “pulsating” glow was reported by hundreds of people at around 11pm, and many took to social media sites to share shocking pictures and videos of the bizarre lights.
One witness wrote on Facebook: “It was really odd. It was there for a fair few seconds then moved to the left.
“I thought it was a plane at first and it was just me being silly.
“But then everyone else seemed to say they had seen it too.”
MEN
MYSTERY: An other-worldly blue light bamboozled hundreds in Greater Manchester
“Anyone see the strange purple lights over Tameside earlier? UFO invasion?”
Concerned Twitter user
Another took to Twitter to ask: “Anyone see the strange purple lights over Tameside earlier? UFOinvasion?”
Many suggested the lights were part of the Pride Festival celebrations in Manchester city centre on Monday evening.
But some appeared convinced it could be coming from a drone, a larger aircraft – or even an alien spaceship.
However a more sensible reason for the phenomenon has been offered.
MEN
WTF: An other-worldly 'pulsating' glow appeared to hover over Greater Manchester
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FEARS: The strange phenomena sparked concerns of an extra-terrestrial invasion
Dozens of Facebook users said the lights looked similar to those on a specialist railwork repairs train, which was seen flashing similar powerful blue lights in southern areas of the UK earlier this year.
A spokesperson for Network Rail said: “We can confirm this was not an unidentified flying object (UFO). It was rather an identified non-flying object (INFO) – namely a railway ballast tamping machine, which uses lasers.”
It was reportedly working to pack ballast under the railway tracks to make them more hardy.
Network Rail is carrying out improvement works on the Manchester to Preston line, via Bolton, as part of a multi-million pound project.
Filer’s Files #34 – 2018 William Tompkins & UFOs- PART I
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii photo on August 23, 2018, prior to hurricane
Filer’s Files #34 – 2018William Tompkins & UFOs- PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: William Tompkins Designer of Spaceships. President Reagan and Winston Churchill and UFOs. and Water Planets Are Common
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio , Oregon, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Eire, France, Germany, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Sao Tome, 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.
Special Projects
William Tompkins Designer of Spaceships.
A friend of mine William Tomkins passed away a year ago. He was introduced to me by Dr. Bob Woods after I spoke about Life on Mars in a MUFON Symposium in Irvine California in July of 2011. I met William just after some NASA personnel assured me there had been life on Mars, but they could not reveal it to the public. William Tompkins testimony to me then was mind blowing, but Dr. Bob Woods vouched for William. I attempted to verify the very advanced testimony of William and found some support from high ranking military officers.
William Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy as a teenager, when the Navy took his personal ship models out of a Hollywood department store because they showed the classified locations of the radars and gun emplacements. He was personally present at the “Battle of L.A.” when a thousand rounds of ammo were fired at UFOs, and one of the Nordic craft may have selected him to be their rep in the evolving aerospace race.
Tompkins stated in his book due to his excellent memory and model building skills he was assigned to Naval Intelligence working for Admiral Rick Abatta in World War II. According to Tompkins, his unit had a series of US Naval spies who returned from Germany who had discovered that the Germans were working on advanced wingless aircraft or types of discs apparently with the help of extraterrestrials. Germans reportedly back-engineered a crashed UFO and according to Tomkins the Navy spies claimed Adolph Hitler was working with Reptilian aliens and building early models of UFOs.
The Reptilians had large caverns in Antarctica and numerous scientists were transferred to Antarctica to build advanced craft. The SS allowed a group of personnel to build UFOs in Germany and attempted to develop their own. Tomkins job was to take this information to various aviation companies, universities and research organizations. He often flew to Naval Development Center in Warminster, Maryland. This book is a partial autobiography about his life to the beginning of the 1970s including some of his early work for TRW. In his autobiography, Tompkins describes what the Navy spies had found:
Tompkins explained, the Germans started in 1939, building and importing equipment into a massive cavern in Antarctica that was tied to extraterrestrial operations. They were building large transport submarines and anti gravitational UFOs. These craft allegedly flew Hitler and large numbers of Nazis to Argentina and Antarctica in the last stages of the war.
Selected by the Navy prior to completing high school to be authorized for research work, he regularly visited classified Naval facilities during WWII until he was discharged in 1946. After working at North American Aviation and Northrop, he was hired by Douglas Aircraft Company in 1950, and when they found out about his involvement in classified work, was given a job as a to create design solutions as a draftsman with a peripheral assignment to work in a “think tank”. This work was partly controlled by the Navy personnel who used to work for James Forrestal, who was allegedly assassinated because he was going to publicly reveal what he knew about UFOs. Bill Tompkins was asked to conceive sketches of mile-long Naval interplanetary craft designs.
Tompkins Spaceship Drawing
Later, as he became involved in the conventional aspects of the Saturn Program that later became the Apollo launch vehicle, his insight to system engineering resulted in his offering some critical suggestions personally to Dr. Wernher von Braun about ensuring more reliable checkout using the missiles in their vertical position and also some very efficient launch control concepts adopted by both NASA and the Air Force. Tompkins claimed he designed the NASA Apollo Launch Facility.
This story is peppered with very personal interactions with his co-workers and secretaries, some of whom the author believes to be Nordic aliens helping the “good guys” here on Earth. Towards the end of this volume of his autobiography, he sketches what he personally saw on TV when Armstrong was landing on the moon.
Born in May 1923, Bill Tompkins is one of the few survivors of the “big war” who is lived healthy to age 96, married to the same girl Mary, and is willing to tell his story about what he really did during his aerospace life in the 40s, 50s and 60s that relate to aliens, NASA and secrets that now can be told.
William Tompkins has extensive experience in advanced space research relating twelve years as engineering section chief at the Douglas Missile and Space Division, four years as corporate director of North American Advanced Space Research, founder and chairman of the Advanced Space Concept Staff at the think tank within the TRW Space Systems, four years as program director of the 2020 advanced Anti-Sub Warfare program and was a member of the corporate headquarters Red Team at General Dynamics Corporation. This experience has led to his membership in the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and he has done extensive research into extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects. He was preparing a six-volume autobiographical study on the subject to be released soon to be entitled Selected by Extraterrestrials.
The Navy agents (spies) in Germany discovered what all those “out of this world” aliens gave Hitler: UFOs, antigravity propulsion, beam weapons, extended life and plenty of mind-controlled willing girls programs. Allegedly, the reptilians made a deal with the Third Reich SS giving them this big box full of toys in exchange for letting Hitler enslave the rest of the planet. (pp. 70-71) The Air Force Library contains a document reporting that a team led by Colonel Watkins who later was promoted to general scavenged Nazi Aviation companies and airfields to capture the latest enemy aircraft. These aircraft were loaded on a British aircraft carrier and brought to the US. Most of the craft were named but some experimental ones were not described. General Watkins always maintained UFOs were not alien and were likely Soviet using German engineers..
Over his four years with Navy Intelligence, Tompkins helped in the covert distribution of data from Nazi Germany’s two distinct secret space programs to Douglas Aircraft Company, along with other select aerospace companies and universities that had the scientific expertise to understand what the Nazis were doing.
When Tompkins joined Douglas Aircraft Company in 1950, it had already formed its Advanced Design think tank to design antigravity space craft. Once Tompkins moved over to Advanced Design in 1951, he was specifically tasked to design a variety of antigravity space vehicles, using his knowledge of Naval Intelligence gathered from Nazi Germany and his own talent for technical detailing. Dr. Michael Salla has successfully attempted to verify Tompkins’s statements and has been able to obtain a great deal of favorable evidence.
Mr. William Tompkins has extensive experience in advanced space research relating twelve years as engineering section chief at the Douglas Missile and Space Division.
Photo of Space ship from UK by John Lenard Walson
William Tompkins had four years as corporate director of North American Advanced Space Research, founder and chairman of the Advanced Space Concept Staff at the think tank within the TRW Space Systems, four years as program director of the 2020 advanced Anti-Sub Warfare program and was a member of the corporate headquarters Red Team at General Dynamics Corporation. This experience has led to his membership in the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and he has done extensive research into extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects.
Tompkins’ revelations about the current operations of secret space programs derive from two periods in his life. First is his time at the helm of the Rogue Valley (Medford), Oregon chapter of the U.S. Navy League from 1985 to 1999. During this period, he was given briefings about operations of secret space programs and extraterrestrial life, and shared some of this information through a “Special Projects Committee”; with retired Navy, Marine and USAF officers .Corroboration for Tompkins’ statements about the Navy League
Admiral Hugh L. Webster
Special Projects Committee comes both from related documents and two retired Navy officers who confirmed key aspects of his testimony. Furthermore, Tompkins says that Admiral Hugh Webster, who ran the U.S. Navy League chapter in San Diego and was an executive officer for it nationally, was initially briefed about the Navy’s secret space program by Tompkins in 1985. Webster subsequently began a similar operation in San Diego, and became part of the Navy’s covert operations.
The second period in which Tompkins learned about the operational details of the Navy’s secret space program began in 2000, when he moved to San Diego, giving him more opportunities to work directly with Webster. It was Admiral Webster who gave Tompkins permission to write his autobiography and reveal all he knew about the Navy’s secret space program.
Tompkins has further disclosed that he is a participant in the Navy’s annual “West” meetings in San Diego, where leading aerospace companies come together to share their research and development findings. Among the purposes of these meetings is the goal of finding the latest technologies that may be of use for the Navy’s secret space program.
Photographic Evidence of Space ships
John Walson ‘s claims and disclosures have not been given the coverage which they undoubtedly deserve. He has hundreds of official USAF documents to back up his claims. If he is correct, as the evidence suggests, then the U.S. does have a secret space fleet consisting probably of dozens of 600 feet wide flying triangles, which can go to and from space with ease, travel at Mac 9 +in any direction. For over ten years John Walson has taken up close images of celestial craft in orbit around the Earth John writes, ‘I have so much more that I have not told anyone yet, I have very specially made UV spectrum telescopes and UV real cameras with very amazing footage. I would really like to share my telescope inventions in a TV show to use my equipment to solve famous historical Ufo or Sky space based events.
I’m saving to be able to bring my telescope to a dark area, no atmospheric distractions. I want to give you clear beautiful high quality video, and evidence from a remote location without freezing in the process, and without interference.
Walson claims he discovered that many “stars” in the sky are in fact HUGE structured objects – giant machines are “fixed” in the sky. With this new-found ability, he has proceeded to videotape, night and day, many strange and heretofore unseen objects in earth orbit. Walson claims that he can record them in plain daylight at noon and that he can record sounds from the machines in space. The resulting astro-photographic video footage has revealed a raft of machines, hardware, satellites, spacecraft and likely alien space ships which otherwise appear as ‘stars’… if they appear at all. These discs are seen hovering over thunderstorms appearing to collect lightning strikes perhaps to collect electrical energy.
Note: John has given Filer’s Files permission to show his excellent copyrighted images. Below is a possible space ship taken by John that President Reagan refers to.
President Reagan announced in the United Nations an extraterrestrial presence was already among us. Address
“In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?”
It appears that Reagan was secretly briefed daily about extraterrestrial life, and some of the threats this posed to humanity. It appears he was really warning the world about classified alien secrets withheld from the global public and launched the most expensive defense program ever to protect humankind? Global unity was an imperative to deal with all the implications of such a presence! There is testimony from several witnesses that joint nation military units are on occasion downing alien ships not of the planet. In 1983, President Reagan gave a speech in which he called for the development of a missile-defense system.
The project was called the Strategic Defense Initiative, but the media cheerleaders mocked it as “Star Wars,” and surprisingly Reagan offered to share the technology with the Soviet Union. Solar Warden a series of spaceships with several types of weapons systems appears to exist.
This system now exists with a demonstrated capability although with changed names. It is now the Missile Defense Agency, which is very rare indeed: a federal agency that is generally regarded as both responsible and effective.
Reagan wasn’t the first world leader to think about extraterrestrial life — Winston Churchill, for one, had done that decades earlier. Winston was well aware of UFOs and Earl Mountbatten his Commander of the Navy had seen them up close.
Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II and his spies likely obtained similar information as the US Navy spies that Tompkins interviewed. Predictions Ahead Of Their Time
Churchill begins his 1939 essay pointing out that “all living things of the type we know require water,” and although we can’t say for certain that other liquids are possible sources of life, “nothing in our present knowledge entitles us to make such an assumption.” One point for Churchill: nearly 80 years later, we still use the presence of water as a sign that life is possible on another planet.
After concluding that, due to their favorable conditions, Mars and Venus are the only other planets in our Solar System that could harbor life, he ventures beyond, writing “the sun is merely one star in our galaxy, which contains several thousand millions of others…I am not sufficiently conceited to think that my sun is the only one with a family of planets.” Churchill goes on to say that a sizeable portion of planets outside our solar system “will be the right size to keep on their surface water and possibly an atmosphere of some sort” and some will even be “at the proper distance from their parent sun to maintain a suitable temperature.” That might not seem surprising until you remember that Churchill, a non-scientist, wrote this more than 20 years before the Drake Equation—which laid out the probability of finding life on other planets—and decades more before the first exoplanet was ever discovered.
As Churchill wrote later in 1958, “It is only by leading mankind in the discovery of new worlds of science and engineering that we shall hold our position and continue to earn our livelihood
I feel Reagan’s warning was authentic, and extraterrestrials are already here? I know there is much closer cooperation between nations when chasing and confronting UFOs. The news media doesn’t seem to have any reliable inside information concerning this entire field of research not to mention most other fields .
Huge Spaceships photographed in our Skies Are Evidence for Tompkins. The ISS is on the left, a spaceship right.
What is John Lenard Walson videotaping with his proprietary telescope video camera technique? Are these just satellites or ET spacecraft Or, are we seeing large and very sophisticated spacecraft for the first time that we AREN’T supposed to see? Walson received the following comment about one of the videos:
“Hello again. And, again, my congratulations on your superb astrophotography. MIT Lincoln Laboratory is the group which has built some of the things you are seeing. Much of what they do is what used to be the Star Wars project, which no doubt involves some of your objects.” They examined crashed UFOs held at Wright Patterson AFB and likely back engineered these craft.
Typical Walson Spaceship
Important Navy Sighting
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.
Jeff Rense Radio Show will honor William Tomkins on August 31, 2018 starting at 10 PM Eastern, 7 PM Western for three hours. Frank Chile, Bob Woods, and I with Jeff will discuss the revelations of Tomkins. Rense.com
The Space Force
President Trump announced he is going to create the Space Force a new military force to defend us from attack from space implying the Chinese and Russians are increasing their forces in space . This force would also be able to defend Earth from aliens coming in from space. The Space Force will be independent from our other military forces. Shortly after the announcement, information started coming out that we already had a large Space Force and it had been kept secret for a very long time. Secrecy had been required to protect the Force from being targeted and attacked by potential enemies, both foreign and extraterrestrial. The following two videos will show you that the existence of the Space Force was known to individuals here who are now talking about it and show how we captured advanced anti-gravity craft from the Germans who used them against us in World War 2.
In The Diary entry for Tuesday, June 11, 1985 (page 334) Reagan wrote:
Lunch with 5 top space scientists. “It was fascinating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments there in astronomy etc. are like science fiction, except they are real. I learned that our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people.”
Note: This would indicate a space ship at least as large as a 747 aircraft that is 250 feet long. It is likely much bigger to accommodate sleeping quarters, kitchen facilities, bathrooms, storage radar and weapons. The now grounded Space Shuttle held a maximum of eight people and even if all five took off fully loaded it would be impossible to put 300 astronauts in orbit. Apparently President Reagan revealed the existence of a highly classified space program that could accommodate hundreds of astronauts in orbit that would to be at least 500 feet long?
British hacker Gary McKinnon first hacked into NASA’s Johnson Space Center: He found a high definition picture of a large cigar shaped object over the northern hemisphere.
McKinnon later hacked into classified files of U.S. Space Command incorporated into Strategic Command on October 1, 2002. He found a list of officers’ names. Under the heading ‘Non-Terrestrial Officers. McKinnon stated that what he found was a list of fleet-to-fleet transfers’ ‘fleet-to-fleet transfers, and a list of ship names’. He said that after looking them up. He realized that they were not US Navy ships. What he saw made him believe that NASA was keeping a secret about an off planet space fleet. Gary McKinnon claims to have stumbled upon a secret list of up to ten space warships after breaking into NASA computer databases. A couple ships were named the USSS Curtis Lemay and USSS Roscoe Hillenkoetter. He claims it points to a secret American space program.
Father of Stealth aircraft, Ben Rich was the second director of Lockheed Skunkwork’s from 1975-1991. He developed the stealth fighter, the F-117A Nighthawk. , Rich made several shocking open statements about the reality of UFOs and extraterrestrials.
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do it.”
“We now have technology to take ET home. No it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars.”
“There are two types of UFOs — the ones we build and the ones ‘they’ build.”
When Rich was asked how UFO propulsion worked, he said, “Let me ask you. How does ESP work?” The questioner responded with, “All points in time and space are connected?” Rich then said, “That’s how it works!”(This is related to Quantum entanglement, you can read more about that here.)
Jan Harzan the International Director of MUFON and former senior executive with IBM attended a talk given by Rich to engineers on March 23rd, 1993 at a UCLA School of Engineering.
Rich stated, “We now know how to travel to the stars. There is an error in the equations, and we have figured it out, and now know how to travel to the stars and it won’t take a lifetime to do it. It is time to end all the secrecy on this, as it no longer poses a national security threat, and make the technology available for use in the private sector. There are many in the intelligence community who would like to see this stay in the black and not see the light of day. We now have the technology to take ET home.”
For Those Who May Have Missed the Memorial Tribute to the Memory of Bill Tompkins on the One Year Anniversary of His Passing. Here is the link: Please Share
This artist’s conception shows habitable-zone planets with similarities to Earth. From left: Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-452b, Kepler-62f and Kepler-186f. Last in line is Earth itself.
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
“Water worlds” are incredibly common throughout the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.
Midsize alien planets — those two to four times larger than Earth — tend to harbor huge amounts of water, according to the research. Indeed, some of these exotic worlds are probably up to 50 percent water by weight. (Our seemingly wet Earth, by contrast, is just 0.02 percent water by weight.)
“Our data indicate that about 35 percent of all known exoplanets which are bigger than Earth should be water-rich,” study leader Li Zeng, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, said in a statement. “It was a huge surprise to realize that there must be so many water worlds.” [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
Correction Alien Technology in a Wooden Pyramid in North Carolina
Bob Padgett was incorrectly identified in this photo. He is the large Man shown with Dr. Bruce Cornet in last week’s article.
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Filer’s Files #34 – 2018 William Tompkins & UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #34 – 2018 William Tompkins & UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Bermuda Dunes — It was August 16, 2018, exactly 6pm as I looked at my IPhone. There was a bank of high white clouds 10-15 miles South East of me as I was driving down Avenue 42 . started to notice two black saucer shape objects slowly come out of the clouds. They each had to be larger than 300 feet due to the distance. They had no lights or other object protruding from them. I was driving at 40 mph so it was hard to focus take picture and drive. I got one picture that shows as they both started going back into the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Object
Canon City— The object was caught on a game camera with before and after pictures of the horizon which gives perspective on the event. It was captured on film about 7.5 miles SE from the camera location and 1/2 mile in the sky (above the tree line ~ 8400 feet) on July 9, 2018 . Data was discovered upon review of all game cameras on the property. It is located ~ 15 miles NNW of Canon City on a mountain ridge line. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Orlando — I was at a light turning into my business and I noticed three trails high in the sky on August 21, 2018, Three objects appear to be flying in formation above the cloud cover I also noticed a normal commercial airline flying in to MCO which is normal, but these objects were flying super fast even faster than military jets. I’ve seen in the past they appeared to be ascending into the atmosphere almost like a rocket but I am not aware of any rocket launches happening at the Cape today and in perfect formation. It was very odd. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hawaii Disk
Lahaina, Maui — I was taking a sunset picture prior to the hurricane like I almost always do on my lanai in Napili, when I saw a blurb in my picture review on my camera on August 23, 2018. I did not see anything thru my viewfinder as I was shooting. I looked up and saw nothing in the sky. We are currently in hurricane watch conditions from Lane with winds at 20 – 25 mph at the time, so I don’t think it was a drone or a weather balloon because how could it disappear so fast, maybe 5 seconds elapsed from shooting to looking up. In the picture the wind is blowing right to left. Upon downloading my shots I noticed the blurb and assumed it was a large bird. I zoomed in and saw a round disc with a V shape cut from one side, greyish – green. The photo was taken at 1/1000 of a second, a setting I used in the high winds to ‘freeze’ the trees. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Object
Driving down main street, I first noticed the dark mass coming from clouds then a white line coming from below, It popped up for two pics then vanished on August 10, 2018.. In the clouds you’ll see tons of white orbs and in one pic more to let you’ll see couple black orbs or birds. All this Happen as I drove about two blocks then they vanished. I’m assuming they were using the sun to charge the crafts
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Cylinder
Amherst – On August 25, 2018, witnessed a cylindrical object hovering at approximately 1000 feet altitude with very little movement on a clear day. Event lasted 15 minutes before I lost sight of it, but not after taking pictures. Two small aircraft were seen approaching the object, which seemed to be several times larger than them. It was a clear day with no sound or lights. Eventually it moved out of my line of sight behind some trees. The object was at least 100 feet long. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Object
Sparks — On the evening of August 7, 2018, my wife and I were coming out of a building and I looked up at the amazing Sunset over Peavine Mountain. I took a few pictures and we headed to our next stop. While in route I told my wife Maria Teresa, to take another photo of the Sun setting. We stopped in a parking lot to get a better picture, the Sun was almost gone and I buried her to snap the photo. We didn’t see the craft until we viewed it and expanded the size of the picture. I first thought it was something on the phone lens, but it didn’t wipe away. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Light
Clifton — My wife saw it first and then called me as we witnessed the strange ball of light just hovering. We also saw airplanes flying underneath the hovering ball of light.
The was taken on August 14, 2018
Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina
Charlotte — This is something I noticed on my TV screen
Watching the US Open as they went to commercial I noticed this on my TV on August 23, 2018,
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Light
Xenia— My wife was driving home from the store around 8ish on August 12. 2018.
and noticed this light in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Bright Light
Portland — At the first I thought it was a star because I have been seeing it f or 3 weeks prior. Tonight on August 18, 2018, I realized it was the second UFO I have ever seen in my life.
It just hovered and changes a buff shape and it seemed to get bigger and smaller the longer I kept watching it.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Light
State College — Was attending the State College Spikes baseball game when a lightning storm caused the game to be stopped on August 15, 2018.
My wife tried to get a picture of the lightning and this is what we saw in the picture.
Have no idea what it is but a friend also saw these lights on his drive home. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Carolina
FT Mill— My sister took the attached photo from outside a restaurant. Other people were looking up to the sky so she did too and saw this strange coloring in the sky on September 15, 2016. It almost looks like an object fell out of the cone shape. Could this be a UFO or just a strange but normal weather condition? There was no storm or rain that day. This photo is untouched. I am just looking for a professional to check it out and tell me what you think it is. There really isn’t anything else to add. We didn’t even see the small white object under the cone shape until after the photo was taken. She just thought the cone shape looked unusual.
Tennessee Diamond
Hohenwald — A woman found a strange diamond shaped object above her head in a photo taken of her.
Neither the photographer or herself saw the object. Photo was taken on August 12, 2018.
Rockport – On the first day of school I took pictures of my granddaughter. After taking her to school I was looking at my pictures and noticed an object in her pictures. I made the picture bigger and can see it’s not a cloud.
Photo was taken on August 22, 2018
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Wisconsin Lights
Oconto – I took this photo on a terrible storm night. Didn’t realize until a couple years later that it sure looks like ships in the lighting if you look close.
I just wanted someone with experience to blow this photo up and get there perspective. Photo was taken on June 14, 2018
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Australia Lights
Bunbury— I was sitting in car around 6:30 AM on my phone. It was dusk, just becoming light. I couldn’t get off the phone quick enough as I saw this light traveling across the sky on August 20, 2018. , which appeared to have come from the west coast. The ocean is a few KM’s away from where I live( on the West Coast of Western Australia. So I quickly started phone camera my Samsung Galaxy S5) and filmed it for a few minutes as it traveled in easterly making no noise at all. There is an airport just out of town and I hear them flying most days very clearly. This light object made NO noise at all and disappeared into smallish cloud.
Hastings –On August 8, 2018, while taking two of my kids home to their mum’s house after dinner we noticed what we thought were red and green plane lights in the sky. We drove another 400 meters until we were beside the object which was only 70 meters east and 100 meters up. I was constantly asking the kids about the lights, the shape, visible things on the object. My kids are 14 and 12. Both kids and I witnessed the lights that didn’t flash. The lights were on each corner and consisted of 1 green and 2 red. There was a white light and a triangle shape. My son 14 said there were three white lines underneath and what looked like a hatch. I told them both to keep an eye on it while I turned around as we were now 200m past. It took 4 seconds to turn around. We drove back toward the objects position but it was now moving south and gaining altitude much faster than I could drive. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Disc
Thunder bay — It was a strange storm it sounded like a tornado storm. I was watching for lightning.
It showed up as soon as I was taking a picture of the lightning on April 17, 2018.
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Eire Glowing Lights
Limerick — On August 10, 2018, young men went for a drive to Loch Gur, Co:. Limerick , Ireland in two full cars. As they sat outside the cars at some picnic benches they all witnessed 4 glowing lights in the air. The lights were zig zagging , as if chasing each other, or circling around the stone circle, Grange, co.Limerick. Only one witness could capture it on his phone. Shortly afterwards he sent me the 2 videos through social media.34 seconds and second video was 26 seconds. The lights remained in the sky when the group left the area. .They watched the lights for 30 minutes approximately. They all felt fine, but amazed at what they saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Lights
Colmar — I was sitting on the balcony and saw a light of spherical shape. After I took my phone I filmed it for 10 minutes. on June 12, 2018
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Jons –The event occurred on July 9, 2018, the witness observed several white lights in the sky and shot a video of the event that he posted on Youtube.
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Germany Lights
Neuerburg — I was was on the way home with a good friend after a birthday party on August 8, 2018. On the way I saw different colors coming from the forest behind the medical centre. I thought it’s a laser show being reflected from the centre to the woods. The objects were round, changed their colors, moved in different sides, always staying on the top middle of a tree, which was over 20-25 m high on the top of a hill. I’ve never seen lights and objects like this before. We were staying for a long time just watching the movements and the changes of the colors. I then did a video, you can see the movements, but unfortunately the colors can’t be identified. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Lights
Povoa de Lanhoso — UFO observed in the mountains 10 km east at 22:40 until 23:05 on 27 July 2018 My family and myself (2 adults + 2 children 9 and 11 years) and see a blue gradient towards the horizon. We were all four in the veranda + my brother Who told us to quickly come and see. We discover a cloud of bright dots that move in all directions. The cloud moves and changes shape slowly towards the moon that is followed by a sphere (breadth of the index, arm extended) The sphere turns on it even as if it “rolled
Puerto Rico
Humacao— Cigar shaped object photographed on August 19, 2018,. After taking several pictures, discovered this moving cigar shaped object to the east across that mountain.
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Sao Tome
Lotijac— I didn’t see it. My father did. It was above 2 years ago. Actually he didn’t see object directly. His interests is to make a photo of clouds usually. He did it as usual. Then he went back to house. He didn’t know what he spotted. Later in the evening, he was checking images he saw he captured something strange. Maybe possibly it is just photographic mistake or maybe a cloud but picture is strange.
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Spain Light
Manresa, Barcelona — On Wednesday 22th of August, my parents and I decided to go visit Montserrat, which is a famous for ufo sightings mountain located near Barcelona. We drove to the monastery located up in the mountain of Montserrat. We took many photos there and went for a walk and then we drove home 2 hours away). On Thursday I uploaded the photos in my pc saw the weird object in one of them. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Object
Object appeared to be flying through the sky, at first I thought it was a daytime view of the moon but realized it was flying through the sky on April 10, 2018….so I filmed what I was observing on my mobile phone So far friends and family have told me it’s a plane and the sun is hitting it at a strange angle. It’s the moon and the clouds are moving so it’s an optical illusion, it is just a cloud and it’s a UFO,s o all I want is someone to view the footage and tell me WHAT it is. Note: Looks like clouds
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New-Witness Angle to Nimitz Tic Tac UFO Incident
New-Witness Angle to Nimitz Tic Tac UFO Incident
NY Times is MIA
“Oh my god! Oh my god! I’m engaged, I’m engaged! Shit!’ He’s screaming on the radio.”
Excerpts from the podcast testimony of radar operator Kevin Day, former senior chief petty officer aboard the USS Princeton, relaying the words he heard in real time from an F-18 pilot in hot pursuit of what may turn out to become the best-documented military UFO challenge ever. Day was being interviewed by Air Force veteran John Burroughs at KGRA.
By Billy Cox De Void 6-18-18
“I found out later this thing did a barrel roll around him,” Day recalled during a two-hour Q&A last week on Phenomenon Radio Live. “And just basically kicked his butt in a dogfight.”
This is a new-witness angle to what’s being called the Nimitz Tic Tac incident of 2004, an update to the story broken by the New York Times last December. Day said he was in charge of air defense for the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group as it conducted training exercises 80 miles off the coast of San Diego. And he was on duty in the second week of November when a pilot with the elite “Black Aces” captured the now-famous Tic Tac-shaped UFO with an infrared gun camera.
But Day wasn’t the only Navy veteran to spill the beans last week about what he saw. On Wednesday, “Extraordinary Beliefs” podcaster Jeremy Corbell bagged a 23-minute interview with an operations specialist who would give only his first name, Trevor. During nearly week-long interactions with the furtive UFOs, Trevor was watching the radar scopes aboard the Nimitz’s Combat Direction Center, the nexus of the entire task force. Early on, he described watching high-flying blips dart across his grid in jerky movements that sound (to De Void, anyway) like a cursor on a computer screen. Trevor said he “couldn’t tag it” because the thing(s) “kept jumping around.”
But the news peg here is Trevor’s claim about what he didn’t see on radar. The day after the F-18s returned from their intercept mission, colleagues, including officers and a pilot, invited him to check out gun-cam footage that had been downloaded into the Secret Internet Protocol Routing Network (SIPRNet) system. This anomaly looked nothing like the Tic Tac. This was your classic flying saucer – flat below, rounded dome on top. The video resolution was sharper than the Tic Tac. Furthermore, when they slowed the action down, frame by frame, the UFO disappeared in sequential frames before reappearing in others. “And then boom,” says Trevor, “it was gone.”
Again, what set these new accounts into motion was the Times’ original reporting six months ago. And what ultimately led to Day’s interview is an enduring public appetite for more info on the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the $22 million UFO research initiative, exposed by the NYT.
“This is the first chance that I’ve had a chance to actually appear before the public and speak about details of the program and not go to jail” — Hal Puthoff, June 8/CREDIT: To The Stars Academy
Less than two weeks ago, during a Society for Scientific Exploration conference in Las Vegas, engineer and research insider Hal Puthoff reminded listeners there were 38 related papers logged by the Defense Intelligence Agency, prepared by contractors as part of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Project during 2007-12. Two of those broad theoretical reports, written in 2010, one by Puthoff himself (“Acquisition Threat Support”), went public in May.
But those were tame compared with the May release of yet another paper addressing the Nimitz incident specifically. Though its author was anonymous and it bore no government markings, the summary was detailed enough to create a firestorm of Internet speculation over who wrote it.
Known for co-authoring a bangup radar analysis the 2008 Stephenville Incident as well as bringing critical scrutiny to the infrared UFO footage shot by airborne federal Customs agents over Puerto Rico in 2013, Robert Powell had been keeping an eye on the Nimitz story long before the Times’ coup. Working leads for volunteer researchers called the Scientific Coalition for Ufology, Powell located crew logs and started reaching out to potential Tic Tac witnesses. He recorded an interview with Kevin Day in either late December or early January; Trevor (“that’s his actual first name, he’s real,” Powell says) never replied to his email.
Powell kept his SCU teammates looped in, aiming to publish a fuller accounting of the Nimitz mystery online in August. But with the legitimacy of the “executive summary” of the Tic Tac being hotly contested, one of the SCU members jumped into a cyberdebate and speculated the author might’ve been the hitherto unknown Kevin Day – and dropped Day’s name in the middle of it. Powell issued a WTF to his colleague, who deleted the post. By then, it was too late. Alternative media was hot on Day’s trail.
“Once witnesses start going public,” Powell explains, “they start getting contaminated. The more they tell their stories, they begin to change. It’s weird how the mind works.”
Powell said he heard some contradictions between what Day told him several months ago and what he told Burroughs. For instance: Did the UFO(s) drop from 28,000 feet to sea level within the snap of a finger, as Day said last week, or did it/they go from 80,000 feet to 28,000 feet, as he told Powell? There are other discrepancies, most of them minor. “It wouldn’t matter to most people – this thing happened and that’s all they care about,” says Powell. “But the inconsistencies can create openings for debunkers to say it never happened.”
And what about Puthoff? Best known for his government research into the quantum mechanics behind things paranormal, the Vice President of Science and Technology for the To The Stars Academy was a key character in the Times’ scoop. On June 8 in Vegas, Puthoff openly discussed the AATIP’s research into material allegedly recovered from a UFO years ago. It was a “multi-layered bismuth and magnesium” artifact that early investigators couldn’t get to bond in the lab; furthermore, the embroidery served no discernible function.
“Well, years later, decades later actually, finally our own science moves along,” Puthoff told his audience. “We move into an area called metamaterials, and it turns out exactly this combination of materials at exactly those dimensions turn out to be an excellent microscopic waveguide for very high frequency electromagnetic terahertz frequencies.”
De Void isn’t sure what that means, exactly. But how is this not interesting?
Two days after co-authoring the Times piece on the AATIP, veteran reporter Ralph Blumenthal wrote how the story “has dominated the most emailed and most viewed lists since.” He reiterated the point on MSNBC a day later, saying “This is probably the most watched and looked-at story the New York Times has run in a long time, because people are fascinated by the subject.” Queried by the network host about what kind of stuff the Pentagon experts had investigated, Blumenthal replied, “They don’t know, they’re studying it, but it’s some kind of compound they don’t recognize.”
That was six months ago. Where is the New York Times followup? Are they really walking away from a story they started? Because?
Given the readership market for this information, as described by Blumenthal, this isn’t just bad journalism. This is a bad business decision.
UFO fly-by caught on surveillance footage from Denmark on June 28th 2011 at 5.15 PM local time. Recorded from my apartment with a HD video camcorder pointing in westerly direction in Odense city. I was filming the passing clouds and did not see the dark grey object passing by. See the UFO fly-by footage in below video.
Actually I first discovered the UFO on August 24th 2018 while I looked through some old video footage. In these years old cloud videos I encountered some few insects and birds which at first glance behaved strangely, however, a more thorough look at these revealed their earthly origin. But the one object in the video above stands out clearly. And I have not yet been successful with the identification of this object. It seem not to look like any earthly object I know of.
UFO fly-by in a precise straight line
Then I first saw it, my first thought was “insect”, but the movement in a straight line across the screen made me curious. I investigated further and found it actually follows a precise straight line from right to left. It is so precise that you can draw a line from where the object first appears (right side of screen) to the last time just before it disappears (left side of screen).
That it follows a straight line is of course not an indication that the object can not be an insect. But when I think about it, I have never seen an insect in cruise flight. They always tend to fly around in chaotic patterns and not follow a straight course. Birds are cruising but this object does not really resemble a bird if you ask me.
Angular shaped object releasing fog?
The unknown object seem to have an angular shape that remains throughout nine individual frames I managed to get from the UFO footage. But some minor changes are seen when it´s flying. What made me convinced that this object is not an insect, or a bird, is the condensation or fog that is seen been released from the object in flight.
What also made me curious was, that the unidentified flying object seem to have several dark spots on it´s surface. If these are openings or portholes I don´t know, but they are there. In frame 4 below it looks like the object has a big opening behind also.
In the picture above you also see this strange condensation, or fog, being released on the top of the object. Actually you can see there is some fog beneath and around the object in below animation that seem to follow the object.
UFO fly-by footage animated
As you can see in below fly-by footage animation based on 9 frames, this object is not what you normally see in our skies. Jet planes produce condensation trails (contrails) but not the same way as this object does here.
The UFO footage animation above shows an object that seem to release short bursts of condensation or something else that looks like fog. Are these aliens in the sky over Denmark? Besides the Unidentified Flying Object terminology, we could also put the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) terminology on this one. It´s behaviour in the sky is very strange.
UFO fly-by on surveilance footage in Denmark
The UFO fly-by was caught on surveillance footage recorded with a JVC Everio HD memory camcorder GZ-HM200 on tripod. Camcorder was focused on the clouds which is the reason why the object seems a little blurred. The video format is *.mts and carries high definition video. I was filming the clouds passing by in that hope I could use some of this footage as background for other videos I produce. So I made these recordings but did not find any useful material. I did not delete any of it but forgot it. And then the computer crashed and I had no access to the hard drives until August 2018. So seven years after I finally got the opportunity to look through the material and found this object.
Earlier sighting maybe same object in footage?
I had a sighting one day looking out my terrace door in westerly direction, the same place from where I recorded this UFO fly-by footage. I saw a small dark grey object estimated to be under 100 meters away then it passed in front of me. It was travelling across the sky from south towards north and disappears just above the treetops about 100 meters away to the right of me.
I only had few seconds to see it while it passed in front of me. To me it did not act like a bird and it was too big to be an insect. There were no sound at all. Just a little grey object that flew in a precise straight line. I wonder if that object could be the same I also caught on film here?
Unidentified aerial phenomenon releasing fog is not new
Here on site I have other pictures that shows the unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) releasing fog or something that looks like fog. If you look throughout the galleries you will see that condensation happens now and then.
“j’ai posé la question au site Scooper en rapport à d’autres photos et à d’autres témoins potentiels. Il m’a répondu en disant; “Oui, il y a eu des rapports de campeurs du côté du lac. Il y a aussi eu un pécheur qui a utilisé son bateau pour mener son enquête quant à la disparition de l’eau. Scooper continue de s’intéresser à ces rapports.” [voir la capture d’écran ci-dessous]
L’observation est incroyable à tellement de niveaux. Premièrement, c’est un pilote qui a pris la photo. Deuxièmement, le pilote a essayé de contacter l’ovni en utilisant sa radio. Troisièmement, l’ovni n’est pas invisible ou même partiellement invisible, ça s’est passé en plein jour! Quatrièmement cet ovni soulève de l’eau, elle monte vers sa direction. C’est une observation qui marque les annales. Comme vous pouvez le constater c’est une zone peu peuplé et ils avaient très peu à craindre. Volent-ils vraiment notre eau et est-ce la raison pour laquelle ils viennent sur Terre? Dans tous les cas, nos frères de l’espace sont libres de faire comme chez eux. Ils vivent probablement sur la Lune ou quelque part dans notre système solaire, et la Terre est le coin le plus proche pour avoir de l’eau fraîche. SCW
Un pilote local et un photographe amateur a partagé une photo exclusive avec le magazine Scooper du Comté du Nevada représentant un objet volant non-identifié en train de survoler le lac de Scotts Flat situé dans l’important bassin du comté de Nevada, en Californie. D’après le pilote, l’objet apparaissait pomper de l’eau hors du réservoir.
Le pilote, qui a préféré rester anonyme, a dit qu’il effectuait un vol de routine tard vendredi après-midi quand il a remarqué ce qui apparaissait être un autre avion. Cependant quand il a tenté de contacter l’appareil en utilisant sa radio, il n’a pas reçu de messages en retour.
“Comme vous pouvez le constater dans la photo, j’effectuais ma descente finale au Nevada County Airport quand j’ai remarqué cet objet rouge,” a déclaré le pilote. “Alors j’ai remarqué une ‘trombe d’eau’ juste en dessous de lui.”“J’avais l’impression qu’il y avait une gigantesque paille d’eau claire sous lui. Donc j’ai effectué un contact radio pour leur faire savoir que j’étais dans les parages mais ils n’ont pas répondu à ma requête, ce qui était très inhabituel.”
Partout dans le monde, des ufologues soupçonnent que des visiteurs venus d’ailleurs dans l’univers, ont rendu visite à la Terre à cause de toute l’eau qu’elle recèle. Certains ont même spéculé que l’eau est utilisée pour “faire le plein”.
“Wow la vache. C’est la preuve finale qu’ils utilisent le satellite Chevalier Noir pour coordonner leurs ‘visites’ en masse” a déclaré Mr. Bradenshauer en utilisant ses doigts pour faire des signes dans l’air. “Je vais dire qu’ils volent notre eau, et ne nous demandent définitivement pas la permission pour le faire.”
Le Scooper a fait de plus amples investigations pour avoir des commentaires, mais personne n’a accepté de nous recevoir. Nous assumons donc que le NID est conscient de cette invasion, et ignore ou est impuissant face à ces extraterrestres. Cela vaut de même pour toutes les agences de renseignement qui elles aussi refusent de commenter ces événements.
E.T., Phone Earth? How Neutron-Star Crashes Could Help Aliens Call Us
E.T., Phone Earth? How Neutron-Star Crashes Could Help Aliens Call Us
The first-ever observations of merging binary stars stunned the astronomy community last year, but not quite as much as the first-ever signal from extraterrestrial life might someday stun the world.
And a new paper argues that the observations of an binary-star merger may actually be the key to making that second detection, which is the ongoing quest of a scientific effort called the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI.
“We were really impressed by the rapid growth of multi-messenger astronomy associated with [the neutron star merger detected last August], and started thinking about interesting possibilities far beyond traditional astronomical studies,” lead author Yuki Nishino, a physicist at Kyoto University in Japan, wrote in an email to Space.com. “Actually, previously, we were not familiar with the SETI activities.” [9 Strange, Scientific Excuses for Why Humans Haven’t Found Aliens Yet]
So, he and his co-author started considering how a technologically advanced alien civilization beyond our galaxy might piggyback on the bright signals created by colliding neutron stars to catch our attention.
Their basic idea is that aliens would have the ability to predict the merger of a binary neutron star elsewhere in their own galaxy with plenty of warning. We can sometimes do that now, the pair wrote, because many neutron stars are pulsars, which produce a spinning jet of light. That means we can track where they are and how they are interacting in binary systems.
Next, the aliens would need to produce a signal timed around that collision. Scientists have already started dreaming up space-based gravitational-wave detectors they believe could observe a collision years in advance; they already turn all the telescopes at their command toward a collision after it’s been registered. That means aliens may be able to catch our attention with an artificial signature before, after or both before and after the natural collision signal.
It would need to be quite a powerful signal, given that the study is focused on civilizations beyond our own galaxy, requiring long travel times even at the speed of light. The pair calculated that for aliens 130 million light-years away from Earth, the feat would require feeding a telescope like the Square Kilometer Array (currently being built) about a terawatt of energy. (For context, Earth’s total energy consumption in 2015 was 17.4 terawatts, by one calculation.)
Of course, all this assumes that our still-hypothetical distant neighbors want to reach out to us, and there’s no way to know how valid that assumption is. Nishino thinks outreach is inevitable. “I think one of the basic grounds for developing an advanced civilization is a profound desire to leave behind information,” he wrote in his email. He added that it may well be safer in a scenario like his, where alien and correspondent civilizations are in two separate galaxies buffered by vast distances.
But for Nishino, what’s compelling about this approach to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is that it relies on observations that are being gathered anyway. When word got out about the initial gravitational-waves detection from colliding neutron stars, astronomers around the world hustled to turn telescopes in all sorts of wavelengths toward the event. Nishino wants to ask them to look through the data with SETI in mind as well — which is much easier than gathering separate data for the hunt.
The research is described in a paper published on Aug. 1 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Producer Tracy Torme Discusses Making UFO Film Fire in the Sky with Travis Walton
Tracy Torme is a movie producer and script writer. Most recently, he produced the movie I am Legend starring Will Smith. He has written for Saturday Night Live, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Outer Limits, Carnivale, and much more. He also produced the 1988 documentary UFO Cover-Up? Live!
This presentation is from the 2015 Skyfire Summit, commemorating the 40th anniversary of a UFO sighting by several loggers and the disappearance of one of the men, Travis Walton.
The men say they saw a bright light in the forest that they believed to be a fire. They rushed to the site only to find a large metallic disc-shaped object hovering above the forest floor.
Walton, being a bit of a show-off, ran off to get a closer look, despite his friends calling for him to get back into the truck. The object shot out some kind of beam at him, and Walton flew several feet in the air. Believing him to be dead, and scared out of their wits, his co-workers took off.
Walton’s harrowing experience made headlines when he went missing. After seeing Walton zapped, his coworkers took off, assuming he was dead. They returned soon after, but the UFO and Walton were gone. They raced to report Walton’s disappearance to the police, but the police had a hard time believing their friend was attacked by a UFO. A massive man hunt was mounted, but as time when on, authorities began suspecting that Walton’s friends must have killed Walton and concocted a wild story about a UFO taking him away.
Eventually, Walton returned. He thought he had been gone only a few hours, but it turned out to be five days. Walton remembered seeing the UFO before it zapped him. He then didn’t remember anything until being dropped off on the side of the street and seeing the UFO flying off in the night sky above him.
Later, under regression, he remembered strange events taking place onboard some sort of apparent spacecraft.
The 1993 movie Fire in the Sky, was based on Walton’s experiences, and portrayed the events fairly accurately, except for what Walton remembers happening under regression. The movie starred D.B. Sweeney, James Garner and Robert Patrick.
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Should Evil AI Research Be Published? Five Experts Weigh In.
Should Evil AI Research Be Published? Five Experts Weigh In.
Testing Russian humanoid robot Fyodor at Android Technics enterprise in Magnitogorsk MAGNITOGORSK, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 8, 2016: Testing the Russian humanoid rescue robot Fyodor created by the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects by order of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, at the Android Technics Scientific Production Association. The robot can be remotely controlled by a person in a special suit or work autonomously performing voice commands. Donat Sorokin/TASS
A rhetorical question for you. Let’s say you’re an AI scientist, and you’ve found the holy grail of your field — you figured out how to build an artificial general intelligence (AGI). That’s a truly intelligent computer that could pass as human in terms of cognitive ability or emotional intelligence. AGI would be creative and find links between disparate ideas — things no computer can do today.
That’s great, right? Except for one big catch: your AGI system is evil or could only be used for malicious purposes.
So, now a conundrum. Do you publish your white paper and tell the world exactly how to create this unrelenting force of evil? Do you file a patent so that no one else (except for you) could bring such an algorithm into existence? Or do you sit on your research, protecting the world from your creation but also passing up on the astronomical paycheck that would surely arrive in the wake of such a discovery?
Yes, this is a rhetorical question — for now. But some top names in the world of AI are already thinking about their answers. On Friday, speakers at the “AI Race and Societal Impacts” panel of The Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level Artificial Intelligencein Prague gave their best responses after the question was posed by an audience member.
Here’s how five panelists, all experts on the future of AI, responded.
Siegelmann urged the hypothetical scientist to publish their work immediately. Siegelmann had earlier told Futurism that she believes there is no evil technology, but there are people who would misuse it. If that AGI algorithm was shared with the world, people might be able to find ways to use it for good.
But after Siegelmann answered, the audience member who posed the hypothetical question clarified that, for the purposes of the thought experiment, we should assume that no good could ever possibly come from the AGI.
Irakle Eridze, Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor at UNICRI, United Nations
Easy one: “Don’t publish it!”
Eridze otherwise stayed out of the fray for this specific question, but throughout the conference he highlighted the importance of setting up strong ethical benchmarks on how to develop and deploy AGI. Apparently, deliberately releasing an evil super-intelligent entity into the world would go against those standards.
Turchin believes there are responsible ways to handle such an AI system. Think about a grenade, he said — one should not hand it to a small child, but maybe a trained soldier could be trusted with it.
But Turchin’s example is more revealing than it may initially appear. A hand grenade is a weapon created explicitly to cause death and destruction no matter who pulls the pin, so it’s difficult to imagine a so-called responsible way to use one. It’s not clear whether Turchin intended his example to be interpreted this way, but he urged the AI community to make sure dangerous algorithms were left only in the most trustworthy hands.
Tak Lo, a partner at Zeroth.ai, an accelerator that invests in AI startups
Lo said the hypothetical computer scientist should sell the evil AGI to him. That way, they wouldn’t have to hold onto the ethical burden of such a powerful and scary AI — instead, you could just pass it to Lo and he would take it from there. Lo was likely (at least half-)kidding, and the audience laughed. Earlier that day, Lo said that private capital and investors should be used to push AI forward, and he may have been poking fun at his own obviously capitalistic stance. Still, someone out there would absolutely try to buy such an AGI system, should it arrive.
But what Lo suggests, in jest or not, is one of the most likely results, should this actually come to pass. While hobbyists can develop truly valuable and innovative algorithms, much of the top talent in the AI field is scooped up by large companies who then own the products of their labor. The other likely scenario is that the scientist would publish their paper on an open-access preprint server like arXiv to help promote transparency.
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Executive Director of the Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk
Ó hÉigeartaigh agreed with Eridze: you shouldn’t publish it. “You don’t just share that with the world! You have to think about the kind of impact you will have,” he said.
And with that, the panel ended. Everyone went on their merry way, content that this evil AGI was safe in the realm of the hypothetical.
In the “real world,” though, ethics often end up taking a back seat to more earthly concerns like money and prestige. Companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazonregularly publish facial recognition or other surveillance systems, often selling them to police or the military which uses it to monitor everyday people. Academic scientists are trapped in the “publish or perish,” cycle — publish a study, or risk losing your position. So ethical concerns are often relegated to a paper’s conclusion, as a factor for someone else to sort out at some vague point in the future.
For now, though, it’s unlikely that anyone will come up with AGI — much less evil AGI — anytime soon. But the panelists’ wide-ranging answers means that we are still far from sorting out what should be done with unethical, dangerous science.
No, these comets won’t collide with Earth, but skywatchers are already getting nice views of one of them already, using small backyard telescopes.
Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. Shot on August 18, 2018 from Moscow region, Russia. Used Canon 600D and guided Celestron AVX 8″ with focal reducer. Stack of 90 frames * 2-minute each (plus calibration frames). Calibration and processing in PixInsight 1.8.
There’s exciting news about two comets, one in our sky now, and one about to be. The first – comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, parent object of the Draconid meteor shower – is being picked up with small telescopes now. It’s about to come closer to Earth than it has in 72 years! The other – comet Wirtanen – will come even closer and might become visible to the unaided eye later this year.
Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner – affectionately called simply 21P by astronomers – is currently approaching the Earth and sun at incredible speeds (about 14 miles/second, or 23 km/s). Its closest approach to both the Earth and the sun takes place on the same day – September 10, 2018 – when this comet will sweep past Earth at a completely safe distance of 36 million miles (58 million km) from our planet. That’s nearly as far from us as the next planet outward in orbit – Mars – is right now. But, for a comet, it’s relatively close.
And that’s one reason astronomers are excited. But there are more reasons!
Amateur astronomers are getting nice images of Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, even with small telescopes, like this one taken with an 80 mm refractor by Alex Guadalupe from Puerto Rico.
Periodic comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, 16 days before perihelion
21P is currently moving southwards through the northern constellation Camelopardalis at increasing speed. It is visible at 8th magnitude now, moving at 4 arcminutes per hour.
The structure of 21P's coma continues to evolve. Within an asymmetric, tear-shaped region 1.5 by 1.2 arcminutes in size lies a bright central condensation, from which three short jets are emanating in different directions. The dust tail has a length of at least 8 arcminutes (extending beyond the edge of our image). The outer coma, which also partially exceeds the size of our field of view, has a diameter of 10.5 arcminutes.
21P/Giacobini-Zinner will approach within 0.39 AU (58 million km) of Earth on September 10th (which is also the day of its perihelion passage). It is expected to reach 7th magnitude at that time, when it will be moving through the constellations Auriga and Taurus. After its perihelion passage, 21P will move into the southern skies. It becomes unobservable from our location by early October.
Photometry (APASS V comparison stars unfiltered, 242" aperture radius): m1 = 8.5 ± 0.1 mag (lower limit, for coma diameter of 8 arcminutes) Nuclear magnitude (Gaia DR2 G magnitude unfiltered, 8" aperture radius): m2 = 10.95 +/- 0.1 mag
Measurement in ICQ format: 21 2018 08 25.02 C 8.5 AQ 25.4Y 7A200 10.5 8.0m267 ICQ XX BAMaaI C 8.05mG2x ICY KPR 0 U9*0.05 2.1s 2.1
Images taken in support of the PACA_21P/GZ campaign
During the first half of September, comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner will be visible with binoculars. The comet is expected to reach a visual magnitude of 6.5 to 7. That means it will not be visible to the eye … but nearly.
Around this time, 21P will be passing in front of the constellations Camelopardalis, Perseus, and Auriga.
Location of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner on August 29, 2018, at 11:45 p.m. CDT, as seen from the central U.S., facing northeast.
Illustration by Eddie Irizarry using Stellarium.
On September 1, 2018, at 11:55 p.m. comet 21P is located not too far from Capella, the bright star visible near the horizon in the northeast direction, as seen from the central U.S. The comet passes about twice the apparent moon diameter from Capella.
Illustration by Eddie Irizarry using Stellarium.
Because closest approach to Earth happens on the night of September 9-10 (September 10 at 06:27 UTC to be exact)- the same day as the comet’s perihelion – Saturday, September 8, is also a good night to get a glimpse at the celestial visitor. On that date, it will be visible in front of the constellation Auriga.
Using binoculars or a small telescope, you will be able to find the comet as a fuzzy patch of light, if you observe in the right direction. See the illustration below.
The illustration shows the comet location on September 9, 2018, at 3 a.m. CDT, as seen from the central U.S. Observers using computerized telescopes can point their instruments at RA 5h38m46s / DEC +36º31’30.6″ a few minutes before that time.
Illustration by Eddie Irizarry using Stellarium.
Although the nucleus of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner is estimated to be just over a mile (about 2 km) wide, the heat the comet is now feeling from the sun has caused it to develop a coma or cometary atmosphere some 180,000 miles (about 290,000 km) in diameter, according to observations by Northolt Branch Observatories in London.
This means comet 21P now has an atmosphere about twice the diameter of our solar system’s biggest planet, Jupiter!
Some images show the comet’s coma as a green color, which indicates the comet has cyanogen and diatomic carbon, gases that glow in a green color as they’re illuminated by sunlight.
Using a small telescope, carefully observe which stars are close to the comet’s nucleus, and then compare the view just 15 or 30 minutes later; you will be able to detect its motion. Comet 21P is travelling through space at 50,555 miles per hour (81,360 km/h) relative to Earth.
Late on the night of September 10-11, the comet passes very close to Messier 37, aka M37, the richest and brightest open cluster in the constellation Auriga. See illustration below.
On September 11, 2018, at 4:30 a.m., comet 21P passes almost in front of open cluster M37 in Auriga. This view shows the close encounter as seen from the central U.S., facing east.
Illustration by Eddie Irizarry using Stellarium.
Meanwhile, if you don’t want to wait 40 years, take a good look at Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, as its next best close approach occurs on September 18, 2058.
Now about that meteor shower. As it orbits the sun, 21P produces some debris, causing the Draconid meteor shower. In 2018, Draconids will probably be seen on the evening of October 7 or 8, close to the new moon phase. The Draconids are not known for being an outstanding shower in most years. But, when a parent comet is nearby, the resulting meteor shower can be spectacular. We haven’t seen any predictions for a spectacular Draconid shower in 2018 … yet. But it’s definitely a shower worth watching. Read more … All you need to know: Draconids in 2018.
Comet 21P was discovered on December 20, 1900, by Michel Giacobini from France, and then was seen again or recovered by Ernst Zinner from Germany in October 1913. It is a frequent visitor to Earth, with an orbit around the sun lasting 6.6 years.
Another comet approaching Earth is 46P/Wirtanen. In December 2018, comet Wirtanen might be visible with the unaided eye, at least from dark skies. Closest approach to the sun will be December 12, 2018, and closest approach to Earth is just a few days later, on December 16. According to astronomers at the University of Maryland, this passage of comet Wirtanen near the Earth (near by comet standards, that is) will be the 10th closest approach of a comet in modern times. At its closest to us, the comet will be about 30 times the moon’s distance (7.1 million miles, or 11.5 million km). Contrast that number to the number of 21P/Giacobini-Zinner’s closest approach to Earth (36 million miles, or 58 million km).
Estimates indicate Wirtanen might reach a visual magnitude of 3.5 to 6. That would place the comet clearly in the realm of visibility with the unaided eye (although diffuse objects like comets are tougher to see than the pinpoints of stars at comparable magnitudes).
And, of course, comets have been shown to be unpredictable. We will keep you updated.
The December 16, 2018, close approach to Earth of comet Wirtanen will happen less than 4 days after the comet’s perihelion, or closest point to the sun. Because comets are increasingly active as they draw nearer the sun that binds them in orbit, this comet can be expected to be near its brightest around then. It might be visible to the eye from a dark location.
Bottom line: Here are two comets to watch for in the months ahead, comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, coming closest to Earth in September, 2018 – and comet Wirtanen, coming closest in December.
Researchers have found evidence of an existing body of liquid water on Mars.
What they believe to be a lake sits under the planet's south polar ice cap, and is about 20km (12 miles) across.
Previous research found possible signs of intermittent liquid water flowing on the martian surface, but this is the first sign of a persistent body of water on the planet in the present day.
Lake beds like those explored by Nasa's Curiosity rover show water was present on the surface of Mars in the past.
However, the planet's climate has since cooled due to its thin atmosphere, leaving most of its water locked up in ice.
The result is exciting because scientists have long searched for signs of present-day liquid water on Mars, but these have come up empty or yielded ambiguous findings. It will also interest those studying the possibilities for life beyond Earth - though it does not yet raise the stakes in the search for biology.
The discovery was made using Marsis, a radar instrument on board the European Space Agency's (Esa) Mars Express orbiter.
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The proposed lake sits beneath ice near the south pole of Mars
"It's probably not a very large lake," said Prof Roberto Orosei from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, who led the study.
Marsis wasn't able to determine how thick the layer of water might be, but the research team estimate that it is a minimum of one metre.
"This really qualifies this as a body of water. A lake, not some kind of meltwater filling some space between rock and ice, as happens in certain glaciers on Earth," Prof Orosei added.
Image copyrightESA/INAFImage captionArtists' impression: Mars Express probing the planet's surface. Marsis radar results above.
How was it found?
Radar instruments like Marsis examine the surface and immediate subsurface of the planet by sending out a signal and examining what is bounced back.
The continuous white line at the top of the radar results above marks the beginning of the South Polar Layered Deposit; a filo pastry-like accumulation of water ice and dust.
Beneath this, researchers spotted something unusual 1.5km under the ice.
"In light blue you can see where the reflections from the bottom are stronger than surface reflection. This is something that is to us the tell tale sign of the presence of water," says Prof Orosei.
Image copyrightUSGS ASTROGEOLOGY SCIENCE CENTER, ARIZONA STATE UNImage captionArtists' impression: Marsis data shows an area of high reflectivity (dark blue) which is thought to be water
What does this mean for life?
Nothing definitive. Yet.
Dr Manish Patel from the Open University explained: "We have long since known that the surface of Mars is inhospitable to life as we know it, so the search for life on Mars is now in the subsurface.
"This is where we get sufficient protection from harmful radiation, and the pressure and temperature rise to more favourable levels. Most importantly, this allows liquid water, essential for life."
This principle of following the water is key to astrobiology - the study of potential life beyond Earth.
So while the findings suggest water is present, they don't confirm anything further.
"We are not closer to actually detecting life," Dr Patel told BBC News, "but what this finding does is give us the location of where to look on Mars. It is like a treasure map - except in this case, there will be lots of 'X's marking the spots."
Image copyrightSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYImage caption Astrobiologists study extreme environments like salt lakes on Earth to understand how life might survive on Mars
The water's temperature and chemistry could also pose a problem for any potential martian organisms.
In order to remain liquid in such cold conditions (the research team estimate between -10 and -30 Celsius where it meets the ice above), the water likely has a great many salts dissolved in it.
"It's plausible that the water may be an extremely cold, concentrated brine, which would be pretty challenging for life," explained Dr Claire Cousins, an astrobiologist from the University of St Andrews, UK.
What next?
While its existence provides a tantalising prospect for those interested in the possibility of past or present life on Mars, the lake's characteristics must first be verified by further research.
"What needs to be done now," explained Dr Matt Balme from the Open University, "is for the measurements to be repeated elsewhere to look for similar signals, and, if possible, for all other explanation to be examined and - hopefully - ruled out.
"Maybe this could even be the trigger for an ambitious new Mars mission to drill into this buried water-pocket - like has been done for sub-glacial lakes in Antarctica on Earth," he added.
Image copyrightSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYImage caption The area has been compared to Lake Vostok, which lies 4km beneath the Antarctic ice
Scientists have previously claimed to find bacterial life in the buried depths of Antarctica's Lake Vostok, but drilling on Mars would make for an ambitious project indeed.
"Getting there and acquiring the final evidence that this is indeed a lake will not be an easy task," said Prof Orosei.
"It will require flying a robot there which is capable of drilling through 1.5km of ice. This will certainly require some technological developments that at the moment are not available."
Following notes written by an English traveler in the early 19th century and two French pilots in the 1950s, Pierre Tallet made a stunning discovery: a set of 30 caves honeycombed into limestone hills but sealed up and hidden from view in a remote part of the Egyptian desert, a few miles inland from the Red Sea, far from any city, ancient or modern. During his first digging season, in 2011, he established that the caves had served as a kind of boat storage depot during the fourth dynasty of the Old Kingdom, about 4,600 years ago. Then, in 2013, during his third digging season, he came upon something quite unexpected: entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively intact, written in hieroglyphics as well as hieratic, the cursive script the ancient Egyptians used for everyday communication. Tallet realized that he was dealing with the oldest known papyri in the world.
Astonishingly, the papyri were written by men who participated in the building of the Great Pyramid, the tomb of the Pharaoh Khufu, the first and largest of the three colossal pyramids at Giza just outside modern Cairo. Among the papyri was the journal of a previously unknown official named Merer, who led a crew of some 200 men who traveled from one end of Egypt to the other picking up and delivering goods of one kind or another. Merer, who accounted for his time in half-day increments, mentions stopping at Tura, a town along the Nile famous for its limestone quarry, filling his boat with stone and taking it up the Nile River to Giza. In fact, Merer mentions reporting to “the noble Ankh-haf,” who was known to be the half-brother of the Pharaoh Khufu and now, for the first time, was definitively identified as overseeing some of the construction of the Great Pyramid. And since the pharaohs used the Tura limestone for the pyramids’ outer casing, and Merer’s journal chronicles the last known year of Khufu’s reign, the entries provide a never-before-seen snapshot of the ancients putting finishing touches on the Great Pyramid.
Experts are thrilled by this trove of papyri. Mark Lehner, the head of Ancient Egypt Research Associates, who has worked on the pyramids and the Sphinx for 40 years, has said it may be as close as he is likely to get to time-traveling back to the age of the pyramid builders. Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian archaeologist, and formerly the chief inspector of the pyramid site and minister of antiquities, says that it is “the greatest discovery in Egypt in the 21st century.”
Tallet himself is careful to speak in more measured terms. “The century is at the beginning,” he says at one of his digs along the Red Sea. “One must not enlarge this kind of find.” Was he very emotional when he came upon the cache of papyri? “You know, when you are working like that all the day for one month you cannot realize at once what happens.”
Tallet has been toiling quietly on the periphery of the ancient Egyptian Empire—from the Libyan Desert to the Sinai and the Red Sea—for more than 20 years without attracting much notice, until now. He finds it both amusing and mildly annoying that his discoveries are suddenly attracting attention in the scholarly press and popular media. “It’s because the papyri are speaking of the Pyramid of Khufu,” he says.
We are standing in an encampment in a desert valley a couple of hundred yards from the Red Sea near the modern Egyptian resort town called Ayn Soukhna. Tallet and his crew—part French, part Egyptian—sleep in rows of tents set up near the archaeological site. Above the tents is a steep sandstone hillside into which the ancient Egyptians carved deep caves, or galleries, in which they stored their boats. Tallet leads us up the hillside and clambers on a rocky trail along the cliff face. You can see the outlines of a set of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs carved delicately into the stone. There is the royal seal of Mentuhotep IV, a little-known pharaoh who ruled for just two years in about 2,000 B.C. And right below there are three lines of a hieroglyphic inscription proclaiming the achievements of the pharaoh, which Tallet translates: “In year one of the king, they sent a troop of 3,000 men to fetch copper, turquoise and all the good products of the desert.”
On a clear day you can see the Sinai Desert about 40 miles away across the Red Sea from where we stand. Before these recent excavations, the ancient Egyptians were not widely known to be notable sea travelers, and were thought to confine themselves to moving up and down the Nile or hugging the Mediterranean coast. The work that Tallet and others have done in the last two decades has shown that the ancient Egyptian Empire was as ambitious in its outward reach as it was in building upward in its colossal monuments at Giza.
Tallet, a short, almost bald man of 49, wears wire-rimmed glasses and, on this day, a tan wool sweater vest. He looks like someone you would be more likely to encounter in a Paris library or office than in a desert camp. Indeed he is soft-spoken, choosing his words with scholarly scruple and carefully citing the contributions of other scholars, and he likes working in remote locations far from the hubbub at the monumental sites, royal tombs and palaces and necropolises that have generally captured the world’s attention. “What I love are desert places,” he says. “I would not like to excavate places like Giza and Saqqara.” (Saqqara is where early Egyptian pharaohs built some of their tombs before beginning the pyramid complex at Giza.) “I am not so fond of excavating graves. I like natural landscapes.” At the same time, he has professional reasons for preferring remote sites over famous monuments. “Most new evidence is found in the periphery,” he says.
Tallet’s taste for the periphery goes back to the beginning of his career. Tallet grew up in Bordeaux, the son of a high-school French teacher (his father) and a professor of English literature (his mother). After studying at Paris’ famous École Normale Supérieure, Tallet went to Egypt to do an alternative military service by teaching in an Egyptian high school; he stayed on to work at the French Institute, where he began his archaeological work. He scoured the edges of the Egyptian world—the Libyan desert on one end, the Sinai Desert on the other—looking for, and finding, previously unknown Egyptian rock inscriptions. “I love rock inscriptions, they give you a page of history without excavating,” he says. In the Sinai he also found abundant evidence that the ancient Egyptians mined turquoise and copper, the latter essential for making weapons as well as tools. This, in turn, fit with his discovery of the harbor at Ayn Soukhna that the Egyptians would have used to reach the Sinai. “You see,” he says, “there is a logic in things.”
The area was not recognized as an ancient Egyptian site until 1997 when the cliffside hieroglyphs were noted by an Egyptian archaeologist. Ayn Soukhna has gradually become a popular weekend destination, and since the construction of a larger, faster highway about ten years ago, it is now only about a two-hour drive from Cairo. Across the road from Tallet’s site is an older Egyptian hotel closed for renovation, which allows his crew to work in peace, sifting through the area between the boat galleries up in the hillside and the sea. They are finding the remains of ovens for smelting copper and preparing food as well as quotidian objects such as mats and storage pots.
Sixty-two miles south of Ayn Soukhna, along the Red Sea coast, is Tallet’s second archaeological site, at Wadi al-Jarf, and it’s even more obscure. Among the only landmarks in the vicinity is the Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite, a Coptic Orthodox outpost founded in the fifth century near the cave, which had been inhabited by their hermitic patron saint. The area is almost the definition of the middle of nowhere, which is probably why it long failed to attract the attention of either archaeologists or looters. The remoteness also helps explain why the papyri left in the desert there survived for thousands of years. Precisely because administrative centers like Memphis and Giza were occupied and reused for centuries—and then picked over or looted repeatedly in the intervening millennia—the survival rate of fragile papyri from the early dynasties there has been close to zero.
Among the few people to take note of the place before Tallet was the British explorer John Gardner Wilkinson, who passed by in 1823 and described it in his travel notes: “Near the ruins is a small knoll containing eighteen excavated chambers, beside, perhaps, many others, the entrance of which are no longer visible. We went into those where the doors were the least obstructed by the sand or decayed rock, and found them to be catacombs; they are well cut and vary from about 80 to 24 feet, by 5; their height may be from 6 to 8 feet.”
Perhaps associating the area with the monastery, Wilkinson took the gallery complex to be a series of catacombs. But the description of this series of carefully cut chambers carved into the rock sounded to Tallet exactly like the boat storage galleries he was busy excavating at Ayn Soukhna. (They also looked like the galleries at another ancient port, Mersa Gawasis, then being excavated by Kathryn A. Bard of Boston University and Rodolfo Fattovich of the University of Naples L’Orientale.) Moreover, two French pilots who were based in the Suez Gulf in the mid-1950s had noted the site, but didn’t associate it with the harbor. Tallet tracked down one of the pilots and, using his notes, Wilkinson’s description and GPS technology, figured out the location. It was two years later that Tallet and his crew began clearing out a small passageway at the entrance to the boat galleries, between two large stone blocks that had been used to seal the caves. Here they found entire papyrus scrolls, including Merer’s journal. The ancients, Tallet says, “threw all the papyri inside, some of them were still tied with a rope, probably as they were closing the site.”
Wadi al-Jarf lies where the Sinai is a mere 35 miles away, so close you can see the mountains in the Sinai that were the entry to the mining district. The Egyptian site has yielded many revelations along with the trove of papyri. In the harbor, Tallet and his team found an ancient L-shaped stone jetty more than 600 feet long that was built to create a safe harbor for boats. They found some 130 anchors—nearly quadrupling the number of ancient Egyptian anchors located. The 30 gallery-caves carefully dug into the mountainside—ranging from 50 to more than 100 feet in length—were triple the number of boat galleries at Ayn Soukhna. For a harbor constructed 4,600 years ago, this was an enterprise on a truly grand scale.
Yet it was used for a very short time. All the evidence that Tallet and his colleagues have gathered indicates that the harbor was active in the fourth dynasty, concentrated during the reign of one pharaoh, Khufu. What emerges clearly from Tallet’s excavation is that the port was crucial to the pyramid-building project. The Egyptians needed massive amounts of copper—the hardest metal then available—with which to cut the pyramid stones. The principal source of copper was the mines in the Sinai just opposite Wadi al-Jarf. The reason that the ancients abandoned the harbor in favor of Ayn Soukhna would appear to be logistical: Ayn Soukhna is only about 75 miles from the capital of ancient Egypt. Reaching Wadi al-Jarf involved a considerably longer overland trip, even though it was closer to the Sinai mining district.
After visiting Wadi al-Jarf, Lehner, the American Egyptologist, was bowled over by the connections between Giza and this distant harbor. “The power and purity of the site is so Khufu,” he said. “The scale and ambition and sophistication of it—the size of these galleries cut out of rock like the Amtrak train garages, these huge hammers made out of hard black diorite they found, the scale of the harbor, the clear and orderly writing of the hieroglyphs of the papyri, which are like Excel spreadsheets of the ancient world—all of it has the clarity, power and sophistication of the pyramids, all the characteristics of Khufu and the early fourth dynasty.”
Tallet is convinced that harbors such as Wadi al-Jarf and Ayn Soukhna served mainly as supply hubs. Since there were few sources of food in the Sinai, Merer and other managers were responsible for getting food from Egypt’s rich agricultural lands along the Nile to the thousands of men working in the Sinai mine fields, as well as retrieving the copper and turquoise from the Sinai. In all likelihood, they operated the harbor only during the spring and summer when the Red Sea was relatively calm. They then dragged the boats up to the rock face and stored them in the galleries for safekeeping until the next spring.
Ancient Egypt’s maritime activities also served political and symbolic purposes, Tallet argues. It was important for the Egyptian kings to demonstrate their presence and control over the whole national territory, especially its more remote parts, in order to assert the essential unity of Egypt. “Sinai had great symbolic importance for them as it was one of the farthest points they could reach,” Tallet says. “In the Sinai the inscriptions are explaining the mightiness of the king, the wealth of the king, how the king is governing its country. On the outer limits of the Egyptian universe you have a need to show the power of the king.”
In fact, their control of the periphery was rather fragile. Distant and inhospitable Sinai, with its barren landscape and hostile Bedouin inhabitants, represented a challenge for the pharaohs; one inscription records an Egyptian expedition massacred by Bedouin warriors, Tallet says. Nor were the Egyptians always able to hold on to their camps along the Red Sea. “We have evidence from Ayn Soukhna that the site was destroyed several times. There was a big fire in one of the galleries....It was probably difficult for them to control the area.”
Apparently all parts of Egypt were involved in the great building project at Giza. Granite came from Aswan far to the south, food from the delta in the north near the Mediterranean, and limestone from Tura, about 12 miles south of Cairo on the Nile. The burst of maritime activity was also driven by the monumental undertaking. “It is certain that the shipbuilding was made necessary by the gigantism of the royal building projects,” Tallet writes in a recent essay, “and that the great majority of the boats were intended for the navigation of the Nile and the transport of materials along the river, but the development of Wadi al-Jarf exactly in the same period allows us to see without doubt the logical extension, this time toward the Red Sea, of this project of the Egyptian state.”
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Working on the royal boats, it seems, was a source of prestige. According to the papyri found at Wadi al-Jarf, the laborers ate well, and were provisioned with meat, poultry, fish and beer. And among the inscriptions that Tallet and his team have found at the Wadi al-Jarf gallery complex is one, on a large jar fashioned there, hinting at ties to the pharaoh; it mentions “Those Who Are Known of Two Falcons of Gold,” a reference to Khufu. “You have all sorts of private inscriptions, of officials who were involved in these mining expeditions to the Sinai,” Tallet says. “I think it was a way to associate themselves to something that was very important to the king and this was a reason to be preserved for eternity for the individuals.” Clearly these workers were valued servants of the state.
The discovery of the papyri at such a distant location is significant, Tallet says: “It is not very logical that [the writings] should have ended up at Wadi al-Jarf. Of course [the managers] would have always traveled with their archives because they were expected always to account for their time. I think the reason we found [the papyri] there is that this was the last mission of the team, I imagine because of the death of the king. I think they just stopped everything and closed up the galleries and then as they were leaving buried the archives in the area between the two large stones used to seal the complex. The date on the papyri seems to be the last date we have for the reign of Khufu, the 27th year of his reign.”
The work that Tallet and his colleagues have done along the Red Sea connects with Lehner’s work at Giza. In the late 1980s, Lehner began a full-scale excavation of what has turned out to be a residential area a few hundred yards from the pyramids and the Sphinx. For centuries, travelers had contemplated these amazing monuments in splendid isolation—man-made mountains and one of the world’s great sculptures sitting seemingly alone in the desert. The paucity of evidence of the substantial number of people needed to undertake this massive project gave rise to many bizarre alternative theories about the pyramids (they were built by space aliens, by the people from Atlantis and so forth). But in 1999, Lehner began uncovering apartment blocks that might have housed as many as 20,000 people.
And many of the Giza residents, like the boatmen at the Red Sea, appear to have been well-fed. Judging by remains at the site, they were eating a great deal of beef, some of it choice cuts. Beef cattle were mostly raised in rural estates and then perhaps taken by boat to the royal settlements at Memphis and Giza, where they were slaughtered. Pigs, by contrast, tended to be eaten by the people who produced the food. Archaeologists study the “cattle to pig” ratio as an indication of the extent to which workers were supplied by the central authority or by their own devices—and the higher the ratio, the more elite the occupants. At Lehner’s “Lost City of the Pyramids” (as he sometimes calls it), “the ratio of cattle to pig for the entire site stands at 6:1, and for certain areas 16:1,” he writes of those well-stocked areas. Other, rather exotic items such as leopard’s teeth (perhaps from a priest’s robe), hippopotamus bones (carved by craftsmen) and olive branches (evidence of trade with the Levant) have also turned up in some of the same places, suggesting that the people who populated Lehner’s working village were prized specialists.
Sailors may have figured among the visitors to the pyramid town, according to Merer’s papyrus journal. It mentions carrying stone both up to the lake or basin of Khufu and to the “horizon of Khufu,” generally understood to refer to the Great Pyramid. How did Merer get his boat close enough to the pyramids to unload his cargo of stone? Currently, the Nile is several miles from Giza. But the papyri offer important support for a hypothesis that Lehner had been developing for several years—that the ancient Egyptians, masters of canal building, irrigation and otherwise redirecting the Nile to suit their needs, built a major harbor or port near the pyramid complex at Giza. Accordingly, Merer transported the limestone from Tura all the way to Giza by boat. “I think the Egyptians intervened in the flood plain as dramatically as they did on the Giza Plateau,” Lehner says, adding: “The Wadi al-Jarf papyri are a major piece in the overall puzzle of the Great Pyramid.”
Tallet, characteristically, is more cautious. “I really don’t want to be involved in any polemics on the building of the pyramids at Giza—it’s not my job,” he says. “Of course it’s interesting to have this kind of information, it will deserve a lot of study.”
Tallet believes that the Lake of Khufu, to which Merer refers, was more likely located at Abusir, another important royal site about ten miles south of Giza. “If it is too close to Giza,” Tallet says, “one does not understand why it takes Merer a full day to sail from this site to the pyramid.” But Tallet has been persuaded by Lehner’s evidence of a major port at Giza. It makes perfect sense, he says, that the Egyptians would have found a way to transport construction materials and food by boat rather than dragging them across the desert. “I am not sure it would have been possible at all times of the year,” he said. “They had to wait for the flooding, and could have existed for perhaps six months a year.” By his estimate the ports along the Red Sea were only working for a few months a year—as it happens, roughly when Nile floods would have filled the harbor at Giza. “It all fits very nicely.
The World’s Oldest Piece of Architecture Tells a New Story About How Civilization Developed
The World’s Oldest Piece of Architecture Tells a New Story About How Civilization Developed
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Located in south-east Turkey, the 11,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe is considered to be the world’s oldest temple, greatly surpassing England’s Stonehenge, and the Egyptian pyramids. The ancient site, awarded Unesco World Heritage status in July 2018, predates pottery, writing, and the wheel, leading archaeologists such as its discoverer Klaus Schmidt to ask if Göbekli Tepe may, in fact, be not only the world’s first piece of architecture but a crucial catalyst for the onset of settled societies.
Spread across eight hectares near the city of Sanliurfa, the Göbekli Tepe is an artificial mound hosting a series of sunken circular structures adorned with limestone carvings, believed to have been occupied for thousands of years before their abandonment.
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The 11,000-year-old structure was first encountered in the modern age by a team of anthropologists from the University of Chicago and Istanbul University in the 1960s. However, its significance was only truly revealed by German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt in 1994.
The structures contain massive stone carvings made by prehistoric people who had not developed metal tools, pottery, or farming techniques. With no evidence that people had permanently resided on the hill itself, it is believed that the Göbekli Tepe was an unprecedented place of worship, or as Schmidt describes it, humanity’s first “cathedral on a hill.”
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Years of excavations slowly revealed T-shaped monolithic limestone columns arranged in circles, with larger inscribed columns at its center reaching up to five meters in height. Once the stone rings were carved, placed upright and finished, prehistoric builders covered them with dirt before placing another ring nearby or on top.
Over time, this repeated action created a layered hilltop place of worship. The intricate though unexplained carvings of abstract humans and animals on the stone pillars are of particular fascination, given their creation 6000 years before the invention of writing. While Schmidt is certain that Göbekli Tepe is a religious structure, a definitive theory of what its function was, who it was dedicated to, or who is buried within, remains out of reach for now.
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The intrigue of Göbekli Tepe revolves less around its function, and more around its potential to invert our understanding of how civilization developed. Experts had long argued that the time, planning, and resources needed to construct such structures would only be possible in a settled, agrarian society. The discovery of Göbekli Tepe leads Schmidt to theorize the opposite – that the desire to construct such intricate architectural works may have been the catalyst for the development of complex societies.
Schmidt argues that Göbekli Tepe would have required hundreds of hands, all requiring housing and food. While the discovery of animal bones at the site suggest that hunter-gathering was still a common practice at the time, this method alone could not have sustained the labor force required to construct such an elaborate temple.
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Schmidt believes that the builders of Göbekli Tepe were on the verge of a major change in how people lived, with evidence of hunter-gathering combining with the raw materials of basic farming, such as wild sheep and grains with domestic potential.
The discovery of domesticated animals and grain in a nearby prehistoric village believed to be 500 years newer would further suggests that Göbekli Tepe’s construction coincided with a crucial revolutionary move humans made from nomadic hunter-gathering to the settled, agrarian societies which would ultimately become the genesis for urban settlements we know today.
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Aliens are already here the cover-up is about to be blown
Aliens are already here the cover-up is about to be blown
The governments along with the elite around the world may have their reasons for wanting to keep people in the dark about the fact they have discovered aliens. Some people have said they have been covering up the fact that they know about the existence of aliens for many decades. One of the main reasons why knowledge of them has been kept quiet is that the government does not want to lose control over people.
Is extraterrestrial cover-up is finally coming to an end?!
A Door to the Universe Will Be Opened Up
Open knowledge about the existence of aliens will mean a door to the universe, the chance to explore what it out there. Borders will be broken down between the countries around the world. While the political leaders along with religious leaders will want to ensure that people see things as being insignificant. For a long time, they have tried to keep Knowledge about the existence of aliens to themselves and have manipulated the people on Earth to believe they are the only race.
Sightings of UFOs are getting more common day by day with more people wanting to believe in UFOs along with alien lifeforms. The human race is awakening to the fact that perhaps humans are not alone in the universe. Many no longer ask the question of whether we are alone. Today the question is more along the lines of when will aliens be discovered along with what do they want with Earth.
Governments Are Aware We Are Not Alone
The governments of the world are more aware of a global awakening to the possibility that we are not alone. It has been suggested that they have all met in secret to come up with plans to delay the discovery of aliens.
The natural resources of Earth are being drained. Not just by climate change and global warming but by money along with control from governments and the elite. To keep control, the governments encourage a division between races and religion to keep people apart.
When Aliens Announce Their Presence the World Will Change
The governments around the world have even been accused of brainwashing people through TV, electronic devices along with putting importance on money. Today having money is all that matters. However, changes are coming, and these changes will happen the world over. The changes will happen when alien lifeforms announce their presence to the world, not just the leaders and governments.
When people realize there are aliens out there, there will be some division. Some people will want to welcome the alien visitors warmly while others will feel threatened. The government will want people to be frightened, while religious groups will oppose alien lifeforms telling people to stay away from them, as they are demons.
Alien Reveal Will Make Our Technology Obsolete
The aliens will probably reveal to humans where they came from and who they are along with what they want on Earth. Once the majority of humans have accepted them, the world will change and awaken. Of course, alien lifeforms will bring with them new technology that makes the technology on Earth obsolete. Corrupt leaders on Earth will be frightened of losing control over the people of Earth. However, it will be important for people to stick together, welcome the aliens warmly, becoming universal brothers.
Artist’s rendering of the landscape during end-Permian extinction.
Credit: José-Luis Olivares/MIT.
Living organisms haven’t always had it easy and throughout their multi-billion-year-old history, they have frequently been threatened with annihilation. But there was no greater challenge than the Great Dying, a mass extinction event that occurred 250 million years ago. For almost a million years, a huge volcano in Siberia continuously erupted, wiping out 90% of all species. The scale of extinction was unprecedented but it was never clear what made this massive volcanic eruption so deadly — after all, it wasn’t the first nor the last event of its kind. Now, a new study explains what may have driven the Great Dying:reactive chemicals released from stockpiles beneath the crust that destroyed the ozone layer.
Hypothetically speaking, large areas of the hyper saline Zechstein Sea and its direct environment could have looked like this, which in the Permian Age was situated about where present day Central Europe is. At the end of the Permian Age the Zechstein Sea was irrevocably disconnected from the open sea and the remaining sections of sea soon dried out after that. As a result the microbial-limited halogenated gases from the Zechstein Sea stopped and vegetation was able to regenerate again. The pink colour of the Zechstein Sea was probably brought about by microbes with an extreme preference for salt, as is the case with salt lakes today. In the background sand dunes can be recognised from a landscape with hardly any water.
Credit: Dr. Karsten Kotte/Universität Heidelberg
The Permian-Triassic extinction took place at the end of the Permian period, and in those times, living on our planet was hellish: global warming, ocean acidification and ocean anoxia (lack of oxygen) all worked together to wipe out most of life on Earth. According to a2014 study performed by MIT researchers, the extinction event likely lasted for 60,000 years, with an uncertainty of 48,000 years. In geological terms, this is like the blink of an eye — too fast for most life on Earth to adapt. The samples also confirmed what was known for a while: the extinction was preceded by a sharp increase of carbon dioxide in the oceans.
The long-lasting volcanic eruptions from the Siberian Traps, a region of Russia whose steplike hills are a result of repeated eruptions of magma, released volatile chemicals, including carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere and oceans, covering an estimated five million cubic kilometers. Most of the carbon was absorbed by the oceans which act like huge heat-sinks, increasing sea temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Celsius – too hot for anything to survive. Around 96% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial species were obliterated by the Permian-Triassic extinction and it took life on Earth ten million years to recover from this event.
But the conditions life had to face in these dire times may have been even more challenging than previously hypothesized.
In a new study published inNature Geoscience, Michael Broadley, a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Petrographic and Geochemical Research in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France along with colleagues examined rocks from the lithosphere — the solid, outer part of the Earth sandwiched in between the crust and the mantle — which were captured by passing magma during the ancient eruption.
These samples provide a snapshot of the lithosphere’s composition prior to the event that brought them to the surface of the Earth. Before the eruption of the Siberian Flood Basalts, the researchers found that the lithosphere contained significant amounts of chlorine, bromine, and iodine. These elements, present in the halogen group on the periodic table, have since disappeared after the volcanic eruption.
The breakthrough was identifying these elements which were presented in extremely low concentrations — just a few parts per billion in the case of bromine and iodine.
“These rocks were a complete surprise. The level of halogens was much much higher than we were expecting. When we got these results we realised that we had something interesting. The level of enrichment is so high that we knew that even if only a small percentage was released to the atmosphere it could have potentially devastating effects for the Earth’s ozone layer,” Broadley told ZME Science.
Once these elements flooded the atmosphere, they reacted with the ozone layer, destroying it. The ozone layer cushions the planet’s surface from harmful UV radiation and exposure to higher levels of UV radiation (such as those associated with a thinned ozone layer) significantly raise the risks of developing cataract and skin cancer. Wide-scale exposure to UV levels expected in the absence of the ozone layer would drastically impact whole ecosystems.
Human activity recently made a huge, gaping hole in the ozone layer due to pollution with chlorofluorocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (CHCs and HCHCs), chemicals used in old refrigerators and spray cans. However, thanks to remarkable international collaboration, that hole is almost plugged now. Unfortunately, creatures living more than 250 million years were in no such luck.
Coupled with acid rain and gloomy sky, a thin ozone layer must have been quite a dramatic sight on the planet at the time.
“We knew from fossil evidence that there seems to be a high level of mutated spores and pollen around the time of the eruption of the halogens. These high level of mutation is considered to be related to higher levels of UV radiation at the time. We, therefore, consider that the huge amounts of halogens released from the lithosphere led to the destruction of the ozone layer and therefore led to high levels of solar UV radiation reaching the surface. Whilst potentially not immediately noticeable, the high levels of UV would have damaged DNA and led to plant sterility. Therefore if humans had been around at this time they may have witnessed the large scale deforestation and the collapse of the food chain,” Broadley said.
In the future, Broadley and colleagues are planning to study diamonds from the lithosphere. During their formation, the diamonds trap some lithospheric fluids, which may help answer how the Siberian lithosphere became so enriched with halogens in the first place. In the meantime, the study serves as a stark reminder of how fragile life can be.
“This study has parallels to modern times. During the 70s and 80s, scientists discovered the ozone hole, caused by the release of halogen-bearing compounds to the atmosphere. Thankfully global action was taken to reduce the emission of these compounds but our study shows the importance of the ozone layer and the potential consequences that can come about from its destruction,” Broadley said.
GREY ALIENS SHOW UFO ABDUCTEE SHERRY WILDE THE FUTURE OF PLANET EARTH
GREY ALIENS SHOW UFO ABDUCTEE SHERRY WILDE THE FUTURE OF PLANET EARTH
Sherry Wilde tell some of her fascinating story remembering her encounters with extraterrestrial beings from another race and world.
In this lecture she shares highlights and intimate details of that journey and talks about the differences between being an abductee and a volunteer.
When Sherry was 17 years old, she had an incident of missing time. She always wondered what had happened, but put it in the back of her mind for many years. She finally had a hypnotic regression, where Sherry realized that she had been taken aboard spacecraft many times from a young age. Through her regressions, Sherry came to understanding that she came to Earth at this time be a volunteer, to be of assistance, and to transmute negative energy.
Presented by Sherry Wild at Contact in the Desert UFO Conference.
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NEW ALIEN ABDUCTION DOCUMENTARY 2018 SOME OF THE STRANGEST CASE EVER SEEN
NEW ALIEN ABDUCTION DOCUMENTARY 2018 SOME OF THE STRANGEST CASE EVER SEEN
The following evidence will prove that aliens exist and that they are coming to Earth regularly. Thousands of people are now reporting they have been in contact with aliens, many of them are credible witnesses. A significant number of alien abduction stories start not with a UFO on a roadside, but with the abductee at home in bed. A common theme is waking to find several aliens standing around the bed. They may enter the room by walking through walls and the person is held by something mysterious. Carried to the UFO they are examined, what happens next varies from cases to case. These are the most convincing stories of UFOs and Aliens we have come across.
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My friend Streetcap1 passed away in June 2018, A Great Research Who Worked Passionately, UFO Sighting News.
My friend Streetcap1 passed away in June 2018, A Great Research Who Worked Passionately, UFO Sighting News.
I am saddened to say that the great UFO researcher Streetcap1 (Graham McHardy) passed away in June. I just found out today. I contacted his family and they said he died of a sudden heart attack, and that no one was expecting it. He was in decent health at that moment. I first met him on Youtube about 4-5 years ago and have respected his work ever since. I am worried about something. I checked his Youtube channel and noticed that some of his videos were mission. One of which was very important to him. His interview with RT News at his home. It no longer exists. He did the interview about 9 months ago, he died 7 months later. This seems suspicious to me. When he told me that he was doing an interview with RT News at his home, I warned him not too. That RT News could be a spy agency and he could be putting himself in danger. Two months ago...the news reported that the US government was investing RT News for being a spy agency, revoking some of their reporting privileges. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong, but part of knows the dangers of this work. Please visit his Youtube Channel and leave a caring comment in support of this great researcher. He will be dearly missed. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Glowing UFO Moves Over Neighborhood In Slovakia, Aug 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Moves Over Neighborhood In Slovakia, Aug 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 27, 2018 Location of sighting: Tilo, Slovakia This bright UFO was recorded over Slovakia this week. Its so bright the camera has trouble focusing on it. The best part of this sighting is that we get to see the movement of the craft over the area. Its silent and smooth as it moves, and a dog barked at one point in the video. Barking is a common reaction of dogs in past UFO reports. This shape and color of UFO is very common and has been recorded around the world. Scott C. Waring
Astronaut Claims He Saw An Organic, Extraterrestrial-Like Creature
Astronaut Claims He Saw An Organic, Extraterrestrial-Like Creature
Be ready to meet the curved kind.
Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin claimed via Twitter that he spotted something curved, organic-looking alien, floating out of the payload bay when he was working on the space shuttle Atlantis.
He told NASA about it, but the agency told him that it wasn’t alien but a piece of ice.
Melvin was a college football player at University of Richmond and became part of the Detroit Lions in 1985 before becoming an astronaut. He revealed that he was going to say “Houston, we have a problem,” after spotting the mysterious curved extraterrestrial-like thing but he didn’t want to be alarmist.
Melvin, who has degrees in both Materials Science Engineering and Chemistry, is not sure whether the space agency was lying or not.
According to NASA, they are exploring the solar system and beyond with an objective to find unmistakable signs of life beyond planet Earth.
Melvin’s tweets came at a time when former officials of the government have suggested that humans may not be alone in the universe.
In 2015, Apollo 14 veteran and the sixth man to walk on the Moon Edgar Mitchell said he believed peacekeeping aliens visited Earth to prevent a Russia-U.S. nuclear war. Mitchell died at the age of 85 in 2016.
Luis Elizondo, the former official at Pentagon Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, also believes we may not be alone in the vast universe.
George Knapp Strange UFO Stories Reported in the Huffington Post
George Knapp Strange UFO Stories Reported in the Huffington Post
Reporter and media personality Lee Speigel talked about UFO coverage in the media, recalled his 1978 UN presentation on the phenomenon, and provided an update on the latest strange stories he has reported on over the last few months. He vehemently dismissed the concept that government forces control how UFO stories are covered in the media and noted that he has received no such interference at the Huffington Post.
On the contrary, he theorized that insubstantial reporting on UFO cases may likely be due to the fact that these events rarely develop into larger stories and, thus, are deemed inconsequential by the media. Although Speigel expressed dismay that the ‘visitors’ continue to refuse to reveal themselves, he conceded that the immature behavior of the human species may be the true cause for our lack of meaningful contact with these entities.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a lost city in China that thrived more than 4,000 years ago.
On a ridge above China’s Tuwei River, researchers found a massive stepped pyramid that once served as a palace center, along with defensive stone walls, tool-making debris, and several pits filled with sacrificial human skulls.
The Bronze Age discoveries challenge our understanding of early Chinese civilization and settlement, suggesting the loess highland was home to a complex society long before the traditionally assumed ‘centers’ emerged in the Central Plains.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a lost city in China that thrived more than 4,000 years ago. The pyramid was build out of a loess hill, with 11 massive steps tapering as they ascend, as shown above
The ancient city dubbed Shimao was home to a pyramid that stood at least 230 feet tall (70 meters), and was guarded by a huge inner and outer wall.
Thousands of years ago when it flourished, from about 2300 BC to 1800 BC, the city spanned about 988 acres.
The pyramid was build out of a loess hill, with 11 massive steps tapering as they ascend, the researchers write in a paper published to the journal Antiquity.
Beyond the entrance, they found a ‘large open plaza where rituals and political gatherings may have been held.’
According to the researchers, palaces were built atop the huge pyramid out of rammed earth with wooden pillars and roofing tiles.
The ancient city dubbed Shimao was home to a pyramid that stood at least 230 feet tall (70 meters), and was guarded by a huge inner and outer wall. Thousands of years ago when it flourished, from about 2300 BC to 1800 BC, the city spanned about 988 acres
On a ridge above China’s Tuwei River, researcher found a massive stepped pyramid that once served as a palace center, along with defensive stone walls, tool-making debris, and a pit filled with sacrificial human skulls
It’s thought that the ruling elites lived atop the pyramid complex, which was likely also the site of artisanal or industrial craft production.
Eyes and anthropomorphic stone faces were found carved into the façade of the pyramid.
‘With its imposing height of at least 70 m, the pyramid could be seen from everywhere within the settlement, from the suburbs and even the rural fringes.
‘Thus it could well have provided a constant and overwhelming reminder to the Shimao population of the power of the ruling elites residing atop it – a concrete example of the ‘social pyramid.’
It’s thought that the ruling elites lived atop the pyramid complex, which was likely also the site of artisanal or industrial craft production
Researchers say mass sacrifices were also commonplace at Shimao, with six pits containing decapitated human heads discovered at the site on the outer rampart alone.
Human remains and jade objects associated with sacrifice were found at other Shimao monuments, as well.
‘The jade objects and human sacrifice may have imbued the very walls of Shimao with ritual and religious potency, amplifying its significance as a monumental center, enhancing the protective efficacy of the walls and making this a place of power in every sense,’ the authors wrote.
Beyond the entrance, they found a ‘large open plaza where rituals and political gatherings may have been held.’ According to the researchers, palaces were built atop the huge pyramid out of rammed earth with wooden pillars and roofing tiles
WHAT HAVE RESEARCHERS FOUND AT THE SHIMAO RUINS?
The Shimao Ruins is the site of a neolithic stone city in the northern province of Shaanxi, China.
The site was first discovered in 1976 when archaeologists thought it was a small town, but more of the city has since been recovered.
Measuring 4 square kilometres, it is the largest of its kind in Neolithic China, China.org reported.
They believe it had ‘magnificent’ stone walls for inner and outer structures.
Experts have also discovered large quantities of precious carved jade, which indicate it was a wealthy and important city at the time.
Archaeologists have also found a mural at the site, which they think could be among the oldest in China at around 4,000 years old.
Notably, the researchers say the discoveries are indicative of Shimao’s status as carefully constructed civilization.
‘This research reveals that by 2000 BC, the loess highland was home to a complex society representing the political and economic heartland,’ the authors wrote.
‘Significantly, it was found that Later Bronze Age core symbols associated with Central plains civilization were, in fact, created much earlier at Shimao.’
The Bronze Age discoveries challenge our understanding of early Chinese civilization and settlement, suggesting the loess highland was home to a complex society long before the traditionally assumed ‘centers’ emerged in the Central Plains
Resten van verloren stad met 70 meter hoge piramide ontdekt in China. Archeologen doen opmerkelijke vondst
Resten van verloren stad met 70 meter hoge piramide ontdekt in China. Archeologen doen opmerkelijke vondst
Archeologen hebben in China de resten gevonden van een meer dan 4000 jaar oude verloren stad. Dat schrijft de Daily Mail.
Bij de rivier Tuwei stuitten onderzoekers op een reusachtige trappenpiramide, muren en verschillende putten vol menselijke schedels.
In de stad, die de naam Shimao heeft gekregen, staat een piramide die ooit ruim 70 meter hoog moet zijn geweest.
Paleizen
De verloren stad strekte zich uit over een gebied van 400 hectare. De piramide bestaat uit 11 enorme trappen, schrijver de onderzoekers in het tijdschrift Antiquity.
Volgens de wetenschappers werden bovenop de enorme piramide paleizen gebouwd. Ze denken dat de heersende elite daar leefde.
“De piramide kon overal in de stad worden gezien, vanuit de buitenwijken en zelfs vanaf het omringende platteland,” klinkt het.
Mensenoffers
Het bouwwerk kan volgens de onderzoekers een betonnen versie van de sociale piramide zijn geweest, waarbij het volk onderaan staat en de heersende elite bovenaan de top.
In Shimao werden ook vaak mensenoffers gebracht. Er werden zes putten vol afgehakte schedels aangetroffen.
Foto: Tortfeasor~commonswiki Wikimedia Commons (Piramide van het Oosten in Jian, China)
“In the center of that frame is a man sitting, bending forward. He has a mask on his nose, he uses his two hands to manipulate some controls, and the heel of his left foot is on a kind of pedal with different adjustments. The rear portion is separated from him; he is sitting on a complicated chair, and outside of this whole frame, you see a little flame like an exhaust…”
Mayans - Tomb of King Pacal - Palenque, Mexico
Fans of Erich Von Daniken will recognize that quote from “Chariots of the Gods” describing the inscriptions on the lid of the sarcophagus of one K’inich Janaab Pakal I — a.k.a Pacal, Pacal the Great and the “Astronaut of Palenque.” That last epithet refers directly to one particular engraving on the slab which looks like a man in a spaceship that is similar to a U.S. space capsule which, coincidentally, was a popular image in 1968 when the book was written. Much was written about the book, both agreeing with and disputing the theory. While it was never clear if the man was Pacal, that may change with the discovery of a mask believed to have been worn by the longest-reigning Mayan leader. Is this the proof of ancient astronauts?
According to a press release, the discovery was made by Jorge Gutiérrez, Culture Secretary, Diego Prieto, Head of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH); Carlos Morelos, Municipal President of Palenque, and Carlos Suárez Deputy Secretary for Culture in that Unit. The researchers were working in House E of Palenque’s Palace building while work was being done to deal with water problems in the area. Coincidentally, the artifacts found with the mask related to water too, according to archaeologist Benito Vengas Durán. (Photos here.)
“During this process, under the (mask) head there were figurines, ceramic pieces, smallplates, a lot of fish bones, which gives insight of a possible relationship with aquatics.”
What makes these researchers so sure this is a mask of Pacal? The Mayans were known to attempt to depict the features of their leaders accurately. The mask has an “outbreak in the mouth” which would be common for someone who was very old in this era of poor medical care — Pakal lived and ruled until the age of 80.
Palenque
The real question is, is this the mask of an ancient alien – and if so, was Pacal really the Astronaut of Palenque? Von Daniken’s theory has been discounted by many who believe the lid of the sarcophagus depicts the World Tree and merely symbolizes Pacal’s death and journey to the afterlife. There is still doubt about the identity of the bones in the coffin, especially the teeth which were in remarkably good shape of an 80-year-old. The answer from skeptics is most likely “no.”
The answer from the Mexican tourism bureau is more likely to be, “Come on down and visit Palenque, where we may or may not have found the mask of the Astronaut of Palenque!”
This article is about a mysterious discovery, that was once claimed to have been made, deep within cave systems within Ecuador which some believe, were originally man made.
A discovery, that although now concealed from the world, was photographed, studied and documented, thanks to the array of artefacts, which had been amassed by an individual known as father Crespi.
An entire, seemingly alien metallic library, completed with hundreds of sheets of gold, platinum, and other precious metals, hammered out to reveal an astonishing, unknown language, clearly left by a people of tremendous capabilities.
The caves in which this find is claimed to have been made, is known as Cueva de los Tayos.
And although any such discovery is denied by the Ecuadorian authorities, the Ecuadorian and interesting united kingdom’s governments, funded an extensive search of the cave systems, soon after the claims became public.
It attracted the attention of numerous individual, who travelled into the depths of these caves, including Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon.
What Mystery History wishes to focus on this video however, is the enormous, seemingly man-made caverns, which are to be found within the cave systems.
They feel, if these cave systems are indeed one day admitted, as having once been artificially hewn from the bedrock, then this would undeniably reveal tremendous flaws in academia’s claims, as to the geology and indeed true history of the area.
The cave system is so enormous, it has yet to be fully explored by modern man, yet what has been explored, has revealed highly compelling features, which corroborate earlier claims of an artificial origin.
The Moricz portal for example, named after Juan Moricz, the individual who claims to have originally discovered the metallic library, is clearly of an artificial nature.
The question is, why go to such lengths to construct this natural looking cave system?
Was it all created merely to hide this library?
And if so, how important could the information held within be?
And why did such a find, attract the attention of the first man on the moon?
Did the astronaut know something we are yet to discover?
Juan Moricz signed affidavit dated 8 July 1969, in which, he confessed to a meeting with the Ecuadorian president, where he received complete control over his discovery, provided he could produce photographic evidence, and an independent witness corroborating the discovery.
When Moricz met with von Däniken in 1972, he took him to a secret entrance, through which, they entered a large artificial hall within cave system.
Apparently, von Däniken never got to see the library itself, he wrote in his book, The Gold of the Gods: quote:
“The passages all form perfect right angles. Sometimes they are narrow, sometimes wide. The walls are smooth and often seem to be polished. The ceilings are flat and at times look as if they were covered with a kind of glaze…My doubts about the existence of the underground tunnels vanished as if by magic, and I felt tremendously happy. Moricz said passages like those extended for hundreds of miles, under the soils of Ecuador and Peru.” End quote.
It seems unquestionable whether sections of cuevas de los tayos, were indeed man-made, we feel the question now is, who went to these unimaginable efforts, so far back within history?
Why create such a place deep within the earth, with such an intended illusion of natural origin, if you did not seek to hide something?
Many still believe that the truth is still hidden deep inside its unexplored caverns, a truth that will force us to completely rewrite the history of mankind.
Even today, the caves remain the obsession of many explorers, seeking to find the answer to its artificially created blocks of stone.
Are the legends true surrounding Cuevos De Los Tayos?
Did it once indeed contain an ancient metallic library, left to us by an ancient civilization?
Strange spherical object shoots out of the clouds during lightning storm over Mexico
Strange spherical object shoots out of the clouds during lightning storm over Mexico
During a lightning storm over San Juan Tepic Nayarit, Mexico during a storm on Aug 22, 2018 a strange spherical object shoots out of the clouds flying at high speed over city before it disappears.
We may wonder whether it was a UFO or some sort of ball lightning or something that is connected to the UFO/Lightning phenomenon, a phenomenon that is assumed that UFOs are using the electromagnetic energy from lightning storms.
Are we ready for ALIEN contact? Former MoD man warns 'we're NOT and it's a mistake'
Are we ready for ALIEN contact? Former MoD man warns 'we're NOT and it's a mistake'
AFTER Germany revealed it has no contingency plans ready in the event of first contact with aliens, a former Ministry of Defence (MoD) insider told Express.co.uk nations are making a “big mistake” by not preparing.
Nick Pope, who worked for the British Government between 1985 and 2006, has claimed neither the UK nor any other country is truly prepared for whatever may be lurking in the void of space.
Between 1991 and 1994 Mr Pope examined UFO sightings for the MoD in a bid to determine if they had any defence-related significance.
The MoD pulled the plug on the UFO project in 2009 and Mr Pope has since extensively toured the world, giving lectures at seminars and alien-related conferences.
Which is why he told Express.co.uk he was not surprised to hear this month the German government has no plan ready for the possibility of first contact with extraterrestrials.
Earlier in August, the German Ministry of Economics said in a statement it considered first contact “extremely unlikely according to current scientific knowledge”.
Mr Pope has now said people are quick to dismiss calls for the creation of contingency plans.
He told Express.co.uk: “I was interested but not surprised to see that Germany has no official plan for what to do in the event of encountering extraterrestrials.
“The UK doesn't have a plan either – nobody does – and I think this is a big mistake.
Alien news: Nick Pope believes nations are not prepared for the eventuality of first contact
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“People respond to the suggestion of a plan in two ways. Sceptics say it's a waste of time, while conspiracy theorists say there is a plan but the government isn't telling us.”
Mr Pope is certain the UK does not have a contingency plan drafted because odds are he would have been the very person to write it up.
The UFO expert said scepticism aside, it would be prudent for the Government to prepare for what could be the single “most high-impact scenario you could imagine” – meeting aliens.
According to Mr Pope, the Cabinet Office with input from the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser and the MoD should coordinate this effort.
He outlined three main scenarios that would fall under the umbrella of alien first contact.
The UK doesn't have a plan either – nobody does – and I think this is a big mistake
Nick Pope, UFO expert
This would include detecting radio signals from distant alien civilisations, discovering alien microbial life within the boundaries of the solar system or the arrival of alien ships and probes over Earth.
Mr Pope said: “Some of the issues that need to be addressed in a plan include the potential biological hazard posed by extraterrestrial life, and the question of whether we should reply to any message we receive from aliens – and if so, who should reply and what should they say.
“But there are more subtle issues. What if we pick up a message from another civilisation but can't decipher it? Should it be published?
“Given that it might contain advanced scientific and technological information that someone could weaponise, probably not.
Aliens news: The former MoD man said countries need to draft appropriate legislation
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Alien news: Aliens could exist as intelligent species or microbial life
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“There are bits and pieces of existing guidance that can help us with all this.”
Mr Pope said US space agency NASA has some guidance concerning “planetary protection” from potential extraterrestrial contaminants.
But the UFO expert stressed little is being done in terms of binding legislation to cover these issues in a “single document”, on a national and international scale.
Mr Pope said he is ready to draft such a contingency plant for further consultation with appropriate experts and stakeholders.
NASA’s 1st mission to a near-Earth asteroid is now on its final approach, and the space agency released the craft’s 1st images late last week. It’ll arrive at asteroid Bennu on December 3.
NASA released the first images from its OSIRIS-REx mission on August 24, 2018. The mission launched in September, 2016, and, since then, has been traveling toward asteroid Bennu. Now it’s in the final approach phase of the mission, which is due to arrive at the asteroid on December 3.
The animation below consists of a cropped set of 5 images, obtained by the PolyCam camera on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft over the course of an hour for calibration purposes and to assist the mission’s navigation team. It captured these images when the spacecraft had already traveled approximately 1.1 billion miles (1.8 billion km) since its September 8, 2016, launch.
At the time, the craft was only 1.4 million miles (2.3 million km) from asteroid Bennu … and closing.
This animation consists of 5 of the 1st images of asteroid Bennu via the OSIRIS-REx mission, acquired August 17, 2018, at 1.4 million miles (2.3 million km), or almost 6 times the distance between the Earth and moon. The asteroid is visible as a moving object against the stars in front of the constellation Serpens. The spacecraft is due to arrive at the asteroid on December 3, 2018.
The coming months will be exciting as OSIRIS-REx – aka the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer – draws closer to its target. OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s first mission to visit a near-Earth asteroid, survey the surface, collect a sample and deliver it back to Earth. That asteroid sample is expected to return to Earth via free fall from space, until it reaches an altitude of 20.8 miles (33.5 km), when a first parachute will deploy. At 1.9 miles (3 km), the main parachute will be released, bringing the capsule with its precious cargo from Bennu in for a soft landing in the Utah desert on September 24, 2023.
Thus the mission will take seven years, from launch to sample return. Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, Tucson, commented:
Now that OSIRIS-REx is close enough to observe Bennu, the mission team will spend the next few months learning as much as possible about Bennu’s size, shape, surface features and surroundings before the spacecraft arrives at the asteroid.
After spending so long planning for this moment, I can’t wait to see what Bennu reveals to us.
Bottom line:This week NASA released the 1st images of asteroid Bennu via OSIRIS-REx, its first mission to a near-Earth asteroid. The spacecraft will arrive at Bennu on December 3.
ISS camera filmed a strange encounter between two bizarre objects over our heads
ISS camera filmed a strange encounter between two bizarre objects over our heads
The International Space Station camera is watched by many online. It shows a live feed from the ISS and in the past people have said it has captured UFOs. Recently one user of YouTube captured footage 7 minutes in length that seems to show a strange encounter took place in space.
Two Metallic Objects Approached Each Other
Someone posted the footage of what they say is an encounter between two objects in space. The video went down well with fans of UFO and the strange. It shows what seem to be two gilded metal objects approaching each other slowly in space. However, it does look like NASA might also have noticed the objects and eventually cut the feed, as they have done before.
The encounter between the strange objects occurred directly in front of the International Space Station. People who watched the video capture of the event said that it was weird that NASA did not cut the feed earlier. In the past, people watching the feed have said they have seen something strange, and the feed is abruptly cut off.
Artifacts or Alien Spacecraft Meeting?
This time the feed was left running for seven minutes before being cut off. In the first four of those minutes, the two objects seem to be partially transparent. Skeptics were quick to suggest that the appearance of the objects were merely artifacts probably caused by flares from the camera lens. However, after the four minutes mark the objects take on a more apparent full look to them, doing away with the thought of them being artifacts from the camera.
It was also pointed out that the objects do seem to have subtle adjustments made to them. For instance, they speed up, the shape of them seems to change slowly, and they light up.
Objects seem to Have Spheres Attached to Them
Many people who have watched the video are of the belief that what was witnessed was a close encounter between two alien craft. Between the fourth and fifth minutes of the video, a three-dimensional change occurs in the object's appearance when light moves around. It looks like the objects have spheres attached to them.
The video has had people drawing many conclusions about what the objects were. One person said they thought the image to the right might be the Hubble satellite, while on the left it might be the Black Knight.
Did Those on the ISS Know the Objects Were There?
What was pointed out was the fact that the speed of both objects corresponded to that of the ISS. As the objects remained in view throughout the video until the feed was stopped, the assumption is that those on the International Space Station knew the objects were there. It is also thought that the craft might have known the ISS was there and had seen it before.
Of course, this is not the first time a meeting such as this has been captured by the ISS camera, nor is it the first time someone has spoken up about an alien meeting. Mark McClelland, a former engineer at NASA said that he had been at a meeting that took place between an alien that was 9 feet tall and astronauts. This meeting was said to have occurred in the cargo bay on a space shuttle. Something similar might have occurred on the ISS.
Geological evidence proves that the Great Sphinx is 800,000 years old
Geological evidence proves that the Great Sphinx is 800,000 years old
One of the most mysterious and mysterious monuments on the surface of the planet is, without a doubt, the Great Sphinx on the Giza Plateau in Egypt. It is an ancient building that has astounded researchers since its discovery and to this day no one has been able to date the sphinx accurately, as there are no written records or mentions of it in the past.
Now two Ukrainian researchers have put forward a new provocative theory in which they suggest that the Great Sphinx of Egypt is about 800,000 years old. A revolutionary theory supported by scientific knowledge.
The authors of this paper are scientists Manichev Vjacheslav I. (Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and Alexander G. Parkhomenko (Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).
The starting point for these two experts is the paradigm shift initiated by West and Schoch, a "debate" to overcome the orthodox view of Egyptology, which refers to possible distant origins of Egyptian civilization, and on the other hand physical evidence of water erosion that is present at the monuments of the Giza Plateau.
Manichev and Parkhomenko explain: The problem of dating the construction of the Great Sphinx of Egypt still exists despite the long history of research. Geological approaches in conjunction with other scientific methods make it possible to answer the question of the relative age of the Sphinx.
The visual examination of the sphinx led to the conclusion that water from large waters, which partially flooded the monument, played an important role in the formation of undulating depressions on its vertical walls. The morphology of these formations shows an analogy to similar cavities formed by the sea in the coastal zones.
The genetic similarity of the compared erosion forms and the geological structure and petrographic composition of the sedimentary rock complexes lead to the conclusion that the decisive factor for the destruction of the historical monument is rather the wave energy than the sand abrasion in the aeolian process.
Extensive geological literature confirms the existence of long-lived freshwater lakes in different periods of the Quaternary from the Lower Pleistocene to the Holocene. These lakes were scattered over the areas bordering the Nile. The absolute marking of the upper large erosion cave of the sphinx corresponds to the water surface level reached in the early Pleistocene. The Great Egyptian Sphinx had thus already stood on the Giza plateau at this geological (historical) time.
Melting Permafrost Below Arctic Lakes Is Even More Dangerous to the Climate, NASA Warns
Melting Permafrost Below Arctic Lakes Is Even More Dangerous to the Climate, NASA Warns
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
Scientists have worried for years that rising temperatures will free carbon trapped in frozen soil in the Arctic, accelerating the pace of climate change — but now they believe abrupt thawing below lakes is even more dangerous.
That's the finding of a new paper published as part of a 10-year NASA collaboration to study how climate change will play out in the icy Arctic region.
"We don't have to wait 200 or 300 years to get these large releases of permafrost carbon," lead study author Katey Walter Anthony, an ecologist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, said in a NASA statement about the research. "Within my lifetime, my children's lifetime, it should be ramping up. It's already happening but it's not happening at a really fast rate right now, but within a few decades, it should peak." [Climate Change Strengthens Earth's 'Heartbeat' — and That's Bad News
The new research is based on measurements and models of how climate change and melting permafrost interact. Specifically, the team of scientists looked at permafrost melting below bodies of water known as thermokarst lakes.
The team behind the new research measured carbon release at 72 different locations on 11 thermokarst lakes across Siberia and Alaska, plus five locations without lakes, to calculate how much greenhouse gas was being produced and how old the carbon it contained was. Then, they used this data to make sure the models they were building were on the right track.
Here's the problem: When permanently frozen dirt melts, the bacteria trapped inside it become active again, munch through whatever organic material is in reach, and produce carbon dioxide and methane, which are both powerful greenhouse gases
Bubbles of methane mark a lake where permafrost is melting below and quickly releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Credit: Katey Walter Anthony/ University of Alaska Fairbanks
But when that happens below thermokarst lakes, the process is even grimmer because the water at the surface speeds up the melting below. The released gases, built with carbon atoms between 2,000 and 43,000 years old, quickly rise up through the lake and into the atmosphere.
"Within decades you can get very deep thaw-holes, meters to tens of meters of vertical thaw," Walter Anthony said in the statement. "So you’re flash thawing the permafrost under these lakes. And we have very easily measured ancient greenhouse gases coming out."
Moreover, the team also found that this abrupt thawing was still a concern even under a scenario in which humans tried to rein in their greenhouse-gas production and slow climate change. And, of course, the more permafrost melts, the faster the melting continues — making all this grim news indeed.
The research is described in a paper published Wednesday (Aug. 15) in the journal Nature Communications.
This Week's Top Space Stories! By Chelsea Gohd, Space.com Staff Writer
This Week's Top Space Stories!
By Chelsea Gohd, Space.com Staff Writer
Photo Credit: Chelsea Gohd/Space.com
The Week's Top Space Stories
Pence is making space "plans," night sky superstar Steve got a dramatic rebranding, and researchers have discovered water ice on the moon! It's Space.com's best news stories of the week.
Photo Credit: NASA
1. Moon water!?
In an incredible discovery, researchers have confirmed the presence of water ice around the moon's north and south poles.
"Steve," the fantastic phenomenon thought to be an aurora turns out to be a complete mystery, and scientists are now referring to Steve as a "sky glow."
NASA has protected its Orion spacecraft with a specialized heat shield that will come in handy when the craft eventually (and hopefully) carries human passengers beyond low Earth orbit.
Theorists suggest that universes that came before ours were full of black holes — which we can detect traces of using radiation from the cosmic microwave background.
On Aug. 17, NASA announced that it will allow SpaceX to use a "Load-and-Go" fueling method that has been criticized in the past, where the fuel is loaded once astronauts are already aboard the spacecraft.
SpaceX stands to be the first private company in history to launch humans past the atmosphere as early as April 2019. The company’s Crew Dragon capsule has been selected to begin conducting uncrewed testing for NASA’s reborn space shuttle program no earlier than November 2018, and SpaceX is gearing up by retrofitting the spacecraft’s recovery ship.
The GO Searcher will be solely responsible for fishing the Crew Dragon and the astronauts that will one day be aboard out of the ocean once the capsule re-enters the atmosphere. To prepare for this crucial step, Elon Musk’s aerospace company has begun modifying the ship with three big updates to streamline the recovery process.
The ship has already been performing mock recovery trials for the past year, preparing for an eventual dress rehearsal. These additions should help the Crew Dragon pass the tests that are required for it to be adopted by NASA’s space program.
1. Crewed Dragon Upgrades: Helicopter Pad
A helipad is currently under construction in the central area of the vessel. This will allow for the quick and easy transport of astronauts from the capsule to Cape Canaveral. It will also serve to get engineers, doctors, and other personnel necessary for recovery efforts aboard the ship.
The helicopter pad being added to GO Searcher.
GO Searcher will be many kilometers off of the coast of Florida during its eventual recovery missions, so making it accessible by air is a critical step in speeding up the process.
2. Crewed Dragon Upgrades: Potential Radar Dome
A big white dome has been added to the vessel, which will likely function as means to facilities communications with Crew Dragon or radar detection.
.@SpaceX's East Coast #Dragon space capsule recovery vessel, GO Searcher, has finally reemerged after being off-grid past 10-days. Appears to be sporting new hardware. #SpaceXArmada#CrewedDragon: St John's Ship Yard, Palatka FL
This piece of equipment was attached toward the front end of the ship during the course of a few weeks it was in maintenance.
3. Crewed Dragon Upgrades: Hydraulic Lift
Finally, the GO Searcher will be receiving a hydraulic arm designed to lift the Crew Dragon out of the water and into the ship to be transported back to shore. This was placed at the rear of the vessel, where the capsule will come to rest in a flat area.
The Crew Dragon being hoisted aboard the Go Searcher.
All three of these upgrades have the potential to improve the prep time for recovery missions as well as assist during the operations itself. We’ll have to wait and see how they perform on the day of the Crew Dragon’s first uncrewed test run.
Over the years and decades, there have been a number of “waves” and “flaps” of UFO activity. There was, of course, the huge surge of activity that began in June 1947, with the case of pilot Kenneth Arnold. In the wake of the Arnold incident, numerous reports of Flying Saucers dominated the U.S. media – and elsewhere too. In the summer of 1952, Washington, D.C. was the target of multiple UFOs. Two years later, there was another huge wave of activity, much of which was focused on Europe. And, in October 1973, there was yet another flap in the United States. In 1989 and 1990, Belgium was hit by countless numbers of encounters with what became known as “Flying Triangles.” Less well known, however, are the large numbers of encounters that occurred in Spain, back in the 1970s.
At the time of the encounters – which ran from late 1973 to mid-1974 – the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) took an interest in these encounters. Eight separate reports have now been declassified so far. The most interesting one is a document titled “Spanish UFO Sightings” that surfaced, in the 1980s, from the archives of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). It’s a collection of data that the DoD secured specifically from Spanish newspapers and that provides a notable and useful look at that large wave of activity.
The DoD stated: “During the period September 1973 to June 1974 a rash of UFOs appeared over Spain and sightings were reported by various types of people.
The following table summarizes these sightings.
Date: 11 Sep 73. Location: El Ferrol del Caudillo. Description: Bright, circular, with two hoops, appeared to have feet on bottom part. Emitted a very powerful light. Observer: Various. Remarks: Was immobile during time of observation.
Date: 11 Dec 73 (early morning). Location: Malaga. Description: Circular, like a flying saucer, had an intense red light. Observer: Various residents of Salitro and Cuarteles Streets, Malaga. Remarks: Remained quiet for about 15 minutes, then departed suddenly towards Torremolinos.”
While the cases described above were fairly scant – in terms of the data available – that cannot be said for all the reports.
Consider, for example, all of the following, which are far more intriguing:
“Date: 23 Mar 74. Location: 5 kilometers south of Castille de las Guardas. Description: Mother-ship – aluminum, 150-200 meters long. Three smaller ships resembling mushrooms. Flew silently, had no windows but towers above and below. Observer: Traveling salesman from Sevilla. Remarks: Was pursued by one of the smaller ships, which disappeared as observer entered village of Castillo de las Gaurdas.”
Also on March 23, there was this:
“Date: 23 Mar 74. Location: On highway near Sanlucar de Barrameda. Description: Luminous, metal-like. Observer: Chauffeur of President of Cadis Provincial Commission. Remarks: Object moved upward with great brilliancy. As observer approached object, he felt a strange sensation. His car finally came practically to a stop, wavering back and forth like a feather.”
Moving on to March 1974, the DoD noted this case: “Date: 26 Mar 74. Location: Valdehjijaderos. Description: Luminous. Strange object like a plate placed above another large, round object. Observer: 21-year-old truck driver. Remarks: Was motionless over the highway about 200 meters from observer. A similar object, also motionless, was seen 15-20 meters away. Two beings came out of the first vehicle, pointed to observer’s truck, then went in again and both UFO’s flew away.”
One day later there was yet another development:
“Date: 27 Mar 74. Location: Valdehjijaderos. Description: Silver. Observer: 21-year-old truck driver. Remarks: Three silver ships parked on the highway with light similar to floodlight. Observer stopped motor of his car and some figures approached him. He ran, frightened, and they followed him. He threw himself into a gutter. His pursuers passed within 2 meters and he saw them. They were about 2 meters tall, had arms and legs but he did not see their faces. After they passed he returned to the truck. The beings returned to observe him again, then they entered their ships and left. Next day the Guardia Civil made an investigation. They found a hole in the ground, which the truck driver said he had not made.”
That was not the only incident that occurred on the same day, the 27th:
“Date: 27 Mar 74. Location: Malaga. Description: Big, luminous, moved slowly, pale like a gaseous mass. Observer: Photographer. Remarks: Photographed by 25 cm teleobjective lens, published in local paper. Later two more UFO’s were discovered when the negative was developed. The UFO sighted disappeared slowly. Fifteen minutes later a small blue-violet mass was visible.”
Matters were still afoot in April:
“Date: 14 Apr 74. Location: Herrera de Alcantara. Description: Rhomboid, formed by luminous, hoary lights. In upper lefthand part there was a pink-yellowish semicircle which became a circle as UFO came near ground level. Student claims he heard a prolonged noise like that from an old alarm clock. Professor estimated size of smaller diagonal of rhomboid to be about 20 meters. Observer: Professor, his wife and a student. Remarks: Was observed at ground level from a distance of 300 meters for 5 or 6 minutes, then flew northeast.”
Now, on to mid-June:
“Date: 16 June 74 (5 a.m.). Location: Caceres. Description: Luminous, emitting brilliant light on the highway. Observer: 46-year-old laborer. Remarks: Was pursued by UFO for several kilometers at great speed. Saw three tall figures standing inside the ship. When observer extinguished the lights on his car, the object drew away. Then as he turned them on again, UFO approached again at enormous speed some 70 meters over his car. It followed him home and when he turned out his car lights, it slowly flew away.”
Interestingly, the Department of Defense also noted, in closing: “Comments: It is of interest to note that in April of this year teams of extra sensory perception specialists held a meeting in Malaga for the purpose of scientifically studying the UFOs seen in that vicinity. Results of this meeting unknown.”
There are certain archeological finds that are worthy of being described as something that will “change history as we know it.” Often, the find includes a pyramid where there aren’t any others, a huge lost city, gold and jewels beyond description and, of course, massive human sacrifices. A new discover in China check all of those boxes. Is it change-worthy?
“Evidence so far suggests that the stepped pyramid complex functioned not only as a residential space for ruling Shimao elites, but also as a space for artisanal or industrial craft production.”
When you’re located in close proximity to the Great Wall of China, your identity can easily be absorbed by it. That seems to have been the case with a pile of rubble in Shenmu County, Shaanxi, in central China. Known for centuries as the location of the ancient city of Shimao, the pieces of structural stones were indeed part of a wall, but recent excavation at the site reported in the journal Antiquity and in LiveScience found that the stones were in a wall surrounding an ancient – and quite large — lost city … one that predates the Great Wall by around 1500 years. In fact, while some people were just starting on the Great Wall, the residents of Shimao had already completed a 70-meter (230 foot) step pyramid. Why did the Wall survive while Shimao did not?
Example of a step pyramid
“In the outer gateway of the eastern gate on the outer rampart alone, six pits containing decapitated human heads have been found.”
A team of archaeologists led by Li Jaang, a professor at the School of History at Zhengzhou University, found evidence that a city whose unknown name predate Shimao was located at the site and the surrounding area of almost 1000 acres. Built 4,300 years ago, it would have been one of the largest cities on the world at some point during its 500 year existence. The walls surrounding the city were unusual in that they were made with stone rather than just compressed mounds of dirt and contained pieces of jade between the stones. The walls appeared to be high enough and strong enough to protect the large city from invaders and keep some residents from wandering off … or escaping. Why would they do that?
“Morphological analysis of the human remains suggests that the victims may have been related to the residents of Zhukaigou, which could further suggest that they were taken to Shimao as captives during the expansion of the Shimao polity.”
While the structures of Shimao, especially the palaces and the pyramid, are elaborately designed and decorated with carved jade stones and murals from skilled local craft workers, historians also point out that the citizens were known to the surrounding area as “barbarians.” The size of the city indicates its power over the area and the pyramid is evidence of its religious significance for a culture that practiced extensive human sacrifice.
What caused the downfall of this large and seemingly powerful walled city and religious center at a time when the Great Wall was being built to protect everyone else? That’s still open for further research.
Is this a history-changing discovery? Not yet. What it proves once again is that practicing human sacrifice doesn’t seem to allow cities to survive.
That’s an historical lesson still worth remembering.
US Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Plane Spotted Above Netherlands (PHOTOS)
US Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Plane Spotted Above Netherlands (PHOTOS)
Say cheese! The US Air Force's X-37B space plane was photographed by Netherlands-based satellite tracker Marco Langbroek on Monday as it traveled over the Dutch city of Leiden.
While details about the plane's orbit are mostly kept from the public, Langbroek told Space.com that he's certain he captured the aircraft, as he works with a small band of skywatchers that track its path.
Dr Marco Langbroek@Marco_Langbroek
The secret X-37B space plane OTV-5 as I imaged it from Leiden 40 minutes ago. Showed a brief flare (middle image), while it was entering at the edge of the camera FOV. canon EOS 60D + EF 2.0/35 mm lens
According to Langbroek, the aircraft was in very low orbit, flying at an altitude between 193 and 202 miles. "Basically, only one type of object fits this: X-37B. Previous X-37B missions we tracked also orbited at such very low altitudes. The object also has a similar brightness to previous OTV missions," he said.
At the request of the US Air Force, SpaceX only aired the first few minutes of the shuttle's liftoff before cutting off the feed. The launch also broke new ground, as it was first time that an OTV was sent into orbit by a rocket provider that wasn't the United Launch Alliance.
With X-37B just two weeks shy of marking its one-year anniversary in orbit, officials have indicated that the latest mission will likely continue the trend of outlasting previous flight times, according to Space Flight Insider. OTV-1 spent 224 days in space; OTV-2, 468 days; OTV-3, 675 days; and OTV-4, 718 days.
Per the Insider, when OTV-5 does wrap up its mission, it's likely to land at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. It added that despite the military's attempts to keep mum on the purpose of the project, information has leaked out, revealing that hardware stowed inside the vehicle was developed in order to test "a thermal management system optimized for the space environment."
The US Air Force is known to have two OTVs, both which were built by Boeing. According to Space.com, both vehicles measure in at 29 feet long and 9.6 feet tall, with a payload bay roughly the size of a pickup truck bed.
Geheim ruimtevliegtuig X-37B gespot boven Leiden. Bekijk hier de foto’s
Geheim ruimtevliegtuig X-37B gespot boven Leiden. Bekijk hier de foto’s
Het mysterieuze ruimtevliegtuig X-37B van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht is door satellietspotter Marco Langbroek waargenomen boven Leiden.
Hoewel details over de omloopbaan van het vliegtuig geheim worden gehouden, is Langbroek er zeker van dat hij het op camera heeft vastgelegd, zo laat hij weten aan Space.com.
Volgens de satellietspotter vloog het mysterieuze vliegtuig op een hoogte van 300 tot 325 kilometer, in een zeer lage baan.
Dr Marco Langbroek@Marco_Langbroek
The secret X-37B space plane OTV-5 as I imaged it from Leiden 40 minutes ago. Showed a brief flare (middle image), while it was entering at the edge of the camera FOV. canon EOS 60D + EF 2.0/35 mm lens
Bij eerdere missies vloog de X-37B op ongeveer dezelfde hoogte, aldus Langbroek. Het ruimtevliegtuig werd op 7 september 2017 gelanceerd vanaf het Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Het toestel cirkelt dus al bijna een jaar om de aarde.
Hoewel het Amerikaanse leger niets kwijt wil over de huidige missie, blijkt uit gelekte informatie dat zich aan boord van het vaartuig een warmtemanagementsysteem bevindt. Dat zou momenteel in de ruimte worden getest.
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De Amerikaanse luchtmacht heeft twee van deze ruimtevliegtuigen, die allebei zijn gebouwd door Boeing.
De X-37B is met raadsels omgeven. Volgens sommigen wordt het gebruikt om andere landen te bespioneren, terwijl anderen zeggen dat het satellieten kan uitschakelen.
Wanneer je naar een octopus kijkt dan zie je een wezen dat er vreemd uitziet en in niets lijkt op welk ander dier op deze planeet.
Een nieuw wetenschappelijk onderzoek stelt dat de octopus miljoenen jaren geleden als een bevroren ei naar de aarde is gekomen door middel van kometen. (Redactie: Dat lijkt de standaard verklaring voor fenomenen die niet te verklaren zijn voor wetenschappers.)
Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd door 33 wetenschappers die de resultaten hebben gepubliceerd in het zogenaamde peer-reviewed journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
Zij komen tot de conclusie dat leven hier op aarde is ontstaan door wat zij noemen “levendragende” kometen. Dit gebeurde op een moment dat de atmosfeer op aarde geschikt was om leven te kunnen herbergen en dat was zo’n 270 miljoen jaar geleden, volgens hen.
Een van de levensvormen die zo van buiten de aarde op onze planeet terecht is gekomen, zou de octopus zijn, een dier met 3 harten, 9 stel hersenen en blauw bloed.
Met dit in het achterhoofd is het volgende verhaal helemaal niet zo vreemd. Het vertelt dat het voorval plaatsvond op het strand in Portugal, maar als je zoekt op de naam Cyrene Beach dat wordt genoemd, kom je uit bij een Egyptische badplaats aan de Rode Zee.
Het artikel is van enkele dagen geleden, maar na het zoeken van de originele opname blijkt het voorval al vijf jaar geleden te hebben plaatsgevonden. Desalniettemin is het een prachtig voorbeeld van intelligentie bij dieren en in dit geval de octopus.
De man, Pei Yan Hang, loopt op het strand en ziet daar een kleine octopus, niet in staat om de zee weer te bereiken en die wachtte op een zekere dood.
De man liep gelukkig niet door, maar gebruikte een plastic kop om de kleine octopus voorzichtig op te pakken en weer los te laten bij het water.
Wat er dan gebeurt is te zien in de volgende video en het is niet voor niets deze video inmiddels bijna 12 miljoen keer is bekeken.
Astronomer films strange violet ring in the sky over Russia
Astronomer films strange violet ring in the sky over Russia
Astronomer Jan Kowsky managed to capture in just one night, from August 15 to 16, 2018, images and videos of almost all rare atmospheric phenomena, including sprites, elves, airglow, meteors, fireballs, northern lights over Irbit, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.
Moon-mining enthusiasts were particularly gleeful this week when researchers claimed that they had found definitive evidence that water ice exists on the surface of the Moon. There’s even more water ice than we thought up there, too, and we know exactly where a lot of it is. That may make it even easier to mine this water in the future.
Long before this discovery, researchers have been eager to scoop up any water that may be lurking on the lunar surface. It’s a resource that could be incredibly valuable for future long-term missions on the Moon since water is essential for life to function here on Earth. It could be recycled inside a lunar habitat or used for drinking water or bathing. It could also be used to help plants grow on the Moon, which are needed to nourish future lunar inhabitants.
But perhaps the biggest and most immediate application for lunar water is making rocket propellant. The main components of water — hydrogen and oxygen — are two of the biggest materials that are used to power rockets right now. And making rocket propellant out of the water on the Moon could drastically cut down on the cost of doing ambitious missions in space. Right now, rockets leaving Earth must carry all the propellant they need with them. But by leveraging lunar ice, rockets could potentially refuel once they get to space, allowing them to reach distant locations for less money.
“The idea would be to get a sort of supply chain started outside of Earth for certain products — in particular, for water as a propellant — so that it could be much easier to navigate to space from one body to another,” Julie Brisset, a research associate at the Florida Space Institute, tells The Verge.
Getting anything into space is expensive. If you want your satellite to break free of Earth’s gravity, you need a lot of propellant to fuel the ride to orbit. In fact, most of the weight of a rocket at launch is just the propellant needed to get the thing into space. And the deeper into space you want to go, the more propellant you need. Greater energy is needed to get farther and farther away from the planet’s pull. So missions into deeper space become even more costly to pay for all the extra propellant needed to get there and the bigger rocket to house that propellant.
But what if instead of taking all the propellant you need with you from Earth, you refill your gas tank with propellant that’s already in space? Then, deep-space missions become more like cross-country road trips. “Just imagine if you had to drive out to Denver and there were no gas stations along the way and you had to bring all your gas with you from New York,” George Sowers, a professor at the Colorado School of Mines and former vice president at the United Launch Alliance, tells The Verge. “You probably couldn’t do it in your car. You would have to tow all the fuel you need.” That’s why the idea of lunar mining is so enticing. Water from the Moon could be mined, broken apart into rocket fuel, and transported to a propellant depot either near the Moon or in low Earth orbit. Then, rockets wouldn’t have to be so big to house all their propellant. They could simply dock with a depot and refuel for longer trips to space.
Transporting propellant from the Moon to other locations in space is nowhere near as pricey as transporting it from Earth. The Moon has one-sixth the gravity of Earth, meaning it takes less energy to break away from the surface. Sowers recently did an analysis on how much it would cost to transport lunar propellant to different locations from space. And getting lunar water to low Earth orbit, for instance, is still cheaper than sending it from Earth, even though our planet is closer. “If you’re going to use that propellant in low Earth orbit, it’s still maybe a 20 or 30 percent savings, using lunar propellant versus Earth propellant,” says Sowers.
Scientists have been fantasizing about turning lunar water into rocket fuel for decades now, as evidence has mounted that the lunar poles may be prime for mining. In 1994, a joint probe from NASA and the US military called Clementine found evidence that water exists in craters at the Moon’s poles. These places never see the Sun’s light and never reach temperatures above -250 degrees Fahrenheit. Multiple missions to the Moon since have indicated that water may be present in these locations as well. In 2009, NASA slammed a spacecraft called LCROSS into a crater at the Moon’s south pole, to see what kind of materials the impact kicked up. NASA found that there was about 5 percent water in what was ejected.
A map of exposed lunar water ice made with data from the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. Image: NASA
However, research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that some areas of the Moon may be overflowing in water. Researchers at the University of Hawaii and Brown University analyzed data gathered from India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, which launched to the Moon in 2008. Using one of the vehicle’s instruments, they were able to pinpoint areas of ice on the Moon by measuring the reflectiveness of the water. They also observed these locations in infrared light, which allowed them to determine if the water was in ice form and not vapor or a liquid. Not only did they confirm that water ice is exposed on the lunar surface, but some areas of the ground are made up of 20 to 30 percent ice. Depending on how deep into the surface the ice goes, that could be ample fodder for rocket propellant.
“We really don’t need to be that concentrated everywhere,” says Phil Metzger, planetary physicist at the University of Central Florida and co-founder of NASA’s Swamp Works at Kennedy Space Center. “We only need some locations to be higher concentration in order to have enough water to provide all of the space transportation needs for the next 30 years.”
A propellant depot in low Earth orbit opens up a lot of opportunities for new kinds of missions in space. One idea is something called a space tug — a rocket that stays in space, refueling over and over, in order to ferry satellites to their final destinations. Right now, satellites going into high orbits above Earth are deployed into an initial transfer orbit and then spend six months to a year slowly raising themselves higher with onboard thrusters. During that time, the satellite can’t do its job, so it doesn’t make any money. But with a space tug, satellites could be deployed into much lower orbits with smaller rockets, and then a reusable rocket already in space could “tug” the probe to its final orbit in just a few days. That saves satellite operators money: they don’t need as big of a rocket to get their payload into space, and they have more time to make money from their probes.
So yes, Moon-water-as-fuel is appealing, but it won’t be easy to start mining water in space. First, there needs to be an extensive prospecting campaign. Thanks to the PNAS study, researchers have basically created a map showing where to find the juiciest chunks of water ice at the lunar poles. The next step is to send landers and rovers to those areas to figure out the best location to target and what the consistency of the ice is. Scientists still don’t know if the ice is in the form of slush mixed in with the dirt or if it’s like solid bricks fused together with other surface material. “We know how to design the equipment to extract it. We just don’t know which set of equipment to use,” says Metzger.
NASA has been working on robot designs that could be used to scoop up Moon and Mars dirt. Image: NASA
One idea is scooping up the lunar soil with an excavation robot that hauls the materials to a processor. That processor then separates the ice from the soil through heating and breaks the water into its basic parts with electricity. Some of the resulting fuel is then used to launch the rest of the water off of the Moon on a transport vehicle, sending it to whatever propellant depot needs it in space.
Of course, all of this will be expensive. “It comes down to a cost analysis,” says Metzger. “Is it cheaper to launch rocket fuel from the Earth, or is it cheaper to launch the equipment into space one time and then maintain that equipment and use it to continually create rocket fuel in space?” Based on analysis done by Metzger, Brisset, and Sowers, they estimate that it’ll take a decade for investing in Moon mining to be profitable. But because lunar mining is so risky, it’s possible not a lot of venture capitalists will want to jump in right away.
That’s why the team suggests that NASA should get involved by partially funding early mining development efforts. That way, commercial investors will be more likely to pitch in if a credible government agency is involved and bearing some of the costs.
NASA wouldn’t just be doing investors a favor, either: the space agency has suggested that it might need up to 100 metric tons of propellant each year to power vehicles leaving the lunar surface from a base, according to Sowers’ analysis. If they had to ship all of that from Earth, it would cost around $3.5 billion per year. The savings from making Moon fuel could make missions to the Moon and Mars cheaper. “It would make Mars missions lower cost, and it makes pretty much everything we do beyond Earth affordable,” says Sowers. For example, using lunar propellant to refuel rockets would lower the cost of going to the Moon from Earth by a factor of three, according to Sowers. That’s an important detail, given NASA is looking to do human missions to the Moon once again.
“I’ve been saying for years now that water is the oil of space,” says Sowers, adding: “If NASA’s plans are to create a permanent human presence on the Moon, the first thing NASA needs to do is build a production facility for propellant.”
Some have theorized that we made contact with a form of intelligent life but they aren't from outer space, they are ultraterrestrials from other dimensions. AMR IMAGE/GETTY IMAGES
People have been looking for signs of intelligent life in our universe for decades to no avail. Many believe the reason we haven't been successful is because our universe is just too vast for us to find extraterrestrials.
But others say we're just not looking in the right place. Meaning we shouldn't even be focusing on searching for life on other planets — but we should instead be searching for life in other dimensions. Stuff They Don't Want You To Know hosts Ben Bowlin, Noel Brown and Matt Frederick tackle particle physics, superstring theory and parallel dimensions in this podcast What are Ultraterrestrials?
Particle physics seeks to explain the origins of the universe and the fundamental building blocks of matter by studying the irreducibly small particles that make up atoms. It's often called the theory of everything, working toward one single elegant solution to explain how matter and energy work.
In the Standard Model of physics, particles are understood to be point-like, like impossibly tiny dots. The Standard Model is still theoretical because there's still a lot we don't understand about the force of gravity. String theory is another model of physics, where instead of dots, particles are actually tiny strings, all vibrating together to create size and mass.
But for string theory to be accurate, it means there could be more than 10 dimensions, instead of the four we're used to experiencing: length, width, depth and time. Some of these dimensions could theoretically be places where the Big Bang never happened and the universe had an entirely different starting point. What would a creature from a dimension like that look like to humans from the fourth dimension? Lovecraftian monsters? Demogorgons?
Or maybe demons, or fairies from folklore? The late ufologist John Keel was a believer in extraterrestrials, but moved away from that after a time. He began to think that all the stories from folklore and religious texts were actually proof that humanity has indeed made contact with another form of intelligent life, but that they weren't from outer space. Instead, they were beings from other dimensions: Ultraterrestrials. Keel theorized that these beings could shape shift to look like anything, and attributed them to stories of demons, monsters, angels, ogres and changelings. He thought these ultraterrestrials likely had a sense of right and wrong, and that they were capable of manipulating mankind.
But why? If there are ultraterrestrials, what would be the motivation of a fifth, sixth or seventh dimension creature coming to the fourth dimension to make mischief? And how do they move between dimensions? Keel thought there were magnetic anomalies that made it easier for ultraterrestrials to materialize, but wasn't sure how they got to the fourth dimension.
What do you think? Does it make sense — or sound like nonsense? To hear all about the complex science and infinite possibilities of utraterrestrials and fifth, sixth and seventh dimensions, listen to the entire podcast as Ben, Noel and Matt delve deep into the strange theory of ultraterrestrials.
A future mission to Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter, could send a probe through the ice to explore what’s thought to be an ocean beneath. (NASA / JPL Illustration)
Instead of cave dwellers gathered around a campfire, roasting mastodon meat, imagine an octopus tribe floating around a hydrothermal vent at the seafloor, boiling lobsters.
That’s the scenario sketched out by Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Germany’s Technical Institute Berlin who’s also an adjunct professor at Arizona State University and Washington State University.
Earth’s oceans provide an example in the form of cephalopods. Octopuses and squid are thought to have evolved strictly in the oceans, in contrast to dolphins and whales, which spent part of their evolutionary history on land. Octopuses are also arguably tool users, based on what they can do with coconut shells.
Under the right conditions, could such water-dwelling creatures develop technology on an alien water world? That may be more challenging than it was for our forebears, Schulze-Makuch says.
“Fire can’t exist underwater, and fire is thought to have been essential for humans to develop technology,” Schulze-Makuch notes. However, there’s one potential avenue that he and co-author William Bains explore in their book, “The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds.”
“Perhaps smart ocean creatures could use thermal vents on an alien planet’s seafloor to supply concentrated heat energy,” Schulze-Makuch says. “Such energy wouldn’t be as portable or controllable as fire, but the underwater civilization could farm fish without fire, or perhaps use other resources to make tools and technology. As an example, long strands of kelp could be ideal for making rope.”
The prospect of finding life on water worlds isn’t merely a matter for science-fiction speculation: Astrobiologists suspect that hydrothermal activity could support life within the hidden oceans of Europa and Enceladus, ice-covered moons that orbit Jupiter and Saturn.
Live footage from the International Space Station (ISS) appeared to show the apparent structures speed up and change shape.
And conspiracy theorists are convinced the clip shows the Black Knight, a hypothersised extra terrestrial satellite.
The ISS, an artificial satellite in low Earth orbit launched in 1998, is a space research laboratory in which crew members from various nations experiment in areas such biology, physics and astronomy.
However in this instance the two seemingly metallic objects are caught on camera for seven minutes before the camera cuts out.
One YouTube commentator said: “At first I thought lens flare or dust on the lens, but after four minutes they looked more and more like solid 3D objects.
“Very good capture and very interesting.
"Solar guardians?”
Another said: “Looks to me these flares clearly have structure.
“Secret space program.”
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BLACK KNIGHT: Has the space station camera captured mystery satellite
“Secret space program.”
The objects have been described as simply flares from a camera lens, the Hubble satellite or the Black Knight.
Extraterrestrials control the supposed satellite and it has been orbiting the Earth for 13,000 years, according to wild theories online.
A famous photo in 1998 captured during a space shuttle mission is said to show the Black Knight.
Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera could make intergalactic history this fall. If she wins Tuesday’s primary in Florida she would be in position to become the first person elected to Congress who says she was once abducted by aliens.
That possibility has given immense pleasure to one of Washington D.C.’s most peculiar lobbying shops: the Paradigm Research Group, which advocates for discussing and unveiling “facts surrounding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.”
“This is a milestone,” Stephen Bassett, executive director of the group, said of Aguilera’s candidacy. “If she were to win the election, she would be the first open contactee to serve in Congress.”
Aguilera, a Republican, is running in Florida’s 27th Congressional District, a Miami-area seat being vacated by Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. She is not a fringe figure. The Miami Herald endorsed her candidacy recently. But even in doing so, they acknowledged she is a bit “unusual.”
That’s because Aguilera has asserted that as a child, she was taken aboard a UFO by aliens who looked like the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil. In a series of YouTube videos, Aguilera said the aliens told her “God is a universal energy, not a person,” that the center of the world’s energy is in Africa and that thousands of non-human skulls were discovered in a cave on Malta.
“I stick to my guns when I believe in something,” she told the Associated Press in a recent interview, also claiming that she has been communicating with the extra-terrestrials telepathically after the abduction.
Now a business consultant, Aguilera said she doesn’t want to be defined by the happenstances she said occurred when she was just seven years old. “It has nothing to do with what I have done,” she told the AP.
But for Bassett, this is not a topic from which to shy away. Instead, it represents a watershed moment and the culmination of the work done by his group, which was founded in 1996. He said that Aguilera is part of a larger story about the ultimate lifting of the “truth embargo,” during which time the government will reveal what it has hidden about extraterrestrials. The problem, for now at least, is that everyone is too preoccupied with the ongoing scandals of the White House to pay attention.
“The biggest story in human history is taking place right now, the ultimate end of the truth embargo,” Bassett said. “The Trump hurricane is simply sucking everything up.”
Despite the chance to achieve fuller enlightenment about the scope of our universe —or, at least, the occupants within it—Bassett is, for now, playing it cool. There are no plans to campaign with Aguilera, he said, lest it backfire.
“I don’t want to make anything more difficult for her,” he explained. “It’s one of those things in retrospect that will be seen as a big deal but in the current moment not a big deal"
The Kaikoura Lights remain one of New Zealand's biggest mysteries.
Credits: Video - The Project; Image - Getty/Pixabay
There have been 30 sightings of unidentified flying objects reported to the Civil Aviation Authority CAA) since the dawn of the millennium.
Auckland had the most sightings - seven - followed by Hamilton and Christchurch with three each.
The first sighting since the millennium bug failed to strike took place in Wellington on June 1, 2000, in Evans Bay. While the CAA document supplied to Newshub doesn't go into any detail, the Press in 2010 reported there were two ships - one "a small triangular shape with an orange light at the back and a white beam of light at the front" and the other "larger, with a white light".
A witness said the larger "mothership" beamed a light across Evans Bay Pde.
The next reported sighting didn't come until October 26, 2003, when a "disc-shaped silver UFO with erratic vertical and horizontal movements" was seen in Tauranga. According to the witness, it entered via the city's harbour and hung around Seventh Ave.
Later that year in November, a bright light was seen moving side-to-side on two days in row at Tokomaru Bay.
Do UFOs abduct cows? If they do, New Zealand would be a good place to go. Photo credit: Getty
In 2004, Auckland got its first UFO of the new millennium - red, green and white lights seen in Mt Richmond, with nothing showing up on radar. And down in Whanganui, two objects were seen flying "very high" without making any noise or leaving a vapour trail.
In 2007, several people at St Cuthbert's College in Auckland's swanky Epsom saw "UFO-type bright lights" near the Southern Cross constellation, while Palmerston North had a slightly less impressive report of "an aircraft or UFO".
In 2009, a witness in the small Manawatu town of Kimbolton saw a UFO "similar to a light aircraft but with flames coming out of it", which shouldn't be happening.
In 2011 a North Shore resident saw something similar - a "red fiery ball about a third the size of the moon" moving southeast at low speed. Meanwhile, a "fast-moving" UFO wowed Lower Hutt residents in the early hours of the morning.
The following year 10 bright but silent UFOs were spotted west of Hamilton, and a fast-moving craft with a light at the front was spotted in Seddon. Down south in Dunedin, a "bright light" was seen falling from the sky, getting bigger as it got closer to the ground.
2013 was a bumper year for UFO spotters in New Zealand. Two silent lights were seen in Cambridge, four orange lights travelling in unision about a kilometre apart wowed Christchurch, and a strange light appeared more than once over Whangaruru Bay in the Far North.
Fox Mulder sees a UFO in The X-Files. Photo credit: Ten Thirteen/Fox
There were also sightings in the Bay of Plenty and Masterton. In Greytown, witnesses were concerned a UFO that appeared the week before Christmas "may be a hazard", while "UFO movement [was] quite heavy over Hamilton central".
In 2014, a reported UFO seen in west Auckland was probably an internet-carrying Loon balloon, the CAA said. There were also sightings in Christchurch and west Hamilton.
Over the next couple of years an orange "blob" was seen over Orewa, a red and orange light in Harewood, Christchurch, and a UFO that looked like a "dark coloured blimp-shaped balloon" about a metre long came close to a passing aircraft.
New Zealand's most infamous UFO sighting came in 1978 in Kaikoura. The Air Force was even asked to investigate by then-Prime Minister Robert Muldoon.
Unexplained lights over Hamilton, flying objects near Seddon and bright orbs close to Dunedin are just some of the UFO descriptions collected by the Civil Aviation Authority over the past two decades.
The figures, released under the Official Information Act, show that across New Zealand the public have contacted the agency and recorded seeing a range of unexplained objects.
The data, which spans from 2000 to 2017, records 30 sightings of UFOs reported to the CAA.
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a close encounter between an F/A-18F Super Hornet out of USS Nimitz and a UFO in 2004.
While the sightings were recorded, only those where there was a risk to safety were investigated, according to the agency.
Some of the sightings include reports of a silent object flying through the skies near Cambridge in 2012 and a white circular object near Titirangi, Auckland, in 2014.
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Aerial view of a dish-like radio telescope in the Guizhou province which, in part, is searching for intelligent life.
Aliens and spaceships are usually confined to the world of conspiracy theories, but former Pentagon analyst Dr Paul Buchanan said it wasn't silly for governments to record UFO data.
It was less about making contact with intelligent life, and more about states protecting and monitoring the space above them.
"The race for space is full on. The hard fact of the matter is space will be militarised within the next 20 years. No treaties are going to stop that. That is why Trump has thought up the Space Force idea.
President Donald Trump announces that he is directing the Pentagon to create the 'Space Force' as an independent service branch.
"From time to time we get a Chinese signals boat coming into Auckland to replenish. It is basically a spy ship. It's cover though is it's a satellite ship for the Chinese space fleet."
The New Zealand Defence Force told Stuff they do not investigate sightings of UFOs, and all potential sightings reported to NZDF were handed to New Zealand Police or the CAA to investigate.
However, in the briefing to the incoming minister Ron Mark, the NZDF stated there were increasing threats to New Zealand from space due to geopolitical reasons.
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Aliens have long been the fodder of conspiracy theories and sci-fi movies. However, both the U.S and China have invested money into searching for intelligent life.
"New Zealand is becoming increasingly reliant on access to space-based systems and infrastructure such as satellites. At the same time, threats to these systems have been increasing."
Due to its agreement with the Five Eyes alliance, New Zealand relies heavily on the other partners when it comes to satellite technology, Buchanan said.
"We can rely on the space-based assets of our partners, by and large, for all strategic intelligence we get in New Zealand... For the moment, we don't need a space fleet."
And while the New Zealand government didn't spend resources looking into reported UFO sightings, other states were, Buchanan said.
The Pentagon confirmed last year that there was a US$22 million (NZ $31.4m) government programme to collect and analyse "anomalous aerospace threats" between 2007 and 2012.
The agency, called Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, was classified and predominantly created to research the possibility of extra terrestrial life.
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Dr Paul Buchanan believes the race to arm space is on.
More recently, President Donald Trump announced his hope for a Space Force - a sixth arm of the US defence forces which would, in part, focus on space warfare.
Meanwhile in Asia, Beijing has poured billions into building a huge dish to search for signals from stars, galaxies and perhaps extraterrestrial life. Measuring 500 metres in diameter, the radio telescope is nestled within the southern Guizhou province.
"Any strategic forecasting centres will think if an adversary gets first contact then they can form alliance with extraterrestrial beings against one's own country," Buchanan said.
"Let's say the Chinese or Russians establish contact, tell them the Five Eyes are evil doers and need to be destroyed. That would be of concern."
However, those worried that aliens will soon take over the town square in Havelock North or run amok in Dargarville don't need to, Buchanan said.
"I still have friends in [the intelligence] community and let's just say they are are extremely concerned about Earthly things. It may be a while off.
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An aerial view of Area 51 in the United States. It has long been dubbed by conspiracy theorists as the home to some of the state's biggest secrets.
"You look at Area 51, where there the (US) government is meant to keep little green people - neither Trump, nor any of his predecessors have ever gone out there.
"I think looking for UFOs and alien forms of life is extremely low on the priorities scale of the Five Eyes militaries."
‘I was abducted by ALIENS!’ Republican election favourite reveals bizarre UFO encounter
‘I was abducted by ALIENS!’ Republican election favourite reveals bizarre UFO encounter
A REPUBLICAN congressional candidate claims she was abducted by aliens when she was seven and they have “telepathically communicated” with her several times.
Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, a Republican vying to replace outgoing Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Florida’s 27th congressional district, claimed she learnt a great deal from her encounter.
In a 2009 interview, she claimed she boarded a spaceship occupied by aliens when she was seven years old.
Two CNN news anchors were unable to keep a straight face when they were discussing the story.
One said: “I can’t believe you just said that line, ‘they acknowledged her comments about past issues with aliens.”
She described three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male — visited her when she was seven years old and have communicated telepathically with her several times in her life.
Rodriguez Aguilera said: “I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes.”
The encounter has lead to the congressional candidate making, unfounded claims.
One that the world’s “energy centre” is in Africa.
These sparkling lights in the night sky have sparked fears of an alien invasion (Image: CEN)
I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship
Rodriguez Aguilera
And one that there are 30,000 skulls — “different from humans” — in a cave in the Mediterranean island of Malta.
The local Miami Herald said in its endorsement of her that the experience is a “non-issue”.
The paper said: “We realise that Rodriguez Aguilera is an unusual candidate.
“Her bona fides as a former elected official, and now a businesswoman who spends time in other countries training women to run for office are solid.”
The congressional candidate previously claimed she was abducted by aliens (Image: CNN)
Editorial page editor Nancy Ancrum, said: “Here’s why we chose her: She’s not crazy.
“We chose not to see her as a two-dimensional figure. And we chose not to make that an overriding concern. We’re more thoughtful than that.”
Ms Aguilera, in a statement, said: “For years people, including Presidents like Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and astronauts have publicly claimed to have seen unidentified flying objects and scientists like Stephen Hawking and institutions like the Vatican have stated that there are billions of galaxies in the universe and we are probably not alone.
“I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God, I join the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe.”
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It’s Time To Finally Elect A UFO Abductee To Congress
It’s Time To Finally Elect A UFO Abductee To Congress
JAZZ SHAW
Florida’s primary is coming up one week from today and the race for the GOP nomination in the 27th district has taken an interesting turn. There are a number of viable candidates in the field and the GOP has held the seat for decades. (The demographics have been shifting of late, however, so the race is seen as being more competitive.) The Miami Herald released their editorial endorsements for each party this weekend. They selected newcomer David Richardson for the Democrats, a seemingly safe choice. But on the Republican side, they picked Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera.
Rodriguez Aguilera also looks like a solid pick at first glance, having experience as a county legislator, a business consultant and a campaign trainer for female candidates. But the Herald was also quick to point out that she’s an “unusual” candidate in that she claims to not only believe in extraterrestrials but to have been abducted by them and taken aboard a spaceship as a child. (Miami Herald)
Media has seizures after Republicans lament the death of Mollie Tibbetts (Update: NY Times changes headline)
The Editorial Board was most impressed by Rodriguez Aguilera, now a business consultant.
We realize that Rodriguez Aguilera is an unusual candidate. Last year, she told the Miami Herald — and several Spanish-language media outlets — that she believes in extra-terrestrials. She says when she was 7, she was taken aboard a spaceship and, throughout her life, she has communicated telepathically with the beings, which remind her of the concrete Christ in Brazil. There you have it.
“This is a non-issue,” she told the Board. We agree. Her bona fides as a former elected official, and now a businesswoman who spends time in other countries training women to run for office are solid.
Rodriguez Aguilera is a strong candidate in the race with plausible conservative ideas. The daughter of a Cuban political prisoner, Rodriguez Aguilera became an activist, volunteering with the Cuban American National Foundation. She said that she was coached by its former leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, who taught her that, “If you don’t have a solution to a problem, don’t raise your hand to complain.”
The Hill has some additional details of the candidate’s testimony regarding her experience with the aliens. From her description, they sound like the “Nordics” which show up in many abductees’ stories rather than the more common “Grays.”
“I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes,” Rodriguez said in the interview. She said she was visited by three large, blonde beings.
In a separate interview with the Herald last year, she said she joins “the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe.”
In some ways, it seems nice that the Miami Herald would write off Rodriguez Aguilera’s extraterrestrial experiences as a non-issue and focus on her qualifications and experience. And it’s certainly true that a significant number of Americans believe in the possibility of technologically advanced alien beings visiting the Earth. (Those numbers may have gone up a bit after the government recently released some footage of our Navy pilots chasing what certainly looked like a UFO of some sort.) So if that’s what she believes, why hold it against her?
But at the same time I find myself suspicious of the motives of the editorial board at the Herald. Are they really putting their weight behind Rodriguez Aguilera in the primary because they think she’s the best candidate? Or do they want the GOP to nominate someone who can readily be painted as a kook so they can help flip that seat from red to blue?
Maybe I’m being a bit too suspicious here. Discussions of extraterrestrial phenomena have certainly become more mainstream of late. But I’d still put my money on the newspaper trying to pull a fast one.
Alien Rave? Michigan Man Spots Mystery UFO Putting on Light Show (VIDEO)
Alien Rave? Michigan Man Spots Mystery UFO Putting on Light Show (VIDEO)
Timothy Woodruff, a Michigander living near the coastal community of Petoskey, found himself witnessing a curious light show earlier this month, one he says was the work of an unidentified flying object.
*Cue "The X-Files" theme song*
According to Woodruff, the incident took place August 11, 2018, at roughly 11:15 p.m. local time. The footage, which was posted on YouTube Monday, shows three lights blinking, and a non-blinking light is seen hovering above the others to the left.
"The lower row of lights are the city of Petoskey, or what I can see of the city of Petoskey. The upper flashing lights are the UFO," Woodruff explains in the video post. "There were four lights in a row… the two outer lights were red, and the two center lights were flashing randomly between red, green, blue and white."
He later noted that "the object itself did not move" and that he was able to observe it for more than 20 minutes.
It's unclear what the mysterious object might have been.
Woodruff's sighting follows that of a North Carolina man who claimed to have spotted a "spacecraft" hovering above some trees near the Tar Heel State's Lake Norman last week. It was later revealed that the mysterious UFO was actually the Goodyear Blimp, which was in the area for NASCAR's Coca Cola 600 race.
Looking though the gigapan Mars photos, I found something that closely resembles an ancient clay bottle. Its very similar to this 2,000 year old Roman bottle which I include into the photo for you to compare. Again I am showing you a NASA Mars photo which has been altered by NASA into a False Color...which makes the surface look red and brown. But in reality, Mars surface looks more similar to a desert on Earth. NASA adds False Color to hide from the public the fact that Mars is more hospitable than they want you to know. This way, there is no other country racing to Mars and NASA will have no competition...which gives them a lot of time to get there.
Sure this is not a UFO, but it is one hell of a great space photo that the public has not seen before. Here is a photo that has never been seen in the news before. It's an astronaut chucking a satellite into space like a baseball. Sounds fun and probably worried NASA a lot since these mini satellites are also delicate and easily broke. Truly an amazing photo of a historic and important event in human history.
Scott C. Waring
NASA states:
iss056e139457 (Aug. 15, 2018) --- Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev hand-deploys one of four nano-satellites just outside of the Pirs docking compartment airlock during a spacewalk that lasted 7 hours 46 minutes. Fellow cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (out of frame) joined Prokopyev during the spacewalk which also saw the installation of the Icarus animal-tracking experiment and the retrieval of a materials exposure experiment on the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
Two Giant UFO Hover Over Florida Beach Area, Aug 2018, 2 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Two Giant UFO Hover Over Florida Beach Area, Aug 2018, 2 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 21, 2018 Location of sighting: Florida, USA
Now these UFOs have been seen before. I remember seeing similar UFOs in a Steven Greer (Renowned UFO researcher) video from 2015. This is a different time and different instance, however these are 100% the same UFOs at the same location. I will include the video during sunset at the bottom of this post. You can see there are no boats or ships in the area. There are no planes, jets or helicopters heard or in the area. No flares...there is no logical explanation for this sighting. However if you do research, you will find Steven Greers video from 2015 is the exact same location watching the same exact UFOs. Its obvious that 4-6 miles off the coast of Florida lays an underwater alien base where UFOs enter and leave at about 5-7pm, since both sightings took place around sunset. Amazing discovery and we need to explore this area with underwater recording technology so that we can find the exact location of this base. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Wild Claim – Face and Name Of An Alien Overlord Are Printed on Dollar Bills
Wild Claim – Face and Name Of An Alien Overlord Are Printed on Dollar Bills
A group of UFO hunters has claimed that the US dollar bills are hiding an alien overlord’s picture.
They discovered an image depicting the face of the space alien rulers of Planet Earth on the same side of the banknotes showing the infamous pyramid.
They believe that extraterrestrials have placed hidden messages in the currency. Adding contrast (shadow) to the original will turn it into the alien head, they explained.
Alien enthusiasts have been saying that extraterrestrial arts are made of many levels of understanding, making them too complicated for human’s primitive minds. They explain that humanity is a primitive species controlled by primitive decision making and instincts.
They think that the classic one dollar US bill is proof that extraterrestrial has infiltrated the US government and possibly has permanent control.
This sector of alien enthusiasts thinks that there are secret signs all over Earth that aliens have been controlling humankind’s destiny for their benefits.
They point out the visible letters MERICA at the top, saying that it may mean Me Rica, the name of a particular alien overlord.
So, does this observation prove aliens run the world? What do you think?
Martian 'Ghost Dunes' Could Preserve Signs of Ancient Life
Martian 'Ghost Dunes' Could Preserve Signs of Ancient Life
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
The footprints of long-gone sand dunes stretch across the Hellespontus region of Mars west of the Hellas basin in this image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Scientists can identify consistent winds from the east (blowing from top to bottom in this image) that formed them. The dunes migrated with the wind and sometimes merged or extended to form new dunes, NASA officials said.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Could pits hold evidence of ancient Mars life? Researchers just found hundreds of crescent-shaped depressions on the surface of the Red Planet. These pits likely used to be sand dunes — each one the size of the U.S. Capitol building, according to researchers.
These 'ghost dunes' remain preserved because of their composition. Lava or sediments washed into the area with water and partially buried these dunes as it streamed around them. Like a mold, the buried part of the dune hardened over time. After wind blew the exposed sand away, the mold inside remained and showed where the full dune used to be.
And maybe life is hiding there. In a statement from the American Geophysical Union, the research team said the tip of the trailing ends of each of these dunes might have enough shelter to preserve a bit of sand. Inside this sand could be signs of ancient life, protected from the radiation-heavy Mars environment. [Boiling Blood and Radiation: 5 Ways Mars Can Kill]
"We know that dunes on Earth can support life, and dunes on Earth are very similar to dunes on Mars," lead author Mackenzie Day, a planetary geomorphologist (someone who studies planetary surface changes) at the University of Washington in Seattle, said in the statement.
"One problem that Mars has that Earth doesn't is the surface radiation. If you are inside a dune, or at the bottom of a dune, and you are microbial life, the dune is protecting you from a lot of that radiation," Day added. "There is probably nothing living there now. But if there ever was anything on Mars, this is a better place than average to look."
The making of a ghost dune. a) Crescent-shaped barchan dunes form with the steep face away from the prevailing wind, seen with the black arrows. b) A slow-moving liquid such as lava or sediment in water flows around the dunes and buries them halfway before hardening into rock. c-e) Wind blows away the exposed sand and is directed inward to eventually mostly hollow out the pit. f) Some ancient sand may still lurk in the pits' deep crevices, protected from radiation.
Credit: Mackenzie Day/David Catling/AGU
Similar to active dune fields
Features like this aren't unique to Mars. The first ghost dunes were found on Earth in 2016 in the Snake River Plain, in eastern Idaho. On Mars, the new study uncovered similar-looking features in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images of the southern hemisphere at Hellas (an ancient impact crater) and Noctis Labyrinthus (a set of deep valleys.)
The ghost dunes probably stood about 40 meters (130 feet) tall at Noctis Labyrinthus and 75 meters (246 feet) tall at Hellas basin just before they were buried. They also appear to be barchan dunes – common dune types on both Mars and Earth. Barchan dunes are crescent-shaped features that occur on flat surfaces with little sand, in zones where the wind blows mostly from one direction.
Dune cast pits (panel b) found at Noctis Labyrinthus, west of Valles Marineris, indicated as the black star in panel a. Panels c and d are close-ups of the pits, showing the crescent shapes of barchan dunes.
Credit: Mackenzie Day/David Catling/AGU
The observations also suggest these pits have a similar size and shape to active dune fields on Mars, especially because the pits are aligned in the same way as today's dunes.
"Any one of these pits is not enough to tell you that it's a dune, or from an ancient dune field. But when you put them all together, they have so many commonalities with dunes on Mars and on Earth that you have to employ some kind of fantastic explanation to explain them as anything other than dunes," Day said.
"They are all going the same way," she added, "which you would expect for dunes, because they are all migrating and forming in the same wind regime. So just the shape and size tell us that these are features that are coming from an ancient dune system." [Gullies Streak Down Mars Crater in Stunning NASA Photo]
Reconstructing the ancient environment
The ghost dunes probably were buried about 2 billion years ago, during the late Hesperian or early Amazonian period on Mars. The Hesperian is a transitional period in Martian history, when the planet changed from a wetter environment into the drier and wind-swept planet observed today. Researchers are still trying to understand why the climate changed; according to a leading hypothesis, the atmosphere thinned, making it impossible for water to flow on the surface.
The two sets of dunes might have been buried differently, the researchers said. Noctis Labyrinthus lies near previously active volcanoes, while the Hellas basin dune field is downstream of two large canyons that likely were shaped by water.
"If some of the water that carved those valleys made it downstream far enough, it could have gotten to the dune field," Day said. "The only thing that we know for sure is that the flow had to be relatively low energy, relatively slow, otherwise it would erode the dunes and we wouldn't get the shapes that we see today."
The first ghost dunes were discovered by David Gaylord in 2015 on Idaho's eastern Snake River Plain (111 degrees 36 minutes 11.06 seconds latitude and 44 degrees 4 minutes 54.2 seconds north longitude).
Credit: Google Earth
Besides giving clues of ancient life, the dunes could also show how the winds used to blow during earlier parts of Mars' history. This knowledge would help researchers better understand how sediments moved over the surface, the formation of large features and how the climate of the ancient past is different from atmospheric conditions observed today.
"The fact that the wind was different [when the ghost dunes formed] tells us that the environmental conditions on Mars aren't static over long timescales, they have changed over the past couple billion years, something we need to know to interpret the geology on Mars," Day said.
The new work was detailed June 5 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
Crescent-shaped Barchan dunes in Egypt's Western Desert show prevailing winds coming from the north (top of the image). The pits on Mars were once similar dunes. (25.706⁰, 30.347⁰)
On les appelle UFO aux Etats-Unis, d’où l’ufologie, la science de ceux qui les étudie, en France on dit OVNI, pour objet volant non identifié, certains parlent de MOC, pour mystérieux objet céleste.
Une série de d’acronyme pour parler d’un phénomène qui, en France, s’est invité avec fracas au cœur de l’actualité à la fin de l’année 1979. Le 26 novembre de cette année-là, à Cergy-Pontoise, un jeune homme, Franck Fontaine, disparait. Deux de ses deux amis expliquent qu’avant cette disparition subite, ils ont vu, tous les trois dans le ciel, un ovni, un objet volant non identifié. Voilà le point de départ d’une incroyable affaire, qui tient la France en haleine pendant plusieurs mois et qui mobilise journalistes, institutions et ufologues. Rapidement tous les Français s’interrogent : s’agit-il d’un canular ou d’un phénomène paranormal ?
Raconter cette histoire, c’est se plonger au cœur de ces énigmes, à la frontière de la science, de la psychologie, des mythes, du secret d’Etat, et des sourires narquois, parfois, que déclenche la croyance en l’existence d’une vie extraterrestre.
Car tout de même : Comment expliquer ces témoignages multiples, à travers le monde, qui affirment avoir vu des ovnis ? Comment comprendre ces récits, tout aussi nombreux, qui racontent leur rencontre ou leur enlèvement par des extraterrestres ? Comment la science, les gouvernements et les hommes se sont-ils interrogés et ont-ils fait évoluer leur méthode, leur discours et leur recherche, ces dernières années ?
Ces questions, nous les poserons en seconde partie d’émission à Franck Maurin, ufologue, spécialiste des ovnis, donc, et auteur du livre Les mystères du phénomène OVNI.
As a young man (non-believer), I loved watching science fictionand its portrayal of older, more advanced extraterrestrials (ETs) inhabiting other worlds and warping around the galaxy in their hyperdrive spaceships. However, when I became a Christian and biblical creationist, the strong evolutionary link to the belief in ETsbecame obvious. Then there was the claim that millions of people (including many Christians) have seen strange objects manifest in the sky, and others even claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Besides the fact that interstellar travel is impossible as the basic laws of physics that govern our universe would have to be violated, I already knew enough to know that these experiences could not all be dismissed as wishful thinking or psychological delusions. In short, something was really happening to these people. So, I undertook specialist research into what is called the ‘UFO phenomenon’ which led to my Amazon top 50 best-selling book Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connectionand dozens of further articles on creation.com.
I got more than I bargained for. This was no innocuous field of study. It was necessary for me to attend UFO conferences where I witnessed, first-hand, people in trance-like states claiming to be ‘channelling’messages from aliens. I discovered deliberate and insidious attempts by dark spiritual forces to deceive mankind. Just like people who were converted to Christianity, these ‘experiencers’ were having life-changing experiences that altered their perception of the universe and their place in it. Of course, most non-Christians would say that I was constrained by my Christian worldview to interpret events in such a way. Many have said that Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connectionis not really a ‘Christian’ book in the sense that it is a serious, close look at the UFO events that have shaped the mainstream school of thought about the UFO phenomenon. It revealed that there are massive inconsistencies in the idea that alleged wiser and benevolent ETs are coming from a ‘galaxy far, far away’, and are overseeing human evolution (a common theme).
The book was really a collation of secular research (using the hostile witness approach) to support the above conclusion. I.e. it wasn’t just little ‘Joe Christian’ here saying “believe me”. For example, paranormal and UFO researcher John Keel (deceased/cited later) who is probably best-known as the author of the book The Mothman Prophecies (later made into a movie starring Richard Gere) said:
“The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmogrifications tailoring themselves to our abilities to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicate that they are liars and put-on artists. The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.”1
One of the most famous UFO researchers (and UFO authors) of all time is Ph.D. scientist Dr Jacques Vallée. It was the research of both Vallée and Dr J. Allen Hynek (former US Government researcher into UFOs) that inspired Hollywood director Steven Spielberg to make the classic movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.Indeed, the lead UFO researcher in the movie was a Frenchman and was actually based upon Dr Vallée. As far back as 1977, he wrote:
wikipedia.org Drs J. Allen Hynek and Jaques Vallée both consulted to the US government regarding UFOs.
“I propose the hypothesis that there is a control system for human consciousness … I am suggesting that what takes place through close encounters with UFOs is control of human beliefs, control of the relationship between our consciousness and physical reality, that this control has been in force throughout history and that it is of secondary importance that it should now assume the form of sightings of space visitors.”2
He also concluded that:
“ … human belief … is being controlled and conditioned, man’s concepts are being rearranged, and we may be headed toward a massive change of human attitudes toward paranormal abilities and extraterrestrial life.”3
“The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
The modern UFOlogist
Vallée and even Keel showed that ETs were actually nothing of the sort and that it was some kind of ‘psychic’ force that would alter its appearance depending upon its audience’s ability to understand. In the past they were elves, fairies and even spirit beings manifesting themselves to third-world cultures. However, to the ‘true believer’ who really desires there to be benevolent aliens visiting us from different star systems, then perhaps they are interdimensional and not really from our own physical universe. Speculative ideas about the evolution of the cosmos such as string theory and multiverse have only accelerated this idea. In fact, Dr Vallée became disenchanted somewhat with modern UFOlogy believing that it had been hijacked by a religious group of New Agers and that serious research had suffered as a result. I agree.
In concluding that the phenomenon has psychic/spiritual aspects, both Dr Vallée and I might have a new, modern and surprising, ally to our beliefs about the deceptive nature of ETs. One of the most famous of the current crop of UFOlogist is Nick Redfern, a British born author and UFO investigator and conspiracy theorist who has been an advocate of the Disclosure Project for many years. He has written 13 books and numerous articles for various publications, and is a regular guest on The History Channel shows such as UFO Hunters. In an online article he recently wrote:
“ … my views on the nature of the UFO phenomenon have radically changed over the years. Back when I was in my twenties, I was of the opinion that UFOs (the truly unknown ones) were extraterrestrial … As I slid into my thirties, however, my thoughts slowly began to change (something which also happened for a few friends of mine in the field, too). And as many people will also know, my views—today—are far closer to those suggested by John Keel. Namely, that we’re dealing with something that co-exists with us and which masquerades as ET. It’s not enough for me to say ‘My views have changed.’ There are the reasons why my mind has altered since my early thirties (or thereabouts). And, there are several reasons, rather than just one.
“There’s the nature of the entities themselves: they practically overemphasize who, or what, they claim to be. We only have to take a careful look at such cases … to see that these ‘incidents’ are clearly stage-managed. It’s a game, a scenario that has <e…< em="">everything to do with trying to emphasize the ET meme … . Of course, they could easily avoid us! But, here’s the deal: they want to be seen. It’s not an accident. It’s carefully planned. And it’s designed to plant an image of ‘ET scientists’ in the mind(s) of the witness(es).”4
Parallel realities
His thoughts are almost so identical to my book that my heart races as I read his views. He is so close to the truth. I had always highlighted the inconsistency that our ‘alien creators’ couldn’t get their stories straight about where they were from. Once they were from planets in our own solar system, but we’ve visited those planets and shown them to be liars. Now they come from distant star systems where we cannot test their claims. In short, they can’t all be our creators and therefore they cannot all be correct! Redfern now sees it too.
“It’s much the same with the way in which—in both Contactee and Abductee cases—the aliens aren’t just keen to tell us which planet, star-system, or galaxy, they’re from. They’re more than a bit too keen to do so. Once it was Venus and Mars. Then, it was Zeta Reticuli. Or is it the Pleiades? The problem is not so much where they claim to come from. Rather, it’s their eager insistence on letting us know where they’re from—and time and again. There’s another issue, too. Over the decades, we have allegedly been visited by long-haired Space Brothers, stacked Space-Babes, black-eyed and large-headed dwarfs, bipedal reptiles, praying mantis-type creatures, and … well … the list goes on and on. But, they all seem perfectly comfortable with the Earth’s gravity, temperature, oxygen levels, etc. Doesn’t that strike you as a bit odd?”
UFOlogist Nick Redfernamazon.com
The last point about being compatible with Earth’s atmosphere was another inconsistency that I’d highlighted. He continues to reinforce my own findings:
“They’re not at all unlike multiple accounts that one can find in numerous religions. In fact, they’re near-identical. Lives are radically changed, and people find themselves on new paths. Gods, angels, demons, the ‘little people,’ and—today—aliens: it’s all one and the same. A force that we presently don’t understand and which impacts upon us—and manifests before us—in a fashion that is relevant to the people of the particular era in question.
“But, I can say for sure that, every year, my views that we are dealing with something much stranger than ET grow stronger. The main reason: the phenomenon works too hardto come across as alien. As McKenna said: ‘We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.’”
A wise man once said:
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9 NIV).
Often creationists get accused of not coming up with original research. Here is one example where the secular researchers (if they choose to be honest with their findings as Mr Redfern has done) are coming to the same conclusions. It’s also a wonderful confirmation that once again using the Bible as our filter we can help dissect and discern one of the most puzzling mysteries of the modern era and show it for what it really is. My interview with another former New Age UFO researcher and MUFON investigator showed he also found the Bible was the only thing that could adequately explain the phenomenon.
I applaud Mr Redfern for his candid views and for his honesty in putting the usual reinforcement syndrome to one side and, potential books sales, to speak the truth about his findings. It’s a rare thing. I will be sending Mr Redfern a signed copy of Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connectionwith my prayers that he also finds the One who is the truth.
Nothing Is Solid & Everything Is Energy – Scientists Explain The World of Quantum Physics
Nothing Is Solid & Everything Is Energy – Scientists Explain The World of Quantum Physics
It has been written about before, over and over again, but cannot be emphasized enough. The world of quantum physics is an eerie one, one that sheds light on the truth about our world in ways that challenge the existing framework of accepted knowledge.
What we perceive as our physical material world, is really not physical or material at all, in fact, it is far from it. This has been proven time and time again by multiple Nobel Prize (among many other scientists around the world) winning physicists, one of them being Niels Bohr, a Danish Physicist who made significant contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory.
“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
– Niels Bohr
At the turn of the nineteenth century, physicists started to explore the relationship between energy and the structure of matter. In doing so, the belief that a physical, Newtonian material universe that was at the very heart of scientific knowing was dropped, and the realization that matter is nothing but an illusion replaced it. Scientists began to recognize that everything in the Universe is made out of energy.
“Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension and even anger.”
(T. Folger, “Quantum Shmantum”; Discover 22:37-43, 2001)
Quantum physicists discovered that physical atoms are made up of vortices of energy that are constantly spinning and vibrating, each one radiating its own unique energy signature. Therefore, if we really want to observe ourselves and find out what we are, we are really beings of energy and vibration, radiating our own unique energy signature -this is fact and is what quantum physics has shown us time and time again. We are much more than what we perceive ourselves to be, and it’s time we begin to see ourselves in that light. If you observed the composition of an atom with a microscope you would see a small, invisible tornado-like vortex, with a number of infinitely small energy vortices called quarks and photons. These are what make up the structure of the atom. As you focused in closer and closer on the structure of the atom, you would see nothing, you would observe a physical void. The atom has no physical structure, we have no physical structure, physical things really don’t have any physical structure! Atoms are made out of invisible energy, not tangible matter.
“Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual” (1)
– Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University (quote taken from “the mental universe)
It’s quite the conundrum, isn’t it? Our experience tells us that our reality is made up of physical material things, and that our world is an independently existing objective one. The revelation that the universe is not an assembly of physical parts, suggested by Newtonian physics, and instead comes from a holistic entanglement of immaterial energy waves stems from the work of Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Werner Heisenberg, among others. (0)
What does it mean that our physical material reality isn’t really physical at all? It could mean a number of things, and concepts such as this cannot be explored if scientists remain within the boundaries of the only perceived world existing, the world we see. As Nikola Tesla supposedly said:
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
Fortunately, many scientists have already taken the leap, and have already questioned the meaning and implications of what we’ve discovered with quantum physics. One of these potential revelations is that “the observer creates the reality.”
A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.
(R. C. Henry, “The Mental Universe”; Nature 436:29, 2005)
One great example that illustrates the role of consciousness within the physical material world (which we know not to be so physical) is the double slit experiment. This experiment has been used multiple times to explore the role of consciousness in shaping the nature of physical reality. (2)
A double-slit optical system was used to test the possible role of consciousness in the collapse of the quantum wave-function. The ratio of the interference pattern’s double-slit spectral power to its single-slit spectral power was predicted to decrease when attention was focused toward the double-slit as compared to away from it. The study found that factors associated with consciousness, such as meditation, experience, electrocortical markers of focused attention and psychological factors such as openness and absorption, significantly correlated in predicted ways with perturbations in the double-slit interference pattern.(2)
This is just the beginning. I wrote another article earlier this year that has much more, sourced information with regards to the role of consciousness and our physical material world:
The significance of this information is for us to wake up, and realize that we are all energy, radiating our own unique energy signature. Feelings, thoughts and emotions play a vital role, quantum physics helps us see the significance of how we all feel. If all of us are in a peaceful loving state inside, it will no doubt impact the external world around us, and influence how others feel as well.
“If you want to know the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
– Nikola Tesla.
Studies have shown that positive emotions and operating from a place of peace within oneself can lead to a very different experience for the person emitting those emotions and for those around them. At our subatomic level, does the vibrational frequency change the manifestation of physical reality? If so, in what way? We know that when an atom changes its state, it absorbs or emits electromagnetic frequencies, which are responsible for changing its state. Do different states of emotion, perception and feelings result in different electromagnetic frequencies? Yes! This has been proven. (3)
HERE is a great video that touches on what I am trying to get across here. We are all connected.
“Space is just a construct that gives the illusion that there are separate objects”
Former Area 51 Worker Reveals UFO Secrets After Drunk Night In Vegas
Former Area 51 Worker Reveals UFO Secrets After Drunk Night In Vegas
Theory Introduction:
Within 1994 the book The Orion Secret by Robert Bauval as well as Adrian Gilbert caused a good uproar. No question, it says on the cover “After more than four thousand years they solved the actual secrets from the pyramids”. The thesis, that purports to have completed this, is the Orion Correlation Theory or, in a nutshell, the OCT.
Although released by 2 authors the actual thesis is basically the work associated with Robert Bauval. He states to have discovered the solution to concerns people hotly debated. Is pyramid positioning coincidental? Or do they offer a wider strategy?
Orion Constellation
Should you glimpse the Sumerian, the Egyptian, the tales of the Maya. If you examine each one of these cultures, exactly what you’ll notice is the exact same story shared in different methods in different languages. However, all those who originated from the stars arrived here, plus they began human civilization. And is amazing is that most of these stories, tales, and myths have to go straight with the constellation of Orion.
What we have to do is concentrate our investigation into Orion. We have to try to understand why the actual ancient cultures that reigned over the world, many years ago, offered so much significance to this constellation. They chose to build ancient monuments, and towns describing the stars on the surface. We have to research the history as well as look for additional evidence. We have the actual technology that will permit us to acquire answers in order to hundreds otherwise millions of questions that this human race has when it comes to the source and the reason for life completely.
After having crazy drunk, one Area 51 employee exposed some crazy secrets regarding extraterrestrial life.
The YouTuber that goes by Dark Biggot published a video detailing the discussion he had together with his neighbor, whose to say all about UFO.
It’s nearly at two million clicks and has obtained a lot of rumors. What do you believe?
A Nasa spacecraft that will land on an asteroid and take a sample has just glimpsed its target
A Nasa spacecraft that will land on an asteroid and take a sample has just glimpsed its target
The asteroid named Bennu is about the size of a mountain.
TWO YEARS AFTER launching from Florida, a Nasa spacecraft is closing in on an ancient asteroid, Bennu, for a sample of space dust that could reveal clues to the start of life in the solar system.
The spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, has even snapped its first, blurry pic of the cosmic body, which is about the size of a small mountain, about 500 metres in diameter.
The spacecraft is designed to circle Bennu, and reach out with a robotic arm to “high-five” its surface, then return the sample it collects to Earth in 2023.
The first images of Bennu were taken on 17 August at a distance of 2.3 million kilometers from the $800 million spacecraft.
“This is the closest we have even been to Bennu,” said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
“This is significant in that we are now in the vicinity of the asteroid, closer than we have ever been even during the close approaches of the asteroid to the Earth.”
Bennu was chosen from the some 500,000 asteroids in the solar system because it orbits close to Earth’s path around the sun, it is the right size for scientific study, and is one of the oldest asteroids known to Nasa.
Astronomers say it poses a slight risk — a one in 2,700 chance — of colliding with Earth in 2135.
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After traveling for ~2 years, @OSIRISREx has caught its 1st glimpse of asteroid Bennu – officially beginning its final approach phase. Slated to arrive on Dec. 3, OSIRIS-REx will spend the next few months surveying its target & nearby surroundings. Details https://go.nasa.gov/2wolFYS
It is also a carbon-rich asteroid, the kind of cosmic body that may have delivered life-giving materials to Earth billions of years ago.
The OSIRIS-REx mission is not the first to ever visit an asteroid and attempt a sample return — Japan has done it before and Europe has managed to land on a comet.
But it is the first asteroid-sample-return mission for Nasa, and it aims to bring back the biggest sample ever, on the order of 60 g.
The US men who walked on the Moon during the Apollo era of the 1960s and 1970s collected and carried back to Earth 382 kg of moon rocks.
In December, the spacecraft will begin a detailed survey of asteroid’s surface, which NASA has defined as “arrival” at the asteroid.
Orbital insertion is expected on 31 December. The sample, however, will not be taken until July 2020.
OSIRIS-REx stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer.
UFO SPOTTED in Buckingham and Oxfordshire as strange 'BLUE EYES' travel across night sky
UFO SPOTTED in Buckingham and Oxfordshire as strange 'BLUE EYES' travel across night sky
STRANGE blue lights moving through the night sky have been spotted by residents in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire as some onlookers describe seeing a UFO.
The unusual UFO lights were spotted across Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
Late last night concerned residents expressed their disbelief on social media as they reported seeing an unusual light that looked “like a pair of eyes”.
James Lidington, who saw the bizarre occurrence from Princes Risborough, told Express.co.uk: “I first notice them at around 11pm, and they lasted around 2 mins before dispersing.
STRANGE blue lights moving through the night sky have been spotted by residents in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire as some onlookers describe seeing a UFO.
“The lights were very large and shaped like a pair of eyes looking down at you.
“It moved across the sky, we only lost sight of it as it disappeared out of sight.
“It was very strange to see, I’ve never seen anything like it before.”
Sightings of the blue lights were seen across the county and were spotted by multiple people.
The lights were also photographed by residents of Bicester in Oxfordshire.
Mr Lidington continued: “It looked like maybe someone had a bright light on, like a flood light but it got brighter and moved across the sky, right over us before vanishing out of sight.
“You read and hear story about people seeing what they think is aliens.
“This was very like those stories, making it feel like it could be aliens or some night creature watching above us.”
Another onlooker described a “blue sky” on Twitter.
The strange sighting is one of several sightings of off activity in the skies over the past few months.
In November residents in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg were left perplexed as they claimed to have seen an alien spaceship.
An unidentified object was caught on camera in the early hours of Monday morning and fell near the southern outskirts of the city near the local EXPO exhibition centre and Koltsovo airport.
Despite the video evidence of the incident taking place, the Russian Emergency Ministry's branch in the country's Sverdlovsk region has said there were no reports of any such events taking place.
The local airport also failed to see the green light.
Massive Pyramid, Lost City and Ancient Human Sacrifices Unearthed in China
Massive Pyramid, Lost City and Ancient Human Sacrifices Unearthed in China
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor
This figure shows images of the step pyramid. a) part of the stone buttresses of the second and the third steps of the pyramid; b) eye symbols that decorate the pyramid c) a view of the buttresses under excavation; d) a general view of the pyramid before excavation.
Credit: Zhouyong Sun and Jing Shao
A 4,300-year-old city, which has a massive step pyramid that is at least 230 feet (70 meters) high and spans 59 acres (24 hectares) at its base, has been excavated in China, archaeologists reported in the August issue of the journal Antiquity.
The pyramid was decorated with eye symbols and "anthropomorphic," or part-human, part-animal faces. Those figures "may have endowed the stepped pyramid with special religious power and further strengthened the general visual impression on its large audience," the archaeologists wrote in the article. [The 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth]
For five centuries, a city flourished around the pyramid. At one time, the city encompassed an area of 988 acres (400 hectares), making it one of the largest in the world, the archaeologists wrote. Today, the ruins of the city are called "Shimao," but its name in ancient times is unknown.
The pyramid contains 11 steps, each of which was lined with stone. On the topmost step, there "were extensive palaces built of rammed earth, with wooden pillars and roofing tiles, a gigantic water reservoir, and domestic remains related to daily life," the researchers wrote.
The city's rulers lived in these palaces, and art and craft production were carried out nearby. "Evidence so far suggests that the stepped pyramid complex functioned not only as a residential space for ruling Shimao elites, but also as a space for artisanal or industrial craft production," the archaeologists wrote.
A series of stone walls with ramparts and gates was built around the pyramid and the city. "At the entrance to the stepped pyramid were sophisticated bulwarks [defensive walls] whose design suggests that they were intended to provide both defense and highly restricted access," the archaeologists wrote.
The remains of numerous human sacrifices have been discovered at Shimao. "In the outer gateway of the eastern gate on the outer rampart alone, six pits containing decapitated human heads have been found," the archaeologists wrote.
A sacrificial pit of human skulls discovered at Shimao. The people sacrificed may have been captives captured in war. This photo was first published in 2016 in an article in the Chinese language journal Kaogu yu wenwu.
Credit: Photo courtesy Zhouyong Sun and Jing Shao
Some of the victims may be from another archaeological site called Zhukaigou, which is located to the north of Shimao, and the people of Shimao may have conquered the neighboring site. "Morphological analysis of the human remains suggests that the victims may have been related to the residents of Zhukaigou, which could further suggest that they were taken to Shimao as captives during the expansion of the Shimao polity," the study said. [25 Ancient Cultures that Practiced Human Sacrifice]
Additionally, jade artifacts were inserted into spaces between the blocks in all of Shimao's structures. "The jade objects and human sacrifice may have imbued the very walls of Shimao with ritual and religious potency," the archaeologists wrote.
While archaeologists have known about Shimao for many years, it was once thought to be part of the Great Wall of China, a section of which is located nearby. It wasn't until excavations were carried out in recent years that archaeologists realized that Shimao is far older than the Great Wall, which was built between 2,700 and 400 years ago.
The team of archaeologists that wrote the article includes Li Jaang, a professor at the School of History at Zhengzhou University; Zhouyong Sun and Jing Shao, who are both archaeologists at the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology; and Min Li, an anthropology professor at UCLA.
Blue-Eyed Immigrants Transformed Ancient Israel 6,500 Years Ago
Blue-Eyed Immigrants Transformed Ancient Israel 6,500 Years Ago
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer
These ossuaries — containers for human remains — from the Chalcolithic Period were excavated at Peqi'in Cave in northern Israel.
Credit: Mariana Salzberger/Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority
Thousands of years ago in what is now northern Israel, waves of migrating people from the north and east — present-day Iran and Turkey — arrived in the region. And this influx of newcomers had a profound effect, transforming the emerging culture.
What's more, these immigrants not only brought new cultural practices; they also introduced new genes — such as the mutation that produces blue eyes — that were previously unknown in that geographic area, according to a new study.
Archaeologists recently discovered this historic population shift by analyzing DNA from skeletons preserved in an Israeli cave. The site, in the north of the tiny country, contains dozens of burials and more than 600 bodies dating to approximately 6,500 years ago, the scientists reported. [The Holy Land: 7 Amazing Archaeological Finds]
DNA analysis showed that skeletons preserved in the cave were genetically distinct from people who historically lived in that region. And some of the genetic differences matched those of people who lived in neighboring Anatolia and the Zagros Mountains, which are now part of Turkey and Iran, the study found.
Ancient Israel (then called Galilee) belonged to a region known as the southern Levant, part of a larger area, the Levant, which encompasses today's eastern Mediterranean countries. The southern Levant experienced a significant cultural shift during the Late Chalcolithic period, around 4500 B.C.E. to 3800 B.C.E, with denser settlements, more rituals performed in public and a growing use of ossuaries in funerary preparations, the researchers reported.
Though some experts had previously proposed that cultural transformation was driven by people who were native to the southern Levant, the authors of the new study suspected that waves of human migration explained the changes. To find answers, the scientists turned to a burial site in Israel's Peqi’in Cave, in what would have been Upper Galilee 6,500 years ago.
Unraveling an ancestry puzzle
Peqi'in is a natural cave, measuring around 56 feet (17 meters) long and about 16 to 26 feet (5 to 8 m) wide. Inside the cave are decorated jars and burial offerings — along with hundreds of skeletons — suggesting that the location served as a type of mortuary for Chalcolithic people who lived nearby.
However, not all of the cave's contents appeared to have local origins, study co-author Dina Shalem, an archaeologist with the Institute for Galilean Archaeology at Kinneret College in Israel, said in a statement.
"Some of the findings in the cave are typical to the region, but others suggest cultural exchange with remote regions," Shalem said. The artistic styles of these artifacts bear closer resemblance to styles common to more-northern regions of the Near East, lead study author Eadaoin Harney, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, told Live Science in an email.
The scientists sampled DNA from bone powder from 48 skeletal remains and were able to reconstruct genomes for 22 individuals found in the cave. That makes this one of the largest genetic studies of ancient DNA in the Near East, the researchers reported.
Blue eyes and fair skin
The scientists found that these individuals shared genetic features with people from the north, and those similar genes were absent in farmers who lived in the southern Levant earlier. For example, the allele (one of two or more alternative forms of a gene) that is responsible for blue eyeswas associated with 49 percent of the sampled remains, suggesting that blue eyes had become common in people living in Upper Galilee. Another allele hinted that fair skin may have been widespread in the local population as well, the study authors wrote.
"Both eye and skin color are traits that are controlled by complex interactions between multiple alleles, many — but not all — of which have been identified," Harney explained.
"The two alleles that we highlight in our study are known to be strongly associated with light eye and skin color, respectively, and are often used to make predictions about the appearance of various human populations in ancient DNA studies," she said.
However, it is important to note that multiple other alleles can influence the color of eyes and skin in individuals, Harney added, so "scientists cannot perfectly predict pigmentation in an individual."
The scientists also discovered that genetic diversity increased within groups over time, while genetic differences between groups decreased; this is a pattern that typically emerges in populations after a period of human migration, according to the researchers.
A dynamic past
By presenting DNA from the distant past, these findings offer exciting new insights into the dynamic ancient world and the diverse human populations that inhabited it, said Daniel Master, a professor of archaeology at Wheaton College in Illinois.
"One of the key questions of the Chalcolithic has always been to what extent the groups in Galilee were connected to the groups in the Be'ersheva Valley or the Jordan Valley or the Golan Heights," Master, who was not involved in the study, told Live Science in an email.
"The publication of the artifacts from Peqi'in has shown many cultural links between these regions, but it will be interesting to see, in the future, whether those links are genetic as well," Master said.
The researchers' results also resolve a long-standing debate about the pivotal factor that changed the trajectory of the Chalcolithic peoples' unique culture, Shalem said in the statement.
"We now know that the answer is migration," she said.
China's Sending a Probe to the Moon's Far Side. Here's Where It Will Land
China's Sending a Probe to the Moon's Far Side. Here's Where It Will Land
ByLeonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Secondary craters within Von Kármán Crater, the Chang'e 4 landing region. (a) The great elliptic circle that linked the center of the Antoniadi Crater to the selected Chang'e 4 landing site. The base image is from the global mosaic obtained by China's Chang'e-2 mission. (b) Secondary craters within the Chang'e 4 landing region that are delivered by the Antoniadi Crater. White arrows mark the secondaries, and the yellow line is the possible trajectory of ejecta launched by the Antoniadi-forming impact. The location of this area is denoted as the white box in (a). The base image is from Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter.
Chang'e 4 will head for the Von Kármán Crater, within the moon's South Pole‐Aitken (SPA) basin. The scientific instruments of this far-side mission, mounted on a lander and a rover, will analyze both the surface and the subsurface of this region.
The SPA basin is the largest known impact structure in the solar system. It is the place to go to answer several important questions about the moon, including its internal structure and thermal evolution, scientists have said. [China's Moon Missions Explained (Infographic)]
The 115-mile-wide (186 kilometers) Von Kármán Crater lies in the northwestern SPA basin. The topography of the landing region is generally flat.
Secondary craters and ejecta materials cover most of the area's mare (volcanic basalt) unit and can be traced back to at least four source craters: Finsen, Von Kármán L, Von Kármán L' and Antoniadi. The region also features extensive sinuous ridges and troughs.
A recent paper, led by Jun Huang of the School of Earth Sciences at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, lays out some key characteristics of Chang'e 4's targeted landing zone.
The study presents a detailed 3D geological analysis of the nature and history of the Von Kármán Crater. The researchers found that the region contains far-side mare basalts affected by linear features and ejecta material from a wide range of surrounding craters.
The results provide a framework for the Chang'e 4 mission to carry out on-the-spot exploration, the scientists wrote in the study, which was published in May in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
Relay satellite
Already in place for the upcoming mission is the Chinese relay satellite Queqiao. It will enable communications between mission control here on Earth and Chang'e 4, as well as future far-side missions.
Queqiao lifted off in May atop a Long March 4C rocket from China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The relay spacecraft has made its way to a halo orbit around the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 2, a gravitationally stable spot beyond the far side of the moon.
Secondaries within the proposed Chang'e 4 landing region formed by the Von Kármán L and Von Kármán L' crater-forming impacts. The two source craters are located to the south of the landing region. The great elliptic circles represent possible ballistic trajectories (blue lines) of impact ejecta from the source craters. (a) The NW-SE trending secondaries that are formed by the Von Kármán L’ crater. (b) The NE-SW trending secondaries that are formed by the Von Kármán L crater. Both images were obtained by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, operated by Arizona State University.
Credit: Jun Huang, et al./AGU
Lander, rover instruments
The Chang'e 4 lander and rover were designed as backups for the successful Chang'e 3 mission, which launched in December 2013 and landed the rover Yutu on the lunar surface. So, some of the science payloads on Chang'e 4 are similar to those of its predecessor, such as a landing camera, a terrain camera, a panoramic camera on the lander and a visible/near-infrared imaging spectrometer, along with two ground-penetrating radars able to reveal the subsurface structure of the landing area.
Additional instruments on the lander are a low-frequency radio spectrometer, which will perform joint space-physics observations with the low-frequency radio spectrometer on the Queqiao relay satellite. [China's Yutu Rover Moon Mission in Photos]
Also onboard Chang'e 4 is a German lunar neutron and radiation dose detector to explore the surface radiation environment of the far side.
A new instrument on the rover is the Swedish neutral atom detector designed to study the interaction between the solar wind and lunar surface materials.
China's Yutu moon rover, photographed on the lunar surface by the Chang'e 3 lander on Dec. 16, 2013. The Chang'e 4 mission to the lunar far side, which is scheduled to launch late this year, was designed as a backup for Chang'e 3.
Credit: CASC/China Ministry of Defense
Lunar mini biosphere
In addition, a lunar micro-ecosystem is included for astrobiology experiments and public outreach. According to China's state-run Xinhua news agency, Chang'e 4 will carry a tin containing seeds of potato and arabidopsis, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard. It may also tote along silkworm eggsM.
This "lunar mini biosphere" experiment was designed by 28 Chinese universities, led by southwest China's Chongqing University. The cylindrical tin, made from special aluminum-alloy materials, weighs roughly 7 lbs. (3 kilograms).
The tin also contains water, a nutrient solution and air. A tiny camera and data-transmission system will allow researchers to keep an eye on the seeds and see if they germinate on the moon.
"Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars." A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. This version of the story published on Space.com.
Within the past couple of days, some media outlets have reported that a "potentially dangerous" asteroid will come "dangerously close" to Earth on Tuesday (Aug. 28) — but unfortunately for sensationalists, this is not true.
It is true that asteroid 2016 NF23 exists. It is true that NASA considers this asteroid a near-Earth object (NEO). It is true that, because of its size and distance from the Earth, it's been labeled a potentially hazardous asteroid. And it is also true that 2016 NF23 poses no threat to our home planet.
Again, asteroid 2016 NF23 poses absolutely no threat to us on this pass.
Asteroid 2016 NF23 will pass by Earth later this month. However, despite what sensationalist reports might say, the object poses no threat to us here on Earth.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
If there is any remaining confusion, Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer at NASA Headquarters in Washington, had this to say to Space.com in an email: "There is absolutely nothing for concern by this pass of 2016 NF23. This object is merely designated a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) because its orbit over time brings it within 5 million miles (8 million kilometers) of Earth's orbit, but there is nothing hazardous to Earth or even unique about this pass of the asteroid." [NASA Maps Dangerous Asteroids That May Threaten Earth (Photos)]
Some have claimed that the rocky object will "skim past" Earth, but the asteroid is actually very far from us. 2016 NF23 will pass us by on Tuesday (Aug. 28) at 11:38 p.m. ET (3:38 UTC on Aug. 29)at about 13.2 lunar distances (LD). One LD is the distance between Earth and the moon, so 13.2 LD would be more than 3 million miles (5 million km) away — which places 2016 NF23 at a considerable distance from our planet.
An artist's illustration of an asteroid that would pose an actual threat to Earth. Asteroid 2016 NF23 will pass by Earth this month but will not be dangerous for anyone here on our planet.
Credit: ESA
NASA estimates that this asteroid is likely between 229 feet and 524 feet (70 and 160 meters) in diameter. So, if it were at the larger end of this measurement, it could be larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza. But this isn't exceptionally large by asteroid standards. Ceres, for instance, is about 590 miles (950 km) across.
A massive, rocky asteroid traveling at around 20,000 mph (32,400 km/h) might seem frightening at first glance. But rocky objects fly by Earth fairly regularly, and often much closer than 2016 NF23. In 2018, there are many objects flying closer than 1 LD to Earth. As of Aug. 23, NASA was aware of 1,912 potentially hazardous asteroids.
In fact, on Wednesday (Aug. 29), NEO 1998 SD9 will pass by Earth — and it will come much closer than 2016 NF23. At about 3:27 a.m. ET, 1998 SD9 will pass by our planet at 4.2 LD at over 23,000 mph (10.7 km/s). This object, which NASA estimates to be between 126 feet and 282 feet (38 and 86 m) in diameter, will come closer than any known potentially hazardous asteroid in the next two months. But even at that close (relatively speaking) distance, we remain perfectly safe from an impact here on Earth.
There are a number of NEOs, including many that will come much closer to Earth than 2016 NF23. But, as Johnson said: "None of these passes will have any effect on Earth."
NEOs can pose a threat to us here on Earth, but remember to do your research before believing rumors about "dangerous" asteroids.
In one of my recent articles here at Mysterious Universe – titled UFO Encounters, Saucers and Secrets – I highlighted the UFO connection to the U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which is the U.K.’s equivalent of the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA). I stated: “Robin Cole, of Cheltenham, England, spent a great deal of time addressing the matter of GCHQ and UFOs. To the extent that, in 1997, he published a report that detailed his extensive research in this seldom-addressed area. Cole cultivated sources from GCHQ, secured data on UFO cases secretly investigated by staff at the agency, and learned that GCHQ had a large library of books on the UFO subject. But, there was more, too. As a result of his investigations, Cole was visited by personnel from the U.K. Police Force’s Special Branch, who wanted to know all about his work, which had him worried or a while. You can find out more on Cole and his GCHQ-UFO discoveries in his self-published report, GCHQ and the UFO Cover-up.”
The fact is, though, that such was the extent of the interview I did with Cole back in the 1990s, I thought I would make this a three-part article, which is exactly what I have done. In my first book, A Covert Agenda, I made mention of a small (but nonetheless intriguing) body of evidence pertaining to the collation and investigation of UFO data on the part of the sprawling Government Communications Headquarters at Cheltenham (GCHQ), England. Although GCHQ actively and forthrightly denies that any such claims have a basis in reality, time and again snippets of information surface, suggesting that behind the official stance there exists an incredible story just waiting to be uncovered.
To illustrate this, on 29 March 1996, two security guards assigned to the facility viewed during the early hours of the morning a silent, brightly lit object that over-flew their heads while they patrolled the base. “We just looked at it,” said one, adding, “We weren’t frightened. We were just amazed.” The other concurred: “I have never seen anything like it before in my life. It was traveling very fast. It definitely was not a plane.” The response from Government Communications Headquarters when the media latched on to what had occurred was tight lipped. “No doubt they did see something but I couldn’t say what it was,” was the carefully worded response from a GCHQ spokesman.
Robin Cole was able to shed further light on the 29 March 1996 UFO encounter reported by two GCHQ security guards. He told me: “Both of the guards were so convinced by what they’d seen that they went to The Citizen – this is the local newspaper that covers the Gloucester area – and reported it. Well, the papers went on to publish their names and the fact that they were security guards at GCHQ. Normally, people who work at the base just say that they’re civil servants, because they don’t want to be associated with GCHQ publicly. Well, we didn’t make too big a deal out of it, but we did try and look into it all a bit deeper. As I previously said, there area number of people within Circular Forum who work at GCHQ. Of course, I tried to press them to find out what they could.”
GCHQ memorial, National Memorial Arboretum
Cole continued: “It just so happens that one of our members knew one of the security guards and another member used to work at GCHQ as a security guard and knew the other one. They then subsequently invited the two of them around for tea and got on to talking about UFOs – as you do. Basically, both of them stated that when the article in The Citizen appeared, ‘We were both hauled in before our superiors the following morning and we were told that what we had seen was the Mir Space Station, and that we were to drop it unless we wanted to face severe action. You know how it is [at GCHQ]; they’re all paranoid. But we know deep in our hearts that this was not a space station. It was far too low in orbit and it just came over and stopped. It was there for several minutes and was then joined by a second light. The one then seemed to drop down quite low, and as soon as it started dropping, the pair of them just shot off. And we know it wasn’t Mir.’”
“It’s something that’s interested me from way back when in England as a newspaper reporter. And a good friend of mine, Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, has told me stories of astronauts coming back to Earth reporting UFOs.”
While he was best known for being friends with the rich and famous, Robin Leach, the host for 11 years of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” was also a UFO believer and a friend of paranormal and UFO expert Lee Speigel, who revealed that side of Leach in a Huffington Post article in 2011. Robin Leach, known for his signature sigh-off, “champagne wishes and caviar dreams,” signed off for good on August 24, 2018, at the age of 76.
“Truth be told, Leach and I actually went UFO hunting one rainy night in 1976 up in Maine after hearing stories of many local citizens spotting strange nocturnal lights in the sky.”
Robin Leach (center) in 2006.
Lee Speigel recounted his UFO adventure with Robin Leach while covering a fundraiser for the Keep Memory Alive center in Las Vegas, which raises awareness and funds to support the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. Leach was a major fundraiser and a charity auctioneer for the event.
“I haven’t ever really raised the subject with celebrities, probably because they’d think I was weird and mad. But we do know that over the years, everybody from presidents of the United States to major dignitaries around the world, and, certainly, some of our NASA space boys — they have claimed to have seen and photographed unexplained flying objects or phenomena.”
While Robin Leach didn’t broach the UFO subject with celebrities he interviewed on “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” he did interview John Alexander, a retired Army colonel and author of “UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies and Realities”, for Las Vegas Weekly – an interview set up with the help of Speigel. The colonel told Leach about UFO disclosure at the U.S. presidential and world leader level and secrets he’s learned about Roswell and other real and alleged UFO incidents. Needless to say, Leach was characteristically excited.
“I am fascinated with the subject, and you can be certain the next time I run into the retired colonel, we’ll share a glass of fine champagne and maybe a little caviar and talk a little more about the phenomena.”
Robin Leach had reportedly been hospitalized since November when he suffered a stroke in the Mexican resort city of Cabo San Lucas. Tributes are already pouring in from around the world from the rich and famous who knew him. Did he also get a message from space? After what would be his last conversation with Leach, Lee Speigel said Robin wished for this:
“Maybe for my eventual bucket list, we should try for one more UFO encounter trip!”
Champagne wishes, caviar dreams and UFO visits, Robin.
Footprints of a huge unknown creature discovered on bottom Pacific Ocean
Footprints of a huge unknown creature discovered on bottom Pacific Ocean
At the bottom of the Pacific deep sea, a diving robot has discovered a series of mysterious tracks that cannot be explained geologically.
For this reason, marine biologists now assume that the patterns originate from large organisms. But no known marine animal seems to be the right explanation.
As the team around Leigh Marsh of the National Oceanography Centre of the University of Southampton recently reported in the journal "Royal Society Open Science", the impressions are in the Pacific Clarion-Clipperton zone between Mexico and Hawaii, according to grenswissenschaft-aktuell.
The exploratory diving robot came across more than 3,500 of the impressions in the ground, which averaged almost 2.5 meters long and were around 13 centimeters deep.
The sonar images show that these impressions are also not randomly distributed and form slightly curvy traces, as the researchers around Marsh "already remind us of a series of footprints". Although the impressions seem to be of different ages, they seem to be traces of more recent times.
While there is no known geological process that can explain these traces, the researchers suspect that they are the impressions of an organism.
The problem: The traces in the clay sediment can be found at a depth of around 4,000 meters and thus in a zone in which there should be no living creatures that can leave such large impressions.
The scientists now want to seek direct evidence for the cause of the mysterious imprints in the seabed.
White UFO Seen Shooting Pass Passenger Jet Near Thailand, Aug 20, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
White UFO Seen Shooting Pass Passenger Jet Near Thailand, Aug 20, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 20, 2018
Location of sighting: Over ocean near Thailand.
Watching this video I noticed the UFO has a rectangle shape. I darkened the screenshots to make it stand out more. The UFO passed by quickly and was only visible for a few seconds, but that was enough. Its speed, its shape and its angle of trajectory all point to this craft being an alien ship. Because a UFO is air tight in space, they can also work under water, and this craft probably came from an underwater alien base nearby. Since water covers 75% of the Earths surface and few humans are on the ocean...UFO traffic is probably higher there.
Did you know that Christopher Columbus saw a UFO? While patrolling the deck of the Santa Maria at about 10:00 PM on October 11, 1492, Columbus thought he saw "a light glimmering at a great distance." He hurriedly summoned Pedro Gutierrez, "a gentleman of the king's bedchamber," who also saw the light. After a short time it vanished, only to reappear several times during the night, each time dancing up and down "in sudden and passing gleams." The light, first seen four hours before land was sighted, was never explained."
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Eyewitness states:
Video was casually recording during a flight back from thailand,upon reviewing the footage this sphere was noticed..its authentic no editing.
If you met this lab-created critter over your beach vacation, you'd swear you saw a baby ray. In fact, the tiny, flexible swimmer is the product of a team of diverse scientists. They have built the most successful artificial animal yet. This disruptive technology opens the door much wider for lifelike robots and artificial intelligence.
Like most disruption, it started with a simple idea. Kit Kevin Parker, PhD, a Harvard professor researching how to build a human heart, saw his daughter entranced by watching stingrays at the New England Aquarium in Boston. He wondered if he could engineer a muscle that could move in the same sinuous, undulating fashion. The quest for a material led to creating an artificial ray with a 3-D-printed rubber body at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard. Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Michigan, and Stanford University's Medical Center joined the team.
They reinforced the soft rubber body with a 3-D-printed gold skeleton so thin it functions like cartilage. Geneticists adapted rat heart cells so they could respond to light by contracting. Then, they were grown in a carefully arranged pattern on the rubber and around the gold skeleton.
The muscular circuitry is one of the most interesting parts of the research, and there's more about it in this video:
The birth of biohybrid beings
The new engineered animal responds to light so well scientists were able to guide it through an obstacle course 15 times its length using strong and weak light pulses.
The study authors write, "Our ray outperformed existing locomotive biohybrid systems in terms of speed, distance traveled, and durability (six days), demonstrating the potential of self-propelled, phototactically activated tissue-engineered robots."
What biohybrid mean for robots and artificial intelligence
Science of this type is fundamental for engineering special-purpose creations such as artificial worms that sniff out and eat cancer. Or bionic body parts for those who have suffered accidents or disease. Imagine having little swimmers in your system that rush to the site of a medical emergency such as a stroke. The promise of sensor-rich soft tissue frees robots to move more easily and yet not be cut off from needed input. Sensitized robot soft tissue could perform without the energy-sucking heaviness of metal or the artificial barrier of hard-plastic exoskeletons.
Thanks to disruptive, cross-disciplinary applied science like this, entrepreneurs in the next few years will be able to play on the border of what life is, what alive means, and what life can be. Expect to see companies use biohybrid beings to commercialize applications that solve some of the largest, and most lucrative, challenges we face today.
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REMAINS OF ANCIENT EXTRATERRESTRIAL LABORATORY DISCOVERED IN CHINA
REMAINS OF ANCIENT EXTRATERRESTRIAL LABORATORY DISCOVERED IN CHINA
Thirteen years ago, a group of Chinese researchers located and explored an ancient structure so unusual that an extraterrestrial hypothesis was promptly taken into consideration.
The fascinating ruins were discovered in the remote wilderness that makes up most of the intersection between China’s Qinghai province and the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Throughout history, humans have seldom settled in this harsh and inhospitable area. Only occasionally, migrant herdsmen pass through the mountainous regions to the north.
No industrial facilities can be found in the zone, much less the remnants of civilizations with advanced metalworking capabilities.
Despite this, atop a rocky ridge called Mt Baigong lies a pyramid-shaped ruin with three triangular entrances. Two of them are collapsed but the remaining one leads into an artificially-dug cave going deep into the heart of the mountain. Embedded in the cave walls and floor are hundreds of ancient metal pipes, arranged in what appears to have been a sophisticated network of unknown purpose and origin.
The rusted pipes range from toothpick-sized to 1.5 feet in diameter and connect the cave to nearby Toson Hu, a saltwater lake 300 feet away. On the northern shore of Lake Toson, erosion exposed hundreds more of these archaic ducts. This detail led researchers into believing whoever built the pipework either used it as a drainage system or as a way to pump saltwater from the lake.
Baffled by the complexity of the network of pipes, the researchers took samples of the strange metallic tubes to the Beijing Institute of Geology for analysis. That’s when they had their biggest surprise.
Making use of a process called thermoluminescence dating, the scientists were able to analyze the pipes’ crystalline structure and determined they had been subjected to extreme heat approximately 140-150,000 years ago. In other words, the pipes had been smelted long before humans started dabbling in metalworking. An advanced civilization building complex structures 145,000 before us? Could it have been alien?
The chemical analysis revealed even stranger details. The pipes had been smelted using a strange alloy composed of 92% common metals and minerals like ferric oxide, silicon dioxide and calcium oxide but it also contained 8% unknown materials. This intriguing aspect did not prove the pipes were out of this world but it did pave the way for speculation.
Unable to identify the exotic 8 percent, researchers turned to the remaining constituents and discovered another puzzling aspect: the pipes contained a proportion of silica that is specific to Mars.
The news fell like a bomb, the story quickly went viral and people started flocking to Mt Baigong to gawk at the anomalous artifacts. They even erected a monument with a satellite dish on top, a direct reference to the efforts to contact extraterrestrial civilizations.
Chilling, disturbing, and incomprehensible are these images. The year 2010, and a discovery is made. Images are provided with an unarguable truth that this is not only real, but shocking. Beasts of the bible make up what we know as the earth’s crust. Figures of common Biblical beasts like the bear and the dragon, are not only found in the images of the earth, but are proven in relative size and figuration. These images are haunting. What will this discovery lead to? How will these images change how we think of the world? These are questions we must answer when discovering things that flip the script of what we thought we once knew.
As a consequence, the Chinese Government closed off the area and posted guards at the entrance to the cave. This attitude is highly suspicious, to say the least.
Skeptics say the Baigong pipes are nothing more than fossilized tree roots that somehow got lodged in sediment, hardening over the years and eventually becoming the unusual structures that stumped everyone. If this is the case, why would the authorities step in and have the military guard the site?
This situation led conspiracy theorists to believe Mt Baigong was once visited by an advanced extraterrestrial race, possibly originating from Mars. For whatever reason, they constructed an artificial pyramid on top of the mountain, housing what appears to have been a laboratory. This theory is intriguing for a number of reasons.
The entire area surrounding the mountain consists of wide expanses of flat terrain that would have been an ideal landing site for large spacecraft. The mountaintop makes for a perfect vantage point one could use to oversee landings and takeoffs.
Recently, mineral explorations have shown the area contains various ore deposits. Any industrious civilization, no matter how advanced, could see the utility of extracting and managing these resources. In order to do so, they would have needed some type of energy source and that is where the pipes’ purpose might become obvious.
The Chinese scientists wondered why the pipes went into saltwater when another freshwater lake was even closer to the pyramid. Why the need for water containing a greater percentage of sodium chloride? Let’s examine some of our own activities and perhaps we can find an answer.
Modern chemistry and manufacturing makes use of a process called electrolysis, which basically requires passing an electric current through a solution or a molten substance. This triggers a chemical reaction which allows for the separation of materials. When water undergoes electrolysis, it breaks down into hydrogen and oxygen but this only works when saltwater is used. And it’s worth noting that a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen is commonly used as rocket fuel.
Lake Toson
Admittedly, this is all speculation but when combined, the totality of the details start painting a clear picture for the open-minded:
• Scientists discover ancient artifacts that predate modern history. • Evidence suggests they were part of a much more complex structure. • Complexity of said structure suggests the presence and activity of an advanced civilization, possibly from Mars. • Government intervenes and prevents access.
This scenario seems all too familiar to overlook.
Naturally, some have claimed the Baigong pipes are nothing more than a hoax. Unfortunately, this proposition seems to ignore the facts. The Chinese Government is well-known for its attitude towards those who sabotage the country’s image in the eyes of the rest of the world. It would have taken measures to punish those responsible for spreading false information rather than occupying the ancient pyramid.
Whatever the truth behind this perplexing discovery might be, one thing is certain: it doesn’t seem to fit in any of our traditional textbooks.
Vast 3,000-Year-Old Underground Tunnels And Bodies Discovered At Ancient Aztec Temple
Vast 3,000-Year-Old Underground Tunnels And Bodies Discovered At Ancient Aztec Temple
Old technology and new came together recently at a Peruvian Aztec temple when centuries-old archaeology combined with 21st-century robotics.
The footage was revealed showing underground tunnels said to be 3,000 years old with bodies inside them after people were sacrificed following ancient rituals.
Archaeology Meets 21st Century Technology to Find Bodies in Tunnel
The archaeologists unearthed the tunnels at the temple in the Andean area of Peru in Ancash, by managing to crawl along with inch their way through small passageways so they could gain access to the site. The team of archaeologists discovered a maze situated in underground galleries in the place the Chavin de Huantar temple was built. However, their adventures came to an abrupt end when they found a tunnel they were unable to traverse as it was too small. Not giving up they turned to new technology and robots.
The robot used by the team had wheels, according to the team, it is able to find fragments of ceramic, along with tools along with human skeletons. Archaeologists guided the remote-controlled robot into the small tunnel with a camera on top of it. The robot managed to take photos inside the tunnel that revealed it stretched a long way. The archaeologists realized there was something in the tunnel when they spotted objects in the foreground.
Tunnels Date Back to Between 1,200 and 200 BC
The 35 underground tunnels are interlinked, with archaeologists dating them to between 1,200 and 200 years BC. John Rick, a Stanford University professor said:
"We have found at least three people in one of the galleries. One of them is a small boy, the other one is a teenager and the other one is a young man, between 20 and 30 years old."
Priests Along with Authority Figures Used Architecture to Portray Higher Powers
It is thought that priests along with those in authority used the architecture of the tunnels to carry out rituals using drugs, light manipulation, and noise. The pilgrims could not explain the happenings inside the tunnels, which led them to believe that the leaders in Chavin had higher powers. The bodies inside the tunnel are thought to have been people who had been sacrificed. The archaeologists said that one of the skeletons found had been lying face down on the ground.
The discovery of the tunnels along with the bodies in them is said to be one of the most important of archaeological findings in the last 50 years. It is also thought the tunnels were used in the rescue of 72 hostages in Lima, the capital of Peru, during 1997. The hostages were from the Japanese embassy.
Remarkable NASA Footage Shows A Strange Meeting In Earth’s Orbit
Remarkable NASA Footage Shows A Strange Meeting In Earth’s Orbit
A couple of days ago, the ISS camera unwillingly gave out a strange meeting between two bizarre objects that took place above our heads.
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The video was uploaded to YouTube by keen-eyed watcher Streetcap1 and it immediately attracted the attention of UFO enthusiasts. The 7 minute video shows two golden, metallic objects slowly approaching each other but the footage cuts off before the conclusion we were all expecting.
The incident took place in front of the International Space Station and it’s intriguing how this time the feed wasn’t abruptly cut.
During the first 4 minutes of the video, the two objects exhibit a strange transparency and this has given skeptics reason to believe the apparitions are nothing but image artifacts caused by lens flare.
But starting from the 4 minute mark, the shape of both objects starts becoming more apparent. They also appear to make subtle adjustments to their direction and speed, all while lighting up and slowly altering their shape.
Judging by the reactions of YouTube commenters, this incident left the strong impression of an orbital meeting that should have remained secret.
“There seems to be a changing three-dimensional appearance around both objects as light moves around them between 4 and 5 minutes. Both objects appear to have spheres attached.”
“When I review this footage over and over, I feel that the right side image could be the Hubble satellite.The one on the left I ponder about and think is this the Black Knight? This object definitely shows some similar symmetry.”
This strange video allows us to draw some interesting conclusions.
First of all, the two objects’ speed matches that of the International Space Station. Since they remained in view for at least the duration of the video, we can assume the occupants of the ISS were well-aware of the presence of the two, presumably alien objects.
Second, when in orbit around Earth or any other planet/satellite, two spacecraft that have matching speeds usually attempt to dock with each other. This gives us reason to suspect that one or both objects met with the ISS, before or after the footage was taken.
This wouldn’t be the first time such a contact took place. Last year, former NASA engineer Mark McClelland claimed to have witnessed a meeting between astronauts and a 9 foot tall alien being in the cargo bay of a space shuttle. A similar scenario could have just unfolded aboard the ISS.
Asteroid Billiards: This Wild Idea to Protect Earth Just Might Work
Asteroid Billiards: This Wild Idea to Protect Earth Just Might Work
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of a dangerous asteroid streaking toward Earth.
Credit: European Space Agency
Protecting Earth from dangerous space rocks might require a little asteroid-on-asteroid violence.
Researchers are proposing to add a new arrow to our planetary-defense quiver: steering small, benign near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) into big and hazardous ones, in a dramatic, high-stakes game of cosmic billiards.
"It'll be a little while before we can do this sort of thing, but I think it does show promise," David Dunham, chief mission design engineer at the Arizona-based company KinetX Aerospace, said last month during a presentation with NASA's Future In-Space Operations (FISO) working group.
A cosmic shooting gallery
Earth zooms around the sun in a shooting gallery, sharing space with millions of NEAs. These space rocks slam into our planet on a regular basis, as the world was reminded on Feb. 15, 2013.
On that day, a meteor exploded in the sky over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, generating a powerful shock wave that shattered thousands of windows in the buildings below. About 1,500 people were injured, most of them by flying shards of broken glass.
Scientists think the Chelyabinsk object was just 65 feet (20 meters) or so wide. And there are plenty of bigger — and therefore more dangerous — space rocks cruising around out there in the dark depths, the vast majority of them unseen and unknown.
For example, just one-third of the NEAs at least 460 feet (140 m) wide have been found and tracked to date, NASA officials have said. This knowledge gap is a bit distressing; the odds that Earth will get slammed by such a big asteroid in the next 100 years stand at 1 percent, Dunham said — the same probability that you (or me, or anyone) will die in an auto accident. (There is some good news, however: NASA scientists think they've found more than 90 percent of the mountain-size NEAs out there, the ones capable of ending civilization if they were to hit us. And none of these monsters pose a threat for the foreseeable future.)
But we don't have to just sit back and wait for destruction. Indeed, scientists and engineers around the world are working on ways to keep Earth out of asteroids' crosshairs.
The most sensational of these is the nuclear-bomb strategy, which was made famous by the 1998 disaster film "Armageddon." But the real-life version of this technique would rely entirely on robotic spacecraft, not nobly self-sacrificing miners.
And researchers regard nukes as a last-resort strategy, to be employed only when the asteroid is sufficiently large, and has been detected so late in the game, that no other method would work. Blasting the asteroid apart with a bomb, after all, would generate lots of space-rock shrapnel that could itself imperil Earth. [Photos: Asteroids in Deep Space]
If time is on our side — if we have years or, ideally, decades — we could employ "kinetic impactors," slamming one or more (non-nuke-carrying) spacecraft into the threatening asteroid to knock it off course, researchers have said. We could also employ the "gravity tractor" method, which would launch a probe out to fly along with the dangerous NEA. Eventually, this spacecraft's modest gravitational tug would nudge the space rock onto a benign trajectory.
And then there's the asteroid-billiards idea.
A diagram showing how the asteroid-billiards deflection strategy would work.
Credit: Natan Eismont (Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Science)
Fighting rock with rock
This concept, which Dunham laid out in his FISO talk, is basically a scaled-up version of the kinetic-impactor method.
It involves launching a robotic spacecraft out to a small NEA — one 33 feet (10 m) wide or so. The probe would land on (and anchor itself to) the asteroid, then fire up its thrusters to set up a "gravity assist" flyby of Earth. (Alternatively, the probe could pluck a boulder off a larger asteroid and then fly off with that rock, Dunham said.)
This speed-boosting, trajectory-altering flyby would steer the spacecraft-asteroid combo toward the hazardous object. As it neared its target, the rock-riding probe would refine its course using onboard ranging instruments, as well as reflectors and transponders placed on the big and dangerous rock, Dunham said.
The collision, when it came, would be much more powerful and effective than a smashup generated by a naked spacecraft serving as the kinetic impactor, he said.
There would be a lot of additional mass and momentum involved, after all. Consider, for example, that the Mbozi meteorite in Tanzania, which scientists first spotted in 1930, is just 10 feet (3 m) long but weighs 18 tons (16 metric tons).
There are enough small NEAs flying around in Earth's neighborhood to make this strategy a real possibility, Dunham said. Indeed, calculations that he, Natan Eismont of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and their colleagues performed suggest that humanity could feasibly snag a dozen or so such nearby asteroids and steer them into holding-pattern orbits; these cosmic projectiles could then be "activated" as needed.
"So, you'd have a whole bunch of these things ready to throw at any asteroid coming towards you," Dunham said.
This asteroid arsenal could be especially useful for dealing with long-period comets, which spend most of their lives in the dark depths of the outer solar system and are therefore very difficult to find and track, he added.
The asteroid-snagging idea has applications beyond planetary defense, Dunham said: Pre-positioned space rocks could serve as inviting targets for crewed exploration efforts. Indeed, NASA had been developing just such a plan until last year, when the Trump administration canceled the agency's Asteroid Redirect Mission.
Dunham stressed that the asteroid-billiards concept needs to be studied in much more detail before it can be fully implemented. He'd like to see the idea demonstrated first on a benign target rock, citing NASA's proposed Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission as an illustrative example.
If all goes according to plan, DART would slam a spacecraft into the 500-foot-wide (150 m) moon of the asteroid (65803) Didymos in October 2022, in a test of the textbook kinetic-impactor deflection strategy.
144 aardbevingen in 7 dagen in Peru, Venezuela, Indonesië: experten vrezen voor “superaardbeving”
Mogelijk zware gevolgen voor westkust van Verenigde Staten
144 aardbevingen in 7 dagen in Peru, Venezuela, Indonesië: experten vrezen voor “superaardbeving”
Beelden van na de aardbeving in Lombok.
FOTO: AP
Talloze regio’s in de Pacifische Ring van Vuur zoals Peru, Venezuela en Indonesië kregen op zeven dagen tijd maar liefst 144 aardbevingen te verwerken. Volgens experts is het de voorbode van een “superaardbeving”. Zo’n schok kan een magnitude hebben van maar liefst 8.0 of 9.0 op de schaal van Richter. De gevolgen daarvan kunnen dan ook ongelooflijk zwaar zijn, waarschuwen ze.
In het totaal is er sprake van maar liefst 144 aardbevingen in 7 dagen tijd. En dat maakt seismologen ongerust: zij vrezen immers dat die bevingen een zogenaamde “superaardbeving” triggeren, eentje die nog meer schade kan berokkenen dan de voorgangers. “De tektonische platen blijven immers tegen elkaar schuren, waardoor een grote hoeveelheid spanning zich ophoopt, die dan plots kan vrijkomen in een veel zwaardere schok”, aldus Chris Goldfinger, een gerenommeerd seismoloog aan de Oregon State Universiteit.
Zo’n aardbeving kan een magnitude hebben van maar liefst 8.0 of 9.0 op de schaal van Richter, legt Goldfinger uit. De gevolgen daarvan zijn ongelooflijk zwaar. “In zo’n geval voelen drie minuten aan als een eeuwigheid. Een beving van die duur is echt heel erg lang. We zouden talloze bruggen en snelwegen verliezen, de kustlijn zal moeten worden afgesloten en landschappen zullen nooit meer hetzelfde zijn”, berekende Goldfinger voor zijn eigen woonplaats in Oregon City, Californië.
De regio die valt onder de ‘Ring of Fire’ of de Pacifische Ring van Vuur.FOTO: UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Volgens de seismoloog is het onmogelijk om precies te voorspellen waar en wanneer de beving zal doorgaan. Wat wel duidelijk is, is dat die “superaardbeving” vooral zou toeslaan in de zogenaamde Pacifische Ring van Vuur, ‘The Ring of Fire’. Die regio loopt van Zuid-Amerika tot Australië en via het westen van de Verenigde Staten naar het oosten van Azië. In dat gebied vindt maar liefst 90 procent van alle geologische activiteit op aarde plaats. Dat wil zeggen dat er niet alleen aardbevingen, maar ook frequent vulkaanuitbarstingen of tsunami’s voorkomen.
Ook kleinere breuken onder hoogspanning
Wat de situatie voor de Verenigde Staten nog gevaarlijker maakt, is het feit dat ook de minder bekende Cascadiabreuk en de San Andreasbreuk ook onder hoogspanning staan.
De San Andreasbreuk zou volgens berekeningen van de Universiteiten van Californië en Arizona eens in de 45 tot 144 jaar een beving veroorzaken, maar dat is ondertussen al geleden van in 1857. “Die rustige seismische periode zonder stevige aardschokken in Californië kan niet blijven duren”, zo waarschuwt seismoloog James Dolan van de Universiteit van Southern California.
Ook de Cascadiabreuklijn loopt van Vancouver in Canada tot het noorden van Californië. Om de ongeveer 230 jaar leidt de spanning op die breuklijn tot een beving. Maar de laatste aardbeving door die breuklijn is intussen al 313 jaar geleden. Toen was er een aardbeving die volgens onderzoekers een tsunami van 10 meter hoog zou veroorzaakt hebben en de Amerikaanse kustlijn 1 tot 2 meter heeft laten zakken.
Niet of, maar wanneer
Volgens experts is de vraag intussen niet meer óf die er zal komen, maar wel wanneer dat zal gebeuren. Zij maken zo veel mogelijk berekeningen om de schok zo goed mogelijk te kunnen inschatten, als het zich voordoet. “Bijna 13.000 mensen kunnen sterven bij zo’n aardbeving en de daaropvolgende tsunami. En nog eens 27.000 mensen zullen gewond raken, een miljoen mensen zal op de vlucht moeten slaan”, zei Kenneth Murphy van FEMA, het Federal Emergency Management Agency van het departement Homeland Security van de Verenigde Staten, eerder al op basis van berekeningen van dat agentschap. “Voor één keer hoop ik dat de wetenschap het niet bij het rechte eind heeft.”
In June 2017, a contingent of congressional representatives recommended dividing the Air Force’s Space Force mission into two separate undertakings: to focus on terrestrial aviation-related matters and to concentrate operational matters in the realm of space.
When President Trump announced that he was directing the Pentagon to establish a sixth branch of the armed services, the proposal was met with skepticism, lots of rolling eyes and plenty of comedic jabs by late-night TV comedians.
In the UFO community, there were many who viewed the Space Force call as another step toward UFO and ET disclosure. The doomsters saw the effort as an ominous hint that some nefarious alien invasion force might be on its way here. But let’s take a deep breath and examine the concept of Space Force with a practical view.
During the 1970s, it was just the Americans and Russians who were doing things in space. But in the last 50 years, dozens of countries have been engaged in space research and have been involved with putting commercial and military assets into Earth’s orbit. The Chinese put a rover on the moon in early 2016, for example.
So there are lots of players in the space game. And there are plenty of commercial businesses in the aerospace marketplace ready to sell launch technology to those who can pay for it.
The late-night comics might have you believe that Space Force will be Marines in spacesuits flying around with laser rifles, which sounds like something out of a pulp comic book. But this is the 21st century, so wake up: Space Force will be handled with robotic devices.
Consider, for a moment, a rogue country like North Korea or a well-funded terrorist with access to launch technology. Imagine if they decided to destroy key American communications satellites using missiles launched with low-yield nuclear weapons.
Cable television feeds and satellite-supported internet pipelines would be gone, and our domestic and international telephone capacity cut to a trickle. Suddenly our country would be plunged back into the 1960s, while our commercial economy would grind to a standstill. Think of it as another Pearl Harbor.
It might sound too fantastic for some people, yet the threat is very real and our enemies are out there. It’s easy to make a laundry list of folks who don’t like the United States. Many of these despicable actors are unable to create that kind of technology, but they would certainly buy it if they had the financial resources.
Some have suggested that “this Space Force stuff is NASA’s job.” Yet NASA is strictly a research operation. Its mission statement states, “To pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.”
During the presidency of George Washington, American commercial shipping was being seriously disrupted by four North African Muslim states in the southern Mediterranean. Congress passed the Naval Act of 1794, which established a permanent naval force to protect American commercial interests on the high seas around the world.
The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining freedom of the seas.
In those colonial times, our commercial interests were driven by our country being a seafaring nation. But what a lot of people do not consider now is that humans have become a space-faring species. We have substantial commercial assets in Earth’s orbit that our economy and our daily lives depend upon.
So is Space Force a dumb idea? Not in the least! Perhaps a good mission statement for Space Force would be this: to maintain, train, equip combat-ready, operational space-borne resources capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining free access to the realm of space.
Painting by Mrs. Lincoln LaPaz of a baffling green fireball seen numerous times over the Sandia mountains east of Albuquerque in late 1952. Mrs. LaPaz's husband, head of the University of New Mexico's Institute of Meteoritics, investigated the sightings but couldn't find an explanation. The painting was published in TIME Magazine in November 1951 and in LIFE magazine a few months later, an illustration of the nation's Cold War obsession with UFOs.
On February 29, 1949, the Los Alamos, New Mexico Skyliner newspaper ran a pieceon what it referred to, in typical newspaper parlance, as “flying saucers”—and a possible conspiracy around them:
“Los Alamos now has flying green lights. These will ‘o wisps seen generally about 2 a.m., have alerted the local constabulary and their presence is being talked about in Santa Fe bars. But local wheels deny any official knowledge of the sky phenomena. Each one passes the buck to another.”
The story ended with, “Have you seen a green light lately?”
In fact, a great many had, and would continue to do so—enough to prompt TIMEmagazine, in November 1951, to publish a piece on the phenomenon called “Great Balls of Fire.” What makes the multiple sightings of “flying green lights” in New Mexico in 1948 and onward such a significant chapter in UFO history is exactly that—there were multiple sightings.
That was unnerving enough. But most alarming—particularly to the United States government—was that the sightings were concentrated around the Los Alamos and Sandia atomic-weapons laboratories. And other highly sensitive military installations, including radar stations and fighter-interceptor bases, weren’t far away. That meant the sightings were reported by typically cool-headed pilots, weather observers, scientists, intelligence officers and other defense personnel, and led many to suspect the fireballs were Soviet spy devices.
Like a meteor—but not
On the night of December 5, 1948, two separate plane crews reported having seen a “green ball of fire,” heading west to east. In one of these instances, the fireball raced head-on toward the plane itself, compelling the rattled pilot to swerve the plane out of the way.
One pilot, sometime later, would vividly describe the green fireballs: “Take a soft ball and paint it with some kind of fluorescent paint that will glow a bright green in the dark… Then have someone take the ball out about 100 feet in front of you and about 10 feet above you. Have him throw the ball right at your face, as hard as he can throw it. That’s what a green fireball looks like.”
When a crew of intelligence officers, led by Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, head of the University of New Mexico’s Institute of Meteoritics, plotted the fireball’s flight path and scoured the area a meteorite would have hit, they found nothing—no meteor fragments, no debris, no craters, no evidence of fire.
The inexplicable sightings continued in the area, with sightings on December 6th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 20th and 28th. December 20th proved a turning point, literally, and a particularly alarming one for those clinging to the theory that these were meteors: The balls of fire descended from the heavens at a 45-degree angle, then abruptly leveled off into a gravity-defying horizontal flight path. And, as LaPaz would note in a letter to the district commanding officer of the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations, “none of the green fireballs has a train of sparks of a dust cloud…”
In the years since, there have been reports of green-fireball sightings around the world, from Alberta, Canada to South Africa. In June 2018, a green fireball made an impressive appearance at a concert performance in the Netherlands by the Foo Fighters (coincidentally, the band named for the U.S. pilots’ term for UFOs during World War II). And according to the International Meteor Organization there were more than 170 reported sightings of the fireballs that night, in at least five European countries. The band’s reaction, according to their official Twitter account: “The sky IS a neighborhood.”
An alternate form of lightning?
The phenomenon came to the attention of the Australian physicist Dr. Stephen Hughes in 2006, when several green fireballs were spotted in the sky in Queensland and New Zealand. “I came to the conclusion that there was something a bit strange going on,” he says.
Hughes went on to write a paper that theorized a possible connection between green fireballs and the well-documented, but still ultimately little-understood, phenomenon of ball lightning—mysterious hovering orbs of electricity that have only been taken seriously by science since the 1960s, well after the New Mexico sightings.
There is still no conclusive theory of what ball lightning is, but hypotheses include antimatter, light bubbles, microwave interference, retinal after-images, electromagnetic knots, even primordial black holes.
Dr. Hughes’ own theory of ball lightning, which he believes fits the description of the New Mexico fireballs: electrified air. “It occurred to me, sometimes when something shoots through the atmosphere, like a meteor, it could be creating a conductive pathway from the ionosphere—a whole ocean of plasma above the Earth—down to the ground. The air becomes electrified.”
The phosphorescent green color, Dr. Hughes says, is due to ionized oxygen, which also accounts for the striking greens of the aurora borealis, also known as the Northern lights.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where nuclear weapons were being designed for the Manhattan Project during WWII. Numerous green fireball sightings were reported in the vicinity of this and several other highly sensitive military and weapons-development sites.
(Credit: Jeffrey Markowitz/Getty Images)
Cold War spy craft…or extraterrestrial probes?
This potential explanation could not have occurred to those on the ground in New Mexico in 1948. After interviewing more than a hundred witnesses, Dr. LaPaz went on to advise the military and the Atomic Energy Commission of his opinion that the fireballs were likely either top-secret “unconventional defensive devices” being tested by the U.S.—or Soviet spying devices.
When Edward J. Ruppelt, director of the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book UFO investigations, visited the Los Alamos National Laboratory in early 1952 to interview scientists and technicians, he noted that they became particularly animated when the idea of interplanetary vehicles was suggested.
“They had been doing a lot of thinking about this, they said, and they had a theory,” wrote Ruppelt in The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1953). They thought the fireballs were actually extraterrestrial probes “projected into our atmosphere from a ‘spaceship’ hovering several hundred miles above the Earth.”
Officially, government investigators concluded that the green fireballs were some kind of never-before-seen natural phenomenon. Interest in, and investigation into, the fireballs dropped off at the outbreak of the Korean War.
“Writing these off as natural phenomena did not solve the problem,” says UFO researcher Jan Aldrich, who believes the green fireballs were related to aerial phenomena spotted in Fort Hood, Texas, in 1949. “It just pushed it under the table.”
Nuclear fallout debris?
But that hasn’t stopped UFO researchers from speculating more recently.
In his 2008 book UFO and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, Robert Hastings, drawing on declassified official documents, suggests that the fireball trajectories align with those of fallout-debris clouds associated with top-secret atomic testing.
But according to Dr. Hughes, there’s another reason to suspect those green fireballs were buoyant balls of plasma: All those unpredictable movements, which suggest their paths may have been following electric field lines above the Earth.
“Personally, I think that the erratic change in direction is reasonably conclusive proof that the phenomenon is electrical in nature,” says Dr. Hughes, citing the more familiar sharp angles of a lightning bolt streaking through the sky.
“If the ball lightning phenomenon was a solid mass, there would be enormous inertia, making it very difficult to explain the source of energy for such extreme acceleration. In the case of a plasma ball, an internal energy source is not required—in the same way that a bolt of lightning does not need some kind of electrical rocket motor to rapidly change direction on the way to the ground or between clouds.”
Still, at this stage, it’s hard to shake the sense that equating the green fireballs with ball lightning is tantamount to explaining a mystery with another mystery.
“I’m a believer in the sense I believe that UFOs exist,” says Dr. Hughes, who finds the name apt: “They are unidentified flying objects. I just don’t think there are little green men at the controls.
An illustration depicting Scoutmaster D.S. 'Sonny' DesVergers' encounter with a flying saucer that burned him. (Credit: The Project Blue Book Archive)
On a humid, August night in 1952, scoutmaster D.S. “Sonny” DesVergers emerged burned and barely coherent from a dense palmetto grove in the South Florida Everglades. He claimed he had encountered an unidentified flying object that discharged a fireball, which left him singed and barely able to see.
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, chief UFO investigator for the U.S. Air Force, would later label the event “the best hoax in UFO history.” But the DesVergers incident remains one of the most intriguing cases from Project Blue Book, the Air Force’s now-declassified investigations into UFOs—because it wasn’t just a sighting incident, but one involving a purported attack. To this day, it’s still unsolved.
Cue appropriately spooky “X-Files” music.
A series of investigations conducted by the U.S. Air Force between 1952 and 1969, Project Blue Book was tasked with scientifically analyzing UFO-related incidents to determine whether they were a threat to national security. Some say the project was commissioned to find rational explanations for these mysterious phenomena, to help quell a growing Cold War-era public hysteria over unidentified objects in the sky. UFO fever reached such intensity that in April 1952, four months before the DesVergers incident, LIFE magazine published a story called “Have We Visitors from Space?”
Captain Edward Ruppelt, standing between the two seated men, with other officers of the U.S. Air Force at a 1952 news conference where they announced the installment of more than 200 cameras in attempts to obtain data on the unidentified objects reported from various parts of the nation. (Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
Pulling over to inspect a bright flash of light
As Ruppelt would later chronicle in his 1956 book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, on the evening of August 19, 1952, hardware-store clerk and Scoutmaster DesVergers, 30, was driving a group of Boy Scouts home when he saw a bright light flash over Military Trail near West Palm Beach, Florida. Thinking it may be a downed plane or car accident, DesVergers pulled onto the shoulder of the highway so he could take a closer look. Armed with a machete and flashlights, he entered the palmetto grove near where he saw the lights, leaving the three boys in the vehicle with instructions to alert the residents of a nearby farmhouse if he did not return in 15 minutes.
According to the declassified documents, after about four minutes of hacking through the bush DesVergers entered a clearing in the grove. The first thing he described was an acute, nauseating smell and then the feeling of somebody or something watching him. He next experienced a sensation of oven-like heat coming from above. Looking up, DesVergers said, he could not see any stars as he was standing beneath a hovering object.
The object was circular, DesVergers recounted, dull black, with no seams, about 30 feet in diameter with a height of 10 feet, a convex dome atop it and the bottom edge lit with a phosphorescent glow.
Enveloped by a red mist
What happened next is what separates DesVergers’ encounter from thousands of other UFO sightings: As he slowly moved backward, he recalled, he heard a noise like metal against metal, “like a hatch opening,” after which a red, flare-like light came from the side of the object and slowly moved toward him. (DesVergers constantly referred to it as a “ship” when recounting the tale to the authorities) As he placed his hands over his face—fists closed, hand over each eye—the red ball of light grew into a red mist, engulfing him. It was then, he recounted, that he lost consciousness.
When he awoke, DesVergers said, he was leaning against a tree, but could not see properly as his eyes burned. Scrambling back through the palmettos, his eyesight slowly returning to normal, he burst, incoherent, out onto the highway, where he was met by the boys and local authorities.
Sketches by DesVergers in the Project Blue Book file further explaining his encounter.
(Credit: The Project Blue Book Archive)
‘I’ve never seen anyone as terrified as he was’
The three scouts, Bobby Ruffing, 12, David Rowan, 11, and Chuck Stevens, 10, remained in the car after DesVergers entered the grove. Later, in recounting what he witnessed to authorities, Ruffing said he initially saw a semi-circle of white lights descending into the trees. Ruffing also recounted seeing a red light through the brush, as did Rowan and Stevens, who told of also seeing DesVergers’ flashlight through the trees before going dark. That’s when the scouts headed to the nearby farmhouse for help; a Palm Beach County deputy and Lake Worth constable responded to the farmer’s call for assistance.
Returning to the site of the abandoned vehicle almost an hour after DesVergers first said he saw the lights, the officers and scouts witnessed the scoutmaster emerge from the palmettos, waving his machete and babbling incoherently. “In all my 19 years of law-enforcement work, I’ve never seen anyone as terrified as he was,” the deputy is recorded as saying in Ruppelt’s investigation.
Back at the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office, DesVergers and the boys underwent questioning. Officers noted that the hair on DesVergers’ forearms was singed and the skin burned. They also noted three tiny burn holes in the bill of the scoutmaster’s cap.
Following procedure, the local authorities contacted relevant agencies with the incident report, which eventually made its way to Blue Book chief Ruppelt. He later described the case as “one of the weirdest UFO reports that I came up against.”
Grass samples taken from the site of the incident.
(Credit: The Project Blue Book Archive)
The mystery of the singed grass
Arriving in Florida soon after the encounter, Ruppelt and his team began their investigation, obtaining statements from all parties involved and taking grass and soil specimens from the clearing in which DesVergeres said the encounter took place. The latter evidence would prove to be the most inexplicable piece of the encounter puzzle.
“The fact that they documented and took samples at all is lucky, and one of the most interesting aspects of this case,” says Jeffrey Wilson, a private-industry analyst who examines noteworthy ground phenomenon. As co-founder of the Independent Crop Circle Researchers’ Association(ICCRA), Wilson investigates global circle phenomena. Though different to the crop circles he examines today, aspects of the DesVergers incident led him to further investigate.
As the grass specimens were being tested, DesVergers’ character would come under intense scrutiny, with authorities noting his other-than-honorable discharge from the U.S. Marines due to theft of a car, and what Florida locals would describe as his ability to tell tall tales. But when Ruppelt first interviewed DesVergers, he described the scoutmaster as likable, willing to cooperate and displaying the “immediate impression he was telling the truth.”
Taking into account the background checks on DesVergers, along with a return visit to the encounter site where he determined the Boy Scouts could not have witnessed DesVergers and the mysterious red light in the grove due to their distance and denseness of the foliage, Ruppelt would later call the entire event a hoax. DesVergers was painted as an opportunist and media-hungry conman who sold his story to The American Weekly newspaper the following year.
Though Ruppelt would come to believe the tale was fabricated, and he and his team would come up with dozens of ways the event could have been staged, they never managed to prove the incident was, in fact, a hoax. Their biggest stumbling block: the grass samples taken at the site.
After samples from the Florida clearing were sent to Battelle Memorial Institute (under contract with the USAF to provide scientific support to Project Blue Book), agronomists made some interesting findings: Though the soil remained consistent, the root structure of the plants in question were charred black, and the lower leaves had deteriorated as if by heat. The only way the lab could come close to duplicating the effect was to place live clumps of grass in a pan of sandy soil and heat it to about 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
Though Wilson has witnessed singed grass in his investigations into ground phenomenon, it has always been an occurrence above the soil, never the roots, as the lab findings in the DesVergers case indicate. Wilson says this is the only recorded example of such findings of which he is aware.
With those associated with the case no longer able to comment or add context (DesVergers and Ruppelt have both since died), the case remains unexplained. But according to Wilson, “Something unusual happened to the guy, and the physical evidence backed him up. That’s why I put the effort into checking this out.”
“Why would you go to the trouble of faking something like this?” he continued. “Why, and how, would he stage that? It doesn’t make any sense.”
In the good old days, the arrival of UFOs on the front page of America’s paper of record might have seemed like a loose-thread tear right through the fabric of reality — the closest that secular, space-race America could have gotten to a Second Coming. Two decades ago, or three, or six, we would’ve also felt we knew the script in advance, thanks to the endless variations pop culture had played for us already: civilizational conflicts to mirror the real-world ones Americans had been imagining in terror since the beginning of the Cold War.
But when, in December, the New York Timespublished an undisputed account of what might once have sounded like crackpot conspiracy theory — that the Pentagon had spent five years investigating “unexplained aerial phenomena” — the response among the paper’s mostly liberal readers, exhausted and beaten down by “recent events,” was markedly different from the one in those movies. The news that aliens might actually be visiting us, regularly and recently, didn’t provoke terror about a coming space-opera conflict but something much more like the Evangelical dream of the Rapture the same liberals might have mocked as kooky right-wing escapism in the George W. Bush years. “The truth is out there,” former senator Harry Reid tweeted, with a link to the story. Thank God, came the response through the Twitter vent. “Could extraterrestrials help us save the Earth?” went one typical reaction.
Suddenly, aliens were an escapist fantasy — but also more credible (legitimized by the government!) than mere fantasy. That Pentagon report, which featured two gripping videos of aerial encounters, was just one beat in a recent search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence (or SETI) drumroll: In October, an object passed through our solar system that looked an awful lot like a spaceship; astronomers spent much of 2016 arguing over whether the weird pulses of light coming from a distant star were actually evidence of an “alien megastructure.” An army of Silicon Valley billionaires are racing to make first contact, and our new superpowered telescopes are discovering more conceivably habitable planets every year.
Then, in March, a third video emerged, featuring a Navy encounter off the East Coast in 2015, with the group that released it hinting at an additional trove. “Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?” wondered a Washington Postop-ed — surely the first time the newspaper of Katharine Graham was raising a stink about aliens. The next week, President Trump seemed to announce he was creating an entirely new branch of the military: “We’ll call it the Space Force.” You could be forgiven for thinking you’d woken up in a science-fiction novel. At the very least, it is starting to seem non-crazy to believe. A recent study shows half the world already does.
Searching the Universe for Extraterrestrial Life: A Timeline
Alien dreams have always been powered by the desire for human importance in a vast, forgetful cosmos: We want to be seen so we know we exist. What’s unusual about the alien fantasy is that, unlike religion, nationalism, or conspiracy theory, it doesn’t place humans at the center of a grand story. In fact, it displaces them: Humans become, briefly, major players in a drama of almost inconceivable scale, the lasting lesson of which is, unfortunately: We’re total nobodies. That’s the lesson, at least, of a visit from aliens, who got here long before we were able to get there, wherever there is; if humans are the ones making first contact, we’re the advanced ones and the aliens are probably more like productive pond scum, which may be one reason we fantasize about those kinds of encounters a lot less than visits to Earth. Of course, when the aliens are the explorers, we’re the pond scum.
But a lot of people in the modern world will take that bargain, which should probably not surprise us given how dizzying, secular, and, um, alienating that world objectively is. Most conspiracy theory is fueled by a desire to see the universe as ultimately intelligible — the bargain being that things can make sense, but only if you believe in pervasive totalitarian malice. Alien conspiracy theory keeps the malice (cover-ups at Roswell, the Men in Black). But rather than benzo comforts like order and intelligibility, it offers the psychedelic drama of total unintelligibility — awe, wonder, a knee-wobblingly deep, mystical experience of existential ignorance.
Floating Down (1990), by David Huggins, who makes oil paintings about his encounters with aliens. As featured in Love & Saucers, a 2017 documentary about the artist. Photo: David Huggins
Every extraterrestrial era has its own fantasy of consequentiality. Crop circles began as a phenomenon of the English countryside, then spread to the far corners of the onetime British Empire (Australia, Canada) after World War II, when the U.K. was falling unmistakably back in the ranks of nations and when its provincial subjects would have felt some understandable desire to demonstrate that, somehow, their lives really mattered. American encounters were invariably rural as well — typically farmers and ranchers, mostly in the country’s interior and the deserts and mountains of the West, in decades the country as a whole spent rapidly urbanizing and then industrializing its farmland so systematically it looked like Monsanto was trying to exterminate the American farmer along with the cotton bollworm.
These incidents, which never occurred in cities, where other witnesses could have verified them, were often reported as horror stories even as they may have expressed secret desires. But the pop culture of the same era introduced another mode: the suburban encounter, often still private and personal but more ooey-gooey New Age than abductions and anal probes. The two major authors were Steven Spielberg, who gave us broken-family theology in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T., and Carl Sagan, who gave us Cosmos and Contact, which, when it was turned into a movie, featured an eerie seascape that was basically a secular heaven, maintained by offscreen aliens explicitly playing the role of gods. Stephen Hawking, who died in March, was also a godfather of a sort, not just a physicist but a sage and guru for a generation of squishy-lefty seekers curious about life beyond Earth; among his last acts was partnering with Yuri Milner, a Russian billionaire building a giant SETI laboratory at UC Berkeley. Americans used to regard the space race with not just national but something like collectivist pride — all those government engineers from the new middle class. Suddenly, it’s the rich kids with the cool toys and the keys to the rocket ship.
Which does mark a change. Beyond the mysticism, American stories of alien encounters have been (often anxious) meditations on the status of American power — meditations informed, surely, by both the memory of European settlers, for whom “first contact” was a story of triumphant genocide, and sympathy for those they trampled. Given the option, America will always prefer to play the cowboy, and through the post–Cold War 1990s, the dominant alien-encounter template was still the swaggering military strut of Independence Day. (The closest thing we got to a counterpoint was the cover-up paranoia of The X-Files, which just expressed a darker faith in the same American power.) By the time we got an alien epic for the War on Terror era, even Spielberg staged it as a story about armed conflict: The War of the Worlds. Of course, in that story, the winner was always going to be the humans — that is, the Americans. And then came the financial crisis, the recession, and Trump, and the new hope that E.T. may take pity on us.
Elsewhere in the world, where things are looking up, relatively speaking, you might expect a different perspective on aliens — and indeed, as The Atlantic’s Ross Andersen documented last fall, the Chinese have recently opened the world’s largest radar facility to listen for signs of aliens, wherever they are out there. But even our future Chinese overlords, projecting power for the first time into the ever-receding reaches of the universe, are a bit nervous about aliens; as Andersen points out, their popular science fiction bears the evidence. And why wouldn’t they be? They have their own memory of colonial contact — the Opium Wars, the end of that empire — to reckon with. And, besides, the unknown is just scary. Things have to get pretty bleak before you take a chance on the arrival of a total blank slate, just for the sake of change. —David Wallace-Wells
1. The Government Literally Just Admitted It’s Taking UFOs Seriously
And, according to researchers, it’s only pretended to end the program.
A 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an “unknown object.”
In 1952, a CIA group called the Psychological Strategy Board concluded that, when it came to UFOs, the American public was dangerously gullible and prone to “hysterical mass behavior.” The group recommended “debunking” campaigns to tamper the public’s interest in unexplained phenomena. But the government seems to have been interested, too: In December, the Pentagon confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Created in 2007 by senators Ted Stevens (who reported being chased by a mysterious object), Daniel Inouye, and then–Majority Leader Harry Reid, and funded with $22 million of “black money” from the Department of Defense’s budget, the program investigated and evaluated reports of UFO sightings, many of which came from American service members.
So much of what the program uncovered remains classified, but what little we know is tantalizing. Based on data it collected, the program identified five observations that showed mysterious objects displaying some level of “advanced physics,” also known as “stuff humans can’t do yet”: The objects would accelerate with g-forces too strong for the human body to withstand, or reach hypersonic speed with no heat trail or sonic boom, or they seemed to resist the effects of Earth’s gravity without any aerodynamic structures to provide thrust or lift. “No one has been able to figure out what these are,” said Luis Elizondo, who ran the program until last October, in a recent interview.
Elizondo has also talked about “metamaterials” that may have been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena and stored in buildings owned by a private aerospace contractor in Las Vegas; they apparently have material compositions that aren’t found naturally on Earth and would be exceptionally expensive to replicate. According to a 2009 Pentagon briefing summarized in the New York Times, “the United States was incapable of defending itself against some of the technologies discovered.” This was a briefing by people trying to get more funding — but still.
Some of the accounts Elizondo and his team analyzed supposedly occurred near nuclear facilities like power plants or battleships. In November 2004, the USS Princeton, a Navy cruiser escorting the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the coast of San Diego, ordered two fighter jets to investigate mysterious aircraft the Navy had been tracking for weeks (meaning this was not just a trick of the eye or a momentary failure of perspective, the two things most often blamed for unexplained aerial phenomena). When the jets arrived at the location, one of the pilots, Commander David Fravor, saw a disturbance just below the ocean’s surface causing the water to roil around it. Then, suddenly, he saw a white, 40-foot Tic Tac–shaped craft moving like a Ping-Pong ball above the water. The vehicle began mirroring his plane’s movements, but when Fravor dove directly at the object, the Tic Tac zipped away.
The Pentagon has said funding for the program ran out in 2012 and wasn’t renewed. But Elizondo has claimed the project was alive and well when he resigned in October. —James D. Walsh
2. Harry Reid Says We’re Not Taking Them Seriously Enough
The former Senate majority leader is definitely a truther.
Eric Benson: I’m curious about just where your interest in this subject comes from.
Harry Reid: Bob Bigelow [the founder of Bigelow Aerospace and Budget Suites]. He’s a central figure in all this. When he was a young man, he heard a story from his grandparents about driving down from Mt. Charleston, near Las Vegas, where they saw a so-called flying saucer, for lack of a better description. Bob became a very wealthy man. He would pay for these conferences about UFOs, and he would bring in scientists, academics, and a few nutcases.
There were people trying to figure out what all this aerial phenomena was. Bob started sending me tons of stuff. Mainly what interested me is that so many people had seen these strange things in the air.
EB: So tell me how this program got started.
HR: I was in Washington in the Senate, and Bob called me and said, “I got the strangest letter here. Could I have a courier bring it to you?” I said sure. He didn’t want to send it to me over the lines, for obvious reasons.
The letter said, “I am a senior, longtime member of this security agency, and I have an interest in what you’ve been working on. I also want to go to your ranch in Utah.”
Bigelow had bought a great big ranch. All this crazy stuff goes on up there — you know, things in the air. Indians used to talk about it, part of their folklore.
So I called Bigelow back and said, “Hey, I’ll meet with the guy.” The program grew out of that, to study aerial phenomena.
We decided it would be [funded by] black money. I wanted to get something done. I didn’t want a debate where no one knew what the hell they were talking about on the Senate floor.
EB: I saw that you tweeted, “We don’t know the answers, but we have plenty of evidence to support asking the questions.” To you, what’s the most compelling evidence to support asking the questions?
HR: Read the reports. We have hundreds of — Eric, two, three weeks ago, maybe a month now, up in Montana, they had another strange deal at a missile base up there. It goes on all the time.
EB: Do you know things about this program that you can’t discuss publicly?
HR: Yeah.
3. Scientists Are Suddenly Much More Bullish About the Possibility of Life Out There
The universe is really big, people.
Just 30 years ago, we had not discovered a single planet outside our solar system. Now we know of more than 3,000 of them, and we know nearly every star in the night sky has at least one planet in its orbit. “Even people who are not terribly interested in science know that we’ve found that planets are as common as fire hydrants — they’re everywhere,” says Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer at the SETI Institute. “One in five or one in six might be a planet similar to the Earth.”
That doesn’t mean we’ll ever find an exact replica of Earth, but maybe we don’t have to. Our study of other planets and moons in the solar system shows us many worlds possess the ingredients necessary for life — an atmosphere, organic compounds, liquid water, and other necessities. (The moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, for example, feature whole subsurface oceans.)
And even though these places are extremely harsh environments, that doesn’t mean as much as we might once have thought it did; recent discoveries on Earth itself demonstrate that life is much tougher than we thought. We’ve found organisms in blisteringly hot geysers in Yellowstone National Park, in the darkest crevices under the most ungodly pressures in the deep ocean, in dry hellscapes like the Atacama Desert in Chile (an analogue for Mars). These “extremophiles” don’t need a warm and fuzzy paradise to call home — in fact, they have already evolved to live in environments as harsh as those on other planets. Some, like tardigrades, can even survive the bleak vacuum of space itself. If there’s life in most of those places, “it’s going to be pond scum,” says Shostak. “But it’s alien pond scum. It shows that biology is all over.”
And where there’s biology, there may well be intelligence, and our increasing understanding of evolution also tells us life can evolve faster than we ever anticipated. Millions of years is a long time for us, but it’s the blink of an eye on the cosmic scale. Blink too fast, and you’ll miss that pond scum turning into an intelligent civilization sending out messages every which way, looking for friends.
And we’re now at the point where we could one day find those messages and send a reply. New technology gives us a better chance to actually make contact with extraterrestrials. Our radio telescopes can scan more of the night sky for an intelligent message than ever before. Our optical telescopes and observatories can peer farther into space and look for new planets, moons, and perhaps even signs of something altogether artificial (see “Tabby’s Star”). Our ability to parse volumes of data in mere seconds means we could conceivably survey much of the galaxy in just a few decades. That’s why, in the past few years, Shostak has continually bet a cup of coffee with everyone he knows that humans will find aliens by around 2029. “We’d have to be dead above the neck if we weren’t interested in this,” says Penelope Boston, the director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. —Neel Patel
4. They’re Especially Bullish About These Planets
Adventures in the “Goldilocks zone.”
Scientists now think every one in five or six planets might be habitable, based on two general criteria: They’re rocky, and they reside in a region of the star’s orbit called the “Goldilocks zone,” where it’s not too cold and not too hot, but just right to allow for liquid water to form on the surface. And where there’s water, there can be life. Extraterrestrial researchers and enthusiasts are most excited about these seven:
Proxima B:The closest exoplanet ever discovered is also a potentially habitable world in its own right, if the intense stellar winds don’t make it barren. It’s not totally inconceivable we might be able to actually send a probe and study it directly this century — even travel to it ourselves one day.
TRAPPIST-1 System:The red dwarf at the center of this possesses a whopping seven planets in its orbit — three of which reside in the Goldilocks zone, but all of which seem to possess some degree of potential habitability — and they’re so close to one another that life on one planet could quickly spread to another.
LHS 1140b:This wouldn’t be a planet we could colonize. It’s almost seven times the mass of the Earth and 40 percent larger, making it a “super-Earth.” But its mass means that it would retain a thicker atmosphere capable of keeping it warmer and more comfortable for life than most other places.
Ross 128 b:One of the best chances we have so far at finding life on another planet. It orbits an inactive red-dwarf star, meaning it’s likely not being bludgeoned by solar radiation. And we’ve detected strange signals emanating from the nearby host star — signals that perhaps have intelligent origins?
Mars: Mars has water, as we’ve known since 2015. Although the planet looks like a barren wasteland these days, there’s little reason to write off any chance we might find aliens residing in some cavern or crevice.
The Ocean Worlds (Europa, Enceladus, Titan):Many of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s moons show signs of possessing a liquid ocean underneath the surface.
GJ 1214b:Nicknamed “waterworld” by scientists; signs of potential clouds give us some hope the planet has an atmosphere.
—N.P.
5. And There Is “Documentation”
In 2012, the photographer Steven Hirsch asked UFO-convention attendees who claimed to have had personal contact with extraterrestrials to draw and describe their experiences. A sampling below.
Camille: A beam of solid blue light came through her ceiling and transported her onto a table where she was surrounded by beings in white robes with high collars. Photo: Courtesy of Steven Hirsch
Bruce: An alien woke him from his bed to show him the moons of Saturn. Photo: Courtesy of Steven Hirsch
Lisa: A gray alien knocked at her door and handed her two babies, leaving her with a hole in her head. Photo: Courtesy of Steven Hirsch
Steve: He saw a beeping, bright white light; it zapped his friend up. Photo: Courtesy of Steven Hirsch
Nancy: Her body responded to the “low hum” of the UFO spacecraft, a memory she accessed in regression therapy. Photo: Courtesy of Steven Hirsch
Rita: She has been visited by a golden reptilian alien throughout her life.Photo: Courtesy of Steven Hirsch
6. That “Asteroid” Looks an Awful Lot Like a Rocket Ship
For science-minded SETI freaks, the last decade has been a particularly exciting one.
‘Oumuamua.
We May Have Just Seen an Actual Flying Saucer When ‘Oumuamua — the name means “first messenger” in Hawaiian — was discovered floating through the solar system in October, SETI nuts immediately started checking the boxes that suggested the rod-shaped object might be an alien spacecraft of some kind. After all, it’s the first interstellar object we’ve ever seen pass through the solar system. UFO enthusiasts point out that rods (along with flying saucers) are the two most common shapes cited by witnesses in UFO sightings, and the cigar shape would allow it to be slim enough to avoid collision with other objects as well as maximize aerodynamics for travel. Both the SETI Institute and the Breakthrough Listen initiative pointed their instruments toward the object but found no unusual signals emitting from it. Of course, maybe it’s an ancient relic from an interstellar civilization, or maybe the aliens just weren’t interested in making contact (that asteroid-ness could’ve just been camouflage). With the object on its way out of the solar system, we may never know.
And There Could Be an Alien Megastructure Much Farther Out In the fall of 2015, Penn State astronomer Jason Wright posited that erratic shifts in brightness coming from a newly discovered star 1,280 light-years from Earth couldn’t be explained by exoplanets or other astrophysics that we understand. He theorized, instead, that the fluctuations may be the result of massive objects passing in front of the star, in a kind of orbit — a whole array of massive satellites or other kinds of structures, presumably produced by a civilization of advanced intelligence. Whoa.
Aliens Could Be Dancing to Earth Music Right Now Last year, two planets were discovered orbiting a red dwarf 12.36 light-years from Earth. At least one of these planets is in the Goldilocks zone, so METI International decided to beam some musical signals over to the planet. With a closer proximity to Earth than most potentially habitable exoplanets, it’d be an exciting planet to start an interstellar pen-pal relationship with — assuming there’s someone around to hear our notes and listen to them as a welcoming tune instead of a battle cry.
And We’re Getting Radio Signals From … Something Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most mysterious phenomena ever observed by scientists. Though they last only a few milliseconds, these pulses, first detected in 2007, emit more energy in that time than the sun does in 24 hours. Three more were found this month, and we’re no closer to understanding their origin — except that they’re coming from outside the Milky Way. So naturally, many experts have begun to think perhaps they’re produced by an ultra-advanced civilization from afar, trying to speak to us through signals we can barely comprehend.
7. These Masters of the Universe Are Obsessed (They Are Also All Men)
Which space-besotted billionaire will be the first to make contact?
Robert Bigelow As a child, Bigelow watched the government test atomic bombs from his bedroom window and he and his classmates could see the mushroom clouds bloom over the Mojave Desert from their school playground. To some, such memories are the stuff of dystopic Cold War hellscapes, but Bigelow remembers them as an epiphany. Even back then, Bigelow knew he wasn’t going to be a scientist (he was lousy at math), so he resolved himself to make as much money as possible in the hopes that he could one day fund his own space program. He went on to make at least $1 billion with Budget Suites of America, long-term motel rentals around the Southwest. He now runs Bigelow Aerospace, which holds contracts with NASA and was a primary contractor for the Department of Defense’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
Photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters
Elon Musk Musk is hell-bent on using his $21 billion to colonize Mars. His company SpaceX has been trying desperately to reduce the cost of space travel in the hopes of beginning a million-person colonization of Mars. “If [we’re not in] a simulation, then maybe we’re in a lab and there’s some advanced alien civilization that’s just watching how we develop, out of curiosity, like mold in a petri dish,” says Musk.
Photo: Paul Allen/Twitter
Paul Allen When Congress cut off funding for NASA’s hunt for aliens in 1993, Allen gave millions to the SETI Institute; in 2009, the Allen Telescope Array started searching the cosmos. Allen has given an additional $30 million to the project, a sum that bought him a guarantee that if the array detects an extraterrestrial communiqué, Allen will be the first nonscientist to know.
Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breaktrough Prize Foundation
Yuri Milner Last year, Milner — named after a Russian cosmonaut — announced a plan to send spaceships to Saturn’s moon Enceladus in search of alien life. Milner is also funding Breakthrough Listen, a ten-year project to use a telescope in West Virginia to search for messages from intelligent life, and Breakthrough Starshot, in conjunction with Mark Zuckerberg and the late Stephen Hawking.
Jeff Bezos His company Blue Origin is competing with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch reusable rockets (and comically rich tourists) into space. While Musk played himself in a cameo in Iron Man 2, Bezos appeared as an alien Starfleet official in 2016’s Star Trek Beyond. (It was not a speaking role.)
“Why do I feel so much like Sigourney Weaver?” Bezos said last March as he piloted a giant manned robot at Amazon’s MARs conference.
Franklin Antonio Antonio cofounded Qualcomm, a mobile tech company, in the mid-’80s. He’s also the company’s chief scientist and has given millions to SETI research. Last year Antonio gave $30 million to the University of California San Diego’s school of engineering and followed that donation up with a contribution to Roy Moore’s failed senate campaign.
8. As Are Some Prominent Military and Government Folks
You see a lot more as a test pilot than as a farmer in Iowa.
Nick Pope “Know that there are people who watch our skies to protect the sleeping masses,” Britain’s former chief UFO investigator warns in his memoir. “But also know that not all potential intruders into our airspace have two wings, a fuselage, and a tail, and not all show up on our radar.” Pope’s ominous counsel follows time he spent in the ’90s inspecting thousands of paranormal incidents from crop circles to purported bedside abductions. He took that job certain this kind of stuff “only happened to weirdos,” but unexplainable sightings soon convinced him that “there is a war going on” with aliens. Worse, the U.K. Defense Ministry cut his old UFO desk’s funding in 2009, so whatever’s out there “could attack at any time,” Pope believes. Earthlings’ diminished odds have gotten him more fatalistic lately, too: After scientists suggested ‘Oumuamua — a bizarre-shaped asteroid that’s the first interstellar object to pass through our solar system — might be an alien spaceship, he argued in December we “probably wouldn’t survive an alien invasion” anyway, because if they find us, it’s clear who has the upper hand.
Paul Hellyer Canada’s Defense minister during the Cold War, now 94, believes that at least 80 species of aliens have been visiting Earth for millennia. One group is called the Tall Whites (because they can reach basketball-goal height) or Nordic Blondes (because they look like they’re “from Denmark or somewhere”). Unfortunately, the others may include ecoterrorists: “We’re doing all sorts of things which are not what good stewards of their homes should be doing,” he told media in 2014. “They don’t like that, and they’ve made it very clear.” Hellyer adds that many technological “breakthroughs” were aped from these extraterrestrials. Microchips and fiber optics, for instance, were taken off crashed alien vehicles and reverse-engineered. The aliens have a special technology that would solve climate change as well, he claims, but the Illuminati are hiding it because it would devastate oil interests.
Philip Corso Corso’s military career was long and illustrious, from rebuilding Rome’s government after World War II as an Army Intelligence captain to having worked the Pentagon’s foreign-technology desk in the ’60s. He doesn’t appear to have said a word publicly about aliens until 1997, when Simon & Schuster published The Day After Roswell — with a foreword by Strom Thurmond — just 13 months before Corso died. It was his tell-all outlining a decades-long Roswell cover-up while plugging his own clandestine exploits, which he claimed involved reverse-engineering technology found on alien spacecrafts. This is how the world got lasers, particle beams, microchips, even Kevlar, Corso said. Skeptics argue that regular Earth people’s R&D behind technology like lasers is impossibly well documented.
Barry Goldwater Had he won election in 1964, one of his White House’s first acts might have been releasing top-secret UFO files. He harbored a lifelong fascination with the truth about extraterrestrial contact, much of it stemming from his desire to “find out what was in” the mysterious Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, home to the Air Force’s Project Blue Book. In the ’80s, it surfaced he’d spent decades corresponding with UFO investigators and harassing the military for access to the hangar’s so-called Blue Room, where conspiracy theorists believe alien bodies from Roswell are preserved. (“Not only can’t you get into it,” his friend General Curtis LeMay supposedly snapped in 1975, “but don’t you ever mention it to me again.” Goldwater claims he didn’t.) After retiring in 1987, the senator told Larry King the Earth is “one of several billion planets in this universe. I can’t believe that God or whoever is in charge would put thinking bodies on only one planet.”
Roscoe Hillenkoetter After he’d served as the first CIA director (he’d been appointed by President Truman), Hillenkoetter retired from a distinguished Navy career in 1957 and took a gig at a brand-new private research group called the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. Its chief purpose was pressuring the government to disclose what it knew about UFOs, via investigations like Project Blue Book. Hillenkoetter went after the intelligence community, writing angry open letters that said things like: “It is time for the truth to be brought out in open congressional hearings.” When he pointed out in 1960 that the Air Force had investigated 6,312 UFO reports to date, but was seemingly trying “to hide the facts,” the military reminded Americans that “no physical evidence, not even a minute fragment of a so-called flying saucer, has ever been found.”
Of course, another theory popped up in the ’80s — that Hillenkoetter had helped run a secret committee all along of politicians, military officers, and scientists called the Majestic 12. Ufologists claimed this cabal was formed in 1947, once Truman started panicking over what to do with all the alien spacecrafts the government kept finding. The group’s existence is based on government files that allegedly materialized in 1984. The FBI denied their authenticity entirely, but they and the Majestic 12 remain popular grist for conspiracy theories, having figured in Blink-182’s song “Aliens Exist” and even one of Twin Peaks’s side plots.
Dennis Kucinich Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign didn’t suffer from his admission, made during a live TV debate, that, back in 1982, he’d seen a UFO at friend Shirley MacLaine’s Washington State home. (He was polling around 4 percent at the time.) But the current candidate for Ohio governor got mocked plenty; one joke among Beltway insiders was he wanted the “little green vote.”
Staff were prepped to deny the encounter when reporters asked about the passage in MacLaine’s 2007 New Age self-help book, Sage-ing While Age-ing, that revealed Kucinich didn’t just see a UFO but had also felt “a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.” The other witnesses — a Juilliard-trained trumpeter working as MacLaine’s bodyguard and his model girlfriend — also report having seen a trio of triangle-shaped aircrafts flying in tight formation. Her house was 50 miles from Mt. Rainier, a “saucer magnet” for UFO buffs because of all the nearby sightings, including America’s very first “flying saucer” in 1947. Kucinich had the community’s full support, even if he spent years playing coy.
It helped that in Congress he did things like trying to ban space-based weapons. A 2001 bill he authored himself prohibited America from using “radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies” for the purposes of “information war, mood management, or mind control of such populations.” It explicitly singled out “chemtrails,” a term for jet condensation trails when conspiracy theorists believe they’re being used for biological warfare. In 2008, however, he only confirmed he’d seen a UFO, then pointed out, accurately, to moderator Tim Russert that “more people in this country have seen UFOs than I think approve of George Bush’s presidency.”
John Podesta When WikiLeaks published the Hillary Clinton emails, a weird number of Podesta’s mentioned aliens and involved contact with believers like Tom DeLonge and astronaut Edgar Mitchell. As Bill Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, he was known as an X-Files fanatic who’d “call the Air Force and ask them what’s going on in Area 51.” In 2014, he spent 13 months advising President Obama — and what was his “biggest failure”? According to him, failing to get government files declassified on the 1965 Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, UFO incident. Then during Bush’s term, he began publicly crusading for NASA to release UFO documents to journalist Leslie Kean, the person ultimately behind the Times’ Pentagon exposé.
Podesta has kept his personal ET beliefs under wraps, but in Kean’s best seller UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record, he gamely wrote a foreword that argues: “It’s time to find out what the truth really is … The American people — and people around the world — want to know, and they can handle the truth.”
Pavel and Marina Popovich This husband-wife duo was one part world-renowned cosmonaut (Pavel) and one part the Soviet Union’s most celebrated female pilot (Marina). They held among their titles that of sixth human in orbit, first Soviet female to break the sound barrier, and holder of more than 100 aviation world records. Once their illustrious flying careers ended, both became ufologists. Pavel headed up Russia’s UFO association and claimed to have seen an unidentified aircraft zip past his airplane on a trip home from Washington, D.C., with a group of scientists. People onboard said it was triangular, brightly lit, and rocketed by at 1,000 miles per hour.
Marina one-upped him, though — she claimed to have seen multiple UFOs and a “Bigfoot creature” — and after they divorced, she became the acclaimed expert, not Pavel. She began preaching a UFO glasnost of sorts under Gorbachev, claiming the Soviet government had pieces of five spaceships in its possession and reports of 14,000 UFO sightings, yet for decades researchers were “either fired or put in psychiatric hospitals.” Her eventual book, simply called UFO Glasnost, spoke candidly about how Leonardo da Vinci, Jules Verne, and Ray Bradbury were alien mediums and Gorbachev had the markings of an extraterrestrial emissary because “he’s an epoch-making phenomenon.”
—Clint Rainey
9. (And This Genius Thinks He Can Talk to Them)
In January, Stephen Wolfram — a computer-scientist philosopher and the author of a “universal” programming language that informed the alien communication in the movie Arrival— wrote an exceedingly long blog postabout how best to communicate with aliens.
Tim Urban: You created a language you think we might be able to use to communicate with aliens. So what exactly is it that we would want to say to the rest of the universe if we had the chance?
Stephen Wolfram: I think the main difficulty is the definitional one. You talk about alien life, you talk about intelligence; what are those things abstractly?
We know the specific example that we have historically been exposed to: life on Earth, human intelligence. The question is, when you generalize away from that, what do you get to? One of the things that I’m fond of quoting is the statement “The weather has a mind of its own.” What does this mean? What is the abstract kind of thing that’s like the mind? It’s the ability to do sophisticated computation. That’s something that exists in the weather, just as it exists in our brains, just as it exists in lots of living systems. And then, what’s different between the weather and its sort-of-mindlike thing and our human intelligence? The fundamental answer to that is our human intelligence has its particular cultural, civilizational history and the weather doesn’t.
TU: So is it that history that we’d want to communicate?
SW: Yes, I think the thing to realize is that we in our civilization have followed a particular path. There are an infinite number of possible paths that we could’ve followed. To any other intelligence, our path would be quite mysterious.
TU: Right, so we actually have unique information to communicate. You could have the most sophisticated species, and we can still tell them something they don’t know about our history.
SW: I’m particularly amused by Elon Musk’s car going into space. That is so extremely aligned with the notion of grave goods from ancient Egypt, where you’re taking things from your everyday life to be buried with you. It’s charming.
10. There Have Been Enough Well-Known Encounters to Fill Encyclopedias
Here, just a small sampling of the classics.
Barney and Betty Hill. Photo: Bettman Archive/Getty Images
Barney and Betty Hill’s Abduction The Hills (above) claimed that in 1961 a bright light swooped over their car on a New Hampshire road and that they woke up a few hours later and the car had been “magnetized.” With regressive hypnosis, both were able to recall being abducted and probed by the little gray men, which soon became the de facto alien description. (The Hills’ captors were, interestingly, very similar to Selenites — the five-foot moon inhabitants H.G. Wells invented for The First Men in the Moon.) Betty astonished authorities when she began drawing a map of the constellation the creatures claimed to be from. Initially it looked like nonsense, until a few scientists noticed its resemblance to Zeta Reticuli, a system inside the constellation Reticulum largely unknown in that year. Their case generated widespread publicity, partly because they were a mixed-race couple in the ’60s, and turned into the flagship example of a “close encounter,” though not until years after the fact (skeptics argue the delayed report is a sign it’s a hoax). The hype ultimately culminated in The UFO Incident, a 1975 made-for-TV movie starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons.
Antonio Villas-Boas’s Seduction In 1957, small aliens with huge heads allegedly came for Villas-Boas, a young Brazilian farmer. Villas-Boas was forced inside their vessel, where the creatures took blood samples from, of all places, his chin, and rubbed in some sort of gel. Soon after, a blonde female with big, almond-shaped eyes joined him. She began rubbing his body, then initiated sex. After they were done, she left quickly, which gave Villas-Boas the impression that he was being used to better the aliens’ “stock.” He didn’t react well, as he suddenly felt exploited as “a good stallion” by these foreign chin-fetishists.
Weird as it was, Boas’s encounter, with its probing and forced sex, became the archetypal alien abduction. Reportedly skittish at first, he eventually told his story to João Martins, the writer behind popular magazine O Cruzeiro’s “Flying Saucers’ Terrible Mission” series. Doctors confirmed Boas had suffered radiation poisoning, but Martins ultimately soured on Boas’s story, for one because his spaceship sketch bore remarkable similarities to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik. He turned out all right, though: He got a law degree, had four kids, and died believing his children had a half-sibling living in space.
The “Wow!” Signal In 1977, Ohio State’s Big Ear radio telescope intercepted a 72-second burst of sound that bore signs of having come from interstellar space, which could be a sign of extraterrestrial communication. The anomaly measured 1,420 megahertz, a frequency in the “water hole,” the term for a radio-emission range thought ideal for intergalactic messages because it’s unusually quiet. Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who spotted it, was so excited that he scribbled a giant “Wow!” on his printout. Astronomy’s explanations for the bizarre phenomenon include secret spy satellites and a passing comet nobody knew about in 1977. But many admit nothing explains it adequately, and even if the signal doesn’t prove aliens exist, it’s still a “tug on the cosmic fishing line.” To date, it remains the best evidence of alien communication ever obtained.
Foo Fighters In the middle of World War II, things took a mysterious turn for Air Force pilots flying overnight missions. They reported seeing lights chasing their aircraft. The number varied (sometimes it was one; other times ten), and so did the colors (red, orange, and green). But the unidentified objects shared in common that they moved very fast, up to 200 miles per hour, yet could dart on a dime. These pilots — among the world’s best — admitted the objects generally flew circles around them. Their lore grew among the squadrons. In 1944, a crew flying along the Rhine in Germany described seeing “eight to ten bright orange lights” whiz by “at high speed.” Neither ground control nor their own planes caught anything on radar, and when one pilot turned toward the lights, they reportedly “disappeared.”
They called their mystery air companions “foo fighters,” an inside joke based on a phrase the comic-book character Smokey Stover used to declare (“Where there’s foo, there’s fire”). The term flying saucer hadn’t caught on yet, or else it would’ve sufficed. Some witnesses assumed they were tracer fire, reflections from ice crystals, or high-tech weaponry developed by the Nazis, while the government had a boring explanation as always: They were “electrostatic (similar to St. Elmo’s fire) or electromagnetic phenomena,” though which one and wherefrom were “never defined.”
Kecksburg UFO Crash In 1965, an intense fireball streaked over southern Canada and Detroit and dropped debris over Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Officially, it was declared a midsize meteor, but eyewitnesses in the small Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg claimed they’d found an acorn-shaped object about the size of a VW Beetle in the woods that was festooned with hieroglyphics. Newspaper reporters on the ground said the military conducted a “close inspection” of the crash site, and despite the official line being that the search yielded “absolutely nothing,” conspiracists maintain the object was packed onto an Army flatbed truck and that the whole thing was a Roswell-level cover-up. Leslie Kean’s Coalition for the Freedom of Information managed to secure some of the government’s files but reportedly not anything enlightening.
However, a second explanation surfaced in the early aughts: It was Die Glocke, purportedly a top-secret weapon Nazis developed that let them time-travel. By dumb Back to the Future–esque luck, it had come to rural Pennsylvania in the year 1965. These proponents argue Nazi SS officer Hans Kammler was navigating the device when it crash-landed in Kecksburg, allowing him to escape Allied troops in the days before VE Day and successfully integrate into postwar U.S. society.
Kenneth Arnold’s “Flying Saucer” Kenneth Arnold, a respected pilot, claimed in 1947 he’d seen nine mostly flat objects whip past Mount Rainier at speeds he timed at 1,760 miles per hour. “They were shaped like saucers,” he reportedly explained, “and were so thin I could barely see them.” A neologism was born.
Arnold he demanded military personnel explain what the contraptions were, if they knew, since he’d dismissed any possibility of them being guided missiles or new types of jets. His best guess? “From another planet.” Dozens of others came forward with similar sightings, from as far away as Oklahoma and Arizona. But Arnold didn’t enjoy his newfound celebrity. He said people had started shrieking in cafés when they saw him and fleeing. He described the situation to reporters as “out of hand” and regretted having people “look at me as a combination of Einstein, Flash Gordon, and screwball.”
Phoenix Lights On March 13, 1997, thousands of people in southern Arizona say they saw weird lights move across the night sky in a flying V. Most of their reports came in between 7 and 10:30 p.m. along a 300-mile stretch from Phoenix, through Tucson, and to the Mexico border. A majority of people spied the pattern passing overhead (it was supposedly several football fields long), but the Air Force also sent a team of A-10 Warthogs from nearby Barry Goldwater Range on a training exercise that same night, and, as luck would have it, those planes dropped some stationary flares just outside Phoenix, considerably complicating any UFO conspiracies with a second set of strange bright lights.
Witnesses claim to have watched the first set of lights — the low-altitude wedge formation — coast by with their binoculars; they say the lights were red, had a singular white one at the V’s tip, seemed engineless, and even banked southeast at one point. Actor Kurt Russell now claims he saw them while up in a private plane near the Phoenix airport, but air-traffic control told him the radar was clear. Governor Fife Symington reportedly witnessed the V-shaped as well. At the time he felt sure it wasn’t aliens, but his mind changed in 2007, after retiring from politics: He told media that as a pilot, he knows “just about every machine that flies,” and these lights definitely weren’t terrestrial.
The “Warminster Thing” Warminster’s long, controversial association with UFOs began in the English town on Christmas Day in 1964, when a local woman heard a “crackling sound” rip over her head. Other so-called sonic attacks plagued scores of others in town around the same time. Townspeople had no clue what was behind them, so they began blaming the “Thing.” Additional reports of inexplicable lights in the sky made it clear the “Thing” might have hailed from outer space.
Travis Walton’s Abduction In 1975, a team of loggers claimed their 22-year-old co-worker Travis Walton disappeared for five days after a glowing disc in the Arizona woods zapped him with a “bluish ray.” Intrigued, he’d reportedly wandered underneath the hovering object, and it abducted him. He claims he awoke on a table in a sterile-looking room surrounded by three “well-developed fetuses” wearing tan robes. He tried to flee, passed out, then regained consciousness only once the aliens had ditched him on the Arizona roadside.
The story received loads of publicity — authorities thought Walton had been murdered, and seven eyewitnesses corroborating a single close encounter was unheard of. The National Enquirer ultimately paid the group $5,000 for the story, after they passed polygraphs and Walton agreed to be interviewed by the tabloid’s “prestigious” hypnotist. In 1993, Paramount released Fire in the Sky, a movie it said was based on “the most famous case of UFO abduction ever recorded.” Skeptics have shot holes in what they assume was a hoax and note that James Earl Jones’s NBC movie The UFO Incident had aired two weeks before Walton’s own UFO incident. The encounter has a cult following to this day, though, enough that a first edition of Walton’s 1978 memoir The Walton Experience now fetches hundreds of dollars online.
The Battle of Los Angeles On February 25, 1942, reports filtered in of a glowing object floating over Culver City. Air-raid sirens sounded; the Army proceeded to pepper it with 1,400 anti-aircraft shells. Eventually it disappeared from view, but not before a citywide blackout was ordered, shell fragments got lodged in surrounding buildings, and five civilians died. The Navy later explained it had been a weather balloon. But ufologists suspected an alien spacecraft, which would explain why an hour’s worth of heavy artillery had failed to eliminate a single weather balloon.
Steven Spielberg would mercilessly satirize the incident in 1941, a “comedy spectacular.” But ufologists immediately suspected an alien spacecraft, which would explain why an hours’ worth of heavy artillery had failed to eliminate a single weather balloon. Conspiracists site a famous L.A. Times photo as extra proof; it seemingly caught searchlights trained on a very un-balloon-like object getting barraged with shells. The next day’s Times ran an editorial on page A1 (“Information, Please”) demanding the Army and Navy release more info, “if only to clarify their own conflicting statements about it.”
—C.R.
11. And Continuing Right Up to the Present Day
New encounters happen all the time — even to famous people. When Guillermo del Toro spotted one in Guadalajara, he says, “It was so crappy. It was a flying saucer, so clichéd, with lights.” Above, a sampling from ufosightingsdaily.com over recent months.
January 18, Japan. Photo: Ufosightingsdaily
February 4, Popocatépetl, Mexico. Photo: Ufosightingsdaily
February 28, Cleveland, Ohio. Photo: Ufosightingsdaily
12. We Even Have Some Pretty Developed Theories About Why We Haven’t Heard From ET Yet
Maybe we’re the pond scum.
The Aliens Are All Dead Let’s start with the most depressing theory: Maybe we haven’t found extraterrestrials because they’re all dead — at least now. The universe is 13.78 billion years old, and in that amount of time, there might have been plenty of civilizations that evolved and went extinct.
The Aliens Are All Sleeping But maybe they’re not dead — just hibernating. Another theory suggests that perhaps there’s an extraterrestrial species out there that’s so advanced it cannot efficiently make use of its technology right now, because the universe’s temperature is currently too high. Good news, though: The universe’s temperature is cooling down (even as Earth’s is heating up). So aliens may have decided to take a snooze for a few trillion years while they wait for colder weather that’s more suited.
The Aliens Are Hiding If even a genius like Stephen Hawking thought that aliens might destroy usif they ever were to find us, then maybe we should be a little afraid. Perhaps the aliens think the same thing, so they’ve gone into hiding — from us. If another civilization were technologically savvy enough and had enough resources, it could build a massive orbital structure like a Dyson sphere to keep it cloaked from detection. Or it might use high-powered lasers to provide an optical façade that keeps its planet from being detected by telescopic instruments.
The Aliens Are Still Evolving Maybe alien life is actually everywhere — it’s just not intelligent enough to speak with us. It took about 3.5 billion years of evolution to turn single-celled microbes into humans. Maybe we just happened to evolve faster and earlier than everyone else.
Humans Haven’t Spent Enough Time Looking Realistically speaking, we’ve only had the proper equipment to search for aliens for a little over half a century. On the scale of the cosmos, that time frame is less than a fraction of the blink of an eye. The process could take centuries or even millennia — optimistically speaking.
The Aliens Are Already Here This is where the conspiracy theorists get to go nuts. Yes, maybe the aliens are already here and we just haven’t figured it out yet. They might be taking some time to study us before unveiling themselves, or maybe they have already let themselves be known to certain groups. The truth isn’t out there — it’s here.
—N.P.
13. And in the Meantime, Aliens Can Be Whatever We Want Them to Be
Katie Heaney: Why, when we think of aliens, do they all look the same — three feet tall, gray or green, big black eyes?
Joseph O. Baker: It didn’t used to be that way. UFO narratives became much more popular in the 1950s and ’60s, and during that era, the descriptions of the aliens would be almost humanlike in form. If you see drawings that some of the so-called contactees made, the aliens almost look like Swedish people — very attractive blond types with shining eyes. The abductee narrative really took over pop culture in the 1970s and ’80s, and after that, there’s this homogenization of the public perception because of all the stories and TV and movies about abductions.
KH: Even those guys look pretty human — why do we have such a hard time imagining radically different forms of life?
JB: We’re the people doing the projecting here. Much the same way people do with God — really, what sense does it make for a supernatural entity to have a gender or be humanoid Anthropomorphized supernatural entities tend to be more compelling.
KH: Is there a reason why so many of the abduction stories feature “probing”?
JB: The probe part of the abduction narrative took over in some sense because it tends to be the most salacious aspect of these stories. It’s almost become shorthand for alien abduction. But the stories of abduction among believers are really diverse, and usually probing is only one small part of it. Men will report having sperm extraction, and women will report having eggs extracted. Positive encounters tend to be akin to religion in some ways, in which beings of higher enlightenment show people the errors of humanity, or help them reach a higher plane of consciousness.
KH: Who is likely to believe?
JB: Men, and people with lower levels of income, are more likely to believe. We don’t really find strong patterns by education, and if we do, there’s usually a slight positive effect. But one of the strongest predictors you can find for believers is their extreme distrust of the government. That’s part of the reason it got so big in the ’70s, when trust in institutions was low. Trump might actually increase belief in UFOs.
Another one of the strongest predictors is not participating as strongly in forms of organized religion. In some sense, there’s a bit of a clue there about what’s going on with belief — it’s providing an alternative belief system.
KH: Most alien-encounter stories give aliens one of two motives: Either they want something from us or they want to kill us. What does that say about us?
JB: It shows that we have a high level of perceived self-importance. The idea that, in this vast universe, these beings sought us out in this tiny corner of the spiral arm of the Milky Way to come learn omething from us, or eliminate us, is a bit flattering.
KH: I’ve heard that sightings are way down in the smartphone era, when people presumably don’t take a story as proof enough.
JB: Well, it’s easier to hoax things now than it used to be. I would think that with an increased availability of videos, if it was going to do anything, it might lead to more belief, but from most of what I’ve seen, it looks more like stasis. Rates of reported sightings and rate of belief have been pretty stable. The 2005 Baylor Religion Survey found that 25 percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement “Some UFOs are probably spaceships from other worlds.”
ABriefHistoryof‘AlienDreams’
1899: Nikola Tesla notices rhythmic sounds on a radio receiver and is convinced they’re communications from Martians.
1924: At the request of David Todd, former head of the astronomy department at Amherst College, the Navy agrees to limit unnecessary radio communications from its largest bases for one day so that he can listen for alien signals as Mars passes closer to Earth than it’s been in over a century.
1960: The modern search for ETs begins when Frank Drake uses an 85-foot radio telescope in the hills of West Virginia to scan stars for signs of intelligent life; he later develops an equation to estimate the number of advanced civilizations.
1969: Jimmy Carter, candidate for Georgia governor at the time, sees a strange light.
1992: NASA formally begins its own SETI program.
1993: Congress eliminates funding for NASA’s SETI program.
1999: UC Berkeley launches SETI@home, a screen saver available to the public that enables anyone’s idle computer to analyze data collected by radio telescopes.
2016:Breakthrough Listen launches; it will collect as much data in a day as past SETI projects collected in a year.
From the Farside: “Reasons to Believe Aliens are Real”
From the Farside: “Reasons to Believe Aliens are Real”
“When, in December of 2017, the New York Times published an undisputed account of what might once have sounded like crackpot conspiracy theory — that the Pentagon had spent five years investigating “unexplained aerial phenomena” — the response among the paper’s mostly liberal readers, exhausted and beaten down by “recent events,” was markedly different from the one in those movies.”
The news that aliens might actually be visiting us, regularly and recently, continued New York Magazine reporter team, didn’t provoke terror about a coming space-opera conflict but something much more like the Evangelical dream of the Rapture the same liberals might have mocked as kooky right-wing escapism in the George W. Bush years. “The truth is out there,” former senator Harry Reid tweeted, with a link to the story. Thank God, came the response through the Twitter vent. “Could extraterrestrials help us save the Earth?” went one typical reaction.
Suddenly, aliens were an escapist fantasy — but also more credible (legitimized by the government!) than mere fantasy. That Pentagon report, which featured two gripping videos of aerial encounters, was just one beat in a recent search-for-extraterrestrial presence (or SETI) drumroll: In October, an object passed through our solar system that looked an awful lot like a spaceship; astronomers spent much of 2016 arguing over whether the weird pulses of light coming from a distant star were actually evidence of an “alien megastructure.” An army of Silicon Valley billionaires are racing to make first contact, and our new superpowered telescopes are discovering more conceivably habitable planets every year.
Then, in March, a third video emerged, featuring a Navy encounter off the East Coast in 2015, with the group that released it hinting at an additional trove. “Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?” wondered a Washington Post op-ed — surely the first time the newspaper of Katharine Graham was raising a stink about aliens. The next week, President Trump seemed to announce he was creating an entirely new branch of the military: “We’ll call it the Space Force.” You could be forgiven for thinking you’d woken up in a science-fiction novel. At the very least, it is starting to seem non-crazy to believe. A recent study shows half the world already does.
Alien dreams have always been powered by the desire for human importance in a vast, forgetful cosmos: We want to be seen so we know we exist. What’s unusual about the alien fantasy is that, unlike religion, nationalism, or conspiracy theory, it doesn’t place humans at the center of a grand story. In fact, it displaces them: Humans become, briefly, major players in a drama of almost inconceivable scale, the lasting lesson of which is, unfortunately: We’re total nobodies. That’s the lesson, at least, of a visit from aliens, who got here long before we were able to get there, wherever there is; if humans are the ones making first contact, we’re the advanced ones and the aliens are probably more like productive pond scum, which may be one reason we fantasize about those kinds of encounters a lot less than visits to Earth.
Image top of page: A giant alien spaceship that has landed in Montana in Arrival, Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptation of a story by Ted Chiang
Open Minds UFO Radio: Chris is one of the hosts of the Mad Scientist Podcast. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering focusing on the study of nanomaterials for use as catalysts and adsorbents from Northeastern University. He has a bachelors degree in chemical engineering and philosophy from the University of New Hampshire. The Mad Scientist podcast covers the history and philosophy of science and fringe science claims, and examines how technologies and sciences are accepted by societies.
In this episode, Chris and Alejandro discuss the ADAM Project. A new program created by the To the Stars Academy in cooperation with EarthTech International, Inc., an Austin based research think tank, to examine materials from anomalous phenomena. There is a high bar to meet in order to prove material allegedly retrieved from UFOs is anomalous. Chris walks us through what sort of analysis will be necessary.
Magnets, how do they work? Modern day philosophers Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse were mercilessly mocked for that line back when their song “Miracles” came out in 2010. Yeah, that song is about as goofy as it gets, but here’s the thing: we don’t actually know how magnetism works. We know what makes certain elements magnetic, we know how to magnetize objects, we can measure the strength of a magnetic field, and we can accurately predict what magnets will do, but as to why and how the magnetic force attracts and repels objects, the best answer we have so far is “it just does.” Case in point: the famous scientist Richard Feynman was asked why magnets attract and repel each other and responded with a tirade about broken hips, drunk husbands, and why ice is slippery for 8 minutes, in order to explain why the only reasonable answer is “it just does.”
Magnetism is a constant part of our daily lives in more ways than just hanging things on refrigerators. In fact, if it weren’t for magnetism, we wouldn’t even be here. The magnetic field of the earth, likely generated by the spinning molten metal core of the planet, ripples out from the poles and acts as a shield that protects the earth from solar winds and cosmic rays which would otherwise scorch all life on earth. So magnetism keeps us alive and we’re incapable of understanding it. That’s slightly unsettling, but even more unsettling is that we’re constantly realizing we know even less than we thought, even on a predictive level. We’ve known for some time that it’s possible for the magnetic poles to reverse. This was discovered in 1906 when rocks were discovered that were magnetized in the opposite direction of what was expected. Since then, we’ve assumed that this process occurs rarely and slowly. However, a new study has found that magnetic field reversals can occur much quicker than previously thought.
Depiction of the earth’s magnetic field.
Geophysicist Andrew Roberts and a team from the Australian National University studied a 107 thousand-year-old stalagmitefound in a cave in China, made up of large quantities of magnetite that provided a detailed look at the magnetic history of earth for the last 107 thousand years. They found that there have been periods of magnetic pole reversal, where north became south and south became north, that lasted for only a few centuries. According to Roberts, this suggests that the process of the reversal was incredibly fast:
“The record provides important insights into ancient magnetic field behaviour, which has turned out to vary much more rapidly than previously thought.”
Which means that there might not be much warning should the magnetic field decide to flip again, an event which, by the way, we’re overdue for. Should the magnetic field flip, it could cause a catastrophic failure of much of the technology that makes modern society work. It seems that the magnetic field reversals occur when the magnetic field is weakened. Although it is currently still strong, it does seem like the magnetic field is in a period of weakening.
The northern lights are the result of our magnetic field protecting us from our murderous sun.
It’s good that scientists are discovering more about yet another global threat, but really, even if they could predict it, is a pole reversal happens that fast, what could we really do about it? Would we pull our satellites out of the sky and re-calibrate them? Would we make emergency updates to our infrastructure? The amount of pot holes I hit yesterday suggests we’d probably just shrug and say “well, it is what it is.”
One of the most famous lines from the classic TV sitcom “The Honeymooners” involves Ralph Kramden, played by Jackie Gleason, telling his wife Alice, played by Audrey Meadows, where she will end up after he performs an act of domestic violence – a line and act that would not be acceptable today, even though Ralph always calmed down and somewhat apologized with the line, “Baby, you’re the greatest.” That “moon” quote may have been a hidden sign of Gleason’s lifelong interest in UFOs – an interest that showed itself publicly in his two-building home built in in 1959 that looked like a flying saucer “Mother Ship” and a “Spaceship” – Gleason’s nicknames for the mysterious structures. If you’re interested, the property is up for sale for the unearthly price of $12 million. Is it worth it?
“How sweet it is! Deep in the heart of Cortland Manor is the enchanted 8 acre estate of the Great Jackie Gleason & his Famous Round House! Built in 1959 a compound exemplifies the comedian’s style & flamboyant persona. There are 3 buildings on the property and 2 inground pools. Drive up the long wooded property & welcome to the Studio affectionately known as the Mother Ship. 2bedrm 2 full bath 50 sq ft in Diameter is completely round. Walk into this magnificent spherical foyer, private library & centerpiece of a marble spiral staircase to 3rd level. Go back in time down the ramp to a smiling Jackie w his cigarette & playing his baby grand. Marilyn Monroe leaning over the strings smiling as Frank Sinatra is crooning by the 14 person bar. It has 2 bars & 3 pit Italian marble fireplace & cardroom. Master bedrm has special 8ft in diameter round bed w/overhead tv. Master bath is huge w/round shower & 10+ heads. 100 yards from “Mother” is a cottage aka “Space Ship.”
The realtor.com listing mentions the price of the New York property but not much on why Jackie Gleason was one of the earliest celebrity ufologists. Despite a fear of flying, Gleason developed a fascination with UFOs and flying saucers, possibly as part of his attraction to parapsychology, witchcraft, extrasensory perception, reincarnation, mental telepathy, clairvoyance and all things paranormal. An avid reader, Gleason amassed a vast library (over 1,700 titles) of paranormal books and materials which now reside in the University of Miami library and are catalogued at LibraryThing. Gleason appeared regularly on a paranormal-themed overnight radio show hosted by John Nebel, where he revealed his skepticism by offering $1 million to anyone who could offer physical proof of aliens visiting Earth.
To the moon!
No one collected the prize, including President Richard Nixon, who is part of possibly the most famous celebrity UFO/alien legend in history. Gleason was a supporter, friend and golf buddy of Nixon, so it’s no surprise they were together in Florida on the night of February 19, 1973. According to the most popular telling of the tale, Nixon ditched his Secret Service detail and drove to Homestead Air Force Base, where they somehow walked in and saw what Gleason described as:
“There were a number of labs we passed through first before we entered a section where Nixon pointed out what he said was the wreckage from a flying saucer, enclosed in several large cases. Next, we went into an inner chamber and there were six or eight of what looked like glass-topped Coke freezers. Inside them were the mangled remains of what I took to be children.”
Gleason allegedly told only his wife (soon to be ex-wife), Beverly, who allegedly promised not to tell and then allegedly told the story anyway to Esquire magazine in 1974. While that story doesn’t seem to exist, another one allegedly told by Beverly appeared in 1983 in the National Enquirer. Gleason allegedly told his version of the story to UFO author Larry Warren shortly before his death in 1987. That’s an “allegedly” because it comes not from Warren but from another ufologist, Timothy Green Beckley. Skepticism abounds in the tale, from the president evading Secret Service agents to the many “alleged” tellings of the story with no concrete evidence. What is concrete is the foundation under the beautiful 7,450 sq ft “Mothership” built for Gleason by a ship builder, who constructed it in an airplane hangar before moving it to Cortland. The round building has no right angles but does have a curved kitchen and a marble spiral staircase. The guest house looks even more flying-saucer-ish (see a photo gallery of both here). While the original construction cost is not listed, Gleason sold the property in 1976 for $150,000, (about $660,000 today)
Not aliens — the June Taylor dancers.
And yes, Richard Nixon “flew” in Gleason’s Mother Ship, along with Frank Sinatra and other celebrities. Did they talk about what ‘allegedly’ happened one night in 1973 at Florida? That depends on how much booze was consumed. If Nixon asked Gleason if he told anyone, Jackie probably said, “You’re a riot, a regular riot!” or “I’ve got a BIG MOUTH!” or “Homina-homina-homina!”
If tales of crashed UFOs are your thing, then you will probably have heard of the alleged UFO crash on the Berwyn Mountains, North Wales on the night of January 23, 1974. There are rumors of roads cordoned off by military units, of strange bodies secretly taken to Porton Down, Wiltshire, England, and of a huge cover-up to hide the truth. As Wikipedia notes of Porton Down: “Porton Down is a science park, situated just northeast of the village of Porton, near Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. It is home to two British government facilities: a site of the Ministry of Defence‘s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) – known for over 100 years as one of the UK’s most secretive and controversial military research facilities…”
Andy Roberts states in his book on the case, UFO Down!: “In 1958 Gavin Gibbons wrote a children’s science-fiction novel By Space Ship to the Moon,which featured a UFO landing on Moel Sych in the Berwyn Mountains of North Wales. Sixteen years later, in a surreal case of life imitating art, those very same mountains would again be the focus for a story involving a downed UFO. But this time, some said, the story was for real.”
Andy is of the opinion that nothing of an extraterrestrial nature came down on the mountain. Rather, he concludes that the affair was a case of mistaken identity. Not a doomed UFO (and its doomed crew) anywhere in sight. Instead, Andy believes that it was all the result of a localized earth tremor and the presence of a meteor, both roughly at the same time. Back in the late 1980s and through the early-to-mid 1990s, I was quite open to the possibility that there was more to the case than something of a very down to earth nature. But, as time went by, and as more data came along, I began to lean towards Andy’s theory. I still do. But, that doesn’t take away the fact that intriguing tales concerning the incident still continue to appear and circulate.
Berwyn Mountains
As for that saga of alien bodies allegedly found at the (equally alleged!) crash site and transferred to Porton Down, it surfaced in 1996. The source was (unfortunately…and perhaps inevitably…) anonymous. The story was given to the late UFO researcher and police sergeant, Tony Dodd. At the time, Dodd was working with Graham Birdsall’s UFO Magazine. As for that source, Dodd gave him the alias of “James Prescott.” According to Prescott, he was directly involved in the incident: the role of Prescott and his team was to drive a number of alien bodies – in crates – from the mountains and to the aforementioned Porton Down. As is the case with so many tales of crashed UFOs, the Porton Down story stalled, and the source retreated back into the shadows from where he came. Ufology was left with an interesting – but totally unverifiable – story.
Although I think Andy got it right with his meteorite/earth tremor theory, I am still open-minded when it comes to the possibility that something strange may have happened. I don’t, however, think that aliens were the cause of all the fuss. A military event? Maybe. Over the years I have received fourteen accounts from various people (mostly retired U.K. military) who had heard of the Porton Down link years before the James Prescott revelations reared their collective head in 1996. Today, I’ll share with you one of those accounts, with more to follow soon. Regardless of what you may think of the following, the good news is that all of my sources are speaking on the record. No “James Prescott”-type hidden identities here.
“I spent thirty years in the Royal Air Force as an aircraft engineer,” explained Bob Bolton, when I met him in way back in 2000 (and who granted me permission to share his story – and, yes, that is his real name). “I had various postings, including at Akrotiri in Cyprus; RAF Honnington; and at RAF Valley in North Wales from 1971 to 1974. My wife’s family came from Corwen. At the time the thing on the Berwyns happened, they lived up on the side of the mountain and her mom still lives there to this day. From where their house is, if you walk up the path that goes behind the houses up and onto the top of the mountains, you’re talking perhaps a mile and a quarter away from where it all occurred; so it’s not very far away at all.
“Her mom still remembers what happened on the night of 23 January [1974]. She said to me when I spoke to her about it just recently: ‘I saw aircraft and heard aircraft shot down during the Blitz and it was like an aircraft coming down, but the sound was louder, bigger, heavier that anything you could imagine to do with an aircraft.’ They didn’t know what it was. They heard the noise first of all and ran out into the road. They weren’t the only ones: all their neighbors ran out as well. It got louder and louder and louder and they couldn’t see anything in the sky but then they felt the impact where the houses shook and she had things fall off the mantle-piece in the house.
“It was my wife’s dad who told me the story about bodies being found on the mountain. His name was Harold Smith. He had a full-time job with Vauxhall at Elsmere Port; he was a local councilor and was also a part-time Sub-Fire Officer at Corwen. One day we got talking and got on to the subject of UFOs and he said to me: ‘Oh, well, you obviously don’t know about the incident up on the Berwyn Mountains.’
“I first heard the story from him around 1976. At that time he only told me that bodies had been brought down from the mountain and didn’t say anything more. Nothing about who brought them down or where they were taken. But from 1979 to 1982 I was posted to Germany and he came out to stay with us for a month and it was here that he told us a lot more.
“I remember that the information he told us had apparently come from another person in the North Wales Fire Service whose son was in the Army. But it’s not surprising that he would have been told: he was a well-respected man and knew people throughout the North Wales Fire Service, including at Bala and Wrexham. He told me that while the police weren’t involved, the Army was – heavily. I can’t give you an exact date when they visited and he told us this, but it was definitely between 1979 and 1982. He said there were definitely lorries from Porton Down at the scene; that there was a lozenge-shaped object on the mountainside; and that bodies were taken off the mountain and driven to Porton. And, to this day, my wife’s mother can confirm that she was told the story about Porton Down and bodies, too – either in the late 1970s or the early 1980s.
“I do remember him saying that when he had first told me this story in 1976, he didn’t know that it was the Army who had taken the bodies off the mountain and he didn’t know at the time that they’d been taken to Porton Down. So, he must have learned that between 1976 and when he came to see us in Germany.”
The legend of the Berwyn Mountains’ crashed UFO lives on…
The world’s most famous alien abductee, Travis Walton, worked recently as a consultant on a new sci-fi thriller due for release in September this year. According to Variety, the movie, Beyond the Sky, will also feature Walton in a cameo appearance alongside stars Ryan Carnes, Jordan Hinson, Martin Sensmeier, Don Stark and Peter Stormare.
In the movie, writes Variety:
“Carnes portrays a man with a powerful and traumatic connection to alien abductions since his early childhood. He sets out to disprove the alien abduction phenomenon by attending a UFO convention—but then meets Hinson’s character, who claims to have been abducted every seven years on her birthday, and he realizes there may be more to these claims than meets the eye.”
The North American rights to the movie were bought recently by RLJE Films. The company’s chief acquisitions officer, Mark Ward, said:
“The question of if we are alone in the universe is still talked about today. With its unique approach to the story of alien abduction and its great special effects, we are thrilled to be able to bring Beyond The Sky to audiences.”
Travis Walton made headlines in 1975 when the logger from Snowflake, Arizona, claimed to have been taken aboard a flying saucer and to have interacted with two different species of aliens. What distinguishes Walton’s story from innumerable other accounts of cosmic kidnapping is that his apparent abduction was witnessed, in part, by the six other men on his logging crew. Walton played a significant part in bringing to the big screen the 1993 movie based on his own story; he even had a fleeting cameo in the movie as a local townsman. His public profile and association with the abduction mystery has grown to such an extent since then that, in Beyond the Sky, Walton is playing himself.
Beyond the Sky was produced for a meager $1.5 million and was directed by Fulvio Sestito based on a story he wrote with Rebecca Berrih and Warren Thomas. The script was written by Thomas and Marc Porterfield. RLJE plans to release the film in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD on Sept. 21, 2018.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETDe asteroïde 2016 NF23, die mogelijk groter is dan pakweg het atomium, zal volgende week rakelings langs de aarde scheren met een snelheid van liefst 32.400 kilometer per uur. Dat meldt NASA. De asteroïde wordt weliswaar geklasseerd als “potentieel gevaarlijk”, maar zal onze planeet veilig passeren.
De ruimterots zal eind deze maand langs de aarde suizen en bevindt zich op 29 augustus het dichtst bij ons: op een relatief kleine afstand van ruim 4,8 miljoen kilometer of dertien keer de afstand tussen de maan en de aarde.
Volgens de berekeningen van NASA heeft asteroïde 2016 NF23 een diameter tussen 70 meter en 160 meter. Om te vergelijken: het atomium is slechts 102 meter hoog. Op z’n grootst is de asteroïde zelfs omvangrijker dan de Piramide van Cheops, die nu ongeveer 129 meter hoog is.
“Potentieel gevaarlijk”
NASA bestempelt de asteroïde als “potentieel gevaarlijk”. Reden tot ongerustheid is er echter niet: het label wil niet meteen zeggen dat er een concreet risico is op een catastrofale aanvaring met de aarde. NASA benoemt alle asteroïden als “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids” of PHA’s van zodra ze op een bepaalde afstand naderen en groot genoeg zijn om serieuze schade aan te richten in het geval van een botsing. Maar zover komt het nog niet. De asteroïde zal volgens de verwachtingen begin september veilig zijn weg door het heelal verderzetten.
In de komende weken zullen verschillende asteroïden zelfs nog dichter langs de aarde zoeven. Het gaat dan wel om veel kleinere exemplaren. De 2016 GK135 bijvoorbeeld, zal de aarde volgende week passeren op ‘amper’ 3 miljoen kilometer en heeft een diameter van 6 tot 14 meter.
While searching through the NASA index of Mars photos, I happened to stumble upon a few that reveals the true color of the Mars sky. NASA usually takes the Mars photos and puts them into false color...which is very dark brown red. It also like to take photos and put them into black and white, to confuse the eyes. NASA often puts a note below red photos of Mars that they are in FALSE COLOR, so although NASA does this without an explanation...they do it letting the public know in the photo descriptions. False color makes the planet look red, like dark soil from a garden bag.
In these photos I found we have a normal view of Mars. The colors of the rocks very between white and blue. The sky blue and cloudless, although I have reported clouds in the sky of Mars in the past, so they do exist. The sky, looks a lot like todays sky on Earth. I just wanted to let you in on a little secret that NASA doesn't want you to know about, or to see. Why does NASA usually put Mars photos into FALSE COLOR? To prevent Mars from looking as hospitable as it really is. To make it look impossible to live on. To hide the blue sky and white clouds, normal earth-like ground so that other countries will not pool their resources and make their own mission to Mars without NASAs assistance. Imagine half of Mars claimed by China and the other half by Russia. That would be impossible for NASA to fight, so America would no longer allowed to build space stations on the red planet, unless they made serious payments to China or Russia. Scott C. Waring
Above is a false color photo that the public normally sees, but its fake, its not real but NASA gets away with it because they label the photos False Color and the public never asks why?
Below are the side by side view of Mars photos NASA released. So...Mars does have a blue sky like Earth and clouds like Earth...so it may be more hospitable than scientists previously believed.
What caused this trail and punch hole in the clouds above Mesa, Arizona?
What caused this trail and punch hole in the clouds above Mesa, Arizona?
On August 14, 2018 the photographer took a picture of an unknown object on top of the clouds that left behind a trail and a punch hole in the clouds above Mesa, Arizona.
This is what the photographer said:
While at home on August 14, 2018 my wife called me outside to view the bright moon between the clouds. I went to get my digital camera to get a picture of it. When I got back the clouds had covered the moon so I stood outside my back porch waiting for the moon to reappear between the clouds.
While waiting, at 18:53 I noticed at about the same angle where the moon had been a new light appear.
This light was much smaller than the moon and actually brighter. It was situated what appeared to be on top of some clouds in the western sky.
I decided "what the heck" so I took a shot of this light (at first I thought it was a bright star). As I brought the camera down after taking the shot I noticed that the light had suddenly disappeared. I never saw the light again with the naked eye. A few minutes later the moon reappeared and I got a couple of shots of the moon.
When I pulled the pictures up I was astonished to see that the camera had captured a trail from the object's original position moving southward and upward from it's original position.
My wife saw the small light but did not witness me take the picture as she had gone inside after the moon was covered by the clouds.
As you look at the picture you will see that I accidentally moved the camera while the shutter was open. You can line the clouds up with my original position and see my movement.
However the trail left by the object after the camera movement made by me does not show that the trail was caused by any movement, at least from my perspective.
Photographer has submitted the images to Mufon case 94326.
In special reports, this week’s files cover: UK’s “Most Spectacular” UFO Photo, “ET Contact: They Are Here,” Administration Wants Space Force by 2020, Space-Based Missile Defense Can Be Done,
and National Football League (NFL) History
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Eire, France, Guatemala, Poland, Portugal, and England and Scotland in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
UK’s “Most Spectacular” UFO Photo
Nick Pope
Two people had been walking near the town of Calvine in Scotland when they spotted the large diamond-shaped object. They described the object as looking metallic. Nick Pope from the UK’s Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) and UFO investigator learned that the object had been photographed on August 4, 1990, and photos sent to the Scottish Daly Record Newspaper. The object sat in one position, hovering silently for several minutes before taking off vertically at, as Nick Pope writes, “a massive speed.”
During the sighting, the witnesses also saw a military aircraft that they thought might be a Harrier jet, but they were unsure whether the jet was escorting the craft, chasing it, or whether the jet pilot was even aware of the diamond-shaped UFO.
. The paper contacted the MoD, and the MoD was somehow able to convince the paper to hand over the photographs along with the negatives. The photos were then sent to the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) who then sent them on to imagery analysts at JARIC (Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre). Yet at the time, MoD hadn’t even publicly acknowledged that there was any intelligence interest in UFOs at all,” Nick Pope explains.
“We implied and sometimes stated that we didn’t ‘investigate’ UFOs, but merely ‘examined sightings to see if anything reported was of any defense interest’ – as if the two were somehow different!”
Pope says the MoD was actually very interested in these cases, but often less interested in where the craft came from than what they could learn from it. They had hoped to identify some sort of technology they would be able to appropriate.
Nick Pope, former MOD UFO investigator, at the International UFO Congress. (Credit: Peter Beste/Open Minds)
Either way, the Calvine UFO photos impressed the United Kingdom UFO desk investigators enough that they hung the poster in the office.
“At one particularly surreal briefing on the UFO phenomenon my DIS opposite number indicated the photo and pointed his finger to the right: ‘It’s not the Americans’, he said, before pointing to the left and saying ‘and it’s not the Russians.’ There was a pause, before he concluded ‘and that only leaves …’ – his voice trailed off and he didn’t complete the sentence, but his finger was pointing directly upwards,” recalls Pope.
The disappearance of the UK’s “most spectacular” UFO photo. The photo showed a picture of a large diamond shaped craft with a jet in the background. When he asked about the photo, Pope was told that they had officially determined the image was real. They estimated the craft to have been 25 meters (over 80 feet) in diameter.
However, if asked, they were instructed to answer, “no definite conclusion had been reached regarding the large diamond-shaped object.”
Hanging on the wall near the British government’s UFO Desk was what one of the men who occupied that desk called “the most spectacular UFO photo ever sent to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).” The photo has since disappeared, but the story of how the picture was obtained, and what it showed, has not.
Nick Pope ran the MoD’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994. When he was first assigned to the position, he was not excited about it. He felt the issue was ridiculous and he was not looking forward to having to deal with a bunch of UFO nuts. However, over the years, Pope found there were credible cases of incredible things, and began to see there was something truly mysterious about the phenomenon. One of the cases that lead him to this conclusion had to do with a photo that was made into a poster that he found hung in the office near his desk when he began working the UFO desk. Thanks to Alejandro Rojas
“ET Contact: They Are Here”
Joan Bird PhD, wrote the book “Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials: Extraordinary stories of documented sightings and encounters
In 1950, two spinning disks flew over Great Falls, Montana, and were filmed on a hand-held camera. Today, those “flying saucers” in the now-famous “Montana Movie” still defy conventional explanation.In the 1960s, UFOs were reported at Minuteman missile silos in Montana. In separate incidents while a UFO was overhead, armed and ready nuclear missiles were suddenly deactivated as missile launch officers watched helplessly. The U.S. Air Force ordered these men never to tell anyone what happened.This book critically examines these and other UFO events in Montana, including reported contact with extraterrestrials. Drawing on recently declassified government documents, historic reports, and first-hand interviews, Ph.D. zoologist and author Joan Bird presents compelling evidence that UFOs are real, have frequented Montana’s Big Sky, and have landed in the state.
This book also introduces readers to significant UFO incidents in the U.S., to official government investigations such as Project Blue Book, and to major figures in the study of UFOs.
Joan Bird writes, This documentary about contactees is very well done, interviewing a number of highly credentialed scientists as well as the contactees and the researchers who work with them.
Joan Bird writes, “For some time I have been most fascinated by the contactee literature, as well as by the recent study done by the Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE) <https://www.experiencer.org/” I consider it important enough that I now include some of the results of that study in my talk, most significantly the preponderance of highly positive contact experiences, and positive effects on the lives of the contactees.
The last two UFO Conferences I have attended have highlighted contactees and the information they are sharing. While the information from the whistleblowers and government/aerospace insiders is important, it tends to be biased towards perceiving the phenomenon as a threat. If you’ve not already seen it, I highly recommend the movie “Arrival,” because it contrasts the military lens (everything’s a potential threat) to that of someone (notably a woman,) who insists on personal contact to communicate with the visitors. Her insistence allows the visitors to convey consciousness expanding information to her and the humans on earth, and to avoid needless destruction and slaughter. At least most of it. Couldn’t completely restrain the trigger happy guys.
The Mt. Shasta UFO Conference last week was titled “From Venus with Love,” and included contactees who have had encounters with Venusians, researchers on the early contactees and their accounts of Venusians, and Omnec Onec, author of the book, From Venus I Came. Her book was recommended to me at one of the first UFO conferences I attended by the grandfather of UFO research, retired AF pilot Wendelle Stevens. He told me that many people did not believe her, but he had met her and witnessed her unusual gifts. I thoroughly enjoyed and marveled at her book, as she described the culture she was born into as free of war, poverty and disease. I had seen videos of her, and always wanted to meet her. At long last, was able to do that. (Photo below). For those who may know him, you can see Luis Fernando Maertens over Omnec’s shoulder in the white shirt. He is a Bolivian man, a contactee extraordinaire. My husband and I did a week long retreat with him in 2009 in Bolivia, and I consider him a very important teacher on the planet. His presentations at this conference were mind blowing. His presentations are in Spanish with interpreters, and you can find him on Youtube.
So much of the contactee information is good news, uplifting news, hopeful news. Basically, what they are saying is that we have many beings who are assisting us at this time, with ideas for solving many of the problems facing us, and just encouraging us in our spiritual development to be more loving, non-judgmental and forgiving. This is not new information, as it has been delivered through the centuries by many of earth’s great spiritual teachers. However, it is especially crucial at this time. I know it’s not easy, but it is the path forward, and we have many allies both in other dimensions, and walking among us. We were told Venusians have often been visiting earth for a long time, and have often been mistaken for angels. Blessings and strong hearts as we make our way through these challenging times. Thanks to Joan Bird
Administration Wants Space Force by 2020
Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday outlined the Trump administration’s plan to establish a sixth military service dedicated to space, saying the goal is to stand up the US Space Force by 2020. The move will require a significant cultural and organizational shift at the Pentagon—and in the Air Force specifically—and will be the first time the US has established a military service since the US Air Force was created in 1947. Also on Thursday, the Pentagon released a congressionally mandated report detailing five actions the department will take to begin building the new service. “Just as in the past, when we created the Air Force, establishing the Space Force is an idea whose time has come,” Pence said, pointing to a space environment that has become “crowded and adversarial.” US adversaries, he said, have turned space into a war fighting domain, and “the Un asked about the impact of the proposed changes on the Air Force Space Command, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Paul Selva said the first step in the shift is to “do no harm to the missions that are being accomplished today,” so part of the job would be to figure out how to move missions, such as GPS, subject to approval by Congress.
Space-Based Missile Defense Can Be Done
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. writes, ‘Some 35 years after Ronald Reagan’s famous Star Wars speech, the Pentagon’s R&D chief said that space-based missile defenses are technically feasible and reasonably affordable.”
Hypersonic weapon (Raytheon concept)
Since Reagan’s day, technology has advanced enough that putting both sensors and shooters in space is not only possible but “relatively easy,” Undersecretary for Research & Engineering Mike Griffin said. What’s more, past estimates of the cost of space-based interceptors have been “unrealistically,” even “naively” high.
Specifically, Griffin told reporters here,
Michael Griffin
The US “absolutely” needs space-based sensors to detect low-flying hypersonic cruise missiles, a new threat that’s much harder to spot from orbit than ICBMs; and
We probablyneed space-based interceptors to shoot down high-flying ballistic missiles during the boost phase, the period before the warheads separate from the rocket.
Note these are two different functions with two different types of targets. Space-based interceptors would notwork against hypersonic cruise missiles, Griffin said. They fly too low, deep in the atmosphere, so any munitions you shoot at them from space would have to be hardened against the heat of atmospheric reentry, which he called prohibitively difficult. “It may not be a bridge too far, but it’s a pretty far away bridge.” Ballistic missiles, by contrast, ascend rapidly out of the atmosphere into space, so space-based interceptors would only have to travel through vacuum, which is much easier.
Note that Griffin’s speaking only about interceptors, missiles that shoot down other missiles. He didn’t comment on lasersexcept to note them as a promising possibility. (In the past, he’s told Congress he wants a megawatt-plus laser in space by the late 2020s).
F-35 firing AMRAAM air-to-air missile
Air-Launched or Space-Based? It is also possible, Griffin noted, for an aircraft to shoot down a ballistic missile in boost phase. The launch platform could be either a manned fighter — the stealthy F-35has gotten a lot of attention, but the older F-15 could do the job as well, he said — or an unmanned drone — which he said might be “more cost-effective” than a manned fighter. (Griffin didn’t go into details, but unmanned aircraft can dispense with bulky, costly life support systems and can stay aloft longer than a human can endure). Such an airborne boost phase intercept would require modifying current air-to-air missiles such as the AMRAAM to take on new types of targets, Griffin said. But that’s entirely doable against “limited threats,” he said, and in a shorter timeframe than developing a space-based interceptor.
(For those who need a reminder, an F-15 fired an anti-satellite weapon and successfully destroyed an American bird in September 1985. Shooting down a satellite isn’t quite the same as hitting a ballistic missile in flight, but there are similarities.)
Alien Technology in a Pyramid in North Carolina
Dr. Bruce Carnet writes, “There are many theories that could explain the fast, powerful radio blips, from spinning neutron stars to alien spaceships.”
Dr. Cornet Bartoo and wife
Bartoo a huge man had contacted me out of the blue and invited me to see his Magnetron in North Carolina . He told me his story of communicating with extraterrestrials, who told him to move from New Jersey to North Carolina, and to purchase land on the eastern side of Stone Mountain where the ley lines intersected. It was revealed to him by those aliens that he was spiritually one of them who had been ordered to incarnate as a human so that he could carry out their plans for Earth. Keep in mind that I had only recently been introduced to the spirit world through my late wife’s Spirit, and to the UFO phenomenon. As a scientist this exposure was very different and at odds with scientific beliefs. The question became: Why was I chosen and how did Bonnie and her Spirit fit into the bigger picture. Meeting my biological offspring for the first time was a systemic shock to my psyche, and opened up my mind to the existence of alternate (parallel) worlds, which were mostly invisible and out of reach to scientists.
When I talked to Walter Bartoo on the phone, I shared with him my communication with KaRa, who claimed to be the Spirit of my late wife, I told him how KaRa had revealed my spiritual name: Bar, which is also what Bonnie had called me during our seven years together. He surprised me by saying that his name was Bar too. It took me a moment to realize that we had the same first names, and that his last name was Bartoo! That connection or synchronicity helped to confirm in my mind that our meeting was important for my education into the invisible world.
When he got to North Carolina, he contacted real estate agents, looking for property near or on the site the aliens told him to He was then contacted by a real estate agent, who said she had property exactly where the Lay Lines crossed. He told her he didn’t have much money, but she said she could get a loan for purchase which he could afford.
The next problem was purchasing materials to build the Magnetron, whose blueprint was downloaded into his brain by the But first he had to build a house on his new property. Surprisingly, when he put out the word for help, people came to him with building materials and offers to help him build his house. Then he needed materials to build the containment structure for the Magnetron. He either was given the design by aliens and again, people brought him building materials. He constructed with volunteer help a wooden pyramid at the exact location his ET source had told him to put the Magnetron.
Next he needed the materials to build the Magnetron: Fifty+ foot copper pipe, circular magnets that would fit exactly around the copper pipe, plus hundreds of quartz crystals of three different sizes that would be arranged on acrylic circular plates sandwiched between dozens of circular magnets on the copper This device had to be isolated from the Earth, but positioned over a copper pipe embedded in the ground as a ground. Both ends of the discontinuous copper pipes would have huge quartz crystals connected to the ends of the pipes, and pointing at each other. Even the top of the main copper pipe would have a huge quartz crystal capping it in the very apex of the pyramid, whose capstone is constructed of four triangular, semitransparent acrylic windows.
Bartoo constructed it with the help of friends and his When I arrived at his property, I was amazed. His house was built in the shape of a Celtic Cross, and a pyramid stood up hill from his house in the middle of the woods. He invited his friends, wife, and daughter to join him while we watched the Magnetron function. I was very skeptical at first, not knowing how one would determine if energy was being transmitted down the copper pipe to the Earth without instrumentation. I would soon see the proof with my own eyes.
Bartoo told us to watch the clouds as they traveled from west to east over the top of Stone Mountain which towered above the pyramid behind As the front and winds changed direction, they carried the clouds towards the pyramid. I could tell something unusual was happening, because the small puffy clouds began to change direction and converge on the pyramid location. At first this was unbelievable, but seeing is believing. This process happened continuously, as cloud after cloud changed direction towards the location of the pyramid. What was most extraordinary is that when each small cloud moved over the top of the pyramid, it was rapidly sucked down into the top of the pyramid and Magnetron as if in a spiraling energy vortex.
I tried to capture this event on film, but the speed of the process was too fast to anticipate every shot, and only one picture above shows a disappearing cloud to the left of the larger cloud in the process of being stretched downwards towards the I am a witness to the energy contained in each cloud in drops of moisture being transferred to the magnetized and crystal-shielded copper pipe. I saw the cloud pulled down and descend into the Earth through an alien device in order to fix one of the ley line grid points for energy on our planet. Bartoo had accomplished his mission on Earth. Who would believe it? Cheers, Bruce Cornet
National Football League (NFL) History
by Richard Anderson
Millionaire San Francisco NFL Players Protest
NFL History … a history rarely reported or “leaked” to the
ticket holders …I hope this helps you; it opened my eyes to understanding just when the public’s respect for the NFL organization started to crumble ….
* In 2012, the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling for each game to pray, They also had an issue with Tebow wearingJohn 3:16 as part of his eye-black to avoid glare, and made him remove it.
* In 2013, the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health disorders.
* In 2014, Robert Griffin III (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said “Know Jesus/Know Peace”, but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking at the podium.
* In 2015, DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing “Find the Cure” eye black for breast cancer awareness.
* In 2015, William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (Not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem ??).
*In 2016, the NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.
* In 2016, the NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11.
So please tell me again how the NFL supports free speech and expression. All of a sudden it seems quite clear, based on the above facts, that CEO Roger Goodell has taken a position against any action by NFL players demonstrating RESPECT for any issue:
For God, social causes such as mental health, cancer, domestic violence, for cops killed arbitrarily for being cops, for the Memory of 9/11
BUT, they will allow demonstrations of DISRESPECT for our National Flag, our National Anthem, for the military, for America, and for the American People if it will help mollify a particular group and its supporters. That is who and what the NFL now has shown itself to be.
I’m a big Eagle fan but disagree with the disrespect to America by the players who have access to radio and TV whenever they call. Please pass this post along to all your friends and family. Honor our military … too many of whom have come home with the American Flag draped over their coffins. Sincerely, Major George Filer 111
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Filer’s Files #33 – 2018 ET Contact: They Are Here - PART II
Filer’s Files #33 – 2018 ET Contact: They Are Here - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Alabama Light
Centre –A few minutes after nightfall, on August 14, 2018, I went outside for a walk in front of my residence. The sky was clear. At 8:26 p.m. I noticed an unusual light approaching from the east. I am well acquainted with seeing aircraft in the night sky, but I realized this object was different. It flashed and pulsated with a white light. Quickly I grabbed my digital camera, since I have experienced multiple UFO sightings. It wasn’t until afterward reviewing the video that I realized the object appeared to be rotating. Also, there was one big light in the middle with two smaller lights – one on top and the other on bottom. It appeared to fly in an upright, vertical position. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Costa Mesa— At 3:30 am I was patrolling one of our accounts when I noticed a triangle object heading east with three lights under it moving at low altitude. I immediately snapped two pictures then the object was gone just like that. I noticed the object because it had three bright lights under it and was very silent. I did not know what to think but I reported it to my dispatch and added the pictures to the clients report. I was very concerned because I never thought I would encounter something like this .I lost track of it as soon as I snapped the pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Orb
Parker — I was on my flight back home from Tucson, AZ to Denver, CO when I saw out of the window of the plane an orb like object hovering beside the wing of the plane.
I first thought it was something on the window but the UFO moved up and down in the same position.
This made me curious about what this object really is. The object flew past the wing and I never saw it again.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Daytona Beach – On August 7, 2018, I saw two bright red orbs moving in perfect formation across sky out to sea then disappear. Four others followed at the same distance and disappeared at the same location. These moved across the entire sky and stayed visible for 15 minutes from start to finish. Two planes looked to almost collide with them heading in opposite direction. Red orbs flew NE heading out to sea and disappearing as the rest did. They were very large solid red orbs. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Palm Beach Gardens— I saw something on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 7:30 AM, that was so strange I have no idea what it was. I have been following UFOs avidly since 1958 and seen them a few times. I took several photos and several videos of this “object“ or “ phenomenon.“
I noticed a very tiny, dull-black, perfectly round, flat “thing” overhead. After 15 minutes I saw a quick lightning-like discharge but only around the edges. A little later I saw a straight laser beam. Sometimes it “danced erratically, like a tiny bug. It was superimposed over our reality and was “not of this world,”. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Orb
Chicago— I was in my back yard getting ready to walk in the house at about 10 pm and a bright light caught the corner of my eye. I turned and saw an orange and pink digital electric orb slow down in my alley.
It saw me and lifted up over the tree .I called my mother out and we both watched it slowly fly away. Last night it came again and I filmed it with my mother. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan’ Light
Petoskey— I got home and was turning off the lights to go to bed when I noticed in the distance a blinking light. When I let the dog out, it was still there. I watched it for a good 10 minutes. It was randomly flashing red, green, blue, and white. I got the binoculars and could see four lights in a row. The center two were randomly flashing colors. I recorded a little of it on my phone. After watching it for 30 minutes or so, the flashing got slower, but it did not move. There was also 2 or 3 times a light shot out from the left side and faded. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Orbs
Forest Lake — There are strange and frequent things taking place over Central Minnesota as of July 23, 2018
} they are consistently showing up! And in multiple forms.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Lights
Missouri River — I received this pic from a friend of a friend that was deer hunting up on the Missouri River. The pic I received from my friend was so intriguing I felt compelled to post it to see if anyone else witnessed these objects on November 20, 2017. The sun had set 15 minutes earlier. The sun may be reflecting off the bottom of the cloud causing a very cool sun dog-type reflection. But I was having a hard time explaining the chevron group of lights above the cloud, and the evenly spaced’ beams of light shining down from the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Lights
Utica — If the video isn’t on the UFO map page search name above recorded around 3am.
Monitoring human activity UFOs overny video close up Utica NYon Aug 15 2018 Video Close Up
Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Orb
Lexington – I was taking a picture of the wine vineyard from our car and the window was down so this is not a reflection. We took two pictures back to back and as you see it descended quickly. I believe UFOs exist and have heard there are transdimensional ones not seen without digital devices. The images attached are amazing to me.
We did not see anything until we got home and uploaded our vacation pictures to our laptop. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Glowing Object
Hazleton — Review of a security camera on the side of my house revealed a glowing object with an irregular travel path. Lights in the background are from another house. I suspected at first a drone, then a flashlight, then perhaps a bird. Friends have viewed the video as well, with no plausible explanation. Object first appears round, then the shape changes as it nears the ground finally coming to rest on a tree. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Orb
Pflugerville– On August 13, 2018, Blue/green flashing light that was moving erratically then started flashing brighter red. I was on the balcony having a cigarette, and noticed this flashing light, that was moving odd. I grabbed my phone and started recording it. I was in my backyard around 1:00 AM on August 14, 2018, trying to see if I could glimpse any Presides shower activity. I noticed flashing red and white lights. It turned in a controlled, wide loop then turned around again. The flashing lights were not in a discernible repeating pattern. This object was changing direction often. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
Russel Island — As children and I got out of the car to go to dinner on August 12, 2018, we noticed a bright glowing object shrouded in clouds in the SE sky. It looked too small for the moon and much too big for stars. It looked like something entering the atmosphere. Very slowly. We watched it for 10 minutes and took photos and videos. Object is visible in photos but invisible in videos..
Belgium Disk
Ypres — On a Battlefields trip with youth group I was taking pictures out of window with short bursts of film.
I noticed later that there was something there that I didn’t notice at the time.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Object
São Paulo – It happened in January of 2010, the object was a black cube that followed the electric power transmission lines that go towards Cogon south region of the city. I looked up and saw the object above my house. I was watching and even waved, but I was afraid, fear because the object seemed to me to approach.
I decided to go to the house of my mother who lives in a nearby street. I could see the object slowly following over the tower’s heading south. By coincidence I recently saw the object in the street view on Google. CMS.
Canada Lights
British Columbia — On July 10, 2018, on the way back from a motorcycle trip in the North Okanagan, we stopped one last time in the late afternoon over Lake Okanagan. I took several pictures overlooking the lake, and my fiancée and I did not see anything flying. However, after viewing the pictures on our computer screen, we noticed what appears to be ” orbs”. On closer observation however, the “objects” seem to be of perfect round shapes. They seem transparent green with some reflection from the inside. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Czech Republic
Pøíbram – This photo was taken at sunset on August 13, 2018.
A moving object was noticed in the upper left of the photo,
Note: The object may be a reflection on the lens of the sun.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Eire Light
Curragha, Kilbrew –Blue sphere seen while taking a photo of the clouds, up in the sky but way below the clouds.
Then moved downwards to the closest tree that I’m standing next to and then just vanished. I got this photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Object
Schmittviller — We were 7 people watching the shooting stars on the terrace of my home facing West. After sharing pizzas, we cut out all the lights about 10:30 PM and several people saw the object that made me think of a huge space ship. The object looked like a huge T. formed with several “bubbles”. The color was between gray and white. No noise, no light. The size seemed very big and the altitude was high. The speed was very fast because the observation only lasted between 5 and 10 seconds crossing the sky. It’s a bit like if the international space station passed 2/3 km above the house. Everyone thought of a gigantic ship or UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Guatemala Light
Quetzaltenang — We were going through the area of sighting when we turned up and noticed a light.
At first we thought it was a plane, but the light became bigger and brighter and we realized that it could not be a plane or in drone and we decided photograph it. Then it disappeared without a trace. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Poland Lights
Warsaw— I was walking past the Palace of Culture and decided to take some pics as it looked nice on August 11, 2018. I was walking whilst snapping some shots and not really paying much attention. I didn’t notice the lights at the time, it was only after returning home that I and my father saw the lights. I have a few photos where the lights seem to be in different configurations. CMS
Portugal Light
Vale da Amoreir— On August 14, 2018, I made two pictures of what looked the same yesterday at 10 pm. I was at the window to look at the moon and above it I could see a light, that I was to big to be a star, Just for a second looked inside my room, when I look back to the moon, to my surprise the light was not there anymore.. Then I look to the left side of the moon, and the same light flashed two times.. Then I thought this is not a star, nor plane
I grab my phone, made some pictures and then 2 small videos.. The object light stayed in the same place for about 10 minutes. I could see some flashes of red light, and also some yellow as it slowly descended until I stop seeing it, because of some trees. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Orb
Biggleswade— I spotted this object hovering above an airfield in Bedfordshire England on May 1, 2018. Late in the afternoon around 5.25 pm while photographing some gliders performing tows and aerobatics I noticed a very bright star like object high above. It was stationary as far as I could tell and remained visible for some five or six minutes in a very blue and cloudless spring sky. I began to take photos of the object hoping to enlarge the images. I take many aviation photos as a hobby.. After a while the object simply disappeared from view almost as though it had flown away very quickly. It was star like but later looking at the images noticed it had a structure and either reflective silver like or lit from within. One flew over my garden and when I noticed I thought it to stop and it did….even allowing me to run in the house and grab some binoculars and observe the object closer. I saw the same hovering object at air show a few years ago .
UK/Scotland
My niece was at Trump Turnberry Golf Course and took a picture of the golf course from the balcony of her room on August 16, 2018 at 7:56 pm Scotland time.
She emailed the picture because I like to play golf, and when I looked at it closely I saw 4 strange disk shaped objects in the background which she said she had not noticed when taking the picture.
Can you help me identify these UFO’s? Any ideas?
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Discovery of Water Ice on the Moon Thrills Lunar Scientists
Discovery of Water Ice on the Moon Thrills Lunar Scientists
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
This image shows the distribution of surface ice at the moon’s south pole (left) and north pole (right), as detected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument, which flew aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
Credit: NASA
Scientists who study the moon are beaming about the new discovery of exposed water ice in lunar polar regions.
Using data from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) spectrometer experiment, a team of researchers — led by Shuai Li iof the University of Hawaii and Brown University — found direct evidence of water ice on the lunar surface, in permanently shadowed areas in polar craters.
Previous data could not confirm the existence of water ice on the moon's surface, but Li et al. provide esolid evidence for its presencee in their study, which was published online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"This is a critical paper, as it demonstrates that we have four independent lines of evidence that there are surface ice exposures at the lunar poles," explained Clive Neal, a leading lunar expert at the University of Notre Dame.
"With the neutron data, we also know that these deposits extend into the subsurface. Therefore, we now have great maps that we can use to target prospecting surface rovers," Neal, who was not involved with the new study, told Inside Outer Space.
Key details about these lunar ice deposits still need to be worked out, Neal stressed. For example, researchers don't yet know the deposits' size and purity, or thee geomechanical properties of the regolith in which they lie. Such information could be gathered on the ground by robotic explorers.nl.
"It is time to get to the surface of the moon and start prospecting!" Neal said.
North and south poles
Angel Abbud-Madrid, Director of the Center for Space Resources at the Colorado School of Mines in Goldeno, also found the new research exciting.
"This new piece of evidence is valuable in that it provides additional confirmation on not just the presence of ice on permanently shadowed regions — which was obtained from previous instruments and from NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) impact mission in 2009 on Cabeus Crater — but of water ice exposed on the surface in various well-defined spots on both the north and south poles," Abbud-Madrid told Inside Outer Space.
"These data are of importance for prospecting and in-situ resource utilization operations related to water extraction from the lunar poles," Abbud-Madrid added.
The locations of surface-exposed water ice described in the new study, he said, could be used to select potential sites for more extensive ground-truth exploration to qualify and quantify the ice content of these regions.
"This information is crucial to select the most appropriate extraction method to be used for ice exposed on the surface, as opposed to techniques to drill and recover subsurface ice," Abbud-Madrid concluded.
Lunar bases?
An artist’s illustration of a crewed moon base. The recent discovery of water ice on the lunar surface could help make such visions a reality, researchers say.
Credit: ESA/Foster + Partners
The new research provides "robust evidence" for the presence of water ice on the moon's surface, noted James Head, of the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
"If ice is at the surface, this means that much more could be buried at depth and covered and preserved below insulating soil, or diffused into and frozen in the soil layers," Head said.
"This is very exciting news, and provides significant impetus for future international landings in the polar regions to drill and return samples of this ice," he added. "Ice deposits in significant quantities on the moon could provide resources for future lunar bases and for fuel for future human exploration of deep space."
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars." A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. This version of the story published on Space.com.
What happens to your religion if we find extraterrestrial life?
What happens to your religion if we find extraterrestrial life?
The discovery of life on another planet might seem incompatible with faith in a deity. Yet many theologians are already open to the existence of extraterrestrials, argues the writer Brandon Ambrosino.
In 2014, Nasa awarded $1.1M to the Center for Theological Inquiry, an ecumenical research institute in New Jersey, to study “the societal implications of astrobiology”.
Some were enraged. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which promotes the division between Church and state, asked Nasa to revoke the grant, and threatened to sue if Nasa didn’t comply. While the FFR stated that their concern was the commingling of government and religious organisations, they also made it clear that they thought the grant was a waste of money. “Science should not concern itself with how its progress will impact faith-based beliefs.”
The FFR’s argument might well be undermined, however, when the day comes that humanity has to respond to the discovery of aliens. Such a discovery would raise a series of questions that would exceed the bounds of science. For example, when we ask, “What is life?” are we asking a scientific question or a theological one? Questions about life’s origins and its future are complicated, and must be explored holistically, across disciplines. And that includes the way we respond to the discovery of aliens.
This is not just an idle fantasy: many scientists would now argue that the detection of extraterrestrial life is more a question of when, not if.
There are several reasons for this confidence, but a main one has to do with the speed at which scientists have been discovering planets outside of our own Solar System. In 2000, astronomers knew of about 50 of these ‘exoplanets’. By 2013, they had found almost 850, located in over 800 planetary systems. That number may reach one million by the year 2045, says David Weintraub, associate professor of Astronomy at Vanderbilt University, and author of Religions and Extraterrestrial Life. “We can quite reasonably expect that the number of known exoplanets will soon become, like the stars, almost uncountable,” he writes. Of those discovered so far, more than 20 are Earth-size exoplanets that occupy a “habitable” zone around their star, including the most recently discovered Proxima b, which orbits Proxima Centauri.
The upshot is that the more we’re able to peer into space, the more certain we become that our planet isn’t the only one suitable for life.
As astronomers locate more and more exoplanets beyond the solar system, some believe that the discovery of extraterrestrial life will be inevitable
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Space exploration leads directly to religious and philosophical questions – Carl Sagan
With few exceptions, most of the discussions about Seti (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) tend to stay in the domain of the hard sciences. But the implications of Seti extend well beyond biology and physics, reaching to the humanities and philosophy and even theology. As Carl Sagan has pointed out in (the now out-of-print book) The Cosmic Question, “space exploration leads directly to religious and philosophical questions”. We would need to consider whether our faiths could accommodate these new beings – or if it should shake our beliefs to the core.
Working out these questions might be called exotheology or astro-theology, terms defined by Ted Peters, Professor Emeritus in Theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, to refer to “speculation on the theological significance of extraterrestrial life”. As he notes, Peters isn’t the first or only one to use the term, which dates back at least 300 years, to a 1714 publication titled ‘Astro-theology, or a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God From a Survey of the Heavens’.
How unique are we?
So what issues might the discovery of intelligent aliens raise? Let’s start with the question of our uniqueness – an issue that has troubled both theologians and scientists. Guiding Seti are three principles, as Paul Davies explains in the book Are We Alone? First, there’s the principle of nature’s uniformity, which claims that the physical processes seen on Earth can be found throughout the Universe. This means that the same processes that produce life here produce life everywhere.
Second is the principle of plenitude, which affirms that everything that is possible will be realised. For the purposes of Seti, the second principle claims that as long as there are no impediments to life forming, then life will form; or, as Arthur Lovejoy, the American philosopher who coined the term, puts it, “no genuine possibility of being can remain unfulfilled”. That’s because, claims Sagan, “The origin of life on suitable planets seems built into the chemistry of the Universe.”
The third, the mediocrity principle, claims that there is nothing special about Earth’s status or position in the Universe. This could present the greatest challenge to the major Abrahamic religions, which teach that human beings are purposefully created by God and occupy a privileged position in relation to other creatures.
Some people of faith may find that the discovery of aliens challenges their sense of human uniqueness
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In some ways, our modern scientific world was formed by the recognition of our own mediocrity, as David Weintraub notes in the book Religion and Extraterrestrial Life: “When in 1543 C.E. Copernicus hurled the Earth into orbit around the Sun, the subsequent intellectual revolution … swept the discarded remnants of the Aristotelian, geocentric Universe into the trash bin of history.”
The Copernican revolution, as it would later come to be understood, laid the groundwork for scientists, like Davies, to eventually claim that ours is “a typical planet around a typical star in a typical galaxy”. Sagan puts it even more startlingly: “We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”
But how could a believer reconcile this with their faith that humans are the crowning achievement of God’s creation?. How could humans believe they were the apple of their creator’s eye if their planet was just one of billions?
The discovery of intelligent aliens could have a similar Copernican effect on human’s self-understanding. Would the discovery make believers feel insignificant, and as a consequence, cause people to question their faith?
According to the Talmud, God spends his night flying throughout 18,000 worlds
I would argue that this concern is misguided. The claim that God is involved with and moved by humans has never required an Earth-centric theology. The Psalms, sacred to both Jews and Christians, claim that God has given names to all the stars. According to the Talmud, God spends his night flying throughout 18,000 worlds. And Islam insists that “all things in the heavens and on the Earth” are Allah’s, as the Koran says, implying that his rule extends well beyond one tiny planet. The same texts are unequivocally clear that human beings are special to God, who seems fairly able to multitask.
Depending on how literally you read their message, some holy texts do not exclude the possibility of alien life
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Second, we don’t reserve the word “special” only for unrepeatable, unique, isolated phenomena. As Peters says, the discovery of life elsewhere in the Universe would not compromise God’s love for Earth life, “just as a parent’s love for a child is not compromised because that child has a brother or sister”. If you believe in a God, why assume he is only able to love a few of his starchildren?
Revelation
But do the religious texts themselves mention the possibility of alien life? “What is most basic in religion,” writes Catholic priest and theologian Thomas O’Meara, “is the affirmation of some contact within and yet beyond human nature.” For Jews, Christians, and Muslims, this involves a written revelation, albeit one that is contingent upon the specific historical situations in which they initially circulated. The best theologies recognise these limitations. Some don’t, however, and for those believers that adhere to them, the discovery of ETs might prove initially threatening.
Evangelist Billy Graham told the National Enquirer he “firmly” believed God created alien life “far away in space”
Weintraub thinks Evangelicals might have a difficult time with Seti, because they approach their Scriptures with a high degree of literalism. Their hermeneutical heritage extends back to Luther’s Sola Scriptura, a Reformation rallying cry that affirms “Scripture alone” is necessary for understanding God’s plan for salvation. (One notable exception here is evangelist Billy Graham who in 1976 told the National Enquirer he “firmly” believed God created alien life “far away in space”.) These believers maintain that any other writing or idea must be evaluated and judged by the Bible. Take, for example, Darwin’s theory of evolution, which some Evangelicals reject on the grounds that the Bible says God created the world in seven days.
The worldview of these believers might be summed up in the Christian slogan, “God said it, I believe it, that settles it!” Were you to ask one of these Christians if she believed in ET life, her first instinct would probably be to consider what the Bible says about God’s creation. Not finding any positive affirmation of alien life, she might conclude, like creationist Jonathan Safarti, that humans are alone in the Universe. “Scripture strongly implies that no intelligent life exists elsewhere,” he wrote in an article in Science and Theology News. Granted, she might remain open to the discovery of alien life, but she’ll have to revise her notion of divine revelation in one very big way: by tempering it with some epistemic humility.
Second, she would have to deeply reflect on the concept of the Incarnation, the Christian belief that God was fully and uniquely present in a first-century human called Jesus of Nazareth. According to Christianity, salvation can be achieved only by Jesus’ death and resurrection. All paths to God, in effect, go through him. But what does that mean for other civilisations whirling around out there in the Universe, completely unaware of Jesus’ story?
Believers may need to question whether their religion - and its routes to salvation - would apply to all alien beings
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Thomas Paine famously tackled this question in his 1794 Age of Reason, in a discussion of multiple worlds. A belief in an infinite plurality of worlds, argued Paine, “renders the Christian system of faith at once little and ridiculous and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air”. It isn’t possible to affirm both simultaneously, he wrote, and “he who thinks that he believes in both has thought but little of either.” Isn’t it preposterous to believe God “should quit the care of all the rest” of the worlds he’s created, to come and die in this one? On the other hand, “are we to suppose that every world in the boundless creation” had their own similar visitations from this God? If that’s true, Paine concludes, then that person would “have nothing else to do than to travel from world to world, in an endless succession of deaths, with scarcely a momentary interval of life”.
In a nutshell: if Christian salvation is only possible to creatures whose worlds have experienced an Incarnation from God, then that means God’s life is spent visiting the many worlds throughout the cosmos where he is promptly crucified and resurrected. But this seems eminently absurd to Paine, which is one of the reasons he rejects Christianity.
But there’s another way of looking at the problem, which doesn’t occur to Paine: maybe God’s incarnation within Earth’s history “works” for all creatures throughout the Universe. This is the option George Coyne, Jesuit priest and former director of the Vatican Observatory, explores in his 2010 book Many Worlds: The New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life and the Theological Implications.
“How could he be God and leave extra-terrestrials in their sin? God chose a very specific way to redeem human beings. He sent his only Son, Jesus, to them… Did God do this for extra-terrestrials? There is deeply embedded in Christian theology… the notion of the universality of God’s redemption and even the notion that all creation, even the inanimate, participates in some way in his redemption.”
There’s yet another possibility. Salvation itself might be exclusively an Earth concept. Theology doesn’t require us to believe that sin affects all intelligent life, everywhere in the Universe. Maybe humans are uniquely bad. Or, to use religious language, maybe Earth is the only place unfortunate enough to have an Adam and Eve. Who is to say our star-siblings are morally compromised and in need of spiritual redemption? Maybe they have attained a more perfect spiritual existence than we have at this point in our development.
Many faiths require specific rituals associated with spiritual experiences
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As Davies notes, spiritual thinking requires an animal to be both self-conscious and “to have reached a level of intelligence where it can assess the consequences of its actions”. On Earth, this kind of cognition is at best a few million years old. If life exists elsewhere in the Universe, then it’s very unlikely that it’s at the exact same stage in its evolution as we are. And given the immense timeline of the existence of the Universe, it’s likely that at least some of this life is older, and therefore farther along in their evolution than we. Therefore, he concludes, “we could expect to be among the least spiritually advanced creatures in the Universe.”
If Davies is right, then contrary to popular works of literature like The Sparrow, humans won’t be the ones teaching their star-siblings about God. The education will go quite the other way.
Let’s note that this possibility doesn’t invalidate Earth religions’ claims of divine revelation. There is no need to imagine that God reveals the same truths in the same way to all intelligent life in the Universe. Other civilisations could understand the Divine in their own myriad ways, all of which could be compatible with each other.
Identity
But what about the divisions between faiths? How would the discovery influence religious identity? A 1974 story by Phillip Klass, On Venus We Have a Rabbi!, invited Jews, and all religious people, to consider this question. At some point in the future, goes the story, the Jewish community on planet Venus holds the Universe’s first Interstellar Neozionist Conference. In attendance are an intelligent alien species named Bublas, who have traveled from a faraway star named Rigel. The Jews at the conference are bewildered by the physical appearance of the Bulbas, what with their gray spots and tentacles. They decide the Bulbas can’t really be human, and therefore they can’t be Jewish.
A Rabbinical court is called to think about how Jews should respond to their new visitors. What happens, they ask, if some day humans come across alien creatures who want to be Jewish? “Do we say, no, you’re not entirely acceptable?”
The rabbis conclude that isn’t a good response, and suggest a paradoxical way for the Venusians to look at it: “There are Jews – and there are Jews. The Bulbas belong in the second group.”
The comedy of the story is heightened by what we recognise as a certain tribalism inherent to religion. The announcement of any identity has the potential to split the world into groups: us and them. But when religion is involved, that separation takes on a cosmic dimension: us and them, and God is on our side. This has always been one of the challenges of cross-cultural conversion, which is often tasked with negotiating, though not dissolving, such boundaries.
A sense of location is also critical to many religious practices - meaning that those beliefs could be bound to life on our planet
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Perhaps this is a bigger challenge to Judaism and Islam than it is for some forms of Christianity, which place less emphasis on daily rituals than other religions. Think of Islam, which requires its adherents to take up embodied behaviors throughout the year. Unlike Christianity, whose founder eradicated the necessity of location for religious experience, Islam is a very placed religion. Prayers are said facing Mecca, at five specific times throughout the day, and are physicalised through bowing and kneeling. Fasting is required at specific times, as is a pilgrimage to Mecca for all Muslims who are able. Judaism, too, has its own fasts, and – though it’s not a requirement – a concept of pilgrimage, which is its birthright trip, taglit, to the Holy Land. Contemporary Judaism, however, is not as dependent on location as Islam, given its tragic history with exile and diaspora.
What, then, would it take for an alien to be considered a participant in an Earth religion? What would she be required to do? Pray five times a day? Perhaps her planet does not rotate exactly as ours, and her days are much shorter – would she be expected to pray as often as Muslims on Earth? Would she have to be baptised? Receive communion? Build a tent for Sukkot? Though we imagine aliens to have a similar physical structure to us, there’s no reason to believe they have physical bodies. Maybe they don’t. Would that restrict their conversion options?
This may seem to be a bit of frivolous exotheology, but the point is this: all of our religious identities are Earth-centric ones. There’s nothing wrong with that (so long as we don’t collapse the Universe down to our finitude). Here’s how Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky puts it: “Religion is the human, social response to transcendence … Normative Judaism provides an excellent, time-tested path for sanctifying our minds, morals, and bodies, refining us as a people, improving the world, correlating our lives to the infinite God unfolding on the finite Earth.”
His upshot? “I am Jewish. God is not.”
The rabbi’s theory can help us think about our neighbours in outer space, and our neighbours right here on this planet. If religion is a human response to divinity – even if that response is taught and initiated by divinity – then it’s obvious that those responses would differ according to the contexts in which they take shape. If Western Christians can learn to respect the religious experiences of good-willed aliens who are in their own ways responding to the divine, maybe they’ll be able to apply the same principles as they learn to live more peaceably with Muslims on Earth. And vice versa.
“In a billion solar systems,” writes O’Meara, “the forms of love, created and uncreated, would not be limited. Realisations of divine life would not be in contradiction with each other or with creation.”
The end of religion?
If we wake up tomorrow morning to the news that we’ve made contact with intelligent aliens, how will religion respond? Some believe that the discovery will set us on a path the end goal of which will be to outgrow religion. One notable study conducted by Peters found that twice as many non-religious people than religious people think that the discovery of alien life will spell trouble for earthly religion (69% to 34%, respectively).
But it’s ahistorical to assume that religion is too weak to survive in a world with aliens. That’s because, as Peters points out, this claim underestimates “the degree of adaptation that has already taken place.” With few notable exceptions – creationism, violent fundamentalism, gay marriage – religion has often been able to adapt without much fuss to various paradigm shifts it’s encountered. Surely its re-inventiveness, its adaptability is a testament to the fact that there is something about religion that resonates with humans at a basic level.
Certain aspects of religion will have to be reconsidered, but not totally abandoned, as O’Meara notes. “If being and revelation and grace come to worlds other than Earth, that modifies in a modest way Christian self-understanding” – and, we might add, all religious self-understanding. However, he says, “It is not a question of adding or subtracting but of seeing what is basic in a new way.”
Many religions have always believed God names the stars. Is it really a stretch to believe God names the stars’ inhabitants, too? And that they might possibly each have their own names for God?
Brandon Ambrosino has written for the New York Times, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Politico, Economist, and other publications. He lives in Delaware, and is a graduate student in theology at Villanova University.
Expert says Humans are Aliens—and we were brought to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago
Expert says Humans are Aliens—and we were brought to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago
What if Humans are the aliens we’ve been looking for all along? According to experts, humans were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth—in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
Tell Al-Uhaymir modern-day Iraq, where the ancient Sumerian city of Kish used to be, archaeologists found one of the oldest ancient documents on the planet, the tablet of Kish which is believed to date back to the year 3500 BC.
The Sumerian king list states that Kish was the first city to have kings following the deluge, beginning with Jushur.
Jushur’s successor is called Kullassina-bel, but this is actually a sentence in Akkadian meaning “All of them were lord”. Thus, some scholars have suggested that this may have been intended to signify the absence of a central authority in Kish for a time.
This ancient document is believed to precede the cuneiform writing of the Sumerians, and the Egyptian hieroglyphs for almost one hundred years.
Developing the ability to express thoughts through written language is one of the first ways in which man differed from the animal kingdom.
Five thousand years since, humans have developed electricity, divided the atom, developed computers, and led man to the moon. We have achieved things that other species have still not.
No other species on earth can attribute such unique achievements in such a short period of time. Interestingly, compared to other species of the earth, our ‘evolution’ is relatively short.
It has been a short period of time, most likely a few million years since the first hominid walked on Earth. Precisely this is one of the biggest scientific questions of all times: Why have only our species emerged to this truly advanced technological intelligence?
Evidently, there is nothing more advanced than humans on planet Earth.
While there are different ‘intelligent’ species on Earth, none of them makes use of technology like us.
Just imagine for a second, if for some reason, mankind had to return to the jungle, and survive there. Many experts agree that most of them would not survive for a very long period of time.
Many scientists agree that humans, in addition to their intelligence, are not very capable to occupy a wide range of environments. In other words, we are very limited when it comes to our planet.
In addition to our fascinating intelligence, biologists have also noticed contrasts between human physiology and that of other animals on earth. Many scientists agree that compared to other species on earth, humans are rather strange. For example, a baby horse when born is able to walk and function almost independently, but this a human baby cannot do, which makes us quite helpless. In other words, we are born before being neurologically ready for life.
Many researchers agree that there are many vulnerabilities that accompany our intelligence.
Humans on earth eventually became bipeds, which freed up our superior extremities allowing us to manipulate objects, create tools and much more. But for all this, experts believe that our species has paid an expensive price. Lumbar pain a sign that according to many experts could tell us a lot about our species. Curiously, other animals on Earth do NOT have this problem. It’s as if only humans are affected by some of these problems.
So what does all of this mean? According to one expert, it means that we are the aliens we’ve we been looking for all along.
A new theory proposed by Dr. Ellis Silver states that there are several tell-tale signs present in the human race that suggest human beings did not evolve ALONGSIDE other lifeforms on Earth.
The book called ‘Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence’ is basically a resume of theories for and mostly against man’s evolution on Earth. In the book, leading environmentalist and ecologist Dr. Ellis Silver goes through an evaluation of thirteen leading hypothesis and seventeen factors which suggest HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH.
Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more said Dr. Ellis in an interview.
According to Dr. Ellis, humans might suffer from back pain because our species initially evolved on another planet with a lower gravity, adding to the mysteries, Dr. Ellis also indicates that it is strange that newborns have large heads and make it difficult for mothers to give birth, which can result in fatalities for both mother and child.
So where do we come from? According to Dr. Ellis, Neanderthals were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth— in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
According to Dr. Ellis, there are millions of people around the globe who ‘feel’ that they do not belong on Earth.
Dr. Ellis explains: “This suggests (to me at least) that mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species. One reason for this … is that the Earth might be a prison planet since we seem to be a naturally violent species and we’re here until we learn to behave ourselves.”
Dr. Ellis concludes that mankind did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but evolved elsewhere and was transported to Earth (as fully evolved Homo sapiens) between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago.
Furthermore, as noted by Robert Sepher, according to modern DNA sequencing, it is demonstrated that humanity as we know it, isn’t just ONE single ‘race’ that descended from the same ancestor in Africa, but a hybridized species, with a far more enigmatic truth behind it all.
Many questions have been raised in the discussion about Rh negative blood. If mankind did, in fact, evolve from a mutual ancient African ancestor, theories state that everyone’s blood would be compatible, but regrettably, this is not the case. This raises numerous questions that science alone has not been able to fully answer. Where did Rh-negative blood come from? And why is it that a Rh-negative mother carrying Rh positive children tries rejecting her own offspring? Is it possible that this can be explained by a rather controversial theory? A theory which suggests that humanity isn’t in fact one race, but a hybridized species.
The book was written by Robert Sepehr, Species with Amnesia: Our Forbidden History tells us more about the enigmatic blood type Rh-negative. Not only does Species with Amnesia suggest mankind is, in fact, a hybridized species, the author suggests that highly advanced civilizations have been on Earth before us, just to be destroyed by some great global catastrophe, as mysteriously, history tells us.
Sepehr argues that for each race that has died out, another has taken its place, with a selected few holding on to the memories and sacred knowledge of the past race. In our vanity, we think we have discovered some of the great truths of science and technology, but we are in fact only just beginning to rediscover the profound wisdom of past civilizations. In many ways, we are like an awakening Species with Amnesia, yearning to reclaim our forgotten past. –
The Basque people of Spain and France have the highest percentage of Rh-negative blood. About 30% have (rr) Rh negative and about 60% carry one (r) negative gene.
“There are 612 primate species and subspecies recognized by the International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN), and not one has Rh-negative blood”.
Asteroïde “groter dan Piramide van Cheops” nadert aarde met 32.000 kilometer per uur
Asteroïde “groter dan Piramide van Cheops” nadert aarde met 32.000 kilometer per uur
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Een enorme asteroïde nadert de aarde met een snelheid van 32.000 kilometer per uur. Dat meldt de ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA. Omdat het object “groter is dan de Piramide van Cheops”, staat het gecategoriseerd als potentieel gevaarlijk.
Asteroïde 2016 NF23 nadert onze planeet met een snelheid van 32.400 kilometer per uur om precies te zijn. Vermoedelijk zal het object op 29 augustus het dichtst bij de aarde zijn. De afstand zal dan 4,8 miljoen kilometer bedragen, of ongeveer dertien keer de afstand tussen de aarde en de maan.
Waarom de asteroïde dan gezien wordt als potentieel gevaarlijk? Voornamelijk door haar grootte. Het object zou een diameter van maar liefst 160 meter hebben, wat meer is dan de hoogte van de Piramide van Cheops (oorspronkelijk 146,59 meter hoog).
Alle ruimteobjecten die een diameter groter dan 140 meter hebben, krijgen de stempel “potentieel gevaarlijk”. NASA heeft de taak om dergelijke objecten goed te volgen zodat reëel gevaar op tijd gespot kan worden.
Earth can be likened to one big, planetary magnet. Likewise, Earth’s magnetic field is similar to that of a bar magnet tilted 11 degrees from the spin axis of the Earth. The magnetic field serves to deflect most of the solar wind, whose charged particles would otherwise strip away the ozone layer that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. But were you to use a compass at varied points throughout history, you would be in for a huge surprise, like seeing the compass’ needle pointing in the opposite direction than expected. When South becomes North and North becomes South, all sorts of unexpected and dangerous things can happen. This has happened many times throughout Earths’ geological history, and a new study suggests that we’re not only overdue for a pole reversal but that such events happen much faster and suddenly than previously thought.
The Earth’s magnetic field looks like that which would be produced by placing a bar magnet at the center of the Earth, with the North Magnetic Pole corresponding to the South Geographic Pole and vice versa. The Earth’s magnetic dipole originates in swirling currents of molten iron deep in the Earth’s core, and extends more than 10 Earth radii, or 63.7 million meters out into space on the side facing the Sun, and all the way to the Moon’s orbit, at 384.4 million meters on the opposite side. Magnetic field lines loop out of the South Geographic Pole and into the North Geographic Pole.
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There are currents that guide the molten iron inside the planet’s core and, consequently, the magnetic poles can move or shift over time, losing or gaining strength. Scientists not only know that the magnetic field’s intensity changes over time, but they also know when dramatic shifts in intensity or pole reversal occurred. That’s because such events are recorded in the “frozen” ferromagnetic (or, more accurately, ferrimagnetic) minerals of consolidated sedimentary deposits or cooled volcanic flows on land.
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It’s from these records that geologists learned that the last magnetic reversal took place 786,000 years ago. It happened very quickly, too, occurring in less than 100 years.
However, there are also dramatic reversals in field polarity, which occur more frequently. The challenge in pinpointing such events lies in the fact that igneous rocks do not capture the fine movements that lead up to a reversal. Andrew Roberts from the Australian National University (ANU) and colleagues found a workaround by studying stalagmite growing on the floor of a cave in southwestern China. A stalagmite is a type of rock formation that rises from the floor of a cave due to the accumulation of material deposited on the floor from ceiling drippings — given its slow growth, such formations offer the perfect opportunity to study slight variations in Earth’s magnetic field along the years.
The stalagmite, which is one meter in length and eight centimeters in diameter, has a candle-like shape and ranges in color from yellow to dark brown. Researchers cut it into 190 pieces, analyzing each with a high-res cryogenic magnetometer to make a snapshot of Earth’s magnetic field direction and strength as they stood from 107,000 to 91,000 years ago.
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the authors of the new study found a brief pole reversal that occurred about 98,000 years ago and lasted for a century, maybe two. That’s a lot faster than scientists had guessed. Previously, scientists used to think it would take several thousands of years for the poles to change.
“The record provides important insights into ancient magnetic field behaviour, which has turned out to vary much more rapidly than previously thought,” Professor Roberts said.
This is bad news for a technologically-dependent species such as ourselves. Every pole reversal is joined by a weakening of the field and because the field’s intensity is bound to decrease considerably, much more radiation from space will be able to reach the planet’s surface than it does today. However, life on Earth shouldn’t be affected too much by this directly — humanity has lived through several pole reversals and we’re still here. Likewise, there were no mass extinction events coinciding with a pole reversal that scientists could find.
However, much has changed since the last time the planet’s magnetic field weakened by this much. For one, much of our existence is predicated on not only electrical power but also satellite-based communications, which nowadays are synced so much with the power grid that the two are basically inseparable. If our fleet of satellites was to suddenly come offline, much the world could suffer blackouts which could last for years. In the ensuing chaos, it’s anyone’s guess what would happen next.
Even today with Earth’s magnetic field at full strength, solar weather can pose a threat to sensitive electronics.
“Hopefully such an event is a long way in the future and we can develop future technologies to avoid huge damage, where possible, from such events,” Professor Roberts said in a statement.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETVolgens wetenschappers van de ANU Research School of Earth Sciences veranderden de magnetische polen in het verleden al meermaals van positie. Zo’n omkering vindt gemiddeld elke 200.000 à 300.000 jaar plaats. Uit een nieuwe studie - gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA’ (PNAS) - blijkt dat zo’n een switch van het aardmagnetisch veld veel minder tijd nodig heeft dan gedacht. Dat is niet zonder gevaar voor onze planeet.
Bij een omkering van het magnetische veld, wordt het magnetische noorden het zuiden en omgekeerd. Hoewel eerder werd gedacht dat een omkering met intervallen van enkele honderdduizenden jaren gebeurde, suggereren wetenschappers nu dat het slechts een kwestie van enkele eeuwen is. Volgens experts zitten we mogelijk op dit moment in zo’n switch, zo staat te lezen in een eerder gepubliceerd wetenschappelijk rapport op de website Undark.
“Het magnetisch veld van de aarde, dat minstens 3,45 miljard jaar bestaat, biedt een schild tegen de directe impact van zonnestraling”, aldus professor Roberts van de ANU Research School of Earth Sciences. Volgens hem kan een switch grote gevolgen hebben overal ter wereld. Het magnetische veld zou immers zo’n negentig procent verzwakken, waardoor elektronische netwerken verstoord kunnen raken. Ook telecommunicatie, internet, luchttranssport of eender ander welk systeem dat op elektriciteit steunt, kan door de switch onderbroken worden.
De gevolgen van zo’n verzwakking houden een ernstig risico in voor onze planeet volgens wetenschappers. “Op die manier kunnen immers meer onzichtbare krachten die levende wezens schade kunnen toebrengen of doden onze aarde bereiken”, waarschuwt het rapport. “Bovendien is zelfs het doorspoelen van de wc niet meer vanzelfsprekend”, aldus Daniel Baker, directeur van het Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics aan de University of Colorado. Hij vreest ook dat “delen van de planeet onbewoonbaar worden tijdens de omwisseling”.
Naar verluidt zou dit enkele “miljarden dollars aan schade veroorzaken”.
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Volgens het onderzoeksteam van ANU Research School of Earth Sciences is de impact van zo’n omkering mogelijk zelfs groter dan de zonnestorm die de aarde in 1859 raakte. Een vuurbol spuwde toen een grote plasmawolk uit die in amper 17 uur tijd onze planeet bereikte, waardoor het telegraafnetwerk uitviel. Een omkering van de magnetische polen kan vernietigend zijn voor het hele elektriciteitsnetwerk en alles wat erop aangesloten is.
De laatste magnetische ompoling dateert van 780.000 jaar geleden. We zijn dus al even “overtijd”, klinkt het. Professor Roberts hoopt dat zo’n switch “nog niet in de nabije toekomst zal plaatsvinden”. “We moeten nu nieuwe technologieën ontwikkelen om grote schade te voorkomen”, concludeert hij.
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NEW KIND OF AURORA IS NOT AN AURORA AT ALL
NEW KIND OF AURORA IS NOT AN AURORA AT ALL
WASHINGTON — Thin ribbons of purple and white light that sometimes appear in the night sky were dubbed a new type of aurora when brought to scientists’ attention in 2016. But new research suggests these mysterious streams of light are not an aurora at all but an entirely new celestial phenomenon.
Amateur photographers had captured the new phenomenon, called STEVE, on film for decades. But the scientific community only got wind of STEVE in 2016. When scientists first looked at images of STEVE, they realized the lights were slightly different than light from typical auroras but were not sure what underlying mechanism was causing them.
Alberta Aurora Chasers capture STEVE, the new-to-science upper atmospheric phenomenon, on the evening of April 10, 2018 in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. Fellow Aurora Chaser Robert Downie kneels in the foreground while photographer Ryan Sault captures the narrow ribbon of white-purple hues overhead. The vibrant green aurora is seen in the distant north, located to the right in the photo. In this issue, Gallardo-Lacourt et al. use a ground based all-sky imager and in situ satellite data to study the origin of STEVE. Their results demonstrate that STEVE is different than aurora since the observation is characterized by the absence of particle precipitation. Credit: Ryan Sault.
In a new study, researchers analyzed a STEVE event in March 2008 to see whether it was produced in a similar manner as the aurora, which happens when showers of charged rain down into Earth’s upper atmosphere. The study’s results suggest STEVE is produced by a different atmospheric process than the aurora, making it an entirely new type of optical phenomenon.
“Our main conclusion is that STEVE is not an aurora,” said Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, a space physicist at the University of Calgary in Canada and lead author of the new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. “So right now, we know very little about it. And that’s the cool thing, because this has been known by photographers for decades. But for the scientists, it’s completely unknown.”
The study authors have dubbed STEVE a kind of “skyglow,” or glowing light in the night sky, that is distinct from the aurora. Studying STEVE can help scientists better understand the upper atmosphere and the processes generating light in the sky, according to the authors.
“This is really interesting because we haven’t figured it out and when you get a new problem, it’s always exciting,” said Joe Borovsky, a space physicist at the Space Science Institute in Los Alamos, New Mexico who was not connected to the new study. “It’s like you think you know everything and it turns out you don’t.”
Auroras are produced when electrons and protons from Earth’s magnetosphere, the region around Earth dominated by its magnetic field, rain down into the ionosphere, a region of charged particles in the upper atmosphere. When these electrons and protons become excited, they emit light of varying colors, most often green, red and blue.
A group of amateur auroral photographers brought STEVE to scientists’ attention in 2016. A Facebook ground called the Alberta Aurora Chasers had occasionally noticed bright, thin streams of white and purple light running east to west in the Canadian night sky when they photographed the aurora.
Auroras are visible every night if viewing conditions are right, but the thin light ribbons of STEVE were only visible a few times per year. The light from STEVE was also showing up closer to the equator than the aurora, which can only be seen at high latitudes.
The photographers first thought the light ribbons were created by excited protons, but protons can only be photographed with special equipment. The light protons produce falls out of the range of wavelengths picked up by normal cameras.
The aurora chasers dubbed the light ribbon occurrences “Steve,” a reference to the 2006 film Over the Hedge. When researchers presented data about the unusual lights at a 2016 scientific conference, a fellow space physicist proposed converting the name into the backronym STEVE, which stands for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement, and the researchers adopted it.
Where does STEVE come from?
Scientists then started using data from satellites and images from ground-based observatories to try to understand what was causing the unusual light streaks. The first scientific study published on STEVE found a stream of fast-moving ions and super-hot electrons passing through the ionosphere right where STEVE was observed. The researchers suspected these particles were connected to STEVE somehow but were unsure whether they were responsible for producing it.
After that first study, of which Gallardo-Lacourt was a co-author, the researchers wanted to find out if STEVE’s light is produced by particles raining down into the ionosphere, as typically happens with the aurora, or by some other process. In the new study, Gallardo-Lacourt and her colleagues analyzed a STEVE event that happened over eastern Canada on March 28, 2008, using images from ground-based cameras that record auroras over North America.
They coupled the images with data from NOAA’s Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite 17 (POES-17), which happened to pass directly over the ground-based cameras during the STEVE event. The satellite is equipped with an instrument that can measure charged particles precipitating into the ionosphere.
The study’s results suggest STEVE is an entirely new phenomenon distinct from typical auroras. The POES-17 satellite detected no charged particles raining down to the ionosphere during the STEVE event, which means it is likely produced by an entirely different mechanism, according to the authors.
The researchers said STEVE is a new kind of optical phenomenon they call “skyglow.” Their next step is to see whether the streams of fast ions and hot electrons in the ionosphere are creating STEVE’s light, or if the light is produced higher up in the atmosphere.
Steve the aurora is not as cool as astronomers thought he was
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Mysterieuze paarse lichtstrook aan de hemel stelt wetenschappers voor raadsel. Niemand weet wat dit is
Mysterieuze paarse lichtstrook aan de hemel stelt wetenschappers voor raadsel. Niemand weet wat dit is
Vorig jaar werd per ongeluk een nieuw poollichtverschijnsel ontdekt. Terwijl een groep fotografen in Canada foto’s maakte van het bekende noorderlicht verscheen opeens een paarse lichtstrook.
De paarse lichtvlaag, die Steve werd gedoopt, was nog niet eerder opgemerkt, maar bleek na onderzoek wel vaker voor te komen.
Elektrische deeltjes van Steve verplaatsen zich 600 keer sneller dan de deeltjes eromheen. Ze bereiken bovendien temperaturen tot wel 3000 graden.
Raadsel
Het lichtverschijnsel blijkt nu niets met poollicht te maken te hebben. Het is nog een raadsel wat Steve dan wel is.
Er worden al tientallen jaren foto’s gemaakt van Steve, die in de lucht verschijnt als strook van wit en paars licht.
Wetenschappers dachten in eerste instantie dat het om een nog onbekend soort poollicht ging.
Geen geladen deeltjes
Tijdens een nieuw onderzoek, dat is gepubliceerd in Geophysical Research Letters, is gekeken of het lichtverschijnsel op dezelfde manier ontstaat als normaal poollicht.
Bij poollicht regenen geladen deeltjes neer op de ionosfeer van de aarde, waar ze in botsing komen met andere geladen deeltjes.
Tijdens een waarneming van Steve in maart 2008 regenden er geen geladen deeltjes neer op de ionosfeer.
Heel andere oorzaak
Steve moet dus een heel andere oorzaak hebben dan het normale poollicht. Het fenomeen wordt voor nu omschreven als een ‘luchtgloed’.
Aan de hand van verder onderzoek zal het mysterie rond deze gloed moeten worden ontrafeld.
DIT AANTAL AARDBEVINGEN IS VEEL, ZELFS VOOR DE RING VAN VUUR...
DIT AANTAL AARDBEVINGEN IS VEEL, ZELFS VOOR DE RING VAN VUUR...
De USGS, United States Geological Survey, classificeert aardbevingen met een kracht groter dan 4.5 op de schaal van Richter als aanzienlijk.
Afgelopen zondag vonden er op één enkele dag 53 aanzienlijke aardbevingen plaats in het gebied dat bekendstaat als de Ring van Vuur.
De aardveranderingen beginnen zich nu toch wel in een aardig tempo te ontwikkelen.
Zo schreven wij onlangs dat advocaat Michael Snyder zich behoorlijk zorgen begon te maken over de toestand in de wereld en zich afvroeg wat er in 's hemelsnaam aan de hand is met onze planeet.
Velen kennen de beruchte Ring of Fire, het gebied waar altijd wel aardbevingen voor komen.
Echter, ook hier begint het de spuigaten uit te lopen, want Michael telde alleen al in dit gebied op één enkele dag (afgelopen zondag) 53 aardbevingen met een kracht van 4.5 op de Schaal van Richter of hoger.
Dan schrijft hij verder hoe hij inderdaad kortgeleden een artikel schreef over de steeds dramatischer wordende aardveranderingen en dat hij nu toch wel heel verrast is over de toenemende seismische activiteit.
Dit is geheel in lijn met de cijfers die wij enkele dagen geleden publiceerden. Er is niet zomaar een toename van aardbevingen; er is sprake van een spectaculaire toename.
Terecht vraagt Michael zich dan ook af hoelang het zal duren voordat de grote en lang verwachte aardbeving aan de westkust van Amerika zal plaatsvinden. Dit gebied maakt tenslotte ook deel uit van de Ring of Fire.
Interessant gegeven is dat ongeveer 90 procent van alle aardbevingen op aarde plaatsvindt ergens op de Ring of Fire en dat 75 procent van de actieve vulkanen in de wereld zich ook bevinden in dit gebied. Dat is op zich natuurlijk goed nieuws voor mensen die niet in dat gebied wonen zoals wij, maar met de manier waarop nu de aardveranderingen toenemen, is straks overal op aarde het nodige vuurwerk te verwachten.
En hoewel Michael blijft zeggen dat we hier met een uniek wereldwijd fenomeen te maken, weet hij niets aan te dragen als mogelijke oorzaak.
Iemand die dat uiteraard wel doet is Marshall Masters en nadat op zijn website de dramatische cijfers over toegenomen aardbevingen werden gepubliceerd, heeft hij fase 2 afgekondigd. Die fase houdt in bij hem om nu echt en serieus te beginnen met de voorbereidingen op de komst van de onbekende planeet. Er is geen tijd meer te verliezen.
In dat kader ontvingen wij enkele interessante foto’s van een lezer, die het volgende schrijft (dank!):
Voorgisteren zijn deze foto's gemaakt in Rovinje op de berg.
Ik volg deze ster al vanaf 2012. Ik was zelf geschrokken hoe groot deze is vergelijk maar eens met de maan.
Hij word steeds groter met andere woorden komt recht op ons af. Dat mooie weer zachte winters extreme toename aardbevingen allemaal hem.
Hij staat er en niemand kijk ernaar of denkt niet wat is dat.
Als je inzoomt op de rode dwerg zie een astoiriden ring erom heen. Dus er komen ook een aantal steentjes mee.
Is dat wat de hopi indianen bedoelde.
Kijk en oordeel voor jezelf.
(Wat wij niet kunnen beoordelen is of het hier inderdaad om de planeet Nibiru gaat, of wellicht Venus of Mars).
Ook de afgelopen maand juli liet weer een scala zien aan weer extremen. Maar, het is met zoals zoveel dingen: Ook al worden deze iedere maand heftiger, de mens wordt in beslag genomen door allerlei afleidingen en ziet niet wat er gaat komen.
“I am totally excited by this photograph – it is the best of ‘Nessie’ in years.”
That evaluation came from the man who is recognized by the Guinness Book of Records for the longest continuous monster hunting vigil on the shores of Loch Ness. Have his standards been lowered, is he getting desperate or is a photograph taken by a 12-year-old tourist really one of the best Loch Ness monster photos of all time? More importantly, is it the Loch Ness monster?
Charlotte Robinson took this picture apparently showing the Loch Ness Monster while she was on holiday
(Picture: Peter Jolly NorthPix)
“This is just the image we have been waiting for – for years. Congratulations Charlotte. I am totally excited by it.”
“Charlotte” is Charlotte Robinson from Leeds who was on vacation with her family this week in Scotland when she took the photograph that elicited those platitudes from Steve Feltham. Who has been interested in the Loch Ness monster since age seven and has “sat watching and waiting on the shores of Loch Ness full time since 1991 for one decent sighting of the monster,” according to his website which proclaims him “Nessie Hunter.” If longevity counts, he’s earned it. If proof counts, it’s no wonder he gets excited at small black dots in photographs of Loch Ness. (See Charlotte’s here and here and here — they’re all the same but hey, it’s the “best” in years.)
“There was something in the water about 50 feet from the shore. I took a photo. It had a neck and head was in the shape of a hook. I just took what I saw. It was black – I just don’t know how far it was out of the water. I’m not good at judging distances. But after about a minute it disappeared and then came back up again in a different place. It was up for less than a minute the second time. I kinda believed in Nessie, but I wanted to see the proof. I always imagined her as having a long neck and flippers.”
So did we, Charlotte, so did we. We also imagined we’d get better pictures once everyone on the planet began carrying smartphones, especially 12-year-olds who were probably taking selfies the day they were born. However, the photo in the Daily Record isn’t much to look at. Even Steve Feltham, who called it the best he’s seen in years, hedged his bets by commenting on its clarity, but not its authenticity.
“There is clearly a solid object in it and it is relatively clear. It warrants further study. There may be a mundane explanation such as a seal, but I have not heard of a seal in the loch this year. For my money it is larger than a seal or an ottter.”
Yes, and? (For you improv fans.)
“But when I saw the picture, I couldn’t believe it. Something’s there. With all the sightings over the years there must be something in the loch.”
Unfortunately, that comment is not from Nessie expert Feltham but from Charlotte’s proud mum, Kat, who naturally thinks her child has taken the best and most authentic Nessie photo ever – suitable for hanging on the refrigerator and entering in the Loch Ness monster photo contest held annually by the Inverness Courier, which offers a $2,000 prize for the submitted photo that is accepted by the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings’ Register and garners the most fan votes.
The Loch Ness Monster has been hunted for years even though it’s not known if it actually exists
(Picture: AP)
And Steve … have you thought about taking a vacation yourself?
Back in the mid-to-late 1990s, Robin Cole was someone who dug deep into one specific aspect of the UFO phenomenon (he was part of a now-closed group called Circular Forum). Cole focused his attention on the connection between UFOs and the U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters, better known as GCHQ. It’s the U.K.’s equivalent of the United States’ National Security Agency. Wikipedia state: “The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organization responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom.”
Wikipedia continues: “Based in ‘The Doughnut’ in the suburbs of Cheltenham, GCHQ is the responsibility of the country’s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, but it is not a part of the Foreign Office and its director ranks as a Permanent Secretary. GCHQ was originally established after the First World War as the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) and was known under that name until 1946. During the Second World War it was located at Bletchley Park, where it was responsible for breaking of the German Enigma codes. Currently there are two main components of the GCHQ, the Composite Signals Organization (CSO), which is responsible for gathering information, and the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), which is responsible for securing the UK’s own communications.”
Robin Cole, of Cheltenham, England, spent a great deal of time addressing the matter of GCHQ and UFOs. To the extent that, in 1997, he published a report that detailed his extensive research in this seldom-addressed area. Cole cultivated sources from GCHQ, secured data on UFO cases secretly investigated by staff at the agency, and learned that GCHQ had a large library of books on the UFO subject. But, there was more, too. As a result of his investigations, Cole was visited by personnel from the U.K. Police Force’s Special Branch, who wanted to know all about his work, which had him worried or a while. You can find out more on Cole and his GCHQ-UFO discoveries in his self-published report, GCHQ and the UFO Cover-up (which, unfortunately, is hard to find now).
In the summer of 1997, I did an extensive interview with Cole about his research. A substantial amount of that interview has never been published, specifically at Cole’s request. On those matters which he did feel comfortable about speaking, Cole told me he had been able to confirm that GCHQ has in its files details of actual attempts by the Royal Air Force to intercept UFOs in British airspace. He stated of one such example, from the early 1950s:
“This came to me off-the-record from an informant who was told of the events at the time. Pilots from what used to be RAF Little Rissington, were out on maneuvers when in their sights, an object similar to the descriptions of a flying saucer came into view. Receiving permission to go after the object, they then kept in constant contact with the RAF base. Radar control had the object on screen and heading towards Cornwall. At this point one aircraft returned – the reason is unclear – while the other continued. On reaching the coast the unidentified object put on tremendous speed leaving the pilot and his aircraft well behind. This was also noted on radar. Realizing he had no chance of catching up the pilot simply returned and was debriefed accordingly. GCHQ were fully aware of this event.”
But why would GCHQ take an interest in this particular encounter? “My knowledge,” said Cole, “comes from the person who typed the document up at the time, and they were from inside GCHQ. I don’t think that GCHQ had a department which collated UFO information on a regular basis at that time – the early 1950s; however, it’s clear from my investigations that on occasion GCHQ did play a role in the subject and did come across interesting cases and asked themselves: Is this some form of alien intelligence that we’re not aware of? The way in which GCHQ became involved in the 1952 case is this: because a large part of their work deals with Signals Intelligence – the collection of data – it was that GCHQ picked up on the various messages passing back and forth from the aircrew and RAF Little Rissington. In other words, GCHQ intercepted the conversation.”
What is particularly significant about this case is that the UFO investigator Dr. David Clarke was able to officially confirm its reality, years later. Clarhe also succeeded in tracking down one of those aboard the aircraft in question. That man was then-Flight Instructor Michael Swiney, who told Clarke: “I got the fright of my life because there appeared to be, smack in front of the aero-plane, three circular objects.”
As Clarke noted: “In 2001 [Swiney] broke fifty years of silence to reveal the full story after I discovered a reference to the incident in the operations records books stored at The National Archives.” Indeed, this was supported by an entry in the Operations Record Books at the Central Flying School, which stated: ‘Flight Instructor M.J.E. Swiney, instructor, and Lieutenant D. Crofts, R.N., student, sighted three mysterious ‘saucer shaped objects’ traveling at high speed at about 35,000’ whilst on a high level navigation exercise, in a Meteor VII. Later, A.T.C.C. Gloucester reported radar plots to confirm this, but Air Ministry discounted any possibility of “extra terrestrial objects.'”
It is important to stress that it was years after Robin Cole discussed privately with me his knowledge of this case – acquired direct from a source connected to GCHQ – that Clarke was finally able to verify its reality. This would strongly suggest that Cole’s informant was truthful, reliable and did have access to classified, insider evidence pertaining to the UFO mystery. Cole had other sources, and information, too.
It’s unfortunate that Cole no longer pursues the UFO-GCHQ issue. He was on the verge of significant developments.
There’s nothing quite like an old fashioned livestock mutilation to get the imagination going. For decades, reports of strange and unexplained injuries on dead animals have baffled ranchers and veterinarians alike, and have even attracted the attention of the FBI. Livestock mutilations and reports of UFOs sometimes go hand-in-hand, as unexplained lights often accompany these grisly discoveries. Often, mutilated animals are found drained of their blood, organs having been removed with high levels of precision. Even stranger, there are often no traces of blood or violence to be found surrounding the animals. What could be behind these mutilations?
If reports out of India are true, some type of “mysterious animal” may be responsible. Could an Indian version of the Chupacabra be on the loose? I sure hope so. Over the last year, several incidents of unexplained animal mutilations have rocked the countryside of India’s eastern state of Odisha, sending farmers into a panic. In some of the cases, the animals are reported as having been drained of their blood as in other mutilations.
Placid, docile sheep are common targets of these anomalous mutilations.
The latest incident comes out of Bhanjanagar, Odisha, not far from where other mutilations have been reported. Witnesses claim ten sheep were found dead with their intestines missing. Some of the sheep were found in village streets, while others were killed and mutilated in their pens. After discovering his sheep, one local farmer reported finding “deep nail indentations on their neck parts pointing at a predator attack.” It is believed that the dead animals were dragged into the village streets after their brutal slaughter.
Local wildlife and forest officials are still investigating these brutal and unexplained killings, but have yet to identify a possible culprit other than claiming a “mysterious animal” is responsible. Anomalous big cat sightings are on the rise worldwide, with a few even reported in India. Might a large cat thought to be extinct or non-native to this area be responsible? We like to think of the natural world as a static background for our human activity, but all of that activity is met by opposite and equal reactions on the part of the animal kingdom and the rest of nature. Might endless human development be driving new predators into contact with livestock, or is something stranger happening here?
I was looking over the newest batch of Curiosity Rover photos on the NASA site and found something in the sky that NASA over looked. At first I thought it was a meteor, then I realised the darker end was the front and the lighter end was its tail, so this object was coming from the Mars surface!
Also it appears that the object dropped off part of itself. If you look at the screenshot above, you will notice a small black dot below it. The UFO dropped off a small exploration orb and it was caught on NASA camera. I now understand why NASA didn't want to report this to the public.
UFO Partly Visible Terrifies Village Residents Apeu, Brazil, Aug 15, 2018, Videos, UFO Sighting News. Date of sighting: August 15, 2018 Location of sighting: Castanhal, Brazil Residents in a small village in Brazil were terrified when they looked up in
UFO Partly Visible Terrifies Village Residents Apeu, Brazil, Aug 15, 2018, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 15, 2018
Location of sighting: Castanhal, Brazil
Residents in a small village in Brazil were terrified when they looked up in the sky and saw a giant black ring moving below the clouds. As the ring passed overhead, residents prayed to Jesus and cried out in Spanish, as you can see in the videos.
Also the rings edges disappeared when there was a blue sky background, but became visible again when a white cloud was in the background. Look at the gif I made below of it moving to understand. The UFO was cloaked, yet for some unknown reason its edges were visible! Within a a few minutes the UFO had vanished 100% leaving the residents wondering what it was and why was it over their village.
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
News states:
Residents were frightened by this unidentified ring-shaped object, which was flat in the sky on Wednesday afternoon, in the village of Apeú, in the municipality of Castanhal, northeast of the state. Many did not know what to say about the phenomenon, which called everyone's attention with a cell phone in hand, to register the object that appeared out of nowhere and disappeared within minutes. The scene brought everyone to the street to film the possible unidentified object, which coincides with the area near the municipality of Colares in northeast Pará.
Strange Footage Shows Cigar-Shaped UFO Above An American Lake
Strange Footage Shows Cigar-Shaped UFO Above An American Lake
A clip of an unidentified flying object over a US lake sparks speculations of the presence of alien life on Earth.
In the footage, a man is recording a video of a lake using his mobile phone. All of a sudden a UFO came into view that convinced him he had seen an extraterrestrial ship.
As he turns his camera around, the cameraman says “Hey! This is a spacecraft!”
A silver lining can be seen floating above the water.
When the clip is slowed down, it shows a clearer picture of the object, which looks like a cigar over the tree line.
The video was reportedly taken at Lake Norman, North Carolina in the US. YouTube channel The Hidden Underbelly 2.0 shared the clip online.
The footage re-fueled the debates on whether there’s extraterrestrial life on Earth.
Many believe this is a substantial proof that many of space aliens are here and they are among other things on Earth. They say there’s more going on than the public know.
Some users say that the clip is a great catch.
However, some have other ideas saying that the UFO is an advanced military aircraft.
The Most Unusual UFO In Years, The All Seeing Eye In The Sky…
The Most Unusual UFO In Years, The All Seeing Eye In The Sky…
Presented for your viewing pleasure is the most unusual UFO captured on camera in many years. The footage was shot in Lima Peru June 11 and it starts out normal enough with a strange light in the sky. As the cameraman zooms in things start to get very strange.
As the object grows in size and detail it appears to be a 2 dimensional diamond with an eye peering out, the illuminates’ all seeing eye at that. If that isn’t the strangest thing you’ve seen recently then you should probably be posting it up on YouTube. Sit back, relax and don’t stare directly into the all seeing eye, they may remember you.
Black Sarcophagus: Results Of The Archaeological Studies Are In
Black Sarcophagus: Results Of The Archaeological Studies Are In
Inside the sarcophagus: Will the curse be unleashed in the future?
There has been plenty of evidence throughout history that ancient Egyptian mummies can be the source of dreadful curses for those who dare to interfere with them. Here are just two examples from the past fifty years.
In 1972, the antiquities director at the Museum of Cairo died after he handled artifacts from King Tutankhamun’s tomb that were being sent to the British Museum for an exhibition. In 2004, a German tourist took an ancient relic as a souvenir from the Valley of the Kings. Soon after returning home, he developed a fever and died.
Archaeologists Defy the Curse
With the mounting evidence of so many stories, it is little wonder that many people have been fearful about opening a 2000-year- old dark granite sarcophagus that was found in Alexandria earlier this year. Initially, there was considerable speculation that the massive black box would contain the remains of a wealthy powerful citizen or even Alexander the Great himself. Its opening on July 19 by archaeologists proved to be somewhat of an anti-climax; however, a whole new set of mysteries have been created.
Skeletons and Sewerage
The opening of the sealed sarcophagus revealed three adult skeletons submerged in murky sewerage water. A petition was even started by people who wanted permission to drink the water, believing that it could bring them special powers. It is speculated that the three occupants are likely to be warriors, judging by wounds that appear to be evident.
One skeleton sports a particularly interesting feature in the form of a hole in the skull. Early reports suggest that this is the result of an ancient type of surgery called trepanation. Archaeologists are excited by this discovery because, although the surgery had been used for thousands of years to treat cranial conditions, it was extremely rare in Egypt. A hole was created in the person’s skull, either by drilling or scraping, in order to relieve swelling or release evil spirits. The procedure still has medical uses today.
Keep Watching
The skeletons will be housed in the National Museum of Alexandria. This is definitely a story to put on watch because, as we know from history, fate is not kind to the people who handle ancient Egyptian remains.
The results of the archaeological studies carried out by a team of researchers from the Ministry of Antiquities on the skeletons found inside the black granite sarcophagus uncovered early last month in Sidi Gaber district in Alexandria.
Dr. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary- General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities announces that the preliminary studies carried out by a team of researchers headed by Dr. Zeinab Hasheesh, Director of the Department of the Skeleton Remains Studies at the Ministry of Antiquities, have determined the gender, and age of the skeletons found inside the Alexandria sarcophagus, according to the anatomy of the skulls, pelvis and longitudinal bones through anthropological examination.
He added that the team had also found gold sheets within the bones of the skeletons and are now subjected to study.
Dr. Nadia Kheider, Head of the Central Department of Antiquities of Lower Egypt said that the first skeleton belongs to a woman between the age of 20 to 25 years old, with a height around 160 to 164 cm. The second one belongs to a man between the age of 35 to 39 years old, with a height ranging between 160 to 165.5 cm while the third skeleton is for a man between the age of 40 and 44 years old and its height was between 179 to 184.5 cm
She pointed out that studies on the right bone located on the back area of the skull shows a rounded cavity of 17 cm wide which reveals that the owner of this skull has survived a long period with this cavity. This means that the cavity is a result of a surgery.
Dr. Hashish said that this probably the “Trepanation” surgery where a burr hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull.
“This surgery is the oldest surgical intervention ever known since pre-history but was rare in Egypt,” Hashish said.
She added that few skulls with this surgery were found in Egypt among those found in Qasr Al-Eini Hospital museum and both skulls found in Maya and Merit’s tombs in Saqqara Necropolis.
Dr.Waziri explains that most probably the burring processes inside the sarcophagus were carried out on two consecutive phases as every skeleton was found on top of one another.
Dr. Ayman Ashmawy, Head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Sector said that the researchers have cleaned all the remains found inside the sarcophagus and archaeologically documented all the bones and skulls as well as the gold sheets.
He pointed out that the strange color of the water found inside the sarcophagus is probably resulted from the mixing of the sewage water that filled the sarcophagus with the remnains of the skeletons’ wrappings which have been decomposed from the sewage water.
Now, Dr. Ashmawy said, several analyzes are carried out on the water to uncover more about its components.
Dr. Waziri asserted that more researches and studies are carried out as well as DNA tests and Ct-Scans on the bones of the skeletons to know more about them and whether they have any familial relationship.
A Race of Giants Described By Ancient Civilizations
A Race of Giants Described By Ancient Civilizations
A lot of the evidence was covered up or destroyed for very pathetic/sinister reasons. No, they were not depicted in history as giants because of their intelligence. A lot has been suppressed about our history and the sooner people wake up to that, the easier it becomes to piece it all together. Research David Wilcock and Corey Goode and start there with an open mind. Just because scientists aren’t flashing the evidence on National Geographic, doesn’t mean it’s not true.
When Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch aircraft finally leaves the ground, it’ll become the aircraft with the largest wingspan in history to do so. That maiden voyage could take place in the next few months, before the end of 2018. And now we know what the massive craft will carry once it’s fully operational.
On Monday, Stratolaunch Systems announced some details about its four launch vehicles that will (if everything goes according to plan) carry satellites into orbit. The Stratolaunch aircraft will ferry these vehicles high into the sky and then drop them, at which point they’ll launch and shoot into orbit to deliver their payloads.
This method of launching a rocket in mid-air, known as air launch to orbit, meansyou can launch something into space from pretty much anywhere, isn’t as dependent on the weather, and requires less rocket fuel (read: cheaper) than a standard rocket launch. However, the craft carrying today’s launch vehicles to altitude aren’t large enough to handle payloads as heavy as those the Stratolaunch will be able to support.
The Stratolaunch aircraft won’t carry any of these launch vehicles on its maiden voyage later this year, but the company has already started developing them to be used in the coming years. Here’s what we know about each so far
Pegasus: This one can only carry a payload of about 815 lbs (370 kg). However, it is dependable and proven; Stratolaunch Systems has already completed 35 successful launches of the vehicle using other carriers. The first launch via a Stratolaunch should take place in 2020.
Medium Launch Vehicle (MLV): This one will have a much heavier payload capability than Pegasus: 7,500 lbs (3,400 kg). Its first flight should take place in 2022.
Medium Launch Vehicle – Heavy:This is a three-core version of the MLV variant, and it’ll be capable of delivering payloads of up to 13,200 lbs (6,000 kg). No word on when it’ll be ready for launch as it’s still in the early development stage.
Space Plane: Stratolaunch Systems also plans to develop a fully reusable space plane. Though still in the design stage, this one should be able to handle cargo launch, cargo return, and the transportation of crew.
EASY ACCESS.
Stratolaunch Systems believes these vehicles could help democratize access to space by making it easier for others to send satellites into orbit.
“We are excited to share for the first time some details about the development of our own, proprietary Stratolaunch launch vehicles, with which we will offer a flexible launch capability unlike any other,” said Stratolaunch CEO Jean Floyd in a statement. “Whatever the payload, whatever the orbit, getting your satellite into space will soon be as easy as booking an airline flight.”
Since the 1960s, scientists have theorized that there might be frozen water in the moon’s cold, dark craters. Subsequent lunar missions only detected hintsof water, which supported the theory but could also have been explained by other phenomena. On Monday, however, NASA confirmed for the first time that water does exist on the moon, citing definitive evidence of ancient deposits of ice intermittently spread within the most unforgiving parts of its polar regions.
The scientists working on the water-seeking mission formally announced their discovery in the journalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The revelation is based on data collected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument, which was attached to India’sChandryaan-1 spacecraft, a lunar probe that launched in 2008. M3, designed to scan for evidence of solid ice on the moon, identified three spectral signatures that NASA say “definitively prove” there is water ice.
Think of these ice deposits as the last place you’d want to go swimming. Because of the tilt of the moon’s rotational axis, the patches of ice at its southern and northern poles are never directly hit by sunlight. In other words, it’s brutally cold: The scientists estimate that in the craters where the ice is rooted, temperatures never reach above -250 °F.
Blue represents the ice locations, plotted over an image of the lunar surface.
The discovery not only confirms a long-standing theory but also offers a glimmer of hope to those banking on future moon colonies. In an announcement on Monday, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory stated that “With enough ice sitting at the surface — within the top few millimeters — water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the moon, and potentially easier to access than the water detected beneath the moon’s surface.”
If the moon has enough water, says NASA, future space colonists can either drink it or convert it into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel or to breathable oxygen. While Mars (where there’s also evidence of liquid water) has been the main focus of space colony hype, some astrobiologists argue that future colonies in deep space will all have to build off initial successes on the moon.
These moon colonies, according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, could be established within five years. In July, Bezos announced that his Blue Moon Project aims to establish a colony on the moon as early as 2023. No matter how much money Bezos pours into the colony, if it’s going to thrive, it will need to have water.
By Scott Corrales Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU)
“We are well aware that the word humanoid is not in the dictionary;” wrote Charles Bowen, editor of the United Kingdom’s world-renowned Flying Saucer Review, “that it was coined somewhere along the line by a writer or researcher. Nevertheless it seems to suit our purpose far more than those other words of anthropology like hominid, which means kin of man (Neanderthal man was one of these) and hominoid, which means man-like ape.” These were the words that formed part of his foreword to Gordon Creighton’s anthology of cases from around the world entitled – what else? – The Humanoids (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1969). This far-reaching book, published only a few years after it became acceptable to speak openly about the possibility of UFOs having occupants. Bowen also drops the hint that Dr. Edward Condon and his committee had access not only to The Humanoids and issues of FSR in assisting with their evaluation of the phenomenon.
The cases contained in the book are of another age and are widely known to the audiences interested in the field, but its perhaps hard for modern readers, particularly those who are newly arrived to the field, to imagine a time when even believers in “flying saucers” preferred not to deal with the possibility of beings stepping out of these lights or craft or projections. Two years before FSR’s book on the project, Coral and Jim Lorenzen published Flying Saucer Occupants, covering the best-known cases of the time on all continents and making an effort at interpreting and evaluating them (including a psychological interpretation of cases by Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle). One of these conclusions stands out nearly fifty years later: “In rare instances we may examine a report of UFO occupants which involves an observer who is sound of mind, has a stable emotional structure, an artist’s eye for observation and whose experience takes place under ideal lighting conditions.”
Sharp-Dressed Spacemen
“It was impossible to tell whether they were military or not, but they were all dressed alike in sealed astronaut-type one piece plastic suits with bubble helmets and tanks strapped to their backs. Neary thought they looked like a cooking-foil commercial.” --Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, p.177
As has been exhaustively documented in many other places, UFO research – or more specifically, UFO culture – owes a great deal to science fiction, particularly when it comes to the conceptualization of vehicles and occupants. The notion of the “silver-spacesuited alien” so common to early occupant reports and contactee chronicles may owe a lot to the iconic vision of Michael Rennie’s Klaatu descending from his spaceship in The Day The Earth Stood Still, or at a later date, the widely circulated promo photos of the Robinson family in CBS’s Lost in Space, coolly posed in silver one-piece outfits with red piping and boots to match.
In real life, the vision of the silver-suited astronaut was turned iconic by the Friendship 7 astronauts, wearing their Mylar-covered spacesuits developed from the pressure suits used by pilots on stratospheric flights. Changes would later be made to the silver spacesuit by the time the Gemini Project rolled around, allowing for greater mobility under pressurization than the Mercury Project original. The need to perform extra-vehicular activities (EVA) and eventual lunar landings caused new suits to be developed and the striking silver outfit to be relegated to museums. It appears, however, that ufonauts did not receive the memo. Reports of humanoid occupants in silver suits remained unabated, even up to quite recent times.
Dr. Anthony Choy, one of Peru’s best known researchers, looked into one of these cases as recently as 2002, this time in the community of San Bartolomé in the Peruvian highlands, specifically in the province of Huarochirí, several hours to the north of Lima, the capital city. The picturesque town is known for its variety of fruit trees and otherwise excellent weather, boasting nearly year-round sunshine, filled with forests (Bosque de Zarate being the best known) and abundant wildlife. Not a grim or ominous location in the least.
The case involved two witnesses, the main one being Luis "Lucho" Rojas Povis, 51, a toll booth operator who happened to be outdoors at two o’clock in the morning with his best friend when both men became aware of “two figures” making their way down the slopes of Cerro de la Pascua, clad in silvery outfits. Initially, the onlookers did not find anything unusual about them, believing them to be mountain climbers or official personnel in outlandish protective gear. As the figures approached there was the awful realization that things were not quite as normal as expected.
The entities were described as having “an athletic build, slender and tall” with form fitting silver outfits. Their faces looked human, but their eyes were described as “shining”, and they didn’t walk as much as float above the ground. They did not utter a single word.
Astonished beyond belief, Rojas and his friend walked up to the strange new arrivals; the friend even reached out to touch the face of one the entities to see if it was “real”. One of the entities slapped the probing hand away, shocking the human.
“Hey, why are you messing with my buddy?” the toll booth operator challenged the creature, according to Dr. Choy’s interview. But what could have become the first mano-a-mano between humans and non-humans (since the 1954 case involving José Ponce and Gustavo González in Venezuela) was interrupted by the unexpected arrival on the scene of a taxicab whose passenger and driver were about to become the next set of witnesses to the mind-bending situation.
Beatriz García, 34, had just taken a taxicab back to San Bartolomé at that late hour from the town of Ochocica, where a fair had been held that day. Agreeing to pay the driver a rather high fee for the journey home, Ms. García was startled to see “a man made of pure tin, or dressed in aluminum” standing at the edge of the road. She was only able to see one figure, but could not say if it was the entity that slapped away the man’s effort to touch its visage. The driver became very agitated by the unearthly sight, and his nervousness caused her not to look very closely at the being, while having noticed its “brilliant” eyes. During the interview with Anthony Choy, she estimated that a distance of ten meters separated her from the entity, which appeared to be “walking back and forth, two steps forward, two steps back, but actually floating in the air.” She coincided with Rojas’s description of the creature’s dress, the form fitting nature of the outfit, its helmet and general build.
Some will dismiss this incident as another “colorful” Latin American case (the dictionary definition of the word is “full of interest; lively and exciting”, but tends to be interpreted as “patently untrue” on the lips of a skeptic!) but the strange motion of the single helmeted being witnessed by Beatriz García has been mentioned in many case histories. Dr. Frank B. Salisbury also noted this in his foreword to the Lorenzens’ Flying Saucer Occupants mentioned above: “These beings may sometimes walk like normal people, but they may also move with “sliding motions” or a tottering gait.”
A silvery-suited "humanoid child" is at the center of a highly complex "Julio" case of 1934, re-opened by Magdalena del Amo-Freixedo in the late 1990s."...the girl had a pinkish complexion and wore a silvery suit. She was small, like one of our six year-old girls, with platinum blonde hair. I don't remember the color of her eyes,” said the experiencer. More ominous is the tall figure with empty eye-sockets that played a role in the 1973 case involving a Puerto Rican housewife. The entity - humanoid in shape, towering and wearing a tight silver outfit - projected the words "cerakia ovnit" into the terrified experiencer's mind, words whose meaning remains a mystery forty years later.
Another entity seen in the Spanish province of Zamora in 1974 was described by the percipient as being over six feet tall, with arms held closely to the sides of its body, and having an overall "military" bearing. It was also noted that the creature appeared to have been "made of silver" and glided away into a hill when the witness pressed his hunting dogs to attack it. Guillermo Giménez of Argentina's Planeta UFO looked into a case that occurred in Necochea, Argentina in February 1988, involving entities wearing tight-fitting costumes. "The fact is that they'd go completely unnoticed among us if they wore normal clothes and not those silver coveralls," noted the interviewee.
Regarding the "slap" with which one of the San Bartolomé humanoids responded to the human's urge to touch its features, it is worth remembering what Argentinean researcher Roberto Banchs noted in his own monograph, La fenomenología humanoide en Argentina(Servicio de Investigaciones Ufologicas, August 1977): "Social behavior is sometimes misinterpreted, leading matters to such a state of confusion that any action on part [of the intruders] is deemed hostile. It is imperative to analyze all physical and psychological factors before a conclusion can be reached."
A Skywatch Interrupted
Three summers before the incident involving the San Bartolomé humanoids, a skywatcher in neighboring Chile had his own brush with the unknown. Enrique Bermúdez had driven to the outskirts of Punta Arenas, which aside from boasting the privilege of being Chile’s southernmost community, the city on the Brunswick Peninsula is also one of the largest one in the Patagonian Region. The clear skies above beckon to skywatchers and amateur astronomers, or simply anyone wanting to enjoy the unspoiled night air. It had also become famous in flying saucer circles for a famous “radar confirmation” case involving a warning issued by an air traffic controller to a passenger plane, advising it to be aware of unknown traffic in the area.
Bermudez had no idea that he was about to enter the pages of UFO lore on September 22, 1997. The man were startled to hear a strange sound outside, and upon turning off the headlights to eliminate the glare, he could see short humanoid figures running around the vehicle. According to the description given to researchers, the entities were “small, standing around one meter tall, with long arms and oversized heads,” but their facial features were could not be clearly seen in the darkness.
A total of eight short beings now surrounded his car, besieging him behind the wheel for an estimated 40 minutes. When they finally ran off into the forest, the witness started the car and drove away.
He would return – bravely – a week later with a researcher from Chile’s AION group, Dr. Carlos Muñoz, who had joined the organization in 1996 and become one of its most active field investigators. Both men descended from the vehicle and were startled to see a truly unusual sight: a source of light resembling a red neon tube was hovering in the darkness some twenty meters away from them, pulsating as it did so. Muñoz lifted his camcorder to shoot footage of the uncanny phenomenon, but to his surprise, the light source did not appear in the viewfinder. Bermudez and Dr. Munoz found their nerve beginning to fail them. They re-entered the car and drove away from the forest.
Soccer-Field Humanoids
On June 4, 1978, two brothers – Juan and Héctor Juárez , ages 10 and 8 respectively– were walking back home from school to their humble home in the El Corito neighborhood of Ciudad Cárdenas in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. As the boys walked past Zaragoza Street, they saw activity in the empty field that served as a makeshift soccer pitch. Other children of around their age seemed to be engaged in frantic activity, and not wanting to be left out, Juan and Hector walked down the street and on to the empty field. While separated by a distance, the boys were suddenly realized that the figures were not their neighbors or classmates having a post-school day game of futbol, but something they’d never seen before.
The figures were not children, although their height was comparable to boys their age. The two brothers found themselves facing between fifteen and twenty creatures darting around the field. Far from fleeing in terror, Juan and Héctor approached, curiosity getting the better of them, and making an uncanny discovery: the kid-sized figures’ feet did not touch the ground. They darted on air, moving as if on roller-skates. Some of the creatures – with devices on their backs that the two brothers could not recognize – interrupted their play to look at the humans. Something, in retrospect, the Juarez Brothers wished they had not done.
The creatures had humanlike features – the faces of adult humans on childish bodies – but their oval heads had eyes set so close together as to make them resemble the legendary Cyclops. Terrified by the sight, Juan and Héctor broke into a mad dash for the imaginary safety of Zaragoza Street, and the prospect of reaching their home. Héctor tumbled to the ground a few times, weighed down by the contents of his book bag.
There are contradicting sources as to what happened next. In one version, the beings took to the air, flying up and away , enveloped in a white light, as if though having been spotted by the young humans marked the end of their escapade. In another, the boys ran to their home, only to find their mother standing outside, gazing skyward at a strange light in the sky that “looked like the sun” due to its brightness, thinking that “strange birds” were flying in the air toward the light, unaware that they had taken flight precisely from the field that her two children were running home from. “They frightened us,” said one of the boys, “sent us into a panic. My mother was able to see them from the entrance to our house.”
The mother contacted the authorities and law enforcement agents questioned the boys, asking if they had slept well the night before the incident and if they “knew anything about UFOs or extraterrestrials”, questions to which the youths replied yes and no, respectively. Pressed by the uniformed grown-ups as to what they had seen, one of the brothers piped up: “Some children, but they weren’t like us.”
There was no follow-up to the astonishing account and the percipients were never heard from again, despite the inquiries made by two separate Mexican UFO research groups. For some reason, an alternate date of March 30, 1979 appears as the date of the event in some sources, questioning the veracity of the whole ordeal. The truth of the matter lies with two boys – now men in their Forties – who are probably still trying to put the nightmare behind them.
A Quiet Evening Stroll
The warm temperature and spectacular starry skies on the evening of June 15, 1974 were enough of an enticement to prompt to neighbors – Dolores and Marisa – to go for a nocturnal stroll in their town of Manzalvos, in the Galician province of Ourense (Spain). The two friends had no idea that their spur-of-the-moment constitutional would land them in the pages of the chronicles of the unknown. Veteran ufologist Marcelino Requejo, who had relatives in that community, included the experience in his book OVNIS: Alto Secreto(Ediciones Cydonia, 2009). He was able to pay a visit to the community and interview the experiencers in person.
Inspired by the warm night, the friends decided to walk beyond the outskirts of Manzalvos and enjoy the breathtaking firmament above. As they walked, Dolores and Marisa became aware of two intensely bright red lights descending from the dark sky in complete silence, eventually landing at the foot of a hill a few hundred meters from where they walked. The lights went dark, and the friends were startled to see the appearance of a bright yellow horizontal light in the middle of the darkness. “The light,” writes Requejo, “expanded until it formed a perfect triangle of enormous size.”
The friends were further shocked to see two humanlike silhouettes, perfectly black, emerging from either end of the oblong light, walking slowly toward each other, their paths crossing in the middle of the light and each heading in the opposite direction from which it had first emerged. What astounded Dolores was that the silhouettes walked with the precision of “soldiers standing guard in front of a building.” This maneuver repeated itself for a few minutes while both friends, now patently terrified by the enigma playing out before their eyes, sought shelter behind the corner wall of a village alleyway. Even more astonishing to them was the fact that the luminous oblong shape began to collapse inward on itself, becoming once more a thin, bright light that vanished into the dark. The two powerful red lights reappeared at the either end of what had been the rectangle and slowly rose into the air, before lurching suddenly into the starry night, vanishing out of sight. Both women ran home to tell their relatives about the unsettling and outright bizarre event.
“Two entities,” writes Requejo as a result of his interview with the witnesses, “were walking along the screen in a regular manner. No arms were visible. Their silhouette was entirely dark and their height, estimated at a little more than two meters, was shorter than half the height of the luminous oblong.”
Ufologist Requejo mentions, by way of comparison, other cases similar to the 1974 experience in Galicia, sometimes involving larger groups of witnesses, but featuring the "projection screen" feature witnessed by Dolores and Marisa. While clearly a display of some sort, one wonders if it was aimed at the witnesses, as the humanoid "actors" were oblivious to the presence of witnesses in these cases. It could be another example of the 'pointless' activities that UFO occupants have been seen engaging in since the early days of the phenomenon, ranging from collecting useless specimens of soil to asking terrified humans for the time of day.
Hit the Road, Jack
Up until to the abduction paradigm of the 1990s, it could be argued that a nocturnal road trip through a desolate area in any part of the world was the likeliest location to have a UFO experience – any of the three CE-types – and some researchers of the ‘70s even cautioned their readers to have care when driving alone under such conditions.
This was clearly the case in Chile in 1965, when medics aboard an ambulance on an emergency call became the unwilling witnesses to a brilliant light descending from the night sky, surrounded by a host of lesser, attendant lights, that eventually came to rest upon a plain. As the wary ambulance driver drove on, given the urgency of his mission, he was shocked to find one of the smaller objects intercepting his vehicle on one of the curves on the road. One of the medics would later report seeing – lost amid the glare – what appeared to be “figures moving behind portholes”. Even more disturbing was another medic’s recollection of seeing a creature’s face looking at him through one of the side windows, “being dominated by its eyes”.
Chilean researcher Rodrigo Fuenzalida has looked into his share of these cases, which have made Chile one of the world’s foremost locations for encounters with the unknown for well over fifty years. During a radio interview on the “De La Noche a la Mañana Radio Show” on Radio Cooperativa, the researcher brought up the eerie case of Mr. and Mrs. Juan Munizaga, who were traveling to the coastal city of Viña del Mar in 1983. In their Forties, highly respected and both occupying important jobs, the last thing the Munizagas expected at two thirty a.m. as they drove down Route 68 was to be inducted into the annals of humanoid contact experiences.
At some point along the dark road – the vicinity of Casa Blanca being mentioned – the couple saw figures ahead on the asphalt that they first took to be “horsemen on their respective mounts” riding on the paved surface. As the figures did not make way for the motor vehicle, Mr. Munizaga slowed down, turned on the high beams, and cast light upon creatures standing two and a half meters tall (8.2 ft.) with white hair, enormous eyes and “celestial” tunics “like something out of a Hollywood production”, as they would later describe them.
Even more perplexing was the description of “shoulder pads with electronic circuits that came out of their necks” and the emotionless features of both giants, one of whom the Munizaga’s distinguished as possibly being female by its sharper features and somewhat ruddier complexion. Fuenzalida uses the term “feminoid” to describe the possible giantess, who made her way to the car and looked into the passenger side window, casting her enormous eyes on a terrified Mrs. Munizaga, who curled into a fetal position on the seat in a vain effort to shut herself off from the unknown; Mr. Munizaga is reported to have cursed out loud “why didn’t I bring my revolver with me”.
The encounter with the towering humanoids in their glowing raiment reportedly lasted three minutes, after which one of the beings stood aside and the driver was able to accelerate past them. Mrs. Munizaga looked back and reportedly saw one of the creatures making mechanical gestures with its arm, beckoning them to return.
“These entities,” notes the researcher, “belong to the classification of tall beings in luminous outfits that give off some form of unknown luminous energy. Their morphology is generally human, but their eyes were twice as large as normal human eyes.” Another couple had a similar experience in the same area in 1986, but in this instance, one of the entities raised a hand and caused the automobile to lose all power while its companion performed an “inspection” of the vehicle, walking around it. Once the first creature lowered its hand, the car was restored to normal and able to leave.
But why the absurd behavior of circumambulating a car? “With UFO entities,” writes Hillary Evans in Visions-Apparitions-Alien Vistors, it is not possible to give them the benefit of such a doubt. Their conduct is almost always bafflingly meaningless to our eyes,” despite the fact that the behavior is clearly endowed of some sort of significance. Other authors suggest that these behaviors serve the purpose of misleading the witness, but why?
With the Northern Hemisphere awash in sightings and bedroom invasions of “Grey” entities in the Nineties, it is notable that more traditional – but no less bizarre – events were occurring elsewhere with other non-human types. A 1998 case in Chile involved a family enjoying a day outdoors when they witnessed what they first took to be parachutists coming out of the sky, capturing the event on their camcorder. But no parachutes were ever deployed. The humanoid figures plummeting out of the sky suddenly stopped in mid-air, flying in formation toward the Pacific Coast.
As if this detail wasn’t enough to move the case into the highest ranks of high strangeness, the family remarked that the erstwhile parachutists were gigantic – estimating them to be at least three meters tall and clearly visible in broad daylight. They seemed to be surrounded by a swarm of lesser lights (much like the object seen by the ambulance crew in 1965). Skeptics dismissed the incident saying the figures were “large trash bags sent aloft by local children.” (The video can be seen at YouTube URL http://youtu.be/V95qHv1b0t8) We see in this case a repetition of the "flying humanoids" that terrified the two boys in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, a decade earlier.
Another significant Chilean case from the late Nineties – also from Rodrigo Fuenzalida’s files – includes a “bedroom visitor” that once again, was not one of the multitudinous Greys. On the evening of February 13, 1997, an unnamed young housewife was getting ready to put her baby daughter to bed before going to bed herself, as her husband worked nights. At one point, the woman heard a “buzzing” sound that came out of nowhere, electrical in nature, and when she glanced over to the bedroom wall, was alarmed to see a humanoid figure with a backpack and helmet materializing on the wall. The witness went to pick up her daughter in terror, as the unearthly figure seemed interested in the child. A curious detail is added: the helmeted non-human appeared to be “confused” – had it materialized in the wrong apartment or time, or the wrong dimension?
The witness heard the buzzing noise again and the bedroom visitor disappeared, leaving behind a strange glow on the wall that remained visible moments alter. The outcome of this experience was hardly a positive one, as the woman refused to return to her apartment: she returned home to her mother and father, suffered a nervous breakdown, and could not be dissuaded from sleeping at the foot of her parents’ bed.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET De NASA wil na bijna een halve eeuw terug naar de maan. Dat heeft grote baas Jim Bridenstine gezegd, nadat maandag bekend raakte dat er wel degelijk water is aan de oppervlakte van het hemellichaam in de vorm van ijs. Dat is iets wat onderzoekers al langer vermoedden, maar waar nu het ultieme bewijs voor werd gevonden. En Bridenstine ziet het groots. Hij wil onder meer een permanent ruimtestation bouwen in een baan rond de maan, met shuttles die over en weer gaan naar het maanoppervlak.
Het is van 1972 geleden dat er nog mensen op de maan liepen, met de missie van Apollo 17. Dat er effectief water zou zijn aan het oppervlak, zou volgens Bridenstine de sleutel zijn tot het succes van een nieuwe en duurzame missie erheen. “We weten nu dat er honderden miljarden ton waterijs op de oppervlakte van de maan ligt”, zei hij gisteren aan het persagentschap Reuters.
Een dag eerder had de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie bekendgemaakt dat het ultiem bewijs had gevonden dat de donkerste en koudste plekken van de maan bedekt zijn met een laagje ijs. Dat bleek uit een analyse van data die de Maan Mineralogy Mapper (M3) had verzameld. Het zou gaan om honderden plekken die terug te vinden zijn aan de polen van de maan.
De aanwezigheid zou diepgaande gevolgen kunnen hebben voor een terugkeer van mensen naar de maan. Want het water kan niet alleen gebruikt worden om te drinken, maar ook om zuurstof en raketbrandstof te maken. En Bridenstine - die in april op voorspraak van president Donald Trump aan het hoofd kwam te staan van de NASA – ziet het groots. (lees hieronder verder)
REUTERSNASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
“We willen shuttles die van een baan om de aarde naar een baan om de maan kunnen gaan en ook herbruikbaar zijn”, zegt hij. “We willen ook een ruimtestation bouwen dat in een baan om de maan zal vliegen en daar lange tijd zal kunnen blijven hangen. Van daaruit zullen dan landers heen en weer vliegen naar het oppervlak van de maan.”
Mars
Trump zei in december vorig jaar al dat hij weer astronauten naar de maan wilde sturen, in de aanloop naar een missie richting Mars. Hij trekt voor het volgende fiscale jaar dat op 1 oktober begint 17,2 miljard uit voor de NASA, waarvan ruim 9 miljard naar bemande ruimtemissies zal gaan. De Orion zou in 2020 een eerste onbemande vlucht rond de maan moeten maken. In 2023 zouden er dan voor het eerst astronauten aan boord van het ruimtetoestel zijn.
De Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway – een ruimtestation in een baan om de maan – zou in de jaren 20 gebouwd worden. De eerste component zou in 2022 gelanceerd worden.
NASA
Er wordt echter ook opgeroepen tot voorzichtigheid, tot in de rangen van de NASA zelf. Volgens maanwetenschapper Sarah Noble (NASA) is het nog niet duidelijk hoeveel ijs er exáct op het maanoppervlak ligt. En hoe gemakkelijk het zal zijn om dat te ontginnen in hoeveelheden die praktisch gebruikt kunnen worden.
“Er zijn heel wat modellen en die geven ons allemaal verschillende antwoorden. We kunnen nu nog niet weten over hoeveel water het precies gaat. Daar is onderzoek voor nodig met een robot die op verschillende plaatsen op het maanoppervlak gaat kijken”, zegt ze.
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Ze zei dat ze als kind werd meegenomen aan boord van een buitenaards schip. Deze grote krant steunt haar nu als congreslid
Ze zei dat ze als kind werd meegenomen aan boord van een buitenaards schip. Deze grote krant steunt haar nu als congreslid
We zijn ons ervan bewust dat Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera een ongewone kandidaat is, klinkt het in een redactioneel stuk in de krant Miami Herald, die haar steunt als congreslid.
De vrouw moet het opnemen tegen één van de meest invloedrijke Cubaans-Amerikaanse congresleden.
Aguilera claimde eerder dat ze op 7-jarige leeftijd werd meegenomen aan boord van een ruimteschip door blonde buitenaardse wezens.
Ronde stoelen
In een Spaanstalig tv-programma zei ze dat ze drie lange wezens zag, twee vrouwen en een man. Ze spraken telepathisch met haar.
Ze namen haar mee aan boord van het ruimteschip, waarin ze ronde stoelen zag.
De aliens zouden tegen haar gezegd hebben dat God geen persoon, maar een universele energie is.
“Het zit overal in. God praat tegen mensen en ze begrijpen dat op verschillende manieren, maar er is maar één religie,” zei ze, toevoegende dat ze ook spraken over de Egyptische godin Isis.
Niet-menselijke schedels
In haar tienerjaren zag ze de wezens naar eigen zeggen opnieuw.
Aguilera heeft verder gezegd dat er 30.000 niet-menselijke schedels in een ondergrondse grot op Malta liggen.
Miami Herald-redactrice Nancy Ancrum zei dat ze niet moet worden afgerekend op wat ze in het verleden heeft gezegd en dat ze beschikt over de beste papieren.
Sterke kandidaat
“Dit is waarom we haar gekozen hebben,” zei ze. “Ze is niet gek. Ze is een sterke kandidaat.”
De krant vroeg haar nog naar haar eerdere uitspraken over buitenaardsen. Haar antwoord was dat die er nu niet toe doen, en daar was de krant het mee eens.
“Wat mensen willen is een kandidaat die banen kan creëren en dat heb ik in de afgelopen 40 jaar laten zien,” zei Aguilera.
What Happened To Phobos II? Russian Cosmonaut & U.S. Army Remote Viewers Say Something “Alien” Did
What Happened To Phobos II? Russian Cosmonaut & U.S. Army Remote Viewers Say Something “Alien” Did
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
Phobos II was the last space probe designed by the Soviet Union. It was designed to explore the moons of Mars. Unexpectedly, we lost communication with it, and multiple insiders have said we weren't told the truth about what really happened.
Reflect On:
Reflect on the fact that there is no so much evidence showing we are not alone, it's overwhelming, yet to a certain extent, society still ignores the biggest story in human history.
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. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubbishing’ 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)
Witness testimony when it comes to ‘credibility’ is not really seen as a good source of information within the mainstream world, except when it fits into the accepted view of reality, or the reality that’s given to us by the global elite. At this point, it’s not hard to see the consistent stream of lies, in almost all realms from health to politics, that’s dished out by establishment media on a regular basis. When information is presented which goes against the grain no matter how credible the source, even if it goes far beyond simple witness testimony and into hard evidence, it’s always greeted with a harsh response. We see this today with science, and findings that challenge belief systems and have paradigm-shifting implications (like non-material science).
Things, however, are changing, the collective mind is definitely opening and willing to accept the fact that there are concepts of our reality that we may have overlooked, especially towards things that don’t fit the frame.
One of these topics is intelligent extraterrestrial life. Judging by global polls alone, a large portion of the world seems to believe that we are not alone in the universe and that there is intelligent life out there, it’s not just us…
A large portion also believes that intelligent extraterrestrial life has, and could still be, visiting our planet.
Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, Et’s, etc…They are visiting Earth NOW; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking. – Theodor C. Loder III, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)
When it comes to the UFO phenomenon, it’s not really taboo to discuss anymore. Dozens of governments have admitted to the existence of UFOs, they’ve released electrooptical data (radar tracking, video footage), and more. The phenomenon is real, and that really can’t be debunked or argued against. The U.S. government has also started a slow process of disclosure, having released multiple videos of their own through to the stars academy.
When it comes to the extraterrestrial hypothesis for the explanation of some of these UFOs, we have hundreds of high-ranking people from within the military, politics, aerospace, and education sector who have been telling the world that yes, some of these UFOs are indeed extraterrestrial space-craft.
There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time… that these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems…That seems to be a common denomantaor of the UFO phenomenon. – Dr.Brian O’leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor. (source)
We’ve written a lot about the phenomenon, and to sift through the articles we’ve published for the past (nearly) 10 years, you can visit the disclosure section of our website. I thought it was important to briefly mention the information above.
Phobos II
Space is a strange place, a place we don’t know much about, and an area that seems to be dominated by Black Budget Special Access Programs (SAP’s), and Unacknowledged Special Access programs. These are programs that are so secretive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to Congress. This has been made clear, not only by those who have investigated black budget programs (not many, more on that in the article linked above), but also by whistle-blowers, and people like Gary Mckinnon, who performed the largest military computer hack in history, finding strange pictures of space-ships floating near the Earth, as well as a list of “off-world officers” and “fleet to fleet” transfers of materials.
So, what happened to Phobos II? Phobos II was (from what we’re told), the very last space probe designed by the Soviet Union. It was designed to explore the moons of Mars, Phobos, and Demimos. It was launched on July 12th, 1988, and entered into orbit on January 29th, 1989.
The Probe got close to the surface of Mars, investigating its surface and atmosphere as well as returning approximately 40 images. The probe was also supposed to approach Phobos within 50 meters and release two landers, but all of a sudden, the mission ended and contact with the probe was completely lost. The ‘official’ answer from NASA was that there was a malfunction onboard, but according to others, with ‘credibility,’ this is not what happened.
As Jim Mars points out in one of his books, Our Occulted History:
In mid-1991, six former U.S. Army remote viewers were commissioned by officials within the Russian space program to study the cause of Phobos II’s disappearance. Remote viewing is the term given to a controlled psychic ability that allows one to perceive persons, places, and things at a distance without the use of the normal five senses. Such techniques were studied by both academic and government scientists before the creation of a remote-viewing unit witin the U.S. Amy’s Intelligence and Security Command (INSOCOM) in the early 1970s.
Remote viewing was part of the US Government’s STARGATE program.
Anytime I mention remote viewing in an article, I always have to throw this in there from the declassified literature,
Successful replication of this type of remote viewing in independent laboratories has yielded considerable scientific evidence for the reality of the (remote viewing) phenomenon. Adding to the strength of these results was the discovery that a growing number of individuals could be found to demonstrate high-quality remote viewing, often to their own surprise. The CIA even participated as remote viewers themselves in order to critique the protocols. CIA personnel generated successful target descriptions of sufficiently high quality to permit blind matching of descriptions to targets by independent judges.
According to Mars, in 1991, the remote viewers issued a report titled “Enigma Penetration: Soviet Phobos II Space Craft Images Anomaly.” The report outlined how a disc-shaped object arose from the surface of Mars as Phobos neared, all while a second object moved even closer, scanning the probe, and then shooting some sort of, what appeared to be, a particle beam device, which disrupted the communication and guidance equipment.
This isn’t the first time a UFO has been said to shoot some sort of beam disrupting Earthly equipment, Colonel Ross Dedrickson, a high-ranking Air Force Officer who had a long stint with the US atomic energy commission provided an example in thisinterview, he also said extraterrestrial destroyed nuclear weapons that the US government wanted to detonate on the moon for scientific purposes… Here’sanother video of Professor Robert Jacobs describing another similar incident.
So, it’s not the first time we’re hearing about something like this.
Back to Phobos, according to Mars, the remote viewers said that “this may have been no accident, as it seems that all of the technology put into space from Earth is scrutinized closely by nonhumans. If it would reveal alien activities, then it is decommissioned. After being struck, Phobos II spiralled down crashing onto the Martian surface.
The remote viewers aren’t the only ones who spoke of such an incident. In 1991, a retired Soviet Air Force colonel and cosmonaut trainee named Marina Popovic, pictured belw on the far right, expressed that one of the last photographs received by the Russians from Phobos II showed “the silhouette of an odd-shaped object approaching the spacecraft.” Popovich said the picture was taken on March 25th, 1989, in deep space near Phobos (moon of Mars) shortly before contact with the craft was lost. She said the object very well may have been an alien spacecraft.” Her belief that this happened was also poorly expressed by the New York Times.
She is holding the photo below.
Why would she be lying? Especially when she is one of dozens of global astronauts to confirm the existence of “UFOs”, and some have confirmed the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
Alexander Dunayev, chairman of the Society Space organization responsible for the Phobos II project, said that “the doomed probe had photographed the image of a small odd-shaped object between itself and Mars. He speculated that the object might have been “debris in the orbit of Phobos” or even jettisoned parts from the spacecraft. His tone was anything but certain.
Here’s another picture:
What’s most intriguing about this story is that the photograph drawn by the remote viewers matched the description of the disc above, which is something that was quite common in the remote viewing program. Again, it had an extremely high success rate, with viewers able to peer into secret Russian military bases and describe weapons facilities, naval facilities and more. They even used the program to locate a lost spy plane in Africa. There are multiple examples found within the declassified literature, and even more from the participants from within that program, like Ingo Swann, Pat Price, Joseph McMoneagle, Paul Smith, and many more.
The military-trained remote viewers, however, said they saw Mars Observer meeting the same fat as Phobos II as well as other, secret space launch that same moe month in 1993. They noted the similarity of fates between the Phobos missions and Mars observer. This pattern may have continued in another failed Russian attempt to probe the secrets of Phobos. In the fall of 2011, control over Phobos Grunt (literally, Phobos Soil) was lost, and fears grew that its ten-ton load of toxic fuel and oxidizer might wreak havoc when the failed craft reentered Earth’s atmosphere. The stricken craft reportedly crashed into the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, January 15th, 2012, with no reported consequence. Why would all these probes be failing? Could it be that something on Mars doesn’t want us observing the planet? One thing seems clear – someone or something continues to operate far outside Earth.
(Our Occulted History)
I’ll leave you with this interview, where Buzz Aldrin said that there is a “monolith” on the moon of Mars.
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Is er een buitenaards schip vastgelegd bij Marsmaan Phobos? Deze recordbrekende testpilote meende van wel
Is er een buitenaards schip vastgelegd bij Marsmaan Phobos? Deze recordbrekende testpilote meende van wel
Eind vorig jaar overleed testpilote kolonel Marina Popovitsj. Zij was de eerste Sovjet-vrouw die door de geluidsbarrière ging. Ze trainde om kosmonaut te worden, maar uiteindelijk mocht slechts één vrouw de ruimte in: Valentina Teresjkova.
Popovitsj zei dat ze als piloot UFO’s heeft gezien en dat ze in buitenaardsen geloofde. Ze publiceerde er in 1991 een boek over: ‘UFO Glasnost’. Daarin stelde ze dat zowel de VS als de Sovjet-Unie de aanwezigheid van buitenaards leven in de doofpot hadden gestopt.
“Als piloten waren we bang om hier ook maar een woord over te zeggen omdat we rechtstreeks naar het gekkenhuis zouden gaan,” zei ze.
Kluis
Volgens haar werd materiaal over UFO’s in de Sovjet-Unie jarenlang door de KGB in de kluis gehouden.
De testpilote zei over het Roswellincident dat arts en ooggetuige Leonard Springfield een in 1947 gevonden buitenaards wezen heeft beschreven:
Het was 1,22 meter lang, het hoofd was bolvormig en in verhouding tot het hoofd van een mens zeer groot. Het verbazingwekkende organisme […] is voor interstellaire reizen ingericht.
Vreemd object
Op een foto die door de Russen is gemaakt met ruimtesonde Phobos II was volgens Popovitsj ‘de silhouet van een vreemd object te zien dat de sonde naderde’.
De foto is gemaakt op 25 maart 1989 in de buurt van Marsmaan Phobos. Kort daarna ging het contact met de ruimtesonde verloren.
Tijdens een persconferentie op het Russische consulaat in San Francisco in 1991 hield ze een foto omhoog van de UFO bij Phobos. Ze zei dat het mogelijk een buitenaards ruimteschip was geweest.
Nog steeds is de wereld stekeblind voor wat er in haar achtertuin gebeurt en nog steeds doet iedereen of alles wat er op aarde gebeurt volkomen normaal is.
We hebben gezien hoe het aantal aardbevingen op aarde fenomenaal toeneemt en met de nadering van Nibiru is iemand er in geslaagd om een close up foto te maken.
Nancy Lieder van de website Zetatalk houdt zich al decennialang bezig met het voorbereiden van de mensheid op de komst van de planeet/mini zonnestelsel Nibiru.
Een man die al jarenlang met haar samenwerkt voor wat betreft het maken van foto’s is een oudere heer genaamd Alberto. De door hem gemaakte foto’s zijn regelmatig op haar website te zien en de reden dat hij in staat is om goede foto’s te maken komt door de filters die hij gebruikt.
Sinds 2003 maakt hij al foto’s van de planeet Nibiru en enkele maanden geleden had hij toch wel een aardige primeur omdat hij met behulp van een telelens erin was geslaagd om een close up te maken van de planeet Nibiru.
Die ziet er als volgt uit:
Het ziet er niet uit als een mooie blauwachtige planeet als de aarde, maar schijnt een hele dichte atmosfeer te hebben met crèmekleurige luchten.
Een ander fenomeen dat absoluut te maken heeft met de nadering van de planeet is iets waar al in oude tijden over wordt gesproken en waar wij ook eerder over schreven en dat zijn de zogenaamde trompet geluiden.
We komen de zeven trompetten tegen in het boek Openbaringen van de Bijbel, maar ook in de Kolbrin bijbel.
Als je een goede indruk wilt krijgen van hoe huiveringwekkend die geluiden kunnen zijn, neem dan vijf minuten de tijd om de volgende video te bekijken. Het zijn verschillende opnames van dergelijke geluiden, allemaal vastgelegd tijdens televisie-uitzendingen, waardoor je weet dat je niet met nep opnames te maken hebt.
De Kolbrin bijbel schrijft het volgende:
The days of stillness were followed by a time when the noise of trumpeting and shrilling was heard in the Heavens, and the people became as frightened beasts without a headsman. … The Doomshape thundered sharply in the Heavens and shot out bright lightings. Then a voice like ten thousand trumpets was heard … The whole of the land moved and mountains melted. The sky itself roared like ten thousand lions in agony.
In dat kader is het ook interessant om te kijken naar de volgende video. Het is een christelijke benadering over de zeven trompetten die zullen losbarsten in de eindtijd en rampen over de aarde zullen brengen. Video is in het Engels, maar Nederlands ondertiteld.
Als je wilt weten wat de toekomst brengt, kijk dan in de geschiedenis. Overal kom je in feite variaties tegen van hetzelfde verhaal. De heer/God/Jezus/Anunnaki/Marduk die op een goede dag terug zal/zullen keren.
De komst van de planeet wordt onder andere aangekondigd via de vreemde trompet geluiden, iets dat zelfs bij de Dogon, een stam in de zuidelijke Sahara in Afrika, bekend is.
We zijn nu op een punt aanbeland waarop je deze planeet (Nibiru) kunt zien, voelen en horen. Maar de wereld draait door en merkt ogenschijnlijk niets. De mensheid wordt afgeleid met vaccinaties, belastingen, politiek, leerplicht, godsdienst, bitcoins en meer, om er maar voor te zorgen dat er geen tijd of ruimte is om te zien wat er werkelijk speelt. Trap er niet in!
It’s the gift that keeps on giving … at least if you’re interested in Egyptology, mummies, strange brews, archeology and mysteries. We’re talking, of course, about the mysterious giant marble sarcophagus found in Alexandria, Egypt, recently that generated excitement when it was found, intrigue when rumors flew about its mysterious contents, puzzlement when the contents were not what was expected, disgust when some people wanted to drink the water inside and more questions when the remains turned out to be both men and a woman, with one skull showing a round surgical hole. If that wasn’t enough (it never is when it comes to Egyptian artifacts), some mysterious gold sheets that were mistakenly reported to be inside some of the bones have been analyzed and the pictures on them add to the mystique and mystery of the sarcophagus.
Luxor Timestweeted photos of the tiny (approximately 5cm by 3cm or 2 in by 1 in) gold sheets, also referred to as panels, found with the skeletons. Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Ahram Online that the panels (seen in this video) may be related to the military rankings of the three people buried in the sarcophagus. If true, it will be interesting to see which one belonged to the woman since female soldiers were sometimes depicted in Egyptian drawings.
Live Sciencecontacted several experts to analyze the pictures of the panels and got a detailed report from Jack Ogden, president of the Society of Jewellery Historians and one of the foremost experts in the field. Ogden identified one image as an unhooded snake, which “had connotations of rebirth — they shed their skin — and thus [are] perfect in a funerary connection” and is often associated with the goddess Isis. However, those weren’t enough for Ogden to confirm this jewelry belonged to the female in the sarcophagus.
The other two sheets were more puzzling. One is a plant, possibly corn or a palm branch, which would again symbolize rebirth when placed with the dead. The last contains what looks like an opium poppy seed pod in a shrine, which Ogden speculates could have symbolized medicine (opium had medicinal usages in in Egypt) or getting stoned and entering a dream or coma-like state to symbolize death – or perhaps even induce it? As Ogden said of this panel, “It is intriguing.”
Indeed. Why was gold or jewelry placed with these bodies in a coffin that was quite possibly being shared due to mysterious circumstances. Were these people related? Heroes of the same war or battle? Killed by the same disease or plague? Something else?
What else is in this mysterious sarcophagus and why is it trickling out so slowly? Is the Ministry of Antiquities milking it for its tourism value … or it hiding something?
What more gifts will the mysterious giant black sarcophagus give?
The universe is unimaginably large. The odds that we’ll find evidence of life anywhere in our cosmic neck of the woods is looking ever smaller, yet the time and energy required to send a craft or probe to look for alien civilizations in distant star systems means if you’re alive right now, you likely won’t live to experience first contact. Unless, of course, you’re some sort of immortal, in which case carry on.
They’re out there somewhere. Will we reach them before our sudden but inevitable extinction?
One proposed solution to help us explore distant reaches of space without sending generations of astronauts to live and die entire lifetimes aboard cramped, fart-filled spacecraft is the Breakthrough Starshot initiative proposed by Stephen Hawking. This concept imagines using powerful lasers to send postage-stamp sized craft hurtling through space at incredible speeds and may even be capable of sending one such craft to Mars in just three days. Obviously, humans can’t ride aboard these spacecraft for ants, but each tiny probe could carry cameras, scientific instruments, and communication equipment, even human DNA – more than enough to establish first contact.
Breakthrough Starshot wants to send thousands of their nanocraft throughout the galaxy to survey surface features of other planets. What could go wrong?
However, one leading astrophysicist and science writer has come out against the popular Breakthrough Starshot initiative. Ethan Siegel, a former columnist for NASA and current science writer for Forbes, self-published a piece claiming that Earth may one day accidentally declare interstellar war if the Starshot initiative ever comes to fruition. Siegel claims that sending anything hurtling through space at high speeds is a bad idea, even a tiny postage stamp-sized probe with no weaponry:
Perhaps we’ll send an array of starchips to the same system, hoping to probe these systems and gain more information. After all, the main science goal, as it’s been proposed, is to simply take data during arrival and transmit it back. But there are three huge problems with this plan, and combined, they could be tantamount to a declaration of interstellar war.
The three problems Siegel identify are that for one, these spacecraft are likely to be shredded into Swiss cheese by all of the particles of dust and other matter floating around in space, rendering the entire program a useless waste of resources. Secondly, Siegel says that there is no way to send these nanocraft with any level of precision to distant areas of interest. The most precise target we can aim for is a cone-shaped vector around any planet while hoping for the best, meaning we could blow right by inhabited planets and never know it. Finally, Siegel points out that there’s no way to stop these tiny spacecraft once they reach their destination, meaning we could send one of these tiny craft blowing right through an inhabited planet causing unknown levels of destruction given the speeds at which they will be moving.
“Oops.” – Stephen Hawking’s immortal digital consciousness
While these are all certainly issues worthy of consideration before we start blasting lasers at space stamps, that last one should give us serious pause. Given how tricky even intraspecies communication can be when two humans don’t speak the same language, how can we be sure of how any of our attempts at communication will be received by hypothetical alien races about which we know absolutely nothing, not to mention bombarding them with high-speed projectiles? Of course, given some of the recent curious statements made by Air Force brass, maybe they’d like an interstellar war to test out their new Space Force. Will a tiny laser-propelled probe be the shot heard round the universe?
We live in an era where it seems that nothing a politician says or does has a predictable effect on his or her campaign, electability, poll numbers or performance in office. And that’s not limited to Washington either. In Florida (OK, it’s kind of a muggier Washington with alligators), a candidate for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives confirmed last October that stories saying she had been abducted by aliens as a child were true, as were statements that she communicated with them telepathically throughout her life. Those admissions didn’t knock her out of the race. Instead, this week the Miami Herald announced it was endorsing her for the job – citing her experience as an office holder and a businesswoman while admitting to and then dismissing her abduction story as a “non-issue.” Should it be an issue?
“I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes.”
Republican candidate Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera said in a 2009 television interview that was resurrected in October 2017that she met three blond, tall, full-figured aliens (no body-shaming in space) — two females, one male (no sex discrimination either) — who looked like the giant Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro (a plug for the religious vote) and told her that there are 30,000 alien skulls in a cave on the island of Malta and the Coral Castle in Miami (alleged to have been made by a human) is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid. Despite these admissions (or perhaps because of them), Aguilera has run a low-key campaign with few personal appearances and is still on the ballot for the upcoming primary election on August 28.
Not only is she on the ballot, Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera was endorsed this week by the editorial board of the Miami Herald – the second-largest newspaper in Florida known for its many Pulitzer prizes. Despite those (or perhaps because of them), the Herald put Aguilera’s alien contact and abduction story right out front, called her “a strong candidate in the race with plausible conservative ideas” and a “Working Class Agenda” and gave her its endorsement.
Of course, this is just the primary – the general election will be held in November – but it’s crowded and it will be interesting to see if conservative voters come out for someone with such a non-traditional origin story. Her statement that the aliens told her that “God is a universal energy” should help, although if that’s the case, why do we need a Space Force?
Would you vote for an admitted alien abductee? SHould it matter? What if she were your party’s only candidate?
What if she promised you a ride in a spaceship and a selfie with a full-bodied alien?
For whatever reason, UFO reports seem to be declining. That’s at least according to data released by the U.S.-based National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). NUFORC recently published data showing that after steady increases in reported sightings for several decades, sightings began to sharply decline in 2014. That alone should raise some eyebrows, as the recent explosion of drone aircraft worldwide should have likely increased UFO sightings. What’s behind this sudden decline in UFO sightings? According to NUFORC founder and director Peter Davenport, reports of sightings are possibly being intercepted by government agencies or other shadowy groups which seek to conceal the truth. Is there a conspiracy afoot to suppress UFO reports, or has the public at large merely grown bored with UFOs?
Who knows the extent of what knowledge has been suppressed over the years?
As all things UFO-related, it’s difficult to say. A decline in reports doesn’t necessarily mean a decline in sightings or incidents, it just means that for whatever reason, the reports aren’t coming in to NUFORC like they used to. Speaking to Business Insider about the slump in reports, Davenport is careful to toe the line, stating that while there could be perfectly benign reasons for this decline, it may also be that something more nefarious is going on behind the scenes:
The significant decrease in the number of reports has baffled everyone investigating within the UFO field. They see the same trend and they’re all confused by it. It could just be that there are fewer and fewer incidents, but it’s also possible that reports to UFO organisations are being intercepted electronically. Who would do something like that is a mystery, but if it’s happening, my first suspicion would be government organisations. It’s quite risky for a government to do that, but you can’t rule it out, I think.
Might there be something sinister going on behind the scenes in order to squash UFO reports before they’re filed? There have been what seem like hints of official disclosure coming out of the Pentagon over the last few years – although many have their doubts about all of this allegedly “declassified” information. Are these so-called disclosures merely another smokescreen?
It’s difficult what to make of this decline in reports. Without much concrete evidence to go on (that we know of), it could be said on one hand that the UFO phenomenon is an entirely social construction, a narrative or myth which pervades our culture and reflects our attitudes and beliefs about our skies and what goes on in them, the universe, and the question of whether or not we’re alone in the black vacuum of space. Thus, a decline in UFO sightings could be said to merely reflect changing societal attitudes towards the UFO phenomenon; a decline in reports could signal a decline in belief of UFOs itself.
If UFO sightings aren’t a cultural phemomenon, why are they so frequently saucer-shaped or black triangles?
On the other hand, with countless sightings throughout history on nearly every corner of the globe, it’s hard to say that there’s not something going on over our heads we can’t explain. Are witnesses going straight to social media and bypassing NUFORC and othe }r organizations, or might someone be actively attempting to suppress UFO reports?
Weird Debris Found at Dyatlov Pass close to where the Hikers died
Weird Debris Found at Dyatlov Pass close to where the Hikers died
A tantalizing find made at Russia's Dyatlov Pass may shed light on the mystery of what killed nine hikers at the site.
Located in the Ural Mountains, the remote patch of wilderness became infamous in paranormal lore after a 1959 incident which saw a hiking party perish under bizarre circumstances.
Despite a contemporaneous investigation by Russian officials and subsequent decades of study from independent researchers, the cause of the strange event has never been fully determined.
However, a discovery made by a tourist visiting the area could either constitute a break in the case or yet another glimmer of false hope for those who wish to see the mystery resolved.
The unnamed individual reportedly stumbled upon an intriguing piece of metal while visiting the area back in 2008.
Remarkably, the find was only recently confirmed after an expedition finally made their way out to the specific location to both see the object for themselves and to bring it back to civilization to be studied.
Researchers in Russia say that the mysterious metal fragment, which measures around three feet long by three feet wide, appears to be some kind of debris from an intercontinental missile.
Although it's hard to fathom that a piece of evidence from the Dyatlov Pass incident could have survived undiscovered in the Ural mountains for nearly sixty years, the extremely remote nature of the location leaves open the possibility that it very well may have.
Presumably an examination of the metal will allow for it to be identified and, in turn, place it within some time frame which will reveal whether or not it is connected to the case.
Should it be proven that the metal came from a missile being used or tested at the time that the hikers died, it would add considerable strength to the longstanding suspicion that the hikers fell victim to some kind of weapon that was clandestine at the time, report sputniknews and coasttocoast.
But if it was a missile then that time they must have found much more debris of the missile as well as the impact place and that is not the case. I think the origin of this object is otherwise then they suggest.
This 11-minute video is worth to listen. Grant Cameron while walking near a river in Winnipeg, Canada talks about:
1. The Nimitz UFO sighting 2. The alien threat High levels say UFOs are demonic 3. Tom deLonge’s poor disclosure project 4. When UFO disclosure would take place, high level institutes will say it is a threat and we have to shoot the objects down 5. Einstein’s meeting with President regarding UFOs over Capitol in 1952 6. Space Force, Defense is useless since we cannot fight against alien technology thousands of years ahead of us 7. And more,
Cassini Probe show a "mysterious object" in the Rings of Saturn, Aug 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Cassini Probe show a "mysterious object" in the Rings of Saturn, Aug 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 2018 Location of sighting: Saturn This is a great discovery by Cassini, several UFOs caught flying around Saturn. One of the UFOs was named Peggy by NASA and is thought to an unknown object that flew into the ring area recently. We know very little about Saturn, and can't see below its thick atmosphere, but it does have a diameter 9.5X that of Earth. Something that big with such an active atmosphere must have a lot of life forms on it. These UFOs are proof that Saturn has visitors from far away. Scott C. Waring Video states:
Just before the NASA Cassini spacecraft burned in the atmosphere of Saturn, he managed to photograph an "unexplained glitch" on the rings of Saturn. "What is that? Where does it come from? Where is he going? We have been monitoring it almost since "astronomers have seen it for the first time", they say to NASA. "We have never solved the problem of the origin of this' object. All we can do is follow the error in the last photographs taken by Cassini before it burned in the atmosphere of Saturn ". One of the last images taken by the Cassini space probe has shown something mysterious in the rings of Saturn. Are they aliens? "Not really, but it would be exciting. Really exciting !! "- they say to NASA.
The mysteries yet to be resolved is the possible formation of a strange "unidentified object" dubbed "Peggy". Some have proposed that it could be a moon that is supposed to have formed within the rings of Saturn. Astronomers were able to analyze it but for a short time, thanks to disturbances within the rings of Saturn, which were first detected by an astronomer of Queen Mary University in London, dr. Carl Murray.
Alien life form flies past person recording in Middlesex, New Jersey, Video, Aug 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Alien life form flies past person recording in Middlesex, New Jersey, Video, Aug 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 17, 2018 Location of sighting: Middlesex, New Jersey, USA At first I thought this was cotton from a cotton tree. I've got a lot of those around where I live, but its too white, balled up, where cotton is partly transparent. This object stops in the leaves then suddenly shoots away like a jet. No cotton could do that. Its obviously not an insect since it has no wings, legs or head. When the UFO was in the leaves...it hovered, but was still pushed by the wind, matching the leaves movements...this made me think it was stuck in a web for a little bit, but it wasn't. It was interested in the leaves. It changed shape from oval to round every few seconds. The object moves with intelligence and at the end shot off with incredible speed. This was a mini alien UFO...a mini probe meant to go unseen and ignored by humans...but one person caught it! Then again, this could be an alien life form visiting us. I have seen small UFOs...once a few years ago I meditated on the roof a my 8 floor building (because I saw it work for someone on Youtube) and 2 meters in front of me a round pearlescent and semi transparent orb appeared 6 inches from the edge of the building. It was softball size and showed up on the opposite side of my camera on the tripod...I flipped the tripod around, but the little bugger shot 50 meters in those 2 seconds! Yes...got it on video far away and looks white glowing...like this. Meditation never worked for me again. :( The scientists have to pass some stigmas in their head about what a UFO is...but also, more importantly, how big or small a UFO might be. A UFO the size of this one in the video will always be considered nothing by most scientists. But clearly its something. When it comes to aliens...size has no limits. I have seen many reports of eyewitnesses who encounter alien life forms, some were four meters tall, others were a few cm tall. So who is right? Well, look at it this way, the USAF taught Bob Lazar in Area 51 that the US gov knew of 56 space faring alien species. So then...do you really think they are all the same hight? Do you think they all look just like us? Of course they are not. Different planets have different atmospheres to breath and different gravity to contend with. Also who knows what species grows dominant on other planets? A plant could, a tree could, a lizard species could, a fish species could, a bird species could, and so many we cannot even imagine. So...lets keep an open mind. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
A sunny day in Middlesex county, New Jersey. August 2018 It looked like a cocoon that drifting in the air. It is a material, not light. It is white under the sun. Seems like smooth surface, drift around me then away, I thought that I have lost it at that moment, yet then it return close to me, stop, then speed away. IDK what it is.. If you have any thoughts, please leave it in the comments. Thank you
And after asking Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W Bush for information, some say the lack of response is very telling.
The former Presidents and Secretary of State have been grilled on Jimmy Kimmel Live over the past two years – being asked whether they had access to alleged top-secret files on the existence of aliens, and if so what they saw.
Each time, he put it to them straight, asking what they had seen and what they would divulge
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George W. Bush dodges the UFO question with Jimmy Kimmel.
And, each time, he was met with a similar response.
The four top-drawer politicians laughed awkwardly, side-stepped the question, but refused to say outright there are no secret files or that there is no evidence of any alien visitations of Earth.
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Former presidents squirmed their way through a UFO grilling by Jimmy Kimmel.
Alien conspiracy theorists claim that the US Government does have evidence of alien visitations, but it has been kept secret from the public for years amid fears of the impact it would have on religion and the rule of law if we knew we were not alone.
They claim a so-called "truth embargo" prevents anyone speaking out about the real facts.
UFO blogger Cheryl Costa, who has keenly followed the questioning unfold wrote about her view of Mr Kimmel's mission and the responses thus far.
She said: "He has asked three former US presidents and a presidential candidate the same query about UFOs.
"All of them brushed it off. Some side stepped it with a laugh, others with an uncomfortable snicker claiming they can’t talk about it.
"Jimmy Kimmel is an entertainer and should be commended for bringing up the topic in front of a national television audience that a majority of Americans want to know the answer to. But why is Kimmel the one asking this challenging question?
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Hillary Clinton vowed to open up the UFO files if she made it to the White House.
All of them brushed it off. Some side stepped it with a laugh, others with an uncomfortable snicker claiming they can’t talk about it.
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“Why haven’t journalists affiliated with mainstream news stations or newspapers or, better yet, the White House press corps asked the same hard question?
"Do these world-class journalists feel that a question about UFOs and the extraterrestrial presence is silly and nonsensical?"
The Paradigm Research Group (PRG) was set up by Steve Bassett, who is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the subject of UFO disclosure.
He is trying to get more mainstream media in the US, UK and further afield to take the subject seriously, an cheap pressure on this allegedly in the know as Jimmy Kimmel has.
He said: "After 20 years of dealing with the media on the extraterrestrial issue, I can say with full confidence the number one concern is ridicule.
"I have talked with more than a few reporters who are not afraid to dodge bullets in Iraq, but petrified they might be the butt of a joke on a late night talk show.
"The extraterrestrial truth embargo is an intellectual ghetto where the walls are not built of brick and mortar, but of ridicule. They are walls in the mind.
"Should anyone be surprised absent a full and determined commitment to the truth of all things by fearless journalism from the Fourth Estate, that systemic, institutional lying is approaching full normalisation in America?
"Ending the ET truth embargo is the way back from this nightmare. Who wants to go first?"
For the first time, scientists have found irrefutable evidence of ice on the lunar surface. To make things even more exciting, this makes the prospect of establishing a lunar colony much more likely.
The image shows the distribution of surface ice at the Moon’s south pole (left) and north pole (right), detected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument. Blue represents the ice’s location, plotted over an image of the lunar surface. Grayscale corresponds to surface temperature (darker representing colder areas and lighter shades indicating warmer zones). The ice is concentrated along the darkest and coldest locations, in the shadows of craters. This is the first time scientists have definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon’s surface.
Credits: NASA
In 1835, a journalist working for The Sun (a New York newspaper), published a series of articles in which he claimed that life on the Moon had been discovered. He went on to say that winged humanoids and goat-like creatures inhabited the Moon, attributing the findings to Sir John Herschel, one of the greatest astronomers of the time. The articles, however, were a hoax — nothing more than a joke played on an unsuspecting audience. But this hoax echoed with so many people because it appealed to a very common curiosity: what is the Moon like? Is it like the Earth? Does it host alien life? Is it real?
Our understanding of the Moon has improved dramatically since then, and we know that no goat-like creatures could live on its surface. But the Moon is still as intriguing as ever, spurring heated debates about its formation, past life forms, and even a planned human colony. A big part of these discussions, however, hinges on a particular and familiar substance: water.
Although previous research has indicated the potential of water (especially frozen water) on the lunar surface, now, for the first time, astronomers have direct evidence of ice on the satellite. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, we can now say that there’s ice on the Moon.
Using NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), a team led by Shuai Li of the University of Hawaii and Brown University and including Richard Elphic from NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, have measured how some areas of the moon absorb light. Based on that data, they’ve identified three specific signatures which together form a clear indication of ice. The signatures indicate frozen water, not liquid or vapor.
Previously, NASA’s LRO discovered that hydrogen (potentially from water) is more abundant on pole-facing slopes, a discovery consistent with the new study. Because it doesn’t have an atmosphere, the Moon is riddled with impact craters — and in the shadow of these craters, we might find the ice needed for a lunar colony.
Credits: NASA.
Most of the ice is concentrated around the Moon’s darkest locations, which are consequently the coldest — the shadows of craters around the Moon’s polar areas. Because of the very small tilt of the Moon’s rotation axis, sunlight never reaches these regions, thus making the Moon unique in our solar system in terms of frozen ice.
“We found direct and definitive evidence for surface-exposed water ice in the lunar polar regions. The abundance and distribution of ice on the Moon are distinct from those on other airless bodies in the inner solar system such as Mercury and Ceres, which may be associated with the unique formation and evolution process of our Moon.”
Furthermore, researchers say, it seems like there’s enough water ice to support an exploration or even a permanent mission on the Moon. The Moon has been shown to host vast quantities of water beneath its surface, but surface ice would be much more accessible and easy to use.
It’s not the first time evidence of ice has been picked up on the moon. However, previous observations could have theoretically been explained by very reflective soils. Now, that’s out of the question.
Future research will try to explain how this ice got there in the first place and what role it plays in the lunar environment.
Credit: Catalin Tapardel, Alberta Aurora Chasers.
In 2016, odd ribbons of purple and white light were brought to the attention of scientists, who classed it as a new type of aurora. In reality, the beautiful beam of light (called STEVE) may be far more interesting, after physicists concluded in a new study that it may actually be an entirely new celestial phenomenon.
Aurora chasers and star enthusiasts have been sighting STEVE for decades but it was only recently that scientists were called in to make sense of it. Initially, physicists classed STEVE as a ‘proton arc’ — another rare type of aurora, which isn’t caused by electrons hitting Earth’s magnetic field but by more massive proton outbursts following a solar flare. Later, with the help of NASA –which sent a swarm of satellites right through a STEVE event — scientists found that accelerated and heated charged particles may have been interacting with a particular part of the Earth’s magnetic field in the ionosphere.
The data suggested that STEVE is a “subauroral ion drift.”
Researchers at the University of Calgary in Canada weren’t convinced, though. STEVE shines in thin ribbons of purple, rather than in red, green, or yellow curtains, as is the case of typical auroras. This suggested that the light show is cut of a different cloth from an aurora. Another clue was that STEVE is only visible a few times per year while auroras are visible every night if viewing conditions are right.
The researchers decided to focus on a STEVE event in March 2008, which was recorded using both ground-based cameras designed to track auroras but also NOAA’s Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite 17, which was directly overhead at the time. The analysis showed that STEVE’s light isn’t produced by particles raining down into the ionosphere, as typically happens with the aurora. This means that STEVE is an entirely new phenomenon distinct from typical auroras.
“Our main conclusion is that STEVE is not an aurora,” said Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, a space physicist at the University of Calgary in Canada and lead author of the new study.
“So right now, we know very little about it. And that’s the cool thing, because this has been known by photographers for decades. But for the scientists, it’s completely unknown.”
Credit: Dave Markel Photography.
The new kind of optical phenomenon is called “skyglow”, the authors wrote in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. In the future, the researchers plan to determine whether streams of fast ions and hot electrons in the ionosphere are creating STEVE’s light, or if the light is produced higher up in the atmosphere. In the process, scientists will gain a better understanding of the upper atmosphere and the light-generating processes in the sky.
“This is really interesting because we haven’t figured it out and when you get a new problem, it’s always exciting,” said Joe Borovsky, a space physicist at the Space Science Institute in Los Alamos, New Mexico who was not connected to the new study. “It’s like you think you know everything and it turns out you don’t.”
In the middle of the barren Nevada desert, there's a dusty unmarked road that leads to the front gate of Area 51. It's protected by little more than a chain link fence, a boom gate, and intimidating trespassing signs. One would think that America's much mythicized top secret military base would be under closer guard, but make no mistake. They are watching.
Beyond the gate, cameras see every angle. On the distant hilltop, there's a white pickup truck with a tinted windshield peering down on everything below. Locals says the base knows every desert tortoise and jackrabbit that hops the fence. Others claim there are embedded sensors in the approaching road.
What exactly goes on inside of Area 51 has led to decades of wild speculation. There are, of course, the alien conspiracies that galactic visitors are tucked away somewhere inside. One of the more colorful rumors insists the infamous 1947 Roswell crash was actually a Soviet aircraft piloted by mutated midgets and the wreckage remains on the grounds of Area 51. Some even believe that the U.S. government filmed the 1969 moon landing in one of the base's hangars.
For all the myths and legends, what's true is that Area 51 is real and still very active. There may not be aliens or a moon landing movie set inside those fences, but something is going on and only a select few are privy to what's happening further down that closely-monitored wind-swept Nevada road. "The forbidden aspect of Area 51 is what makes people want to know what's there," says aerospace historian and author Peter Merlin who's been researching Area 51 for more than three decades.
"And there sure is still a lot going on there."
The U-2 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft, in the late 1950s.
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The Origins of a Mystery
The beginning of Area 51 is directly related to the development of the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. After World War II, the Soviet Union lowered the Iron Curtain around themselves and the rest of the Eastern bloc, creating a near intelligence blackout to the rest of the world. When the Soviets backed North Korea's invasion of South Korea in June 1950, it became increasingly clear that the Kremlin would aggressively expand its influence. America worried about the USSR's technology, intentions, and ability to launch a surprise attack—only a decade removed from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
In the early 1950s, U.S. Navy and Air Force sent low-flying aircraft on reconnaissance missions over the USSR, but they were at constant risk of being shot down. In November 1954, President Eisenhower approved the secret development of a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft called the U-2 program. One of the first orders of business was to track down a remote, covert location for training and testing. They found it in the southern Nevada desert near a salt flat known as Groom Lake, which had once been a World War II aerial gunnery range for Army Air Corps pilots.
Known by its map designation as Area 51, this middle-of-nowhere site became a new top-secret military base. To convince workers to come, Kelly Johnson, one of the leading engineers of the U-2 project, gave it a more enticing name: Paradise Ranch.
Many of these sightings were observed by commercial airline pilots who had never seen an aircraft fly at such high altitudes as the U-2. Whereas today's airliners can soar as high as 45,000 feet, in the mid-1950s airlines flew at altitudes between 10,000 and 20,000 feet. Known military aircraft could get to 40,000 feet, and some believed manned flight couldn't go any higher than that. The U-2, flying at altitudes in excess of 60,000 feet, would've looked completely alien.
Kelly Johnson, left, and Francis Gary Powers with U-2 aircraft behind. Powers was eventually shot down in the USSR in 1960.
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Naturally, Air Force officials knew the majority of these unexplained sightings were U-2 tests, but they were not allowed to reveal these details to the public. So, "natural phenomena" or "high-altitude weather research" became go-to explanations for UFO sightings, including in 1960 when Gary Powers' U-2 was shot down over Russia.
What's also interesting about the most recent 2013 report is that it confirms Area 51's existence. While the 1998 version does have significant redactions when referencing the name and location of the U-2 test site, the nearly un-redacted version from 2013 reveals much more, including multiple references to Area 51, Groom Lake, and even a map of the area.
"This Is Earth Technology"
U-2 operations halted in the late 1950s, but other top secret military aircrafts continued tests at Area 51. Over the years, the A-12 and numerous stealth aircrafts like Bird of Prey, F-117A, and TACIT BLUE have all been developed and tested in the Nevada desert. More declassified documents reveal Area 51's role in "Project Have Doughnut,"a 1970s attempt to study covertly obtained Soviet MiGs.
"THIS IS EARTH TECHNOLOGY. YOU GOT FOLKS CLAIMING IT'S EXTRATERRESTRIAL WHEN IT'S REALLY GOOD OLD AMERICAN KNOW-HOW."
"They flew them [over Area 51]..and pitted our own fighters against them to develop tactics," says Merlin, "They learned that you can't out-turn it, but you can outrun it. And it's still going on today.... Now, instead of seeing MiG-17s and 21s, there's MiG-29s and SU-27s."
The flights are ongoing. In September 2017, an Air Force Lt. Col. was killed under mysterious circumstances when his plane crashed in Nevada and the Pentagon would not immediately ID the aircraft. It seems he was most likely flying a foreign jet obtained by the United States.
Even so, the alien conspiracies gained ground in 1989 when Bob Lazar claimed in an interview on Las Vegas local news that he'd seen aliens and had helped to reverse-engineer alien spacecrafts while working at the base. Many have disregarded this as fiction and are even offended at the notion, including Merlin, who has spent years talking with former Area 51 engineers and employees angered by all the fuss about E.T.
"Some are even mad because they worked on these things and built these amazing planes," Merlin says. "This is Earth technology. You got folks claiming it's extraterrestrial when it's really good old American know-how."
Area 51 on July 20, 2016.
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The Truth Is Out There
Today, Area 51 is still very much in use. According to Google Earth, new construction and expansions are continuously happening. On most early mornings, eagle-eyed visitors can spot strange lights in the sky moving up and down. No, it's not a UFO. It's actually the semi-secret contract commuter airline using the call-sign "Janet" that transports workers from Las Vegas's McCarran Airport to the base.
As for what's happening these days in America's most secretive military base, few know for sure. Merlin has some educated guesses, including improved stealth technology, advanced weapons, electronic warfare systems and, in particular, unmanned aerial vehicles. Chris Pocock, noted U-2 historian and author of several books about the matter, told Popular Mechanics he thinks classified aircraft, more exotic forms of radio communication, directed energy weapons, and lasers are currently under development at the base.
While the lore around Area 51 may be nothing more than imaginative fiction, that won't stop people from gawking just beyond those chain link fences. "At the most basic level, anytime you have something secret or forbidden, it's human nature," says Merlin. "You want to find out what it is."
To Area 51's west, there's the Alien Cathouse which is advertised as the only alien-themed brothel in the world. Geocaching also attracts visitors here since the highway is considered a "mega-trial" with over 2,000 geocaches hidden in the area.
Then there's the actual base. While getting inside is not in the cards for most, curious civilians can actually drive up to front and back gates. Locals will direct you, and the website Dreamland Resort is a great resource full of maps, driving directions, and first-hand accounts.
However, one should be careful when planning a trek to Area 51. It's the desert, after all, so bring plenty of water, snacks, and have proper weather gear—for the hot days and the cold nights. Phone service and GPS probably won't work, so have printouts and actual maps. Gas stations are few and far in between, so carry spare fuel and tires.
Also, remember the government doesn't really want you peering into Area 51. Both Merlin and Pocock confirmed that they have been closely observed or even intimidated by guards and security (including an F-16 fly-by). Do not trespass under any circumstances or arrests and heavy fines await you.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET NASA heeft bewijs dat de donkerste, koudste plekken op de maan bedekt zijn met een laagje ijs. Dat werd al langer vermoed, maar is nu ook definitief bevestigd door de bevindingen van NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3).
Wetenschappers geloofden al langer dat er zich ijs bevond op de beide polen van de maan. Bepaalde plekken worden er immers nooit belicht, waardoor ze in permanente duisternis gehuld en de temperatuur er ver onder het vriespunt ligt. Echt sluitend bewijs was er echter nog niet. Tot nu.
Om de aanwezigheid van ijs voor eens en altijd te bevestigen, deden wetenschappers een beroep op data van de M3, een spectrometer die sinds 2008 het maanoppervlak bestudeert. Door onder andere de reflectie van het ijs te analyseren, kon de M3 alle twijfel wegnemen: er werd ijs gevonden op beide polen. Op de zuidpool zou het ijs vooral geconcentreerd zijn in kraters, terwijl het eerder wijdverspreid is op de noordpool.
De ontdekking kan weleens nuttig zijn voor toekomstige maanlandingen. Het ijs aan de oppervlakte is makkelijker te bereiken dan dieper gelegen waterbronnen en kan misschien worden gebruikt bij een volgende missie op de maan, zo meldt NASA in een persbericht.
De hemel lichtte vrijdagochtend op boven de Amerikaanse staat Alabama. Met een snelheid van 86.422 km/u suisde een meteoor van 1,8 meter diameter naar de aarde. De kleine asteroïde werd het eerst gezien op ongeveer 93 kilometer hoogte, en spatte zo’n 29 kilometer boven Oak Grove uit elkaar. Op een bepaald moment was de vuurbal 40 keer helderder dan de maan, meldt de NASA. Verscheidene deur- en andere camera’s legden het natuurfenomeen vast.
If you had “India” in the office pool picking which country’s space probe would be the first to provide definitive evidence of water on the surface of the Moon, get ready to collect your prize and head on down to your favorite curry house to celebrate a discovery that will certainly give a boost to moon expeditions – take that, Elon Musk!
“These ice deposits might be utilized as an in-situ resource in future exploration of the moon.”
A new report published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) revealed that a team of scientists found three distinct signatures of water on the lunar surface using NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument which was delivered there in 2008 by the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. That was India’s first lunar probe, entering lunar orbit on November 8, 2008. It also released the Moon Impact Probe which crashed into the Moon’s south pole and first detected water in the lunar soil below the surface. M3 also detected what could be indications of water on the surface, but scientists at that time could not agree on its validity.
Fortunately, NASA never throws anything away. Ten years later, Shuai Li of the University of Hawaii and Brown University and Richard Elphic from NASA’s Ames Research Center in California took another look at the M3 data. This time they noticed that reflective areas on the surface in the barely lit shadows of craters at the lunar south pole absorbed infrared light in the same way that solid ice does. That was the first proof of ice on the lunar surface. Additional studies of the data from the lunar north pole showed similar surface ice, but in much lower quantities.
This is truly big news for future lunar astronauts who will now be able to obtain water without having to use radar or dowsing instruments to find it underground and then drill for it. Sure, they’ll still have to deal with the -250 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures at the poles where the water is, but what’s a little cold when you’ll soon be making hot lunar water coffee?
Chandrayaan-1 continues to be an interesting little spacecraft. While it was supposed to operate for two years, it mysteriously shut down and went dead after just 10 months. Fortunately, it had completed 95% of its mission. While most scientists figured it would soon leave orbit and crash into the lunar surface, curious NASA scientists extrapolated its orbit and, in 2016, found the little probe still circling the Moon – an exercise that will help locate lost satellites and equipment in the future.
Did you just hear a squishing sound?
While NASA and the Russian and Chinese space programs get all of the publicity, India’s little Chandrayaan-1 has managed to confirm one of the greatest discoveries in human history. What has Elon Musk’s space traveling Tesla done for us lately?
It may seem as if the wastelands of the deserts are completely devoid of life. With their never-ending expanses of bleak scrub and sand dunes this all appears as if it must be a barren realm that might as well be on another planet. Yet not only does life thrum here behind the scenes, eking out a living in these badlands, but there are also quite a few reports of mysterious creatures from here of a surprisingly humanoid nature. Here are some of the strangest.
One of the most bizarre and unsolved cases of a desert humanoid creature of some sort is an enormous beast that has come to be known as the Yucca Man. The tales seem to originate in the 1960s, in the vicinity of the of the Twentynine Palms military base, located in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California and southern Nevada. Here in this remote, desolate location there would be a series events that has remained unexplained for decades, and which hints at some sort of desert-roaming humanoid entity. The first sighting that really put the phenomenon on the map allegedly occurred in 1971, when a Marine from the base whose was on guard duty reported hearing something out in the desert scrub, which sounded like heavy breathing from some very large creature, as well as grunts and growls seemingly circling his guard station. When he warily went out to investigate, expecting to see some wild animal, he claimed to have been confronted with a gigantic, 8-foot-tall hairy ape-like creature with glowing red eyes. In some versions of this account the Marine is knocked down by the beast, only to awaken hours later and find his rifle twisted and bent like a pretzel.
The Mojave Desert
This would be far from the last anyone would here of the strange creature, with frequent reports of dogs going haywire, and of hikers encountering a fetid stench beginning to come in at a steady rate in the following years, and there was a spate of such odd occurrences at Joshua Tree National Park throughout the early 70s, with numerous campers telling of a large beast rummaging through their campsites and even attempting to open their tents, as well as park employees telling of sighting monstrous man-like forms prowling the desert that were estimated as being up to 12 feet tall. There were also massive footprints found and several indistinct, predictably blurry pictures of the creature or creatures taken. Such sighting made their way into several Southern California news publications at the time, and one June, 1973 report from the Antelope Valley Daily Ledger-Gazette described the creature and some reports thus:
The creature likes to run around houses and leaving footprints. That is its MO in the East Lancaster area where footprints were found around several houses recently. One woman reported that the creature ran around her house and scratched at the door. A small boy sent to tell his father supper was ready was found hours later crying near the corral. When asked what happened to him, he answered that a big, furry man would not let him pass.
In that year, 1973, there were many sightings of the creature in the area of Lancaster, in the western Mojave Desert in California, such as a sighting made by three separate Marines and other disparate witnesses as well. It got to the point where in this year there was a near tragedy when two search parties were out Bigfoot hunting in the wake of the mysterious reports and almost opened fire on each other. Sightings continued, and in 1979 there was an account given by an elderly couple, who claimed that the beast stepped right out in front of their car to tower over the vehicle, before lumbering off into the night, leaving enormous tracks behind. In that same year there were two additional sightings from Hemet, California, of a massive 10 foot tall creature that left behind footprints a foot and a half long.
Road through the Mojave Desert
Around this time there was a string of sightings of all sorts of strange phenomena near the Edward’s Air Force Base, about 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster. Here there were numerous reports of base personnel sighting hulking humanoid figures in the dark, which allegedly used a series of underground tunnels to move about. Oddly, there were many purported UFO sightings in the area at the same time, but whether or not this has any connection is unknown. One of the more far-out reports from the base was collected by Bigfoot researcher Edwards Bobbie Ann Slate, and concerned of one of the creatures that apparently had bright blue eyes. The report was given by a base policeman, who said:
Heading back to the main base, I noticed maybe 200-300 yards to my left, these large blue eyes. I do a lot of night hunting and it was strange — they were larger than anything I’d ever seen before. The [blue eyes] had to be about four inches apart and seven feet off the ground. I stopped the truck and sat there watching them. It was too dark to see any body shape to the thing. The blue glows proceeded toward my truck at a right angle for about 100 yards and then stopped. The movement of the eyes was extremely fast. Another thing that bothered me was that they didn’t bob up and down. It was like two lights on a wire moving from one point to another.
This particular creature, nicknamed “Blue Eyes,” has apparently been regularly seen by base police and was widely discussed amongst them right up into the present. Several other personnel at the remote desert base at the time also came forward to anonymously report that large, Bigfoot-like creatures has been routinely spotted through night-vision equipment skirting the perimeter of the base, often with red glowing eyes, walking through it, or even venturing into the many underground tunnels in the area. The witnesses explained that the presence of the creatures was officially classified, and that they had been specifically told not to fire upon them. There had allegedly been several instances of catching the creatures on surveillance cameras at the base, but this footage was labeled as classified and never released to the public.
It is not even necessarily Bigfoot-like creatures that have been seen, as there are reports of indistinct shadow men and even shape-changing entities from the base, as well as what seem to be just disembodies glowing eyes. What is going on here? Also from Southern California are more modern reports of some sort of hair-covered, semi-bipedal creature with glowing red eyes that has ben seen loping or running along at high speeds along the Highway 14, and which has come to be called the “Sierra Highway Devil.”
Another odd, red-eyed humanoid monstrosity from the same area is what has come to be called “The Cement Monster,” named for its appearance at a concrete mine near Big Bear Lake owned by the Mitsubishi Cement Corporation. In 1988 the beast was seen by two U.S. Marines who were on their way home from a skiing trip to the area when they saw the creature looming over an abandoned strip mine in the area. One of the witnesses, a Ken Cross, would tell researcher Douglas E. Trapp thus:
From the left side of the road something very large seemed to stand up on two legs and run across the road. The bottom half looked human, covered with hair. The top half wasn’t very visible, but appeared monsterish, scary in other words. The headlights only got the bottom half, and the damn thing ran out about 150 feet in front of us. It made it across the road in three strides. I distinctively remember seeing the arms pumping back and forth just like any of us would do if sprinting across the road in front of a car. It appeared to be 8 feet tall.
In the sun scorched, burning wilderness of a place called Borrego Sink, 45 mi SE of Borrego Springs, California, there have been reported terrifying encounters between man and mystery beast. The desert may seem to be a strange place to find Bigfoot, but not only have they been reported in this savage wasteland, but they seem to be of a rather aggressive variety, especially the ones that have come to be known as the Borrego Sasquatch. One such incident occurred in 1939, when a man was camping alone in one of the many dry gulches of the area. The man was awoken in the middle of the night by a band of two-legged hairy creatures stalking about his camp on the fringes of the campfire’s light. The beats were described as having white or silver fur and possessed piercing red eyes that glowed in the dark. The pack of creatures circled the camp menacingly for some time but seemed to be somewhat afraid of the fire and kept their distance until they finally slunk off back into the desert.
The Anza-Borrego wastelands
Thirty years later in the same region, a man by the name of Harold Lancaster had his own frightening encounter as he was camping in the Sink. Lancaster described how an enormous, hair covered, bipedal creature stalked out of the wilderness and lumbered straight towards him in an intimidating manner. The man, fearing that he was about to be attacked, fired his revolver into the air in an effort to scare the monster away. Whatever the creature was, the gunshots did the trick and the thing reportedly jumped around 3 feet into the air before glaring at Lancaster and running off into the brush.
Borrego Sink is not the only place in the desert with its share of ominous man-beasts. In a place called Deadman’s Hole, located 7 miles from Warner Springs on Hwy 79, a string of vicious, unsolved murders occurred back in the 19th century that have long been blamed on a malicious, marauding Sasquatch. In 1858 the first victim was killed under mysterious circumstances, followed by more slayings over the years; a Frenchman who was slaughtered in his cabin, a prospector named David Blair who was killed by what looked like a knife attack, and a woman named Belinda who was strangled and mutilated. The story may have just been chalked up to an insane killer on the rampage had it not been for a curious story that surfaced in 1888. Two hunters were out hunting in an area known as Dark Canyon when they came across a cave full of the scattered remains of various mutilated animals.
As they investigated the cave, the hunters reported being attacked by a huge, man-like beast covered in matted black hair and with huge hands and feet. According to the hunters, they opened fire on the beast and killed it, after which its body was apparently moved to San Diego and shown to police. At the time, a paper called the San Diego Union ran the story and claimed that the rampaging mystery creature had been the one responsible for the murders, causing quite a public stir in the process. Oddly, the paper ran a story the following day dismissing the article as a mere April Fool’s joke. It is unknown if there was ever really a body or if the creature really existed, but what is known is that the mysterious murders remain unsolved.
Another strange case involving some sort of humanoid creature comes from the deserts of the Mexican State of Chihuahua. At the end of 1989 and the beginning of 1990, a group of teenagers were on a mission to explore the caves of a place called Cerro Pajarito when they came across something that would haunt them for the rest of their lives. As the group was exploring one of the caves, they came upon the discovery of a dead deer and a doe that were freshly killed and exhibited three odd perforations on their necks that formed a triangular pattern. In the surrounding area, there were footprints that looked like those of a puma, but it soon became apparent that no puma had done this.
The group suddenly heard blood curdling squealing sounds and the air became pervaded by a stench described as smelling like burning wood. The terrified group of teenagers looked and saw a hunched over, humanoid figure crouched upon a rock outcropping about 15 meters away from them. The creature apparently started bounding towards them and one of the groups emptied his pistol at it, although the bullets seemed to have no effect. As the panicked group turned tail and ran for dear life, they reported passing yet another humanoid creature that was described as being metallic green in color and standing only 80 cm high. What could this have possibly been? Who knows?
The desert is indeed a very isolated domain of intense natural beauty and solitude. Anyone who has been there can attest to that. There is just something about these places that holds to it a certain mystique and allure that it is hard to pinpoint, and there are vast mysteries lurking here. What are these humanoid entities that we have looked at here, and how or why do they manage to remain in this forbidding landscape? Are these caryatids, some sort of desert Sasquatch? Are they ghosts, demons, interdimensional travelers, or something else? No one knows, and they serve to add to the allure of these oft-forgotten and avoided places.
If you’re still waiting for a glass of sarcophagus sewer waterfrom the big black mysterious marble coffin opened in Alexandria, Egypt, recently, keep holding your breath (a smart thing to do around that vile liquid anyway). On the other hand, if you were hoping for confirmation of your theory that the soaked skeletons swimming in said sarcophagus sewage were not soldiers but something else, you were right about at least one of them. And fear not, water waiters — no one has poured the sewer water back into the sewer … yet.
When the mysterious stone sarcophagus was opened recently, three skeletons were found, along with the water indicating that this coffin had been unsealed before. According to an announcement by Dr. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary- General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, all of the contents were turned over to Dr. Zeinab Hasheesh, Director of the Department of the Skeleton Remains Studies at the Ministry of Antiquities. The analysis of the skeletons was performed by Dr. Nadia Kheider, Head of the Central Department of Antiquities of Lower Egypt (Those Egyptians are serious about their antiquities!)
According to Dr. Kheider, pelvic size showed that one skeleton belonged to a woman between the age of 20 to 25 years old, with a height around 160 to 164 cm (around 5 foot 4 inches). The second one belonged to a man between the age of 35 to 39 years old, with a height ranging between 160 to 165.5 cm while the third skeleton was a man between the age of 40 and 44 years old and its height was between 179 to 184.5 cm (almost 6 foot). It’s doubtful that the woman was a soldier, so the original theory that the three skeletons were in the military is now questionable.
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Anther interesting find by the researchers was a hole in one skull that the owner appeared to have lived with for a while, indicating it was probably the result of trepanation surgery, where a hole is bored or chipped to relieve pressure, drain fluid or just poke around. While trepanation was common elsewhere, it was not in Egypt. Even more interesting was the presence of gold flakes or sheets inside the bones. There was no speculation in the report how this happened. Finally, the remains were found stacked on top of each other, indicating the sarcophagus had been opened multiple times.
One poor unnamed researcher was tasked with studying the infamous sewage water which over 20,000 people had petitioned to drink. They may change their minds when they find out it was a mix of water, decomposed human remains and decomposed burial wrappings. Just to be sure (or perhaps as punishment for some work infraction), the researcher will be conducting further tests on the sewage water. DNA tests will also be done on the bones to determine if they were related.
An example of trepanation
Who were the people in the mysterious black sarcophagus? What was wrong with the person who had their skull drilled? Why was there gold in the bones? Why was such a large sarcophagus in an elaborate tomb used so many different times? The research will continue.
It’s a good thing Egypt has so many antiquities experts.
What if you were a prisoner in your own world and daily life? Imagine if, despite the seeming appearance of a normal, modern lifestyle around you, you were actually being held captive by certain powers that be; an inmate within invisible walls possessing no iron bars or chains, but which relied instead on surveillance and sentries to corral and confine its detainees?
Imagine now that you no longer wished to remain here. As you seek ways to escape, what if the powers in control effectively worked stifle your every attempt… perhaps even presenting a ruse when necessary to help you think you were closer to freedom than you actually were?
In such a circumstance, one might surmise that the careful control of people’s actions—perhaps through things like punishment, or even deadly force—could serve as a far stronger form of imprisonment than an actual fortified location with thick walls and barred windows.
It’s an interesting thought experiment: the idea that imprisonment can take many forms, or even that imprisonment could occur with or without one even knowing it. Here, of course, the question arises as to whether we today, living in a free society as we do, are nonetheless effectively “prisoners” in some fashion or another.
This was the premise of what is arguably among the most well-regarded science fiction series of classic television, The Prisoner, harkening back to the late-1960s era where, thanks largely to Ian Fleming’s immortal character, spy dramas were very much en vogue.
The Prisoner starred Patrick McGoohan in the role of a stoic and at times tempestuous former secret agent who, upon angrily quitting his job, finds himself a captive within a small coastal community somewhere in Europe. In this new place, known colloquially as “The Village,” each person is known by a number rather than by a name; here, the lyrics of the 1948 American country music song by Jimmy Skinner, “Doin’ My Time,” come to mind, where Skinner sang, “Lord, they call me by a number, not a name.”
Beginning in September 1967, this most unusual program appeared on televisions in Britain and Canada, combining elements of a James Bond-like spy thriller with science fiction by employing advanced surveillance technologies and balloon-like robotic sentries which helped enforce authority in the “Village.” Over the course of 17 episodes, the program saw McGoohan’s character—known to other Villagers as “Number Six”—engaged in repeated and increasingly elaborate attempts to escape from his strange prison with no walls. His primary antagonists are a variety of characters who take the role of “Number Two” over time, engaging in efforts to psychologically “break” Number Six with the intended goal of finding out why he resigned.
Patrick McGoohan in his role as “Number Six” on The Prisoner (fair use).
Number Six, in essence, represents the Individualist; he is a free-thinker that has been thrust into a collectivist world, where good behavior and complacency is rewarded. Add to that the obviously Orwellian elements of surveillance and control, and what we now find in The Prisoner is a sharp cultural commentary that is designed to make us think as much as it was intended to entertain.
Plenty of commentaries have been offered about the series and its influence, perhaps most notably in books like Chris Gregory’s Be Seeing You…: Decoding The Prisoner (University of Luton Press, 1997). Gregory analyzes the series on almost every level conceivable, from the mythological to the political and sociological, arguing fundamentally that like Orwell’s 1984, the inevitable encroachments of civil liberties that occur as government grows has, over time, made The Prisoner all the more relevant, and hence its lasting appeal.
As human beings, we think of things in terms of matters relevant to us, and which are of existential importance to our wellbeing. However, if we were to expand on the themes incorporated in The Prisoner and carry them further into the realm of science fiction, we might entertain the notion that living on planet Earth is, in its own way a sort of benign “imprisonment.” What if, for instance, we were to eventually learn that alien beings existed that were well aware of humankind’s aspirations to colonize planets like Mars, and explore distant worlds not only with remote probes… but eventually in person as well?
The idea that there could be cosmic forces at work which make it difficult for us to get off-planet may not be entirely science fiction, nor does it have to include alien oppressors in order to make sense. Last year, a video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell on YouTube called, “Why Earth Is A Prison and How To Escape It” makes some fascinating arguments for why humans are, essentially, imprisoned here.
It’s because we owe the universe a debt… a 4.5 billion-year-old debt:
As the video explains, every atom in our being as individuals was once a part of some greater event in the formation of the cosmos. Planetary formation is no small task, and for humans to ever be able to leave this world, the energetic requirements for doing so are essentially the same as that which formed the Earth. Hence, we build machines which have energetic potential that is great enough, at very least, to overcome gravity (rockets, in other words), which aid us in escaping our world and exploring space.
In The Prisoner, Number Six commits a great deal of energy (although perhaps not quite as much as a rocket produces) in an effort to escape his confinement at a coastal resort. It’s not a bad place to live, altogether, and while his captors are bent on interrogating him by various means in order to learn why he resigned from his previous work in espionage in the first place, his complacency is encouraged along the way, which would ensure that he would live well in The Village, so long as he cooperates.
The idea that humanity is similarly “imprisoned” here on Earth by cosmic forces like gravity is an interesting one, in the sense that we share a potential for having a good life here, which may not necessarily require getting off-world in order to ensure humanity’s survival. To the contrary, the late Stephen Hawking and others have argued that, in fact, space exploration might actually become requisite for human survival at some point, even if that’s not the case in the immediate sense. They argue this because of the finite nature of resources on a planet where, as science improves the quality of life for many, as well as the length of time humans spend here, there is an ever-increasing necessity for greater resources; at some point, population growth and lifespan could meet well exceed production levels, and beyond this “point of diminishing returns” one might speculate that inevitable problems would arise. Whether this would constitute war, famine, or other perils resulting from scarcity is anyone’s guess, although it’s beyond the scope of the present argument.
On the other hand, some might see the above views as being alarmist to an extent, and while there are obvious untapped resources that outer space might afford us, this doesn’t necessarily mean that we are running completely out of resources here on Earth. In fact, pushes toward the implementation of renewable energy sources on Earth, and more resourceful ways of managing commodities (in addition to finding new, as-yet-untapped sources for them altogether) might prove very beneficial for future humans. Getting along with the other villagers and staying where we are, in other words, might actually require less energy than the trouble we can expect to meet while trying to escape.
Of course, the amount of energy it took for our ancestors to push outward from habitable regions in the ancient past, which led to the exploration and eventual settlement of distant lands also required tremendous energy and hardship. Maybe the acceptance of a stable environment (barring instances where natural disasters or other hardships might have forced ancient humans toward migrations) simply isn’t as appealing as the quest for adventure, and the fulfillment of indulging our curiosities.
It seems likely, then, that humans will follow in the footsteps of our ancestors, and eventually escape our earthly “prison.” And much like Number Six with his repeated failed attempts to liberate himself from The Village, we’ll probably do so at whatever cost is necessary, despite the hardships or the amount of energy required.
And we do this because to face such hardships is the greatest expression of our freedom: our ability to act in accordance with our own will, and to proclaim loudly that we are not merely things or simple bundles of cosmic stardust, helplessly watching our fate play out before us. Or, to put it as McGoohan’s character famously retorted to his captors, I am not a number… I am a free man!
We are humans, after all, and going great lengths to achieve the seemingly impossible appears to be in our nature.
When we think of UFOs, we can’t help but think of America: birthplace of the “flying saucer,” home to Roswell, Area 51, and, of course, Hollywood, which is responsible for some of the most iconic UFO-related imagery in the history of cinema. However, anyone who’s ever opened a book on the UFO topic will know that the phenomenon is not restricted to the United States of America, nor can America stake a geographic claim on all of history’s most dramatic UFO events. The UFO phenomenon is truly global in scope. With this in mind, over the next several weeks, I’ll be conducting interviews with leading UFO researchers from countries all around the world in an effort to paint a clearer picture of global UFOlogy today.
Chris Rutkowski and friends.
Our global UFO trek starts in Canada with Chris Rutkowski, a Canadian science writer and educator with degrees in astronomy and education. Since the mid-1970s, Rutkowski has been studying reports of UFOs and writing about his investigations and research. He has eight published books on UFOs and related issues, including Unnatural History (1993), Abductions and Aliens (1999), A World of UFOs (2008), I Saw It Too! (2009) and The Big Book of UFOs (2010). He has appeared on numerous radio programs, podcasts and documentary TV series, including Unsolved Mysteries, UFO Hunters, Sightings, Eye2thesky, The Paracast, Discovery’s Close Encounters and A&E’s The Unexplained. He is past president of both the Winnipeg Science Fiction Society and the Winnipeg Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
RG: Who have been the defining figures in Canadian UFOlogy over the past 70 years (for better or for worse), and why?
CR: There are a lot to choose from. In an entry on Canadian ufology for Jerome Clark’s UFO Encyclopedia, Volume 1, published in 1990, I noted such people as Wilbert B. Smith and Omand Solandt, who were diametrically opposed individuals associated with Canada’s version of Project Blue Book, namely Project Magnet and Project Second Storey. Paul Bissky was a lead in the Canadian military UFO investigation team in the 1960s. Peter Millman and Ian Halliday were astronomers with the National Research Council who handled UFO reports, usually by debunking them.
In a section of my entry on Canadian ufologists, I noted: Stanton Friedman, John Magor, John Brent Musgrave, Douglas Curran, Grant Cameron, Larry Fenwick, Harry Tokarz, and Ed Barker.
Influential Canadian UFO researchers, Wilbert B. Smith and Stanton T. Friedman.
Historically, there were other notable individuals such as (the great and highly influential) Errol Bruce-Knapp, Jim Moroney, Michael Strainic, Brian Vike, Fern Belzil, and Pat de la Franier. In Quebec, Claude Macduff, Henry McKay, and Francois Bourbeau had been active.
I would today note both John Robert Columbo and David A. Gotlib in Toronto, as well as Gene Duplantier and Bonnie Wheeler. Also, Christian Page, Yann Vadnais, Donald Cyr, Jean Casault, Gilles Milot, and Michelle McKay. And we can’t forget Claude Vorhilon “Rael!” Further east, I would have to note Don Ledger, Noah Morritt, and Chris Styles.
Others who have made significant impacts would be Palmiro Campagna, Michael Persinger (who just passed away), Yurko Bondarchuk, Sue Demeter-St. Clair, Gord Kijek, Martin Jasek, Michel Deschamps, Charles Lamoureaux, Don Dondieri, Paul Kingsbury, Geoff Dittman, Roy Bauer, MJ Banias, and Paul Kimball. (I hope I didn’t leave anyone truly significant out of this list.)
RG: What do you consider to be the most compelling Canadian UFO incident on record, and why?
CR: Ah, that’s a good question. The word “compelling” is not one I’d use for most UFO cases. One could argue that the Falcon Lake case of 1967 is the most compelling, because it has elements of everything that a good UFO case should have: detailed witness testimony; physical effects on the environment, including radiation; physiological effects on the witness; a site that has been located and is accessible today; voluminous documentation by government and military investigators; a physical artefact that has been tested by several independent laboratories; recognition by a government that the incident is of historical value; literally hundreds of pages of official documents from two different countries that have been located, retrieved, and made available by researchers, attesting to the incident actually occurring and having been taken seriously by various agencies; queries about the incident in a parliamentary assembly made fully public; plus official statements by police and military investigators that the incident cannot be satisfactorily explained.
Artistic rendering of the Falcon Lake UFO, based on the witness’ original sketch.
Name one other case like that anywhere in the world. Sure, it’s a single-witness case, but it has a lot of probative evidence. Having said that, I’m sure investigators of the Shag Harbour case would say that was the most compelling, and Palmiro Campagna suggests the most compelling is actually Falconbridge. (NB: “Charlie Red Star” and the Carman, Manitoba, flap of 1975-76, currently proclaimed by some as “One of North America’s Biggest UFO Sightings,” isn’t really in the same ballpark.)
RG: What is the Canadian government’s official stance on UFOs? When was the last time it issued a statement on the subject?
CR: Like most large democratic countries and governments, Canada remains officially disinterested in UFOs. This has not changed significantly over the years. An official memo of the Department of National Defence in 1961 stated:
“The Canadian Government is concerned with any report which might affect national security and, undoubtedly, this would be the attitude of the United States Government also. However, to date, UFO reports which have been investigated by various departments of the Canadian Government have not revealed positive evidence of anything which might affect national welfare and which could not be attributed to possibly natural phenomena or mistaken identity.”
In the late 1960s, responsibility for UFO reports was transferred to the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). In 1976, a spokesman for the NRC stated: “Our responsibility was that the NRC would take over the maintenance of a file of UFO reports and conduct any investigations determined by the scientific merit they appeared to have. There was no commitment to do anything specific.”
RG: Does the Canadian Department of National Defence have an official UFO investigations unit?
CR: Short answer: yes. Long answer: sort of. At one time (in the 1960s), there were a few individuals within the Canadian military who seemed to be involved in many UFO investigations. One in particular was Squadron Leader Paul Bissky, whose name appears in a number of case files, including one that suggests he was part of an investigation “team,” greatly predating the X-Files. But into the 1970s, the attitude seemed to have changed, and the Canadian posture mirrored that of the USA. As noted above, the NRC investigated UFO reports, but only because astronomers within the NRC were interested in meteorites, and they looked at UFO reports as largely being due to misidentifications of meteors. The NRC managed to get the RCMP to agree to investigate UFO reports for them with this in mind. When the NRC stopped being interested in meteoritics in the mid-1990s, the “Non-Meteoric Sightings File” was closed, and the RCMP was no longer obligated to investigate and send in reports.
However, UFO reports are still collected by the Department of Defence. Evidence of this is a current policy on “MERINT” reports as defined by the Canadian Coast Guard in its annual directive to mariners. The policy states:
“In order to extend the early warning coverage for the defence of the North American continent a plan is now in existence for the reporting of vital intelligence sightings during peacetime… All Canadian vessels should originate MERINT reports as and when applicable… MERINT reports should be made under the following circumstances… (a) Immediately upon a vital intelligence sighting, except when the vessel is within territorial waters of a country other than Canada, the U.S.A. or Greenland.”
It is important to note that MERINT instructions apply to all ships, both civilian and military. And what kinds of things need to be reported? The Coast Guard is very explicit that “All airborne and waterborne objects which appear to be hostile, suspicious or unidentified should be reported,” including:
“(i) Guided missiles. (ii) Unidentified flying objects. (iii) Submarines. (iv) Surface warship positively identified as not Canadian or U.S. (v)Aircraft or contrails (vapour trails made by high flying aircraft) which appear to be directed against Canada, the U.S., their territories or possessions.”
RG: Has the Canadian government shown more or less transparency on the UFO subject than the US government?
CR: Canada is much more transparent than USA in this regard. Despite the much-ballyhooed demands for “Disclosure” by UFO zealots, official documents about UFOs in Canada have always been available in the National Archives, regularly added to every year. And this isn’t “gradual” or “soft” disclosure; it’s simply standard procedure for yearly reviews of documents as they come up for release. Several Canadian ufologists have been filing AI (the Canadian version of FOIA) requests regularly for decades, receiving documents as part of their research.
Chris Rutkowski in his office.
RG: Does Canada have a national UFO investigations organisation today, and how many smaller Canadian UFO groups are you aware of?
CR: Nothing national, but there is a Canadian chapter of MUFON which has representatives in several provinces. As for smaller groups, a few provinces have them: UFOBC, Ufology Research, PSICAN, AQU, GARPAN, and perhaps a few others. There were dozens in the 1970s and 1980s. (I could claim that Ufology Research is national, in the sense that we compile the annual national Canadian UFO Survey with data obtained from all groups and organizations across the country.)
RG: What are the most active regions of Canada for UFO sighting reports?
CR: The Canadian UFO Survey has shown that the number of UFO reports is related to population, so that the most UFO reports originate from the largest population centres. Having said that, in 2017, Quebec had about half the total number of UFO reports in the country. Not completely sure why. There are a few places where UFO reports seem slightly high, despite demographics: Surrey, BC; St. Catharines, Ontario; and perhaps even Laval, Quebec.
RG: Have you personally had any UFO sightings?
CR: No, although in 1977, I saw a distant moving red light in the sky and reported it to the NRC. I found my own report on file in the National Archives! (And no, it was never investigated by them. I suspect it was an aircraft.)
RG: How long have you been involved in the UFO subject; roughly how many cases have you personally investigated; and what conclusions, if any, have you drawn about the underlying nature of UFO phenomena?
CR: I started investigating UFO sightings in 1974. I can’t count the number of cases I have investigated since then. Hundreds? Thousands? Even 50 per year for 40 years or so works out to more than 2,000.
I first had an article published about UFOs in 1976. My first book was published in 1989. My conclusions? In 1991, I stated:
“As with the 1989 Survey of Canadian UFO Reports, the 1990 Survey does not offer any positive proof of the physical reality of UFOs. However, it does show that some phenomenon which is called a UFO is continually being observed by witnesses. The typical UFO sighting is that of two people observing a moving, distant white or red light for a period of over 15 minutes. In most cases, the UFO is likely to be eventually identified as a conventional object such as an astronomical object. However, in a small percentage of cases, some UFOs do not appear to have an easy explanation and they may be given the label of ‘unknown’.”
“Statistical studies of UFO report data have often been subject to criticism from both hardcore UFO believers and debunkers. The former insist the small number of high quality unexplained cases does not reflect the true abundance of alien craft in our skies, while the latter note that UFO data is not at all convincing that a real phenomenon exists… The reality is that UFO reports are the foundation of ufology and are the basis for belief in extraterrestrial visitation by ETH adherents. But in short, UFO report data does not prove that aliens are visiting Earth. In fact, if anything, the UFO report data show that most often, the average witness is misidentifying conventional objects or ordinary phenomena… It should be emphasized the classification of Unknown does not imply alien visitation. Each case may still have an explanation following further investigation. And of those that remain unexplained, some may remain unexplained, but still are not incontrovertible proof of extraterrestrial intervention or some mysterious natural phenomenon. In short, witnesses are seeing real things, and the challenge remains to identify the conventional astronomical objects, aircraft, and other terrestrial objects in order to winnow out the truly unexplained UFOs, if any.”
RG: How can Canadian UFOlogy better itself?
CR: More beer. No, wait. Through better cooperation between organizations and individuals. It’s still a challenge every year to compile data on all Canadian UFO sightings when some groups and ufologists are parochial in their approach and don’t freely share information. It’s the same in the USA and other countries, of course. There’s also no agreed-upon standard when it comes to recording and presenting UFO data.
But the good news is that Canadian ufology is ahead of other countries in that we do have access to official UFO reports as well as civilian cases, and that the Canadian UFO Survey remains a good and useful tool for understanding some basic information about UFOs.
Long UFO Sighted Over Florida August 18, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Long UFO Sighted Over Florida August 18, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 18, 2018
Location of sighting: Florida, USA
This long black UFO was seen this week in Florida. The UFO blends in and out of the overcast cloudy sky. The darkness along the edges of the UFO give it away. The UFO shows up at 38 seconds into the video. The shape of this UFO is unlike anything I have seen before. I don't think the pilots of the craft knew it was visible, but perhaps the static electricity in the air or some other phenomenon caused to to be visible for a little while. Notice that the lighter parts of the UFO appear invisible at times in the video. Amazing footage of a real UFO.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Raw unedited footage of Cigar Shape UFO over Florida 8.18.18, or Arial Banner (you decide) captured on a Galaxy Note 8 at 12:20 pm EST. I uploaded this directly from my phone onto YouTube without putting it through an editing program first to adjust the screen perspective. I am going to do this now, but it may reduce the resolution in the process – we shall see! Peace.
LE PENTAGONE A ÉTUDIÉ LA "TECHNOLOGIE DES OVNIS EXOTIQUES". CONFIRMATION DANS UNE LETTRE D'UN SÉNATEUR ET DU SOUS-SECRÉTAIRE AMÉRICAIN À LA DÉFENSE.
Le programme secret du Pentagone sur les OVNIS a mené une série d'enquêtes sur les "technologies futuristes exotiques", révèle une lettre d'un sénateur et du secrétaire adjoint à la défense des Etats-Unis.
Les documents relatifs aux enquêtes du Programme d’identification aérospatiale avancée (AATIP) confirment que les États-Unis ont étudié en secret des technologies leur permettant d’exercer un plus grand contrôle militaire sur d’autres pays au cours des prochaines décennies. Ce programme, principalement consacré à l'exploration des anomalies des phénomènes aériens, a été dévoilé à la fin de l'année dernière, lorsqu'une vidéo a été publiée sur la rencontre rapprochée entre un chasseur FA-18 Super Hornet et un ovni de forme ovale. Ils voyageaient à grande vitesse.
Maintenant, un échange de fonds entre le sénateur Harry Mason Reid et William Lynn III, sous-secrétaire à la Défense, a révélé les détails juteux sur l'intérêt du Pentagone pour l'étude des objets volants non identifiés et des progrès de la technologie aérospatiale. Et bien que la correspondance ne mentionne pas spécifiquement les OVNIS, cela semble confirmer que le sénateur a ordonné l’évaluation du degré de "menaces étrangères" de l’espace.
De plus, nous parlons de concepts extrêmement sophistiqués tels que la mécanique quantique, la science nucléaire, l'électromagnétisme, l'antigravité et la thermodynamique. "Ces technologies ont le potentiel d'être utilisées par nos adversaires avec des effets catastrophiques", prévient le sénateur Reid dans la lettre, qui a été obtenue de Las Vegas.
En fait, les progrès réalisés grâce aux technologies étudiées dans le programme AATIP sont si « sensibles » que le sénateur suggère un contrôle plus rigoureux de la part du ministère de la Défense et établisse les références « niveau SAP » (programmes d'accès spéciaux) qu'il s'agit d'informations classées au-dessus du TOP SECRET (Ultra Top Secret). La lettre indique également que "l'identification de différents résultats aérospatiaux non conventionnels a beaucoup progressé". "Enfin, les résultats de l'AATIP ne profiteront pas seulement au gouvernement américain, mais également au ministère de la Défense d'une manière qui ne soit pas imaginée", écrit le sénateur. "Les connaissances et les compétences technologiques que nous avons obtenues donneront à notre pays un avantage sur toute menace étrangère et nous permettront de maintenir notre suprématie en tant que leader mondial".
Bien sûr, les menaces et les développements spatiaux d'autres pays, tels que la Russie et la Chine, constituent probablement des menaces. Cependant, il semble y avoir une allusion claire que l'étude de l'AIPIP sur les ovnis a aidé à améliorer la technologie aérospatiale américaine ... peut-être avec l'ingénierie inverse, c'est-à-dire la rétro-ingénierie ? Ce dernier peut être déduit des déclarations faites l’année dernière par l’ancien directeur de l’AIPIP, Luis Elizondo, après que le secret ait été révoqué sur l’existence de ce programme du Pentagone, a déclaré M. Elizondo. Nous ne sommes pas seuls »et a laissé entendre que le gouvernement avait accès à des « métamatériaux » obtenus à partir de vaisseaux spatiaux extraterrestres récupérés et stockés dans des structures spécialement modifiées situées quelque part dans le désert de Las Vegas.
Nick Pope, ancien chercheur sur les OVNIS au ministère britannique de la Défense, estime que cette lettre "est une bombe" et "révèle plus que ce que nous pensions savoir sur le programme AATIP". "Ces révélations choquantes montrent à quel point le problème des OVNIS est grave pour le gouvernement américain, au-delà de ce qu’ils croient être la véritable nature du phénomène. La lettre exprime les véritables raisons pour lesquelles le Pentagone étudie le sujet - la technologie des ovnis - et la dichotomie entre la considérer comme une menace et une opportunité ", conclut avec ces mots Nick Pope dans une interview avec le tabloïd britannique The Metro. Le programme AATIP a été achevé en 2012, même si les journalistes du New York Times qui l'ont exposé au public croient qu'il fonctionne toujours à un certain niveau.
You must be one with the rock. - Spock to Kirk in Star Trek V.
As with any good science fiction, part of our fascination with Star Trek comes from the combination of real science and fantastic possibilities. When you think of science in the show, disciplines like spaceship engineering, astronomy, physics and biology probably spring to mind first. However, the show actually features a lot of geology.
Captain Kirk fights a Gorn - you can see Vasquez Rocks in the background. (CBS via Getty Images)
In TOS, geology can often be observed simply in the background of an alien planet, like in the episode "Arena", filmed at the famous, stratified Vasquez Rocks in California. Sometimes rocks and geological formations are only mentioned, for example when the sensors of the starship Enterprise scan the surface of a strange, new world. Other times, however, crystals and minerals are essential plot devices.
In many episodes, the crew of the Enterprise visits mining colonies or is on a mission to search for valuable minerals and crystals. There exists even a geological tricorder for prospecting resources, designed for analyzing rock samples and comparing them to the records memorized in the mineralogical database of the federation. By convention, the names of terrestrial minerals (a crystalline combination of one or various elements) end with the suffix "-ite", the denominations of elements with the suffix "- ium", "-um", "-on", "-gen" or "-ine". Unfortunately it seems that this nomenclature is not always applied with the necessary scientific accuracy in the 23th century. But to be fair, many of the minerals are unknown to the present day. And that's accurate, as there are indeed elements found only in stars and outer space, like Technetium, that don't form naturally on Earth.
Could such non-terrestrial elements form also extraterrestrial minerals? We have found some very promising samples just in the last years. In meteorites, rock samples from the moon and chemical analysis done by space probes on the other planets of our solar-system, we have found almost 300 different minerals, composed of already known elements. However, because many of those minerals were formed under conditions that don't exist on Earth, such as low gravity, or the complete absence of liquid water, many are indeed unknown in the Earth's environments.
More than 125 minerals are mentioned in the Star Trek universe. Of these, however, only 23 are actual terrestrial minerals and only one mineral, the silicate olivine, has been found in extraterrestrial rocks. Curiously quartz, one of the most common minerals on Earth, is almost never mentioned. Perhaps because quartz is often used as a prop stand-in for dilithium crystals.
Quartz crystals from the Alps
(planet Earth)
In the Star Trek universe "dilithium" is not only a rare and valued gemstone, known also as radan, but its chief use is in the show's matter-antimatter reactors, standard equipment on board of every Federation spaceship. As its (supposedly) cubic crystal structure can somehow transform energy (a physical property mentioned in the episode “Pen Pals” of Star Trek: The Next Generation) and control the flow of antimatter (mentioned in the TOS episode “Elaan of Troyius") This sci-fi property of the crystalline dilithium may be not so far-fetched: some real crystals, such as Iceland spar, can filter or distort certain wavelengths of light (a form of energy)
Futuristic minerals and metals play also an important role in other Star Trek technology, such as "transparent aluminum," which is used for the construction of spaceships and a beryllium-titanium alloy is used in the highly advanced androids encountered in the TOS episode "I, Mudd".
But even very simple minerals play an important role in some Star Trek episodes. Halite, better known as common table salt, plays an important role in "The Man Trap," the first episode of Star Trek ever broadcast. In this episode a remote outpost is infiltrated by a mysterious shape-shifting creature that requires salt to survive, by any means necessary. The originally unaired Star Trek pilot "The Cage," also featured a geologist.
Sulfur, saltpeter and carbon, in two crystalline modifications, as coal and as diamond, saved Captain Kirk´s life in the already mentioned episode "Arena". Kirk, transported to a desolate planetoid, is forced into a battle against the reptile-like Gorn, which is protected by an almost indestructible armored skin. Using the sulfur, saltpeter and coal to make gunpowder and pointy diamond-crystals (here the writers made quite a mineralogical blooper, as such a crystal-shape is not to be found in real diamonds) as high-impact projectiles, he finally puts down his adversary.
Sometimes, though minerals are shown to be deadly. During negotiations for the rare, but important (and also non-existing) mineral topaline, a red-shirt is killed in the episode “Friday's Child” on the surface of Capella IV just 32 seconds after beaming down.
The everyday tools of geologists today, hand lens and geological hammer, are of no real use in the 23rd or 24th centuries. In the episode "Obsession," Spock analyzes on the surface of planet Argus X a rock composed of the mineral "tritanium" with his geological tricorder. Tritanium is said to be 21.4 times harder than diamond (despite Kirk's comment in "Arena" that diamonds are the hardest substance known in the Star Trek universe). That makes it quite useful for the construction of starships. The rock itself was shown to sampled by phasering off a piece, as it was too hard to be cut with common tools.
But even the most sophisticated technology can´t replace geological intuition. That may not be logical, but is often true. In the episode "The Apple" Spock immediately notes the lush vegetation of the planet Gamma Trianguli VI. From that, he correctly deduces that soil-nutrients (and therefore geology) plays a role in supporting this peculiar paradise-like world. With his sharp geological eye Spock identifies also hornblende and quartz in a collected rock (according to this petrological composition maybe an igneous rock?) that is easily erodible (even explosive!) and so may be the source of all the sediments and soils.
Kirk and Spock encounter the silicon-based Horta.
(Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Perhaps the most fascinating use of geology in the Star Trek universe is the discovery of life, but not as we know it.
"Life, as we know it, is universally based on some combination of carbon compounds," remarked Mister Spock at the beginning of the episode "The Devil in the Dark." However when the crew of the Enterprise is contacted by the miners on Janus VI, who are supposedly under attack by an unstoppable "monster" that can't be tracked by the ship's sensors. By the end of the episode, Spock soon changes his mind - "But what if life exists, based on another element. For instance, silicon."
This may not be far-fetched. In 1891, German astrophysicist Julius Schreiner speculated that silicon could replace carbon in molecules supporting the complex chemical reactions needed for the metabolism of any life-form. Three years later, H.G. Wells wrote in a popular science article:
One is startled towards fantastic imaginings by such a suggestion: visions of silicon-aluminium organisms – why not silicon-aluminium men at once? – wandering through an atmosphere of gaseous sulphur, let us say, by the shores of a sea of liquid iron some thousand degrees or so above the temperature of a blast furnace.
In 1934, chemist and author Stanley Weinbaum published his short story titled "A Martian Odyssey," where he introduced the first silicon-based life forms in popular culture. The story actually went into some detail about its metabolism:
Those bricks were its waste matter… We’re carbon, and our waste is carbon dioxide, and this thing is silicon, and its waste is silicon dioxide-silica. But silica is a solid, hence the bricks. And it builds itself in, and when it is covered, it moves over to a fresh place to start over.
Silicon can indeed form polymers and complex compounds together with metals or elements like boron, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur. Such molecules can also work in liquid nitrogen, methane, ammonium, various alcohols and even acids.
However, using silicon as replacement element for carbon has some disadvantages. Complex silicon compounds are unstable and ineffective under terrestrial surface conditions. McCoy notes this in the episode, stating that silicon life would not survive in the artificial, human environment created on Janus VI. The episode later reveals that the alien life-form, named "Horta", comes from within the planet, where suitable conditions for silicon-based life might exist. Such an environment would likely need to be a dry, cold and oxygen-free environment, because free oxygen would react with the silicon to form silicates. That would in turn destroy the complex and fragile silicon-molecules a life-form would need to support itself.
Human-required conditions would also reduce the metabolism and reproduction rate of this hypothetical organism. In the episode, the Horta is the last of it´s kind, guarding thousands of eggs, which appeared to the crew and miners as inanimate silicon-concretions. It was the destruction of those eggs that led the Horta to attack the miners, and once its nature was understood, Kirk and Spock were able to negotiate peace between the Horta and the miners.
Could such life really exist? We don't know. One of the great achievements of Star Trek has been to pose both intriguing ethical and scientific questions. Hopefully, some of those questions will be answered by the coming generations.
I find that fascinating!
Interested in reading more? Try:
PICKOVER, C.A.(1999): The Science Of Aliens. Basic Books: 240
SHOSTAK, B. (2012): Life in the Universe. Addison-Wesley Publisher: 544
SCHULZ-MAKUCH, D. & IRWIN, L.N. (2006): "The prospect of alien life in exotic forms on other worlds." Naturwissenschaften. Vol.93: 155-172
Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 22 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets- PART I
Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 22 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets - PART I
By Denise Chow and Elizabeth Peterson, Live Science
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A secret history
Government and military secrets can range from terrifying to amusing to downright absurd, but most are nothing short of intriguing. From a secret U.S. Air Force project to build a supersonic flying saucer to a now-famous World War II-era research program that produced the first atomic bombs to a plan to train domesticated cats to spy on the Soviet Union, here are 22 declassified military and CIA secrets.
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1. Project 1794
In late 2012, the U.S. Air Force declassified a trove of documents, including records of a secret program to build a flying saucer-type aircraft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers. The ambitious program, called Project 1794, was initiated in the 1950s, and a team of engineers was tasked with building a disc-shape vehicle capable of traveling at supersonic speeds at high altitudes.
The declassified documents reveal plans for the plane to reach a top speed of Mach 4 (four times the speed of sound), and reach an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). The project's estimated cost was more than $3 million, which in today's dollars would be more than $26 million.
Project 1794 was canceled in December 1961 after tests suggested the flying saucer design was aerodynamically unstable and would likely be uncontrollable at high speeds (let alone supersonic speeds).
In the 1960s, the U.S. Army embarked on a secret mission to build a series of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The objective was to house medium-range missiles close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union.
The program was codenamed Project Iceworm, but to test its feasibility, the Army launched a cover research project called "Camp Century" in 1960. Under this guise, engineers built a network of underground buildings and tunnels, including living quarters, a kitchen, a recreation hall, infirmary, laboratories, supply rooms, a communications center and a nuclear power plant.
The base, which was kept secret from the Danish government, operated for seven years. The program was canceled in 1966 after shifting ice created unstable conditions. Today, the crushed remains of Project Iceworm are buried beneath Arctic snow.
During the Cold War, the CIA initiated Project MK-ULTRA, a secret and illegal human research program to investigate potential mind-control systems. The program's operators examined the effects of hypnosis, biological agents and drugs, such as LSD and barbiturates, on human subjects. Some historians suggest the program was designed to develop a mind-control system that could be used to "program" the brains of potential assassins. [The 10 Craziest Military Experiments]
In 1973, then-CIA director Richard Helms ordered that all documents from Project MK-ULTRA be destroyed, but a formal investigation into the program was launched several years later. The project became the basis for several movies, such as "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
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4. Area 51
Almost no other site has garnered as much attention from conspiracy theorists and UFO-enthusiasts as Area 51, a remote desert tract near Groom Lake in Nevada, roughly 83 miles (134 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas. The intense secrecy surrounding the base sparked peoples' imaginations, and Area 51 was commonly linked to paranormal activities, including pervasive theories that suggested Area 51 hid aliens and UFOs.
In July 2013, declassified documents from the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51 for the first time, and confirmed that the top-secret site was used to test a variety of spy planes, including the well-known U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.
While Area 51, which operates as a detachment of Edwards Air Force Base in neighboring California, has never been declared a covert base, the research and activities conducted there were some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets.
While Area 51 was not a top-secret base designed to study extraterrestrials, the U.S. Air Force did study the existence of UFOs. Project Grudge was a short-lived program launched in 1949 to study unidentified flying objects. The mission followed an earlier program, known as Project Sign, which published a report in early 1949 stating that while some UFOs seemed to be actual aircraft, there was not enough data to determine their origins. [Top 10 States for UFO Sightings]
Critics of Project Grudge said the program solely set out to debunk UFO reports, and very little actual research was conducted. In his book on the topic, Edward J. Ruppelt, Air Force Captain and director of Project Grudge, wrote: "[I]t doesn't take a great deal of study of the old UFO files to see that standard intelligence procedures were not being followed by Project Grudge. Everything was being evaluated on the premise that UFOs couldn't exist. No matter what you see or hear, don't believe it."
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6. Operation Paperclip
In September 1946, President Harry Truman authorized a program called Operation Paperclip, which aimed to lure scientists from Nazi Germany to the United States following World War II. Officials at the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor to the CIA) recruited German scientists to America to aid the country's postwar efforts, which would also ensure that valuable scientific knowledge would not end up in the hands of the Soviet Union or the divided East and West Germany.
The tense relationship between the United States and Cuba during the Cold War led the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to hatch a slew of bizarre schemes aimed at taking down the Castro regime. While the goal of most of these covert operations (such as Operation Mongoose) was to assassinate Fidel Castro himself, other plans aimed to incite an all-out war between the U.S. and Cuba, experts have said.
In 1998, the National Security Archive (NSA) — a non-governmental organization that publishes information made available through the Freedom of Information Act — posted declassified documents related to Operation Northwoods. The scheme, dreamed up in 1962 by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (uniformed members of the U.S. Department of Defense who advise the president and others), involved committing acts of violence against U.S. and Cuban civilians and then blaming those acts on the Cuban government, according to the NSA documents. These acts, which included faked terrorist attacks in U.S. cities, the hijacking of planes and the sinking of boats full of Cuban émigrés en route to the U.S., would then be used to justify a war with Cuba, according to the documents.
The Kennedy administration recognized the folly of Operation Northwoods and rejected it, according to news reports.
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8. Manhattan Project
One of the most well-known secret research programs is the Manhattan Project, which eventually produced the world's first atomic bombs. The project began in 1939, and was cloaked in secrecy as physicists investigated the potential power of atomic weapons. From 1942 to 1946, Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers led the Manhattan Project.
The first nuclear bomb was detonated at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, during the so-called Trinity test at the Alamogordo Air Base, 120 miles (193 km) south of Albuquerque, N.M. The explosion created a mushroom cloud that stretched 40,000 feet (12,200 m), and the bomb's explosive power was equivalent to more than 15,000 tons of TNT.
A month after the Trinity test, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in the waning stages of World War II. To date, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in war.
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9. Operation Gladio
During the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, developed a classified plan for keeping Europe "safe" in the event of a Soviet invasion. The plan, known as Operation Gladio, called for the formation of secret armies or "stay-behind" organizations in many NATO countries, including Italy, Belgium and France, according to declassified documents.
The mission of the secret armies was simple: Prepare for a potential communist takeover and lead an armed resistance should such a takeover occur. In some countries, "preparing" for Soviet invasion included espionage and the hoarding of ammunitions.
And these clandestine armies weren't just kept secret from the Soviet Union. High-ranking government officials in countries where the military forces operated were sometimes not aware of the armies' existence. Italian Prime Minister at the time, the late Giulio Andreotti divulged information about Italy's secret Cold War army (known as Gladio) in 1990, becoming the first leader of a NATO country to publicly acknowledge one of these forces. Declassified documents related to NATO's stay-behind armies are accessible via The Black Vault, a website that makes declassified documents available to the public.
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10. My Lai Massacre
In March 1968, American soldiers murdered hundreds of unarmed civilians in the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai, according to accounts of the massacre that describe harrowing killings of at least 300 women, children and elderly people.
Army officials managed to cover up the massacre for a year before an investigative journalist with the Associated Press (AP) brought the atrocity to the attention of the American people in November 1969. In light of news reports, an official inquiry was made into the events at My Lai and was concluded in March 1970. The inquiry resulted in criminal charges against 14 U.S. Army officers, all but one of whom were acquitted for their crimes. Declassified documents associated with the inquiry are available from the Library of Congress.
In the wake of the My Lai massacre, the Pentagon established a task force known as the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group, which investigated incidents similar to the killings at My Lai. That group compiled more than 9,000 pages of documents detailing crimes by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, many of which were declassified during the 1990s. These and other declassified documents regarding Vietnam War crimes can be accessed through the National Archives.
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11. Operation Washtub
Secret armies also existed in the United States during the Cold War. In 2014, declassified documents from the U.S. Air Force and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed a plan dreamed up in 1950 for a "covert intelligence and evasion and escape operation in Alaska."
Nicknamed "Operation Washtub," the plan called for the training of ordinary Alaskans in coding, decoding and other espionage techniques so that they could spy on the enemy in the event of a Soviet invasion of Alaska. While such an invasion never occurred, a total of 89 "agents" were trained for this purpose, according to news reports.
Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 22 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets - PART II
Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 22 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets -PART II
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12. Oleg Penkovsky
Oleg Penkovsky was a high-ranking Soviet military intelligence officer who worked as a spy for the United States and Great Britain during the Cold War. Best known for his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Penkovsky supplied the U.S. government with valuable details about the capabilities of Soviet missiles that had been installed in Cuba.
The spy was eventually sniffed out by his fellow Soviet intelligence officers, charged with treason and executed in 1963. However, there are some people who believe that Penkovsky was just a decoy who may have relayed false information about Soviet arms capabilities to U.S. intelligence agents. Some point to declassified documents outlining the intelligence provided by Penkovsky as proof that the spy's loyalty was really to the Soviet Union.
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13. Acoustic Kitty
A report from 1967 shows that the CIA spent millions of dollars in an attempt to train domesticated cats to spy on the Soviet Union. Yes, you read that correctly. Nicknamed Acoustic Kitty, the program involved implanting electronic spying equipment into live cats and then training them to "eavesdrop" on unsuspecting Cold War rivals.
If you don't believe this ridiculous program existed, you can read more about it in this memorandum published by the National Security Archive.
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14. Greenland's Lost Bomb
In 1968, a U.S. B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs on a routine (but secret) mission crashed near Thule Air Base in Greenland. In the aftermath of the crash, American and Danish officials launched a project to clean up radioactive debris and collect the scattered pieces of the nuclear bombs. However, for years later, news reports out of Denmark and the U.S. questioned whether all four bombs had really been located. [Photos: Top-Secret, Cold War-Era Military Base in Greenland]
In 2008, the BBC published an article based on declassified documents regarding the Thule accident, asserting that one of the four hydrogen bombs was never recovered from the crash site. This claim by a respected publication led the Danish prime minister to request a new investigation of the declassified documents used for the BBC report. That investigation, led by Danish scholar Svend Aage Christensen, found that the BBC's report was not based on any new declassified information (it drew from information that had previously been declassified) and that all four weapons had, in fact, been destroyed during the crash in 1968, according to the National Security Archive.
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15. Project Horizon
Before the civilian space organization NASA put the first astronaut on the moon in 1969, at least two U.S. military organizations drew up plans for establishing strategic lunar military outposts. In 1959, the U.S. Army drew up a proposal for a "manned military" base on the moon. That proposal, which was submitted by the Army's chief of research and development, was dubbed Project Horizon and would "develop and protect potential United States interest on the moon," according to declassified documents.
Another program, this one developed by the U.S. Air Force, sought to establish a "Lunar Based Earth Bombardment System" that met specific military requirements. Another Air Force study, this one submitted in 1959, involved detonating a nuclear weapon on the moon. The study was spearheaded by Leonard Reiffel, then a physicist at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and also included contributions from the astrophysicist Carl Sagan. In a 2010 interview with The New York Times, Reifell said that the "foremost intent [of the nuclear detonation] was to impress the world with the prowess of the United States."
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16. Mapimi Silent Zone
A declassified document could help clear up some urban legends at one of Mexico's most bizarre tourist traps. The so-called Mapimí Silent Zone is a small stretch of desert in Durango, Mexico, where, according to local legend, radio waves cannot be transmitted. Often compared to the Bermuda Triangle, Mapimí is frequented by tourists looking for a paranormal adventure.
But the real reason that Mapimí is an interesting location has nothing to do with aliens or paranormal energy — it has to do with a big mistake by the U.S. Air Force. In 1970, an ATHENA V-123-D rocket carrying two small vials of cobalt 57 (a radioactive isotope that is sometimes used in salted bombs) crashed in the Durango desert. The rocket was supposed to land in New Mexico, according to documents declassified in 2013. Local legends may have sprung up as a result of this Air Force flop.
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17. Iran Flight 655
In 1988, a U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf shot down an Iranian civilian aircraft en route to Dubai, killing all 290 passengers on board. Navy personnel incorrectly identified the civilian plane as an Iranian fighter jet before launching the missile that took down the flight, according to declassified documents.
The U.S. reached a settlement with Iran in 1996 in which it agreed to pay $61.8 million to compensate families of the Iranian victims. However, the U.S. government never issued an apology. The Pentagon conducted a now-declassified official investigation into the incident in 1988 and did not find fault with the naval officers who brought down Flight 655.
However, in the wake of the investigation by the Department of Defense, several journalists pointed out discrepancies between the official report and later accounts of what occurred. For example, the flight was originally said to have deviated from its standard route, but this was later found to be false. The report also states that the warship was operating in international waters at the time of the missile launch, when it was in fact operating in Iranian territorial waters.
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18. Kidnapping of the Lunik
Sometimes, declassified documents read like a scene out of a James Bond film. That's the case with this document, titled "The Kidnapping of the Lunik." It tells the story of a CIA-led mission to "borrow" a Soviet lunar satellite for just one night.
The so-called kidnapping occurred in the early 1960s, at the height of the U.S.-Soviet space race. To make it clear that they were winning this race, the Soviets launched a multinational exhibition of their Lunik satellite, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Earth's moon. [Top 10 Soviet and Russian Space Missions]
One night, undercover CIA agents convinced the truck driver who transported the satellite from city to city to get some rest at a nearby hotel and leave the satellite in their care, the documents revealed. They then "borrowed" the Soviet orbiter — taking it apart and photographing its components before putting it back on the truck. There was no indication that the Soviets knew what had happened that fateful night, according to the declassified documents.
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19. USS Liberty
In 1967, in the midst of the Six-Day War (a conflict between Israel and its neighboring Arab states), Israeli aircraft attacked the USS Liberty, a ship gathering intelligence for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Thirty-four Americans were killed in the attack and 171 more were injured. But was the attack intentional?
Many people believe that the Israeli government meant to open fire on the so-called "spy ship" to prevent it from intercepting sensitive information about upcoming battles, according to the declassified NSA report. But official investigations by both U.S. and Israeli agencies concluded that the attack was not deliberate, with pilots confirming that they believed the USS Liberty to be an enemy ship. This declassified NSA reportexplains the agency's position on the contentious issue.
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20. FBI Surveillance Planes
In 2015, the AP broke the news of an FBI surveillance program that uses small aircraft to spy on suspects on the ground. The planes carry video and cellphone surveillance technology and are registered to fictitious companies. When the AP released its report in June 2015, the planes had been observed above more than 30 cities in 11 U.S. states in a 30-day period.
While the FBI told the AP that its aerial surveillance program is not a secret, details about what information the planes collect is highly censored in publicly available documents, according to the AP. The report also states that the FBI operates these planes without judicial approval. One document, obtained by the National Security Archive, shows the names and addresses of the fictitious companies that operate the planes. NSA expert and historian Matthew M. Aid also created a list of the aircraft that are used in this FBI "air force."
Credit: Public Domain
21. Operation Crossroads
In July 2016, the National Security Archive posted declassified documents, films and photographs that show U.S. tests of atomic bombs in the Bikini Atoll in 1946. Dubbed Operation Crossroads, the tests marked the first atomic explosions since the bombings of Japan during World War II in August 1945. [In Photos: Dive to USS Independence Wreck]
While much is publicly known about the tests, the declassified documents shed new light on how the tests affected people of Bikini Atoll, who were forced to relocate. They also offer a view of the objections raised by scientists and military officials before the bombings, as well as the rationale behind the decision to carry out the tests despite these objections.
Credit: Central Intelligence Agency
22. Doctor Zhivago
During the Cold War, the CIA played a role in distributing the book "Doctor Zhivago" throughout the Soviet Union. The book by Russian writer Boris Pasternak was banned by the Soviets, according to a Washington Post article, because it displayed an open-minded view of the Bolshevik Revolution and its protagonist, a doctor-poet, was staunchly individualistic.
Seeing the book's potential as a propaganda tool, the CIA worked with its allies in Dutch Intelligence to deliver about 1,000 copies of the book into Soviet hands, according to documents declassified in 2014. The books were distributed to visiting Soviets at the World's Fair in Brussels in 1958 with help from the Vatican, according to the National Security Archive.
Bound in unmarked blue linen and wrapped in brown paper, the books made their way into the Soviet Union, where the CIA hoped they would stir up anti-communist sentiment among disgruntled citizens. The CIA also smuggled other banned books into the Soviet Union, including James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and Vladimir Nabokov's "Pnin."
Seeing a dragon in a patch of clouds, or a face in the moon, are examples of what’s called pareidolia. Look here for photos to test your own ability to see things that aren’t there.
Maybe you’ve seen the proverbial bunny in a patch of clouds, or a clown’s face in a mud splatter on the side of your car? Seeing recognizable objects or patterns in otherwise random or unrelated objects or patterns is called pareidolia. It’s a form of apophenia, which is a more general term for the human tendency to seek patterns in random information. Everyone experiences it from time to time. Seeing the famous man in the moon is a classic example from astronomy. The ability to experience pareidolia is more developed in some people and less in others. Look at the photos below to learn more and test your own ability to see things that aren’t there.
A woman’s face in the clouds, floating above the sea, as captured from Saquarema, Brazil, by Helio C. Vital.
Can you see a bird in flight in this photo? It is a a photo of the aurora borealis taken near Fairbanks, Alaska. by Dave Bachrach. Used with permission.
Erwan Mirabeau shot this rock formation in Ebihens, France. It’s reminiscent of a green haired man, known in the area as an Apache.
The “face of Jesus” in this photo is actually a child with a bonnet, and the hair is vegetation in the background. Anonymous Swedish photograph from the late nineteenth century via Wikimedia Commons.
Sometimes the ability to see objects in photos, where no such objects exist, has results that are not simply beautiful or intriguing, but downright bizarre. For example, consider the old photo above from an anonymous Swedish photographer of the 19th century.
In the image above, many viewers will immediately see the image of a bearded man with wavy hair, which could be interpreted as Jesus, near the left center of the image. In fact, however, the face is just a phenomenon of light, shadow and placement. The “face of Jesus” is actually a child with a bonnet, and the hair is vegetation in the background.
You have probably have seen claims of images of Jesus in a piece of toast, or the Madonna in the misshapen form of a gourd. Although intrinsically meaningless, such images are sometimes striking. More often, though, the similarity to known persons, animals or objects is a bit more subtle.
Pareidolia of dog on closet door by Chad Johns. Photo used with permission.
Ty Lawrence in Las Vegas, Nevada contributed this photo. We posted it at EarthSky Facebook and asked people what it looked like to them. We got many answers. Puppy. Dragon. Dog. Map of the Mediterranean Sea. But most people said “bird.” Thanks, Ty!
What can you see in the folds of this tissue? Many people will not see anything. It depends, in part, on the innate ability to see patterns, and in part on the natural inclinations and interests of the viewer. In some cases the image will immediately pop out, while for some folks it will come after a little close examination, and others may not be able to see it at all.
Here’s a close-up. Do you see the head of a Dachshund? Don’t worry if you cannot, but for many the ears, eyes and snout will seem obvious.
To a certain extent, the definition of pareidolia can be used to describe how the ancients connected the dots and came up with the patterns we know as constellations. It does not take a great deal of imagination to see a lion in Leo, a scorpion in Scorpius, or a mighty hunter in Orion. To be honest, many other constellations, such as Cancer the Crab or Capricornus the Sea Goat, stretch the pattern recognition idea a bit far, making the naming process more one of contrivance than of pareidolia.
Staying in the realm of astronomy for a bit, many have seen a face or a rabbit in the moon or any of a variety of other figures on the face of the moon for ages. Nowadays, technology has given us close-ups of other planets that serve as fodder for the pareidolia monster.
Here is the so-called “face on Mars” as originally captured in a 1976 image from the Viking 1 orbiter. Click here to see how subsequent spacecraft revealed the “face” to be simply a play of light and shadows.
Glass tunnels or “ice worms” on Mars? In fact, these Martian canyons contain crescent-shaped sand dunes, which are formed when the wind is predominantly from one direction.
For example, some self-appointed experts have stated that the image above – which is an enlargement of a small section of image M0400291 from the Mars Global Surveyor – shows large glass tunnels on Mars, or even evidence for ice worms on the red planet. What the image above really shows is a convergence of deep canyons on the planet Mars. At the bottom of these canyons are crescent-shaped sand dunes, which are formed when the wind is predominantly from one direction. Such dunes are common in desert areas of the Earth and are known as barchans.
People have found many imaginary images in this photo of the atomic cloud over Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 – from Koyagi-jima by Hiromichi Matsuda.
Although deliberately manipulated (“photoshopped”) photos are very easily made today and cannot be ruled out for many pareidolia images, hoaxes are considerably less likely in older images. Consider the old Swedish image above in which the “face” of Jesus is actually a baby with a bonnet. Or consider the image above from the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, shot by Hiromichi Matsuda, showing the mushroom cloud over the city just 20 minutes after detonation.
With just a casual glance, most people will notice nothing in the bomb cloud other than the expected shape. But for someone with an eye for pareidolic images, several things can pop out. Let’s consider just one, that the head of an apparently sleeping woman with 1940s-style hair, facing the right from just left of the top center area of the cloud.
Go ahead, try to see the lady’s face before you look farther down. Truth be told, there are a number of things to be seen in this image, but the point to make is that these are all purely coincidental. There is absolutely no reason to believe that any of the images have any meaning whatsoever except the meaning that an active and creative mind may give them. They are not symbols or signs from the spirit world. They are not warnings about the future or indications of the waywardness of our ways. They are simply the result of coincidental patterns that the human mind chooses to interpret in particular ways.
It goes without saying, I hope, that this just happens to be a photo from the tragic bombing of Nagasaki, but has nothing else to do with Nagasaki or even with the atomic bomb. Similar patterns can be found in many many other images and natural formations.
In some ways, the pareidolic images we discover tend to indicate things about which we are most interested, whether they be people, puppies or planes. Finding such “embedded” images can fun and interesting, almost a hobby for some. But for some they can also fuel obsessiveness and paranoia. Enjoy finding your own pareidolic images, but keep in mind that what you are seeing is not really there, but in your mind.
Nagasaki image annotated.
Now, if you did not successfully see the lady in the Nagasaki image, see the annotated image, above. (Can you also see the puppy in her hair?)
Bottom line: Seeing recognizable objects or phenomena in otherwise random or unrelated objects or patterns is called pareidolia. It’s a form of apophenia, which is a more general terms for seeing apparently meaningful connections between unrelated patterns, data or phenomena.
THE MYSTERIOUS MAGNETIC ANOMALIES AT PUMA PUNKU, PROOF OF ANCIENT TECHNOLOGIES ?
THE MYSTERIOUS MAGNETIC ANOMALIES AT PUMA PUNKU, PROOF OF ANCIENT TECHNOLOGIES ?
High up the Bolivian altiplano,’ south of Lake Titicaca and the ancient complex of Tiahuanaco, we find the ancient ruins of Puma Punku.
Believed to have been erected by the ancient Tiwanaku culture in the bronze age, between 1,000 and 2,000 years ago, the ancient site is home to some of the most fascinating ancient stone structures on the surface of the planet.
Shrouded in mystery, the archaeological site of Puma Punku is one of the biggest headaches for mainstream archaeologists who are unable to explain how ancient cultures cut and shaped granite stone to an incredible precision, transported blocks of stones that weigh more than 50 tons, and placed them in position like a puzzle, so that not a single sheet of paper can fit between them.
But if that wasn’t enough of a mystery, there’s some strange magnetic anomaly present at Puma Punku.
The stones at Puma Punku were believed to have been quarried by the Tiwanaku culture at Cerro Khapia, located some 70 kilometers away.
The question that arises here is… how on Earth did the ancients transport these massive blocks of stone, tens of tons in weight across 70 kilometers from their quarry to Puma Punku?
Puma Punku: reconstruction
The Magnetic Anomaly
This mysterious feature which makes Puma Punku even stranger was spotted by researcher and author Brien Foerster.
In a video uploaded onto his YouTube account, Brien Foerster takes us on a trip to the Bolivian Altiplano where he tours through Puma Punku and shows us how certain rocks at the site – Puma Punku’s Grey Stones – display magnetic anomalies.
These curious features have been completely ignored and left unattended by scholars who have studied Puma Punku in the past.
Here is another video where we can see the curious magnetic anomaly present on the grey stones of Puma Punku.
Pseudo-Satellite Drone Flies for 25 Days Straight, Sets Endurance Record
Pseudo-Satellite Drone Flies for 25 Days Straight, Sets Endurance +
By Tom Metcalfe, Live Science Contributor
The Airbus Zephyr drone launches for its record-setting flight on July 11.
Credit: Airbus
A solar-powered drone designed to take on the multimillion-dollar market for satellites in space has set a record by staying in flight at high altitude for nearly 26 days. Airbus has plenty of plans for its so-called pseudo-satellite, including possible military reconnaissance and monitoring the spread of wildfires, among other activities.
The European aerospace consortium Airbus announced that the latest model of its Zephyr drone had landed near Yuma, Arizona, late last week, after staying on the wing continuously for 25 days, 23 hours and 57 minutes, and breaking a world record for long-endurance flight.
The drone was driven by electric power from solar panels on its wings during daylight, when it flew at altitudes above 70,000 feet (21,300 meters), Airbus spokesman Alain Dupiech told Live Science.
At night, the drone used stored battery power, dropping to around 50,000 feet (15,240 meters) by morning — well above any clouds and bad weather, and higher than regular air traffic, except military spy planes, Dupiech said. [Supersonic! The 11 Fastest Military Airplanes]
Previously, the endurance record was held by an older prototype of the Zephyr drone, which stayed airborne 14 days in 2014.
Airbus hopes the drone can be used to carry out some tasks currently carried out by satellite.
Credit: Airbus
Airbus hopes the latest Zephyr drone will take on some of the commercial market for satellite launches into Earth orbit, by carrying out tasks like high-altitude photography and environmental monitoring for weeks or months at a time.
"It's pretty encouraging," Dupiech said. "We're demonstrating that the first production series unit is a lot better than the prototype."
High-altitude pseudo-satellite
Airbus calls its Zephyr drone a HAPS, or high-altitude pseudo-satellite.
A typical rocket launch to put satellites into Earth orbitcan cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, and Airbus thinks that high-flying long-endurance drones like the Zephyr can do a better job at many tasks than satellites, and at much lower costs.
HAPS can also be refitted on the ground and redeployed on different missions – but satellites are usually committed to only one task, such as communications or environmental monitoring, and typically carry out the same task for many years.
The Zephyr project manager for the Airbus consortium, Sophie Thomas, told Live Science in an email that one of the key applications for the drone would be in providing internet connectivity to users on the ground.
Airbus faces competition in that potential market, from high-altitude balloon-based internet experiments like Project Loon from the X lab at Alphabet (formerly Google).
Thomas said high-flying drones like Zephyr could be much more maneuverable and flexible in Earth orbit than either high-altitude balloons or satellites.
"[Zephyr] can be re-tasked instantly to operate over a different location," she said. "We can land and swap out the payload to undertake different missions, or to take immediate advantage of technology upgrades for the payload."
The altitudes that the Zephyr drone can fly at also made it more suitable than satellites in a geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) — which orbit Earth much higher up — for many applications, Thomas said.
"It operates at around 20 kilometers [12 miles] from the Earth, compared to GEO satellites at around 36,000 km [22,000 miles]," she said. "This means we can capture much higher-resolution imagery and video for applications such as disaster management. It also means we have a lower latency for communications."
Although it has a wingspan of more than 80 feet (25 m), the Zephyr weighs only about 150 pounds (75 kilograms), including a 15-pound [7.5 kg] payload, and it is light enough to be launched by hand.
The new batteries on the latest Zephyr means it could stay in flight for more than 100 days; it also has a more efficient solar array and a more efficient propulsion system than the 2014 prototype, Thomas said.
"We have secured improvements across the whole design, and it is the combined effect which gives us such a capable system," Thomas said.
Airbus has already put the latest model of the Zephyr drone into production in the U.K., and its first customer is the British Ministry of Defence [MOD], which runs the country's armed forces.
The Defense News website reported in July that the MOD was paying around 13 million pounds ($17 million) for the first three Zephyr drones, which will be operated on their behalf by Airbus.
Although the military won't say what their Zephyrs will be used for, their capabilities for reconnaissance and communications have been noted by the news media.
Thomas said that while the military market for Zephyr drones was very important, "we see civilian applications as the largest potential market for Zephyr."
They include civilian tasks that might be unaffordable using satellites in orbit, or impractical with other high-altitude technologies, she said, such as monitoring the spread of wildfires and oil spills or recording the world's changing environmental landscape.
It wasn’t alien life or severe temperatures that shut down NASA’s Mars Opportunity Rover, but rather ahuge dust storm. The rover continues to sleepdue to the dust blocking out the sun that Opportunity needs for power. It’s been two months and NASA has an update of what it has planned to get in contact with the rover.
In a blog post on the agency’s website, NASA explained Opportunity is currently in “low-power fault” mode, or in hibernation, and conserving its battery until it can recharge from the sun. If it stays off for too long or does not receive a signal from Earth within a certain period, it can begin the process of trying to communicate with Earth. If it does begin communication with NASA, it may take multiple sessions before it will get up and start roving again. Even if it does power-up, Opportunity is “not out of the woods yet.”
Images from the Hubble Space Telescope showing the dust storm covering the planet.
Due to its prolonged hibernation, Opportunity may not have the same battery capacity it had before, which means it can store less energy. Having less power available not only limits Opportunity’s regular functions, but it can also be a big problem when it needs to turn on its heaters during the winter and causing a brownout due to insufficient power, which could be disastrous for the rover.
The dust storm responsible for Opportunity’s hibernation started on June 10 and was big enough to encircle all of Mars. The amount of sunlight reaching the surface is called “tau,” and to begin charging up again, the rover needs a tau of less than 2.0. Normally, the tau is at 0.5, but at the time of the storm, it jumped to 10.8. The latest update from NASA showed tau went as low as 2.1 last week, but then jumped back up to 2.5.
NASA’s Opportunity Rover team will continue to try communicating with it as the dust around the planet begins to settle. They’re optimistic that the rover will be up and running again to hopefully make its 15th anniversary on Mars in January.
Mars will receive another visitor later this year when the InSight lander makes its way to the red planet later this year.
Stanford’s Most Successful Remote Viewer Reveals Location Of 4 Alien Bases On Earth
Stanford’s Most Successful Remote Viewer Reveals Location Of 4 Alien Bases On Earth
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
The U.S. had a program called STARGATE. It ran for 25 years, where remote viewing was highly successful. Many of the 'viewers' have since been speaking about their ET encounters. One of them identified the location of 4 ET bases here on Earth.
Reflect On:
Why are so many people from within this program sharing such information? Is remote viewing something military has used quietly for some time? It was extremely successful and credible practice, but why wasn't this part of the declassification?
What is remote viewing? It’s an ability that allows the ‘viewer’ to be able to describe a remote geographical location up to several hundred thousand kilometres away (even more) from their physical location — one that they have never been to.
This skill was taught to soldiers in multiple countries around the world, and from what I understand, still is. In the United States, the Remote Viewing program ran for 25 years at Stanford Research Institute before 70 percent of it was declassified, it was run in conjunction with the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
After its declassification in 1995, or at least, partial declassification, the Department of Defense and those involved revealed an exceptionally high success rate.
To summarize, over the years, the back-and-forth criticism of protocols, refinement of methods, and successful replication of this type of remote viewing in independent laboratories has yielded considerable scientific evidence for the reality of the [remote viewing] phenomenon. Adding to the strength of these results was the discovery that a growing number of individuals could be found to demonstrate high-quality remote viewing, often to their own surprise. . . . The development of this capability at SRI has evolved to the point where visiting CIA personnel with no previous exposure to such concepts have performed well under controlled laboratory conditions.”
Multiple examples were used, from locating a lost spy plane in Africa, viewing future events, as well as past events. Remote viewing is not limited to time, it’s a quantum phenomenon, like most parapsychological phenomena. In the declassified literature, there are many shocking examples where remote viewing was successfully used for intelligence purposes, which makes sense given the fact the government decided to fund it for 25 years.
It was also used to discover the Rings around Jupiter, a man by the name of Ingo Swann, one of the programs best remote viewers was able to describe and view a ring around Jupiter, which at the time, scientists had no idea even existed. This happened before NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft flew by the planet, confirming that the ring did actually exist.
This is amazing because at the time there was no way to even perceive rings existing around planets…
To determine whether it was necessary to have a ‘beacon’ individual at the target site, Swann suggested carrying out an experiment to remote view the planet Jupiter before the upcoming NASA Pioneer 10 flyby. In that case, much to his chagrin (and ours) he found a ring around Jupiter, and wondered if perhaps he had remote viewed Saturn by mistake. Our colleagues in astronomy were quite unimpressed as well, until the flyby revealed that an unanticipated ring did in fact exist
Here is a great brief timeline of government Remote Viewing.
The Common Theme Among Remote Views Is: Extraterrestrial
Since the declassification of the program, many people from within it, remote viewers, as well as army personnel and academics have come out and spoken about the program. The most popular viewer within the program, Ingo Swann, as mentioned above, wrote a book called “penetration” where he provided more details about the program that we didn’t get from the government files. He described viewing humanoid bodies on the moon, working on something (back side of the moon), as well as tall structures, buildings and more. He was very outspoken about the extraterrestrial presence that was apparently known about within these programs.
Joseph Mcmoneagle was another one, who also had experiences remote viewing an extraterrestrial presence, this time it came from Mars. Many of them have been outspoken about the extraterrestrial presence.
On a side note, while mentioning Mars and remote viewings, it’s noteworthy to bring awareness to the fact that six former U.S. Army remote viewers were commissioned by officials within the Russian space program to study the cause of Phobos II’s disappearance. The viewers issued a final report titled, “Enigma Penetration: Soviet Phobos II Space Craft Images Anomaly.”
As Jim Marrs points out, in his novel, Our Occulted History,
The report stated that a disc-shaped object rose from the Martian surface towards Phobos II while a second object moved into even closer proximity and scanned the probe with a penetrating particle beam device, which disrupted the communication and guidance equipment. The out-of-control Soviet craft was then struck by a “micrometeorite” that delivered the coupe de grace. The remote viewers said this may have been no accident, as it seems that all of the technology put into space from Earth is scrutinized closely by nonhumans….After being struck, Phobos II spiraled down, crashing onto the Martian surface.
The 4 Alien Bases
Then, there is Pat Price, who, along with Ingo Swann, is described as one of SRI’s most successful viewers, his sessions were extremely accurate. Within the remote viewing community, among the declassified literature, he is best known for his sketches of gantries and cranes which matched CIA intelligence photographs he had never seen, this was during the cold war.
Russel Targ, the co-founder of the program at RSI has also recently given lectures on “everything” he “knows about ESP.” In fact, his TED talk about it was cancelled, you can watch that here.
According to Atwater, Pricer had successfully remote viewed 4 extraterrestrial ‘bases’ stationed on Earth. One was located underneath Mount Ziel, another under Mount Perdido in Spain, as well as Mount Inyangani in Zimbabwe, and in Alaska, underneath Mount Hayes.
This comes from a plethora of sources, including one of the leading researchers in the field, Timothy Good, from his book, Unearthly Disclosure.
What’s also interesting to note is the lore associated with these mountains, take Inaynagi, for example. There are no shortages of strange disappearances of those who go wandering in this region, it’s well-known in the region and the mountain has been surrounded by mysterious lore for a long time.
Credo Mutwa
One interesting story comes from Credo Mutwa, born in 1921, he’s a Zulu Sangoma, a traditional healer, from southern Africa. He has done tremendous humanitarian work in Africa and is extremely knowledgeable in Zulu tradition and lore.
Now, there are uncountable amounts of stories pertaining to extraterrestrial contact, if even one of them true, it’s fascinating. Many of these stories corroborate with each other and coupled with proof for the extraterrestrial hypothesis regarding UFOs, and all of the testimony from people with ‘credibility, it’s not ridiculous at all to contemplate.
In the bushes of the mountain, while Mutwa was a Sangoma apprentice, he was searching for a herb which he planned to use as medicine. Something he did quite often to bring health back to his people, specifically with regards to the HIV pandemic in Africa, a disease he says was created to destroy the African population.
While he was doing so, he was covered by a bright blue mist, which, he said “was swirling all around me, getting between me and the eastern landscape.” Later, he found himself in what he described as underground, underneath the mountain. This is interesting because it’s exactly what the remote viewer Pat Price describes.
The next thing he knew, he was lying on a table of some sort. His boots and trousers were missing. He was approached by a group of grey skinned humanoid creatures, with Very large heads, very thing arms, and very thing legs.
A lot of this information also comes from several interviews Mutwa did with David Icke.
Price described the occupants of these bases as ‘looking like Homo Sapiens, except for the lungs, heart, blood, and eyes.”
Mutawa wanted to flee, but couldn’t move and was Paralyzed,
I just lay there like a goat on a sacrificial altar
Mutwa was then subjected to some kind of operation on his left thigh, which caused him to scream out in agony. An abundance of blood flowed from the wound. Next, one of the creatures stuck a silver, pen-like object up his right nasal passage; then yanked it out. “The pain,” he says, “was out of this world.”…The pain subsided, however, when one of the creatures – who was bigger and taller than the others, and who possessed an air of authority – placed its hand on Mutwa’s forehead. Mutwa could ‘sense’ that the creature was female, despite the fact that ‘she’ lacked breasts and other feminine characteristics. Staring at Mutwa intently, it projected visions of destruction into his mind. He saw cities being destroyed by floods, fires and other natural disasters.(source)
He speaks at length of these experiences in his interviews with David Icke.
Cred Mutwa
He goes on to describe an instrument being inserted into his penis, and as soon as it was taken out, his bladder opened and he urinated hard. Another creature came in and had pink skin, blue eyes, high cheekbones and looked almost human. The creature then “mounted Mutwa like “a crazy Zulu girl” and proceeded to have sex with him.
This is another common theme among many supposed extraterrestrial contactees. He said during this encounter, a device was used to make Mutwa ejaculate “too much,” and after the ordeal, he was in tremendous amounts of pain.
It’s important to mention that numerous extraterrestrial encounters have been described, both of what as we perceive as “friendly” and “unfriendly” contact, as well as ‘unfriendly procedures’ being performed, with the strange beings sometimes comforting the human through the process, and sometimes not…
It’s strange, to say the least, but as far as underground alien bases, it’s a possibility.
An Interesting Encounter of Mine
I used to teach on a First Nations reserve, in a place called North Spirit Lake. I came home for the holidays, and when I arrived in Toronto I was waiting for the train, and next to me was a gentleman in uniform. Anytime I see what appears to be a senior officer in uniform, I always ask questions… This one was a veteran, having served overseas in the Middle East for 5 years, and was now with the Coast Guard. Instantaneously, I thought of the ocean, and underwater military bases, having studies them in-depth. I knew he would most like be aware of their existence being with the Coast Guard. This was always 10 years ago, when it was taboo to talk about ‘strange’ things, that no longer seem so taboo anymore…
I asked him about HAARP, his eyes lit up wide, he was shocked and surprised and told me he couldn’t talk about it. I asked him about in-bottom and under-ocean military bases, the same thing happened… I asked him about extraterrestrials and what was going on with that, he told me to “come work for us and ask them yourself.”
If you want to learn more about the ET/UFO phenomena, and all of the evidence behind it, you can sift through our articles in the disclosure section of our website. You will find a variety of articles there to quench you’re interested!
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Tijdens dit succesvolle Amerikaanse overheidsexperiment werden 4 buitenaardse bases op aarde ontdekt. Dit zijn de locaties
Tijdens dit succesvolle Amerikaanse overheidsexperiment werden 4 buitenaardse bases op aarde ontdekt. Dit zijn de locaties
Vijfentwintig jaar experimenteerde de Amerikaanse overheid met remote viewing, waarbij getrainde individuen met behulp van buitenzintuiglijke waarneming locaties verkenden. Dit programma, Stargate geheten, was zeer succesvol, blijkt uit vrijgegeven overheidsdocumenten.
Soldaten uit meerdere landen kregen les in remote viewing. In de VS werd het programma uitgevoerd door het Stanford Research Institute (SRI) en overzien door de CIA.
Tijdens het programma werd onder meer een verloren gewaand spionagevliegtuig opgespoord in Afrika. Het werd ook gebruikt om ringen rond Jupiter te verkennen, nog voordat het bestaan ervan werd bevestigd door ruimtesonde Pioneer 10.
Buitenaardse bases
Russel Targ, die aan de basis van het SRI-programma stond, gaf enige tijd geleden een TED-lezing over onder andere buitenzintuiglijke waarneming, die – niet geheel verrassend – werd verwijderd.
Tijdens de experimenten zouden ook buitenaardse bases op aarde zijn ontdekt, zo schreef Timothy Good, een voormalig adviseur van het Pentagon: onder Mount Zeil in Australië, Monte Perdido in Spanje, Mount Nyangani in Zimbabwe en Mount Hayes in Alaska.
In de buurt van deze bergen, met name Nyangani, zijn in het verleden vreemde verdwijningen gemeld.
Homo sapiens
De basis onder Mount Zeil zou worden gebruikt om ‘nieuwe rekruten te transporteren’ en processen op aarde te ‘monitoren’.
Het personeel dat was gestationeerd op de bases leek volgens de remote viewers op de ‘homo sapiens, behalve de longen, ogen, het hart en bloed’.
In 1965 schrijft het hoofd van de Britste Antarctica vestiging een brief aan het Ministerie van Defensie waarin hij schrijft dat diverse landen die actief zijn op Antarctica UFO’s waarnemen.
UFO’s die vrijwel zeker niet toebehoren aan buitenaardsen, hoewel de technologie wel van hen afkomstig is.
Op 22 oktober 1965 schreef Sir Vivian Fuchs, hoofd van de British Antarctic Survey, een brief aan het Britse Ministerie van Defensie. Daarin maakte hij melding van mensen op de Antarctica basis van Chili en Argentinië die op verschillende dagen een UFO hadden waargenomen boven hun basis.
Het object was omringd door flikkerende rode, groene en gele lichten, vloog snel in westelijke richting, kwam weer terug en bleef vervolgens 20 minuten lang stil in de lucht hangen.
Bovenstaand is afkomstig uit vrijgegeven documenten en laat zien dat er regelmatig UFO’s worden waargenomen op Antarctica.
UFO’s die hoogstwaarschijnlijk geen buitenaardse oorsprong hebben, maar alles te maken hebben met Duitsland.
It is necessary to go back, before the outbreak of the Second World War, to an isolated section of the Bavarian Alps, It was there, in the summer of 1938, that an Unidentified Flying Object, crewed by a distinctly human, and Aryan appearing race, made a forced landing, very similar to the one which was to occur, some ten years later, in the desert, near Roswell, New Mexico, in the United States.
Door deze ontdekking was Duitsland in staat om door middel van wat men noemt reverse engineering iedereen voor te zijn op het gebied van wat we voor het gemak vliegende schotels zullen noemen.
De Duitsers waren al heel lang gebiologeerd door de Holle Aarde. Dit dateert al uit de negentiende eeuw toen de Duitse wetenschapper Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss beweerde dat de geschiedenis van de aarde, haar natuurkundige eigenschappen en haar geologische situatie, alleen kon worden verklaard door een holle planeet, waarbij er dan twee ingangen zouden zijn, zowel bij de Noordpool als de Zuidpool.
Al in het begin van de twintigste eeuw, tussen 1901 en 1903, organiseerde Duitsland de eerste expedities naar Antarctica, die ze toen de Gauss expeditie noemden en waarbij ze voor zichzelf grote stukken land claimden op dit bevroren continent. Naar aanleiding van deze expeditie en ontdekkingen vertrok in 1909 ook de bekende Amerikaanse onderzoeker Admiraal Robert Edwin Peary Sr. die kant op. Hij was de eerste man die de Noordpool bereikte.
Door de ontdekkingen die door zowel de Gauss Expeditie als door Admiraal Peary waren gedaan, schreef de bekende Amerikaanse wetenschapper Marshall B. Gardner in 1920 een boek dat heette: “Een reis naar de binnenkant van de aarde of Zijn de polen werkelijk ontdekt?”. In dat boek stonden hele interessante passages, zoals:
“Hoe kan de wetenschap verklaren dat wanneer je naar het noorden gaat het kouder wordt tot op een bepaald punt, en dat het daarna weer warmer begint te worden? Hoe kunnen zij verder uitleggen dat deze warmtebron niet uit het zuiden afkomstig is, maar dat het een aantal stromingen van warm water zijn uit het noorden, het gebied wat geacht wordt volkomen bevroren te zijn. Waar komen deze stromingen vandaan?”
En zo roept dit boek nog meer vragen op omdat er door ontdekkingsreizigers vreemde dingen zijn geconstateerd zoals: Hoe kunnen ijsschotsen in het hoge noorden bedekt zijn door de rode pollen van een onbekende plant? Hoe kan het dat ze zaden hebben gevonden van tropische planten in het water? Hoe kunnen ze in die wateren boomstammen en takken vinden, soms met de (verse) bladeren er nog aan? Al deze dingen worden door stromingen vanuit het noorden naar het zuiden gevoerd en niet andersom, wat men wel zou verwachten.
In het boek stelt hij vragen over hoe het mogelijk is dat in het uiterste noorden van Groenland het grootste leefgebied ter wereld is van de mug (terwijl die eigenlijk in de tropen het meest voorkomt)? Waar gaan al de vossen en hazen naartoe die gezien zijn in het noorden van Groenland? Kortom, in die tijd zijn er allerlei zaken gerapporteerd door ontdekkingsreizigers die erop wijzen dat hoe verder je het koude gebied ingaat, hoe warmer het wordt.
Tegen 1938, toen de Nazi’s al de volledige controle hadden over Duitsland, waren er nog niet één van al de vragen die Gardner had gesteld, beantwoord. Dit was misschien ook één van de redenen dat Hitler opdracht gaf tot een nieuwe expeditie naar Antarctica die tot 1939 duurde. Wat de Duitsers daar toen ontdekten blijft tot nu toe één van de best bewaarde geheimen ter wereld.
Dan gaan we een stuk vooruit in de tijd en in juli 1947 vindt de best gedocumenteerde UFO crash ooit plaats in Rosswel, New Mexico.
Waar of niet, feit is dat niet lang na de crash bij Roswell er weer iets heel uitzonderlijks gebeurt. Aan het eind van datzelfde jaar sturen de Amerikanen, onder het mom van geologisch onderzoek, een grote vloot naar Antarctica.
Er wordt gespeculeerd dat de Tweede Wereldoorlog is geëindigd door een overeenkomst tussen de Amerikanen en de Duitser, waarbij de Amerikanen alle Duitse geheimen kregen op het gebied van technologie zoals atoombommen, raket technologie en jetmotoren technologie. Dit zou in ruil zijn geweest voor het laten gaan van de top Nazi leiders van Duitsland, inclusief Adolf Hitler, naar hun grote geheime bases die ze in en onder het continent van Antarctica hadden gebouwd. Klaarblijkelijk zijn de Amerikanen later teruggekomen op die afspraak en hebben in 1946 via Operation Highjump, onder leiding van admiraal Byrd, geprobeerd Antarctica weer van de Duitsers af te pakken. Dit is één van de grootste nederlagen ooit geworden voor de Amerikanen. Onder het mom van een wetenschappelijke expeditie werd onder leiding van Admiraal Byrd een complete oorlogsvloot naar Antarctica gestuurd. Het verlies van de Amerikanen was enorm. Heel veel materiële schade en meer dan 1500 mensen die het leven verloren. Voordat Byrd teruggefloten werd door Washington gaf hij op de terugweg een persconferentie in Zuid Amerika waar hij onder meer vertelde: ”De grootste dreiging komt nu van de Zuidpool want we hebben vliegende machines gezien die met ongelooflijke snelheid kunnen verplaatsen en die zelfs in staat zijn om snel van pool naar pool te vliegen”.
En zo zijn er nog veel meer dingen die er toch echt op wijzen dat de Duitsers erin geslaagd zijn om een permanente basis op Antarctica of in de Holle Aarde te vestigen.
Feit is dat er aan het eind van de oorlog 250.000 Duitsers zijn verdwenen van wie nooit een spoor is teruggevonden. Feit is ook dat talloze Duitse U-boten spoorloos zijn verdwenen en feit is tevens dat de kapiteins van deze onderzeeërs beschikten over kaarten waarop precies stond aangegeven hoe ze onder het ijs van Antarctica door moesten varen.
Feit is ook dat de verdwenen U-boten voor het grootste deel bestonden uit de later gebouwde types die door middel van een ingenieus snorkelsysteem in staat waren om de gehele reis van Duitsland naar Antarctica onder water uit te voeren, zonder de noodzaak aan de oppervlakte te komen om de batterijen opnieuw op te laden.
Het feit dat wetenschappelijke expedities in 1965 melding maken van UFO's met flikkerende lichten toont aan dat er zich daar in ieder geval iets bevindt.
TURKSE LUCHTMACHT SCHIET UFO UIT DE LUCHT ( UPDATE )
TURKSE LUCHTMACHT SCHIET UFO UIT DE LUCHT ( UPDATE )
Er is weer de nodige commotie binnen de UFO gemeenschap omdat er beelden zijn opgedoken van een UFO die uit de lucht wordt geschoten.
Het gebeurde in Turkije en de beelden lijken behoorlijk overtuigend, hoewel dat tegenwoordig ook weer niet alles zegt.
Update: 20 augustus 2018
Via twee lezers (dank!) kregen wij een bericht dat onderstaande video niet is opgenomen in Turkije, maar in Israël.
Bericht 1:
De beelden van de neergeschoten ufo, zijn niet gemaakt in Turkije maar in Israël en het betreft hier om raketten 1 is reeds ingeslagen en de ander wordt neergeschoten.
Bericht 2:
De video die u bij dit artikel publiceert is eerder deze maand al breed in het nieuws geweest als een raket aanval van de nazi-islamitische hamas op een zuid-israelisch dorp. U kunt deze beelden googelen.
Al met al zijn we niet veel wijzer, maar als twee verschillende mensen zeggen dat het Israël is, dan zou het kunnen dat dit klopt. Blijft natuurlijk de vraag wat het is dat daar vliegt. Het ziet er, zoals Scott Waring aangeeft, niet uit als een raket, maar misschien is het dat wel en is datgene wat we zien een soort optische illusie.
Origineel arrtikel: 17 augustus 2018
Via een aantal grote UFO kanalen zijn beelden te zien die toch wel heel spectaculair zijn.
Het is een korte video die klaarblijkelijk is opgenomen boven Turkije en het beeld is zo te zien van een druk bezochte plek in een stad op een zomeravond.
Opeens verschijnt er een snel vliegend rond object in beeld en hoor je ook het gebrul van staalmotoren van één of meerdere militaire jets.
Vervolgens explodeert de UFO, komt er ook een deel op de grond terecht, zie je een zwarte wolk en mensen die krijsend alle kanten op vluchten.
Wanneer de explosie plaatsvindt, wordt ook de filmer bijna ondersteboven geblazen en wat het ook is wat daar gebeurt, de beelden en de opname lijken echt.
Ook het kanaal waar deze video op is gepubliceerd is er niet één waar normaal gesproken zaken over UFO’s verschijnen, maar gewone alledaagse huis tuin en keuken dingen.
Volgens ufoloog Scott Waring is hier absoluut sprake van een UFO en niet van een raket of iets dergelijks omdat er anders een spoor van rook te zien zou zijn. Ook wijst hij op het feit dat het type UFO dat we hier zien er één is die veel wordt gesignaleerd op diverse plekken.
En als laatste geeft hij een waarschuwing dat als de Turken hier inderdaad een UFO uit de lucht hebben geknald ze heel gevaarlijk bezig zijn, omdat je op deze manier heel gemakkelijk een oorlog met buitenaardsen kunt uitlokken.
Is hier inderdaad sprake van een UFO die uit de lucht wordt geknald of toch iets anders?
AMERIKANEN BESCHULDIGEN RUSSEN VAN LANCEREN GEHEIME RUIMTEWAPENS ( VIDEO )
AMERIKANEN BESCHULDIGEN RUSSEN VAN LANCEREN GEHEIME RUIMTEWAPENS ( VIDEO )
Vroeger was het leven in zoverre overzichtelijk dat wanneer er oorlog werd gevoerd, je er vanuit kon gaan dat dit gewoon op aarde gebeurde.
Tegenwoordig is er een waanzinnige bewapeningswedloop gaande in de ruimte en wij mensen op de grond lopen misschien veel meer gevaar dan we denken.
Waar tot nu toe de oorlogen altijd beperkt bleven tot de aarde, voor zover bekend, komen er steeds meer aanwijzingen dat de ruimte de volgende plek is waar grote oorlogen waar wij bij betrokken zijn worden gevoerd en/of gevoerd zullen worden.
Opnieuw worden met grote haast geheime satellieten de ruimte ingestuurd, waarbij iedereen zich afvraagt wat er daar in 's hemelsnaam gaande is.
Ongeveer twee weken geleden schreven wij een artikel over activiteiten in de ruimte, waarbij het leek alsof er iets heel dringends en groots aan de hand was
De vier grootste en machtigste landen ter wereld, Amerika, Rusland, China en Japan, lanceren allemaal in een tijdsbestek van enkele dagen een raket de ruimte in.
De reden weten we niet, maar wel dat dit absoluut geen toeval is en dat er iets groots gaande is in de ruimte, waardoor ze nu allemaal plotseling satellieten daar naartoe moeten brengen.
Het is niet dat we niet genoeg satellieten in de ruimte om de aarde hebben, dat er nu met spoed door deze vier landen een aantal nieuwe bij gelanceerd moeten worden. Er speelt iets anders, maar wat, dat is de grote vraag.
Tegelijkertijd vindt er een andere ontwikkeling plaats en dat is de lancering door Donald Trump van de nieuwe Amerikaanse Spaceforce.
Tijdens een toespraak afgelopen dinsdag zei Trump dat zijn nieuwe veiligheidsstrategie onderkent dat de ruimte een oorlogsslagveld is en lanceerde hij het idee dat er naast de bestaande legeronderdelen een nieuwe moet komen die de naam Space Force gaat krijgen. Een volledig zelfstandige militaire tak die buiten de atmosfeer van de aarde zal opereren.
"De ruimte is het terrein voor oorlogsvoering, net zoals het land, de lucht en de zee", vertelde Trump aan zijn toehoorders bij de Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. "We may even have a Space Force, develop another one, Space Force. We have the Air Force, we'll have the Space Force."
Deze nieuwe Spaceforce is sowieso dé manier voor Amerika om nu in sneltreinvaart de geheime ruimtevloot wit te wassen en te doen voorkomen alsof dit allemaal nieuwe razendsnelle technologische ontwikkelingen zijn, terwijl dit in werkelijkheid al vele jaren lang geheime projecten zijn geweest, gefinancierd met gestolen belastinggeld.
Het verhaal dat wij schreven wordt in het volgende interview bevestigd door de voormalige Amerikaanse staatssecretaris en Wall Street bankier Catherine Austin Fitts. In een gesprek met Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt legt ook zij uit dat het gezocht moet worden in de letterlijk biljoenen dollars die vanuit het Pentagon zijn verdwenen naar het geheime ruimteprogramma.
Daarnaast vindt er nu nog een interessante ontwikkeling plaats en dat is dat Amerika nu ook begint met het demoniseren van Rusland in de ruimte.
Zo komt er via de BBC een bericht naar buiten over een eind vorig jaar gelanceerde Russische raket die zich heel vreemd en hoogst verdacht zou hebben gedragen. Tijdens een persconferentie van het Amerikaanse Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken in Zwitserland op 14 augustus jongstleden werd dit bekendgemaakt.
Omdat deze satelliet zich klaarblijkelijk anders gedraagt dan normaal gesproken het geval is, zeiden de Amerikanen dat ze vermoeden hier te maken te hebben met een nieuw wapen.
Rusland reageerde onmiddellijk fel door te zeggen dat dit alles ongefundeerd is en bovendien een erg lasterlijke beschuldiging.
Amerika kan het niet uitstaan dat ze niet precies weten wat de bedoeling is van deze satelliet, ze zeggen dat althans niet te weten, temeer omdat ook de commandant van de Russische Space Force bekendmaakte dat ze bezig zijn met nieuwe prototype ruimtewapens.
Dit is de reden dat Amerika nu zegt heel erg bezorgd te zijn omdat ze hier misschien te maken hebben met een antisatelliet wapen. Iets wat dan gebruik zou maken van lasers of microgolven om andere satellieten uit te schakelen.
We schreven afgelopen december dat het erop lijkt alsof er iets groots gaande is in de ruimte en dat vermoeden wordt alleen maar bevestigd door bovenstaande berichten.
Tyler van Secureteam besteed ook aandacht aan dit onderwerp en gaat vrolijk mee in het “wat zijn de Russen van plan” verhaal, maar daarnaast heeft hij ook een interessante theorie.
En dat is dat diezelfde satellieten met hun lasers en microgolven natuurlijk ook gebruikt kunnen worden om in te werken op de bevolking. Hij noemt dan als voorbeeld de recente voorvallen waarbij Amerikaans ambassadepersoneel in landen zoals Cuba plotseling allemaal vreemde klachten meldden die overeenkomen met symptomen als gevolg van aanvallen met microgolven.
Wellicht komt daar één van de grootste gevaren voor ons gewone volk vandaan, ongeacht wie het doet. Wij hebben geen enkele inzage in wat er precies in die ruimte gebeurt en zonder dat wij het weten kunnen we blootgesteld zijn aan allerlei geheimzinnige invloeden door middel van lasers en microgolven.
Denk daarbij bijvoorbeeld ook aan de vele bosbranden in Californië waar wij eerder een artikel over schreven en die in ieder geval voor een deel zijn aangestoken door laserstralen.
Het worden gevaarlijke tijden voor ons mensen. Naarmate er meer en meer oorlog-achtige activiteiten in de ruimte zullen worden ontplooid, wordt het risico voor ons hier op de grond met de dag groter. En hoe het werkelijk zit zullen we misschien nooit weten.
The movie “Independence Day” highlighted the importance of countries have a plan for dealing with the arrival of alien spacecrafts. While the talk of a “Space Force” in the U.S. indicates that we’re at least talking about it (and likely have something already in place behind the scenes), what about other countries? While the Swiss are always ready with their knives, what about their neighbors in Germany? Germans may be getting a little nervous after a question asked of a lawmaker about their country’s space alien preparedness program generated the wrong answer.
“Not the German Federal Government. It confirms in writing (pdf document) that on the part of the Federal Government and its subordinate authorities there are no plans or protocols for a possible first contact with extraterrestrial life, because they “on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany according to current scientific knowledge for extreme unlikely holds “.”
Uh-oh.
Dieter Janecek, Green Party leader and a member of the German Parliament since 2013, revealed that answer to his questions to the government about its plans for close encounters of any kind with an alien species.
“Aliens so far obviously have no role in international diplomacy.”
Of course, the government is referring to “space” aliens and points out that climate change and other problems on Earth deserve more of its and other world organizations’ attention. But … no plans at all in this era when some polls indicate that half of all Americans and Western Europeans believe Earth has already been visited by alien species?
Perhaps this is a distraction. After all, Germany has a rich history of stories of Nazi flying saucers, secret UFO bases, foo fighters, rocketry development and the rumors that all of these technologies came from reverse-engineering crashed alien spaceships.
Does Germany already have a Space Force? Is the U.S. playing catch up? Or is this one of those areas where there is secret cooperation behind the scenes to avoid international panic over a possible alien encounter – friendly or worse than any Independence Day sequel?
When will fictional alien encounters become reality? The Little Prince, one of the most famous fictional alien contacts, has just been translated into Klingon. For whom?
A YouTube video posted earlier this year has gained international attention after it was picked up and reposted last week on UFO and British tabloid websites, said The Charlotte Observer.
The footage, recorded May 29 by “Jason Swing,” shows a long tubular object hovering for more than two minutes over North Carolina’s Lake Norman, north of Charlotte.
Swing called the object “a spacecraft” at the beginning of his video.
“It had been raining all morning. Rain finally stopped so we went (to) pick up a boat from Lake Norman,” Swing wrote in the about section of the video. “When (I) came around the corner I saw this thing sitting still very close.”
Swing’s extremely shaky cellphone video went unnoticed for weeks and even months on end but gained international attention after being featured in two British tabloids and Russia’s Sputnik News.
Comments on Swing’s video have ranged from mockery to support for the UFO theory.
According to a Goodyear tweet, the Goodyear blimp was reportedly circling the region on May 29, for NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 race.
Goodyear Blimp✔@GoodyearBlimp
Wanna see - and hear - what it’s really like to watch the green flag drop from the Goodyear Blimp? This is how our pilots saw the #CocaCola600 start!
Since the video went viral, social media trolls have not been kind to Swing, with many criticizing his amateurish video work. One user even said it looked like Swing was recording the object “while jumping on a Pogostick.”
“So annoying that people can’t film properly. I get that they are scared, but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” user Tom Brown wrote.
“A line in the sky can’t be that scary. [It] wasn’t moving or flashing lights [and] there was no indication that it was alien and not some kind of craft made by humans. Who knows. Wish people would film things properly these days. It’s 2018 and we can’t even get a good UFO video. Ah well until we get true disclosure nothing will ever change.”
Here are some comments from the YouTube video (unedited):
“Yes, we have many of them here. Among other things we’ve seen here. There is more going on than you know.”
“How difficult it is to stand on an empty road and hold the freakin’ phone right?”
“Also known as the Goodyear blimp. Real common to that area — like most anytime there is a game or race at the speedway about thirty miles south of Lake Norman. I, myself, have spoken to blimp aliens. They are an impressive life form, but for some odd reason they refused to take me aboard their mother ship.”
“So irritating when someone is incapable of keeping their phone the least bit still. Wish I had the last two minutes of my life back.”
“I suspect hoax and a scam due to the SHORT nature of the video and the OVERLY SHAKY cam that can only be intentional.”
“It was terrifying. His shaking made me want to call 911 for him.”
“Just a passenger jet coming out of Charlotte Douglas Airport. Flying low (below the cloud deck) on northbound track from airport. See this all the time up there. Look at the tops of the trees and bushes each time the video shows the plane and you see that it is steadily moving left to right. Going to look like hovering and slow movement since it is about 4 miles away.”
North Carolina Man Films ‘UFO’ Hovering Over Lake, Then Goodyear Makes Astonishing Announcement
North Carolina Man Films ‘UFO’ Hovering Over Lake, Then Goodyear Makes Astonishing Announcement
by GIOVANNA BOLDRINI
“It was like nothing that I’d ever seen before,” says Jason Swing, the man who spotted the mysterious object floating in the sky.
Did Man Film a UFO Hovering Over North Carolina Lake?
Jason shot the viral video on a cellphone. In the distance, you can see a large object seeming to hold perfectly still in the sky. You can even hear Jason commenting in the background as he films, clearly emotional and stunned by the sight.
Conspiracy theorists and alien fanatics around the world quickly dubbed it a UFO. Which was technically true — until anyone figured out what the thing was, it was an unidentified flying object.
Problem is, it didn’t take long at all to figure out what Jason saw.
Locals in the area quickly put two and two together and realized that the UFO was actually a blimp. A very famous blimp, one that just about everyone in the country has seen at one point or another.
“We don’t want to get in the way of a good story,” said a representative for the Goodyear blimp, “but that’s definitely us.”
The iconic aircraft was covering a local NASCAR race. Meaning that, unless Goodyear has begun hiring extraterrestrials, this does not count as an alien sighting.
But one man still isn’t convinced. “I never seen a blimp that looked like that,” claims Jason.
If you’ve got loads of experience in top-secret missions and an affinity for UFOs, then a job opportunity has arrived that may be impossible to pass up.
“Janet Airlines,” the unofficial name of the classified fleet for the US Air Force, is looking for a pilot to join their secretive ranks at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
The planes, which don’t carry any company logos and are painted white with a horizontal red band along the side, transport military and contract employees to restricted sites, including the infamous Area 51 and the TonoPah Test Range in Nevada.
They are referred to as “Janet” because that is the call sign they use while flying over civilian airspace — it’s believed to stand for “Just Another Non-Existent Terminal.”
A job opening has been posted on the website of private defense contractor AECOM for a First Officer based in Vegas. Although it doesn’t go into specifics about where they will be flying, the demands for those applying are high.
The posting calls for the applicants to “have a minimum of 3,000 fixed wing flying hours in-seat with 300 in-seat hours within the last 5 years.” The advert also says applicants “must qualify for and maintain a TS government security clearance and associated work location access.”
In January, AECOM also posted a job opportunity for flight attendants.
Founded in 1972, the “Janet” fleet as of 2015 consisted of six Boeing 737-600s, as well as five smaller executive turboprops, according to Jalopnik.
The CIA only acknowledged the existence of Area 51 back in 2013 thanks to declassified documents.
George Washington University’s National Security Archive obtained a CIA history of the U-2 spy plane program through a public records request and released it five years ago.
A Look Back: Charles Hickson talks of his abduction by a UFO in Pascagoula
A Look Back: Charles Hickson talks of his abduction by a UFO in Pascagoula
Billy Watkins Mississippi Clarion Ledger
One of two men who claimed to have been abducted by a UFO in Pascagoula in 1973, Calvin Parker, has finally explained what he remembers about that night 45 years ago in a new book, "Pascagoula — The Closest Encounter, My Story"
The other man, Charles Hickson, told Clarion Ledger columnist Billy Watkins his account of the event in great detail 16 years ago at his home on the Gulf Coast. Hickson died Sept. 9, 2011, at the age of 80. During that interview, he revealed something he had never talked about publicly.
GAUTIER — Charles Hickson has no proof. No photograph he can pull from his wallet, no papers certifying his story.
Just his word that 29 years ago this month he and a fishing buddy were abducted by a UFO, examined by a machine resembling a giant eyeball, then released physically unharmed.
He has told his story under hypnosis, told it to Johnny Carson on national TV. Recently, while sipping coffee in his modest home in Gautier, he told the story to a Clarion-Ledger reporter. His account of that night never changes. He has passed numerous lie-detector tests.
What Hickson hasn't talked about publicly, until now, is that he believes whatever - or whoever - was on that craft has kept track of him.
"I think they know where I am at all times," he says. "Too many strange things have happened."
Hickson, a retired shipyard foreman with five children and a no-nonsense demeanor, is 71 and spends most of his time caring for Blanche, his wife of 48 years who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis. He is fighting health problems of his own, including clogged arteries in his neck.
Hickson says he is a God-fearing man who "believes Jesus Christ died for my sins." Whether people believe his UFO story doesn't seem to be a big deal to him. "If you were in my place right now, I'm not sure I'd believe you or not," he said.
But others saw something that night, too.
Several people later reported strange lights in the Gulf Coast sky just after sunset on Oct. 11, 1973 - about the time Hickson and then 19-year-old Calvin Parker say they were abducted.
Mike Cataldo, a retired Navy chief petty officer now living in Rotonda West, Fla., says he saw "a very strange object on the horizon" late that afternoon while driving on U.S. 90, between Pascagoula and Ocean Springs.
"Puddin' Broadus, a Pascagoula detective back then, told me he saw something streak through the air," says Glenn Ryder, a former captain with the Jackson County Sheriff's department who was the first to interrogate Hickson and Parker. "Puddin's dead now, but he was a fine man. He wouldn't make up something like that.
"A guard at Ingalls (Shipbuilding) saw it. Another guy was in his back yard and said he saw something streak above his house.
"When we studied it, all those reports were in a straight line. And I'll tell you this: After talking with (Hickson and Parker) that night, I'm convinced they had some kind of experience. I don't know exactly what, but something happened to them. They were both shook up, especially that boy.”
Parker, now 48, has avoided the media in recent years.
In this Oct. 9, 2013 file photo, Calvin Parker, Jr., stands in the area where he and fellow Mississippian Charles Hickson were allegedly abducted by aliens on Oct. 11, 1973, on th+e banks of the Pascagoula River in Pascagoula Miss. The incident made headlines, sparked UFO sightings nationwide and became one of the most widely examined cases on record.
File/AP
"This thing really messed Calvin up," Hickson says. "He was so young ... he just couldn't handle it."
In a 1993 interview with The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Parker said he was convinced it was demons, sent directly from Satan, who visited them that night.
Beverly Parker, Calvin's stepmother who lives with his father in Kiln, says they haven't heard from him "in a couple of months." Last she knew, Calvin was working construction in North Carolina and "doing pretty good."
The UFO incident is "something he won't talk about anymore," she says.
'Looked like they had elephant skin'
It is late on a Saturday night, and Blanche Hickson has gone to bed. The house is quiet and dark, except for a single lamp softly illuminating the den.
"I don't mind talking about it," Charles Hickson says, settling his 5-foot-8, 172-pound body into an easy chair. "I don't seek folks out to tell it, but it's something I feel like people deserve to know if they ask."
Hickson begins his story:
"Calvin was working for me at Walker's Shipyard, and doing a dadgum good job. Calvin and his brother had sorta grown up with my oldest boy, Eddie. Some evenings after work, we'd go fishing.
"We got off about 4 o'clock that day and came by my house to get the fishing tackle, then we went and got some shrimp for bait. We tried several places and hadn't caught anything. I said, 'Calvin, there's one more place I want to try. If they don't bite there, we'll give it up and go on home.'
"So we went down toward Ingalls and started fishing off a pier. We sat there for a while, and I finally got a bite. I was reeling in and started hearing this hissing sound. Like steam coming out of a pipe.
"I looked around, and it just startled me. Something was hovering two or three feet above the ground, probably no more than 10 or 15 yards from us. There were two blue flashing lights on the top part of the end that was toward us. I couldn't tell if it was round or oblong. I could see a little dome on top, but I couldn't see all the way around the thing so I couldn't tell for sure how big it was.
"I jumped to my feet, looked over at Calvin, and he looked plumb strange. Then a door opened and this brilliant light came out of it. I couldn't figure what in the world was happening. I've known fear. I fought 20 months in hand-to-hand combat in Korea. The only thing I'm scared of is a snake. I'll run from a snake. But this wasn't normal.
"All of a sudden, these three things began coming out of that door. They looked like they had elephant skin. Wrinkled. Real wrinkled. And triangle shaped ears that had to be some sort of antennas.
"These things were robots. They seemed to come right out of that beam of light. They never touched the ground. They moved right out there beside me and Calvin. I couldn't move, and neither could he. Two of ''em came around behind me, took me under each arm. When they grabbed me, I seemed to rise to their height. They weren't as tall as me, but they sorta had me in a leaning position.
"One took hold of Calvin, and I saw him go limp. He told me later that he fainted. They took us through that doorway, in the middle of a room, and I couldn't see Calvin anymore. There was nothing in there ... just a real bright glow. I couldn't move anything but my eyes.
"They let go of me. I still wasn't touching nothing, just kinda floating. All I could think was, 'What are they gonna do with us?' I figured they'd take us off, and we'd never see our families again.
"I didn't see (the robots) for a while. Then an eyeball, about the size of a football, came out of the wall. It moved right in front of my face. I saw dials and gadgets moving around. It went behind me, then came back over me. Then it disappeared back into the wall.
"I was just about out of my mind. I thought they were gonna kill me. Folks would think we fell off in the river and drowned, and nobody would ever know about this.
"It seemed like a long time, but it couldn't have been more than a few minutes. (The robots) came and carried me back outside. They didn't throw me down, they eased me down. And when they did, I fell to the ground. My legs were real weak.
"I saw Calvin standing there, staring out at the water. He was in shock. I've seen men in shock, and if you don't do something pretty quick, they'll die. I started going over to where he was, and I saw the craft leave. The blue lights were on again, I remember that.
"When I got to Calvin, I had to slap him a time or two. I finally got him to where he could say something. He said, 'Charlie, what in the world was that?' I said 'Son, I don't know. But they didn't kill us.' “
'What if it's a threat to our country?'
As they drove away in Parker's Plymouth, Hickson and Parker agreed not to tell anyone about the incident.
"I knew people would call us crazy and everything else," Hickson says. "But I thought about it some more and said, 'What if it's a threat to our country?' That's when I decided to call Keesler (Air Force Base in Biloxi)."
The person who answered the phone at Keesler said they didn't investigate UFOs and suggested Hickson call the sheriff's department.
That's when Hickson spoke with Glenn Ryder from a convenience store pay phone.
"He said, 'I want to tell you something, but you've got to promise not to laugh,' " recalls Ryder, now 63 and retired. "I was about to get off work, so it kinda aggravated me. I said, 'If you want to tell me something, then tell me.' He asked me again to promise not to laugh, so I promised.
"He said, 'I just got picked up by a UFO.' And, of course, I busted out laughing. He got real upset, so I apologized and told him to go ahead with his story. I could tell he was serious."
Ryder convinced Hickson and Parker to drive to the sheriff's office. He called Jackson County sheriff Fred Diamond, now deceased, to join him for the questioning.
Ryder remembers: "When they walked in, Charlie said, 'I just want to tell you up front, I've had a drink. I had to do something to try and settle my nerves.'
"The young boy was real fidgety. He was about to crawl the walls."
Hickson and Parker told the officers what had happened. Ryder says it was a struggle to keep a straight face.
Then he and Diamond plotted to find out the truth. "We kept a tape recorder in the top drawer of the desk," Ryder says. "It was a small office, so it would pick up everything said in there. We let them go to the bathroom and decided to turn the recorder on, then leave them alone for a while.
"We did that, and when we listened to the tape later, we expected to hear them saying, 'Boy, we sure fooled them' or something like that."
But they didn't. Here is the transcript from the hidden recorder.
Parker: "I got to get home and get to bed or get some nerve pills or see the doctor or something. I can't stand it. I'm about to go half crazy."
Hickson: "I tell you, when we're through, I'll get you something to settle you down so you can get some damn sleep."
Parker: "I can't sleep yet like it is. I'm just damn near crazy."
Hickson: "Calvin, when they brought you out - when they brought me out of that thing - (expletive) I like to never in hell got you straightened out."
Parker: "My damn arms, my arms. I remember they just froze up and I couldn't move. Just like I stepped on a damn rattlesnake."
Hickson: "They didn't do me that way."
Parker: "I passed out. I expect I never passed out in my whole life."
Hickson: "I've never seen nothing like that before in my life. You can't make people believe ..."
Parker: "I don't want to keep sitting here. I want to see a doctor."
Hickson: "They better wake up and start believing."
Parker: "You see how that damn door come right up?"
Hickson: "I don't know how it opened, son. I don't know."
Parker: "I just laid up, and just like that, those (expletive) come out."
Hickson: "I know. You can't believe it. You can't make people believe it."
Parker: "I paralyzed right then. I couldn't move."
Hickson: "They won't believe it. They gonna believe it one of these days. Might be too late. I knew all along they was people from other worlds up there. I knew all along. I never thought it would happen to me."
Parker: "You know yourself I don't drink."
Hickson: "I know that, son. When I get to the house, I'm gonna get me another drink, make me sleep. Look, what we sitting around for? I got to go tell Blanche ... what we waiting for?"
Parker: "I gotta go to the house. I'm getting sick. I gotta get out of here."
Hickson leaves the room, and Parker is left alone.
Parker: "It's hard to believe ... Oh, God, it's awful. I know there's a God up there."
Parker begins to pray. His words become inaudible.
'There were people on that spaceship'
*When he got home, Hickson told his wife what had happened and where he had been.
"I was like everybody else ... I had a hard time believing it," Blanche Hickson says. "But three or four hours later, I knew something was wrong. I was up all night, wiping sweat off of him. He'd jump straight up in the bed. He was scared to death."
Hickson went to work the next morning. "I had to get my men going," he says. "But as soon as I got back to my office, the phone rang. It was a reporter from Jackson, asking what had happened the night before. I just slung the phone down."
Diamond called minutes later. He said word had leaked out and that his office was flooded with reporters.
He asked me to come over and talk to them, and I told him I wasn't going no damn where," Hickson says.
Hickson took off work for two weeks, hoping things would die down. They didn't.
Officials at Keesler interviewed him and Parker. Reporters and astronomers were coming to Hickson's house, begging for details.
"It got to the point where I was like, 'They know about it. I might as well tell them what happened.' And I told Calvin that," he says.
Hickson and Parker were all over the national news and made the talk-show circuit: The Dick Cavett Show, The Mike Douglas Show, The Tonight Show.
Something surprised Hickson: "Nobody was laughing at us, at least not to our face. I never took any ridicule. My children at school never took any ridicule. It surprised me."
Hickson became friends with Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University and one of the world's leading UFO investigators at the time. Hynek is now deceased.
"He convinced me to undergo hypnosis," Hickson says. "I wasn't sure about it at first, but I did it several times."
His story was basically the same during each session.
"But under deep hypnosis once, I discovered something that still gives me chills," Hickson says. "There were people on that spaceship— living beings in another compartment. They never came in there where we were. And I'm telling you, they looked almost like us.
"Only thing I can figure is that they couldn't live in our atmosphere, so they let the robots come out there and carry us inside."
The Pascagoula incident was not the first — nor the last — reported abduction. The first documented case involved Barney and Betty Hill, who said they were taken aboard an alien craft in 1961 while driving in New Hampshire.
Hickson visited Betty Hill in Boston a few months after his encounter. "Her husband had died, but she wanted to try and find out if it could've been the same craft," he says. "From what she described to me, I told her I didn't think so."
Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, has studied both cases extensively.
"It was the Pascagoula case that played a crucial role in convincing my predecessor (Robert J. Gribble) to set up this center," says Davenport, a graduate of Stanford University with degrees in Russian and biology.
"He said cases like Mr. Hickson's and Mr. Parker's made him realize the need for a centralized place where people could call and report things they had seen."
Davenport realizes many people believe UFOs are about as real as the Tooth Fairy.
He is not one of them. When he was 6, Davenport witnessed a bright red object, the size of a full moon, hovering like a traffic signal in the night sky above a drive-in theater in St. Louis. "People were getting out of their cars and pointing and actually running toward it," he says. "In a matter of seconds, it accelerated and was gone over the horizon.
"My father had seen it with binoculars from the airport tower where he worked. I always thought it was strange he didn't care to talk about it."
Davenport can cite numerous inexplicable cases, including the Phoenix Lights of 1997. "Tens of thousands of people witnessed objects acting in an utterly bizarre fashion over Arizona," he says. "The objects hovered, then flew at supersonic speed through the air space of at least three major airports."
He says five years ago, "prestigious people" with the U.S. government requested a meeting with him in Washington.
"They asked not to be identified," Davenport says, "and they were 32 minutes late to the meeting. But when they got there, they said, 'As a courtesy to you, we'd first like to tell you our position on UFOs. One, we know they're real. Two, they appear to be sophisticated crafts under intelligent control. And, three, we're worried about them.'
"That confirmed everything I had suspected up to that time. I don't think I'm crazy. I don't think I'm dumb. And I believe the UFO phenomenon is real."
So does John Podesta, President Clinton's former White House chief of staff. Just last week, Podesta said he will be leading a group to gain access to secret governmental records about UFOs.
"It's time to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon," he said.
'See if that light ain't following us'
On Mother's Day, May 1974, Hickson was riding back from a family get-together in Jones County with his wife, their youngest son (Curtis), their daughter (Sheila) and the man she was married to at the time.
"It was almost midnight," Hickson says, "and I kept noticing a light back behind us. I nudged Sheila, who was sitting on the front seat beside me, and said, 'Look out that window and see if that light ain't following us.'
She looked out the window and just froze. Blanche saw it and started screaming."
Seconds later, a saucer-shaped craft was hovering 150 feet above, and to the right, of their car.
"I saw it with my own eyes," says Sheila Hynum of Vicksburg, who was 18 at the time. "Mama was so scared, she was screaming."
"It was a terrifying thing to see," Blanche Hickson says. "It affected me bad. Tore me up. We stopped the car and Charles wanted to get out, but I wouldn't let him. We were all grabbing him and holding him.
"It hovered there a while, then just disappeared."
Charles Hickson, whose 1983 book UFO: Contact at Pascagoula will be re-issued in November, says that wasn't the first sighting he'd had since the initial encounter.
While squirrel hunting in February 1974, he knelt down beside a tree to eat a sandwich. Through the brush, he says, part of a craft was visible. Suddenly, he heard a voice.
"It was like a radio signal or something inside my head," he says. "They said, 'Tell people we mean you no harm. You have endured. You have been chosen. There is no need for fear. Your world needs help. We will help before it is too late. You are not prepared to understand. We will return again soon.'
"I picked up my gun and came straight home."
The same voice, with the same message, came to him again a month later in his backyard. Since then, he says, all the fear has left him.
"I want to go to that world - wherever it is they came from," he says. "I don't think they'd carry me if they couldn't bring me back. And if they ever decide to destroy this world, they might save a few of the people. I'd like to think I'd be one of those."
Well past midnight now, Hickson gets up from his chair, leaves the den, and returns with a large brown envelope. He pulls out several X-rays and shows them to the visiting reporter.
"See that little mole-looking thing behind my (right) eye?" he says, holding the image over the lamp. "I think they implanted something in there. I've been to the VA hospital in New Orleans twice. Been to a cancer doctor at Tulane University. Nobody can figure out what it is.
"Me, I think it's maybe how they keep track of me. It doesn't hurt. Doesn't affect my vision. It just showed up when they were taking pictures of the arteries in my neck.
There a few things that bring us more joy than a grainy video of a UFO sighting that is more than likely just a bird or a plane.
Though this footage from North Carolina native Jason Swing is somewhat convincing.
On 29 May, he spotted what appears to be a large object hovering about Lake Norman.
It had been raining in the area all morning but once the skies had cleared he could see an object floating in mid-air, according to Swing.
In the clip, Swing claims that the object is a 'spacecraft' before adding:
It had been raining all morning. Rain finally stopped so went (to) pick up a boat from Lake Norman.
When (I) came around the corner I saw this thing sitting still very close.
Although the video is very shaky and almost never gets a clear shot of the object, it hasn't stopped the video from becoming a hit on YouTube from being viewed over 250,000 times.
Speculation immediately began to circulate as what the object was with some commenters claiming that it could be some sort of secret military aircraft.
One user said:
I believe there are advanced Military Aircraft, in our skies.
It's amazing people don't know how to use the vide, and focus on their camera's.
They are pre-programming the masses, EVERYTHING lately is about Aliens and UFO's.
However, the truth behind the object has already been revealed and be prepared for some major disappointment.
After a few users suggested that it could be the famous Goodyear Blimp which would have been in the Charlotte area on that date, appearing at NASCAR'S Coca-Cola 600 race.
This was later confirmed by the tyre manufacture themselves. The Daily Mail quotes them as saying:
We don’t want to get in the way of a good story, but that’s definitely us.
We left the Charlotte area 5/29 after covering the Coke 600.
Weirdly this isn't the first time the blimp has been mistaken for a UFO. It happened previously at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London and was once again debunked by the company.
That being said North Carolina is a notorious location for UFO sightings and is in the top 10 states for extraterrestrial activity, which could be blamed on the multiple military bases that reside there.
Three transparent Spheres with figures inside caught over Lake Okanagan, Canada
Three transparent Spheres with figures inside caught over Lake Okanagan, Canada
A photographer has captured three transparent spheres over Lake Okanagan. The spheres are exactly the same and inside every sphere is a similar figure visible, something what is characteristic of other comparable spheres with figures inside spheres.
At first glance it looks like a camera reflection, but these spheres look quite different in comparing with the typical full greenish and bluish dots in the sky caused by camera reflection.
These types of spheres are not yet fully understood, but it is said that intelligent life uses these types of spheres as a means of transportation.
Photographer says: On July 10, 2018, on the way back from a motorcycle trip in the North Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada, we stopped one last time in the late afternoon at Okanagan Centre, Lake Country, to watch the sun hovering above the westerly mountains over Lake Okanagan.
I took several pictures overlooking the lake, in a westerly direction, of Okanagan Centre Road.
At this particular time, my fiancee and I did not saw or heard anything flying in the air. However, after viewing the pictures on our computer screen, we noticed what appears to be "3 orbs".
On closer observation however, the "objects" seem to be of perfect round shapes. They seem transparent with some reflection from the inside. One can see what appears to be some greenish light.
The other pictures we took, we haven't found anything out of the ordinary. Several pictures were taken within several minutes. Photographer has submitted the image to Mufon case 94181.
Huge cylinder UFO filmed in New York identical to UFO filmed over Lake Norman
Huge cylinder UFO filmed in New York identical to UFO filmed over Lake Norman
On Aug 19, 2018 a huge cylinder shaped UFO has been filmed in New York. The witness stated that something strange happened on a sunny day when he noticed a huge UFO in the sky upon he started to film the object that slowly moved forwards.
The appearance of this UFO comes shortly after a similar UFO appeared above Mooreesville NC, Lake Norman.
The witness who recorded a shaky footage of the UFO above Lake Norman said: “I was at work and it had been raining all morning. Rain finally stopped so we went to pick up a boat from Lake Norman. When came around the corner I saw this thing sitting still very close.”
Arecibo Observatory: Watching for Asteroids, Waiting for E.T.
Arecibo Observatory: Watching for Asteroids, Waiting for E.T.
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Astronomers use the huge Arecibo Observatory, a radio telescope in Puerto Rico, to study the close flyby of Earth by asteroids.
Credit: Arecibo Observatory/NSF
Arecibo Observatory, which is in Puerto Rico, is the location of the world's second-largest single-dish radio telescope. Because radio telescopes can work at all times of day and in all kinds of weather, the observatory operates 24 hours a day.
While the observatory does a lot of astronomy work, it is perhaps most famous for being the site of the huge Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) message directed at the globular cluster M13 in 1974.
Besides its scientific work, Arecibo is known for being the location of a climactic fight in "Goldeneye," a 1995 James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan.
The telescope is part of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center. The National Science Foundation has a co-operative agreement with the three entities that operate it: SRI International, the Universities Space Research Association and Puerto Rico's Metropolitan University (UMET).
In February 2018, the National Science Foundation — which has provided most of the observatory's funding since the 1970s — announced that it will cut its annual contribution from $8 million to $2 million by FY2023. In April 2018, the University of Central Florida in Orlando took over management and operations of the observatory.
Construction
Five decades ago, scientists sought a radio telescope that was close to the equator, according to Arecibo's website. This location would allow the telescope to track planets passing overhead, while also probing the nature of the ionosphere — the layer of the atmosphere in which charged particles produce the northern lights.
Cornell University's William Gordon, who pursued atmospheric studies, was one of the main forces behind Arecibo's construction, and its first director. The telescope was built in an area of limestone sinkholes that "provided a natural geometry."
The reflective dish is 1,000 feet (305 meters) in diameter, 167 feet (51 m) deep, and covers an area of about 20 acres (81,000 square meters). A triangular platform is suspended 450 feet (137 m) above the dish by three concrete towers. The platform holds the azimuth arm, a dome containing two subreflectors, and a set of antennae that can be tuned to a narrow band of frequencies.
On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria ravaged the island of Puerto Rico, damaging the Arecibo Observatory. The Category 4 storm killed hundreds of people and caused widespread power outages that lasted for months. Power to the observatory was restored on Dec. 9, 2017.
The most significant damage was to the 96-foot (29 meters) "line feed" antenna, which was suspended above the radio dish. It broke off during the hurricane and punctured the dish below when it fell. A federal spending bill passed in February 2018 to provide relief to Puerto Rico allocated $16.3 million to repairing the Arecibo Observatory.
"Emergency repairs that needed immediate attention, such as patching roofs and repairing electrical feeds, have been underway since May after the site received hurricane-relief funding," the University of Central Florida said in a statement issued in August 2018. "Additional repairs that will require more time and expertise will be completed as soon as possible."
Arecibo message
Arecibo broadcast a pictorial message into space in 1974, aiming for M13 — a globular cluster of stars. It will take some time for the message to get there, as M13 is about 21,000 light-years away.
Asteroid 2012 LZ1 is roughly spherical and rotates once around every 10 to15 hours. This detailed image was taken on July 19, 2012 by researchers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, when the asteroid was 6 million miles (10 million kilometers) away. The resolution is 25 feet (7.5 meters), equivalent to seeing a basketball in New York City from Puerto Rico.
Credit: USRA
According to SETI, the broadcast is roughly the same as a 20-trillion-watt omnidirectional broadcast. In simple terms, the broadcast would be visible by just about any receiver in the galaxy that is about the same size as the antenna at Arecibo.
"We translated the radio-frequency message into a warbling audio tone that was broadcast over speakers at the ceremony. When [the tone] started, much of the audience spontaneously got up and walked out of the tent and gazed up at the telescope," recalled past Arecibo director Harold Craft in a 1999 Cornell University press release marking the 25th anniversary.
In the decades following, SETI has trumpeted the message as a significant step to helping understand the challenges of communicating with aliens. "Although it's unlikely that this short inquiry will ever prompt a reply, the experiment was useful in getting us to think a bit about the difficulties of communicating across space, time, and a presumably wide culture gap," SETI wrote on its website.
Tracking asteroids, exoplanets
These days, Arecibo is frequently used for finding asteroids that are swinging close to Earth. The observatory focuses on those that could pose a danger to the planet, making an effort to accurately measure their sizes to gauge the potential impact it could have.
In 2013, for example, the observatory watched the arrival of asteroid 2012 DA14, which passed within 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers) of Earth. It was a close flyby, but NASA emphasized the asteroid passed by at a safe distance.
Besides asteroid research, Arecibo is also the site of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. The group has a habitable planets catalog that tracks the number of alien worlds in other solar systems that could be in the Goldilocks zone, or area that is not too hot or cold for life, of their respective stars.
This article is about consideration of the possible effects on humanity of potential future extraterrestrial contact. For the fictional treatment of the subject, see First contact (science fiction). For the search for intelligent life beyond Earth, see Search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
The cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact is the corpus of changes to terrestrial science, technology, religion, politics, and ecosystems resulting from contact with an extraterrestrialcivilization. It is closely related to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), which attempts to locate intelligent life as opposed to analyzing the implications of contact with that life.
The potential changes from extraterrestrial contact could vary greatly in magnitude and type, based on the extraterrestrial civilization's level of technological advancement, degree of benevolence or malevolence, and level of mutual comprehension between itself and humanity.[1] The medium through which humanity is contacted, be it electromagnetic radiation, direct physical interaction, extraterrestrial artefact, or otherwise, may also influence the results of contact. Incorporating these factors, various systems have been created to assess the implications of extraterrestrial contact.
The implications of extraterrestrial contact, particularly with a technologically superior civilization, have often been likened to the meeting of two vastly different human cultures on Earth, a historical precedent being the Columbian Exchange. Such meetings have generally led to the destruction of the civilization receiving contact (as opposed to the "contactor", which initiates contact), and therefore destruction of human civilization is a possible outcome.[2]Extraterrestrial contact is also analogous to the numerous encounters between non-human native and invasive species occupying the same ecological niche.[3] However, the absence of verified public contact to date means tragic consequences are still largely speculative.
BACKGROUND
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
The Arecibo message, sent to globular cluster M13after the recommendations of Project Cyclops were not implemented[4]
To detect extraterrestrial civilizations with radio telescopes, one must identify an artificial, coherent signal against a background of various natural phenomena that also produce radio waves. Telescopes capable of this include the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the Allen Telescope Array[5] in Hat Creek, California and the new Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in China. Various programs to detect extraterrestrial intelligence have had government funding in the past. Project Cyclops was commissioned by NASA in the 1970s to investigate the most effective way to search for signals from intelligent extraterrestrial sources,[4] but the report's recommendations were set aside in favor of the much more modest approach of Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (METI), the sending of messages that intelligent extraterrestrial beings might intercept. NASA then drastically reduced funding for SETI programs, which have since turned to private donations to continue their search.[6]
With the discovery in the late 20th and early 21st centuries of numerous extrasolar planets, some of which may be habitable, governments have once more become interested in funding new programs. In 2006 the European Space Agency launched COROT, the first spacecraft dedicated to the search for exoplanets,[7] and in 2009 NASA launched the Kepler space observatory for the same purpose.[8]By February 2013 Kepler had detected 105[9] of the 3,815 confirmed exoplanets,[10] and one of them, Kepler-22b, is potentially habitable.[11] After it was discovered, the SETI Institute resumed the search for an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization, focusing on Kepler's candidate planets,[12] with funding from the United States Air Force.[13]
Newly discovered planets, particularly ones that are potentially habitable, have enabled SETI and METI programs to refocus projects for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. In 2009 A Message From Earth (AMFE) was sent toward the Gliese 581 planetary system, which contains two potentially habitable planets, the confirmed Gliese 581d and the more habitable but unconfirmed Gliese 581g.[14] In the SETILive project, which began in 2012, human volunteers analyze data from the Allen Telescope Array to search for possible alien signals that computers might miss because of terrestrial radio interference.[15] The data for the study is obtained by observing Kepler target stars with the radio telescope.[12]
In addition to radio-based methods, some projects, such as SEVENDIP(Search for Extraterrestrial Visible Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations) at the University of California, Berkeley, are using other regions of the electromagnetic spectrum to search for extraterrestrial signals.[16] Various other projects are not searching for coherent signals, but want to rather use electromagnetic radiation to find other evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, such as megascaleastroengineering projects.[17]
Several signals, such as the Wow! signal, have been detected in the history of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, but none have yet been confirmed as being of intelligent origin.[18]
Impact assessment
The implications of extraterrestrial contact depend on the method of discovery, the nature of the extraterrestrial beings, and their location relative to the Earth.[19] Considering these factors, the Rio Scale has been devised in order to provide a more quantitative picture of the results of extraterrestrial contact.[19] More specifically, the scale gauges whether communication was conducted through radio, the information content of any messages, and whether discovery arose from a deliberately beamed message (and if so, whether the detection was the result of a specialized SETI effort or through general astronomical observations) or by the detection of occurrences such as radiation leakage from astroengineering installations.[20] The question of whether or not a purported extraterrestrial signal has been confirmed as authentic, and with what degree of confidence, will also influence the impact of the contact.[20] The Rio Scale was modified in 2011 to include a consideration of whether contact was achieved through an interstellar message or through a physical extraterrestrial artifact, with a suggestion that the definition of artifact be expanded to include "technosignatures", including all indications of intelligent extraterrestrial life other than the interstellar radio messages sought by traditional SETI programs.[21]
A study by astronomer Steven J. Dick at the United States Naval Observatory considered the cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact by analyzing events of similar significance in the history of science.[22]The study argues that the impact would be most strongly influenced by the information content of the message received, if any.[22] It distinguishes short-term and long-term impact.[22] Seeing radio-based contact as a more plausible scenario than a visit from extraterrestrial spacecraft, the study rejects the commonly stated analogy of European colonization of the Americas as an accurate model for information-only contact, preferring events of profound scientific significance, such as the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions, as more predictive of how humanity might be impacted by extraterrestrial contact.[22]
The physical distance between the two civilizations has also been used to assess the cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact. Historical examples show that the greater the distance, the less the contacted civilization perceives a threat to itself and its culture.[23] Therefore, contact occurring within the Solar System, and especially in the immediate vicinity of Earth, is likely to be the most disruptive and negative for humanity.[23] On a smaller scale, people close to the epicenter of contact would experience a greater effect than would those living farther away, and a contact having multiple epicenters would cause a greater shock than one with a single epicenter.[23] Space scientists Martin Dominik and John Zarnecki state that in the absence of any data on the nature of extraterrestrial intelligence, one must predict the cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact on the basis of generalizations encompassing all life and of analogies with history.[24]
The beliefs of the general public about the effect of extraterrestrial contact have also been studied. A poll of United States and Chinese university students in 2000 provides factor analysis of responses to questions about, inter alia, the participants' belief that extraterrestrial life exists in the Universe, that such life may be intelligent, and that humans will eventually make contact with it.[25] The study shows significant weighted correlations between participants' belief that extraterrestrial contact may either conflict with or enrich their personal religious beliefs and how conservative such religious beliefs are. The more conservative the respondents, the more harmful they considered extraterrestrial contact to be. Other significant correlation patterns indicate that participants[which?] took the view that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence may be futile or even harmful.[25]
Psychologists Douglas Vakoch and Yuh-shiow Lee conducted a survey to assess people's reactions to receiving a message from extraterrestrials, including their judgments about likelihood that extraterrestrials would be malevolent.[26] "People who view the world as a hostile place are more likely to think extraterrestrials will be hostile," Vakoch told USA Today.[27]
Post-detection protocols
Various protocols have been drawn up detailing a course of action for scientists and governments after extraterrestrial contact. Post-detection protocols must address three issues: what to do in the first weeks after receiving a message from an extraterrestrial source; whether or not to send a reply; and analyzing the long-term consequences of the message received.[28] No post-detection protocol, however, is binding under national or international law,[24] and Dominik and Zarnecki consider the protocols likely to be ignored if contact occurs.[24]
One of the first post-detection protocols, the "Declaration of Principles for Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence", was created by the SETI Permanent Committee of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).[28] It was later approved by the Board of Trustees of the IAA and by the International Institute of Space Law,[28] and still later by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the Committee on Space Research, the International Union of Radio Science, and others.[28] It was subsequently endorsed by most researchers involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence,[29]including the SETI Institute.[30]
The Declaration of Principles contains the following broad provisions:[31]
Any person or organization detecting a signal should try to verify that it is likely to be of intelligent origin before announcing it.
The discoverer of a signal should, for the purposes of independent verification, communicate with other signatories of the Declaration before making a public announcement, and should also inform their national authorities.
Once a given astronomical observation has been determined to be a credible extraterrestrial signal, the astronomical community should be informed through the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams of the IAU. The Secretary-General of the United Nations and various other global scientific unions should also be informed.
Following confirmation of an observation's extraterrestrial origin, news of the discovery should be made public. The discoverer has the right to make the first public announcement.
All data confirming the discovery should be published to the international scientific community and stored in an accessible form as permanently as possible.
Should evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence take the form of electromagnetic signals, the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) should be contacted, and may request in the next ITU Weekly Circular to minimize terrestrial use of the electromagnetic frequency bandsin which the signal was detected.
Neither the discoverer nor anyone else should respond to an observed extraterrestrial intelligence; doing so requires international agreement under separate procedures.
The SETI Permanent Committee of the IAA and Commission 51 of the IAU should continually review procedures regarding detection of extraterrestrial intelligence and management of data related to such discoveries. A committee comprising members from various international scientific unions, and other bodies designated by the committee, should regulate continued SETI research.
A separate "Proposed Agreement on the Sending of Communications to Extraterrestrial Intelligence" was subsequently created.[32] It proposes an international commission, membership of which would be open to all interested nations, to be constituted on detection of extraterrestrial intelligence.[32] This commission would decide whether to send a message to the extraterrestrial intelligence, and if so, would determine the contents of the message on the basis of principles such as justice, respect for cultural diversity, honesty, and respect for property and territory.[32] The draft proposes to forbid the sending of any message by an individual nation or organization without the permission of the commission, and suggests that, if the detected intelligence poses a danger to human civilization, the United Nations Security Councilshould authorize any message to extraterrestrial intelligence.[32]However, this proposal, like all others, has not been incorporated into national or international law.[32]
Paul Davies, a member of the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup, has stated that post-detection protocols, calling for international consultation before taking any major steps regarding the detection, are unlikely to be followed by astronomers, who would put the advancement of their careers over the word of a protocol that is not part of national or international law.[33]
CONTACT SCENARIOS AND CONSIDERATIONS
Scientific literature and science fiction have put forward various models of the ways in which extraterrestrial and human civilizations might interact. Their predictions range widely, from sophisticated civilizations that could advance human civilization in many areas to imperial powers that might draw upon the forces necessary to subjugate humanity.[1] Some theories suggest that an extraterrestrial civilization could be advanced enough to dispense with biology, living instead inside of advanced computers.[1]
The implications of discovery depend very much on the level of aggressiveness of the civilization interacting with humanity,[34] its ethics,[35] and how much human and extraterrestrial biologies have in common.[36] These factors will govern the quantity and type of dialogue that can take place.[36] The question of whether contact is physical or through electromagnetic signals will also govern the magnitude of the long-term implications of contact.[37] In the case of communication using electromagnetic signals, the long silence between the reception of one message and another would mean that the content of any message would particularly affect the consequences of contact,[38] as would the extent of mutual comprehension.[39]
Friendly civilizations
Many writers have speculated on the ways in which a friendly civilization might interact with humankind. Albert Harrison, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Davis,[40] thought that a highly advanced civilization might teach humanity such things as a physical theory of everything, how to use zero-point energy, or how to travel faster than light.[41] They suggest that collaboration with such a civilization could initially be in the arts and humanities before moving to the hard sciences, and even that artists may spearhead collaboration.[42] Seth D. Baum, of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, and others consider that the greater longevity of cooperative civilizations in comparison to uncooperative and aggressive ones might render extraterrestrial civilizations in general more likely to aid humanity.[43] In contrast to these views, however, Paolo Musso, a member of the SETI Permanent Study Group of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, took the view that extraterrestrial civilizations possess, like humans, a morality driven not entirely by altruism but for individual benefit as well, thus leaving open the possibility that at least some extraterrestrial civilizations are hostile.[44]
An advanced, friendly extraterrestrial civilization might help humanity to eliminate risks that could destroy its fledgling civilization.
Futurist Allen Tough suggests that an extremely advanced extraterrestrial civilization, recalling its own past of war and plunder and knowing that it possesses superweapons that could destroy it, would be likely to try to help humans rather than to destroy them.[45]He identifies three approaches that a friendly civilization might take to help humanity:[45]
Intervention only to avert catastrophe: this would involve occasional limited intervention to stop events that could destroy human civilization completely, such as nuclear war or asteroid impact.[45]
Advice and action with consent: under this approach, the extraterrestrials would be more closely involved in terrestrial affairs, advising world leaders and acting with their consent to protect against danger.[45]
Forcible corrective action: the extraterrestrials could require humanity to reduce major risks against its will, intending to help humans advance to the next stage of civilization.[45]
Tough considers advising and acting only with consent to be a more likely choice than the forceful option. While coercive aid may be possible, and advanced extraterrestrials would recognize their own practices as superior to those of humanity, it may be unlikely that this method would be used in cultural cooperation.[45] Lemarchand suggests that instruction of a civilization in its "technological adolescence", such as humanity, would probably focus on morality and ethics rather than on science and technology, to ensure that the civilization did not destroy itself with technology it was not yet ready to use.[46]
According to Tough, it is unlikely that the avoidance of immediate dangers and prevention of future catastrophes would be conducted through radio, as these tasks would demand constant surveillance and quick action.[45] However, cultural cooperation might take place through radio or a space probe in the Solar System, as radio waves could be used to communicate information about advanced technologies and cultures to humanity.[45]
Even if an ancient and advanced extraterrestrial civilization wished to help humanity, humans could suffer from a loss of identity and confidence due to the technological and cultural prowess of the extraterrestrial civilization.[47] However, a friendly civilization may calibrate its contact with humanity in such a way as to minimize unintended consequences.[34] Michael A. G. Michaud suggests that a friendly and advanced extraterrestrial civilization may even avoid all contact with an emerging intelligent species like humanity, to ensure that the less advanced civilization can develop naturally at its own pace;[48] this is known as the zoo hypothesis.
Hostile civilizations
Science fiction films often depict humans successfully repelling alien invasions, but scientists more often take the view that an extraterrestrial civilization with sufficient power to reach the Earth would be able to destroy human civilization with minimal effort.[49][4][50] Operations that are enormous on a human scale, such as destroying all major population centers on a planet, bombarding a planet with deadly neutron radiation, or even traveling to another planetary system in order to lay waste to it, may be important tools for a hostile and totalitarian civilization.[51]
Deardorff speculates that a small proportion of the intelligent life forms in the galaxy may be aggressive, but the actual aggressiveness or benevolence of the civilizations would cover a wide spectrum, with some civilizations "policing" others.[34] According to Harrison and Dick, hostile extraterrestrial life may indeed be rare in the Universe, just as belligerent and autocratic nations on Earth have been the ones that lasted for the shortest periods of time, and humanity is seeing a shift away from these characteristics in its own sociopolitical systems.[41] In addition, the causes of war may be diminished greatly for a civilization with access to the galaxy, as there are prodigious quantities of natural resources in space accessible without resort to violence.[4][52]
SETI researcher Carl Sagan believed that a civilization with the technological prowess needed to reach the stars and come to Earth must have transcended war to be able to avoid self-destruction. Representatives of such a civilization would treat humanity with dignity and respect, and humanity, with its relatively backward technology, would have no choice but to reciprocate.[53]Seth Shostak, an astronomer at the SETI Institute, disagrees, stating that the finite quantity of resources in the galaxy would cultivate aggression in any intelligent species, and that an explorer civilization that would want to contact humanity would be aggressive.[54] Similarly, Ragbir Bhathalclaims that since the laws of evolution would be the same on another habitable planet as they are on Earth, an extremely advanced extraterrestrial civilization may have the motivation to colonize humanity, much as British colonists did to Aboriginal Australians.[55]
Disputing these analyses, David Brin states that while an extraterrestrial civilization may have an imperative to act for no benefit to itself, it would be naïve to suggest that such a trait would be prevalent throughout the galaxy.[56] Brin points to the fact that in many moral systems on Earth, such as the Aztec or Carthaginian one, non-military killing has been accepted and even "exalted" by society, and further mentions that such acts are not confined to humans but can be found throughout the animal kingdom.[56]
Baum et al. speculate that highly advanced civilizations are unlikely to come to Earth to enslave humans, as the achievement of their level of advancement would have required them to solve the problems of labor and resources by other means, such as creating a sustainable environment and using mechanized labor.[43] Moreover, humans may be an unsuitable food source for extraterrestrials because of marked differences in biochemistry.[4] For example, the chirality of molecules used by terrestrial biota may differ from those used by extraterrestrial beings.[43] Douglas Vakoch argues that transmitting intentional signals does not increase the risk of an alien invasion, contrary to concerns raised by British cosmologist Stephen Hawking,[57][58] because "any civilization that has the ability to travel between the stars can already pick up our accidental radio and TV leakage.”[59][60]
Politicians have also commented on the likely human reaction to contact with hostile species. In his 1987 speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Ronald Reagan said, "I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world."[61]
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Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact - PART II
Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact - PART II
Equally advanced and more advanced civilizations
It is suggested that technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilization would probably be ethically advanced as well and would not attempt projects with severe ecological implications for other species, like the construction of a Dyson sphere.
Robert Freitas speculated in 1978 that the technological advancement and energy usage of a civilization, measured either relative to another civilization or in absolute terms by its rating on the Kardashev scale, may play an important role in the result of extraterrestrial contact.[62]Given the infeasibility of interstellar space flight for civilizations at a technological level similar to that of humanity, interactions between such civilizations would have to take place by radio. Because of the long transit times of radio waves between stars, such interactions would not lead to the establishment of diplomatic relations, nor any significant future interaction at all, between the two civilizations.[62]
According to Freitas, direct contact with civilizations significantly more advanced than humanity would have to take place within the Solar System, as only the more advanced society would have the resources and technology to cross interstellar space.[63] Consequently, such contact could only be with civilizations rated as Type II or higher on the Kardashev scale, as Type I civilizations would be incapable of regular interstellar travel.[63] Freitas expected that such interactions would be carefully planned by the more advanced civilization to avoid mass societal shock for humanity.[63]
However much planning an extraterrestrial civilization may do before contacting humanity, the humans may experience great shock and terror on their arrival, especially as they would lack any understanding of the contacting civilization. Ben Finney compares the situation to that of the tribespeople of New Guinea, an island that was settled fifty thousand years ago during the last glacial period but saw little contact with the outside world until the arrival of European colonial powers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The huge difference between the indigenous stone-age society and the Europeans' technical civilization caused unexpected behaviors among the native populations known as cargo cults: to coax the gods into bringing them the technology that the Europeans possessed, the natives created wooden "radio stations" and "airstrips" as a form of sympathetic magic. Finney argues that humanity may misunderstand the true meaning of an extraterrestrial transmission to Earth, much as the people of New Guinea could not understand the source of modern goods and technologies. He concludes that the results of extraterrestrial contact will become known over the long term with rigorous study, rather than as fast, sharp events briefly making newspaper headlines.[39]
Billingham has suggested that a civilization which is far more technologically advanced than humanity is also likely to be culturally and ethically advanced, and would therefore be unlikely to conduct astroengineering projects that would harm human civilization. Such projects could include Dyson spheres, which completely enclose stars and capture all energy coming from them. Even if well within the capability of an advanced civilization and providing an enormous amount of energy, such a project would not be undertaken.[64] For similar reasons, such civilizations would not readily give humanity the knowledge required to build such devices.[64] Nevertheless, the existence of such capabilities would at least show that civilizations have survived "technological adolescence".[64] Despite the caution that such an advanced civilization would exercise in dealing with the less mature human civilization, Sagan imagined that an advanced civilization might send those on Earth an Encyclopædia Galactica describing the sciences and cultures of many extraterrestrial societies.[65]
Whether an advanced extraterrestrial civilization would send humanity a decipherable message is a matter of debate in itself. Sagan argued that a highly advanced extraterrestrial civilization would bear in mind that they were communicating with a relatively primitive one and therefore would try to ensure that the receiving civilization would be able to understand the message.[66] Arguing against this view, astronomer Guillermo Lemarchand stated that an advanced civilization would probably encrypt a message with high information content, such as an Encyclopædia Galactica, in order to ensure that only other ethically advanced civilizations would be able to understand it.[66]Douglas Vakoch assumes it may take some time to decode any message, telling ABC News that "I don't think we're going to understand immediately what they have to say."[67] “There’s going to be a lot of guesswork in trying to interpret another civilization," he told Science Friday, adding that "in some ways, any message we get from an extraterrestrial will be like a cosmic Rorschach ink blot test.”[68]
Interstellar groups of civilizations
Given the age of the galaxy, Harrison surmises that there exist several "galactic clubs", groupings of multiple civilizations from across the galaxy.[52] Such clubs could begin as loose confederations or alliances, eventually developing into powerful unions of many civilizations.[52] If humanity could enter into a dialogue with one extraterrestrial civilization, it might be able to join such a galactic club. As more extraterrestrial civilizations, or unions thereof, are found, these could also become assimilated into such a club.[52] Sebastian von Hoerner has suggested that entry into a galactic club may be a way for humanity to handle the culture shock arising from contact with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization.[69]
Whether a broad spectrum of civilizations from many places in the galaxy would even be able to cooperate is disputed by Michaud, who states that civilizations with huge differences in the technologies and resources at their command "may not consider themselves even remotely equal".[70] It is unlikely that humanity would meet the basic requirements for membership at its current low level of technological advancement.[43] A galactic club may, William Hamilton speculates, set extremely high entrance requirements that are unlikely to be met by less advanced civilizations.[70]
When two Canadian astronomers argued that they potentially discovered 234 extraterrestrial civilizations through analysis of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database, Douglas Vakoch doubted their explanation for their findings, noting that it would be unusual for all of these stars to pulse at exactly the same frequency unless they were part a coordinated network: “If you take a step back,” he said, “that would mean you have 234 independent stars that all decided to transmit the exact same way.”[71]
Michaud suggests that an interstellar grouping of civilizations might take the form of an empire, which need not necessarily be a force for evil, but may provide for peace and security throughout its jurisdiction.[72] Owing to the distances between the stars, such an empire would not necessarily maintain control solely by military force, but may rather tolerate local cultures and institutions to the extent that these would not pose a threat to the central imperial authority.[72] Such tolerance may, as has happened historically on Earth, extend to allowing nominal self-rule of specific regions by existing institutions, while maintaining that area as a puppet or client state to accomplish the aims of the imperial power.[72] However, particularly advanced powers may use methods, including faster-than-light travel, to make centralized administration more effective.[72]
In contrast to the belief that an extraterrestrial civilization would want to establish an empire, Ćirković proposes that an extraterrestrial civilization would maintain equilibrium rather than expand outward.[73] In such an equilibrium, a civilization would only colonize a small number of stars, aiming to maximize efficiency rather than to expand massive and unsustainable imperial structures.[73] This contrasts with the classic Kardashev Type III civilization, which has access to the energy output of an entire galaxy and is not subject to any limits on its future expansion.[73] According to this view, advanced civilizations may not resemble the classic examples in science fiction, but might more closely reflect the small, independent Greek city-states, with an emphasis on cultural rather than territorial growth.[73]
Extraterrestrial artifacts
Robotic probes may be preferable to radio waves or microwaves as a means of interstellar communication.
An extraterrestrial civilization may choose to communicate with humanity by means of artifacts or probes rather than by radio, for various reasons. While probes may take a long time to reach the Solar System, once there they would be able to hold a sustained dialogue that would be impossible using radio from hundreds or thousands of light-years away.[74] Radio would be completely unsuitable for surveillance and continued monitoring of a civilization, and should an extraterrestrial civilization wish to perform these activities on humanity, artifacts may be the only option other than to send large, crewed spacecraft to the Solar System.[74]
Although faster-than-light travel has been seriously considered by physicists such as Miguel Alcubierre,[75] Tough speculates that the enormous amount of energy required to achieve such speeds under currently proposed mechanisms means that robotic probes traveling at conventional speeds will still have an advantage for various applications.[74] 2013 research at NASA's Johnson Space Center, however, shows that faster-than-light travel with the Alcubierre driverequires dramatically less energy than previously thought,[76] needing only about 1 metric ton of exotic mass-energy[77] to move a spacecraft at 10 times the speed of light, in contrast to previous estimates that stated that only a Jupiter-mass object would contain sufficient energy to power a faster-than-light spacecraft.[note 1]
According to Tough, an extraterrestrial civilization might want to send various types of information to humanity by means of artifacts, such as an Encyclopædia Galactica, containing the wisdom of countless extraterrestrial cultures, or perhaps an invitation to engage in diplomacy with them.[74] A civilization that sees itself on the brink of decline might use the abilities it still possesses to send probes throughout the galaxy, with its cultures, values, religions, sciences, technologies, and laws, so that these may not die along with the civilization itself.[74]
Freitas finds numerous reasons why interstellar probes may be a preferred method of communication among extraterrestrial civilizations wishing to make contact with Earth. A civilization aiming to learn more about the distribution of life within the galaxy might, he speculates, send probes to a large number of star systems, rather than using radio, as one cannot ensure a response by radio but can (he says) ensure that probes will return to their sender with data on the star systems they survey.[78] Furthermore, probes would enable the surveying of non-intelligent populations, or those not yet capable of space navigation (like humans before the 20th century), as well as intelligent populations that might not wish to provide information about themselves and their planets to extraterrestrial civilizations.[78]In addition, the greater energy required to send living beings rather than a robotic probe would, according to Michaud, be only used for purposes such as a one-way migration.[79]
Freitas points out that probes, unlike the interstellar radio waves commonly targeted by SETI searches, could store information for long, perhaps geological, timescales,[78] and could emit strong radio signals unambiguously recognizable as being of intelligent origin, rather than being dismissed as a UFO or a natural phenomenon.[78] Probes could also modify any signal they send to suit the system they were in, which would be impossible for a radio transmission originating from outside the target star system.[78] Moreover, the use of small robotic probes with widely distributed beacons in individual systems, rather than a small number of powerful, centralized beacons, would provide a security advantage to the civilization using them.[78] Rather than revealing the location of a radio beacon powerful enough to signal the whole galaxy and risk such a powerful device being compromised, decentralized beacons installed on robotic probes need not reveal any information that an extraterrestrial civilization prefers others not to have.[78]
Given the age of the Milky Way galaxy, an ancient extraterrestrial civilization may have existed and sent probes to the Solar System millions or even billions of years before the evolution of Homo sapiens.[79] Thus, a probe sent may have been nonfunctional for millions of years before humans learn of its existence.[79] Such a "dead" probe would not pose an imminent threat to humanity, but would prove that interstellar flight is possible.[79] However, if an active probe were to be discovered, humans would react much more strongly than they would to the discovery of a probe that has long since ceased to function.[79]
FURTHER IMPLICATIONS OF CONTACT
Theological
The confirmation of extraterrestrial intelligence could have a profound impact on religious doctrines, potentially causing theologians to reinterpret scriptures to accommodate the new discoveries.[80]However, a survey of people with many different religious beliefsindicated that their faith would not be affected by the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence,[80] and another study, conducted by Ted Peters of the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, shows that most people would not consider their religious beliefs superseded by it.[81]Surveys of religious leaders indicate that only a small percentage are concerned that the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence might fundamentally contradict the views of the adherents of their religion.[82] Gabriel Funes, the chief astronomer of the Vatican Observatoryand a papal adviser on science, has stated that the Catholic Churchwould be likely to welcome extraterrestrial visitors warmly.[83]
Contact with extraterrestrial intelligence would not be completely inconsequential for religion. The Peters study showed that most non-religious people, and a significant minority of religious people, believe that the world could face a religious crisis, even if their own beliefs were unaffected.[81] Contact with extraterrestrial intelligence would be most likely to cause a problem for western religions, in particular traditionalist Christianity, because of the geocentric nature of western faiths.[84] The discovery of extraterrestrial life would not contradict basic conceptions of God, however, and seeing that science has challenged established dogma in the past, for example with the theory of evolution, it is likely that existing religions will adapt similarly to the new circumstances.[85] Douglas Vakoch argues that it is not likely that the discovery of extraterrestrial life will impact religious beliefs.[86] In the view of Musso, a global religious crisis would be unlikely even for Abrahamic faiths, as the studies of himself and others on Christianity, the most "anthropocentric" religion, see no conflict between that religion and the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.[44] In addition, the cultural and religious values of extraterrestrial species would likely be shared over centuries if contact is to occur by radio, meaning that rather than causing a huge shock to humanity, such information would be viewed much as archaeologists and historians view ancient artifacts and texts.[44]
Funes speculates that a decipherable message from extraterrestrial intelligence could initiate an interstellar exchange of knowledge in various disciplines, including whatever religions an extraterrestrial civilization may host.[87] Billingham further suggests that an extremely advanced and friendly extraterrestrial civilization might put an end to present-day religious conflicts and lead to greater religious toleration worldwide.[88] On the other hand, Jill Tarter puts forward the view that contact with extraterrestrial intelligence might eliminate religion as we know it and introduce humanity to an all-encompassing faith.[2]Vakoch doubts that humans would be inclined to adopt extraterrestrial religions,[89] telling ABC News "I think religion meets very human needs, and unless extraterrestrials can provide a replacement for it, I don't think religion is going to go away," and adding, "if there are incredibly advanced civilizations with a belief in God, I don't think Richard Dawkins will start believing."[90]
Political
Tim Folger speculates that news of radio contact with an extraterrestrial civilization would prove impossible to suppress and would travel rapidly,[65] though Cold War scientific literature on the subject contradicts this.[34] Media coverage of the discovery would probably die down quickly, though, as scientists began to decipher the message and learn its true impact.[65] Different branches of government (for example legislative, executive, and judiciary) may pursue their own policies, potentially giving rise to power struggles.[91]Even in the event of a single contact with no follow-up, radio contact may prompt fierce disagreements as to which bodies have the authority to represent humanity as a whole.[43] Michaud hypothesizes that the fear arising from direct contact may cause nation-states to put aside their conflicts and work together for the common defense of humanity.[92]
Apart from the question of who would represent the Earth as a whole, contact could create other international problems, such as the degree of involvement of governments foreign to the one whose radio astronomers received the signal.[93] The United Nations discussed various issues of foreign relations immediately before the launch of the Voyager probes,[94] which in 2012 left the Solar System carrying a golden record in case they are found by extraterrestrial intelligence.[95]Among the issues discussed were what messages would best represent humanity, what format they should take, how to convey the cultural history of the Earth, and what international groups should be formed to study extraterrestrial intelligence in greater detail.[94]
According to Luca Codignola of the University of Genoa, contact with a powerful extraterrestrial civilization is comparable to occasions where one powerful civilization destroyed another, such as the arrival of Christopher Columbus and Hernán Cortés into the Americas and the subsequent destruction of the indigenous civilizations and their ways of life.[2] However, the applicability of such a model to contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, and that specific interpretation of the arrival of the European colonists to the Americas, have been disputed.[96] Even so, any large difference between the power of an extraterrestrial civilization and our own could be demoralizing and potentially cause or accelerate the collapse of human society.[43] Being discovered by a "superior" extraterrestrial civilization, and continued contact with it, might have psychological effects that could destroy a civilization, as is claimed to have happened in the past on Earth.[23]
Even in the absence of close contact between humanity and extraterrestrials, high-information messages from an extraterrestrial civilization to humanity have the potential to cause a great cultural shock.[69] Sociologist Donald Tarter has conjectured that knowledge of extraterrestrial culture and theology has the potential to compromise human allegiance to existing organizational structures and institutions.[69] The cultural shock of meeting an extraterrestrial civilization may be spread over decades or even centuries if an extraterrestrial message to humanity is extremely difficult to decipher.[69]
Legal
Contact with extraterrestrial civilizations would raise legal questions, such as the rights of the extraterrestrial beings. An extraterrestrial arriving on Earth might only have the protection of animal cruelty statutes.[97] Much as various classes of human being, such as women, children, and indigenous people, were initially denied human rights, so might extraterrestrial beings, who could therefore be legally owned and killed.[98] If such a species were not to be treated as a legal animal, there would arise the challenge of defining the boundary between a legal person and a legal animal, considering the numerous factors that constitute intelligence.[99]
Freitas considers that even if an extraterrestrial being were to be afforded legal personhood, problems of nationality and immigration would arise. An extraterrestrial being would not have a legally recognized earthly citizenship, and drastic legal measures might be required in order to account for the technically illegal immigration of extraterrestrial individuals.[100]
If contact were to take place through electromagnetic signals, these issues would not arise. Rather, issues relating to patent and copyright law regarding who, if anyone, has rights to the information from the extraterrestrial civilization would be the primary legal problem.[97]
Scientific and technological
The scientific and technological impact of extraterrestrial contact through electromagnetic waves would probably be quite small, especially at first.[101] However, if the message contains a large amount of information, deciphering it could give humans access to a galactic heritage perhaps predating the formation of the Solar System, which may greatly advance our technology and science.[101] A possible negative effect could be to demoralize research scientists as they come to know that what they are researching may already be known to another civilization.[101]
On the other hand, extraterrestrial civilizations with malicious intent could send information that could enable human civilization to destroy itself,[101] such as powerful computer viruses or information on how to make extremely potent weapons that humans would not yet be able to use responsibly.[43] While the motives for such an action are unknown, it would require minimal energy use on the part of the extraterrestrials.[101] According to Musso, however, computer viruses in particular will be nearly impossible unless extraterrestrials possess detailed knowledge of human computer architectures, which would only happen if a human message sent to the stars were protected with little thought to security.[44] Even a virtual machine on which extraterrestrials could run computer programs could be designed specifically for the purpose, bearing little relation to computer systems commonly used on Earth.[44] In addition, humans could send messages to extraterrestrials detailing that they do not want access to the Encyclopædia Galacticauntil they have reached a suitable level of technological advancement, thus mitigating harmful impacts of extraterrestrial technology.[44]
Extraterrestrial technology could have profound impacts on the nature of human culture and civilization. Just as television provided a new outlet for a wide variety of political, religious, and social groups, and as the printing press made the Bible available to the common people of Europe, allowing them to interpret it for themselves, so an extraterrestrial technology might change humanity in ways not immediately apparent.[102] Harrison speculates that a knowledge of extraterrestrial technologies could increase the gap between scientific and cultural progress, leading to societal shock and an inability to compensate for negative effects of technology.[102] He gives the example of improvements in agricultural technology during the Industrial Revolution, which displaced thousands of farm laborers until society could retrain them for jobs suited to the new social order.[102] Contact with an extraterrestrial civilization far more advanced than humanity could cause a much greater shock than the Industrial Revolution, or anything previously experienced by humanity.[102]
Michaud suggests that humanity could be impacted by an influx of extraterrestrial science and technology in the same way that medieval European scholars were impacted by the knowledge of Arab scientists.[103] Humanity might at first revere the knowledge as having the potential to advance the human species, and might even feel inferior to the extraterrestrial species, but would gradually grow in arrogance as it gained more and more intimate knowledge of the science, technology, and other cultural developments of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization.[103]
The discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence would have various impacts on biology and astrobiology. The discovery of extraterrestrial life in any form, intelligent or non-intelligent, would give humanity greater insight into the nature of life on Earth and would improve the conception of how the tree of life is organized.[104] Human biologists could learn about extraterrestrial biochemistry and observe how it differs from that found on Earth.[104] This knowledge could help human civilization to learn which aspects of life are common throughout the universe and which are specific to Earth.[104]
Ecological and biological-warfare impacts
An extraterrestrial civilization might bring to Earth pathogens or invasive life forms that do not harm its own biosphere.[43] Alien pathogens could decimate the human population, which would have no immunity to them, or they might use terrestrial livestock or plants as hosts, causing indirect harm to humans.[43] Invasive organisms brought by extraterrestrial civilizations could cause great ecological harm because of the terrestrial biosphere's lack of defenses against them.[43] On the other hand, pathogens and invasive species of extraterrestrial origin might differ enough from terrestrial organisms in their biology to have no adverse effects.[43] Furthermore, pathogens and parasites on Earth are generally suited to only a small and exclusive set of environments,[105] to which extraterrestrial pathogens would have had no opportunity to adapt. If an extraterrestrial civilization bearing malice towards humanity gained sufficient knowledge of terrestrial biology and weaknesses in the immune systems of terrestrial biota, it might be able to create extremely potent biological weapons.[43] Even a civilization without malicious intent could inadvertently cause harm to humanity by not taking account of all the risks of their actions.[43]
According to Baum, even if an extraterrestrial civilization were to communicate using electromagnetic signals alone, it could send humanity information with which humans themselves could create lethal biological weapons.
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UFO speculation surges after North Carolina lake video goes viral
UFO speculation surges after North Carolina lake video goes viral
A video of a UFO flying over a North Carolina lake has gone viral, prompting speculation that the object in the video may not be of this world.
The exceptionally shaky video, posted by Jason Swing on May 29, was taken over Lake Norman in North Carolina. It has gone viral, having been viewed more than 250,000 times, as viewers scratch their heads trying to make sense of what they are seeing.
In the video's description, Swing says that he was at work at 10:30 a.m. on a rainy day. "Rain finally stopped so we went [to] pick up a boat from Lake Norman," Swing wrote. "When [I] came around the corner, I saw this thing sitting still, very close."
Naturally, the talk immediately turned to an extraterrestrial craft, though many commenters believed Swing's video is likely a hoax, due to the shaky footage and the fact Swing cuts off the video rather promptly.
"Next time you try and film a UFO, please try to jump around a little more. Also, adding a degree of blur would be a good touch. Geez.," one viewer wrote.
"I'm videoing a UFO. But I've got something more important to do. Later," another commenter wrote.
"Aliens always reveal themselves to people who shake uncontrollably and have no idea how to operate a zoom," another commenter wrote. "Classic alien jerk move."
Others, however, were more forgiving of Swing's shaky camera work, believing that Swing actually saw a UFO and not a toy drone or a blimp, as many in the comments have accused him of showing.
"Hello, this a great catch and I was hoping to show it on my channel with full credits and links back to yourself," wrote one commenter known as The Hidden Underbelly 2.0. "Please let me know if this would be okay with yourself. Thanks and god bless."
Others believe that the sighting was indeed the GoodYear Blimp, which was in the Charlotte area on May 29 for a NASCAR race.
The GoodYear Blimp account, however, seemed to put the kibosh on the notion that the craft was extraterrestrial in nature.
"We don’t want to get in the way of a good story, but that’s definitely us," the GoodYear Blimp account wrote, according to the Daily Mail. "We left the Charlotte area 5/29 after covering the Coke 600."
Un immense ovni triangulaire prés de l’aéroport de Genève
Un immense ovni triangulaire prés de l’aéroport de Genève
Publié le 16/08/2018
Un article de Daniel Robin, Responsable du Réseau Ovni Investigation
Dimanche 12 aout 2018 à Viry près de Genève. Il est 23h30. M. Frédéric K. et sa compagne regardent le ciel qui était dégagé.
Soudain, le couple aperçoit un immense ovni de forme triangulaire, d’un noir profond, qui est en position stationnaire pas très loin au-dessus d’eux. Puis, après quelques secondes, le triangle noir se déplace très lentement en direction de Genève. L’un des deux témoins est formel, l’engin était aussi grand que plusieurs avions de ligne !
Depuis quelques jours, le site Ovnis-Direct enregistre (grâce à son formulaire en ligne qui permet de signaler une observation) un certain nombre de témoignages impliquant des ovnis de forme triangulaire et de couleur noire.
Nous vous tiendrons régulièrement informé de la situation et des témoignages que nous recevons concernant ces engins. Il semblerait, en effet, qu’il se produise une recrudescence des observations impliquant d’immenses structures triangulaires noires. Les questions sont toujours les mêmes : d’où viennent-elles et que quelles sont leurs intentions à notre égard ? Le plus spectaculaire de ces témoignages est arrivé ce matin à 10h45 (13 juillet 2018). Voici le récit du témoin tel qu’il a été posté sur le site Ovnis-Direct :
« Voulant observer les étoiles filantes mon amie et moi, nous sommes sortis sur la terrasse. En levant les yeux vers le ciel, nous avons distinctement discerné un triangle noir avec des sortes de « feux de position » allumés à chaque pointe (angle). L’engin était pratiquement immobile, mais il a commencé une légère rotation sur lui-même. Pas de bruit à l’extérieur. J’ai couru chercher mon téléphone portable pour prendre une photo, mais à mon retour l’engin avait disparu. Ce n’était pas un avion. Nous avons clairement distingué les rebords de ce triangle gigantesque. Nous habitons proches de l’aéroport de Genève, à Viry (74580) » (Viry fait partie de l’agglomération du Grand Genève). Dès que j’ai pris connaissance de ce témoignage (je peux consulter en temps réel sur mon téléphone portable les témoignages qui sont postés sur Ovnis-Direct), j’ai immédiatement pris contact avec le témoin (M. Frédéric K.) par téléphone. Ce dernier m’a confirmé la taille imposante du triangle : plusieurs fois celle d’un avion de ligne (Airbus A320 par exemple). Il ne pouvait pas se tromper et confondre le triangle avec un avion, car étant proche de l’aéroport de Genève il a l’habitude de voir décoller et atterrir les avions de ligne. La trajectoire du triangle semblait prendre la direction de Genève.
Ci-dessus : La position de la commune de Viry, la flèche en bas à gauche, et celle de l’aéroport international de Genève, la flèche en haut. M. Frédéric K. estime à environ 15 km la distance entre son domicile et l’aéroport de Genève.
Ci-dessus : Reconstitution artistique du triangle noir observé à Viry par deux témoins le dimanche 12 aout 2018 à 23h30. A noter que selon l’un des témoins, les feux à chaque angle étaient moins lumineux et d’un diamètre plus petit.
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Si vous avez été témoin d’une observation semblable à celle de Viry, contactez-nous immédiatement et déposez votre témoignage sur le site Ovnis Direct, nous vous répondrons dans les 24h.
NASA Has Just Released 2,540 Stunning New Photos of Mars
NASA Has Just Released 2,540 Stunning New Photos of Mars
If it’s quiet solitude and beauty you seek, there is no better place than the surface of Mars. Mars has earned its moniker as the red planet, but the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) can transform the subtle differences of soils into a rainbow of colours.
For 10 years, HiRISE has recorded gorgeous – and scientifically valuable – images of Mars. Its photos are so detailed that scientists can examine the planet’s features at the scale of just a few feet, including the recent crash site of Europe’s Schiaparelli Mars lander.
We combed through 2,054 of the camera’s latest pictures, released in August, September, and October, to bring you some of the best – and hopefully help you temporarily escape Earth.
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A large chasm:
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Some dark, rust-colored dunes in Russell Crater:
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NASA might land its next nuclear-powered Mars 2020 rover mission here.
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The black splotch is where the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed. The white specks, pointed out with arrows, are pieces of the lander.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona; Business Insider
Zebra skin. Just kidding, this is a dune field that’s speckled with oval-shaped mineral deposits:
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False-coloring this image makes a giant dune and its gullies look blue.
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A possible landing site for the ExoMars 2020 mission, which the European Space Agency is running.
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A North Pole dune field nicknamed “Kolhar,” after Frank Herbert’s fictional world.
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Carbon dioxide that turns from solid to gas carves out these strange shapes at Mars’ south pole:
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A recent impact crater on Mars. (We’re pretty sure no one put out a giant cigarette here.)
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‘Spiders’ are eruptions of dust caused by the way the Martian surface warms and cools:
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Cerberus Palus crater showing off layered sediments:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
NASA keeps an eye of gullies like this for small landslides – and any water that melts in the warm sun to form darker-colored mud.
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Another gully scientists are having HiRISE monitor:
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Glacial terrain looks strangely iridescent:
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A steep slope in Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus:
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Dunes in a Martian crater. The red bar is an artifact of NASA’s image processing:
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The creation of ‘fans’ around dunes may help scientists understand seasonal changes on Mars:
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Another possible landing site for the Mars 2020 mission:
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Terrain near the Martian equator:
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Ceraunius Fossae is a region dominated by volcanic flows and large cracks:
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Beautiful texture in the region called North Sinus Meridiani:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
False colours assigned to certain minerals make Syria Planum an inky blue that’s speckled with gold:
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A crater on Arcadia Planitia, a large flat region of Mars:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Layers in Martian buttes found in a region called West Arabia:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A picture of Utopia Planitia, a large plain on Mars:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A bright speckle of minerals stands out on Galle (not Gale) Crater:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A small but recent impact crater:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Blowing sand eats through the rims of older craters:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Mars in all its two-toned glory:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Seasonal dunes on Mars nicknamed ‘Buzzel’.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Ridges cross the Nepenthes Mensae region, which is often referred to as a river delta for the striking pattern:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The edges of a debris apron, where cliff material eroded away.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
This article was originally published by Business Insider.
Things have gotten so bad for the far left CNN that they are now being beaten in prime time by the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens show. People would rather hear theories about aliens creating the human race than listen to Anderson Cooper talk. That’s got to sting.
History Channel’s ‘Ancient Aliens’ Outperforms CNN in Primetime
CNN tanked in the cable ratings between August 6 and August 12, losing out to Fox News, MSNBC, and even the History Channel show Ancient Aliens, according to the latest data from Nielsen Media Research.
CNN’s competitors, Fox News and MSNBC, defeated CNN handily in the ratings war this week. Fox News took the number one slot for primetime viewership at 2.18 million viewers, and MSNBC came in second with 1.75 million viewers…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Tucked inside a former space shuttle parking garage is Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule. It's one of two new private space taxis that NASA has commissioned to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS).
On Aug. 9, Boeing invited members of the media into the company's facilities here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for a behind-the-scenes tour and a chance to meet the astronauts who will be flying the spacecraft as early as next year.
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner, the first to carry a human crew, is seen under construction inside the Boeing Starliner Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch NASA astronauts Eric Boe, Nicole Aunapu Mann and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson in 2019.
Credit: Space.com/Amy Thompson
Before Starliner becomes operational, it must go through a series of uncrewed and crewed test flights. During each of these, Starliner will launch and dock with the space station. While the capsule is in orbit, crews will evaluate the vehicle's systems, ensuring that everything is working as planned. The first of those tests, an uncrewed mission, could be carried out as soon as the end of this year, NASA officials have said.
Following that flight will be the first crewed test mission. Boeing's Chris Ferguson will join NASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann and Eric Boe in the Starliner capsule as it ferries its first set of people to the space station.
This test flight, scheduled for mid-2019, could mark the first time astronauts will have launched into space from U.S. soil since the end of the shuttle program, in 2011. (However, SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule — the other private astronaut taxi — is currently slated to fly its first crewed test mission in April 2019.) Ferguson, now a private astronaut working for Boeing, also flew on that last shuttle mission. "It's a really exciting time," Ferguson told reporters during the Aug. 9 event.
"What's cool is this is our ride right here behind us," added Boe, who flew on two shuttle missions. "Nicole and Chris and myself have a chance to go fly this thing sometime in the near future."
That mission will be the first spaceflight for Mann. "I'm the rookie of the team, and today I got to climb inside my first spacecraft," she told Space.com. "I thought it would be pretty exciting, but I tell you, the feeling was really overwhelming." [Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner: A 21st Century Space Capsule in Photos]
NASA astronauts Eric Boe and Nicole Aunapu Mann and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson will be the crew that flies on the first crewed test mission of the Starliner spacecraft.
Credit: Amy Thompson/Space.com
All the astronauts were excited to meet the people working diligently to construct their ride to space. "I think the most rewarding part is working with the people who are making this happen," explained NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who will be flying on the first official crewed mission with crewmate Josh Cassada.
Mann said she was thrilled to see engineers bolting in the avionics system on the spacecraft she will be flying on next year. She described the crew's visit to the launchpad, saying there are about 300 steps they'll have to climb to get to the crew access arm and the "white room" — the last stop before boarding their spacecraft.
"I can imagine the rocket [on the pad] with the Starliner stacked on top, and I look forward to the day we launch from Florida," Mann said.
When Starliner takes off, it will be perched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Ferguson explained that the last time an American launched to space aboard an Atlas was 55 years ago. That astronaut was Gordon Cooper, one of the original Mercury Seven. "To know that the last person that flew an Atlas was one of your heroes — that's pretty cool," Ferguson said.
According to Boe, it will take about 10 minutes to get to orbit aboard the Atlas V/Starliner, and the ride will be much smoother than the ones astronauts experienced on the shuttle. [NASA's Space Shuttle Program in Pictures: A Tribute]
Orbital flight testing
NASA astronaut Eric Boe (top foreground), Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson (top background) and NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann sit inside a mockup of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. The three astronauts form the test flight crew for Boeing's first crewed Starliner flight in 2019.
Credit: NASA
Ferguson said the uncrewed test mission will have about 220 flight-test objectives. For example, does the vehicle get to the proper orbit? Does it navigate itself like it should, and does the propellant system work? Can it dock with the space station? Boeing hopes to check off at least 80 percent of those objectives, Ferguson said.
The crewed flight tests will have different objectives, he said. The goal is to make sure the vehicle's systems work so that when people climb aboard, they will just be testing the human element of the vehicle — answering questions like how loud the jets are, whether the hygiene and environmental control systems work, and what the noise levels are like inside the capsulen. "We want to verify that it accommodates humans," he explained.
Ferguson also revealed that during the uncrewed test flight, crews on the ground will take over during part of the flight to ensure that the craft can be controlled from the ground as expected.
Williams said she is really looking forward to the test campaign. "This is really a test pilot's dream," she told Space.com. The veteran Williams, who will fly with rookie astronaut Josh Cassada, said she was ready to hang up her space shoes, but then this opportunity came along and she could not pass it up. "[Josh and I] can't wait to see how the vehicle docks to the space station," she explained. "It's going to do it by itself, and we're excited to see the software really work."
"I wasn't sure the [astronaut] office called the right number," Josh said when asked how he felt about being chosen. "But this is what we've been training for, and I can't possibly imagine a better opportunity in spaceflight."
Both Williams and Cassada described the generalized training astronauts receive at NASA, which includes points like what the spacecraft is supposed to do and where it's supposed to go. But coming out to the cape to train with the crew at Boeing and the actual spacecraft is an incredible opportunity, Williams said. "It's different than shuttle and [Russia's] Soyuz, because everything's already been mapped out," Williams said. "Here, it's still being created and is brand-new."
According to Williams, the big difference between Starliner and the other spacecraft she has flown is the novelty. She and the rest of the crew are essentially writing the instruction manuals that future astronauts will use to fly Starliner.
"There's definitely going to be a learning curve," she said. "Our job is to learn this spacecraft, focus on this vehicle specifically, so that it will be easier for future astronauts."
Safety first
This Boeing CST-100 Starliner space capsule will be used for an uncrewed pad abort test to check the spacecraft's emergency escape system.
Credit: Space.com/Amy Thompson
Another major difference between past vehicles and Starliner is the new craft's launch escape system: an ejection system for the crew that will whisk them away to safety in an emergency.
"We hope to never [have to] use this system," Ferguson said. "This vehicle has a full capability to abort anywhere in the ascent trajectory." The space shuttle did not have that capability.
Williams said that even though Starliner is a new vehicle, she feels it is safer than previous ones, because past lessons are being incorporated into the new craft's design. The astronauts have been lucky enough to work with the folks in Houston in simulators, making sure things get better and better, she added.
"We bring our experience from the past, and these guys are answering the call," she said. "This vehicle is better, safer and smarter than previous ones."
But "we can't eliminate all risk. We'll never get down to zero," Cassada added. "If we needed and demanded zero risk, then no one would ever leave their home."
AREA 51: THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
AREA 51: THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
A website called Area51.org naturally receives a lot of questions about Area 51, the world’s most famous secret base. Here are the answers to the most popular and interesting queries we’ve received. This is a work in progress, and we’ll refresh and repost as new intel arrives.
WHAT IS AREA 51?
It’s a top secret US government research and test facility—in other words, it’s where the US Air Force keeps its biggest secrets. For years, the base did not appear on maps and the government flat-out denied that it even existed. Even today, security around the base is extremely high, and much of the facility is said to actually be underground.
WHY IS IT CALLED AREA 51?
AEC Map with Area 51 on the Right-Hand Side
The US Atomic Energy Commission, now part of the Department of Energy, used to test atomic bombs in a huge area of desert in Nevada, originally called the Nevada Proving Ground. The test range was divided up into numbered “areas” in no particular order—the numbers seem to have been picked at random. When the CIA took over one area to make a secret base, it chose Area 51, mainly because it’s completely surrounded by mountain ranges—a natural hiding place.
Today, the name Area 51 is no longer used by government and military officials; the site has had a lot of nicknames (“Dreamland”, “The Ranch”, “The Box”), but its official name is now “Detachment 3 of the Air Force Flight Test Center”—so catchy.
WHERE IS AREA 51?
It’s as far out in the Nevada desert as you can possibly imagine. The base is intentionally in the middle of nowhere; it is, after all, where the government goes when it wants to be alone.
Area 51 is 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas, far into the high desert. The nearest highway, 375, is about 25 miles from the base’s borders—and the borders are another 20 miles from the base itself.
WHEN WAS IT BUILT?
Area 51 began its life as part of a large swath of land taken in 1951 by the Atomic Energy Commission to test atomic bombs—they needed a safe place for gigantic explosions. The “Nevada Proving Ground” was the place where the very first atomic bomb exploded, and the flash was so bright that it was seen as far away as San Francisco.
In 1954, when the government decided it needed a safe place to work on secret projects, one chunk of land in the Nevada Proving Ground was identified as the perfect place.
WHAT SECRET PROJECTS HAVE BEEN HIDDEN THERE?
The most famous secret project developed at this super-secret base is the U-2 spy plane, which was used to spy on the Soviet Union from 70,000 feet (far out of range of radar).
The SR-71 Blackbird, Developed at Area 51
Another well-known project: the SR-71 Blackbird, a fighter jet that holds the world’s record as the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft.
The missile defense system sometimes called “Star Wars” or “SDI” (Strategic Defense Initiative) was also developed there.
What about all the alien technology? It may well be hidden out there, too, but the government isn’t talking about it. Yet.
WHY IS AREA 51 SO FAMOUS?
Physicist Bob Lazar Says He Was Employed at Area 51, Where He Worked on UFOs
In 1989, a physicist named Bob Lazar appeared on a Las Vegas news program to tell his story: he’d been an engineer at Area 51, and his job was to figure out how UFO technology worked. Needless to say, that got some attention—it’s an extraordinary claim, especially because Lazar was more than willing to provide extensive details about his work, how he got the job, and what he saw at the base. Although some of his background is difficult to verify, it is now considered to be a fact that Lazar was employed at the base when he said he was, as journalist Annie Jacobsen confirmed in her book Area 51: an Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base.
Lazar’s revelations helped make Area 51 a household name. Everyone loves a mystery, and we love it even more when some of its secrets are revealed.
In the years since the initial publicity, Lazar’s story has been scrutinized and criticized by cynics, skeptics, and critics. Still, he has been consistent about what he said happened in every detail, and in the UFO community, Lazar’s name has become synonymous with Area 51 itself.
CAN I GET A JOB AT AREA 51?
If you have the right background, quite possibly! The employees of Area 51 (ahem, Detachment 3 of the Air Force Flight Test Center) are mostly civilian contractors who work for huge companies like Raytheon and EG&G Technical Services. The employee organization for Area 51 employees is called JT3, and its website has a Careers section with job openings. (“It takes special people to work for JT3,” the page sas.We bet!)
WHO GUARDS AREA 51? (OR: WHO ARE THESE “CAMO DUDES” YOU SPEAK OF?)
The Land Surrounding Area 51 is Filled with Sensors and Monitoring Equipment
Surprisingly, the large buffer zone around the Area 51 base is not guarded by military police but by private security personnel who are employees of large government contracting companies. They’re called “Camo Dudes” by Area 51 enthusiasts because they wear camouflage military-style clothing. The Camo Dudes patrol the desolate land while tooling around the desert in Chevy trucks.
The land around Area 51 is also littered with sensors and monitoring equipment to detect intruders and over-zealous adventurers. In the 1990s, an Area 51 researcher discovered that there were also monitors hidden in the public land outside the borders of the base—so even before you get anywhere near the restricted zone, they know you’re coming.
HAS ANYONE EVER CROSSED THE BORDER INTO THE RESTRICTED AREA?
Absolutely. And every last one of them was arrested by the Camo Dudes (see “Who Guards Area 51?”) and handed over to the Lincoln County Sheriff. Usually, trespassers spend the night in jail and are issued a healthy fine. Although the signs around the base warn that lethal force is authorized, we are unaware of anyone actually being shot or killed by a Camo Dude, although the dudes have reportedly harassed base viewers on occasion.
Lethal force is truly is within the dudes’ options, though; as former Area 51 guard Fred Dunham said, “If they (trespassers) demonstrate[d] they were going to try to penetrate, they (management) gave me the all-clear to waste them.”
HAS ANYONE EVER SNEAKED INTO THE BASE ITSELF?
Nope. And there is really no way to pull it off; security is far too tight, and the government has had more than half a century to perfect it. You would have to get past sensors, cameras, monitors, and Camo Dudes for some 15–20 miles, only to face formidable security at the base itself. In other words, everything you saw in that found-footage movie called Area 51 is just plain fantasy.
HOW CLOSE CAN I GET TO THE BASE WITHOUT GETTING IN TROUBLE?
The View from Tikaboo Peak, with Area 51 Distantly Visible Some 25 Miles Away
The land surrounding the Area 51 restricted zone is actually public land—not only can you walk freely on it, but you can camp there, too, and some people do just that. (With caution! This is the desolate high desert, with few public services, and few people, for that matter. Running out of water or even gasoline can mean death.)
That public land has quite a few unpaved sandy, bumpy roads, and some of them, like Groom Lake Road, lead across the border into base territory. Warning signs on the border are spaced about 50 yards (roughly 50 meters) apart—you do not dare cross. The guards already know you’re there (because the public land’s roads are lined with sensors), and you’ll be arrested if you venture past the border indicated by the signs.
Can you see anything from Groom Lake Road? Not really—maybe a Camo Dude or a sensor.
Your alternative, if you really want to see the base for yourself, is to do a grueling hike to Tikaboo Peak, which is actually the closest possible vantage point to Area 51 for those of us who don’t work there.
WHAT IS THE BLACK MAILBOX AND WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH AREA 51?
The Black Mailbox near Area 51 (photo by Rod Ramsey)
Way back before Area 51 was the most famous secret base in the world, rancher Steve Medlin had a black mailbox on Highway 375 in Nevada. It’s desolate out there; there was nothing around it for miles, so it stood out.
Later, it became a really obvious place to meet if you were a UFO hunter or an adventurer trying to get to the border of Area 51. Meet me at the Black Mailbox, dude! Its location and its ominous-sounding name made it a legend. People started putting mail in it, addressed to the aliens who live at Area 51—when they weren’t shooting it with guns or writing graffiti on it.
WHY IS IT CALLED THE BLACK MAILBOX WHEN IT’S ACTUALLY WHITE?
Rancher Steve Medlin got sick of dealing with the vandalism that comes with owning the only mailbox in proximity to Area 51. His mailbox stood on Highway 375, the only notable landmark for miles. So, when the state of Nevada decided to re-christen the road as the “Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway” in a ceremony that also promoted the film Independence Day, he saw opportunity. The original black mailbox was sold at auction for $1000 as part of the festivities, right after the part where Jeff Goldblum and other stars of the movie helped bury a time capsule. (After the auction, everyone retired to the Little A’Le’Inn for an Alien Burger. At least, I did.)
The White Mailbox, Removed in 2015
Later, a new mailbox appeared, this one painted white and made of bullet-proof materials. Under it was a second mailbox marked “Alien” to keep letters to extraterrestrials from being mixed up with Medlin’s own bills and junk mail. The white mailbox—still popularly called “the Black Mailbox”—stood for years, still a signpost and landmark associated with Area 51.
Eventually, Medlin got fed up completely; people were still vandalizing his new, tougher, bulletproof mailbox. After it was nearly destroyed in January of 2015, Medlin took the whole thing out. We’re not sure how he’s getting his mail now; maybe the Little A’Le’Inn has P.O. boxes?
WHAT IS THE LITTLE A’LE’INN AND WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH AREA 51?
The Little A’Le’Inn Has Been Featured in Movies, Books, and Yes, in Tabloids
If you stumbled into this small diner with attached motel rooms and didn’t know anything about Area 51 lore, you probably wouldn’t be much impressed. There’s a bar, a gift shop, an old Pac-Man arcade console from the ’80s.
What makes the Little A’Le’Inn (a-lee-in, “alien”, get it?) such a must-see for Area 51 adventurers is a fascinating combination of kitsch and mystery. Located in tiny Rachel, Nevada, it’s the only restaurant that’s anywhere near Area 51, and the owners (Pat Travis and her daughter Connie) are absolutely dedicated to taking advantage of that. Want an Alien Burger? You betcha. Maybe buy some Area 51 merchandise? They’ve got it for sale—actually, some of it is pretty cool; I’ve still got some of the stuff I bought there in 1996.
You don’t go to the Little A’Le’Inn for the food or the gifts, though; it’s the whole experience: you’re in a diner/bar frequented by UFO enthusiasts and Area 51 employees (seriously). It doesn’t seem like some cheesy diner. It seems otherworldly.
(Fun note: the single most surreal moment of my life was watching an Elvis impersonator [or possibly the real Elvis] sing “Viva Las Vegas” while I chomped down an Alien Burger there at the Little A’Le’Inn.)
IF I GO UFO-WATCHING NEAR AREA 51, WILL I SEE ANYTHING?
You might see something, yes. Area 51 is a test facility, so they often conduct flight tests of experimental aircraft, almost always at night. If you’re into military testing, you might very well be lucky enough to see some aircraft lights.
Of course, you may be more interested in catching a UFO in flight. Most ufologists don’t necessarily think aliens are routinely flying around or landing at Area 51; more likely, the government may be experimenting with aircraft built with UFO technology. Before you cynics start chortling, keep in mind that more than a few sky-watchers viewing from vantage points like the Black Mailbox have seen lights zooming across the sky at impossible speeds—nearly instantaneous jumps across miles of sky.
Author David Darlington, who wrote the excellent Area 51: the Dreamland Chronicles, says that though he saw many lights in the sky while researching his book, most were easily explained, but not all. “By the time I went home,” he writes, “I could explain every sighting … except one: dots that jumped through space a quarter of a mile at a time.” (Emphasis mine.)
Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway near Area 51, from an Area 51 documentary
Area 51 is really a lot of things: a secret base, sure, but also a legendary road trip in the desert southwest of the US, a magnet for paranormal claims, a UFO hotspot, and let’s not forget the rumors about alien technology. Most of all, Area 51 is a story: how it came to be, how it got to be famous, and of all the fun things that cropped up around it. Reading about it is awesome, but nothing can replace seeing it for yourself—say, in an Area 51 documentary.
Here are five movies that tell that story, revealing mysteries and unearthing even more strange questions.
1. THE ALIEN HIGHWAY
Alien Highway is not at all a typical Area 51 documentary. A fun romp through the heyday of Area 51 in the 1990s, this indie film features interviews with the late Ambassador Merlyn Merlin II (from the planet Draconis), Pat Travis of the Little A’le’inn, Glenn Campbell (of the fabled Area 51 Research Center) and a host of UFO and Area 51 enthusiasts. The film includes a drive to the border of Area 51, and a visit to the Little A’le’inn. Glenn Campbell takes us on a trip to the Area 51 vantage point known as Freedom Ridge (later made off-limits by the US government), and reporter George Knapp (who first broke the Bob Lazar story) weighs in as well. Pat Travis tells us about how they turned the little dive that was the Rachel Bar and Grill into the UFO-hunting landmark that is the Little A’le’inn.
2. AREA 51—THE CIA’S SECRET FILES
This film is the other side of the Area 51 coin: the history of the most famous secret base in the world. Here’s an Area 51 documentary that doesn’t even give a nod to the words “aliens” or “UFOs”. This is a straight-up military history story, starting with the creation of the U2 spy plane in the 1950s, and the need for a secret place to test it. We get good coverage of every declassified aircraft that has come out of Area 51, and interviews with people who worked on them. Former camo dudes also make appearances. This show is not at all dry or boring; it just doesn’t talk about aliens.
3. AREA 51 AND THE HIDDEN SECRETS OF GROOM LAKE
This Area 51 documentary starts out sober and compelling, then veers unexpectedly into the weird and unexplained. Hosted by Nick Cook, editor of the English magazine Jane’s Defence Weekly, this is an interesting blend of declassified Area 51 history with bizarre claims and suggestions that might be unbelievable if it wasn’t presented with such high journalistic standards. It’s one long road trip, taking Nick to stops that are significant to Area 51 history and bigtime government secrets. He visits the Skunkworks in Burbank, California, talks to conspiracy author Jim Marrs, interviews an Air Force officer involved with top secret projects, and chats with someone once involved with the CIA’s remote viewing program. Area 51 activist Glenn Campbell makes several appearances. And yes, finally, Nick makes his way to the border of the secret base itself.
4. BEHIND AREA 51
This short and succinct Area 51 documentary covers nearly all the most interesting things about Area 51 (its mysteries) as any longer film. It clocks in at less than 10 minutes, but still manages to work in cattle mutilation, the E.T. highway (Nevada 375), the “black” mailbox (later white), and a visit to the Little A’le’inn. The requisite trip to both gates of the secret base results in narrowly avoiding a camo dude encounter. We also get to see something we haven’t seen often: a plain white commuter bus full of Area 51 employees leaving the base. The video quality is gorgeous. We’d recommend this film for Area 51 newbies, sure. But, since it has such beautiful shots of the Area 51 environment, you should watch it—even if you’ve actually been there.
5. SECRET UFO BASE: AREA 51
If you’ve heard of Area 51, you can thank Robert Lazar.
Lazar made the secret base famous by publicly claiming that he was employed there as a scientist whose job it was to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft. You know, the kind that come from other planets and hover silently and move faster than the speed of light. His job, he says, was to figure out how that all worked.
Secret UFO Base: Area 51 covers the Lazar story in-depth—his claims, his friends, the reporter (George Knapp) who made his story public, and the industry of Area 51 that grew up around his tale. Movies have been made, books written, video games created, even a state highway was renamed, all based on what he said happened on the base. (Heck, even our very domain name owes Bob Lazar a beer.)
Whether or not you believe Lazar’s story, you’ll want to check out this Area 51 documentary. It’s entertaining, and it’ll get you asking yourself: what if Lazar is actually telling the truth?
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Ongoing extraterrestrial battle to protect the Earth
Ongoing extraterrestrial battle to protect the Earth
We were already waiting to receive a new report from our contact, the Informer. And as always it has not disappointed us in the least since in the previous dossier he informed us that he had more information on the way about recent events.
The worry reaches such an extreme that it is necessary to dose well the content exposed by this person since some points are very delicate and it is necessary to clear the mind to understand them. As we have written in previous articles, a space warfare had been developing in what is called the Kuiper Belt and near the orbits of Jupiter. This battle was being waged between Omuaomua and the Black Knights, whose purpose was and is to expel from the Earth the Gray, High Gray and also Reptilian beings.
No farther from reality at this time and without having the perception of what is happening that battle is already being fought on Earth, it will surely be a key point for the survival of humanity but it will also be a great loss of humans what is coming in the next months. Naturally, this battle that is being waged on Earth is directed and commanded by the federation, we remember that as we told you, a month ago, the safe entry of some ships of the Star Federation, of which we did not know their location, but that was later revealed the sites where these ships were and their role today, we remember that they were and are in many places on our planet.
Although it does not seem real, all this is happening, and evidently remains silent, we can not assure that some type of official communiqué is made by the large international organizations. The situation is very small as we have said, perhaps the war situation that was so much talked about at the time in various media was diverted for what was really about to happen and that today we can confirm that it is underway …
There is a very important war in which not only are fighting for humanity the stellar federation against the reptilians and grays, but the United States Navy is involved in it since the government of this country collaborates with these entities. At this point it is necessary to reload on the part of the Informant that this is a silent war, which is carried to a high level so that the rest of humanity is not involved, discarding the US Marines since they do they are involved and immersed in the deep dark mind of these races.
A few days ago a signal was received coming from the depths of the Earth and it is the fact that this race although this infiltrated between humanity, its point of control is really the interior of the Earth and these signals are possible communications with these entities that They wait in space for your intervention at any time. An intervention that we would not want to happen because if that happened it would be an open and uncontrolled war …
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Proof Of Extraterrestrial Life In North Of England
Proof Of Extraterrestrial Life In North Of England
Mutual UFO Network UK has logged 18 incidents of UFO sightings in North East since January 2015. They range from white glowing object to silent rocket and teleporting man. UFO Investigative Researcher in Hartlepool, Glen Richardson, is very much convinced these sightings prove we’re not alone.
Richardson claimed that he received approximately five messages and pictures about UFOs from the North East and UK weekly while investigating incidents for around 20 years already. While he admitted that nine out of ten reported sightings have a scientific explanation, he said that some things just can’t be explained.
Richardson firmly believes that there’s life out there and sightings such as these back that up. Many of the sightings are supported with videos and pictures. On June 27, a circle-shaped bright orange light was caught on the video above County Durham. The witness first spotted the mysterious object from their living room window. He ran through their backdoor to get a video footage before it vanished.
Another encounter happened on December 1 in Sunderland, and the witness documented it on video. The object apparently has defined lights within a square.
On May 14, snapped a picture of a plane from A1. When the witness reviewed the image and zoomed it, a strange object above the aircraft can be seen.
Mr Richardson said that some people fear to be ridiculed, but it is important for them to report incidents. He believed more investigations and more evidence would give people encouragement to report their UFO encounters.
MUFON.com listed 476 sightings across the UK between January 1, 2015, and the middle of February 2016.
Mr Richardson concluded there are substantial proofs for extraterrestrial life and predicted that there will be a known fact in the next 30 years.
People have a lot of conflicting feelings about hitchhikers. Some strange person hanging out on the side of the highway, trying to get a ride in the car that you paid good money for. Who do they think they are? Then of course there are tons of urban legends—and probably a few actual cases—of unsuspecting motorists being terrorized by psychotic hitchhikers. On the other hand, it’s a nice thing to do for someone and in return you get the most valuable currency of all: ridiculous stories. Both of those possibilities are most likely ratcheted up to the extreme when it’s an extraterrestrial hitchhiker. That might be the case with some dashcam footage out of Texas this week, which shows a short, humanoid figure looking as generically like a “grey” alien as possible standing by the side of a highway in Texas. The alien in question has green-grey skin, a classic thin E.T. or man-in-black looking face, and, yep, it’s got the pointy ears too.
Here’s the clip. You can see this short little figure off to the right of the roadway with its arms outstretched in a very unnatural position. It’s got a green hue and looks equally like a lazy depiction of an extraterrestrial and a lazy depiction of an elf. Which, if this thing is actually one of those two creatures, would make a strong case for reality itself being pretty lazy. The driver was on a highway in Corsicana, Texas when they noticed the strange figure by the side of the road. The video was sent to MUFON for further analysis and investigation. According to the witness:
“Witnessed “person” walking, dressed strangely. When I passed and looked at my mirror, it was gone.”
Actually a pretty decent depiction of the thing in the video.
So this alien fellow vanishes too. If this is an actual reptilian alien humanoid, a few questions arise. Where’s the ship? Why are you standing on the side of the road looking like you just want a hug? If you need a hug, or a ride, why’d you vanish? Are you just messing with this one guy in particular?
If it’s not an alien, and just a person dressed like they’re gunning for the “least creative” cosplay prize at ComicCon, a few questions still arise. Amazingly, they’re mostly the same questions.
Also a pretty decent depiction of the “alien” in the video, which is kind of weird, honestly.
Likely this is one of those “sightings” that we’ll never get anymore information on, unless there’s an actual invasion of little green men sometime in the near future, but something tells me I shouldn’t bet on that outcome. This is probably just a person in costume for one of the six trillion different reasons people like to put on costumes, and the person who filmed this will be haunted by it for the rest of their days.
Regardless, whether you’re an alien, an elf, a hitchhiking nerd, or just someone with too much time on your hands, I hope you get where you’re going, buddy.
Liquid water may still flow on Mars, but that doesn't mean it's easy to spot. The search for water on the Red Planet has taken more than 15 years to turn up definitive signs that liquid flows on the surface today. In the past, however, rivers and oceans may have covered the land. Where did all of the liquid water go? Why? How much of it still remains?
Observations of the Red Planet indicate that rivers and oceans may have been prominent features in its early history. Billions of years ago, Mars was a warm and wet world that could have supported microbial life in some regions. But the planet is smaller than Earth, with less gravity and a thinner atmosphere. Over time, as liquid water evaporated, more and more of it escaped into space, allowing less to fall back to the surface of the planet.
Liquid water appears to flow from some steep, relatively warm slopes on the Martian surface. Features known as recurring slope lineae (RSL) were first identified in 2011in images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The dark streaks, which appear seasonally, were confirmed to be signs of salty water running on the surface of the planet.
"If this is correct, then RSL on Mars may represent the surface expression of a far more significant ongoing drainage system on steep slopes in the mid-latitudes," a research team member told Space.com in 2012.
"The detection of hydrated salts on these slopes means that water plays a vital role in the formation of these streaks," the study's lead author, Lujendra Ojha, of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, said in a statement. Vast deposits of water appear to be trapped within the ice caps at the north and south poles of the planet. Each summer, as temperatures increase, the caps shrink slightly as their contents skip straight from solid to gas form, but in the winter, cooler temperatures cause them to grow to latitudes as low as 45 degrees, or halfway to the equator. The caps are an average of 2 miles (3 kilometers) thick and, if completely melted, could cover the Martian surface with about 18 feet (5.6 meters) of water.
Frozen water also lies beneath the surface. Scientists discovered a slab of ice as large as California and Texas combined in the region between the equator and north pole of the Red Planet. The presence of subsurface water has long been suspected but required the appearance of strange layered craters to confirm. Other regions of the planet may contain frozen water, as well. Some high-latitude regions seem to boast patterned ground-shapes that may have formed as permafrost in the soil freezes and thaws over time.
The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft captured images of sheets of ice in the cooler, shadowed bottoms of craters, which suggests that liquid water can pool under appropriate conditions. Other craters identified by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show similar pooling.
Evidence for water on Mars first came to light in 2000, with the appearance of gullies that suggested a liquid origin. Their formation has been hotly debated over the ensuing years.
But not everyone thinks that Mars contains water today. New research reveals that RSL may actually have formed by granular flows formed by the movement of sand and dust.
"We've thought of RSL as possible liquid water flows, but the slopes are more like what we expect for dry sand," lead author Colin Dundas said in a statement. "This new understanding of RLS supports other evidence that shows that Mars today is very dry."
That idea may have been washed away by the recent discovery of a possible subsurface lake near the Martian South Pole.
An underground lake?
Researchers made a big splash when they announced that Mars might be hiding a lake beneath its southern pole. The European Mars Express spacecraft used its Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) to detect the proposed water. Ground-penetrating radar sent radar pulses to the surface, then timed how long it took for them to be reflected. The properties of the subsurface layers affect how long it takes for the beams to return.
MARSIS' investigation revealed that the Martian south pole is composed of multiple layers of ice and dust to a depth of about nearly 1 mile (1.5 kilometers) spread over a 124-mile-wide (200 km) region.
"This subsurface anomaly on Mars has radar properties matching water or water-rich sediments," Roberto Orosei, principal investigator of the MARSIS experiment and lead author of the new research, said in a statement.
MARSIS also revealed the presence of a subsurface lake among the pockets. According to the radar echoes, the lake is no more than 12.5 miles (20 km) across, buried nearly a mile beneath the surface. The scientists aren't certain of the lake's depth, but they have confirmed that it is at least 3 feet (1 meter) deep. According to the researchers, the lake must have salt to keep from freezing.
"This is just one small study area; it is an exciting prospect to think there could be more of these underground pockets of water elsewhere, yet to be discovered," Orosei said.
Not all researchers are as certain about the presence of liquid water.
"I think it's a very, very persuasive argument, but it's not a conclusive or definitive argument," Steve Clifford, a Mars researcher at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona, told Space.com. "There's always the possibility that conditions that we haven't foreseen exist at the base of the cap and are responsible for this bright reflection."
More than three decades ago, Clifford proposed that Mars could harbor liquid water beneath its polar caps in the same way that Earth does. On Earth, lakes beneath the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are created when heat from within the planets melt the glaciers in patches. Clifford told Space.com that a similar scenario could happen beneath the Martian polar ice caps.
"The bright spot seen in the MARSIS data is an unusual feature and extremely intriguing," Jim Green, NASA's chief scientist, said in a statement. "It definitely warrants further study. Additional lines of evidence should be pursued to test the interpretation."
"We hope to use other instruments to study it further in the future," Green said.
At the center of this view of an area of mid-latitude northern Mars, a fresh crater about 6 meters (20 feet) in diameter holds an exposure of bright material, blue in this false-color image.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona [Full Story]
Searching for an oasis
When Mariner 9 became the first craft to orbit another planet in 1971, the photographs it returned of dry river beds and canyons seemed to indicate that water had once existed on the Martian surface. Images from the Viking orbiters only strengthened the idea that many of the landforms may have been created by running water. Data from the Viking landers pointed to the presence of water beneath the surface, but the experiments were deemed inconclusive. [Mars Explored: Landers and Rovers Since 1971 (Infographic)]
The early '90s kicked off a slew of Mars missions. Scientists were flooded with a wealth of information about Mars. Three NASA orbiters and one sent by the European Space Agency studied the planet from above, mapping the surface and analyzing the minerals below. Some detected the presence of minerals, indicating the presence of water. Other data measured enough subsurface ice to fill Lake Michigan twice. They found evidence that ancient hot springs once existed on the surface and sustained precipitation once fell in some areas. And they found patches of ice within some of the deeper craters.
Impact craters offer a view of the interior of the red planet. Using the ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists were able to study rocks ejected from the planet's interior, finding minerals that suggested the presence of water.
"Water circulation occurred several kilometers deep in the crust some 3.7 billion years ago," Nicolas Mangold, of the University of Nantes in France, said in a statement.
But orbiters weren't the only objects launched toward Mars. NASA's Curiosity rover is the fifth robot to land on the surface of the Red Planet in the last 15 years. Pathfinder, Phoenix, Spirit and Opportunity all took detailed measurements of the planet; all but Phoenix traveled across the surface collecting a treasure trove of information.
Images of one of Phoenix's struts taken by the lander's robotic arm camera on Sols (or Martian days) 8, 31 and 44 of th emission. The two spheroids enclosed by the circle appear to merge with each other, which some Phoenix scientists argue is a sign that the globs are liquid water.
Credit: Renno, et al., NASA
The probes dug into the ground, examining rocks and performing experiments. In 2008, Phoenix turned up small chunks of bright material that disappeared after four days, leading scientists to surmise that they were pieces of water ice. The lander went on to detect water vapor in a sample it collected and analyzed, confirming the presence of frozen water on the red planet.
Spirit and Opportunity, the twin rovers, found traces of water enclosed in rock. In a shining example of a problem becoming a solution, a broken wheel on Spirit scraped into the top of the Martian surface, revealing a layer beneath rich in silica that had most likely formed in the presence of water.
Curiosity has found yet more evidence of water flowing on ancient Mars. The 1-ton rover rolled through an ancient stream bed shortly after touching down in August 2012, and it has examined a number of rocks that were exposed to liquid water billions of years ago.
Mars missions aren't the only way to search for water on Mars. Scientists studying rocks ejected from the Red Planet found signs that water lay beneath the surface in the past.
"While robotic missions to Mars continue to shed light on the planet's history, the only samples from Mars available for study on Earth are Martian meteorites," lead author Lauren White, of the JPL, said in a statement.
"On Earth, we can utilize multiple analytical techniques to take a more in-depth look at meteorites and shed light on the history of Mars."
Historical landforms
In addition to examining the relatively recent (geologically speaking) presence of water, the various missions have also studied the surface of the planet in a historical context. The river beds of Mars don't run wet today, but scientists can study them to learn more about the evolution of the planet. [Photos: The Search for Water on Mars]
The flatter northern plains of Mars may once have hosted an ocean, or possibly, as the planet cycled through dry periods, two. The more recent body of water would likely have only been temporary, seeping into the ground, evaporating, or freezing in less than a million years, scientists say.
Riverbeds and gullies indicate that water ran, at least briefly, across the surface of Mars. A hundred times more water may have flowed annually through a large channel system known as Marte Vallis than passes through the Mississippi River each year, according to estimates. The gullies themselves are smaller, likely forming during brief torrential rainstorms when fast-moving water could have carved them across the land.
Curiosity found indications that at least one region of Mars, Mount Sharp, was built by sediments deposited in a lake bed millions of years ago, suggesting large pools existed on the planet for significant time periods.
"If our hypothesis for Mount Sharp holds up, it challenges the notion that warm and wet conditions were transient, local, or only underground on Mars," Curiosity deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said in a statement.
On Earth, the land around rivers and lakes is wetter, made up of mud and clays. Such deposits exist on Mars as well, trapping water and indicating where larger bodies may have once existed.
Water on Mars may be doing something more than sitting pretty. A new study reveals that when the liquid boils, thanks to low pressures, it can make the sand levitate.
"Sediment levitation must therefore be considered when evaluating the formation of recent and present-day Martian mass wasting features, as much less water may be required to form such features than previously thought," the researchers wrote in their study, which was published in the journal Nature Communications.
Liquid gold
Water may seem like a very common element to those of us stuck on Earth, but it has great value. In addition to understanding how Mars may have changed and developed over time, scientists hope that finding water will help them to find something even more valuable — life, either past or present.
Only Earth is known to host life, and life on our planet requires water. Though life could conceivably evolve without relying on this precious liquid, scientists can only work with what they know. Thus they hope that locating water on celestial bodies such as Mars will lead to finding evidence for life.
With this in mind, NASA developed a strategy for exploring the Red Planet that takes as its mantra "follow the water." Recent orbiters, landers and rovers sent to Mars were designed to search for water, rather than life, in the hopes of finding environments where life could have thrived.
That has changed, however, with the flood of evidence these robots have returned. Curiosity determined that Mars could indeed have supported microbial life in the ancient past, and the next NASA rover — a car-size robot based heavily on Curiosity's basic design — will blast off in 2020 to look for evidence of past Red Planet life.
Extraterrestrial Cycloid Curves – Why Are They On Europa?
Extraterrestrial Cycloid Curves – Why Are They On Europa?
This video is about the cycloid curves on Jupiter’s moon Europa – they’re ridges or valleys in the icy surface that formed due to some sort of geological or tectonic-esque phenomenon. The answer involves ping pong balls, the pacific ring of fire, subduction, tidal bulges, and tailcracking,
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Extraterrestrial Cycloids - Why Are They on Europa?
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This is an image of Jupiter's moon Europa taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1998. You probably noticed that Europa's surface which is made of ice has tons and tons of cracks. But I want to direct your attention to this weird repeating arc pattern. Each segment of ARC is roughly 100 kilometers long and there are a lots of these arc patterns. Most of them are ridges raised up above the surrounding surface though a few are troughs after they were discovered. Their shape reminded scientists of a mathematical curve called a cycloid. So the Europa curves are called cycloid curves though technically they're not Cyclades. These curves are weird geological and astrophysical processes are really good at making round features more straight features or wavy features. But what causes repeated markings cycloids. Well we think that the Europan surface is made of frozen water at least several miles thick which we believe is floating on of an ocean of liquid water. This means its surface kind of works the way tectonic plates do here on Earth spreading apart and generating new ice crashing together and being subducted and so on. And here on Earth Plate Tectonics has caused cycloid curves all around the Pacific Ring of Fire. Our best guess for how the Pacific arcs form here on earth is based on the geometry of what happens when the ocean plates get pushed under continental plates because the Earth's surface is curved. You get a similar effects to what happens when you dent a ping pong ball. You might get a signal or if you press harder multiple circular arcs Cyclopes curves.
However this doesn't appear to be the answer on Europa because there are so many cycloid curves and they overlap in tons of places and none of them really show signs of one piece of the surface being pushed under another. The current best theory for the origin of the Europan cycloids has to do with Europas weird tides Jupiter which it's orbiting causes tides on Europa but they're not from daily rotation beneath a tidal bulge the way tides happen here on Earth because the same side of Europa always faces Jupiter. No Europa has tides because its orbit isn't a perfect circle it's ever so slightly elliptical. So as Europa moves closer or farther from Jupiter the nature of Jupiter's gravitational pole changes on the scale of the whole moon. These tides manifest as a kind of squeezing and stretching which due to the interaction of geometry and physics results in any given point on the icy surface being pressed together at one time in the orbits and then stretched at a later point and the aspect of tides. Key to understanding the cycloid curves is that the direction of the compression and stretching changes over the course of each orbit rotating around like the hand on a clock. Specifically the compression tension direction rotates clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and it takes one orbit to complete a full rotation so when there's enough stretching tension to form a crack in the ice the crack will start propagating perpendicular to the tension. But remember the direction of tension is changing.
If say the crack is growing to the east in the northern hemisphere the counter-clockwise changing tension will curve it up away from the equator as Europa continues orbiting. The tension will eventually turn to compression so the crack will stop growing the compression angle will continue turning though and by the time the pressing turns back to pulling the direction will have rotated back around enough that the crack will make a sharp turn when it starts cracking again after which it resumes its upward curving trajectory. There's probably a little more subtlety due to a stress strain process called Tail cracking that helps the sharp corners form for each new segment. But this is basically the best current theory explaining the Europan cycloid cracks grow because the tides from Jupiter create tension in the ice and that tension direction changes over time curving the crack. Then the process repeats again starting the crack off in the original direction curving again and so on. And that's how waves form on a frozen world. This video was supported by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Project at the Space Telescope Science Institute. There's still a ton we don't know about Europa for example the Hubble telescope has detected what we think are plumes jetting from Europe as icy surface perhaps water sprouting up through cracks and if so the plumes could give us insights into the oceans beneath the James Webb telescope will use its powerful thermal imaging and spectroscopy to investigate Europa's plumes and to study the geologic activity tides and tectonics of Europa and other outer solar system planets and moons hopefully answering questions about how they formed how they continue to behave and whether they have conditions amenable to life.
Pascagoula native finally tells the tale of amazing close encounter
Pascagoula native finally tells the tale of amazing close encounter
For 45 years, Calvin Parker kept his mouth shut about the Pascagoula alien abduction that captured America’s attention. But now he’s ready to tell his story.
Parker, who claims he was abducted and examined by alien beings while fishing on the Pascagoula River with Charles Hickson in 1973, will hold a book signing event at Main Street Pascagoula on Oct. 11, 2018, on the 45th anniversary of the alleged abduction.
“I never really told my story,” Parker said. “Nobody has ever talked to my family about it, never talked to my friends about it. I’ve always kept it quiet.”
A few months ago, however, Parker decided to share his story through a book titled Pascagoula – The Closest Encounter: My Story.
The idea came to him after attending a funeral. Visitors saw his name on the registry and began asking questions.
“They was coming up asking a lot of questions, wanting pictures,” he said. “We left the funeral because it was taking attention away from the family, but on the way home (me and my wife) talked about writing a book.”
As fate would have it, when they returned home a publisher had left a message about a book deal.
“He told me, ‘It’s your legacy. People need to know. People want to know,’” Parker said. “He said the media always changes things. They make it a little spicier. I wanted to document this and put it in a book where it can’t be changed.”
Parker said he’s eager to kick off his book signings in Pascagoula because he owes the people of Jackson County an explanation of what happened.
“I don’t know if they believe it or not,” he said. “It don’t matter to me if you believe it or not (because) I know it happened.”
The book, should help readers make up their minds, he said.
“At least read the book and get the facts, like the polygraph test, the voice stress test, the eye witnesses, the hypnosis sessions,” he said.
The book is available for purchase for $30 through Main Street Pascagoula by emailing mainstreetpascagoula@gmail.com. The book will be available for pick-up at the book signing event.
The book signing will be held at 618 Delmas Ave. from 5-8 p.m. on Oct. 11.
The book reveals all, Parker said.
“I remember everything about it,” Parker said, recounting that night in 1973.
He and Hickson, who has since died, were fishing on private property on the east bank of the Pascagoula River.
“We had seen some blue, hazy lights, and I had figured that maybe the law was coming,” he said. “We stood up and turned around, and then a real bright light appeared about the time we stood up. It was really blinding for a minute.”
He believes the blinding light was the craft’s door opening.
“We saw three figures coming toward us,” Parker recounted. “You couldn’t make it out much because of the lights, but when they got closer, you could kinda make out that they weren’t human. They were more like robotic looking.”
Two of them approached Hickson, he said, and one grabbed Parker.
“When they got a hold of me, it was like an injection,” he said. “It just took the fear and life right out of you. You couldn’t do nothing. You couldn’t talk; you couldn’t do anything but look. I couldn’t turn my head to see what was going on.”
Parker said once on board, he was put on an examination table at about a 45-degree angle.
That’s when something resembling a deck of cards with a silver bottom came out if the ceiling, he said.
“It came and hovered around my head just little bit (and) clicked four times,” he said. “I figure it was something close to an MRI.”
Then the “big ugly one” left the room, he said, and “the little feminine looking one” came inside to examine Parker.
“She pulled at my skin,” he said. “She put her fingers in my throat, nose and ears and just gave me an examination. She left the room, and the big ugly one came back in, the one I call the soldier. He came back and set us back at the river.”
Parker said he and Hickson sat on the riverbank and talked about what happened for a few minutes.
“I didn’t want to tell anyone,” he said. “But the next day, it was a media frenzy. It was national news and it still is.”
Parker believes social media has kept the abduction story alive and helped fan the flames of its popularity.
He’s been contacted by television stations and has a forthcoming radio broadcast, he said, and he wouldn’t be surprised if some movie deals come out of the book’s release.
“We’re just taking it slow and easy, not jumping into anything,” he said. “It’s been 45 years and I’ve kept my mouth shut. I kinda want to lift the cloud and lift the doubt. I just want to bring everybody together on the real facts of what happened.”
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross discusses the future of intergalactic business, trade and regulation in space. / CNBC
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By:Jamie Seidel
It's small. It's nimble. It's doing strange things over our heads. And Russia's new Kosmos 2521 satellite has the potential to bring the world's economy to its knees.
"We don't know for certain what it is and there is no way to verify it," State Department assistant secretary Yleem Poblete told a conference this week. "But Russian intentions with respect to this satellite are unclear and are obviously a very troubling development — particularly, when considered in concert with statements by Russia's Space Force Commander."
She said its manoeuvres indicated it could be an anti-satellite weapon.
And this has dire implications: Vital services such as the internet, television, telephone and GPS all rely on satellites. As does a swath of other services — such as weather forecasting and firefighting.
"In October of last year the Russian Ministry of Defense deployed a space object they claimed was a 'space apparatus inspector.' But its behaviour on-orbit was inconsistent with anything seen before from on-orbit inspection or space situational awareness capabilities, including other Russian inspection satellite activities," Poblete told a conference on disarmament in Switzerland.
Moscow immediately dismissed her comments.
US Vice-President Mike Pence speaks about the creation of a United States Space Force. Photo / AP file
The State Department's fears were "the same unfounded, slanderous accusations based on suspicions, on suppositions and so on," Russian diplomat Alexander Deynko told Reuters.
But Russia's Space Force Commander has already stated publicly it is developing "new prototypes" of space weapons.
Is this one of them?
Whatever the case, the Pentagon is clearly rattled.
"Although US space systems have historically maintained a technological advantage over those of potential adversaries, those potential adversaries are now actively developing way to deny our use of space in a crisis," a US Department of Defence report released earlier this month reads.
BATTLING IN ORBIT
While Poblete did not specify which Russian satellite she was talking about, military analysts believe it was one of a set launched on June 23. A month later, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced it had launched "a small-sized spacecraft has separated from a space platform in order to inspect condition of the Russian satellite."
Kosmos 2521 was believed deployed from another satellite, Kosmos 2519. Close by is another satellite, Kosmos 2523.
Exactly what these Russian satellites have been doing that is "very troubling" is unknown.
But Moscow has reportedly been investing heavily in obtaining the ability for a satellite to move around in orbit and interact with other satellites. This could give it the ability to attach spy equipment to an opponent's satellite, push it out of alignment, distort its signals, damage it, destroy it — or even potentially capture it.
Destroying a satellite, however, poses immense risks for all space flight activities. Fragments can cannon about above the Earth's atmosphere for centuries — striking other satellites, and adding their wreckage to the deadly debris fields.
For this reason, the world's militaries have been looking at 'non-kinetic' methods of putting satellites out of service.
This can involve the use of lasers or microwave guns to fry delicate electronics, or jam its signals. And the testing of any such technology would be difficult to discern from simple mechanical failures from the ground.
WEAPONISING SPACE
Russia is working on more than just space-based satellite warfare. It has also deployed, for the first time, ground-based laser batteries aimed at taking the down prying eyes above.
"The Russian Ministry of Defense recently announced that its Space Troops have received a mobile laser system which Vladimir Putin announced to the world on March 1 of this year. Russia's leader himself alluded to space weapons being 'more acceptable in the political and military respect'," Poblete said.
This refers to the Peresvet system President Vladimir Putin referred to when he announced six new 'super weapons' to the world earlier this year. The laser is mobile, networking generators, sensors and command-and-control systems packed on the back of trucks.
The laser is claimed to have the ability to shoot-down ballistic missiles in their orbital phase, as well as satellites.
Russia's space agency Roscosmos is also attempting to 'weaponise' a telescope. It wants "an optic detection system which includes a solid-state laser and a transmit/receive adaptive optical system."
It argues the laser cannon would be able to locate and identify space junk before slagging it.
It argues that there are already 22,000 dead satellites and large pieces of debris being tracked in orbit. In total, estimates place the amount of objects floating around up there at 170 million pieces.
Chinese researchers have also been exploring the use of lasers in space, with the potential of a space-based system being investigated earlier this year.
“Last night, at 12:19 a.m. Central Daylight Time, numerous eyewitnesses in the Southeast reported seeing a very bright fireball, which was also detected by all six NASA meteor cameras in the region. Analysis of the data indicates that the meteor was first seen at an altitude of 58 miles above Turkeytown, Alabama (northeast of Gadsden), moving west of north at 53,700 miles per hour. It fragmented some 18 miles above the small town of Grove Oak. Early results indicate the fireball, which was at least 40 times as bright as the full moon, was caused by a small asteroid 6 feet (2 meters) in diameter. We are still assessing the probability of the fireball producing meteorites on the ground – whether it did or not, it was an extremely bright event, seen through partly cloudy skies and triggering every camera and sensor operated by the Meteoroid Environment Office in the region.”
The Mars Curiosity rover captured images of this strange object on the planet’s surface on Monday. What is it? NASA scientists have figured it out.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
This small object got the attention of Mars Curiosity mission scientists this past week. NASA scientists say they were finally able to figure out what the strange fragment is.
Images captured on Monday (August 13, 2018) by the Curiosity rover’s camera show an object that looks perhaps like masking tape or a piece of peeled-off paint. Scientists initially speculated that the mysterious chunk, which they referred to as Pettegrove Point Foreign Object Debris, was a piece of spacecraft debris, or part of Curiosity itself. But now they’ve determined that it’s of natural origin.
It was analyzed by Curiosity’s ChemCam, an instrument that uses a laser and spectrometer. Results showed the object is a very thin flake of rock. “False Alarm,” said the mission team, who had initially though they’d found some kind of interesting object on the surface of Mars.
Although it turns out that this object isn’t related to the search of past or present life on Mars, Curiosity has made significant discoveries recently. For example, the rover found evidence on Martian rocks which suggests the neighbor planet could have supported ancient life. The rover’s data reveal a water lake inside Gale Crater held all the ingredients necessary for life, including chemical building blocks and energy sources.
Curiosity is also observing the Martian atmosphere to monitor the current dust storm on Mars, which is now abating. The plutonium-fueled rover has been exploring the Mars surface since August 2012.
Bottom line: A strange-looking object photographed by the Mars Curiosity rover has turned out to be a piece of rock.
Odd Fireball '40 times as bright as full moon' lights up Alabama sky
Odd Fireball '40 times as bright as full moon' lights up Alabama sky
NASA has released video of "a very bright" fireball that lit up the sky over Alabama just after midnight Friday morning. The official time of sighting was 12:19 a.m. CDT.
The fireball, which is NASA's word for a very bright meteor, was described as "at least 40 times as bright as the Full Moon." It was first seen 58 miles above Turkeytown, Ala. northeast of Gadsden, according to NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center.
The fireball was moving northwest at 53,700 miles per hour and fragmented about 18 miles above the small town of Grove Oak, NASA said.
"Early results indicate the (meteor) was caused by a small asteroid 6 feet in diameter," NASA said. "We are still assessing the probability of the fireball producing meteorites on the ground."
"Whether it did or not," NASA said, "it was an extremely bright event seen through partly cloudy skies and triggering every camera and sensor operated by the Meteroid Environment Office in the region."
NASA talks about one object (meteor) but there are two bright objects which seem to come together and then explode, which you can see in the first video.
I confronted Good Year about their lies to get publicity, lets see how they or if they respond. Scott C. Waring. UFO Sighting News.
I confronted Good Year about their lies to get publicity, lets see how they or if they respond. Scott C. Waring. UFO Sighting News.
I tweeted to the Good Year company about their unethical and immoral actions to get free publicity. Lets see how they respond and how they will deny it, but the photos prove otherwise. Scott C. Waring
@GoodyearBlimp I know you lied to the public about a UFO sighting in order to get free publicity! What you did is discredited a real and important sighting to satisfy your greed! What you did is a crime against humanity! #NorthCarolina#Lake Scott C. Waring
Alien Orb Caught On Animal Forest Cam Observing Deer, Aug 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Alien Orb Caught On Animal Forest Cam Observing Deer, Aug 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 17, 2018 Location of sighting: Bentonia, Mississippi, USA This report was just sent to me on Twitter messages by JB. This deer camera is an infrared cam. That means at night, infrared LEDs at the front of the cam light up the area in front of it for about 20-40 meters. The infrared LEDs light is invisible to the naked eye so humans and animals cannot see it. This technique of catching deer also happens to catch anything cloaked or not cloaked in the vicinity. Nothing can escape infrared. As you see from this alien orb that is spying on the feeding deer and their behavior. Orbs are used like humans use drones. Perhaps aliens may use them because our atmosphere is not safe for them to breath or our gravity, suns light or some other environmental phenomenon may harm them. So exploring with a drone seems much safer for a species that may live thousands or even millions of years in one lifetime. Scott C. Waring
The following story reports that some of the earliest galaxies ever formed are on our comics doorstep... I thought that relativity meant that looking at the oldest galaxies meant looking across the largest distances and vice versa due to expansion.. So can someone explain why 13 billion year old galaxies sit just out side the milky way when they should be 13 billion light years away.. I think?
The galaxies began to form when the universe was only about 100 million years old (Durham University/Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies/Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
they shut down big names on social media; especially ones that call out false flags. Aside from Alex Jones, they also nuked a bunch of libertarians and other accounts that you didn't notice because the mainstream media is focused on Jones.
they have a terror training camp teaching kids to do school shootings; all under FBI surveillance for a number of months. The sheriffs went into the camp against FBI orders, otherwise, we would have never heard of it.
they need a big false flag before midterms to distract from FBI/DOJ corruption, crashing currencies in emerging markets, and to take the guns.
I'm afraid they are going for their 'big move' soon. This may be the calm before the storm.
Hortend en stotend flappert ze met haar vleugels. Sierlijk is het allemaal niet, wat deze robotvleermuis laat zien. Maar wel nét echt. Via biomimetica of biomimicry imiteert de machine de bewegingen van een echte vleerhond. De robot kan zelfs ondersteboven vertrekken! De uitvinding van het Duitse Festo werd voorgesteld op de World Robot Conference in Peking.
ESADe Aeolus gaat de wind observeren vanuit de ruimte.
WETENSCHAPEen hypermoderne windhaan, dat is een Europese satelliet die komende dinsdag vertrekt naar de ruimte. De Aeolus moet, vanop 320 kilometer hoogte, de wind op aarde in kaart gaan brengen. Want hoe die precies werkt, is nu nog een groot mysterie.
Om de wind te meten, stuurt de Aeolus laserbundels richting de aarde. De dampkring kaatst de stralen terug, maar onderweg verandert het signaal door wat de straal tegenkomt. Een speciaal computersysteem, dat door het Nederlandse meteorologisch instituut KNMI is ontworpen, kan aan de hand daarvan uitrekenen welke winden de straal onderweg is tegengekomen. Een ‘windprofiel’, noemt de ESA dat.
De satelliet gaat in anderhalf uur rond de aarde draaien, van de noordpool naar de zuidpool en weer terug. De aarde trekt langzaam onder hem langs, waardoor bij elke baan een ander stuk van de planeet in beeld komt. In een week tijd is de hele planeet in kaart gebracht. De missie van de Aeolus duurt op zijn minst drie jaar, maar er is genoeg brandstof aan boord voor nog twee jaar.
ESAEen beter beeld van de wind moet betere weerberichten opleveren
Het meten van de wind gebeurt nu nog door weerstations op de grond, zoals bij het KMI in Ukkel. Af en toe gaan weerballonnen de lucht in, en vliegtuigen geven na de landing door welke winden ze onderweg zijn tegengekomen. Het probleem is dat het allemaal momentopnamen zijn. We weten alleen hoe de wind op een bepaald moment op een bepaalde plek waait, zonder totaalbeeld. Hoe de wind waait boven ontwikkelde en dichtbevolkte gebieden als Europa en Noord-Amerika, is nog redelijk goed bekend, legt Martin Kaspers uit. De Nederlander is binnen de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA verantwoordelijk voor het goed functioneren van de Aeolus.
Gaten in gegevens
“Maar we hebben geen idee van de winden boven Afrika, Zuid-Amerika, de Noordpool en de Zuidpool. We weten niet hoe hoog de wind waait, hoe hard en in welke richting. Er zitten gaten in de gegevens”, aldus Kaspers. En dat terwijl ons weer daar deels ontstaat. Een beter beeld van de wind moet betere weerberichten opleveren. “Op den duur kan dat veel uitmaken”, stelt Kaspers. “Toen het weer na de recente hittegolf omsloeg, kwam er slecht weer aan. We kregen code oranje. Maar pas op het laatste moment wisten we of het slechte weer over het westen of het oosten van het land zou trekken.” Uiteindelijk bleek de overlast mee te vallen.
ESAAeolus gaat in anderhalf uur rond de aarde draaien
Onnodig alarm voorkomen
“Met betere gegevens kan je voorkomen dat je een alarm onnodig inzet. Stel dat het KNMI code geel uitgeeft en er gebeurt niets, zeggen mensen dat het flauwekul was. De volgende keer doe je het niet en blijkt het rampzalig. Met betere gegevens kan je beter anticiperen.” De metingen kunnen ook helpen bij orkanen als Irma en José, die vorig jaar over Sint-Maarten trokken. Kaspers: “Je kunt beter voorspellen welke gebieden je moet evacueren. En je voorkomt dat je hulpmiddelen inzet waar dat niet nodig is.”
NASAEen illustratie van exoplaneten die gelijkaardig kunnen zijn aan de aarde.
WETENSCHAPIn het heelal bevinden zich talloze “waterwerelden” die volledig bedekt zijn met gigantische oceanen en mogelijk ook buitenaards leven herbergen, zo beweren astronomen. Uit nieuw onderzoek blijkt immers dat honderden planeten mogelijk bestaan uit de basisstoffen die essentieel zijn voor het ontstaan van leven.
Water is vermoedelijk een hoofdbestanddeel van exoplaneten – planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel – die twee tot vier keer groter zijn dan de aarde, zegt een groep van internationale wetenschappers. Hun bevindingen werden deze week voorgesteld tijdens de Goldschmidt Conference, een chemieconferentie in Boston.
Tot nu toe hebben wetenschappers ongeveer 4000 exoplaneten ontdekt. Volgens wetenschappers van Harvard zijn 35 procent van hen, in totaal zo’n 1400 planeten, mogelijk waterwerelden. Uit een nieuwe evaluatie van data van de Keplertelescoop, die het heelal afspeurt naar exoplaneten, en de ESA-ruimtelescoop Gaia, blijkt immers dat veel planeten tot 50 procent water kunnen bevatten. Dat is veel meer dan de aarde, waarvan water slechts 0,02 procent van het totale gewicht bedraagt.
Water is in feite een van de meest voorkomende stoffen in ons heelal.
Dr. Li Zeng, universiteit van Harvard
Verrassing
“Het was een enorme verrassing om te beseffen dat er zoveel waterwerelden zijn”, zegt hoofdonderzoeker dr. Li Zeng van de universiteit van Harvard. “Het is water, maar niet zoals we het hier gewoonlijk aantreffen op aarde. Hun oppervlaktetemperatuur bedraagt naar schatting 200 tot 500 graden Celsius”, zegt hij over de exoplaneten in kwestie. “Hun oppervlak is mogelijk gehuld in een atmosfeer die voornamelijk uit waterdamp bestaat, met een vloeibare waterlaag eronder. Dieper zal men dan naar verwachting ontdekken dat water is getransformeerd tot erg compact ijs vooraleer men de harde rotskern bereikt.”
Waar en wanneer de omstandigheden juist zijn, zal leven ontstaan en zich ontwikkelen.
Dr. Li Zeng, universiteit van Harvard
(Intelligent) leven?
“Men moet beseffen dat, hoewel water hier op aarde en andere planeten in ons zonnestelsel kostbaar en zeldzamer lijkt, het in feite een van de meest voorkomende stoffen in ons heelal is”, stelt Li Zeng.
“Leven kan een universeel fenomeen zijn”, beweert de wetenschapper. “Waar en wanneer de omstandigheden juist zijn, zal leven ontstaan en zich ontwikkelen. Het is een natuurlijk gevolg van energie en de informatiestroom in ons universum. Het leven kan zich ontwikkelen in bepaalde lagen nabij de oppervlakte van deze waterwereld, wanneer de druk, de temperatuur en de chemische omstandigheden juist zijn.”
De mogelijkheid bestaat dat ook intelligent leven zich zal ontwikkelen in een waterwereld. “De details kunnen verschillen van de ene planeet tot de andere, net zoals het leven op verschillende continenten op aarde wat van elkaar verschilt”, aldus Li Zeng.
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Zijn vreemde cirkels in de lucht bewijs van eerdere universa die voor het onze bestonden? Deze wetenschappers denken van wel
Zijn vreemde cirkels in de lucht bewijs van eerdere universa die voor het onze bestonden? Deze wetenschappers denken van wel
Wetenschappers denken bewijs te hebben gevonden van eerdere universa, in de vorm van resten van zwarte gaten die uit een ander heelal zouden komen. Die zijn zichtbaar als vreemde cirkels aan de hemel.
Volgens een theorie doorloopt ons heelal verschillende stadia: het wordt geboren en uiteindelijk ook weer vernietigd. Deze theorie wordt ook wel ‘conformal cyclic cosmology’ (CCC) genoemd.
Tijdens dit proces wordt het grootste gedeelte van een universum vernietigd, maar wetenschappers claimen dat een deel van de elektromagnetische straling het recyclingproces overleeft.
Vorig universum
“Wat wij beweren is dat we resten zien van een zwart gat dat in een vorig universum is verwoest,” zei natuurkundige Roger Penrose van de Oxford-universiteit tegen New Scientist.
Het bewijs bestaat uit zogeheten ‘Hawking-punten’, vernoemd naar wijlen Stephen Hawking. Hij theoretiseerde dat zwarte gaten toch nog een beetje straling uitzenden, ook wel Hawkingstraling genoemd.
Penrose en zijn collega’s denken dat deze straling van het ene universum naar het andere wordt overgedragen.
Kleine cirkels
Op de kaart van de kosmische achtergrondstraling zien deze Hawking-punten eruit als kleine cirkels. Eerder werd gedacht dat ze werden veroorzaakt door zwaartekrachtgolven of interstellair stof.
De theorie van een universum dat steeds wordt gerecyclet is niet zonder controverse, aangezien er nog geen hard bewijs is gevonden voor Hawkingstraling of -punten.
Twee Amerikaanse piloten zagen een sigaarvormige UFO. Waarom vernietigde de luchtmacht het rapport?
Twee Amerikaanse piloten zagen een sigaarvormige UFO. Waarom vernietigde de luchtmacht het rapport?
Op 24 juli 1948 gebeurde er iets vreemds in de lucht boven de Amerikaanse staat Alabama. De overheid lanceerde in het diepste geheim een onderzoek, waarvan de resultaten uiteindelijk werden vernietigd.
Piloten Clarence S. Chiles en John B. Whitted waren op weg van Houston naar Atlanta toen ze boven Alabama een onbekend object zagen vliegen.
Hun waarneming leidde tot een topgeheim document van de luchtmacht waarin werd gesuggereerd dat sommige UFO’s ruimteschepen van andere werelden waren.
In het niets
Chiles zei in een officiële verklaring: “Er waren duidelijk geen vleugels te zien […] en er waren twee rijen met ramen, wat erop wees dat het twee verdiepingen had.”
“Je kon door de ramen heen een heel fel licht zien en onder het schip zat nog een blauw licht,” vervolgde hij.
Ze keken ongeveer 10 seconden naar het schip, voordat het recht voor hun ogen in het niets verdween.
Veel vaker
Whitted schreef in zijn officiële verklaring: “Het object was sigaarvormig en ongeveer 30 meter lang. Er waren twee rijen met ramen, twee verdiepingen. De ramen waren erg groot en vierkant.”
De piloten maakten tekeningen van het vaartuig en werden geïnterviewd door kranten en radiozenders.
Het bleek dat in de jaren ervoor veel vaker soortgelijke objecten waren waargenomen in de lucht.
Interplanetair
Onderzoekers van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht namen deze waarneming serieus omdat er twee gerespecteerde piloten bij betrokken waren die in de oorlog hadden gediend als officier.
Daarnaast waren ze zeer dicht in de buurt van het vreemde object gekomen.
Volgens Edward J. Ruppelt, een luchtmachtofficier, dachten de onderzoekers dat de UFO’s interplanetair waren.
Verbrand
Het rapport bereikte uiteindelijk stafchef Hoyt S. Vandenberg, maar die geloofde niet dat ze van andere planeten kwamen.
“Een groep mensen van het Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) probeerde de stafchef tevergeefs te overtuigen,” zei Ruppelt.
“Enkele maanden later werd het rapport verbrand,” vervolgde hij.
Meest controversiële
Vandenberg was er persoonlijk van overtuigd dat UFO’s werden gemaakt door de Sovjet-Unie.
Vanwege het gebrek aan transparantie is dit incident één van de meest controversiële UFO-waarnemingen in de geschiedenis.
TURKSE LUCHTMACHT SCHIET UFO UIT DE LUCHT ( VIDEO )
TURKSE LUCHTMACHT SCHIET UFO UIT DE LUCHT ( VIDEO )
Er is weer de nodige commotie binnen de UFO gemeenschap omdat er beelden zijn opgedoken van een UFO die uit de lucht wordt geschoten.
Het gebeurde in Turkije en de beelden lijken behoorlijk overtuigend, hoewel dat tegenwoordig ook weer niet alles zegt.
Via een aantal grote UFO kanalen zijn beelden te zien die toch wel heel spectaculair zijn.
Het is een korte video die klaarblijkelijk is opgenomen boven Turkije en het beeld is zo te zien van een druk bezochte plek in een stad op een zomeravond.
Opeens verschijnt er een snel vliegend rond object in beeld en hoor je ook het gebrul van staalmotoren van één of meerdere militaire jets.
Vervolgens explodeert de UFO, komt er ook een deel op de grond terecht, zie je een zwarte wolk en mensen die krijsend alle kanten op vluchten.
Wanneer de explosie plaatsvindt, wordt ook de filmer bijna ondersteboven geblazen en wat het ook is wat daar gebeurt, de beelden en de opname lijken echt.
Ook het kanaal waar deze video op is gepubliceerd is er niet één waar normaal gesproken zaken over UFO’s verschijnen, maar gewone alledaagse huis tuin en keuken dingen.
Volgens ufoloog Scott Waring is hier absoluut sprake van een UFO en niet van een raket of iets dergelijks omdat er anders een spoor van rook te zien zou zijn. Ook wijst hij op het feit dat het type UFO dat we hier zien er één is die veel wordt gesignaleerd op diverse plekken.
En als laatste geeft hij een waarschuwing dat als de Turken hier inderdaad een UFO uit de lucht hebben geknald ze heel gevaarlijk bezig zijn, omdat je op deze manier heel gemakkelijk een oorlog met buitenaardsen kunt uitlokken.
Is hier inderdaad sprake van een UFO die uit de lucht wordt geknald of toch iets anders?
George HW Bush Doctor Killed To Prevent Him From Revealing Truth About Aliens, UFO Sighting News
George HW Bush Doctor Killed To Prevent Him From Revealing Truth About Aliens, UFO Sighting News.
Evidence that confirms the CIA killed the doctor to prevent him from publishing a book about being the US presidents physician and the classified talks they had about him piloting a 300 meter long UFO. His death was made to send a message to the publisher who probably was waiting for the book transcript or was already reviewing it. Can the doctor of the US president write a book? Of course and some have, such as White House doctor Connie Mariano who worked for President Clinton. Why would the former US president reveal secrets to the doctor? Easy, Because George HW Bush was elderly (age 94 now) and super proud of his son about one single act of father and son love and their passion to fly. The son wanted to be just like his dad in all ways from piloting to being US president. Why was the doctor killed? Because on January 8, 2008, US President George W Bush, a military jet pilot made the bullheaded decision to fly an ultra top secret USAF 300 meter long spacecraft made with alien technology. Why? To impress his father (former US President George HW Bush, former military pilot who was living in the famous Bush Ranch at the time.
You see, President Bush was near the top secret US military base in the Black Sea off of Turkey that week. All Evidence points to Bush being in the Middle East during this time. Bush Timeline Here. January 8, 2008: President Bush releases a statement noting that the following day will be the third anniversary of the signing of the comprehensive peace agreement in Sudan and states the commitment on the part of the US to continuing to adhere to the agreement. January 9, 2008: President Bush attends the welcoming ceremony at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel during the afternoon. January 10, 2008: President Bush delivers an address at the King David Hotel, Jerusalem on the peace process in the Middle East during the afternoon. You see, 200-300 meter UFOs have been seen at an island in the Sea of Marmara off of Turkey. Just 700 miles from the King Davide Hotel. Dozens of hours of night footage recorded by a security guard don't lie. (video below).
I don't believe that the suspected killer Joseph James Pappas (age 65) did it by himself, but was programmed by CIA phychologists to do the assassination. The CIA created a program called MKUltra which was a secret project to gain mind control of anyone. As proof, I am include a page from the declassified MLUltra report below. Which is 100% proof the organisation existed from 1953 to 1977, but changes its name and went on to become an assassination programming unit afterwords. They are responsible for JFKs assassination. Click here to learn about MKUltra project. Also Project Artichoke, Project Operation Midnight Climax, Project MKNAOMI,Operation Pandora, BLUEBIRD, MKOFTEN, was also a CIA mind control project. The CIA picked Joseph James Pappas because his mother died in the doctors care 20 years earlier, he had a motive...the CIA programming unit needed a suspect like this. This and his police and weapons experience made him perfect for the program. The CIA took him and mentally programmed him to do, think and act a certain way...and at the end to kill himself. So all evidence is gone. The CIA did their job well. The CIA had to kill off President Bushes doctor, because Bush leaked many details about the alien tech USAF 300 meter ship he flew to the doctor. And there is numerous doctors of presidents who wrote books about it...the CIA knew that the doctor was going to write such a book or had already submitted a book for publication, and wanted to send a message to the family and to the publisher to be quiet. This is why doctor Mark Hassknecht was assassinated by a CIA mind controlled Joseph James Pappas. Joseph didn't want to do it, but the CIA programmed him to be a puppet to kill for them and then to kill himself to destroy the evidence. This is the truth, nothing but the truth, so help me god. Scott C. Waring
Astronaut Snaps 'Mind-Blowing' Aurora Picture from Space
Astronaut Snaps 'Mind-Blowing' Aurora Picture from Space
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
The aurora as seen from the International Space Station by astronaut Alexander Gerst.
Credit: ESA/NASA-A. Gerst
Most of us are lucky to catch a glimpse of a stunning aurora painting the skies once or twice in our lives.
But living on the International Space Station has a curious side effect, giving astronauts incredible odds of spotting the beautiful phenomenon. European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst has been aboard the space station since June as part of his second trip to space, and on Aug. 10, he shared incredible photos of the bright green waves as seen from above. "Mind-blowing, every single time," he wrote in a tweet accompanying the photo.
Alexander Gerst✔@Astro_Alex
Mind-blowing, every single time. I wonder what early explorers thought when they first saw an aurora without ever having heard about it... #ExploreFarther#Horizons
Auroras, also known as the northern and southern lights, are caused by charged particles streaming out of the sun that eventually hit Earth's atmosphere, according to NASA. There, the particles interact with oxygen and nitrogen molecules to produce light. The result is a ghostly green wave dancing across the sky near the poles.
But while auroras are beautiful, particles streaming off the sun can have plenty of less aesthetic consequences. They can put astronaut health at risk, damage satellites in orbit around the Earth and, in the most severe cases, cause blackouts in terrestrial power grids.
That's part of why NASA is so excited about its newest mission, the Parker Solar Probe, which launched toward the sun on Sunday (Aug. 12). Once the spacecraft arrives at our star later this year, it will study the highly charged particles that leave the sun and end up in our neighborhood.
Parker can't give us more auroras, but if it can help scientists better understand and predict the sun's activities, it might help people be in the right place at the right time to see the stunning view.
Yleem Poblete, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, raised the concerns about the Russian “space apparatus inspector” at a meeting of the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland on Aug. 14, 2018. Russia publicly announced the launch of this satellite in June 2017, but insists that its only function is to inspect the country’s own space-based systems for damage or other possible issues and potentially service and repair them.
The Russian satellite’s “behavior on-orbit was inconsistent with anything seen before from on-orbit inspection or space situational awareness capabilities, including other Russian inspection satellite activities,” Poblete said at the gathering. “We are concerned with what appears to be very abnormal behavior by a declared ‘space apparatus inspector.’ We don’t know for certain what it is and there is no way to verify it.”
When Poblete mentioned “other” activities, she was likely referring to three additional inspector satellites that the Russians launched between 2013 and 2015. These space-based systems, also known as Kosmos-2491, Kosmos-2499, and Kosmos-2504, conducted a number of apparent tests, getting relatively close to various pieces of space debris, before going dormant in 2016. The next year, Russia turned one of them back on and sent it near to a portion of a Chinese weather satellite, which that country had destroyed in a ground-based anti-satellite test in 2007.
The video below, from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, shows one concept for using a small repair satellite to service other space-based systems.
Now it’s important to note that the concept of a small inspector satellite isn’t new and makes good sense. Sending manned missions to examine satellites and other space objects and potentially make repairs or modifications has historically been costly and complicated.
At the same time, fixing or making modifications to a satellite in space saves the trouble of building a replacement and paying to launch it into orbit. Famously, the United States sent astronauts to fix the Hubble Space Telescopein 1993 after NASA discovered a fault in the system’s main mirror.
Having a semi-autonomous, space-based repair crew of sorts on call could simplify the arrangement significantly. If nothing else, these robotic inspectors could assess the issue quickly so personnel on the ground could make an informed decision about how to proceed.
The problem is that any satellite that can maneuver itself very close to another one, and may have small arms or probes to physically interact with its target, is inherently capable of being a weapon. Any such repair system could easily smash sensitive optics and other components, or simply slam into the target, acting as a kinetic weapon. Their small size means that their terrestrial operators might be able to instruct them to try to hide near other objects, especially among the ever-expanding field of "space junk" floating around the earth, as well.
A notional Robotic Servicing Vehicle that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been working on. This kind of space-based system could also function as a weapon.
They might also be able to carry electronic warfare jammers or directed energy weapons that could blind optics or prevent a satellite from communicating information, including warnings about incoming missiles or vital intelligence data, to facilities down below. The “inspectors” could act as small intelligence agents, intercepting transmissions aimed at space-based communications systems. In that case, they might potentially send out spoofed signals with confusing messages or false navigational coordinates, as well.
Russia has since denounced Assistant Secretary of State Poblete’s comments as “unfounded, slanderous accusations based on suspicions.” However, statements from the country’s own Ministry of Defense regarding their newest inspector’s rendezvous with Kosmos-2519, another military satellite that itself has an unknown mission, strongly indicate that this satellite has a robust set of capabilities that could have a secondary military application.
“In trials involving controlling the maneuvering defense satellite, ground, and orbital communication systems were tested, and methods involving ballistic estimates and new software were employed,” Russia’s Izvestia newspaper reported based on information from the Ministry of Defense. “The space forces proved their ability to ensure the satellite's automatic undocking from the platform, the remote control of its flight, and the activation of the satellite payload, including surveillance hardware, data transfer to Earth, and data processing.”
For years, experts and others, including us at The War Zone, have pointed out the clear threat that these dual-use satellites might pose. The United States and China have and still are both actively exploring advanced space-based inspector-type systems, as well, which might set the stage for an even more complex situation that could involve groups of small satellites attacking and defending against each other. The U.S. military is also working on cost-effective, reusable hypersonic space planes, including the U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B, that could rapidly deploy small satellites for various functions or otherwise perform their own offensive missions in space.
The US Air Force's X-37B space plane.
“The potential for a serious incident in outer space is being driven by advances in technology that challenge the existing rules and norms governing space activity,” Jeffery Lewis, now in charge of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, wrote all the way back in 2004. “Micro-satellite proximity operations would be best regulated with confidence-building measures in outer space.”
More than a decade on, international rules and regulations have yet to catch up with these continued developments. Assistant Secretary of State Poblete made her comments earlier in August 2014 specifically to underscore the U.S. government’s continued opposition to a Russian-Chinese proposal for a Treaty on Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space and of the Threat or Use of Force Against Outer Space Objects, conveniently abbreviated PWTT.
“How do we verify what countries say their spacecraft are doing?” she asked rhetorically. “What would be enough information to prove what the purpose of an object is?”
US Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance Yleem Poblete.
The U.S. government’s position is that the PWTT is not sufficient because it does not explicitly prohibit the development or test of space-based systems, such as the inspectors, with a potential anti-satellite role. This could let countries stockpile a “breakout capability” if they ever decided to abandon the agreement.
The proposed agreement also does not ban ground-based or air-launched anti-satellite systems, which Russia and China have been developing, as well. In February 2018, the Chinese military tested what they described as an anti-ballistic missile defense interceptor, but which might be a cover for an anti-satellite weapon. Russia has publicly said that it is working on anti-satellite interceptors and directed energy weapons.
Russia and China, as well as other critics of the American position, counter by noting that the U.S. government is actively looking to militarize space and put actual weapons into orbit, ostensibly for anti-ballistic missile defense. The two countries have already responded negatively to the U.S. military’s plans for a possible space-focused military branch.
A Russian Beriev A-60 aircraft, which carries a laser weapon in its nose and that Russia has said may be able to blind or otherwise disable enemy satellites.
Without any such agreement, what constitutes an attack on a nation’s interest in space has remained up for debate. It’s a gray area made more complicated by the likelihood that the United States and its potential opponents have satellites in orbit that they don’t acknowledge are vital to national security or are up there at all.
“Is jamming an attack? Is a laser an attack? Does it have to be a kinetic hit on a satellite to be an attack?” Douglas Loverro, then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, asked during a talk in 2016. “It’s really difficult to go ahead and justify how you might attack somebody’s homeland if they’ve taken out a satellite that you don’t even admit exists.”
Unfortunately, it is clear that basic definitions of what constitutes conflict in space, if nothing else, are necessary now, more than ever. Without them, there is only an increasing possibility for dangerous miscalculations.
The activities of Russia’s latest inspector satellite, China’s own anti-satellite developments, and the United States’ plans for space-based ballistic missile defense weapons all show that these issues will only continue to become more pronounced in the future, whether there is any sort of international treaty that seeks to govern military activity in space or not.
The Black Knight is allegedly an extraterrestrial satellite that has traveled in a polar orbit around the Earth for an estimated 13,000 years.
In 1899, Nikola Tesla is said to be one of the first to pick up the signal of the satellite during his radio experiments. However, some experts have suggested that Tesla actually received signals from pulsars (neutron stars) and misinterpreted his findings.
Since then, there have been many stories attributed to the Black Knight but they seem to be a hodge-podge of singular instances and events that don’t correlate with one another. Even the name “black knight” has no traceable origin story.
The picture above was taken by NASA in 1998 and is considered irrefutable evidence that the Black Knight satellite exists. Though, the official story from NASA reveals that the dark object is mere space debris. It’s said to be a piece of a thermal blanket that escaped during an EVA mission.
When I first heard of the Black Knight satellite I really wanted to believe that it existed. I’ve done a ton of research hoping that I would find some kind of evidence that the extraterrestrial satellite does, in fact, exist. To my disappointment, nothing really stood out for me. The stories and events around the satellite have no cohesive thread. (If you want to read a super comprehensive article about the history of the Black Knight and how it relates to other UFO sightings read this article: The Black Knight Sattelite: Sentinel from Space.)
The instances described to be Black Knight related could be attributed to other anomalies or paranormal events. Much of the picture “evidence” looks obviously doctored. The picture below is supposed to be a screenshot from an alleged short video of the Columbia space shuttle in the same orbit as the Black Knight satellite. You can check out one of the incarnations of the video here.
Unfortunately, the video and this picture look like a copy-and-paste job. The satellite does not move and it looks suspiciously like the object in the NASA picture turned slightly so that it’s at a different angle.
Nowhere, in any of the video descriptions did I find any kind of source cited for where this video came from or if NASA had officially released it. That, in itself, is highly suspect. NASA has a history of releasing statements for any footage or pictures that even tiptoes into the fringe arena. They like to prove people wrong.
If you want to know more about the NASA photo then check out the video below. There’s footage of the thermal blanket (that’s supposedly in the NASA picture above) escaping into space. So, you can make your own judgment about whether the NASA picture and the thermal blanket are the same thing.
I’m always skeptical of NASA’s “explanations” so I’m not entirely sure if I believe that the 1998 photo is the thermal blanket they claim. However, in my mind, there definitely was a resemblance and I could see how that official story got attached to the picture.
I can’t say for certain I believe in the Black Knight. I’m more inclined to think that it’s a cool mythology strung together through the retelling of random paranormal accounts and some really cool NASA pictures of space debris. Decide for yourself.
Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane Nears 1 Year in Orbit
Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane Nears 1 Year in Orbit
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Artist's illustration of the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane orbiting Earth.
Credit: Boeing
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B miniature space plane has winged past 340 days in orbit performing secretive duties during the program's fifth flight.
The robotic craft's latest mission, known as Orbital Test Vehicle-5 (OTV-5), kicked off on Sept. 7, 2017, with a launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.
As usual, Air Force officials have revealed few details about OTV-5. But we do know that one payload flying aboard the X-37B this time around is the Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader, or ASETS-11. Developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, this cargo is testing experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipes for long durations in the space environment. [The X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts]
Record-setting history
The classified X-37B program "fleet" consists of two known reusable vehicles, both of which were built by Boeing. Looking like a miniature version of NASA's now-retired space shuttle orbiter, the military space plane is 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 9.6 feet (2.9 m) tall, with a wingspan of nearly 15 feet (4.6 m).
The X-37B has a payload bay about the size of a pickup-truck bed, which can be outfitted with a robotic arm. The space plane has a launch weight of 11,000 lbs. (4,990 kilograms) and is powered on orbit by gallium-arsenide solar cells with lithium-ion batteries.
Each X-37B mission has set a new flight-duration record for the program:
OTV-1 began April 22, 2010, and concluded on Dec. 3, 2010, after 224 days in orbit.
OTV-2 began March 5, 2011, and concluded on June 16, 2012, after 468 days on orbit.
OTV-3 chalked up nearly 675 days in orbit before finally coming down on Oct. 17, 2014.
OTV-4 conducted on-orbit experiments for 718 days during its mission, extending the total number of days spent in space for the OTV program to 2,085 days.
How long OTV-5 will stay aloft is unknown. Whenever it comes down, the robotic vehicle is likely to land at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility, as the OTV-4 mission did back on May 7, 2017. That was a first for the program. All prior missions had ended with a tarmac touchdown at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Ground tracks
Ted Molczan, a Toronto-based satellite analyst, told Inside Outer Space that OTV-5's initial orbit was about 220 miles (355 kilometers) high, inclined 54.5 degrees to the equator. "Its ground track nearly repeated every two days, after 31 revolutions," he said.
On April 19, the space drone lowered its orbit by 24 miles (39 km), which caused its ground track to exactly repeat every five days, after 78 revolutions, Molczan said — a first for an OTV mission.
"Repeating ground tracks are very common," Molczan added, "especially for spacecraft that observe the Earth. That said, I do not know why OTV has repeating ground tracks."
"Ironically, the X-37B is exactly the type of program — toward giving the U.S. flexibility of operations in space — that seems to be prompting the current push for a Space Force, yet are already underway," said Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars." A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades.
Aliens are among us. The authorities remain silent
Aliens are among us. The authorities remain silent
The question whether aliens are already among us is increasingly often asked. The scientific world consider this option increasingly serious. Frank Drake is an astronomer than in the early 60 developed a famous formula, which can estimate the potential number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy.
Drake is considered the first radio – astronomer who tried to listen to the signals coming from space. He was a pioneer in the ufologist. He wasn’t supported in his approach, moreover, his studies were not considered by the scientific world.
The research for extraterrestrial phenomena began in 1947, when in the US and Australia were many appearances of UFOs. Experts claim that UFOs appear particularly close to the intersection lines of earthly force. Another area in which appearences were common is that of some sites considered sacred.
Is not known if it’s coincidence or not. Authorities and institutions responsible in this regard, continues to lead policy of not explaining what is happening. Much of the personalities who have dealt with extraterrestrial phenomena had a mysterious deaths, in some cases even talking about murder.
In march 2014, a former government adviser named Hood, made a statement that makes us ponder. He has provided a list of big ufologists who died in, at least strange, circumstances . Many have been found hanged, others shot, others had a heart attack at the age of 30. All investigations into these deaths were made in haste, cases being closed.
We present a case that occurred in 1959 in the Ural Mountains of Russia, which has remained a mystery, although many years have passed and teams of specialists were involved to determine the cause of this tragic event. Ten students from the Polytechnic University along with a guide started a hike in the Urals. For health reasons, one of the students could not cope with the walk and went back to town. The tudents were athletes, climbers and very good skiers.
Because the students have not returned to the city, as it was established, another group goes in search of them. Were all found dead.
The bodies had orange colour, the hair was white, although they were under 25 years, and two of the bodies had the tongue cut off. The bodies were found at a distance of one kilometer from where they had set up the camp. What cause these young people to leave the camp in a hurry? There has been many speculations. Maybe they were attacked by an animal, military experience or aliens?
At the site of the tragedy were no traces of a fight. One clue was clear. The camp was abandoned in a hurry, all personal belongings and also food, had been abandoned in the tents. The orange color of the bodies skin is due to a strong radiation to which they were subjected, say some experts. One of the bodies presented a hit in the chest.
Doctors claim that such a hit could not be made by a human. The impact and shot were so high that doctors have concluded that only a superhuman force could do this.
After two months, the case is closed and classified confidential because weren’t discovered evidence to clarify the investigation. For three years, the military has banned the tourists and skiers to get in that area.
The thesis of a military accident did not lead to a result. First, the nearest military base was located at a distance of 600 km, and at the place were not found traces that would’ve been an explosion or another type of chemical accident. The fact that the authorities cover up such cases, see Roswell case, USA, makes us to ask whether aliens are among us.
What in the world is going on at the New York Times? Did you happen to catch its latest pass at UFOs? They’ve shrunk from breaking the biggest related story in memory back in December to dribbling out the sort of featherweight beginners blog fare that appeared on Aug. 3. How does this happen? Who’s running the show?
All appearances aside, De Void really doesn’t like to rant. It’s usually juvenile and rarely cathartic. Plus it never changes anything. But this, this, this thing that ran in the Times two weeks ago belongs in a truly special category of regression, like four-legged tadpoles deciding they’d rather revert to gills than take their chances on lungs and land. Normally you see formula writing of this caliber farmed out to Newsweek interns, or maybe to poor overworked Wiki-trolling legacy-media newbies pressured to generate quick traffic in off-peak hours.
Questionable judgment can sometimes be amusing — but not always/
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Eight months ago, the Times startled the world by exposing the Pentagon’s $22M UFO research initiative, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. But despite intense reader interest in the 2004 Nimitz incident, in which at least one UFO was videotaped by a Top Gun F-18 pilot who was thoroughly outmaneuvered, the Times hasn’t done a lick of followup.
But suddenly, on Aug. 3, from out of nowhere, without any news peg whatsoever, with no anniversary date that ends in a 0 or a 5, or any additional eyewitnesses or supporting documentation, the Times decided to dust off a moldy oldie from 1952. It’s one of the most famous cases, involving UFOs that buzzed the nation’s capital on consecutive weekends in July that year. Perhaps feeling the need to justify recapping this old story, reporter Laura M. Holson tossed in a few quasi-newsy cultural references in the third graph, e.g., Gillian “X-Files” Anderson’s upcoming role in a UFO movie next month, and a planned reboot of the “Men In Black” franchise.
The only new voice Holson brings to light is the 68-year-old daughter of a commercial pilot who saw UFOs during one of those summer night incursions in ‘52. Too young to remember the event, Faith McClory tells the Times “My sister has memories of men (reporters) coming to our home. People were enthralled with the flying saucers.”
Her sister. Fascinating. Do go on.
“It should be noted,” the Times tells readers, “that the term U.F.O., as used by the government, does not mean extraterrestrials from outer space. It means any object in the sky that has not been identified.” Whoa, wait, what? It doesn’t mean Martians? Since, like, when? “When asked recently about the 1952 Washington sightings, Ann Stefanek, chief of media operations for the Air Force, wrote in an email that” – now this should be interesting, a PIO who probably wasn’t even born in 1952, I wonder what she’ll say – “the objects had posed no threat to national security.
OK, yo, hold up. What’s with the periods between U.F.O.? Is this another formalistic brand quirk like using a proper salutation before each and every surname reference, no matter how undeserving or grotesque? Before boiling Mr. Doe’s flayed skull in acid, Mr. Dahmer cued up Air Supply’s “All Out of Love” and contemplated refreshing his spice rack. Does anyone else but the Times put periods between UFO? It’s distracting. It’s so distracting I haven’t finished my rant yet. Back to it:
“The events in Washington were not the first unexplained encounter report. Debris from what observers called a ‘flying disc’ had been spotted in Roswell, N.M., five years earlier, which Army officials said was from a ‘weather balloon.’” Wow! Interesting! I wonder if anybody claimed to have picked up any of that Roswell stuff. Hm. “By 1952, though, a number of sightings of U.F.O.s were being reported across the country and the nation was on edge.”
OK, look, I can’t hang with this anymore. The thing ends with how the USAF’s official explanation of the July ’52 phenomena was temperature inversions, a hand-rinse that’s only been out there for 66 years. And this article – “A Radar Blip, a Flash of Light: How U.F.O.s ‘Exploded’ Into Public View” – ran under the Times’ heading “Science.” Even as the Times continues to ignore the continuing expansion of the story it set into motion.
The Times’ reluctance to revisit its game-changing coup got even weirder yesterday with its publication of yet another “U.F.O.” story, dateline Los Angeles, titled “They’ve ‘Seen Things.’” It’s about a guy named Robert Bingham who has attracted a considerable following for his alleged ability to “summon” UFOs into view. Not insignificantly, this piece actually references its own reporting into the Nimitz incident, but steers well clear of updating that story. Otherwise, this is just another garden-variety piece on “believers.”
So to reiterate: Who’s calling the shots on UFO coverage back in New York? Was the inclusion of the Times’ scoop on the Nimitz incident in Tuesday’s profile of Bingham a reporter’s dog whistle for management to get its s*%# together? If the Times has had a change of heart on going deep with UFOs, why bother with the sort of innocuous filler it ran on Aug. 3, or a personality piece that won’t move anybody’s bar on standards of evidence? When it comes to shepherding material with this amount of public interest from the fringe to the mainstream, the Times’ news judgement is looking more incoherent by the month.
After 3 UFO encounters, retired educator and Nogal resident calls himself a believer
After 3 UFO encounters, retired educator and Nogal resident calls himself a believer
Dianne L Stallings Ruidoso News
Bill Thorp sketched the positions of the lights on the underside of a craft that flew over his home in Nogal.
Courtesy/Richard "Bill" Thorp
Richard “Bill” Thorp has lived in Lincoln County 31 years, he’s a retired educator and past vice president of the Lincoln County Historical Society. He also claims to have encountered unidentified flying objects three times, twice in the Nogal area and twice when others saw the phenomena too.
“The second experience was thrilling. I wish I could experience it again over and over,” he said Monday. “I am a believer.”
The first sighting
The first encounter occurred in 1953, when Thorp was working as a roustabout in the oilfields around Loco Hills, a small village 25 miles east of Artesia, where he had graduated from high school. He’d worked in that capacity since he was 16, but two years later still was the youngest at the job rod and tubing on the Caprock about eight miles south of Maljamar.
“The driller had stopped the machine and suggested we get a drink” a short distance away where the water was sitting in a truck. When the break was over and everyone moved back to the platform, Thorp returned to the truck where he had forgotten his gloves. As he turned to join the crew, “There it was,” he said. “Coming out of the southwestern sky at an unbelievable rate of speed was a small dish-shaped object. The disk was shiny and bright, but strangely appeared to be tumbling end-over-end in the sky. It was alternating from shiny bright to less bright over and over. It did this until it went out of sight in the northeastern sky.”
The whole experience took less than six seconds and he didn’t mention it to his fellow workers. He knew it wasn’t a satellite, because Sputnik, the first Russian satellite was not launched until years later.
“This was July 1953,” he said. “Everyone was aware that flying saucers might exist, because of the Roswell incident, which happened just a few years before in 1947.”
A UFO crashed near Corona. The debris and some say bodies of aliens were transported to Walker Air Force base in Roswell. The military later claimed the object was a weather balloon, but many dispute that statement, including descendants of Major Jesse Marcel Sr., an intelligence officer at Walker, who insisted the debris and bodies were not from earth.
The second sighting
Retired educator Bill Thorp says a UFO descended toward the Carrizo Mountains near his New Mexico home.
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The second incident was in 2000, and took place on the front deck of Thorp’s home in Nogal.
“This incident was much closer, perhaps as close as 1,000 feet,” Thorp said. “It traveled at a fantastic rate of speed, but much slower than the first. I had time to look, to analyze, to calibrate. But perhaps the best thing about the second sighting was that I had a witness. This thing passed directly over my house. My wife, Beverly was standing beside me and she witnessed everything.”
His wife is known for not embellishing a story, he said.
The incident occurred about 10:35 p.m., because the couple just watched local news from Albuquerque. Thorp went out to the front porch to soaked in the cloudless night with bright stars and a new moon. Their house sits at 7,300 feet elevation and the stars added just enough light to silhouette every mountain range and landmark for 20 miles, Thorp said. Carrizo Peak is nearly due north from their house and between the house and the peak is an 18-mile wide valley.
“As I stood admiring the silhouette of the Carrizo Mountains, suddenly coming up from behind the main peak there appeared three lights that (seemed to) clear the peak by perhaps 500 feet,” Thorp said.
He knew from the space between the lights and their brightness, it was not a plane from Holloman Air Force Base. He called to his wife.
“We stood together and watched the object as it approached us with an incredible speed,” he said. “In just a few seconds, another light appeared.”
They determined the object was diamond-shape, because it blocked out the stars. An intense white light was on the front point of the diamond, with another on the back point. Two green lights were on the side points and a red light was located in the middle on the underside of the diamond, he said.
The couple was struck that the craft seemed to be using their house as a beacon, he said. They wondered if the building materials that came from Walker Air Force Base might have retained some sort of fingerprint. As it approached the house, they never moved or looked to the right or left, they just kept bending their heads and necks straight back until the craft went out of sight over their house. They immediately ran to the back deck upstairs on the opposite side of the home.
“As we reached the back deck, it was still in sight and was very low heading directly toward the soft glow of lights given off by the village of Ruidoso,” Thorp said.
He estimated that the object began to descend over Carrizo Peak at 9,656 feet. and over their house at about 8,000 feet, which is 700 feet above their house.
“It was a huge flying object, not to be estimated in feet,” Thorp said. “I would estimate the width to be between a quarter of a mile to a half mile,” at the widest point. Even more startling, the passage was almost silent.
“There was no jet sound, nor any sign of a jet wash, no movement of air, no sonic boom,” he said. “There was one faint sound. If you listened closely, there was a very faint hum.” The type of propulsion was unknown on earth, he concluded.
The Thorps thought surely others would see the craft and there would be reports in the newspaper or on radio and television, but nothing appeared. They talked to another person, who said she saw the craft and lives in a direct line two miles south of the Thorps. The woman described the exact shape and lights. The couple looked all summer, but the craft never returned.
The third sighting
The last incident happened at 9:15 p.m. May 11, 2015, as Thorp, his wife and their youngest daughter, Bonnabeth, were about five miles from home returning from Las Vegas, Nev. They were on the alert, because driving at night meant wildlife could be near or on the road.
“Bev was the first to see it,” Thorp said. She saw a single large amber light high in the sky, but soon all three were straining to look through the windshield or out the windows of the car as six brilliant large amber lights appeared in a straight-line. They seemed to be in pairs with a slight separation between each twosome.
“The lights were close, probably within 500 feet to 1,000 feet above the ground,” Thorp said. He pulled the car off the road at the first safe place to get a better view.
“I thought it was very unusual that the lights never broke their formation,” he said. “They were pretty round and perfectly distinct from one another, there was no diffusion of light rays that you see when lights are in the distance.”
Then as if all were controlled by one source, they went off. The sky went black.
“If I had to make a judgment, I would say they were not observation lights, but the cabin lights of a craft,” Thorp said.
He pulled back on the road and started home again when two lights reappeared, this time in the eastern sly on the left side of the highway. They weren’t moving and went out after about four seconds. Twenty seconds later, the lights came on again. Thorp believes they were viewing multiple crafts, again with absolutely no sound.
The women were a bit unsettled by the experience and considered the lights ominous and unfriendly. When they reached the house, they propped chairs up against the doors.
“If these beings had the technology to travel from planet to planet, they probable can overcome the technology of small wooden chairs propped up against doors,” Thorp told them.
Within days, the Thorps spoke to two other people in the area who said they also witnessed the lights. His daughter pulled up background on the Internet about the Phoenix Lights that appeared in March 1997. Descriptions were extremely similar. It turned out, that literally thousands of such sighting have been reported over the planet. Authorities have dismissed most as either natural phenomena or military.
But Thorp said he doesn’t believe they were natural, some sort of fragment from the borealis, a reflection of his own headlights, an airplane, a satellite or secret military testing. While he expects family and friends to believe what he’s described, he doesn’t expect those from the outside to accept the experiences.
“Like most people in the world, seeing is believing and if they don’t see it, they don’t believe it,” he said. “Just don’t tell me that I saw an airplane. I’m 83 years old and I know what an airplane looks like. I also know what one sounds like.”
In December 2017, a video released by the U.S. Department of Defense shows Navy pilots reacting with astonishment after seeing a mysterious flying object hovering off the coast of San Diego. Source: U.S. Department of Defense.
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By: Ally Foster
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In August 1951 a series of unusual lights appeared in the night sky over a Texas city for weeks before disappearing and they have never been seen again.
The unexplainable and erratic nature of the bright beams terrified the residents and grainy images of the event still capture the attention of conspiracy theorists today.
The lights were first sighted on August 25 in Lubbock by a group of scientists that were hanging out in a colleagues backyard one evening, reports news.com.au.
At around 9.20pm the group all witnessed something that they couldn't explain: 15 to 30 bright blueish-green lights appeared in the sky and silently whizzed overhead in a V-formation.
Grainy photos claim to show the Lubbock Lights.
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They disappeared just as quickly as they had come but appeared again an hour later, this time in a more scattered shape.
Over the next few weeks hundreds of other residents would report seeing the mass of lights flying silently and unbelievably fast across the sky.
A retired rancher described how terrified his wife was after seeing the objects.
“(It was) just after dark, his wife had gone outdoors to take some sheets off the clothesline. He was inside the house reading the paper,” Mr Ruppelt describes in the book.
Edward J Ruppelt had a particular interest in the phenomenon.
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“Suddenly his wife had rushed into the house …’as white as the sheets she was carrying’. The reason his wife was so upset was that she had seen a large object glide swiftly and silently over the house.”
The wife described it as “an aeroplane without a body” that had wings covered in glowing blue lights.
After more reports came flooding, some of the locals decided it was time to investigate what these lights actually were.
The group of professors that first saw the lights started an informal investigation, in which they measured the speed and angles of the lights and fact checked sightings.
They noted that the UFOs always travelled from north to south.
He worked with US Air Force Officer to obtain data on the unidentified flying objects reported from various parts of the nation.
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The events started to gain wider attention after a university student managed to snap a picture of the lights, which were widely published in newspapers and magazines.
The pictures caused a major debate, with people claiming they were a hoax while residents said it was exactly like the objects they had been seeing.
SO WHAT WAS IT?
Multiple explanations have been offered up over the years by scholars and authorities, but the majority of witnesses had a hard time believing them.
The Air Force claimed the lights were nothing more than the underside of a plane and another investigation concluded it was actually caused by birds reflecting the light from Lubbock’s new street lamps.
But the locals dismissed these suggestions, insisting the objects were moving too fast to be bird or planes.
To this day there are those that believe Lubbock was visited by UFOs, with some witnesses firmly believing that what they saw over those few weeks in 1951 was not from this world.
We’re only just over halfway through the year, but already it’s clear – recorded UFO sightings are down. So why is that? Well, it might have less to do with what’s going on up in space, and more to do with life here on Earth, whether or not you believe in alien life.
In this episode we discussed Project Blue Book, the US Government’s official UFO investigation and the upcoming TV show of the same name. We also talked about the proposed Space Force, a project started to scientifically analyze alleged UFO material, a UFO sighting by an astronaut and much more.
On UFOs…Seriously LIVE! We take a look at the serious topic and related issues of the observation of objects observed in the skies above us that remain a mystery. Host Alejandro Rojas shares updates and credible information regarding Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) including the search for extraterrestrial life and our quest to become a space fairing species.
Alejandro is a journalist who has covered the UFO topic for nearly 20 years. He also writes about space, science, science-fiction, and entertainment. He has been featured an many television programs and recently gave a presentation on the effort to get humans to Mars for National Geographic’s San Diego Comic-Con Nerd Nite party.
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In a blog post, NASA said that it may never again have contact with the Opportunity rover, after the craft got caught up in a Martian dust storm in the middle of June.
While expressing optimism that the worst of the Opportunity's rover's problems may be behind it, as the dust storm starts to "decay," NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Andrew Good cautioned that the battery for the $400 million vehicle might have discharged so much power and been inactive for so long, it could be a loss.
"Even if engineers hear back from Opportunity, there's a real possibility the rover won't be the same," Good wrote in an Aug. 16 blog post. "The rover's batteries could have discharged so much power -- and stayed inactive so long -- that their capacity is reduced. If those batteries can't hold as much charge, it could affect the rover's continued operations."
Good also cautioned that no one will know how the Opportunity rover is doing "until it speaks," but added that the team behind it is optimistic, after performing tests on its batteries before the storm hit its location.
"Because the batteries were in relatively good health before the storm, there's not likely to be too much degradation," Good wrote. "And because dust storms tend to warm the environment -- and the 2018 storm happened as Opportunity's location on Mars entered summer -- the rover should have stayed warm enough to survive."
Good added that the dust is less of a problem. Previous storms which "plastered dust on the camera lenses," saw most of the dust eventually shed off. "Any remaining dust can be calibrated out," he wrote.
The dust storm started on June 10 and eventually covered the entire planet, according to Space.com.
Still, it has been a sore spot for NASA that it has not been able to contact the Opportunity rover since the dust storm.
Assuming NASA is able to get in contact with the rover (it is continuing to listen for signs and pinging it three times a week), Good says we may not know anything for a few weeks, likening its condition to a patient coming out of a coma.
"After the first time engineers hear from Opportunity, there could be a lag of several weeks before a second time," Good wrote. "It's like a patient coming out of a coma: It takes time to fully recover. It may take several communication sessions before engineers have enough information to take action."
Opportunity has three so-called "fault modes" when it experiences a problem: a low-power fault that causes it to go into hibernation until there is more sunlight to let it recharge; clock fault, which might happen if the rover doesn't know what time it is, causing disruptions in communication and uploss fault, which occurs when the rover hasn't heard from Earth in a long time, causing it to check its equipment and try alternate ways to communicate with Earth.
The Opportunity rover, which was initially meant to only be on the Red Planet for a 90-day mission, has made several groundbreaking discoveries throughout its now roughly 15-year trip, initially leaving Earth on July 7, 2003.
So far, it has detected signs of water, explored the insides of two craters and completed a marathon — the first vehicle to do so on another planet.
But Opportunity's journey hasn't always been a smooth one.
In 2005, the rover lost the use of one of its front wheels and got stuck in a thick pile of sand for about five weeks, according to Space.com. When it finally managed to move, it ran into a sand dune. In 2007, a dust storm hit and reportedly cut the spacecraft's power to "dangerously low levels." A month later, it turned back on and began exploring the Victoria Crater.
Despite its obstacles, the Opportunity has always managed to pull through. But this time, researchers aren't sure what will happen.
In the meantime, scientists are trying to stay positive, creating a Mars-themed Spotify playlist — featuring "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham!, "Rocket Man" by Elton John, among others — and an office pool to help pass the time.
Fox News' Jennifer Earl contributed to this report. Follow Chris Ciaccia on Twitter @Chris_Ciaccia
In 1966, over 300 children and staff from a Melbourne school reportedly witnessed multiple UFOs silently flying through the sky before landing in a nearby field.
It is the largest mass UFO sighting in Australia, yet hardly anything was reported on it at the time.
Over the years, there have been differing reports about the details of what happened on April 6 at Westall High School, such as people claiming there were three saucerlike objects, while some thought there was just one.
In the 52 years since, there has been wide speculation about what people saw, with some believing it was an alien encounter and others pointing the finger at the government testing new technology.
Throughout all the years of speculation, however, one particularly interesting piece of audio has been greatly overlooked.
An American physicist known for his research into UFOs, Dr. James E. McDonald, conducted an interview with a science teacher from the Westall school, Andrew Greenwood, who witnessed the event.
He then recorded himself describing their meeting and the creepy details Mr. Greenwood gave about his experience. “Greenwood told me the UFO was first brought to his attention by a hysterical child who ran into his classroom and told him there’s a flying saucer outside,” Dr. McDonald said.
“He thought this child had become deranged or something so he didn’t take any notice, but when the child insisted that this object was in the sky he decided to go out and have a look for himself.”
When he went outside, he noticed a group of children looking toward the northeast area of the school grounds and as he approached them he claims he saw a UFO hovering close to the powerline.
Mr. Greenwood described it as a round, silver object about the size of a car with a metal rod sticking up in the air.
According to Dr. McDonald, the teacher then told him five planes came and surrounded the object as more people began gathering to watch the scene before them.
“He called it the most amazing flying he had ever seen in his life,” Dr. McDonald said.
“The planes were doing everything possible to approach the object and he said how they all avoided collision he will never know.
“Every time they got too close to the object it would slowly accelerate, then rapidly accelerate and then move away from them and stop. Then they would take off after it again and the same thing would happen.”
This game of cat and mouse reportedly went on for about 20 minutes and by this time Mr. Greenwood said 350 children and staff were watching on.
Suddenly the UFO shot away and vanished within seconds and it was at this point the headmaster came out and ordered everyone to go back to class.
Over the years there were reports that the government tried to cover up the incident and stop witnesses from talking, but Mr. Greenwood claimed it was the headmaster who first tried to squash discussion of the incident.
“He gave the school a lecture and told the children they would be severely punished if they talked about this matter and told the staff they could lose their jobs if they mentioned it at all,” Dr. McDonald said.
The teacher claimed the headmaster was so “scared” and “disturbed” by the incident that he had refused to come outside until the object was gone.
“When the Royal Australian Airforce contacted the headmaster he told them to ‘go and jump in a lake’,” Dr. McDonald said.
There have been claims from several witnesses that sharply dressed men in black suits visited them and warned them from speaking about the incident.
This lines up with a few experiences Mr. Greenwood had when he tried to speak with other witnesses about what they saw.
“At the time of seeing the UFO he was a complete skeptic himself. He had never even considered the possibility of their existence,” Dr. McDonald said.
“When he asked the physical education teacher to describe what she had seen herself so that he could compare it with his own observation, she just wouldn’t say anything.”
He then reportedly spoke to one of the older students who described the event in great detail exactly as he had seen it, but when he spoke to her again half an hour later she wouldn’t say a word.
Mr. Greenwood didn’t think it had anything to do with the headmaster’s threats as no one usually took him seriously and he knew for a fact that the student he spoke with didn’t attend the meeting where he had made the threats.
Dr. McDonald’s description of his interview with Mr. Greenwood offers a rare insight into the events from the eyes of someone who was an adult at the time.
There continues to be speculation over what actually happened and the site of the encounter has been turned into a memorial park to reflect the 1966 Westall UFO Incident.
Are we living in the only universe? If you believe like many that we reside in a multiverse, then answer this question: do we live in the FIRST universe? If that’s too big of a query to wrap your brain around, here’s a little help from an esteemed mathematician, with a little more help from the beyond in the form of Stephen Hawking, who thinks the answer lies in black holes:
“What we claim we’re seeing is the final remnant after a black hole has evaporated away in the previous aeon.”
What University of Oxford mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and his colleagues “claim we’re seeing” is radiation that appears to have passed from a previous universe (which he calls an “aeon”), which supports Penrose’s theory of “conformal cyclic cosmology” which proposes that the universe is not the product of a single Big Bang but instead is going through an ebb and flow of Big Bang expansions and dying universe compressions. This, of course, would contradict the prevailing theory of cosmic inflation, which hypothesizes that the universe is expanding infinitely.
Got it so far? Still skeptical? Let’s bring in the late great Stephen Hawking and his “Hawking points.”
“Though seemingly problematic for cosmic inflation, the existence of such anomalous points is an iplication of conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC).”
In a paper published on the pre-peer review website arxiv.org, Penrose proposes that Hawking points – a singular spot of radiation emitted from black hole – are actually exit-entry points between dying-birthing universes and the radiation itself is a remnant from the previous aeon passed on to the current one. At this point, if you’re up on your Hawking points, you’re probably screaming, “But Hawking was never able to prove they exist!”
Not so fast, says Penrose. His study claims that one or more things-that-could-be-Hawking -points have been found by the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Celectronic Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) project, a muscular mapping of the cosmic microwave background (the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the Big Bang) which has identified 20 swirling patterns of polarizations (a great name for a band) called B-modes (a great name for the band’s backup singers) on the far edges of the map near the beginning of the universe we’re in right now.
Penrose and his colleagues believe these swirls are the smoking points proving the theory of conformal cyclic cosmology.
“Although of extremely low temperature at emission, in CCC this radiation is enormously concentrated by the conformal compression of the entire future of the black hole, resulting in a single point at the crossover into our current aeon.”
Should we break out the champagne (real and non-alcoholic) and invite our Hindu friends over to celebrate the proof of Vedic cosmology and the four Yugas? Unfortunately, Penrose’s study and simulations are based on the map released by the BICEP2 project, not the raw data which could contain contradicting points to the Hawking points. The map only goes back to about 380,000 years after the Big Bang, not to the bang itself, and other researchers say Penrose has not yet disproved the theories that the swirls or rings are light being bent by massive objects we can’t see yet.
Will a chain of banging-and-imploding universes that lasts forever be proven by the B-modes before the next aeon arrives? If science had a category for “most popular theory,” anything connected to Hawking would be a winner.
Armchair explorers poring over Google Maps have once again claimed to have found evidence of secret bases hiding in barren locations. At least it’s not Antarctica again this time. YouTube channel thirdphaseofmoon posted a video this week claiming to have discovered “China’s Area 51” in a remote part of the Gobi Desert. Is this definitive proof of, well, anything?
Mysterious Structures in Gobi Desert
As always, it’s hard to say from Google Maps images alone. The images do appear to show some sort of military installation, airport, or even space base, but whether or not there is anything nefarious or mysterious going on is unknown. The Chinese government is notoriously tight-lipped about its activities, particularly where defense is concerned, after all.
The ChiComs even often fabricate death tolls after natural disasters to avoid criticism of their public safety standards.
The images depict several structures spread out over a vast area of the desert. One of them appears to consist of two x-shaped landing strips flanked by a series of buildings, one of which appears to have suffered a major fire. There are no aircraft on the landing strips in Google Maps’ satellite images.
Another structure is far stranger. It appears to be a series of concentric rings made up of dark objects, at the center of which sit three aircraft. Some commenters online have likened the structure to Stonehenge. The true purpose of this structure is unknown, but I would guess it’s likely an arena for testing anti-aircraft munitions.
A munitions testing arena.
Naturally, being a conspiracy theory YouTube channel, thirdphaseofmoon speculates these structures are “some kind of secret space program that is being hidden in the Gobi Desert in an abandoned airport of some sort” and wonders where are the people inhabiting this area went. In all likelihood, this is merely a military installation used for aircraft and weapons testing, one which likely wouldn’t be used every day. Still, given that other secret Chinese space bases have been spotted, there’s no telling what might be possible for China’s “Area 51.” War in space is coming, readers.
Something Strange Is Happening In The Gobi Desert! Public Reaction! 7/21/17
UFOs-Aliens - 'Ancient Aliens’ on History Channel beats CNN in prime time!
UFOs-Aliens - 'Ancient Aliens’ on History Channel beats CNN in prime time!
CNN faced a shock horror moment over August 6 to 12 when they were beaten in the cable ratings by numerous competitors including the History channels Ancient Aliens.
This proves that people are more interested in UFO and Alien news than they are in what is currently happening in the world.
History Channels Ancient Aliens Knocks CNN Down Cable Ratings.XX CNN was also red-faced when they fell in behind shows from Fox News and MSNBC. At the top of the primetime slot for TV viewing was Fox News thanks to the program attracting more than 2 million viewers.
MSNBC took second place with its 1.75 million viewers, while CNN could only achieve seventh place with just 992,000 viewers over the average.
CNN was also beat by HGTV, USA, TBS and the History channel; probably the biggest shock was that the alien conspiracy theory program Ancient Aliens beat CNN news.
It seems the hosts Chris Cuomo and Anderson Cooper just did not have what it takes to compete with dated aliens as the History Channel drew in 1.06 million viewers during prime time.
CNN Also Failed During Daytime Slots Losing Out to Nickelodeon.
Not only has CNN failed miserably in the primetime slot, which is, of course, one of the most coveted among channels, they also failed in the daytime programming.
CNN executives must surely be hanging their heads in shame as even the children’s TV channel Nickelodeon beat them in the daytime. Also ahead during daytime viewing was Fox News, HGTV, MSNBC and Investigation Discovery. The fact that CNN was beaten by “Ancient aliens’ on History Channel was extensively reported by several leading media outlets, reported breitbart.
Three Green Orbs Recorded Over Lake In British Colombia, Canada, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Three Green Orbs Recorded Over Lake In British Colombia, Canada, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 10, 2018
Location of sighting: Lake Country, BC, Canada
Source: MUFON #94181
This is an interesting report about three free orbs caught in a panoramic photo during sunset in Canada. One orb is alone further away, and two others are close to one another. Also on close inspection of each orb, they look identical far away, but each is uniquely different from the others. The patterns of green inside the orbs are each different, which rules out lens flare...also most lens flares are blue.
Notice also that the orbs are green. They are revealed due to the angle of the sun, UFOs and camera. Although the human eye cannot catch all it sees, a digital camera can.
There are many past reports of green glowing UFOs at night, so due to the pattern within each UFO being different and the UFOs being separated, I believe this sighting to be 100% proof of alien visitation to Earth.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
We spotted the "3 orbs" after viewing the picture on computer screen. The pics were made with a Samsung smart phone.
Long Black UFO Sighted Over Harrison, New Jersey, August 5, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Long Black UFO Sighted Over Harrison, New Jersey, August 5, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 5, 2019 Location of sighting: Harrison, New Jersey, USA
Here is a really unusual shaped UFO. The long black object floats past and changes shape as it does so. If it were balloons tied together, they would not change shape so fast. Also not the straight lines in the circle above as it changed shape. Many astronauts have reported long arm like UFOs in space...so this could be such a UFO. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I wonder why i was tanning in my colorful bright bikini. and for some reason a space shuttle with like 24 windows came to get a close up look and when i got up. it zoomed shut. and after that it seemed like a floating piece of garbage. but when i was thinking about floating garbage in our atmosphere. i wondered is about 3000 ft in the air if there could be gravity. so How stupid of me to say garbage..lol
UFO Shot Down Over Turkey Explodes Over City, Aug 13, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Shot Down Over Turkey Explodes Over City, Aug 13, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 13, 2018 Location of sighting: Turkey This video was posted this week of a UFO exploding over a populated city in Turkey. Just before we see the UFO explode, we hear military jets open fire on it. The roar of the jets engines very loud. The explosion was so big people on the ground screamed in fear and began running in all directions. If this had been a rocket, there would have been a long trail behind it. Had it been a missile, the explosion would have been many times larger. This glowing UFO is similar in appearance to many others seen in UFO reports around the world, especially over Denver, Colorado mountain area. If the Turkish military did successfully shoot down a real alien UFO, it could cause aliens to literally go to war with humanity on a global scale. Something humanity does not have the tech to win. Scott C. Waring
The Golden Age of Space Exploration: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Cosmos (Op-Ed)
The Golden Age of Space Exploration: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Cosmos (Op-Ed)
ByLeonid Solovyev, The Breakthrough Prize Foundation
An artist's illustration of 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever to be discovered passing through our solar system.
Credit: M. Kornmesser/European Southern Observatory
Leonid Solovyev is Director of Operations for The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, dedicated to advancing understanding of the universe at the deepest levels. Its Breakthrough Prizes honor important achievements in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics and are sponsored by Sergey Brin, Pony Ma, Julia & Yuri Milner, Anne Wojcicki, Priscilla Chan & Mark Zuckerberg. Solovyev contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Last fall, there was widespread excitement after astronomers from the PAN-STARRS program at the University of Hawai'i detected a mysterious object shooting past Earth around 21 million miles (34 million kilometers) away. Named 'Oumuamua, meaning "first distant messenger" in Hawai'ian, it was the first object witnessed in our solar system that came from another star system. It was moving at nearly 200,000 mph (320,000 km/h), and was about 2,600 feet (800 meters) in length, with a highly unusual elongated cigar shape. Since a long, streamlined structure would minimize collisions with interstellar gas and dust, speculation arose that it might be an artificial object — perhaps even a spacecraft. ['Oumuamua: The 1st Known Interstellar Visitor in Photos]
This caught the attention of Breakthrough Listen, the radio astronomy program of Breakthrough Prize Foundation, which uses some of the world's biggest telescopes to search for evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth. Scientists quickly turned the Green Bank Telescope, the largest fully steerable instrument in the world, toward 'Oumuamua. At that range, Breakthrough Listen would have been able to detect an onboard transmitter with about the power of an iPhone. The observations did not reveal any signal — but they did lead to headlines like, "Astronomers Check 'Alien' Asteroid Thing For Actual Aliens".
Such headlines may make scientists cringe. But ultimately, I believe, they're a good thing. Any publicity is good publicity if it gets more people engaged with the golden age of space exploration that we are currently living through.
In the last two decades, among other momentous findings, astronomers have discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating; they have imaged its state soon after the Big Bang; and they have detected gravitational waves from black holes and neutron stars. Meanwhile, private space programs, such as Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin programs, have re-ignited enthusiasm about human space travel.
In the same period, astrobiology — the study of life in the universe — has blossomed as a science. At our annual conference on the subject, called Breakthrough Discuss, I see astronomers, cosmologists, biologists, geneticists, chemists and engineers bubbling with new ideas, from identifying exoplanet atmospheres to building synthetic life in the lab to searching for laser signals from other star systems.
What has galvanized the science community around the search for life? Recent space missions, such as NASA's Kepler and Cassini missions, have changed the game, revealing that most stars have planetary systems, and icy outer moons in our solar system could hold the conditions for primitive life. And just last month, the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter discovered a lake of liquid water beneath the surface of Mars. If, as many astrobiologists suspect, life was once present on the Red Planet, perhaps such lakes could still support it today.
In this climate of excitement, it's important that scientists are public figures — keen to take the lead in communicating with the public about new developments. Of course, when reacting quickly to events, mistakes are always possible, and scientific rigor is always paramount. But conjecture is not incompatible with rigor; indeed, conjecture is fundamental to the scientific method. Scientists should not be afraid to propose bold ideas, and open them up to criticism. [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
One reason for this is that you never know what a scientific idea will reveal until you test it. Our program, for instance, was set up to look for "technosignatures" of advanced civilizations; we may or may not find them, but in the process we have already made astronomical discoveries in their own right — such as a new fast radio burst (FRB), one of the mysterious super-high-energy events of unknown origin.
And any new knowledge gleaned about the cosmos could teach us something about its possibilities for life. In June, astronomers at the European Space Agency showed that 'Oumuamua is accelerating away from the sun more rapidly than can be explained by the force of gravity alone. Their analysis concluded that the effect is caused by "outgassing" — material being boiled off its surface — meaning that the object is probably a comet. A comet is a very different proposition than a spacecraft, yet it is still relevant to the search for life: the discovery of an interstellar comet provides renewed motivation to consider theories like panspermia, which postulates that life is transported between the stars by comets, asteroids and other voyagers.
The universe is still full of mystery. We should welcome all scientifically grounded ideas that could shine a light upon it.
The Grand Canyon is the most famous gorge in the US state of Arizona and is located in the national park of the same name. Each year, the attraction attracts more than five million visitors.
4000 years ago, a UFO is said to have crashed on the bottom of the 450-kilometer-long gorge, which has not yet been fully explored.
Park ranger discovers UFO wreck
A park ranger found a gigantic frame made of an unknown metal on the largely unexplored soil of the Grand Canyon. After this discovery, an anonymous team of experts began an intensive investigation of the wreck. The experts analyzed the metal using the carbon dating method.
The carbon dating determined the crash or landing of the flying object to about 2000 years B.C., which would result in an age of at least 4000 years.
The interior of the ancient spaceship gave us an idea of the size of the inmates. According to the analysis, the creatures on board were smaller than humans and the interior offered space for up to twenty people.
Crew comparable to humans
Astronomer Dr. Henry Leaumont, who contacted the Weekly World News when he received secret Air Force documents about the find. He explained that the UFO crew apparently breathed oxygen.
The spacecraft had an atomic propulsion system based on measured low radiation. It was controlled by a magnetic steering system. Food and water had been on board the ufo as provisions.
According to Dr. Leaumont, the material the spacecraft was made of was an extremely light metal fiber. As he continues, a Bible has also been found to prove that the aliens believe in some kind of God.
Caves at the crash site
Around the crash site of the Grand Canyon UFO, there are orphaned caves that were probably inhabited by the crew for decades. The aliens are said to have painted their appearance on the walls. The paintings showed humanoid creatures with bulbous heads and according to experts, they were the aliens on board the UFO.
The wreckage of the ufo has meanwhile been transported away and is supposed to be in a secret place for further investigation. The truth of the story, since the metallic skeleton is said to have been the remains of a UFO that crashed 4000 years ago, cannot be verified.
New extraordinary discovery made by Jean Seimple, who sent, a few days ago, the formula of the fundamental constant of Gravitation, G, one of the unresolved mysteries of physics, to all the major scientific journals of the world.
After dozens of secrets revealed and relayed by Disclose TV, such as Atlantis-Antarctica, the meridian of Greenwich, The Secret of Jesus Christ, the Ark of covenant, Planet X etc ... the list is long! A new breathtaking discovery that will make history!
INTERSTELLAR in reality!
Here is his press release published in France, just few minutes ago.
Discovery of the Equation of the Fundamental Constant of Gravitation.
Pyramid Apocalypsia.
By Jean Seimple, August 15, 2018.
« A big step towards the stars... »
A new Great Day for Humanity. (Picture, Interstellar.)
Dear readers,
thanks to all my work on the Great Pyramid, of its authenticity and its coherence, I managed, while staying on the path of the truth, to make one of the greatest discoveries of our time...
The discovery was transmitted a few days ago to the scientific community, with the hope of awakening men.
From the scientific publication:
(Available online in its intergrality, with its geometric and theoretical assumptions, here)
Proposition for the Formula, Definition and Mathematical Value of the Universal Constituent of Gravitation, G.
By Jean Seimple.
(Note by Jean: All this was unknown, the constant of proportionality of gravity, one of the most important and mysterious constants of physics, is only estimated by physical measurements.
References are written at 10 ^ -9 instead of 10 ^ -11, e.g. 6.11 x 10 ^ -11 = 0.0611 x 10 ^ -9.)
Reference of the constant G used:
SI value recommended by CODATA (Data Committee for Science and Technology.)
(CODATA 2014 Newtonian constant of gravitation NIST, 2017.)
G(ref.) = 0.0667 408(31)10^-9m3.kg^-1.s^-2
Proposition of the fundamental formula of the constant G:
First writing
Definition:
10 (π -1 / 2π ²) – 1, is the multiplying coefficient of the inverse of the perimeter of the circle
C = 2π ² / π -1, whose radius r = π / π -1, is the only solution of the equality, Pi x r = Pi + r.
√((5π /6) -1), is a remarkable proportion Pi(~ √ Φ).
Numerical value :
G = 10 (π -1/ 2π ²) -1 / √ ((5π /6) -1)
G = 0.0667 792...
This solution of G, corresponds to 99.942 % to G(ref.) = 0.0667 408(31)10^-9m3.kg^-1.s^-2.
(Note from Jean: the probability that this formula that follows from a unique solution of Pi, falls on one of the most important value of physics is a coincidence, it's almost zero... perfection belongs to Heaven.)
Second writing
G = 0.067482...
~99 % of G(ref.)
(…)
We can suppose the existence of at least, 9 other space of PI of lower densities in a time slightly shifted from ours and thus unobservable, which would correspond to the famous 'dark energy'/'dark matter' of the cosmology (...)
That in a standardized universal system, the formula of A.Einstein is written, E = m π².
That there would be a small 'black hole' in the center of each elemental particle of matter, in the image and probably at the origin of the black holes of the cosmos.
Wishes:
I. If this formula wins the interest of the scientific community, I would like it to be named, "The Antarctic Formula".
II. By a moral and conscience contract, I authorize the commercial use of this publication, asking that a 'nice proportion' of the income collected, be donated to the benefit of a charity dedicated to children.
Acknowledgment:
Thanks to the Architect of the Great Pyramid.
UNBELIEVABLE !
This is therefore the irrefutable scientific proof that the Pyramids of the Giza were built by a civilization superior to us.
The lie is over.
In my last video (en sub), I announced that it would probably be the end of a long series, thinking to have arrived at the end of the road, as twice already in the past.
This path that I followed was the path of truth, which took me very far, as you can see; and at the end of this road, there will be, I think, the builders and this incredible architect.
So it is with another truth that I will finish.
'For verily I say unto you,' as the son of Man, who is related to this pyramid as I have revealed, this scientific publication, is not intended to be judged by scientists, but that it is the publication and the Heaven through it, who will judge them...
As guarantors of the laws of the universe, these guardians of the temple, these men of science, will be the first to be judged, because the true science is the science of the truth and without truth, it remains only the law of the men...
Those who work for the truth.
We will see then, who work for the truth and those who will continue to lie.
The masks will fall.
As I have announced, we are at the time of the Apocalypse, the time of revelation, the tearing of the veil, the time of judgment, and the hour of judgment comes...
If I tried to transmit the message with my heart, to touch the men of heart, I needed for others... To Hit their minds!
It was the plan of God.
Prepare... and may God keep you.
Jean Seimple.
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AMAZING !
Amazing new revelation of Jean Seimple, remember, he explained and demonstrated, that a planet-comet, will cross our solar system very soon and cause upheaval on earth... to observe the current intense volcanic activity and the climate change, I think its effects are already felt and so as he says, be prepared...
To share, massively, for our children !
The divine plan...
And the key that explains everything...
1 Pi, 1 Phi, 1 Cubit, all in meter...
Our children will have the stars...
"In my childhood dreams, I had two powers that allowed me to escape the clutches of the monster and that other children did not have.
The first was that I could jump from a great height and land smoothly... The second was to be able to rise above the ground, very slowly, to reach the space, where I could contemplate, the earth and the stars ... "
There Is A Very Odd Structure Deep In The Gobi Desert
There Is A Very Odd Structure Deep In The Gobi Desert
One dessert in central Asia constitutes much more than this. Not one, but two X-shaped strips of tarmac have been spotted. Could these be landing strips? They indeed appear to be made from the tarmac, which again has no place in a desert!
Do These Satellite Images Reveal China’s Area 51?
Not only are the landing strips out of place, but they appear to be communicating something – the number eight is written both on and off the tarmac. And it is not just one number eight; there are several dotted within the vicinity of the strips. Although the untrained eye cannot make sense of the array, is this some sort of hidden communication?
The question of who is communicating may be raised. After all, who would be in the middle of a desert? How would they survive? The answer is relatively simple; just beneath the landing strips is an array of several buildings.
Not only this, but the buildings seem to be of varying ages – some appear to have been scorched by fire and derelict whereas other buildings appear to be of newer construction and occupiable.
So, what can be established? There has been somebody there to construct the strips and the buildings. There has likely been a major fire which destroyed some of the buildings. However, the site was that important that newer buildings were constructed to take their place. The strips have markings on, and the vast number of figure eights strung around the area could also signify something; communication is most likely intended.
The precise length of this communication is unknown. How successful the communication was is unknown. If it is still being used today is unknown.
But why is it being kept a secret? Why has nobody admitted to building it? For flying there? Or even before seeing it?
One possible explanation is that the area houses a military base and the government do not want you to know. If it is merely this legitimate then why all the secrets? What exactly are the government trying to conceal?
Is this an alien testing facility? Is this where Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 ended up? Just what activities are going on here?
Locals could hold the answer – the site is only 5 kilometers away from the closest town. But how likely are they to speak? Are they in on this secret too? Why haven’t they spoken before?
This is not the only strange happening in the Gobi Desert – there is another mystical area just like those above. Not only does the second structure contain landing strips and buildings but also actual aircraft. The buildings are set to surround the aircraft. Does this array mean something?
Again, there is also an aspect of communication – the area contains two large rectangular regions. One of the areas is seen as a solid rectangle whereas the other larger square consists of a geometric pattern. Does this pattern mean something?
It can be concluded that both of the areas stick out like a sore thumb. Both are not natural and should not be there, and both have been used for some type of aircraft. Even though no government is owning up and no locals are providing a witness, this cannot merely be swept under the rug as desert delirium. This is real.
Vreemde baan Russische satelliet verontrust Verenigde Staten: “We weten niet wat dit toestel is” - HLN.be
Vreemde baan Russische satelliet verontrust Verenigde Staten: “We weten niet wat dit toestel is” - HLN.be
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Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse zaken maakt zich zorgen om een Russische satelliet die “erg vreemd gedrag” vertoont. Volgens het Russische ministerie van Defensie zou het gaan om een toestel dat ruimtetuigen inspecteert, maar daar geloven de Amerikanen niets van. “We weten niet wat dit toestel is en kunnen het op geen enkele manier checken”, klinkt het verontrust.
Het was Yleem D.S. Poblete – het hoofd van het Amerikaans Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance – die eergisteren aan de alarmbel trok op een ontwapeningsconferentie in Genève. De Russische satelliet werd in oktober vorig jaar voor het eerst opgemerkt.
“Wat de satelliet doet, komt niet overeen met wat we kennen van toestellen die ruimtetuigen inspecteren”, aldus Poblete. “We zijn bezorgd over zijn erg vreemde gedrag. We weten niet met zekerheid wat het toestel is en kunnen het op geen enkele manier checken. De intenties van de Russen met het toestel zijn niet duidelijk en baren ons uiteraard grote zorgen. Zeker als je weet dat de Commandant van de Russische ruimtetroepen eerder verklaarde dat het integreren van nieuwe prototypes van wapens een hoofdtaak is van de Aerospace Force Space Troops.”
De Amerikanen maken zich al langer zorgen dat de Russen actief bezig zijn met het ontwikkelen van antisatellietwapens. Iets wat het Russische ministerie van Defensie volgens Poblete al verscheidene keren bevestigde. “In februari vorig jaar zei de leider van de Russisch ruimtetroepen dat Rusland nieuwe raketten ontwikkelt met het expliciete doel om satellieten te vernietigen. We hebben zelfs verklaringen gelezen van de Russische Defensie dat haar ruimtetroepen al een mobiel lazersysteem tegen satellieten hebben dat opereert vanop de grond. President Poetin vindt trouwens dat ruimtewapens steeds aanvaardbaarder worden in politiek en militair opzicht.”
Mobiele telefoons
Mochten de Russen effectief een antisatellietwapen in een baan om de aarde gebracht hebben en dat ook gebruiken, kan dat verstrekkende gevolgen hebben. Ook voor het dagelijkse leven, want onder meer mobiele telefoons, de gps en het internet werken op satellieten. Ook voor weervoorspellers en hulpdiensten zoals politie en brandweer zijn ze essentieel.
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Het toestel zou de Russen kunnen toelaten om bijvoorbeeld spionageapparatuur aan een satelliet van een vijandige macht te bevestigen, maar ook om die uit zijn baan te duwen, zijn signalen te storen, hem te vangen of zelfs compleet te vernietigen.
Klein ruimtetuig
Het is niet duidelijk om welke Russische satelliet het precies gaat. Dat zei Problete niet. Militaire analisten denken echter dat het toestel op 23 juni vorig jaar in een baan om de aarde gebracht werd. Het Russische ministerie van Defensie verklaarde een maand later dat het “een klein ruimtetuig” had gelanceerd dat de toestand van de Russische satellieten moest controleren.
De Russen zelf ontkennen alle aantijgingen. Russisch diplomaat Alexander Deynko vertelde aan persbureau Reuters dat de verklaring van Poblete “ongefundeerd en lasterlijk” is en “gebaseerd op verdenkingen en veronderstellingen”.
Thousands of new documents from Project MKUltra, the Central Intelligence Agency’s mid-century mind control program, will soon be released. The new records include 4,358 undisclosed pages regarding MKUltra’s “behavior modification” efforts.
John Greenewald, founder of The Black Vault, a site specializing in declassified government records obtained via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, first uploaded MKUltra documents in 2004—tens of thousands of pages, spread over four CD-ROMs. The document index alone is 85 pages.
Still, the trove of MKUltra material available on The Black Vault represent only a small fraction of the material from the sprawling, multi-decade program, with the majority lost to history after CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed in 1973. This makes the new documents crucial to expanding our narrow perspective on the CIA’s actions from the operation’s beginnings in 1953 through the cover-up twenty years later.
Project MKUltra was an illegal program of human experimentation undertaken by the CIA to discover methods, both pharmacological and psychological, for controlling the human mind, particularly in interrogation settings. Amphetamines, MDMA, scopolamine, cannabis, salvia, sodium pentothal, psilocybin and LSD were administered to thousands of unsuspecting people, throughout the United States and Canada. Others were subject to sensory deprivation, psychological abuse and rape, including the sexual abuse of children.
Frank Olson, a biological warfare scientist working with the CIA, plummeted to his death a little over a week after his supervisor covertly dosed him with LSD. Though his death was considered a suicide, the Netflix documentary miniseries Wormwood convincingly argues he was instead assassinated by the CIA after threatening to disclose his work, particularly the United States’ alleged use of biological weapons in the Korean War.
More than 80 colleges, prisons, pharma companies and hospitals collaborated in the program, including renowned psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron, who served president of the American Psychiatric Association and the World Psychiatric Association. The destruction of decades of documentation and subsequent CIA stonewalling has made Project MKUltra a central element of numerous conspiracy theories.
The existence of the previously unknown MKUltra pages was discovered in 2016, when a Black Vault user, Oscar Diggs, discovered irregularities in the collection the CIA disclosed to Greenewald. Diggs created a list of missing records and pages described in the index. The CIA refused to fill in the gaps in their original FOIA disclosure, claiming that extant MKUltra documents pertaining to “behavioral modification” were not the same as those pertaining to “mind control.” Greenewald is currently crowdfunding to cover the fees imposed by the CIA for the remaining 4,358 pages.
“We shouldn’t be afraid to ask questions.” Greenewald told Motherboard. “Even though the government lies, documents do not.”
Experts believe a 5,000 year old Neolithic site has been discovered in a field in Ireland's Boyne Valley, after a summer drought deadened the grass enough for the monument to be revealed.
U.K. archeologists are crediting a drought and a drone for the discovery of an ancient structure in Ireland, which first appeared as an outline under a parched farmer’s field.
The structure was spotted this week by drone enthusiasts recording footage over the Newgrange historic site in Boyne Valley, County Meath. The UNESCO World Heritage Site is home to several 5,000-year-old circular structures from the Neolithic era, many of which remain buried underground.
Photos from the air show the structure as a circular outline under a farmer’s field, with the ditch-and-upright architecture of a prehistoric henge, such as Stonehenge.
“Nobody knew it was there,” said archeologist Stephen Davis.
The monument was likely built around 3000 BCE along with the other structures at the site, according to Davis, who teaches at University College Dublin. He’s also been studying the site for several years.
“When it was standing, what you would’ve seen was two large rings of timber posts, and maybe a very low bank, and then this segmented ditch,” Davis said.
Ireland has been suffering through a historically hot, dry summer, which helped expose the structure where it lay hidden beneath a farmer’s tilled field.
Davis says the buried structure caused the drought-stricken plants above ground to ripen at different rates, because the earth was deeper in some places than in others. This created a green-and-brown pattern in the plants that corresponded to the buried ruins.
“The detail we’re seeing is pretty unprecedented, and it might not happen again for decades,” Davis said.
“You wouldn’t see this from the ground,” he added. “You’d only see it from the air.”
The most famous structure at Newgrange is the stone-rimmed, grass-domed mound known as Site P. The structure is centred around an ancient stone tomb, although the tomb predates the rest of the monument.
The newly-discovered monument was close to Site P.
The Newgrange UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ireland is home to several monuments, including this mound.
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Newgrange is believed to be about 100 years older than Stonehenge, although the newest discovery might have been built slightly later.
THE MOST SHOCKING EVIDENCE THAT EARTH WAS VISITED BY ANCIENT ALIENS
THE MOST SHOCKING EVIDENCE THAT EARTH WAS VISITED BY ANCIENT ALIENS
The very words give me the chills: ancient aliens. In the early 1970s, when Erich von Däniken first released Chariots of the Gods, he called them “ancient astronauts”—a name that’s equally creepy. The Apollo missions were still going on, and the image of astronauts was fresh in everyone’s minds. Could ancient alien beings have arrived on Earth in the distant past? Would they have worn spacesuits, like our own astronauts?
If they truly visited our planet in millennia past: why were they here? What did the aliens do while they were on Earth?
Researchers have spent a lot of time looking into the question of whether we were visited so many millennia ago. The popular television show Ancient Aliens, although well-intentioned, has muddied the water in their search of show material—did we really need an episode asking whether aliens interfered with the American Civil War? (C’mon, guys. You’re off the reservation.)
Although we may not be ever know for sure that we had extraterrestrial visitors thousands of years in the past, perhaps if they did come, they might have left us modern people some clues. Let’s take a look at some of the most clear—and startling—evidence for the existence of ancient aliens on Earth.
ANCIENT ALIENS VISIT THE DOGON TRIBE?
African Tribe Possessed Knowledge Science Had Yet to Discover
This African tribe (whose name is pronounced “DOE-gone”) has known all sorts of specifics about the star Sirius for thousands of years, passed down from holy man to holy man. We’re talking details here, like how Sirius has a companion star (“Sirius B”), and that it circles the main star (“Sirius A”) every 50 years. Here’s the thing: it is absolutely true—but modern scientists didn’t know these things about Sirius until the middle of the 19th century. The Dogon knew a thousand years ago. Heck, the Dogon also knew that Sirius has a second companion star, and scientists didn’t discover it (“Sirius C”) until the 1990s.
How did the Dogon get this scientific information about Sirius B? If you ask them, they’ll tell you that the tribe was visited by the Nommos, an amphibian-like race that came from the Sirius star system in a noisy “ark” that spun and whipped up wind while it landed. It was the Nommos, a race of ancient aliens, who told the Dogon about their homeworld and its star cluster.
Knee-jerk skeptics like to invent reasons why all this can’t be true. Westerners must have stopped by and told them about Sirius, one denier said. There’s no way, though: the Dogon have artifacts that are thousands of years old, depicting Sirius and its companions. No one should have known this stuff that long ago, but the Dogon did.
This short video does a good job explaining the ancient Dogon knowledge. (I have no idea why the narrator pronounces Sirius as “SIGH-ree-us”, but we can give him a pass on that.)
THE PROPHET EZEKIEL DESCRIBES HIS ENCOUNTER WITH ANCIENT UFOS—IN THE BIBLE
Holy Scriptures Contain Account of Alien Contact?
Ask Erich von Däniken, the guy who pioneered the search for ancient aliens, and he’ll tell you his favorite evidence is in the Old Testament. It’s the story of Ezekiel and his bizarre encounter with UFOs.
Ezekiel was a prophet living in exile with the rest of the Hebrews in the land they called Babylon. Being a prophet was a highfalutin job back then, but Ezekiel’s life got even stranger—stranger than just being a guy who received special messages from the creator of the universe.
The prophet Ezekiel encounters a UFO and aliens 2,500 years ago
I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, but each of them had four faces and four wings.
Ezekiel 1:1-6
Some people read this and think: the dude was taking drugs. Others (knee-jerk skeptics) say: oh, it’s just more Biblical mumbo-jumbo. Devout people may say that Ezekiel saw angels.
Maybe.
What if this was Ezekiel actually saw something, and he didn’t know what it was, or how to explain it? If he actually encountered ancient aliens, how would he describe them? We think he’d probably describe them just like he did.
Next Ezekiel describes the machine that the being had arrived in, the machine that landed in a rush of wind.
Ezekiel confronts the great wheels within wheels. Did he meet ancient aliens?
I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz … each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went.
Ezekiel 1:15-19
Doesn’t that sound like a spacecraft to you? Why would a man living 500 years B.C. write a description that sounds so much like the landing and maneuvering of an alien ship? Surely this was not just random. Remember: Ezekiel was devoutly religious, and he would interpret amazing events as signs from God. If beings appeared, he would assume they were angels. But perhaps they were ancient aliens.
What about their technology? Ezekiel’s description was of an alien craft with advanced maneuverability.
This story of the machine that had wheels-within-wheels impressed NASA engineer Joe Blumrich a lot. A wheel that could move in any direction without having to turn—that sounded like something a planetary exploration vehicle could use. He went on to invent a wheel based on Ezekiel’s description, and called it the “omni wheel.” Joe received a US patent for it in 1972. Today, omni wheels are routinely used in robot vehicles. Blumrich also wrote a popular book, The Spaceships of Ezekiel, in which he explained that after starting out intending to disprove the idea, he’d become convinced that Ezekiel truly had been writing about an encounter with ancient aliens.
“THOSE WHO CAME FROM THE SKIES TO THE EARTH”
World’s Oldest Civilization Leaves Record of Alien Contact
The ancient Sumerians lived 5,000 years ago in what’s now the country of Iraq. They left behind humankind’s first writings, books older than the Bible and the Hindu Vedas.
The Sumerians wrote a lot about the Anunnaki, whose name means “those who came from the skies to Earth”. Modern scholars have assumed that the stories of the Annunaki were just myths about Sumerian gods—but the stories themselves sound more like tales of ancient aliens.
In the writings, the Annunaki came to Earth from a lost planet in our solar system—one with such a wide orbit that it rarely approaches us. They called the lanet Nibiru.
The leaders of the ancient aliens were named Enki and Enlil. They were here for gold, a mineral they needed but did not have enough of. Mines were set up there in Sumer, but also in Africa as well. Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, a Zulu elder and author of Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries, says that ancient tribal traditions speak of “visitors from the stars” who mined for gold.
After mining for some time, the Anunnaki realized that the local humanoids—Homo Erectus, our ancestors—might make useful slaves if they could make them smarter. After improving the proto-humans, presumably with DNA modification, they managed to create a hybrid race: part Anunnaki, part early human. These new beings, called the Adamu, were the first real humans. They were also the new slaves who would work in the gold mines.
Ancient Sumerian cylindrical seal shows an accurate map of our solar system
Our hybrid ancestors didn’t stand for this situation for long, though, probably because these newly created beings were far too smart. Who wants to be a slave? They eventually rose up and rebelled, and eventually, a new Adamu society formed, one which maintained an uneasy truce with the Anunnaki.
The Sumerians recorded this history after first inventing writing. They also made engravings and art of the Anunnaki along with knowledge they had received from them—for instance, an ancient Sumerian seal depicts the Sumerian “gods” along with an accurate representation of our solar system, with 11 planets. The planets have correct proportions (Jupiter is the largest, then Saturn, and so on), and the depiction also includes the asteroid belt. Remember that modern science only discovered Uranus and Neptune in the past 150 years, and that scientists are only now saying that there is gravitational evidence for a “lost” planet with a weird, oblong orbit. Are there truly 11 planets? It may be so.
Sumerian artwork always depicts members of the Anunnaki as having wings. Did they actually have wings? It seems unlikely—many researchers believe the wings are meant to show that the Anunnaki had the ability to fly, as in ships. Other strange and telling things appear in the artwork: the goddess Ishtar’s symbol, which stood for the concept of “life”, bears a striking resemblance to the entwined double helix of DNA. Could that be more than a coincidence?
We’ve been kind of critical of the show Ancient Aliens, but this segment from an early episode explains all this pretty well (below). We also very much like this documentary about the Anunnaki and the planet Nibiru.
ANCIENT ALIENS FIGHT WARS IN THE SKIES OF ANCIENT INDIA
Hindu Holy Books Called The Vedas Describe Alien Encounters
There is strong evidence that ancient aliens visited other places around the Earth. In India, for example, the ancient holy books known as The Vedas tell of a space war between ships and fought in the skies. The descriptions of the ships are remarkable—translated, it is difficult to imagine that they were describing anything except spacecraft.
The Vedas state that “strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backwards. With the help of the machines human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth.”
Spacecraft as described in the ancient Hindu holy books called The Vedas
No, that’s not a spacecraft they’re describing. No way.
“Fifty years of researching this ancient works convinces me that there are living beings on other planets and that they visited Earth as far back as 4,000 BC. There is just a mass of fascinating information about flying machines, even fantastic science fiction weapons that can be found in translations of The Vedas, Indian epics and other ancient Sanskrit text.” That’s Dr. Vijaya Raghavan, speaking; he was head of the Sanskrit department of the University of Madras in India (now retired). His job, if it’s not obvious, was to study The Vedas; his conclusion was that they described real events in which aliens came to Earth.
In other parts of The Vedas, we get a description of something that can only be a nuclear explosion.
“Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.”
So what do we make of that? Just ancient imagination that happens to sound exactly like nuclear devastation? Sure, you deniers and skeptics, sure. You’re probably right. It’s ancient nonsense. Right?
Hungry for more?
Check out Google searches about the Nazca lines, and the Mayan king Pakal at the pyramid of Palenque. We could go on; there’s a lot of strange evidence on our Earth that is dismissed far too easily by mainstream science. Because the universe is mundane, and it has to be mundane—that is, if you’re a knee-jerk skeptic addicted to the idea that the universe is mundane.
Now, if you want to see the original film that inspired all this hysteria, it’s below: Chariots of the Gods, from the early 1970s. Yes, sure, it’s cheesy—it’s from the ’70s! But it’s still pretty cool, we think.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETDe Egyptenaren konden honderden jaren vroeger dan aangenomen lijken balsemen, zo heeft een wetenschappelijk team in de Journal of Archeological Science bericht.
Oorspronkelijk ging men ervan uit de Egyptenaren vanaf 3.700 tot 3.500 voor Christus lijken op een natuurlijke manier konden conserveren.
Maar op basis van tests op een goed bewaarde prehistorische mummie uit het Egyptologisch museum in Turijn kwam een wetenschappelijk team onder leiding van de universiteit in York (Engeland) en Macquarie (Australië) tot de bevinding dat reeds in 3.600 een rituele mummificatie van een man tussen twintig en dertig jaar heeft plaatsgevonden.
Bovendien vonden de wetenschappers aanwijzingen dat het inbalsemen in Egypte geografisch meer verspreid was dan aanvankelijk gedacht.
WETENSCHAPBelgië zal bijna 150 miljoen euro besteden aan de deelname in het Franse programma voor spionagesatellieten. De eerste van drie exemplaren moet nog voor het einde van het jaar worden gelanceerd.
Defensie is al een van de partners in de huidige familie van de Helios II-verkenningssatellieten, waarvan twee machines constant rond de aarde draaien om de klok rond beelden met een hoge resolutie te leveren.
Maar de twee satellieten Helios II A en B, gelanceerd respectievelijk eind 2004 en 2009, zullen rond 2020 aan het einde van hun levensverwachting zijn. Parijs heeft daarom een vervangingsprogramma gelanceerd, CSO genaamd (Composante Spatiale Optique). Drie Europese landen (Duitsland, Zweden en België) hebben hun krachten gebundeld om, onder Frans management, drie efficiëntere satellieten te financieren.
Het CSO-systeem bestaat uit drie identieke optische satellieten van 3,5 ton, die tussen eind 2018 en 2021 worden gelanceerd. Ze vliegen over de aarde in polaire banen van verschillende hoogten. De door België verkregen beelden zullen niet alleen worden gebruikt door Defensie, maar ook door andere federale diensten zoals de FOD Buitenlandse Zaken en de federale politie, aldus het kabinet van minister van Defensie Steven Vandeput.
België betaalde in 2013 al 49 miljoen euro om de deelname concreet te maken en industriële rendementen te verkrijgen. Defensie besliste in september vorig jaar om 98 miljoen euro te investeren. De investering is opgenomen in de strategische visie, de leidraad tot en met 2030 voor het defensiebeleid, en werd in juni 2016 door de regering goedgekeurd.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETChina heeft de robotjeep onthuld die het Aziatische land op de achterkant van de maan wil neerzetten. De Chang’e 4, die de robotjeep meevoert, moet in december een zachte landing op de ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ maken, met name in de Aitken-krater op de zuidelijke pool.
De robotjeep moet wetenschappers vervolgens data leveren over delen van onze natuurlijke satelliet die nog niet zijn geëxploreerd. De achterkant van de maan kan niet profiteren van de straling van onze zon, zegt het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA.
Het tuig weegt slechts 140 kilo en kan landen, fotograferen en exploreren, aldus de China Daily. De jeep heeft zes wielen, twee zonnepanelen, een geavanceerde radar en talrijke camera’s om het oppervlak van het hemellichaam te onderzoeken. Iedereen ter wereld mag een naam bedenken voor de zeswieler.
In mei lanceerde Peking al de sonde Queqiao om gegevens over de achterkant van de maan te verzamelen en te zoeken naar aanwijzingen van de oerknal waarmee het universum is ontstaan. Het tuig dient ook als relais voor de robotjeep.
Peking wil tegen 2030 ook een eerste Chinees op het maanoppervlak neerzetten. In 2013 liet het al een andere robotjeep de Wachter van de Aarde verkennen.
AFPBeeld van de lancering van de sonde Queqiao in mei.
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Huge ‘hairy sea monster’ washes up on Pacific coast: what can it be?
Huge ‘hairy sea monster’ washes up on Pacific coast: what can it be?
By The Siberian Times reporter
A giant furry octopus? Remains of a woolly mammoth? An unknown primeval creature from the deep?
Witness Svetlana Dyadenko said: ‘This unidentified and strange-looking creature was washed on the shore next to the village of Pakhachi, on the north-eastern side of the Kamchatka Peninsula'
The baffling behemoth - shown in a video here - was washed up in recent days on the shore of the Bering Sea, on the Pacific side of the Kamchatka peninsula.
More than three times the size of a man, the smelly heavyweight monster has puzzled locals here who are used to seeing what the ocean washes up.
It has a dirty chalk colouring, and appears to have a long tail - or tentacle - but no definite head or eyes as it lies on the dark volcanic sand.
Witness Svetlana Dyadenko posted: ‘This unidentified and strange-looking creature was washed on the shore next to the village of Pakhachi, on the north-eastern side of the Kamchatka Peninsula.'
She said: ‘The most interesting thing to me is that the creature is covered with tubular fur.
‘Could it be some ancient creature?
‘I wish scientists could inspect this enigma that ocean threw at us.’
A puzzling find off the north-eastern coast of Kamchatka peninsula.
Pictures: The Siberian Times
First comments asked her if it could be the remnants of an extinct woolly mammoth, perhaps released from an undersea permafrost grave by the warm summer.
But Svetlana said: ‘It looks more like a hairy octopus. Can’t guess what is it.
‘People who saw it could not dig or pull it out.
‘You would need an excavator because part of it got completely covered with sand.’
Commenter Slava Shatunov wrote: ‘It looks like normal fur.’
Svetlana replied: ‘It does look like fur, but it’s tubular, as if a lot of tiny pipes hang down the carcass. This is a really strange-looking creature.
‘We googled it and couldn’t find anything resembling it.’
Some suggested the 'creature' looked like a globster.
Pictures: The Siberian Times
Another confused observer suggested: ‘I wonder if it came from a thawed glacier?’
Another woman replied: ‘It’s got to have been brought from the Arctic.’
More suggestions: ‘It looks like an octopus, or the pelt of some creature’.
Svetlana replied that it seemed to be ‘the carcass of an animal - but we can’t guess which one.’
Elena Vlasova suggested: ‘It reminds of a giant squid.’
But she also asked: ‘Is it a globster?’
Eyewitness Svetlana Dyadenko replied: ’It might be a globster, but after googling it I didn’t see that people came across lobsters with tails.’
The term globster was first coined in 1962 to describe a mysterious Tasmanian carcass which was said to have "no visible eyes, no defined head, and no apparent bone structure”.
These globsters may at first resemble a gigantic octopus while others may have some bones or tentacles or flippers - or even eyes, say experts.
They are, though, not usually hairy as this one is. Scientists have suggested globsters are declared carcasses of large sea creatures, like whales or sharks.
They might be lumps of whale blubber released from decaying corpses.
Yet the hair or fur on this Kamchatka monster doesn’t seem to fit with this description.
But Kamchatka marine biologist Sergei Kornev today partly validated the globster theory.
He believes the monster to be part of a decaying sea mammal.
'Under the influence of the sea, time and various animals, from the smallest to the largest, a whale often takes on bizarre forms.
‘This is only a part of a whale, not a whole one.'
Enorm harig zeemonster aangespoeld in Siberië. Wat zou dit kunnen zijn?
Enorm harig zeemonster aangespoeld in Siberië. Wat zou dit kunnen zijn?
Deze week is in Siberië een harig zeemonster aangespoeld. Het vreemde zeedier, dat drie keer zo groot is als een mens, stelt lokale bewoners voor een raadsel.
Het wezen heeft een lange staart of tentakel, maar lijkt geen hoofd of ogen te hebben.
“Dit ongeïdentificeerde, vreemde wezen is aangespoeld bij Pakhatsji in het noordoosten van het schiereiland Kamtsjatka,” schreef getuige Svetlana Djadenko.
Raadsel
“Het meest interessante is dat het wezen is bedekt met een kokervormige vacht,” voegde ze toe.
“Is het misschien een heel oud wezen?” vroeg ze. “Ik hoop dat wetenschappers dit raadsel kunnen oplossen.”
Sommigen dachten aan de resten van de uitgestorven wolharige mammoet, die mogelijk als gevolg van de smeltende permafrost aan het oppervlak zijn gekomen.
Globster
“Het lijkt meer op een harige octopus,” zei Svetlana. “Ik heb geen idee wat dit is. Dit is echt een vreemd wezen.”
Ze zocht op Google naar soortgelijke zeedieren, maar kon niets vinden wat erop leek.
Elena Vlasova vroeg of het misschien een globster is. De term globster werd bedacht om een onidentificeerbaar karkas uit 1960 in Tasmanië te beschrijven.
Bizarre vorm
Zeebioloog Sergei Kornev denkt dat het gaat om het lichaam van een zeezoogdier dat in staat van ontbinding is. Hierdoor zou het een bizarre vorm hebben aangenomen.
“Dit is een deel van een walvis, niet een hele,” zei hij.
We don’t know for certain what it is and there is no way to verify it.
That’s how one State Department adviser recently described the unexplained behavior of a mysterious Russian satellite in orbit. Where’s the Space Force when you need it? If reports are correct, they might be called into action sooner than we think. Anomalous satellite activity has become somewhat commonplace over the last few years as the world’s superpowers vie for space supremacy. Reports of Russian “killer” satellites, secret space bases, and black rocket launches have surfaced, leading some intelligence agencies to suggest war in space is coming.
World War III? More like Space War I.
Now, remarks made by the U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance seems to suggest that the Russians are indeed up to something fishy in orbit. While speaking at the recent Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, assistant secretary Yleem Poblete stated that an unknown Russian craft or satellite in orbit has begun displaying anomalous activity which have U.S. intelligence analysts scratching their heads:
In October of last year the Russian Ministry of Defense deployed a space object they claimed was a “space apparatus inspector.” But its behavior on-orbit was inconsistent with anything seen before from on-orbit inspection or space situational awareness capabilities, including other Russian inspection satellite activities. We are concerned with what appears to be very abnormal behavior by a declared “space apparatus inspector.”
Could she be describing the mysterious “capsule” allegedly sent to the ISS last October? Could this be related to the mysterious destruction of several satellites over the past year? It’s unclear. Whatever the case is, satellite-to-satellite warfare is clearly now a chief concern for defense agencies. The entire military and intelligence apparatus relies on the instantaneous global connectivity provided by satellites, and without them the military is ‘blind’ in many ways.
Don’t worry: the X-37B will save us.
Is this merely further saber-rattling to justify the creation of the Space Force, or is the Russian military truly up to something nefarious in space? With all of the disinformation on all sides right now geopolitically speaking, it’s tough to say. One thing is certain: tin foil hats aren’t strong enough to protect your skull from debris from falling space fighters. You’re gonna need a bunker for that.
What happened to the people who carved the giant heads on Easter Island? If you said, “Don’t you mean the giant statues buried up to their heads on Easter Island?” you definitely know your moai. So, what happened to the people who created the giant statues buried up to their necks on Easter Island? If you said, “They destroyed their civilization through infighting and natural resource depletion,” you need to update your Rapa Nui history. A new study used geology to determine that the Rapa Nui society was actually very cooperative and something else other than infighting caused their demise. What? Or whom?
“Ancient Rapa Nui had chiefs, priests, and guilds of workers who fished, farmed, and made the moai. There was a certain level of sociopolitical organization that was needed to carve almost a thousand statues.”
Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History scientist Laure Dussubieux and Dale Simpson, Jr., an archaeologist from the University of Queensland, co-authored the study published this week in the Journal of Pacific Archaeology one of the study’s authors. They were part of a team which excavated four entire giant statues under the direction of Jo Anne Van Tilburg of Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA and director of the Easter Island Statue Project . During that process, they found about 1,600 stone tools called toki and were able to remove basalt stone fragments from about 20 of them. A chemical and mass spectrometer analysis of the basalt was an eye-opener to Dale Simpson, according to his interview with Phys.org.
“The majority of the toki came from one quarry complex — once the people found the quarry they liked, they stayed with it. For everyone to be using one type of stone, I believe they had to collaborate. That’s why they were so successful — they were working together.”
Living together on a small island, quarrying giant stones, carving them into giant statues and moving them to far locations … cooperation would seem to be a key to this type of society. So, if they all got along, why did they fall apart? This new discovery lends credence to the alternating theory that the arrival of Europeans and their diseases and the institution of slavery destroyed most of the Rapa Nui society. In this case, the fact that all of the tools came from one quarry could indicate that the slaves were forced to mine from one location.
What caused the disappearance of the Rapa Nui? The researchers leave that question unanswered … perhaps they still don’t know … perhaps they want to spend more time on Easter Island. Until their next study, the answer to “What happened to the people who created the giant statues buried up to their necks on Easter Island?” is “all of the above.”
A video appearing online recently purports to show a “mystery aircraft” in the distance as it passes over Lake Norman near Charlotte, North Carolina.
The footage, which is at times unreasonably shaky, seems to show a large, dark form moving slowly above Lake Norman in the distance. Unfortunately, the viewer is given a better perspective of the parking lot adjacent to the boat ramp than of the object, which only makes fleeting appearances–despite moving slowly–due to the poor camerawork.
Nonetheless, the footage has managed to gain traction online, after being picked up and featured on Drudge Report and The Daily Star, in addition to several YouTube channels.
The footage as it originally appeared online can be seen below:
The footage was obtained by Jason Swing, who allegedly filmed the object with his Smartphone on May 29, according to Mark Price at the Charlotte Observer.
“Hey, this is a spacecraft,” a man who appears to be Swing can be heard saying at the beginning of the video, before it shakily turns in the direction of what appears to be an object moving slowly over Lake Norman. Little can be discerned about the shape or size of the object, or the actual distance it might have been from the parking lot where Swing stood while filming it. At one point in the footage, Swing appears to call to someone nearby, seeking acknowledgment that they were able to see the object as well.
It is unclear if the footage was a hoax, or if it was merely intended as a prank (Swing is suspiciously nonchalant as he advises viewers about the “spacecraft” they are about to see at the video’s outset). However, one commenter identified as MrBoomer13 pointed out that Swing’s YouTube channel has featured videos of drones in the past, which might suggest that the object over Lake Norman–if real at all–had simply been a drone.
Still from Swain’s footage, purporting to show a large object moving slowly over Lake Norman, NC
(Jason Swain, YouTube).
Others felt there was an even simpler explanation. Joe Browder commented that the object might have simply been a passenger plane:
“Nope. Just a passenger jet coming out of Charlotte Douglas Airport. Flying low (below the cloud deck) on northbound track from airport. See this all the time up there. Look at the tops of the trees and bushes each time the video shows the plane and you see that it is steadily moving left to right. Going to look like hovering and slow movement since it is about 4 miles away.”
The Linville Gorge Wilderness, just two hours away near Linville, North Carolina, is home to purported earthlights that often appear after rainstorms. Known as the Brown Mountain Lights, on many occasions, the lights of distant aircraft flying out of Charlotte Douglas and other airports in the region can be mistaken for lights hovering over adjacent mountain ridges.
It remains unclear what, precisely (if anything) appears in Swain’s video. Had the camera remained still for longer than short bursts of two-second intervals, perhaps more about the object could be discerned. Or for all we know, perhaps there was a legitimate object in the distance, which Swain either wasn’t taking seriously enough to try and do a good job filming, or perhaps was just too excited to keep in-frame.
If you observe something unusual in the sky, some helpful tips that will improve the quality of your footage are as follows:
1) Attempt to orient the object you are filming in the center of the frame, rather than the parking lot pavement nearby. It may help to try and fit other objects in the frame with the anomaly, as this can help judge size, distance, the rate of speed, etc.
2) Steady your arm by resting it against a fixture nearby (such as one of the signs in the parking lot you’re standing in). If no such fixture exists, try kneeling and resting your elbow against your knee as your film the object.
3) Try to remain calm, and breath normally (rather than shouting at others nearby), as this will also help you maintain a steady shot.
4) Film the unidentified object for as long as you can (instead of cutting away while the object is still plainly visible and proclaiming “I gotta go”).
Sadly, if there actually were anything of interest in this footage, it’s too shaky to be able to discern anything about it. Granted, it is worth noting that the engine noise of what appears to be a conventional commercial airliner can be plainly heard as the object passes over the lake. Hence, while our money would probably have to go with YouTuber Joe Browder and the “passenger jet” theory, the footage above nonetheless offers us a few great examples of what not to do while attempting to film what might be a UFO.
It’s no secret that the CIA has engaged in some downright spooky and rather out-there stuff over the years. Between attempting to kill goats by staring at them and experimenting with remote viewing, the CIA has looked into some of the deeper mysteries of the human mind in order to, well, whatever it is the CIA really does. Keep tabs on foes and friends alike? Monitor and regulate the global zeitgeist in an attempt to maintain the current world order? Control our minds?
Probably all of the above.
When it comes to that last one, it’s well known that the CIA experimented with mind control through its infamous MKUltra experiments carried out in the mid-twentieth century. Families of victims of those experiments have made some progress in seeking truth and reconciliation for those horrible experiments which took some unfortunate subjects’ lives and ruined untold others, but it’s likely we don’t yet know the extent or damage of those experiments.
To that end, John Greenwald at the Black Vault has crowdfunded a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to pay the CIA’s fees for his latest Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) regarding MKUltra documents. Greenwald has spent years requesting documents related to MK Ultra, finally receiving a trove of records in 2016 – records which were missing hundreds of pages. 4,358 pages to be exact. After years of petitioning the CIA and jumping through bureaucratic hoop after bureaucratic hoop, the CIA finally told Greenwald they’d cough the documents up for $425.80.
The price of paper must have gone up.
Greenwald was able to raise $627, which he hopes will cover any other hidden fees or charges the desk spooks at the CIA conjure up to try and keep these documents in the dark. What exactly might be hidden within their pages? We’ll have to wait and see. Stay tuned, and check out the Black Vault in the meantime. It’s a deep rabbit hole of some of the U.S. government’s darkest secrets.
I’ll celebrate the release of the documents like any other mystery hunter, but you’ve really got to wonder: what about all the stuff that was purposefully kept off the books? You don’t really think that they keep documentation of every single experiment and shadow black operation do you? If world leaders really had knowledge of superintelligent extraterrestrial or even intraterrestrial beings, would they really want us to know? I’m no “Deep State” or “QAnon” kook, but it’s foolish to deny that there are likely entire intelligence organizations or black research projects funded by governments that are completely in the shadows, never to see the light of public scrutiny.
Security guard sees and films an "alien creature" in Argentina
A strange incident has occurred on Saturday, August 4, 2018 at about 5 in the morning in the city of Cordoba, Villa Maria, Argentina, more exactly in an area of the former Aero Club, including Ramon Carrillo neighborhood and the campus of the National University of Villa Maria.
Eduardo, the security guard of one of the neighboring companies (BPB), saw several lights moving over the field behind the company's building, near a mountain, so he decided to investigate it.
When he arrived at the scene, about 200 meters from his position, he found several circular marks on the burned grass that still emanated smoke and are very visible in the video recorded by Eduardo.
But what most surprised the security guard was the encounter with a creature that seems to be crouched on the ground and then escapes to the bushes.
The security guard Eduardo states:
"I saw something like an animal ... but it was not, so I screamed and then started shooting in the air with my pistol. It was a strange thing out of the ordinary."
In the video you can see/hear a fearful Eduardo at the moment he is running to the strange creature on which the creature then escapes.
It is not yet known if the company that owns the land has initiated an investigation or analysis of possible traces of UFOs.
The Vision Ovni who reported the incident also said that in recent months several ufological phenomena have been reported in the area, such as cattle mutilations, where animals were found with unexplained surgical cuts.
According to a report of unosantafe, about 50 km from the bizarre incident, in the town of Colonia Duran a farmer lost seven pregnant cows under mysterious circumstances which appear to be connected to the cattle mutilation phenomenon that had seemingly unfolded overnight on his property.
The farmer said that their tongues and genitals were removed with precise cuts, it looked like they had been done it with a laser.
The flesh around the animals' jaws had also been removed during the mysterious mutilation, yet there was no blood to be found near the mutilated cows. Scavengers refused to go near the dead animals and their bodies attracted no flies.
A number of residents claim to have seen unexplained lights hovering in the area of the cattle mutilation which corresponds to what the security guard has seen and experienced.
Below the bizarre footage filmed by the security guard.
A plane of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron circa 1944. (Credit: The U.S. Army Air Force)
It was nearly the end of World War II. But for the airmen of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, it felt more like the beginning of War of the Worlds.
Lt. Fred Ringwald was the first to see it. He was riding as observer in a night fighter piloted by Lt. Ed Schlueter, with Lt. Donald J. Meiers on radar. It was a late November evening in 1944, partly cloudy with a quarter moon. They were roaming the Rhine Valley just north of Strasbourg on the French-German border when Ringwald said, “I wonder what those lights are, over there in the hills,” according to an American Legion Magazine story on the sightings from 1945.
There were eight to 10 of them in a row, glowing fiery orange. Then Schlueter saw them off his right wing. They checked with Allied ground radar, but they registered nothing. Thinking that the lights might be some kind of German air weapon, Schlueter turn the plane to fight…only to have the lights vanish.
At first the men said nothing, fearing they’d be ostracized. But then the sightings spread through the unit.
More crews, more sightings
On December 17, 1944, near Breisach, Germany, a pilot was flying at approximately 800 feet when he saw “5 or 6 flashing red and green lights in ’T’ shape.” The lights seemed to follow him, closing in “to about 8 o’clock and 1,000 ft.” before disappearing as inexplicably as they came.
Then on December 22nd, two more flight crews sighted lights. One crew, near Hagenau, reported two lights in a large orange glow, seeming to rise from the earth to 10,000 feet, tailing the fighter “for approximately two minutes.” After that, the lights, “peel off and turn away, fly along level for a few minutes and then go out. They appear to be under perfect control at all times,” according to Keith Chester’s Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II.
And then there was Lt. Samuel A. Krasney’s experience: a wingless cigar-shape object, glowing red, just a few yards off the plane’s wingtip. Lt. Krasney, justifiably spooked, instructed the pilot to attempt evasive maneuvers, but the glowing object stayed right next to the jet for several minutes before it “flew off and disappeared.”
Eventually, the airmen named the lights: foo fighters, inspired by the comic strip “Smokey Stover,” in which Smokey (a firefighter) would often declare, “Where there’s foo, there’s fire.”
An illustration depicting the December 22, 1944 encounter with ‘foo fighters’ during a daylight bombing raid on Germany during World War II.
(Credit: Chronicle/Alamy Photo)
The ‘combat fatigue’ explanation
An Associated Press reporter broke news of the foo-fighter sightings on January 1st, 1945, and theories about their origins quickly abounded: The sightings were flares, or weather balloons or St. Elmo’s Fire—a phenomenon where a light appears on the tips of objects in stormy weather. But the members of the 415th rejected all those theories. Flares and weather balloons can’t track planes like these objects could, and they’d seen St. Elmo’s fire and could distinguish the two.
Then there were those who claimed that the airmen were suffering from “combat fatigue,” a polite way of saying that war stress was driving them insane. But there was scant evidence to suggest collective psychosis: The 415th had an otherwise excellent record, and when a reporter for American Legion Magazine went to report on the squadron he described them as “very normal airmen, whose primary interest was combat, and after that came pin-up girls, poker, doughnuts and the derivatives of the grape.”
Lt. Krasney’s son, Keith Krasney, says his late father didn’t fit the stereotypical profile of a UFO theorizer. In fact, he never even suggested that the glowing wingless cigar-like object that flew next to his plane was extraterrestrial in origin.
“He was very level-headed, very analytical,” says Krasney of his father, adding that he kept a notebook where he wrote about (and drew) his foo-fighter sighting. But although he never seemed prone to conspiracy theories, Krasney says his father was open to one: “He entertained the idea that it could be late-breaking German technology. He did express the view that there were a lot of things during the war that were kept quiet.”
This photo is said to show a ‘foo-fighter’ observed by a German pilot in May 1945, near Karnten, Germany.
(Credit: Chronicle/Alamy Photo)
Was it the work of Nazi astrophysicists?
Holding Nazi Germany responsible for the flying glowing orbs isn’t too far-fetched. For one thing, the sightings took place over Nazi-occupied Europe, at a time when Germany’s Luftwaffe was making tremendous strides. Then there’s the fact that the sightings stopped once the German army was defeated.
But the most compelling link to the foo fighters might be Wernher von Braun, a 32-year-old wunderkind rocket engineer. Von Braun helped the Nazis develop the V-2 rocket: a long-range guided ballistic missile that Hitler was using in 1944 against Belgium and other parts of Allied Europe. It’s not to hard imagine pilots—unfamiliar with long-range ballistics—comparing these rockets to a cigar-like wingless planes. The V-2 could even explain the glow, since its tail emitted a long burning plume.
Nicholas Veronico, an author who has written several books on military aviation history, says that explanation comes up short.
“The V-2 rocket doesn’t have the maneuverability,” he says. “It couldn’t turn on a dime and change its acceleration pattern. Once it started burning, it burned and produced thrust at one rating.”
Nothing in Nazi Germany’s military-aviation arsenal can explain the foo-fighter description, Veronico says. One airman’s observation from the time—that the foo fighters follow the fighters so closely as to seem almost magnetized to them—is particularly confounding, given that “there just wasn’t the propulsion or metallurgical technology that could enable something like that.”
German-born rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who was brought to the United States to work for the U.S. Army circa 1946.
(Credit: Archive Photos/Getty Images)
And yet von Braun’s career after World War II is worth considering. Following the collapse of the Third Reich, the engineer was recruited to be part of Operation Paperclip, a clandestine U.S. military program that spared 1,600 Nazi scientists prosecution for war crimes, moving them instead into the American military, where their past was whitewashed to the public.
By 1952, von Braun had reinvented himself as a space-flight advocate, writing a piece that year in Collier’s magazine declaring that “within the next 10 or 15 years, the earth will have a new companion in the skies, a man-made satellite that could be either the greatest force for peace ever devised, or one of the most terrible weapons of war—depending on who makes and controls it.” His prediction proved overly conservative: The Soviets launched Sputnik 1 only five years later. Von Braun helped the U.S. Army launch Explorer 1 shortly thereafter. By 1960 he was with NASA, where he became the chief architect on Saturn V—the rocket that sent Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew to the moon.
As von Braun recast himself as an American patriot, his career in the Nazi party shadowed him, an ambiguous secret that reporters would playfully poke at. At one press conference before one Apollo launch, a reporter asked von Braun to assure the press that the rocket wouldn’t hit London. But they could never prove his involvement, and it was only in 1985—several years after von Braun’s death—that CNN broke news of the full extent of the aerospace engineer’s Nazi past, more than 40 years after the fact.
Veronico hopes the foo-fighter narrative will follow a similar trajectory.
“The fantasy is that 100 years after the war, the U.S. or Soviets will release information about what they captured, and it’ll blow all our minds. But I think they would’ve capitalized on it by this point,” the historian says. “Or weaponized it.”
If you’ve got loads of experience in top secret missions and an affinity for UFOs, then a job opportunity has arrived that may be impossible to pass up.
'Janet Airlines,' the unofficial name of the classified fleet for the U.S. Air Force, is looking for a pilot to join their secretive ranks at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
Inconspicuous: Janet planes are painted white with a horizontal red band along the side, and reportedly transport military employees and contractors to restricted sites, including Area 51. (AP)
The planes, which don’t carry any company logos and are painted white with a horizontal red band along the side, transport military and contract employees to restricted sites, including the infamous Area 51 and the TonoPah Test Range in Nevada.
They are referred to as ‘Janet’ because that is the call sign they use while flying over civilian airspace — it's believed to stand for “Just Another Non-Existent Terminal."
A job opening has been posted on the website of private defense contractor AECOM for a First Officer based in Vegas. Although it doesn’t go into specifics about where they will be flying, the demands for those applying are high.
The posting calls for the applicants to "have a minimum of 3,000 fixed wing flying hours in-seat with 300 in-seat hours within the last 5 years." The advert also says applicants “must qualify for and maintain a TS government security clearance and associated work location access."
In January, AECOM also posted a job opportunity for flight attendants.
Founded in 1972, the ‘Janet’ fleet as of 2015 consisted of six Boeing 737-600s, as well as five smaller executive turboprops, according to Jalopnik.
The CIA only acknowledged the existence of Area 51 back in 2013 thanks to declassified documents.
George Washington University's National Security Archive obtained a CIA history of the U-2 spy plane program through a public records request and released it five years ago.
The Bermuda Triangle! Biggest Mysterious Place on Earth
The Bermuda Triangle! Biggest Mysterious Place on Earth
Bermuda Triangle
Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings. Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors.The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely-defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Most reputable sources dismiss the idea that there is any mystery. The vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle is amongst the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world, with ships frequently crossing through it for ports in the Americas, Europe and the Caribbean islands. Cruise ships and pleasure craft regularly sail through the region, and commercial and private aircraft routinely fly over it.
Triangle area
In 1964, Vincent Gaddis wrote in the pulp magazine Argosy of the boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle, giving its vertices as Miami; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Bermuda. Subsequent writers did not necessarily follow this definition. Some writers gave different boundaries and vertices to the triangle, with the total area varying from 1,300,000 to 3,900,000 km2 (500,000 to 1,510,000 sq mi). "Indeed, some writers even stretch it as far as the Irish coast." Consequently, the determination of which accidents occurred inside the triangle depends on which writer reported them.
Origins
The earliest suggestion of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 17, 1950, article published in The Miami Herald (Associated Press) by Edward Van Winkle Jones. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door", a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five US Navy Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers on a training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place. Flight 19 alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of American Legion magazine. In it, author Allan W. Eckert wrote that the flight leader had been heard saying, "We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white." He also wrote that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to Mars." Sand's article was the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident. In the February 1964 issue of Argosy, Vincent Gaddis' article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" argued that Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region.[1] The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book, Invisible Horizons.
Others would follow with their own works, elaborating on Gaddis' ideas: John Wallace Spencer (Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973); Charles Berlitz (The Bermuda Triangle, 1974); Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle, 1974), and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.
Criticism of the concept
Larry Kusche
Lawrence David Kusche, author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved (1975) argued that many claims of Gaddis and subsequent writers were often exaggerated, dubious or unverifiable. Kusche's research revealed a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz's accounts and statements from eyewitnesses, participants, and others involved in the initial incidents. Kusche noted cases where pertinent information went unreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, which Berlitz had presented as a mystery, despite clear evidence to the contrary. Another example was the ore-carrier recounted by Berlitz as lost without trace three days out of an Atlanticport when it had been lost three days out of a port with the same name in the Pacific Ocean. Kusche also argued that a large percentage of the incidents that sparked allegations of the Triangle's mysterious influence actually occurred well outside it. Often his research was simple: he would review period newspapers of the dates of reported incidents and find reports on possibly relevant events like unusual weather, that were never mentioned in the disappearance stories.
Kusche concluded that:
The number of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than in any other part of the ocean.
In an area frequented by tropical cyclones, the number of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part, neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious.
Furthermore, Berlitz and other writers would often fail to mention such storms or even represent the disappearance as having happened in calm conditions when meteorological records clearly contradict this.
The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat's disappearance, for example, would be reported, but its eventual (if belated) return to port may not have been.
Some disappearances had, in fact, never happened. One plane crash was said to have taken place in 1937, off Daytona Beach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses; a check of the local papers revealed nothing.
The legend of the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery, perpetuated by writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism.
In a 2013 study, the World Wide Fund for Nature identified the world's 10 most dangerous waters for shipping, but the Bermuda Triangle was not among them.
Further responses
When the UK Channel 4 television program The Bermuda Triangle (1992) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area. Lloyd's determined that large numbers of ships had not sunk there.Lloyd's does not charge higher rates for passing through this area. United States Coast Guard records confirm their conclusion. In fact, the number of supposed disappearances is relatively insignificant considering the number of ships and aircraft that pass through on a regular basis.
The Coast Guard is also officially skeptical of the Triangle, noting that they collect and publish, through their inquiries, much documentation contradicting many of the incidents written about by the Triangle authors. In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker V. A. Fogg, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup. In addition, V. A. Fogg sank off the coast of Texas, nowhere near the commonly accepted boundaries of the Triangle.
The NOVA/Horizon episode The Case of the Bermuda Triangle, aired on June 27, 1976, was highly critical, stating that "When we've gone back to the original sources or the people involved, the mystery evaporates. Science does not have to answer questions about the Triangle because those questions are not valid in the first place ... Ships and planes behave in the Triangle the same way they behave everywhere else in the world."
Skeptical researchers, such as Ernest Taves and Barry Singer, have noted how mysteries and the paranormal are very popular and profitable. This has led to the production of vast amounts of material on topics such as the Bermuda Triangle. They were able to show that some of the pro-paranormal material is often misleading or inaccurate, but its producers continue to market it. Accordingly, they have claimed that the market is biased in favor of books, TV specials, and other media that support the Triangle mystery, and against well-researched material if it espouses a skeptical viewpoint.
Explanation attempts
Persons accepting the Bermuda Triangle as a real phenomenon have offered a number of explanatory approaches.
Paranormal explanations
Triangle writers have used a number of supernatural concepts to explain the events. One explanation pins the blame on leftover technology from the mythical lost continent of Atlantis. Sometimes connected to the Atlantis story is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is in the Triangle by some definitions. Followers of the purported psychic Edgar Cayce take his prediction that evidence of Atlantis would be found in 1968, as referring to the discovery of the Bimini Road. Believers describe the formation as a road, wall, or other structure, but the Bimini Road is of natural origin.
Other writers attribute the events to UFOs. This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees.
Charles Berlitz, author of various books on anomalous phenomena, lists several theories attributing the losses in the Triangle to anomalous or unexplained forces.
A paranormal explanation in the 2005 three-part US-British-German science fiction miniseries The Triangle, says the triangle is a wormhole.
Natural explanations
Compass variations
Compass problems are one of the cited phrases in many Triangle incidents. While some have theorized that unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in the area, such anomalies have not been found. Compasses have natural magnetic variations in relation to the magnetic poles, a fact which navigators have known for centuries. Magnetic (compass) north and geographic (true) north are exactly the same only for a small number of places – for example, as of 2000, in the United States, only those places on a line running from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico. But the public may not be as informed, and think there is something mysterious about a compass "changing" across an area as large as the Triangle, which it naturally will.
Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is a major surface current, primarily driven by thermohaline circulation that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and then flows through the Straits of Florida into the North Atlantic. In essence, it is a river within an ocean, and, like a river, it can and does carry floating objects. It has a maximum surface velocity of about 2 m/s (6.6 ft/s). A small plane making a water landing or a boat having engine trouble can be carried away from its reported position by the current.Gulf Stream
Human error
One of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to the loss of any aircraft or vessel is human error. Human stubbornness may have caused businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailing yacht, Revonoc, as he sailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958.
Violent weather
Hurricanes are powerful storms that form in tropical waters and have historically cost thousands of lives and caused billions of dollars in damage. The sinking of Francisco de Bobadilla's Spanish fleet in 1502 was the first recorded instance of a destructive hurricane. These storms have in the past caused a number of incidents related to the Triangle.
A powerful downdraft of cold air was suspected to be a cause in the sinking of Pride of Baltimore on May 14, 1986. The crew of the sunken vessel noted the wind suddenly shifted and increased velocity from 32 km/h (20 mph) to 97–145 km/h (60–90 mph). A National Hurricane Center satellite specialist, James Lushine, stated "during very unstable weather conditions the downburst of cold air from aloft can hit the surface like a bomb, exploding outward like a giant squall line of wind and water."[31] A similar event occurred to Concordiain 2010, off the coast of Brazil. Scientists are currently investigating whether "hexagonal" clouds may be the source of these up-to-170 mph (270 km/h) "air bombs".
In August 2018, British scientists speculated that 100 feet (30 m) "rogue" waves could be the reason why so many boats have been sunk in the Bermuda Triangle.
Methane hydrates
Publications by the USGS describe large stores of undersea hydrates worldwide, including the Blake Ridge area, off the coast of the southeastern United States. However, according to the USGS, no large releases of gas hydrates are believed to have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle for the past 15,000 years.An explanation for some of the disappearances has focused on the presence of large fields of methane hydrates (a form of natural gas) on the continental shelves. Laboratory experiments carried out in Australia have proven that bubbles can, indeed, sink a scale model ship by decreasing the density of the water; any wreckage consequently rising to the surface would be rapidly dispersed by the Gulf Stream. It has been hypothesized that periodic methane eruptions (sometimes called "mud volcanoes") may produce regions of frothy water that are no longer capable of providing adequate buoyancy for ships. If this were the case, such an area forming around a ship could cause it to sink very rapidly and without warning.
Notable incidents
Ellen Austin
Ellen Austin supposedly came across a derelict ship, placed on board a prize crew, and attempted to sail with it to New York in 1881. According to the stories, the derelict disappeared; others elaborating further that the derelict reappeared minus the prize crew, then disappeared again with a second prize crew on board. A check from Lloyd's of London records proved the existence of Meta, built in 1854, and that in 1880, Meta was renamed Ellen Austin. There are no casualty listings for this vessel, or any vessel at that time, that would suggest a large number of missing men were placed on board a derelict that later disappeared.
USS Cyclops
The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when the collier Cyclops, carrying a full load of manganese ore and with one engine out of action, went missing without a trace with a crew of 309 sometime after March 4, 1918, after departing the island of Barbados. Although there is no strong evidence for any single theory, many independent theories exist, some blaming storms, some capsizing, and some suggesting that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss. In addition, two of Cyclops's sister ships, Proteus and Nereus were subsequently lost in the North Atlantic during World War II. Both ships were transporting heavy loads of metallic ore similar to that which was loaded on Cyclops during her fatal voyage. In all three cases structural failure due to overloading with a much denser cargo than designed is considered the most likely cause of sinking.
Carroll A. Deering
Flight 19A five-masted schooner built in 1919, Carroll A. Deering was found hard aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on January 31, 1921. Rumors and more at the time indicated Deering was a victim of piracy, possibly connected with the illegal rum-running trade during Prohibition, and possibly involving another ship, Hewitt, which disappeared at roughly the same time. Just hours later, an unknown steamer sailed near the lightship along the track of Deering, and ignored all signals from the lightship. It is speculated that Hewitt may have been this mystery ship, and possibly involved in Deering's crew disappearance.
U.S. Navy Avengers
One of the search and rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a PBM Mariner with a 13-man crew, also disappeared. A tanker off the coast of Florida reported seeing an explosion[43] and observing a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for survivors. The weather was becoming stormy by the end of the incident. According to contemporaneous sources the Mariner had a history of explosions due to vapour leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as it might have been for a potentially long search-and-rescue operation.Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on December 5, 1945, while over the Atlantic. The squadron's flight plan was scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale for 141 mi (227 km), north for 73 mi (117 km), and then back over a final 140-mile (230-kilometre) leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returned to base. The disappearance is attributed by Navy investigators to navigational error leading to the aircraft running out of fuel.
Star Tiger and Star Ariel
G-AHNP Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948, on a flight from the Azores to Bermuda; G-AGRE Star Ariel disappeared on January 17, 1949, on a flight from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica. Both were Avro Tudor IV passenger aircraft operated by British South American Airways. Both planes were operating at the very limits of their range and the slightest error or fault in the equipment could keep them from reaching the small island.
There's a growing interest in the phenomenon of shadow people. What are they? Ghosts? Interdimensional beings? Time travelers? Something else?"What was that?" You were reading, sitting comfortably on your sofa in the dim light when some movement across the room caught your attention. It seemed dark and shadowy, but there was nothing there. You returned to your reading -- and a moment later there it was again. You looked up quickly this time and saw the fleeting but distinctly human shape of the shadow pass quickly over the far wall -- and disappear.
Was it a natural shadow? Your heightened imagination? Or a ghost? Maybe it was something that seems to be a spreading phenomenon -- apparitions that are coming to be known as "shadow people" or "shadow beings." Perhaps this is an old phenomenon with a new name that is now being discussed more openly, in part thanks to the Internet. Or maybe it's a phenomenon that, for some reason, is manifesting with greater frequency and intensity now.
Those who are experiencing and studying the shadow people phenomenon say that these entities almost always used to be seen out of the corner of the eye and very briefly. But more and more, people are beginning to see them straight on and for longer periods of time. Some experiencers testify that they have even seen eyes, usually red, on these shadow beings.
The mysterious sightings have become a hot topic of conversion in paranormal chat rooms, message boards, and websites, and it is given widespread attention on paranormal talk radio.
Several theories have been offered as to what shadow people are, and where they come from.
1. A Figment of the Imagination
The explanation we get from skeptics and mainstream science -- and who are usually people who have never experienced the shadow people phenomenon -- is that it is nothing more than the active human imagination. It's our minds playing tricks on us, our eyes seeing things in a fraction of a second that isn't really there -- illusions. Real shadows caused by passing auto headlights, or some similar explanation. And without a doubt, these explanations probably can account for some if not many experiences. The human eye and mind are easily fooled. But can they account for all cases?
2. Ghosts
To call these entities ghosts demands first a definition of what we mean by ghosts. But by almost any definition, shadow people are somewhat different than ghost phenomena. Whereas ghost apparitions are almost always a misty white, vapor-like or have a decidedly human form and appearance (very often with discernible "clothing"), shadow beings are much darker and more shadow-like. In general, although the shadow people often do have a human outline or shape, because they are dark, the details of their appearance is lacking. This is in contrast to many ghost sightings in which the witness can describe the ghost's facial features, style of clothing and other details. The one detail most often noted in some shadow being sightings are their glowing red eyes.
3. Demons or Other Spirit Entities
The dark countenance and malevolent feelings that are often reported in association with these creatures have led some researchers to speculate that they may be demonic in nature. If they are demons, we have to wonder what their purpose or intent is in letting themselves be seen in this manner. Is it merely to frighten?
4. Astral Bodies
One theory suggests that shadow people are the shadows or essences of people who are having out-of-body experiences. According to Jerry Gross, an author, lecturer, and teacher of astral travel, we all travel out of the body when we are asleep. Perhaps, this theory says, we are seeing the ephemeral astral bodies of these twilight travelers.
5. Time Travelers
Another theory is that people from the future could have found the means to travel to the past -- our time. However they are able to accomplish this incredible feat, perhaps in that state, they appear to us merely as passing shadows as they observe the events of our timeline.
6. Interdimensional Beings
Even mainstream science is fairly convinced that there are dimensions other than the three we inhabit. And if these other dimensions exist, who or what (if anything) inhabits them? Some theorists say that these dimensions exist parallel and very close to our own, although invisible to us. And if there are inhabitants in these other dimensions, it is possible that they have found a way to intrude on our dimension and become, at least partially, visible? If so, they could very well appear as shadows. It has long been held by psychics and other sensitives that beings on other planes of existence are of different "vibrations." Science is beginning to look at reality, on a quantum level, in the same way -- that particles of the smallest size exist as vibrations. Perhaps, some theorize, the vibrations of our existence are beginning to mesh with those of another dimension, which accounts for the increase in such phenomena as ghosts, shadow people and possibly aliens.
7. Aliens
The alien and abduction phenomena are so bizarre that it's no surprise that extraterrestrials are suspects as the shadow people. Abductees have reported in many cases that the alien grays seem to be able to pass through walls and closed windows and to appear and disappear abruptly, among other otherworldly talents. Perhaps, too, they can go about their alien agenda disguised in the shadows.
There's a good deal of overlapping among the above ideas, of course. Aliens and ghosts could be interdimensional beings, or aliens could be time travelers -- and some believe demons are responsible for all of these disturbing phenomena.
8. Simply a Mystery
There is no way to prove or disprove any theories about a phenomenon that is so mysterious, that happens so quickly and without warning. Science finds it virtually impossible to catalog or study such phenomena in any methodical way. All we can do, at present, is to document personal experiences and try to piece together what the shadow people phenomenon might be. Perhaps it's an old mystery becoming more recognizable -- perhaps it represents a doorway to and from different planes of existence... or perhaps they simply are just shadows.
Stealth Fighter Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk in China?
Stealth Fighter Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk in China?
This military analyst notices a this familiar military jet plane in the middle of a Chinese city. The question is, is the plane real one stolen or just a model to test it ?
What the Sh*t is that!? UFO flying over Charles de Gaulles airport in Paris
What the Sh*t is that!? UFO flying over Charles de Gaulles airport in Paris
On the 11th of August a weird UFO was filmed near the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. The object did not make any noise, it flew between the clouds and performed several barrel rolls. At a certain point in the video, the object almost looks like something alive, a living creature.
Phytoplankton Is Affecting Earth's Climate in the Ocean's 'Twilight Zone'
Phytoplankton Is Affecting Earth's Climate in the Ocean's 'Twilight Zone'
By Chelsea Gohd, Space.com Staff Writer
NASA scientists are venturing into the ocean's "twilight zone" to explore how phytoplankton are affecting Earth's climate.
Phytoplankton are microscopic organisms that reside near the ocean's surface, where they soak up the sunshine. Mostly single-celled creatures, the phytoplankton play a supporting role in Earth's climate by taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis. But, while scientists understand how these creatures capture carbon, they do not know where the carbon event
ually ends up (and how long it stays there) when the phytoplankton get eaten by animals like zooplankton or die.
Phytoplankton blooms are seen in this image taken by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite. Phytoplankton influence Earth's climate, and researchers are working to figure out exactly how.
Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory
"The continued exploration of the ocean, its ecosystems and their controls on the carbon cycle as observed with advanced technologies by EXPORTS will provide unprecedented views of Earth's unseen world," Paula Bontempi, an EXPORTS program scientist at NASA Headquarters, in Washington, D.C., said in the statement.
This "unseen world," known as the twilight zone, lies 650 feet to 3,300 feet (200 meters to 1,000 meters) below the ocean's surface, where there is little to no light. This dim region is home to a wide variety of species, including zooplankton. Some species of zooplankton — which, depending on the species, can be microscopic like phytoplankton or large enough to be seen with the naked eye — live in this twilight zone but rise to the surface to feed on phytoplankton.
These creatures make a mass migration to the surface and return to the twilight zone at sunrise, according to the statement. So, the organic carbon that the phytoplankton take in is then "transferred," so to speak, to the larger zooplankton, which are then often eaten by larger animals.
Some of the organic carbon that travels from the phytoplankton to the zooplankton to larger animals re-enters the atmosphere through respiration — zooplankton, like all animals, breathe out carbon dioxide — and when those animals die and decompose, according to the statement. But some of this organic carbon, coming from feces or decomposed bodies, sinks down to the twilight zone.
The EXPORTS team is working to better understand this twilight-zone carbon, and how it may be contributing, ultimately, to Earth's climate.
"It's a tiny fraction, a fraction of a percent of biomass that makes it deeper down in the ocean where the water stays away from the atmosphere for a long time, from decades to thousands of years," Heidi Sosik, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and a member of the EXPORTS team, said in the statement. "We have pretty good information that tells us these processes are happening, but we have much less information to help us to quantitatively assess their impact on things like carbon cycling and, ultimately, Earth's climate."
Grâce à Google Earth, des internautes pensent avoir découvert une piste d’atterrissage secrète réservée aux vaisseaux extraterrestres. Repérée au beau milieu du désert de Gobi, dans le nord de la Chine, cette base secrète génère les théories les plus folles chez les internautes.
« Les théoriciens du complot Blake et Brett Cousins ont fait cette découverte en utilisant le logiciel de cartographie »rapportent nos confrères du DailyStar. Comme vous vous en doutez, ils n’ont pas tardé à partager leur « trouvaille » sur leur chaîne Youtube, dédiée à leurs farfelues théories.
Google Earth : une base secrète dans le désert de Gobi affole les internautes
« Nous n’avons toujours pas d’explications à l’utilité de cet endroit » expliquent-ils dans la description de la vidéo. « Cela pourrait être une piste d’atterrissage pour les extraterrestres !!? » imaginent les deux internautes. La piste est couverte de symboles géométriques. Les complotistes attribuent évidemment les tracés de cette piste à la présence d’extraterrestres.
« Cette base semble ne jamais avoir été utilisée et c’est au milieu du désert »s’interroge la chaîne Youtube. « Je pense que nous venons de découvrir, pour la première fois, une sorte de programme spatial secret caché dans le désert de Gobi au milieu d’un aéroport abandonné » conclut le théoricien.
Suite à la mise en ligne de cette vidéo, vue plus de 140 000 fois, les commentaires se sont multipliés sur Youtube. Si certains adhèrent aux propos de la chaîne, d’autres émettent des théories plus crédibles. « On dirait plutôt un outil d’étalonnage pour les nouveaux satellites ou les équipements de radar orbital » tempère un commentaire. Un autre internaute assure plutôt qu’il s’agit plutôt « d’une zone test pour les avions de reconnaissance, leurs caméras et l’équipement de ciblage ».
D’après les précédentes images satellites capturées par Google Earth, 4 appareils au moins se sont posés sur cette piste au cours des 13 dernières années, assurent nos confrères du DailyStar. Il ne s’agit donc pas vraiment d’une zone abandonnée comme le prétend la vidéo. Pour plus de mystères, découvrez les 10 lieux les plus insolites découverts sur Google Earth.
Meteorite Bombardment Likely Created the Oldest Rocks on Earth
Meteorite Bombardment Likely Created the Oldest Rocks on Earth
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
An artist's depiction of the Late Heavy Bombardment period of Earth's early history, about 4 billion years ago.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
Scientists think rocks from space may be responsible for the very oldest rocks on Earth.
That's according to new research published today (Aug. 13), which argues that meteorite bombardment is the most likely way to explain the temperature and pressure conditions under which 4.02-billion-year-old Canadian rocks formed.
"We believe that these rocks may be the only surviving remnants of a barrage of extraterrestrial impacts which characterized the first 600 million years of Earth's history," lead study author Tim Johnson, a geologist at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, said in a statement released by the hosts of the Goldschmidt conference being held Aug. 12 through 17 in Boston, where the research is being presented.
The team of researchers studied a type of rock called Idiwhaa gneiss, which is more than 4 billion years old, found in northwest Canada and the oldest large swath of rock on Earth. Although scientists have identified some grains of even older rocks, those grains are so tiny they're practically microscopic.
Specifically, the team looked at the chemical composition of those rocks and modeled what conditions rocks with that recipe could have formed under. The magic combination seemed to be temperatures of up to 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit (900 degrees Celsius) partnered with low pressures.
That's a tricky combination to find under normal circumstances, the researchers said. Usually, hotter temperatures require traveling deeper into the earth, but pressures there are higher. The team found, however, that meteorites could solve that conundrum.
That's because when meteorites were common, in the early days of Earth, the impacts could have raised temperatures enough to melt rocks in the very top of the crust — just the first 1.8 miles (3 kilometers) or so ― without the rocks experiencing high pressures.
Most of the rocks produced during that time have fallen back into the Earth's interior through plate tectonics, melting away its identifiable characteristics. But the Idiwhaa rocks remain, where they were named by the local Tlicho people long before scientists came to analyze them.
The research is described in a paper published today in the journal Nature Geoscience.
A Fireball and a Wall of Sound: What NASA's Epic Solar Probe Launch Felt Like
A Fireball and a Wall of Sound: What NASA's Epic Solar Probe Launch Felt Like
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Parker Solar Probe: from factory to flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was a pretty good morning to be looking up.
Mars hung low over my shoulder, close and bright and fiery, as I stood on a causeway across the Banana River Sunday (Aug. 12) here at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. A slight breeze kept the mosquitoes away, and Perseid meteors popped up every now and again, carving brief and slender slivers of light into the predawn sky.
And then, at 3:31 a.m. EDT (0731 GMT), that dark sky lit up in a flash of brilliant orange as a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, one of the most powerful boosters flying today, lifted off the pad. [Launch Photos! NASA's Parker Solar Probe Blasts Off to Touch the Sun]
That flash was silent at first, like the view of a faraway nuclear blast. But about 30 seconds in, a wave of vibrations spawned by the rocket's massive engines washed over the causeway. Those vibrations drowned out the insect-like clicks of camera shutters and the frantic splashing of predator-evading Banana River fish in a monumental wall of noise.
The Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Parker Solar Probe carves a fiery trail into the predawn sky in this long-exposure photograph taken on Aug. 12, 2018.
"I'm in awe," Thomas Zurbuchen, the head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, told reporters shortly after the successful liftoff. "It was a really clean launch."
There was one slight hiccup, however: The mission team lost telemetry about 40 minutes into flight, right around the time when the Parker Solar Probe was scheduled to separate from its rocket ride and start flying solo. But the connection was quickly re-established, eliciting raucous cheers from the folks in launch control (and from those of us at the press site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, which is also here at Cape Canaveral).
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe on Aug. 12, 2018, from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
If all goes according to plan, the Parker Solar Probe will fly through the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, 24 times over the next seven years. The spacecraft will get within 3.83 million miles (6.16 million kilometers) of the solar surface, zooming through space at up to 430,000 mph (690,000 km/h) during these close flybys.
Both of those figures will shatter spaceflight records: No other spacecraft has ever gotten closer to the sun than 27 million miles (43 million km) or traveled faster than 165,000 mph (265,000 km/h).
The data gathered by the Parker Solar Probe during these close encounters should help scientists solve some long-standing solar mysteries, NASA officials have said — for example, why the corona is so much hotter than the solar surface, and how the particles that make up the solar wind are accelerated to their tremendous speeds. (These subatomic bits are moving between 900,000 mph and 1.8 million mph, or 1.45 million and 2.9 million km/h, by the time they reach Earth.)
NASA's Parker Solar Probe blasts off on epic journey to 'touch the Sun'
Those data will start arriving in early November, when the probe makes its first solar close approach. (However, an orbit-sculpting flyby of Venus in late September should yield interesting information about the second planet from the sun.)
That moment can't come soon enough for the mission's namesake, pioneering astrophysicist Eugene Parker, who predicted the existence of the solar wind back in 1958.
The 91-year-old Parker — a professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, and the first living person to have a NASA mission named after him — came down to Cape Canaveral for Sunday's launch. Zurbuchen spoke with Parker shortly after liftoff.
Parker was deeply moved by the launch but "immediately switched to the next step, which is, 'I can't wait for the data — when are the data coming in?'" Zurbuchen said with a laugh. "It's like, 'OK, I'll send them to you, Gene. The moment we learn something new, I'll send it to you.' But it's going to be a while."
My previous article here at MU was titled “Roswell, UFOs, and ‘Worrisome’ Words.” It started as follows. QUOTE: “Kevin Randle has a new article online right now. Its title is ‘The Decline of Roswell.’ It’s on the matter of who, within the U.S. military, should have been briefed on what happened outside of Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947, if indeed a UFO had crashed there. Kevin states that the late ufologist Karl Pflock discovered a ‘…document that reported on the Scientific Advisory Board Conference held on March 17 – 18, 1948, in the Pentagon. Colonel Howard McCoy was discussing Project Sign, the number of reports they had received, suggesting that there was something important going on. He said, ‘I can’t tell you how much we would give to have one of those crash in an area so that we could recover whatever they are.’
“Given that Colonel McCoy was the intelligence-officer at the Air Materiel Command and to Wright Field, Ohio (the very place where, supposedly, dead aliens from the Roswell site were secretly taken), then he should have known about – and he should have been briefed on – the crash of a UFO. McCoy’s words, though, suggest he knew zero about a UFO crash –anywhere.”
END OF QUOTE.
There is a lively debate going on at Kevin’s blog right now, on this very issue. One of those who commented on Kevin’s words used the alias of “Starman.” He suggests that McCoy may have chosen to state there had not been a single UFO crash as a specific means to “kill” any and all lingering whispers of Roswell. To keep it all under wraps, in other words. The problem with Starman’s theory is this: when the 1940s-era documentation was prepared, there was not even a single thought that, one day, the same documentation would ever enter the public domain – and for one and all to see – and thanks to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. If McCoy’s words had been directed at the public or the media, then a good case could be made to the effect that words along the lines of “We have no crashed flying saucers” really weredesigned to crush any talk of Roswell. It would be a great way to bring the rumors of crashed UFOs to a halt. But, McCoy’s words weren’t directed to the public or the media. They were directed to McCoy’s fellow colleagues in the military; high-ranking people who would have clearly known about a crashed saucer; just like McCoy would have.
Indeed, as Kevin himself notes in his article on this very issue: “Here’s where we stand on this. The documentation that does exist, that came from identified government sources, signed by the men involved who we are able to vet, suggest that they know nothing of crash recovered debris. Being who they were and what their jobs were, they would have known [italics mine] and the discussion would take a different track.”
For those in the UFO research community who believe that aliens crashed outside of Roswell (and which, I would suggest, is an extremely sizeable percentage of that same community) this is a big problem. A massive one, in fact. The McCoy documentation makes a convincing argument that flying saucers had not crashed. Anywhere. If ufologists are willing to work with their heads, rather than with their hearts, they might just realize that something really significant did happen relatively near Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947. But, which had nothing to do with alien saucers.
Of course, if further damning documentation (whether concerning McCoy or one or more of his colleagues) appears, then we may see a welcome and refreshing eroding of the ET theory for Roswell and the growth of something arguably more disturbing. Namely, revelations concerning a controversial experiment of ours, and not an extraterrestrial incident. Should such a thing happen, I predict that Ufology will unravel quickly. Incredibly quickly. Shock will set in. The shakily-spoken words “it can’t be” will be uttered throughout Ufology. Urine will uncontrollably flow.
Then there are the spin-offs. If there are no crashed UFOs, then there are no dead aliens (whether at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, at Area 51, or at the Dugway Proving Ground). No back-engineering of UFO technology. No alien autopsies. In rapid time, all of these cornerstones of Ufology may quickly crumble. And to the point where they disintegrate.
Should all of that happen – and if Roswell collapses as a UFO event – I hope that Ufology will continue to realize there are still some genuinely baffling cases out there. And that, even without Roswell, there are good encounters to solve. But, taking into consideration just how much of a massive presence and influence Roswell has in this field, I honestly don’t think that Ufology – as it is today – can survive without the cursed case. That, however, is the collective fault of numerous ufologists, all eager to turn a genuine mystery into a tale of a crashed UFO – and championing that tale as often as possible.
UFO enthusiasts launch into frenzied speculation after video of motionless craft above North Carolina lake goes viral.... but is the truth a bit closer to home?
UFO enthusiasts launch into frenzied speculation after video of motionless craft above North Carolina lake goes viral.... but is the truth a bit closer to home?
An unidentified flying object was spotted hovering over Lake Norman, near Charlotte on May 29 and it was captured on video
Jason Swing recorded the object on camera calling it a 'space craft'
Video is shaky but it has some UFO enthusiasts excited he caught it on camera
Meanwhile some conspiracy theorists believe it is an Advanced Military Aircraft
The video has garnered over 150,000 views with people speculating what it is
However the answer to the mystery of the hovering object may be more pedestrian than it seems at first glance
A video of an object hoovering eerily over North Carolina's Lake Norman has UFO enthusiasts eager to deduce we are being visited by extraterrestrial beings, but perhaps there is a more grounded explanation.
The footage recorded by Jason Swing on May 29, is extremely shaky but when the video isn't bouncing up and down it shows, clear as day, a large object that appears to be hovering in mid-air.
During the short clip Swing posted to YouTube he announces 'This is a spacecraft.' The clip is accompanied with a brief explainer of the video.
'It had been raining all morning. Rain finally stopped so we went (to) pick up a boat from Lake Norman,' Swing says in a post with the video. 'When (I) came around the corner I saw this thing sitting still very close.'
'This is a spacecraft': Jason Swing announces at the beginning of the eerie video shows a large object that appears to hover over Lake Norman in North Carolina
The video has garnered over 150,000 views and then it received an additional boost in viewers when on Thursday the YouTube video channel 'The Hidden Underbelly 2.0,' a site focused on UFO and creature videos picked it up.
While some people were excited about the possibility of the large object being a UFO, others wondered if the government was behind the large flying object.
On commenter on The Hidden Underbelly 2.0 channel said: 'I believe there are advanced Military Aircraft, in our skies. It's amazing people don't know how to use the video, and focus on their camera's. They are pre programming the masses, EVERYTHING lately is about Aliens and UFO's.'
They added 'Anytime, MSM, TV shows, Movies, all of a sudden exposing the "ALIENS from a Planet in Outer Space Invasion" False Flag Alert! I have popcorn ready for this Grand Deception!'
Others were gravely disappointed in Swing's shoddy camerawork, with on person saying, 'I know three year olds that have a steadier hand. Unwatchable.'
Swing (pictured) took the video, which some people were pretty upset turned out as shaky as it did, however he did seem pretty excited about the prospect that this could be a spacecraft
UFO? Some people commented that perhaps this isn't a UFO and its instead an Advance Military Aircraft
And yet others were more realistic with their guess as to what this flying object could be, with some people, likely accurately guessing, it was the GoodYear Blimp.
GoodYear saw the video, and claims, as much as some wish it were a UFO, that the object seen in the shaky footage, is there blimp that was in the the Charlotte area on May 29, for NASCAR's Coca Cola 600.
The GoodYear Blimp's account shared: 'We don’t want to get in the way of a good story, but that’s definitely us. We left the Charlotte area 5/29 after covering the Coke 600.'
North Carolina is also the home to multiple military bases, including Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base and Camp Lejeune Marine Corps facility.
Black holes, such as the one in galaxy NGC 3783 illustrated above, are some of nature’s most prodigious spewers of energy. Could that energy be enough to account for a long-standing mystery?
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Gaze up at the sky on a clear night, far from the city lights, and you might see the moon and some stars, a few planets and maybe even the fuzzy glow of the Milky Way. “In between, there seems to be nothing but emptiness and darkness,” says Xiawei Wang, an astronomy graduate student at Harvard University. “At least that was our view of the cosmos until 50 or so years ago when astronomers realized that space was not as empty as we once thought.”
In 1964, astronomers were surprised to discover a uniform sea of radiation coming from all directions, all the time. Later dubbed the cosmic microwave background (CMB), this low-energy light turned out to be the residual radiation from the Big Bang itself, cooled during its journey over the past 13.8 billion years. Studying the CMB has led to tremendous insights about the structure and composition of our universe, its exact age and even its shape.
In the decades since, astronomers have learned there’s much more to the unseen universe, finding background radiation at practically every wavelength observed. The highest frequency and most energetic background signals they’ve found are made up of a form of light called gamma rays, plus exotic particles called neutrinos and cosmic rays. And, unlike the CMB, the source of these emissions is still enigmatic. No one knows where they come from.
In three recent papers, Wang and her adviser, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, advanced a new idea that suggests not one source for this high-energy background, but literally billions.
It all comes down to a phenomenon called quasar outflows.
Initially discovered as unexplained signals picked up by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Laboratories (above), the cosmic microwave background (below) — the universe’s oldest light — is now mapped with incredible accuracy.
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NASA/WMAP Science Team
A Chorus of Quasars Quasars are among the most luminous objects in the universe. Each one greatly outshines the combined output of all the stars in their host galaxies. (For instance, in 2015 astronomers announced they’d found a quasar that shines some 400 trillion times brighter than our sun.)
All large galaxies have giant black holes at their centers, and a quasar forms when one actively starts feeding, pulling in matter like gas and dust. But this stuff doesn’t fall directly into the black hole — it circles around the abyss at ever-increasing speeds while spiraling inward. Eventually, the cosmic food becomes so hot (from friction) that it pours out light before some of it makes its way into the black hole. The object that generates this prodigious amount of light — the black hole and cloud of debris swirling around it — is a quasar.
But a black hole doesn’t eat everything in sight; its mouth is simply not big enough. Some of the surrounding material gets ejected in different ways. Ten percent of known quasars shoot out matter — at more than 99 percent of the speed of light — through a pair of spectacular jets.
Astronomers seeking a source for that exotic, high-energy radiation took a close look at these powerful jets. But observations showed they weren’t enough: All the universe’s quasar jets could account for only about half the gamma rays, and none of the neutrinos and cosmic rays.
The unexplained emissions, according to Wang and Loeb, may stem from a more subtle feature of every quasar: their milder but steadier outflows. What a black hole doesn’t eat, or shoot away in jets, it flings off at relatively moderate speeds — a few thousand miles per second, or about 1 percent the speed of light. After interacting with the local gas, these outflows can ultimately produce small amounts of all three components of the high-energy background: gamma rays, neutrinos and cosmic rays.
Individual outflows don’t release enough energy for us to notice, which is why no one really considered them before — but a big enough number of them would add up. And in Wang and Loeb’s scenario, the process is taking place at every quasar in the universe. A little energy times a lot of sources could, in theory, produce all that mysterious energy.
Running the Numbers Wang and Loeb set out to see if the numbers backed up their premise. In 2015, they started by focusing on gamma rays. Step one was trying to determine the tiny amount coming from each source. It wasn’t easy. They had to approach the problem theoretically because the emissions from an individual quasar are actually too weak for direct measurements. Drawing upon emissions in other wavelengths that they could observe for guidance, Wang and Loeb eventually came up with an estimate.
The next step was to factor in contributions from the billions of quasars in our universe to figure out the total gamma-ray signal from all quasar outflows. This calculation was also complex, incorporating estimates of the total number of quasars, their general distribution in the sky and the range in observed brightness. (Brighter quasars emit more gamma rays.) In the end, the total value Wang and Loeb arrived at, miraculously, was about half the gamma-ray background signal — perhaps comprising the “missing” half quasar jets could not explain.
Encouraged, they repeated this exercise in late 2016 and early 2017 for neutrinos, and then cosmic rays. In both cases, their tallied sums closely matched experimentally obtained values for the neutrino and cosmic-ray backgrounds. The numbers could work, suggesting they might have found the answer to the high-energy background problem.
An active black hole lies at the center of galaxy Centaurus A.An active black hole lies at the center of galaxy Centaurus A.
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The Full Score Unfortunately, the idea remains hypothetical until astronomers can get direct measurements of all three forms of radiation coming from a single quasar outflow. Luckily, more sensitive instruments for detecting gamma rays, neutrinos and cosmic rays are in the works.
If their quasar outflow idea is ultimately confirmed, it would do more than just clarify a long-standing astronomical puzzle. “It would be another step toward answering the question of what’s out there in the universe and where it comes from,” says Wang. “Sometimes, the answers to the biggest questions in science lie in small and subtle things. These less visible entities are often neglected, but in the aggregate, they can be brighter and more powerful.”
She compares the situation to a piano concerto. The piano is loud enough to drown out any of the dozens of individual string instruments in a full orchestra. But when you put all the strings together, their contribution is substantial. In the same way, the cumulative output of quasar outflows could make a difference on a cosmic scale.
So the next time you look at the night sky, “remember that what we see with the naked eye is a tiny, tiny fraction of the things happening in the cosmos,” says Wang. Appreciating the piano concerto of the universe involves learning to hear all the instruments, no matter how faint and unimportant they might seem.
In a new paper published in Nature Astronomy, Tom Nordheim from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and his colleagues put Jupiter’s moon Europaback on the front burner in the search for life beyond Earth.
They found that potential biosignatures such as amino acids might be preserved at high to mid-latitudes of Europa only a few centimeters below the moon’s icy surface. Even in the equatorial regions, where the radiation hazard is much more brutal, detectable levels of amino acids may still be recoverable at depths ofonly 10 centimeters—assuming the ice crust is not older than 10 million years.
On our own planet, of course, water ice is greatfor preservingbiological molecules. The problem on Europa is the huge amount of radiation that this moon receives from Jupiter. A lander mission would be challenging, as the spacecraft would have to be radiation-hardened.A human mission is completely out of the question.
But the astonishing results by Nordheim and colleagues, if validated by other research groups, open up new possibilities for exploration. Ifa spacecraft were to land in the right location on Europa, it would need only a heat source to melt the ice and a scooper to collect biologically interesting samples. No deep drilling would be necessary, which saves a lot of technology development and expense.
Ideally, a Europa landerwould search for biomolecules in regionsonthe moon’ssurface younger than the average age of 30 to 90 million years old(which is still comparatively young compared to other icy moons).A prime landing location would be thejumbled-up surface terraincalled the Chaos region, which is thought to be much younger than the average crust. A particularly good target would be the region from which transient water plumes have been detectedemanating from the moon’s surfacein the past. Here we would expect that water from the deeper Europanoceanis getting close to the moon’s surface.
The findings by Nordheim and his colleaguesshould swing Europa back tobeingthe top priority for astrobiology missions in the outer Solar System, surpassingSaturn’s moon Enceladus, which recently has received a lot of interest fromthe scientific community. Europa is the only body in our Solar System where not just microbial life, but conceivably also multicellularcomplex life, might be present—particularly if hydrothermal vent systems like the “black smokers”on Earth exist on the moon’s ocean floor. And perhaps we could find some of that Europan life, or more likely its traces, very close to the moon’s icy surface.
Mystery, murder and meditation meet aliens, federal agents and time travel in Calling All Earthlings. The documentary follows George Van Tassel, who mixed alien intelligence with the writings of inventor Nikola Tesla to come up with The Integratron, a time machine powered by electromagnetic energy. The documentary opens with a collage of witnesses testifying to strange lights, craft, and creatures with glowing red eyes, and then gets weird.
Tassel was far ahead of his time, both technologically and socially. He started a spiritual UFO cult which was stalked by busybodies worried about chants of love, peace and prosperity, while the FBI worked to infiltrate and influence the Integratron intelligentsia against their communistic ideas about free energy. Jack Parsons, the black magic rocket scientist who worked with the Great Beast Aleister Crowley and L. Ron Hubbard, explored free love as part of rocketry’s Suicide Club. But offering free energy proves more dangerous than a Babalon Working for Tassel.
Tassel was a former aircraft mechanic and inspector. He opened a small airport and cafe in the desert town of Landers, California, where some good smoke was being puffed, according to one of the locals interviewed. He set up shop next to a big rock considered sacred by Native Americans.
Tassel began the communication that led to the basic blueprints for the machine on August 24, 1953, when he was woken up by a man named Solganda who looked human and spoke English. The man from Venus gave Tassel plans for a dome that spins and creates a powerful electromagnetic field which promotes cellular rejuvenation allowing Van Tassel to grow old and wise enough to save humanity.
"Dedicated to Research in Life Extension,” the Integratron built as a “a time machine for basic research on rejuvenation, anti-gravity, and time travel.” The site in the Mojave Desert was chosen because of its proximity to magnetic vortices and its relationship to the Great Pyramids in Giza. The 21st century version of Moses’ Tabernacle is held down by a donut of cement that forms a small oculus at the apex of the dome. The structure is ringed by a rotating wheel of metal spikes. The two-story wooden building was metal-free. There were no nails or screws used because they could have interfered with the machine's conductive properties. He also inadvertently invented Ikea.
It took Tassel 18 years to build the dome about 20 miles north of Joshua Tree National Park. The work was paid for by covert payments from legendary recluse Howard Hughes, members of Van Tassel’s Ministry of Universal Wisdom, Inc., and revenue from an annual Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention.
Archival footage of Van Tassel shows a normal enough looking guy. He wears a tie, and lost a lot of hair for a man who has been rejuvenated. But it's when he goes into trance that he gets all Edgar Cayce, channeling love, harmony and good will from the cosmos. He became a follower of the Hindu Guru Paramahansa Yogananda, who started sending people on pilgrimages to help the man under the great rock.
Van Tassel channeled his messages during the beginnings of the Cold War, and the new-age movement. His story is ripe with paranoid mythology. Van Tassel died mysteriously in 1978 just before making a TV appearance. Ruled a natural death by heart attack, some think his wife, who cooked at the diner was a government agent who poisoned him. Van Tassel’s papers disappeared after he was cremated.
Jonathan Berman, previously directed Commune, about the 1960s commune Black Bear Ranch, says he's a skeptix who wants to believe in magic. The dome is a talisman to Berman. He doesn't explore what Van Tassel got from Tesla, he lets a medium channel Van Tassel's spirit. The experts who talk about the dome sound both impressed and a little off-kilter. Social scientists and futurists Dr. J.J. Hurtak and his wife Dr. Desiree Hurtak give running commentary, along with Bob Benson, who helped print Van Tassel’s the newsletter Proceedings. The score was recorded by guitarist Elliott Sharp, who slides his bottleneck while lounging on the desert rocks as part of the proceedings. Eric Burdon, former lead vocalist for the sixties British Invasion group The Animals. Burdon apparently spilled win and dug some girl in the Mohave Desert.
The FBI considered Van Tassel a "mental case,” according to declassified files used in the documentary, and scoffed at the belief that communication with extraterrestrials was possible. But the agency also wondered whether the annual Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention, which he hosted near a major military base for over 20 years his UFO conventions, was a commie front. Maybe because Van Tassel would have provided free sound baths to everyone.
These are the last words anyone ever heard Frederick Valentich say before his radio cut off and he, and the aircraft he was piloting, were never seen again.
On October 21, 1978, a 20-year-old Valentich rented a single engine plane out of Victoria’s Moorabbin Airport with plans of heading to Tasmania’s King Island to catch seafood.
But things took a terrifying turn when he noticed he was being followed by another aircraft.
It has been 40 years since the young Aussie pilot disappeared over the Bass Strait and in that time no one has come any closer to finding out what happened to him.
Frederick Valentich standing next to a plane similar to the one he disappeared in 40 years ago.Source:Supplied
The only clue left behind was a radio conversation between him and Melbourne Airflight Service Controller, Steve Robey.
It was 7pm when Valentich radioed in to ask if there were any known aircraft in the area, just after something zoomed overhead.
Robey informed him that there was “no known traffic” in the area and inquired as to what type of plane it was.
“I cannot affirm. It is four bright, it seems to me, like landing lights. The aircraft has just passed over me at least a thousand feet above,” Valentich said.
As the transmission went on things got even more unnerving, with Valentich reporting that the mystery aircraft was “playing” with him.
“It seems to me that he’s playing some sort of game,” he said.
“He’s flying over me two, three times, at a time at speeds I could not identify.”
Valentich told controllers he could not identify the object.Source:Supplied
The conversation continues with the controller trying to get more information about what the object actually is.
Valentich describes it as long, metallic and with a green light.
At one point the aircraft vanishes before suddenly reappearing on his other side.
It’s at this point that Valentich says his final, terrifying words: “It is hovering and it is not an aircraft.”
There is silence for 17 seconds before the transmission abruptly cuts off.
An extensive search was conducted of the water and any surrounding land but Valentich nor any indication of a crash site was ever found.
Photograph taken off Cape Otway 20 minutes before Valentich flew overhead.Source:News Limited
The incident gained worldwide attention and sparked many conspiracy theories, with the most popular being that Valentich was abducted by a UFO.
Others concluded that he faked his own death or was flying upside down and the lights he saw were actually his own reflecting on the water before he crashed.
After the story came out there were contradicting reports about why the inexperienced pilot was heading to the island.
He had told his father that he was heading out to catch crayfish but later told flight officials that he was picking up some friends.
But even more questions were raised about Valentich’s intentions when it was revealed that he had not informed King Island airport of his intention to land.
A plaque at the Otway lighthouse commemorating his disappearance.Source:Supplied
In a disturbing coincidence it was also discovered that Valentich was obsessed with UFO’s and had watched numerous movies and collected articles on the topic.
A week after he vanished the young pilot’s dad, Guido, told reporters that he was sure his son was still alive and was adamant that he had been taken by the UFO.
“All I am worried about is that he was released in a different area, very far away from where he was taken,” he told reporters.
All that remains now of Frederick Valentich’s infamous flight is a plaque at Otway lighthouse commemorating his strange disappearance.
In the early morning of July 20, 1952, Capt. S.C. “Casey” Pierman was ready for takeoff at Washington National Airport, when a bright light skimmed the horizon and disappeared. He did not think much of it until he was airborne, bound for Detroit, and an air traffic controller told him two or three unidentified flying objects were spotted on radar traveling at high speed.
The controller told Captain Pierman to follow them, the pilot told government investigators at the time. Captain Pierman agreed, and headed northwest over West Virginia where he saw as many as seven bluish-white lights that looked “like falling stars without tails,” according to a newspaper report.
The sighting of whatever-they-were garnered headlines around the world. And in the decades since, U.F.O.s have become part of the pop culture zeitgeist, from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” to “The X-Files.” In September, a star of that long-running series, Gillian Anderson, will appear in “UFO,” a movie about a college student haunted by sightings of flying saucers. A “Men in Black” remake is in the works. And the History Channel plans to air “Project Blue Book,” a scripted series about the government program that studied whether U.F.O.s were a national threat.
And the topic is back in the headlines. Last year, The Times wrote about a little known project founded in 2007, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, to investigate U.F.O. sightings. A search of The Times’s historical archives reveals a rich bounty of U.F.O. sightings, loreand explanations since the 1950s. And who can forget in 2016 when Hillary Clinton said she would reopen the real X-files if she were president?
Captain Pierman’s 68-year-old daughter, Faith McClory, said in an interview last month that her father became something of a celebrity as reports like his in the summer of 1952 fueled fear of a space alien invasion.
“My sister has memories of men coming to our home,” said Ms. McClory, who grew up in Belleville, Mich. (She said they were reporters.) “People were enthralled with the flying saucers,” she added.
Researchers say government officials have sought to publicly debunk the existence of alien evidence ever since the Washington sightings.
“Unidentified flying objects exploded into the public consciousness then,” said Mark Rodeghier, the scientific director for the Center for UFO Studies, a group of scientists and researchers who study the U.F.O. phenomenon. “There was concern in a way you hadn’t seen before.”
It should be noted that the term U.F.O., as used by the government, does not mean extraterrestrials from outer space. It means any object in the sky that has not been identified. When asked recently about the 1952 Washington sightings, Ann Stefanek, chief of media operations for the Air Force, wrote in an email that the objects had posed no threat to national security.
In the spring of 1952, though, numerous mysterious sightings had captured the Air Force’s attention. It created “Project Blue Book” that March — the third investigative government project of its kind and the one that lasted the longest, until 1969.
The events in Washington were not the first unexplained encounter report. Debris from what observers called a “flying disc” had been spotted in Roswell, N.M., five years earlier, which Army officials said was from a “weather balloon.” By 1952, though, a number of sightings of U.F.O.s were being reported across the country and the nation was on edge.
Life magazine was one of the first mainstream magazines to suggest the phenomenon was real and revealed in an April story that the Air Force was secretly investigating. That story inspired a sharp increase in reports of sightings that summer.
The Washington sightings centered on events that started around 11:40 p.m. on July 19, as air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport noticed blips speeding near Andrews Air Force Base, according to government accounts. The unidentified aircrafts fanned out, flying over the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Captain Pierman saw them that night. They vanished around 5 a.m.
It was a second sighting a week later, though, that caused the wave of hysteria that forced the government to speak out. Albert Chop, then a spokesman with the Pentagon who was given the job of answering questions about U.F.O.s, said he was awakened by a call on the evening of July 26.
Mr. Chop described the events in a1999 oral historyto the Sign Historical Group, an association of archivists and amateur researchers whoheld a workshopthat year to study U.F.O history. He said the new objects were spotted on radar at Washington National Airport and he was told to get there right away.
The Air Force dispatched jet fighters from New Castle, Del., to intercept the flying objects. But every time one of the jets closed in, they disappeared. When the jets backed off, they reappeared.
“It was frightening,” Mr. Chop said. “I think everybody in the room was very apprehensive.”
At one point, a pilot found himself in the midst of four unidentified aircrafts and asked what to do. “I didn’t say anything,” Mr. Chop told the interviewers. “Nobody said anything. All of a sudden these things began to move away from him and he said, ‘They’re gone!’” The pilot returned to his base.
“These things hung around all night long,” Mr. Chop added.
The next day, almost every major newspaper wrote about the U.F.O.s. “‘Objects’ Outstrip Jets Over Capital,” was the headline in The Times.
The Air Force held a press conference on July 29, 1952, to discuss the recent sightings of unidentified flying objects over Washington. Maj. Gen. John Samford, seated on the right, is who dismissed the sightings as “natural phenomena.”CreditBettmann, via Getty Images
“People didn’t know what to think of it,” said Rob Swiatek, a U.F.O. researcher and scientist, in a recent interview.“They were very disturbed.”
Public panic was a problem for the Air Force, which feared a diversion of resources during the Cold War. “The Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency became worried that the Soviet Union would take advantage of the situation and launch an attack on the United States,” Mr. Rodeghier said. “They were looking at worst-case scenarios.”
Worse, no one could explain the phenomenon to President Harry Truman, according to press reports. One theory promoted by the Air Force was that a layer of hot air in the sky, called a temperature inversion, caused radar to mistake a weather event for flying objects. “Nobody had any answers,” Mr. Chop told the interviewers. “That’s why General Samford had the press conference.”
On July 29, 1952, Maj. Gen. John Samford, the director of Air Force intelligence overseeing the inquiry, held a news conference at the Pentagon to reassure the public. He dismissed the Washington sightings as a temperature anomaly. Still, the general conceded that not all the details could be explained by natural causes. Witness reports “have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things,” he said at the time. “It is this group of observations that we now are attempting to resolve.”
After several sightings of unidentified flying objects in Washington in July 1952, government officials held a news conference, calling them “natural phenomena.” The press conference was front page news, including in The Times.
Case closed? Not quite.
“I don’t think temperature inversion had much to do with it, but the news media accepted that explanation at the time,” said Kevin Randle, a former lieutenant colonel in the Army who has studied the events of July 1952 and is the author of the 2001 book, “Invasion Washington: U.F.O.s Over the Capitol.”
In January 1953, spurred by the Washington sightings, a scientific committee led by Howard Robertson, a well-known mathematician and physicist, was formed by the government to explore the phenomenon. “One of the conclusions was that they needed to debunk U.F.O.s,” Mr. Randle said.
The committee, called the Robertson Panel, suggested in its report that the government conduct a mass media education campaign to “reduce the current gullibility of the public and consequently their susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda.”
The campaign to re-educate Americans did not work — U.F.O.s have persisted as a fixture in pop culture. Besides, the government’s explanation was not that convincing anyway. Ms. McClory, Captain Pierman’s daughter, said her father did not believe that the bluish-white lights he saw were weather-related.
“I don’t want to use the words ‘cover up,’” she said, of her father’s view. “But it was very clear. He saw it. Everything was seen on radar.”
The question has arisen as to whether Trump’s calling for a Space Force has anything to do with recent revelations that the Pentagon was conducting secret UFO studies. Those who believe there is a connection see signs that perhaps the Pentagon will reveal they have discovered a malevolent alien force and this Space Force will be our answer to combat them. However, digging into the details of the White House’s move to create the Space Force as a new branch of the military shows this idea has actually been debated for many years, and the enemies proponents of the plan are concerned with are human.
Ever since we sent up our first satellites, there has been a concern with how we will keep them safe. There is an international agreement not to weaponize space, but it can be argued the deal has been kept less out of respect for the agreement and more because no one has developed a weapon to put up there, as far as we know.
When Ronald Reagan was president, he proposed a network of space-based lasers to protect our satellites and to shoot down enemy missiles. His proposal was referred to as Star Wars and never got funded. Since then the U.S. Air Force has created Space Command. They have been tasked with the duty to protect space since the 90s. This new proposal would essentially create a U.S. Space Command as a separate branch from the U.S. Air Force.
Although Reagan’s Star Wars program was also accused of having a secret hidden agenda to shoot down aliens threatening humanity, the new proposed Space Force has no apparent extraterrestrial connection.
Houdt de Amerikaanse overheid UFO’s verborgen in een hangar in Las Vegas? Deze krant ging op onderzoek uit
Houdt de Amerikaanse overheid UFO’s verborgen in een hangar in Las Vegas? Deze krant ging op onderzoek uit
In het noorden van Las Vegas staat een reusachtige hangar van Bigelow Aerospace. Het gebouw wordt omringd door prikkeldraad en betonnen muren. De bewakers zijn zwaarbewapend.
Omwonenden zeggen dat de bewaking werd aangescherpt nadat vorig jaar werd onthuld dat het bedrijf werd betaald door het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie om onderdelen van gecrashte UFO’s op te slaan.
Die onderdelen bestonden uit vreemde, onbekende legeringen. Mensen die het materiaal aanraakten werden erdoor beïnvloed.
Niet alleen
Sinds 1947 zijn we niet eerder zo dicht bij het moment geweest dat de overheid toegeeft dat we niet alleen zijn.
De New York Times en Washington Post onthulden eind vorig jaar dat het Pentagon in het geheim onderzoek deed naar UFO’s. Zowel het Pentagon als Bigelow Aerospace houden de kaken stijf op elkaar.
Luis Elizondo leidde het geheime onderzoek jarenlang. Afgelopen herfst nam hij ontslag, naar eigen zeggen omdat de overheid UFO-waarnemingen niet serieus genoeg neemt.
Volgens hem beschikken wij niet over het technische vermogen om de materialen die in Las Vegas liggen opgeslagen, met zulke mate van nauwkeurigheid na te maken.
Aliens
“Dit is allemaal erg intrigerend,” zegt John Greenewald, die een database met daarin meer dan 1,4 miljoen geopenbaarde overheidsdocumenten heeft opgebouwd, tegen de Sunday Times.
“Legeringen en materialen van UFO’s, dat moet haast wel van aliens zijn, toch?” klinkt het. “Dit doet erg denken aan de wrakstukken van Roswell die naar Hangar 18 gingen.”
Robert Bigelow, de oprichter van Bigelow Aerospace, is ervan overtuigd dat aliens de aarde hebben bezocht en hier zijn gebleven. “Er was en is een buitenaardse aanwezigheid op aarde,” zei hij in een zeldzaam interview.
Enige detail
Uit satellietbeelden blijkt dat de gebouwen van Bigelow Aerospace rond 2010 zijn uitgebreid, op het moment dat het bedrijf door de Amerikaanse overheid werd ingehuurd om de materialen op te slaan.
Bigelow Aerospace laat in een reactie aan de Sunday Times weten geen commentaar te kunnen geven op het UFO-programma. Het bedrijf verwijst de krant door naar de Amerikaanse overheid.
En het Amerikaanse leger verwijst weer door naar Bigelow Aerospace.
“Ik weet dat we trots zijn op het werk dat we hebben gedaan, maar dat is het enige detail dat ik je kan geven,” zegt Blair Bigelow, de kleindochter van Robert Bigelow.
Check out our new UFO news series on YouTube. UFOs…Seriously is a live program that will air on Thursdays at 6 pm Arizona time (currently aligned with Pacific). We will air the program as regularly as possible. Whether we are on the road, in town, or wherever. Don’t worry if you can’t catch the show live, it will automatically be saved on our YouTube page for you to watch when you get the time. In this weekly program, Alejandro will discuss the week’s stories on UFOs and related topics, talk about past and upcoming podcasts, events, and interviews, and whatever else we are up to.
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Two UFO stories we discuss are Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the USAF’s UFO consultant and focus of the new History Channel show Project Blue Book. We also discuss the new ADAM Research Project started by TTS Academy. A group of scientists will now be accepting submissions of potentially anomalous materials allegedly retrieved from UFOs.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Mark O’Connell is the author of The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs, a biography of astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Hynek was a consultant to the U.S. Air Force’s official UFO investigations in the late 40s to the late 60s. A skeptic at first, Hynek went on to become a proponent of serious research into the UFO phenomenon. Mark is also a screenwriter, teacher, and blogger. He wrote episodes for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and has developed feature film projects with major studios, including Walt Disney and DreamWorks Animation. He is also the founder of the UFO blog High Strangeness. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife, Monica, and teaches screenwriting at DePaul University in Chicago.
In this episode of Open Minds UFO Radio, we talk to Mark about the upcoming History Channel series Project Blue Book. The series uses Hynek as a main character. Although it is fictionalized, this X-Filesesque program will be structured around real UFO investigations conducted by the U.S. Air Force.
MICHAEL EN ZIJN ENGELEN HADDEN OORLOG TE VOEREN TEGEN DE DRAAK ( VIDEO )
MICHAEL EN ZIJN ENGELEN HADDEN OORLOG TE VOEREN TEGEN DE DRAAK ( VIDEO )
De Eindtijd is de dramatische slotfase van de menselijke heerschappij, die onder de verderfelijke heerschappij staat van satan, die de heerser of god van deze wereld wordt genoemd.
Wanneer je zo om je heen kijkt, dan lijkt het duidelijk dat we in de eindtijd zoals in de bijbel beschreven, zijn aanbeland en ook steeds meer christenen beginnen de nodige vraagtekens te zetten bij wat er gebeurt.
Het begint nu zo langzamerhand toch meer en meer mensen op te vallen dat er misschien toch wel iets bijzonders aan de hand is met onze planeet.
Zelfs mensen die geloven in de door mensen veroorzaakte opwarming van de aarde krabben zich soms achter de oren, want zoveel geweld op onze planeet moet toch eigenlijk wel een andere oorzaak hebben.
Iemand die ook tot die conclusie komt is de Amerikaanse advocaat Michael Snyder die normaal gesproken schrijft over economische toestanden in de wereld, maar nu toch ook een uitgebreid artikel heeft gewijd aan de steeds sneller accelererende aardveranderingen.
Er vinden verschuivingen plaats van het weer op aarde. Plekken die normaal redelijk koel zijn, worden nu bloedheet en andersom.
Zoals Michael toch wel min of meer verbijsterd vaststelt, gebeuren er op dit moment dramatische dingen met onze planeet. En dat wat er gebeurt niets te maken heeft met de hoeveelheid CO2 die door de mensheid wordt uitgestoten.
Hij gaat dan vervolgens verder met het opnoemen van een aantal extreme situaties die zich op dit moment voor doen, zoals in de bekende Amerikaanse Death Valley waar het de afgelopen maand het heetste was ooit in een gebied op aarde gemeten.
Of je nu kijkt naar Europa de afgelopen weken of landen zoals Noord Korea, overal was er hitte en vooral ook droogte. Niet alleen op het noordelijk halfrond hebben mensen te kampen met enorme droogte, ook op het zuidelijke, waar boeren in Australië soms niet meer weten hoe ze aan water voor hun vee moeten komen.
De enorme droogte veroorzaakt natuurlijk ook enorme branden overal en in Californië spreken ze over de ergste bosbranden ooit in de geschiedenis van de staat. Er zijn daar op dit moment meer dan 15.000 brandweerlieden actief om de minimaal 18 grote branden te bestrijden.
En dan hebben we het natuurlijk nog niet eens over de verschijnselen waar men zo langzamerhand aan gewend lijkt te zijn zoals sinkholes, vulkaanuitbarstingen, aardbevingen en overstromingen. Want als het eenmaal begint met regenen in sommige gebieden, dan is er geen houden meer aan.
Michael Snyder vraagt zich af waarom dit allemaal gebeurt?
Michael is een christen en gelooft nog heilig in de maatschappij en dat datgene wat ons in de mainstream wordt verteld de waarheid is, maar ook hij gelooft niet meer dat dit alles wordt veroorzaakt door de uitstoot van broeikassen.
Wat het dan wel veroorzaakt weet hij ook niet, maar hij komt wel tot de conclusie dat we te maken hebben met fundamentele veranderingen op aarde en dat we pas aan het begin staan van wat het ook moge zijn.
Ook is hij van mening dat mensen misschien nu nog kunnen doen alsof ze gek zijn en er niets aan de hand is met de wereld, maar dat ze dit niet erg lang meer vol kunnen houden.
En over de nadering van een mini zonnestelsel als datgene wat verantwoordelijk is voor dit alles, spreekt bijna niemand, ook Michael Snyder niet.
Als je denkt dat het allemaal wel meevalt op aarde, dan willen wij je adviseren om even de twee volgende video’s te kijken. Zij geven een goed beeld van wat er de afgelopen week op onze aarde gebeurde.
En er kwam oorlog in de hemel; Michaël en zijn engelen hadden oorlog te voeren tegen de draak; ook de draak en zijn engelen voerden oorlog, maar hij kon niet standhouden, en hun plaats werd in de hemel niet meer gevonden. En de grote draak werd (op de aarde) geworpen, de oude slang, die genaamd wordt duivel en de satan, die de gehele wereld verleidt; hij werd op de aarde geworpen en zijn engelen met hem.
Kevin Randle has a new article online right now. Its title is “The Decline of Roswell.” It’s on the matter of who, within the U.S. military, should have been briefed on what happened outside of Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947, if indeed a UFO had crashed there. Kevin states that the late ufologist Karl Pflock discovered a “…document that reported on the Scientific Advisory Board Conference held on March 17 – 18, 1948, in the Pentagon. Colonel Howard McCoy was discussing Project Sign, the number of reports they had received, suggesting that there was something important going on. He said, ‘I can’t tell you how much we would give to have one of those crash in an area so that we could recover whatever they are.'”
Given that Colonel McCoy was the intelligence-officer at the Air Materiel Command and to Wright Field, Ohio (the very place where, supposedly, dead aliens from the Roswell site were secretly taken), then he should have known about – and he should have been briefed on – the crash of a UFO. McCoy’s words, though, suggest he knew zero about a UFO crash –anywhere. Kevin says of this: “Here’s where we stand on this. The documentation that does exist, that came from identified government sources, signed by the men involved who we are able to vet, suggest that they know nothing of crash recovered debris. Being who they were and what their jobs were, they would have known and the discussion would take a different track.”
Kevin continues: “For those believing Roswell involved the crash of an alien spacecraft, this has to be worrisome. It is arrayed against testimony that suggests otherwise. The problem is that it is just testimony and over the years much of that testimony has been found to be inaccurate. The longer we investigate the more of these testimonies have fallen by the wayside.”
All of this brings to mind an important question: how could something so significant have occurred near Roswell, but a man of Colonel McCoy’s standing and important connections apparently knew nothing about it? Well, it’s important to note that this is only relevant to those ufologists working on the assumption that what happened at Roswell, New Mexico involved aliens. Maybe, something of deep concern did indeed happen on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County in the summer of 1947; something that was of national security proportions, and which McCoy knew all about. But, something that had nothingto do with flying saucers. Would Colonel McCoy have shared such a thing with others who may not have had a need-to-know about Roswell? Surely not. After all, consider this: the subject matter of the McCoy documentation was just flying saucers. As a good intelligence operative, he would hardly have brought up sensitive, secret military projects (and related crashes of military vehicles) in a debate only about saucers.
It’s worth noting that a great deal of controversial and highly secret programs were underway in the post-Second World War era, much of it undertaken in New Mexico – where the Roswell event occurred. Flying saucers, in other words, weren’t the only odd things soaring around the skies of the southwest. Back in 2012, I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe, titled “UFOs: a Controversial Time-Line.” It gave a number of examples of how, and why, we should be open-minded to the possibility that what came down outside of Roswell was a craft attached to a highly secret program. Not of aliens, but of us. As I noted in that article: “During the latter stages of the Second World War, the Japanese military is working to perfect highly advanced balloons as a weapon of war – to the extent that on 4 June 1945, a Japanese military spokesman states that the launches of its ‘Balloon Bombs’ of the previous few months are merely precursors for something far more dangerous, including large-scale attacks with ‘death-defying Japanese’ manning the balloons.”
I continued: “At the close of hostilities, scientific, aviation and medical experts from Japan and Germany are secretly brought to the United States – via Operation Paperclip and its Japanese equivalent – where human experimentation and advanced aircraft research continues unabated and under the strictest security. As President Clinton’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments notes: At least 1,600 scientists and their dependents were recruited and brought to the United States by Paperclip and its successor projects through the early 1970s.”
I also stated: “In the summer of 1947 and against this backdrop of (a) nuclear and biological tests on human subjects; (b) revolutionary aircraft programs; and (c) an influx of senior scientific, medical and aviation experts into the United States from Japan and Germany, a series of events and accidents occur in New Mexico that collectively become known as The Roswell Incident.”
So, where am I going with all of this? Well, I’ll tell you. There’s no doubting the fact that Colonel McCoy’s words have a negative and troubling impact on Roswell – but only if what happened at Roswell was extraterrestrial. We must be aware of this: In 1948, Colonel McCoy was specifically and only talking about, and commenting on, not having any knowledge of a crashed saucer. He was very particular on what he was talking about. If, however, what happened at Roswell was highly-classified, but completely unconnected to the UFO phenomenon – and the colonel knew this – there would be no reason at all for him to complicate matters by bringing up the Roswell affair in what was just a UFO debate. Simply because, as a military project, the Roswell incident would have had nobearing on the UFO phenomenon. We could argue that the only people who have turned the 1947 incident into a spacecraft event are us, the UFO community.
Colonel McCoy may not have known about a flying saucer crash at Roswell, but he may well have known about something elsethat came down at Roswell – and that it was terrestrial, highly-classified and very controversial. But, which had absolutely no relevance to the issues discussed in the March 1948 meetings in the Pentagon. So, he didn’t bring it up. There is not a single reason why he would have.
Perhaps, the goal should now be to search for just about any and all documents that concern Colonel McCoy, that were prepared by and for him, and that cover July 1947 onward. Maybe, some interesting data will surface…but it may not be relevant to flying saucers.
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1973 was quite a year for UFO reports in the United States. Amidst a countrywide rash of reports where people claimed to see unusual lights and, occasionally, more structured craft over America, one incident from that year stands out in UFO literature as being one of the most detailed and complex situations ever reported.
On the night of October 11, 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing together at an abandoned shipyard near the place they worked together. As the story goes, a blue light emerged from the clouds above them, and the men watched a football-shaped object descend and hover nearby, from which two very unusual “beings” emerged. Hickson and Parker were somehow forced onto the aircraft, in which examinations were performed on them before they were released again, bewildered and badly frightened.
The two men subsequently went to local authorities (and the press), at which time a secret recording was made by law enforcement of the two men privately discussing how terrified they were. Thus the world soon learned of what became known as the Pascagoula incident.
The details are astounding indeed, whatever they might entail. I say this not with cynicism about the pair’s retelling of events, per se, since the details of their story remained remarkably consistent over the years. However, despite being generally a “good case” as far as the crazier UFO reports go (there was never any evidence that the men had conspired as attention seekers, for instance), there are some peculiarities with Pascagoula incident that are worthy of mention.
For instance, as it must be admitted outright that Hickson and Parker’s story is quite unlike most other UFO reports. In fact, many aspects of the incident were completely unique and bore no common features with other popular UFO narratives. Chief among these had been the entities encountered during the experience: as skeptic Joe Nickel has noted in the past, “Three robotlike aliens exited from the craft; although they were gray humanoids just over five feet tall, they were otherwise of a type not reported before or since.”
The Clarion-Ledger recently reported that Parker, the younger of the two witnesses, has recently authored a book about his experience, in which he described the craft as it first appeared to them as follows:
“A big light came out of the clouds,” Parker said. “It was a blinding light.
“It was hard to tell with the lights so bright, but it looked like it was shaped like a football. I would say, just estimating, (it was) about 80-foot. (It made) very little sound. It was just a hissing noise.”
While the craft described by the witnesses is often likened to a blue-colored football, it is important to note how Parker describes it here, in “breaking his silence” about the incident after all these years (so says the Ledger at least; he’s actually discussed the incident several times, and has seemingly changed or updated aspects of his encounter over the years, more of which we’ll discuss later).
Hickson and Parker, shortly after the 1973 incident.
As Parker says, it was hard for he and his companion to tell precisely what the shape of the object was, due to the lights it produced. Additionally, although Parker says the object made little in the way of sound, he does describe a “hissing” noise, similar to the “zipping” noises described by the witnesses in previous interviews.
It might seem like a stretch to propose that this could have been any kind of conventional aircraft (i.e. something manmade). However, it might be worthwhile to compare this part of the narrative to another famous UFO incident from a few decades earlier: that of Brazilian farmer Antonio Villa Boas, who on an October evening in 1957 was taken aboard an unusual aircraft, and made to have sexual relations with a beautiful woman with large eyes and other appealing assets. Villa Boas described the aircraft that appeared on the night in question as being oval-shaped and having made little noise apart from a sort of whirring sound.
I recall talking with my friend and fellow Mysterious Universe writer Nick Redfern about the case a few years back, and remarking that Villa Boas “would have been able to identify the object had it merely been a helicopter.” What Nick said in response to this surprised me.
“Well hold on,” he began. I could hear him ruffling through papers and files over the phone, as he looked for his notes about the actual wording used by Villa Boas in the description he had given of the incident, rather than that of the later writings and rewritings about the incident in UFO literature, which simply described an oval or “egg-shaped” object. Sure as hell, in Villa Boas’ original description, he discussed there being something above the oval shaped craft that appeared to be spinning; in retrospect, the incident sounds a good bit like it could have involved some kind of helicopter, perhaps of a military variety that employs a variety of stealth technology that would lessen the sound of the helicopter blades (this fact has also been pointed out by researcher Mark Pilkington in his book Mirage Men).
With this in mind, if we give further consideration to Parker’s description of the object, where he says, “It was hard to tell with the lights so bright, but it looked like it was shaped like a football,” and that it made “very little sound” apart from a “hissing noise,” similarities do emerge between the two incidents. Granted, rather than being definitive details about the two alleged craft, what the similarities suggest is that neither man got a very good look at the actual shape of the object, and in at least one of the two cases, it sounded a lot like a helicopter of some kind!
Another interesting parallel between Parker’s narrative and the Villa Boas incident only came to light years later, when Parker began to express in interviews that he had apparently had additional “encounters” in the decades following Pascagoula. Parker also made the claim that many years later, his memories of the time he spent on board the aircraft in the original 1973 incident began to return, in which he recalled additional details that included a woman on board the craft, and that he was subjected to some variety of sexual examination while there. It’s not as far out as what Villa Boas reported from his time with a woman on board a UFO… but the similarities here are notable, regardless. But why did Parker only recall this so many years later, and why so often do these alleged abductions bear elements that involve sexuality in this way?
Parker wasn’t the only one who claimed to have had ongoing contact with these UFO beings, however. Hickson also claimed to have had numerous UFO sightings the following year, and further claimed that the “beings” on board the craft communicated to him “that they were peaceful.”
Another lingering question involves why Hickson and Parker seemingly cooperated with the beings that attempted to bring them onboard the aircraft. As Parker recently recounted for the Ledger, “I think they injected us with something to calm us down,” Parker said. “I was kind of numb and went along with the program.”
Nick Redfern has also speculated recently about the possible role of mind-altering drugs in some UFO cases. Citing similar ideas proposed by researcher Rich Reynolds, he recently wrote about it here at MU, saying:
“Having known Rich for far more than a few years, I should note that he has a deep interest in the possibility that at least some significant UFO incidents may have had a hallucinogen of some kind at their core. We’re not, however, talking here about using LSD for recreational purposes. Instead, we’re talking about situations which may have been utilized – by military and intelligence services – to, in essence, fake a UFO event.”
Faithful devotees to the idea of an alien presence, in relation to some of the more bizarre UFO events that have occurred over the years, will dislike such spe+culations presented here. However, the ideas should at least be given consideration, since they are of greater merit than the polarized views of hopeful Ufologists that have tossed all their chips in on an extraterrestrial hypothesis, or on the other extreme, the all-or-nothing skeptics who argue in every such instance that UFO “experiencers” are just liars, frauds, or publicity seekers.
Neither of these extreme views presents a truly objective assessment… something that will be required if we ever wish to understand the true circumstances behind some of these longstanding UFO cases.
Filer’s Files #32 – 2018 ET Presence on Earth - PART I
Northwest Montana disc shaped UFO August 3, 2018
Filer’s Files #32 – 2018 ET Presence on Earth - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Bigelow Says We Are Most Backward Country on UFOs, USS Nimitz UFO Intercept, Dinosaurs Only a Thousand Year old, Mars Disaster, Jackie Gleason’s UFO House, Signals from Space, and Alien Technology in a Wooden Pyramid in North Carolina, and 1013 UFO Sightings in July 1, 2018.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Indiana, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Germany, Poland, 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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Special Projects
Bigelow Says We Are Most Backward Country on UFOs
Bigelow Aerospace — the Las Vegas-based company manufacturing space habitats — is starting a spinoff venture aimed at managing any modules that the company deploys into space. Called Bigelow Space Operations (BSO), the new company will be responsible for selling Bigelow’s habitats to customers, such as NASA, foreign countries, and other private companies
Bigelow makes habitats designed to expand. The densely packed modules launch on a rocket and then inflate once in space, providing more overall volume for astronauts to roam around. The company already has one of its prototype habitats in orbit right now: the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, which has been attached to the International Space Station since 2016. The BEAM has proven that Bigelow’s expandable habitat technology not only works, but also holds up well against the space environment.
Now, Bigelow is focusing on its next space station design: the B330. The habitat is so named since it will have 330 cubic meters (or nearly 12,000 cubic feet) of interior volume when expanded in space. That’s about one-third the volume provided by the ISS. Bigelow hopes to launch two B330s as early as 2021, on top of the United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rockets, and the company even has plans to put a B330 around the Moon.
Robert Bigelow
Bigelow deactivated the National Institute for Discovery Science in 2004, after years of failing to capture the supernatural at the Skinwalker Ranch. In December, a New York Times story revealed that Bigelow Aerospace had conducted a study on UFOs—for the Pentagon.
The Pentagon’s Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program officially ended in 2012. But similar work continues today—involving people from both the defunct Defense Department program and Bigelow’s dismantled paranormal enterprise. They have become part of a for-profit company: To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, which launched in October 2017 to research and reverse-engineer UFOs, among other goals.
Bigelow has gotten his fingers into lots of private UFO pies. Even before Skinwalker Ranch , he helped initiate the UFO Research Coalition, which puts his UFO-hunting career at about 24 years old. Robert Bigelow has been a strong advocate of UFO study and allegedly has debris from actual UFOs in his warehouse. Dr. Bruce Cornet who often provides data for these files worked for Bigelow in Las Vegas.
Bigelow, stated, “Internationally, we are the most backward country in the world on this issue,” Mr. Bigelow said in an interview. “Our scientists are scared of being ostracized, and our media is scared of the stigma.”
“China and Russia are much more open and work on this with huge organizations within their countries. Smaller countries like Belgium, France, England and South American countries like Chile are more open, too. They are proactive and willing to discuss this topic, rather than being held back by a juvenile taboo.”
USS Nimitz UFO incident
Date: November 14, 2004; Location: Pacific Ocean
Jack Sarfatti writes, The USS Nimitz UFO incident refers to a 2004 Radar-Visual encounter of an unidentified flying object by US fighter pilots of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. In December 2017, infrared footage of the encounter was released to the public. Prior to the incident, early November 2004, the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Princeton, part of Carrier Strike Group 11, had been tracking mysterious aircraft intermittently for two weeks on an advanced AN/SPY-1B passive radar.
When the same event occurred again around 12:30 EST on
USS Princeton
14 November 2004, an operations officer aboard Princeton contacted two airborne US Navy jet fighters from USS Nimitz. The first fighter aircraft was piloted by Commander David Fravor, commanding officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 41, assisted by his weapon systems officer (WSO) in the back seat. Lieutenant commander Jim Slaight was aboard the second jet which was serving in the role as a wingman. The officers were training aboard two FA-18F Super Hornets in a routine combat exercise.
Princeton’s radio operator first asked the AWACS of the Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 117, which was assisting the two F-18s to guide them to intercept the unknown aircraft. Princeton’s radio operator directly instructed the pilots to change their course and investigate and asked if they were carrying operational weapons; they replied that they were not.
The weather conditions for that day showed excellent visibility. When the jet fighters arrived on site, the crew of four saw nothing in the air nor on their radar. Looking down at the sea, however, they noticed a turbulent oval area of churning water with foam and frothy waves “the size of a Boeing 737 airplane” with a smoother area of lighter color at the center, as if the waves were breaking over something just under the surface. A few seconds later, they noticed an unusual object hovering with erratic movements 50 feet above the boiling water. Both Fravor and Slaight later
described the object as a large bright white Tic Tac 30 to 46 feet (10 to 14 meters) long, with no windshield nor porthole, no wing nor empennage, and no visible engine nor exhaust plume. According to Fravor “I have no idea what I saw. It had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s. But I want to fly one”.
Fravor began a circular descent to approach the object, but he claimed the UFO was intentionally avoiding any short-range dogfight radar lock-on with “impossible” maneuvers [not in citation given] that made engagement difficult. As Fravor got closer descending, he reported that the object began ascending along a curved path, maintaining some distance from the F-18, mirroring its trajectory in opposite circles. Fravor then made a more aggressive maneuver, plunging his fighter to aim below the object, but at this point the UFO accelerated and went out of sight in less than two seconds, leaving the pilots “pretty weirded out”.
Subsequently, the two fighter jets began a new course to the combat air patrol rendezvous point. “Within seconds” the Princeton radioed the jets that the radar spot had reappeared 60 miles away at the CAP point indicating a speed of 2,400 miles an hour to cover the distance in the reported time. The jets went to investigate the new radar location, but “by the time the Super Hornets arrived […] the object had already disappeared.” Both F-18s then returned to Nimitz.
A second team took off at 15:00 EST, this time equipped with an advanced infrared camera (FLIR pod). This camera recorded an evasive unidentified aerial system on video, publicly released by the Pentagon on 16 December 2017 alongside the revelation of the funding of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification
This footage is known as the 2004 USS Nimitz FLIR1 video. It officially shed some light on a decade-old story that was largely unknown, except for a 2015 second-hand story on FighterSweep.com that, in spite of providing a lot of details, remained unconfirmed at that time.
A second infrared footage, known as the GIMBAL video, has been released by the Pentagon alongside the 2004 FLIR1 footage. Although the media often present the two videos together to illustrate the 2004 USS Nimitz UFO incident, the GIMBAL video is unrelated, filmed at the East Coast of the United States at an unknown date.”
This is the smoking gun evidence that supports my 1952 Close Encounter with what claimed to be a time-traveling conscious computer AI on board if not identical with a “flying saucer” from our future. What the cold metallic voice said would happen in “twenty years” did happen and continues to happen with increasing intensity. It was no coincidence that I was asked by agents of USG as early as the 1950s to work on the physics of these craft as well as the consciousness that controls them. It was no coincidence that I was involved in the 1974 CIA operation with Uri Geller at the University of London with David Bohm that got mainstream media attention as the Tic Tac Nimitz incident is getting now. It was no coincidence that I played a key role behind the scenes in President Reagan’s decision to create SDI that triggered the downfall of the Soviet Empire in 1989. It was no coincidence that I was invited to the DARPA NASA Star Ship meetings in 2011 where I presented the fundamental Einstein physics of how the Tic Tac type craft fly without needing the enormous amounts of energy that naive calculations predicted.
The physics of consciousness is closely connected to the physics of the time machines from our future that have been interfering in our evolution all along. We are just now beginning to realize the role that destiny plays in quantum mechanics and low power metric engineering that we are witnessing in the flight of the Tic Tac. Thanks to Jack Sarfatti
This stunning discovery by a published scientist of over 30 years would be the envy of most professional paleontologists and the pride of any university associated with it except for one What he found is an inconvenient truth for the evolution theory.
World Net Daily reported that a team of attorneys is jumping to the defense of a scientist who was fired after making the stunning discovery of soft tissue attached to a triceratops This undermined the belief that dinosaurs roamed earth no less than 60 million years ago and supported the Christian belief that dinosaurs were here only thousands of years ago. The Pacific Justice Institute said its case on behalf of Mark Armitage alleges that a university official where Mark Armitage worked shouted at him, “We are not going to tolerate your religion in this department!” The suit against California State University Northridge, filed recently in Los Angeles County Superior Court against the board of trustees, alleges discrimination.
“Terminating an employee because of their religious views is completely inappropriate and illegal,” said Brad Dacus, PJI “But doing so in an attempt to silence scientific speech at a public university is even more alarming.
ABOUT THE DISCOVERY of Soft Tissue
Armitage was at a dig in the Hell Creek formation in Montana in 2012 when he came up with “the largest triceratops horn ever unearthed at the ” Later, while examining the specimen under a high-powered microscope at CSUN, he discovered the soft tissue. The discovery stunned members of the scientific community because it indicates that dinosaurs roamed the earth only thousands of years in the past rather than going extinct 60 million years ago. Armitage was then dismissed. He is in the Microscopy Society of America, the Southern California Academy of Sciences and the American Society of Parasitologists.
School officials previously had described him as “tops.” “He has patience, great expertise and practices great ” But his discovery of the soft tissue, which according to most scientific perspectives should have completely decayed millions of years ago, sent a shock wave through the department where he worked.
In the light of examples such as this, the phrase ‘Alternative Science’ seems less a contradiction in terms and more a harbinger of something that professional science is likely to see more and more of in
A short while ago I reported on a colossal cover-up which should concern all of When you also consider the fact that many other dinosaur bones (and other things that are supposed to be millions of years old) are dated as only being 22,000-41,000 years old, you have to at least conclude that there is something wrong somewhere. Either the carbon-14 dating system is not as robust as some want to believe, or the fossils are not as old as some want to believe. Dr Armitage has won $500,000 from the University for firing him and has now located more soft tissue on dinosaurs. I find it ridiculously hypocritical that evolution proponents go on to slam Mark Armitage for calling it what it obviously was while knee-jerk lawsuits shunt the court system striking down anyone, specifically any Christian, for so much as mumbling opposition to the hulking will of legalist atheists. The court’s judgement counts as a win for theGod of creation.
Mars Disaster
Mars River Valleys
Was there once a vast, technologically advanced civilization on Mars and did it leave evidence of its existence behind for humans to find eons later? Did these advanced extraterrestrial visitors vanish in a solar system wide cataclysm of their own making, only to make their way to Earth and start anew? Was Mars once as lush and green as the Earth and teeming with life? Was there once a vast, technologically on Mars and did it leave evidence of its existence behind for humans to find eons later?
Plasma physicist Dr John Brandenburg has written a book on the theory that ancient civilization on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack from another alien race. ‘
In his bizarre theory, Dr Brandenburg says ancient Martians known as Cydonians and Utopians were alive in an ancient society that was attacked.
Ancient Martian civilization was wiped out by nuclear bomb-wielding aliens – and they could attack Earth next, claims physicist,
Dr Brandenburg reported scientist presents his theory that ancient life on Mars was massacred. He says there is evidence for two nuclear explosions on Mars that was apparently wiped out with two races – the Cydonians and Utopians
Detection of uranium and thorium on the surface is evidence for these past explosions, he claims
And he warns we should be wary of a similar attack on Earth
He claims he can scientifically prove that two Martian civilizations were annihilated by nuclear weapons.
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.
For scientists trying to understand what ancient Mars might have been like, the red planet sends some mixed Water-carved valleys and lakebeds leave little doubt that water once flowed on the surface. But climate models for early Mars suggest average temperatures around the globe stayed well below freezing. New findings from NASA’s Curiosity Rover provide evidence that significant amounts of oxygen once permeated the atmosphere of ancient Mars….https://gizmodo.com/ancient-mars-was-even-more-earth-like-than-we-imagined-1782…
Jackie Gleason’s UFO House
Jackie Gleason is remembered for playing the straight-talking New York city bus driver Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners, but there was another side to him that fans didn’t see.
He was fascinated by all things paranormal, and he strongly believed in the existence of UFOs and
In the mid-’50s, he took his interest in UFOs to the next level by building a compound of spaceship-shaped houses in Peekskill, New He built a main house called the Mother Ship and a guest house called the Scout Ship.
The 50-foot-wide main house was custom-made by a ship builder in an airplane hangar, then transported to Gleason’s The unique, round structure has no right angles, and along with the guest house there are five bedrooms, six baths, a library, an entertainment space, a curved kitchen and more.
An incredible curved marble stairway leads to the upper level, and huge windows give the entire home a light, airy
The home was recently for sale for $12 million, according to com.
Claude Atkins said, “President Nixon showed Jackie Gleason an Alien”
My wife was on vacation with girl friends near Miami, Florida at Environ on property owned by Jackie Gleason She phoned me and was excited about telling me her story about meeting and talking with the actor Claude Atkins who was very friendly.
Claude was playing golf with the comedian and actor Jackie Gleason at his golf course outside Miami, and my wife was watching them Later Claude and my wife were talking and he told her that Gleason had just revealed President Nixon took Gleason to Homestead Air Force Base and showed him an alien body.
Apparently, Gleason often played golf with President Nixon and they were close friends during Nixon’s presidency from January 20, 1969 – August 9,
The Jackie Gleason Show was popular from 1952 to 1970), and which centered on his most beloved character, bus driver Ralph He later was featured in Smokey and the Bandit Movie in 1977, and its sequels in 1980, and 1983. Gleason’s home was built in the shape of a UFO.
Claude Atkins was a close friend of Jackie Gleason and was the star of the Trucker series “Movin On” a show about independent truckers fighting corruption and moving loads around the nation in their big rigs between 1974 and 76.
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, a super-duper radio telescope, has detected the first low-frequency fast radio burst, a class of rare extragalactic emissions of an unknown
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first spotted over ten years ago. Since 2007, there have been around 30 confirmed sightings. On July 25, CHIME recorded a weird signal codenamed FRB 180725A at 17:59:43 UTC emitted at 580 MHz – a lower frequency than most FRBs.
“The automated pipeline triggered the recording to disk of 20 seconds of buffered raw intensity data around the time of the The event is clearly detected at frequencies as low as 580 MHz and represents the first detection of an FRB at radio frequencies below 700 MHz,” according to a post on The Astronomer’s Telegram, a webpage where astronomers can quickly post their new observations.
In a diagram measuring the radio frequency over time, there is a clear bright streak beginning below 600 MHz. The burst quickly disappears after 2 milliseconds.
FRB 180725A, was detected in real Hunting for these mysterious signals is tricky and most of it comes down to luck since scientists don’t know their origin and they often don’t repeat – except FRB 121102, the only one that has popped up in exactly the same spot.
Mt. Shasta Conference
Mt. Shasta is an inspiring place as we drove up 9.000 feet on a windy road with smoke from the fires filling the valleys. Mount Shasta is a potentially active volcano in the Cascade Range of California at an elevation of 14,179 feet. The view is breathtaking and we tried to make contact with the people who allegedly live underground but had no contact. Dianne Robbins wrote her Telos book about the underground City of Telos under Mt. Shasta. UFOs were seen over the area for the entire week at the Venus With Love Conference that was a great success despite the road closures due to fires. On the night of July 28, about 100 people watched a fast moving, bright white orb dart and zigzagging across the heavens.
The UFO conference brought out 200 people from around the world to hear 10 speakers talk about extra-terrestrials, living on other planets and contacts with space aliens. Frank Chille and Major George Filer flew in from New Jersey. Frank presented fresh information on the early years of the contactee movement; while Major Filer highlighted some of the more impressive UFO reports
Robert Potter, coordinator for the conference said, “Until we stop wars and negativity, they (ETs) are staying at a distance. They are willing to work with us to heal our planet.. So many things would change if we welcome and embrace their offer of help.”
Over one Thousand UFO Written Sightings in July 1, 2018
Allen Park, Minnesota flying object on May 1, 2018
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the In July 2018 there were 757 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries; US 496. UK78, Canada 62, France 24, Brazil 8. Germany and Australia 7.
The National UFO Reporting CenterOnline Database 383 for July 2018
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Filer’s Files #32 – 2018 ET Presence on Earth - PART II
Filer’s Files #32 – 2018 ET Presence on Earth - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Fort Mohave — Saw what looked to be a golden star shaped object over our shop in the night sky. I took a photo with my nephew present on July 17, 2018
The photo was more sharp but seems to be degrading over time. What is this thing? Used a 40X zoom, cannonB500 Coolpix camera. Showed my sister and niece- They thought it looked like an angel blowing a trumpet, but too difficult to see it as it is degrading. It was stationary=wondering if it is a hologram? Have taken many such odd photos here the last year. Want to know what is going on over my backyard at night. have enclosed two mo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arkansas Lights
Bentonville — There had been a big fire burning near Fort Smith, Arkansas.Channel 5 news has a webcam of the Pocola fire.
Anyone could watch the fire burning from this cam. I don’t sleep well so I looked at that cam at approximately 3:00 to 4 am. The fire was out and only a little smoke was seen. I looked up in the sky above the smoke and saw the attached. I took several screenshots and this is what I saw. I thought it might be Mars since it is close Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Walnut — I just got back home late and as I arrived, my dad was out watering the lawn on August 4, 2018. Dad tells me to go outside there is a strange flying object that he’s seeing. When I looked up it was indeed a strange aircraft flying above us, I immediately thought UFO because of its strange flight pattern. I’ve seen many videos and this was one that I am now actually encountering in real life. It was the size of 4 basketballs from his perspective. It looked to me like a spherical object with 3 distinct orange dots. There were flames coming out of it. the orange lights of the craft pulsated slowly in a steady predictable pattern, the lighting of it would fade and come back. It started to get more distant as it gained more altitude faded out and disappeared.
Indiana Object
Gary –I was waiting for my wife and I decided to get some pics of the old Methodist church on June 30, 2018. I did not see the object until I was using the video camera on my phone, which is an Lg K7. When I looked at the phone at the object it was hovering and appeared to be spinning at about the height of the churches roof. It made a very fast circular motion and dipped down below my line of sight. It then came back up still spinning. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Lights
Buford — I was looking out my kitchen window and saw beautiful rainbow and I thought it was rather large and very close to the house on May 10, 2018. I went out to my back porch with my cell phone and started taking pictures of the rainbow. My niece came out and she was also amazed and then it suddenly started to become a double rainbow. Later I looked t my pictures and was shocked to see bell shaped UFOs hovering through the rainbow! A possible dimensional portal ? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Montana Disc
Scouting for elk in northwest Montana I saw later in my photo a disc shaped UFO..
I have no idea what it is. Looks to be hovering .
The photo was taken on August 3, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey UFOs
Burlington — Did anyone mention hundreds of UFO’S the other night. I was sitting outside the other night in Burlington, and wave after wave of lights, looked like stars moving, passed over me for about a half hour on July 24, 2018. I took a video with my phone, but they were really high up. No strobes, like planes, just white lights traveling from Trenton area towards Medford.. Ron Dobisch dlfglobalinc@gmail.com
New York Cylinder
Tonawanda (Amhers ) — My family and I were on a summer vacation going to see Niagara Falls. on August 4, 2018. At the time I was in a dark part of Ellicot Park and there was a live concert going on. I was trying out my new Canon Vixia 57x zoom camera videoing the planets (Jupiter and Mars are out and to the south) when I saw the UFO rise out of the east. The object is flying toward me as the UFO drops something. After 2 minutes 30s the object disappears. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Disc
Newport — My husband and I were vacationing in Newport, on August 3, 2018,. I suddenly awoke for no reason at 11:30 PM, from my ocean view room. Upon wakening, I propped myself up on my elbow to peer out the window to see a well-lit glowing orange bell-shaped rounded saucer. It crossed the window, making no sound, and maintained a straight trajectory, moving from north to south. It was traveling at a pace that took 2-3 seconds for it to cross the frame of the hotel window. I ran to the window and
looked down to the right and noticed a couple lighting firecrackers. They seemed to not notice. The craft was so close, I could see the outline of its shape clearly, for it emanated a strong light, much like how the moon glows. It cast no rays or beams of light and did not have any lights on it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Orbs
Eagle Pass – I did not personally see this event but many people in Eagle Pass and its neighboring border town of Piedras Negras did on August 8, 2018. If you go to Facebook and search up Eagle Pass lights or lights over Eagle Pass, you will most likely find the video footage that I’m talking about. Apparently many people saw it happen on both sides of the Border. I’m not too sure about the time but it was after Sunset because the video shows a very dark sky. The lights are very easy to see. At first it seems like there is one right here and one right there but then you can see them making a sort of circular pattern. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Starship
Monroe Institute — At night on August 6, 2018, I had an extremely good sighting of a starship, possibly the best that I have ever had. I pretty much knew that I would see something this night. It was almost as if the star beings were communicating with me beforehand, you know, telepathy. Out of the west/northwest sky, about a quarter to 10 PM heading in an easterly direction, I saw this whiter vehicle come from behind the trees and traverse the sky. The vehicle had a huge white light that didn’t flash, maybe 3 times as bright as the brightest thing in the sky. Mars was up and you know how big that was, and this vehicle was completely silent. No it was not an airplane. It was definitely the star craft that had beforehand been promised for me to see. For some reason, I inherently knew this.
I watched the light for about a half a minute until it was overhead and then the light extinguished itself. There were no clouds in the sky for it to hide behind and I made sure that I watched the place where the light vanished for about two or three minutes to see if the star craft would power up again. It didn’t, so I went into my house because I knew that I would not see anything quite so spectacular this night and the mosquitoes were biting pretty badly, too. Love and Light, Dan Johnson
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Orbs
Anakie Victoria — Two bright reflective orbs I noticed vertical to each other on a clear sky against the setting sun on September 20, 2017. I thought it was the sun reflecting on to dissipating clouds but was far too bright and a silver metallic color the way they were moving was too fast to be a cloud. We stopped and noticed no other clouds in the sky and it was very bright and metallic silver color as they started to separate and change axis then split up and go in different directions. Later I was showing someone the photos I took and zoomed in to my amazement two other dark shaped cone orbs. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Lights
Success, Saskatchewan — A man found a strange object in the background of a photo taken with his “critter” (game) cam on July 3, 2018, . He sent the photo which was scanned. He stated that the small gate and box in the photo is about 80 feet from the camera.
Note: The object in the photo is likely an insect. The long exposure of the camera set at night produces a multi-second shot of the insect. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Germany Object
Berlin — I was walking my dog and I noticed a plane in the sky and caught my attention because it was so extremely clear on August 6, 2018. I could see the plane in detail. It was a big one and really high. As I was watching the plane another object caught my attention. At first I thought it was a very bright and big star, too bright and too big for this sunny summer day at 2 pm. I noticed very soon that it was a metallic object that sometimes disappeared for about 2 seconds and appeared again. I took some photos and videos that my Motorola didn’t really take good images. Today, 09.08.2018 I was abducted, but I’m going to have to open another report for this because I can’t choose 2 different dates for a report.
Poland Disc
Polanow — I was in the kitchen drinking tea on August 9, 2018, and a few nights before I noticed this object beaming red light, and thought it was a star. When I looked closely I noticed movement. Couple nights later, I saw this object again and asked my mum to try film it as her phone has better camera than mime. When she zoomed as much as possible we saw that it changed positions so rapidly that nothing we know of could do such things. The object was jumping from one place to another. Light was constantly beaming red and white. There was huge flash of white light. I saw a plane flying above it. My mum took couple of pictures which stunned us because it looked like a disc from UFO movie. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Light
Essex — We were enjoying the sunshine in the garden (not drinking on August 5, 2018.. As we live under the flight path of Heathrow airport I like to watch the large passenger planes on a clear day. I looked up to the east and noticed a flash of light. It looked out of place as it was clearly not moving. At first it looked clear as a cylindrical object reflecting the sun. I text my sister who lives a few roads away and she caught the object on her phone camera (picture & video), it very slowly moved to the north east (in a different direction to the clouds), the sighting lasted about 1 hour when the object disappeared. My father, my sister and her husband saw the object. Multiple planes flew past the object (their port side, further to the north). Thanks to MUFON CMS
Blyth — Family out working do in the field taking video of dog Watched video back and a large slim object is
visabile. Photo Was taken on August 8, 2018.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Video shows ‘huge UFO’ emitting strange hum as it hovers over lake
Video shows ‘huge UFO’ emitting strange hum as it hovers over lake
Jimmy McCloskey
Shaky video footage shows what appears to be a huge UFO emitting a strange humming noise as it hovers over a lake.
Jason Swing recorded the large gray object sitting in the sky for over two minutes close to Lake Norman near Charlotte, NC. Swing, who shot the clip on May 29, calls the object a ‘space craft’, and adds: ‘It had been raining all morning.
‘Rain finally stopped so we went (to) pick up a boat from Lake Norman.
‘When (I) came around the corner I saw this thing sitting still very close.’
He films the object for around a minute, before declaring ‘This is all I can get.
I gotta go.’ The video gained widespread attention after being spotted by the Daily Star last week, with viewers offering a range of theories as to what it shows.
Some claimed they had seen similar ‘cigar-shaped objects,’ and speculated whether it was an alien spacecraft.
But skeptics wondered whether it was just a blimp floating by – and criticized Swing for not holding the camera steadily enough.
Do these Google Maps images really show 'China's Area 51'? Conspiracy theorists claim Stonehenge-like structure spotted in the Gobi desert is a 'secret military base'
Do these Google Maps images really show 'China's Area 51'? Conspiracy theorists claim Stonehenge-like structure spotted in the Gobi desert is a 'secret military base'
The circular formation was spotted on Google maps located between Kathmandu in Nepal and Mongolia
The site has been dubbed 'China's Area 51' by some conspiracy theorists, while others claim it's a military base
It is not the first time a Google Maps satellite has spotted bizarre structures during a sweep of the vast desert
Sharp-eyed conspiracy theorists claim to have spotted a secret 'military base' in the middle of the Gobi desert.
The circular formation of buildings, which has been likened to the shape of Stonehenge, was spotted between Kathmandu in Nepal and Mongolia on Google Maps.
The site has been branded 'China's Area 51' by some wayward conspiracy theorists, while others have speculated it could be a huge circular array of solar panels or a secretive military base.
The site is less than 100 miles (160km) from Jiuquan, where China's space programme headquarters and launch pads can be found, suggesting may have a military purpose.
MailOnline has contacted military experts to find out if they know the function of the structure.
This is not the first time a Google Maps satellite has photographed such structures during a sweep of the vast desert, which have subsequently sparked a number of strange theories around what they could be.
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Sharp-eyed conspiracy theorists claim to have spotted a secret 'military base' in the middle of the the Gobi desert. The strange circular formation, which has been likened to the Stonehenge, was spotted between Kathmandu in Nepal and Mongolia using Google Maps
Conspiracy theorists Blake and Brett Cousins, who run the popular YouTube channel 'thirdphaseofthemoon', believe the circular site is a 'runway for extraterrestrials'.
According to the video creators, three aircrafts are clearly stationed in the middle of the circular base, with trucks and control towers also stationed around the site.
'Three airlines within the circular formation of rocks and buildings, I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at,' the Cousins brothers wrote. 'It almost looks like Stonehenge from this aerial view'.
The Cousins brothers also suggested it could be 'an area 51 for China'.
Readers flooded the controversial post with their own opinions about exactly what caused the formation.
'Maybe it's a huge solar panel for under ground living,' wrote YouTube user 'Jolene N'.
A user called 'Steve' said that it 'looks like a old military base'.
'Stop with the hype, it's a test rang for reconnaissance aircraft, their cameras and targeting equipment,' wrote another YouTube user who comments under the name 'joshreynolds72'. (sic)
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. This is not the first time strange formations have been spotted in the Gobi desert.
Previously, a set of strange shapes were spotted in a similar area on the borders of Gansu province and Xinjiang in northwestern China.
The internet was buzzing with theories about what their purpose was, with suggestions ranging from giant QR readers to practise targets for military satellites.
Unidentified: One bizarre structure (pictured) was spotted by a Google Maps satellite on the borders of Gansu province and Xinjiang. The internet was buzzing with theories about what their purpose was, with suggestions ranging from giant QR readers to practise targets for military satellites
Some internet users have been trying to overlay one of the strange structures on to various U.S. city maps, worried that there may be a sinister military purpose behind them.
Others have pointed out that if China wanted to attack a US city, it doesn't need a practise map in the desert.
It is also difficult to tell what the structures are made of – whether they are painted on or dug into the landscape.
Speculation: Some internet users have been overlaying the strange structures over maps of US cities while a closer view shows burnt out vehicles (right) which have raised questions about whether the desert has been used for military purposes
Close-up: Experts say that the most likely explanation is that the clearest of the symbols are used as 'calibration' for spy satellites - a common practice for superpowers such as China
Conspiracy theorists and UFO fans have got seriously excited about a Stonehenge-like ring of objects spotted on Google Maps in China’s Gobi desert.
Conspiracy theorists love to pore over Google Maps looking for unusual objects – which are then hailed as ‘crashed spacecraft’, ‘alien bases’ and so on.
This time, UFO channel ‘Thirdphaseofmoon’ claims that the structure seen in the Gobi desert could be a ‘runway for extraterrestrials.’
Commenters on the popular UFO channel suggested that it might be China’s Area 51 (ie a place where the government supposedly investigates alien technology).
Other excited commenters suggested that it might be the landing pad for some vast spaceship.
But, like most of these sightings, the reality is almost certainly much more prosaic.
Many supposed ‘alien bases’ spotted on Google Maps turn out to be military ranges, and some commenters believe this is the case here.
One said, ‘Stop with the hype, it’s a test rang for reconnaissance aircraft, their cameras and targeting equipment. Every country that puts satellites up, has ballistic missiles or a fleet of ISR aircraft has a range like this.’
Why don’t more people appreciate science? Personally, I believe it has something to do with science communication and the way we teach science in our schools.
With this in mind, here are a couple amazing scientific facts that I hope will inspire you to learn something new every day — they’ve certainly done so for me. However, this list is much too short; keep it growing by adding your own science facts in the comments section.
1. There is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times
The human genome (the genetic code in each human cell) contains 23 DNA molecules (called chromosomes), each containing from 500,000 to 2.5 million nucleotide pairs. DNA molecules of this size are 1.7 to 8.5 cm long when uncoiled — about 5 cm on average. There are about 37 trillion cells in the human body, so if you were to uncoil all of the DNA encased in each cell and place the molecules end to end, it would sum to a total length of 2×1014 meters — enough for 17 Pluto round-trips (the distance from the sun to Pluto and then back again is 1.2×1013 meters). As an added bonus, you should know that we each share 99% of our DNA with every other human — just to show that we’re far more alike than different.
2. The average human body carries ten times more bacterial cells than human cells
It’s funny how we compulsively wash our hands, spray our countertops, or make a grimace when someone sneezes near us, when, in fact, each and every one of us is a walking petri dish! All the bacteria living inside you could fill a half-gallon jug — there are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than human cells, according to Carolyn Bohach, a microbiologist at the University of Idaho. Don’t worry, though: most of these bacteria are helpful. In fact, we couldn’t survive without them.
For example, bacteria produce chemicals that help us harness energy and nutrients from our food. Germ-free rodents have to consume nearly a third more calories than normal rodents to maintain their body weight, and when the same animals were later given a dose of bacteria, their body fat levels spiked despite the fact that they didn’t eat any more than they had before. Gut bacteria is also very important for maintaining immunity. (image source).
3. It takes a photon up to 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth
A photon travels, on average, a particular distance before being briefly absorbed and released by an atom, which scatters it in a new random direction. To travel from the sun’s core to the sun’s surface (696,000 kilometers) so it can escape into space, a photon needs to make a huge number of drunken jumps.
The calculation is a little tricky, but the conclusion is that a photon takes many thousands and many millions of years to drunkenly wander to the surface of the Sun. In a way, some of the light that reaches us today is energy produced millions of years ago. Amazing!
4. At over 2,000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth
Coral reefs consist of huge numbers of individual coral polyps (soft-bodied, invertebrate animals) that are linked together by tissue. The Great Barrier Reef is an interlinked system of about 3,000 reefs and 900 coral islands divided by narrow passages, located just beneath the surface of the Coral Sea. Spanning more than 2,000 km and covering an area of some 350,000 sq km, it is the largest living structure on Earth and the only one visible from space. However, this fragile coral colony is beginning to crumble, battered by the effects of climate change, pollution, and manmade disasters.
5. There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean
A teaspoon of water (about 5 mL) contains 2×1023 water molecules, but each water molecule is comprised of 3 atoms: two hydrogen atoms and one of oxygen. Moreover, if you’d laid down end to end each water molecule from a teaspoon down end to end, you’d end up with a length of 50 billion km — 10 times the width of our solar system.
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6. In an entire lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world
The average moderately active person takes around 7,500 step/day. If you maintain that daily average and live until 80 years of age, you’ll have walked about 216,262,500 steps in your lifetime. Doing the math; the average person with the average stride living until 80 will walk a distance of around 110,000 miles — which is the equivalent of walking about 5 times around the Earth, right on the equator.
7. There are actually over two dozen states of matter (that we know of)
Everybody knows that there at least three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. If you’re a little bit more versed in physics, you also know about the fourth fundamental state of matter called plasma — a hot ionized gas, with prime examples including lightning or neon signs. But beyond these common states of matter, scientists have discovered a myriad of exotic states of matter that occur under special conditions. One of them is the Bose-Einsteincondensate, where atoms chilled to only 0.000001 degrees above absolute zero start behaving like waves, rather than particles as they ought to on the macroscopic scale. Essentially, the atoms behave like one super atom, acting in unison.
Another interesting exotic state of matter is represented by time crystals — regular, boringly ordered crystals with a twist: A fourth dimension, time, is added so that the material exhibits different periodic structures over time. What makes these crystals particularly remarkable has less to do with the fact that they repeat in time but rather more with the fact that they’re intrinsically out of equilibrium. Because time crystals are never able to settle down, say into a diamond or ruby, there’s a lot we can learn from them.
8. Killer whales are actually dolphins
Despite their name, killer whales or orcas are the largest members of the dolphin family. Technically, orcas are also whales because delphinids belong to the Cetacean order within the toothed whale (Odontoceti) suborder. However, the term whale is typically reserved for baleen whales of the Mysticeti suborder.
The major physical feature that ensures orcas are dolphins is the presence of a melon — a fatty deposit that assists the animals in echolocation and only exists in dolphins.
Orcas are highly intelligent, highly adaptable and able to communicate and coordinate hunting tactics. They are extremely fast swimmers and have been recorded at speeds of up to 54kph! A wild orca pod can cover over 160 kilometers a day, foraging, and socializing.
9. Grasshoppers have ears in their bellies
Unlike humans, grasshoppers do not have ears on the side of their head. Like the ears of people, the grasshopper sound detector is a thin membrane called a tympanum, or “eardrum”. In adults, the tympanum is covered and protected by the wings, and allows the grasshopper to hear the songs of its fellow grasshoppers.
The grasshopper tympanum is adapted to vibrate in response to signals that are important to the grasshopper. Male grasshoppers use sounds to call for mates and to claim territory. Females can hear the sound that males make and judge the relative size of the male from the pitch of the call (large males make deeper sounds). Other males can hear the sounds and judge the size of a potential rival. Males use this information to avoid fights with larger male grasshoppers or to chase smaller rivals from their territory.
10. You can’t taste food without saliva
In order for food to have taste, chemicals from the food must first dissolve in saliva. It’s only once they’ve been dissolved in a liquid that the chemicals can be detected by receptors on taste buds. During this process, some salivary constituents chemically interact with taste substances. For example, salivary buffers (e.g., bicarbonate ions) decrease the concentration of free hydrogen ions (sour taste), and there are some salivary proteins which may bind with bitter taste substances.
Here’s a quick science experiment to test this out — get out a clean towel, and rub your tongue dry; then place some dry foods on your tongue, one by one, such as a cookie, pretzel, or some other dry food. After this session, drink a glass of water and repeat. Did you feel a difference?
11. When Helium is cooled to almost absolute zero (-460°F or -273°C, the lowest temperature possible), it becomes a liquid with surprising properties: it flows against gravity and will start running up and over the lip of a glass container!
We all know helium as a gas for blowing up balloons and making people talk like chipmunks, but what most people don’t know is that it comes in two distinct liquid states — one of which is borderline creepy. When helium is just a few degrees below its boiling point of –452°F (–269°C), it can suddenly do things that other fluids can’t, like dribble through molecule-thin cracks, climb up and over the sides of a dish, and remain motionless when its container is spun. No longer a mere liquid, the helium has become a superfluid — a liquid that flows without friction.
“If you set [down] a cup with a liquid circulating around and you come back 10 minutes later, of course, it’s stopped moving,” says John Beamish, an experimental physicist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
This happens because atoms in the liquid will collide with one another and slow down.
“But if you did that with helium at low temperature and came back a million years later,” he says, “it would still be moving”.
12. If Betelgeuse exploded, transitioning from the red supergiant stage to supernova, it would light our sky continuously for two months. It could happen anytime — within a couple of thousand years, tomorrow or even now
Betelgeuse lies some 430 light-years from Earth, yet it’s already one of the brightest stars in Earth’s sky. The reason is that Betelgeuse is a supergiant star — the largest type of star in the Universe. Betelgeuse has a luminosity about 10,000 times greater than that of the Sun and its radius is calculated to be about 370 times that of the sun. If it were positioned at the center of our sun, its radius would extend out past the orbit of Mars. Because it’s near the end of its lifetime, Betelgeuse is likely to explode into a supernova.
13. Octopuses have three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood
Two of the hearts work exclusively to move blood beyond the animal’s gills, while the third keeps circulation flowing for the organs. When the octopus swims, the organ heart stops beating, which explains why these creatures prefer to crawl rather than swim (it exhausts them).
An octopus also has nine brains — well, sort of. There’s one ‘main’ brain where all the analysis and decision making takes place and eight ancillary brains — one at the base of each arm — that function as preprocessors for all the information obtained by that arm. Two-thirds of an octopus’ neurons reside in its arms, which can independently figure out how to open a shellfish, for instance, while the main brain is busy doing something else.
Our blood is red due to the fact that it contains iron-based hemoglobin to transport oxygen to cells. Octopuses, on the other hand, use the copper-based cyanoglobin, which performs the same function, albeit less efficiently — this makes octopuses have less stamina than you might expect.
14. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body
You have about 5 liters of blood in your body (at least, most people do) and the average heart pumps about 70 mL of blood out with each beat. A healthy heart also beats around 70 times a minute. So, if you multiply the amount of blood that the heart can pump by the number of beats in a minute, you actually get about 4.9 liters of blood pumped per minute, which is almost your whole body’s worth of blood. In just a minute, the heart pumps the entire blood volume around your body.
15. The known universe is made up of 50,000,000,000 galaxies.
There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy. In the Milky Way alone there might be as many 100 billion Earth-like planets. Still think we’re alone?
A group in Los Angeles has attracted U.F.O. enthusiasts from all over the world. They’ve formed together around the common question: What are these things in the sky, exactly, and how can they know more about them?
From left, Yasmin Joyner, Jim Martin, John Graf, Fausto Perez and Mallory Jackson at a group summoning at Ms. Joyner’s home in Los Angeles.CreditRozette Rago for The New York Times
Photographs and Text by Rozette Rago
Unusual things kept popping up around him — or above him, rather. He saw a saucer and some flying objects shaped like beans next. He snapped a picture.
For over ten years, he kept his sightings to himself. That changed in 2010, when his neighbor came over to do some plumbing work. Mr. Binghamshowed him his photos. The neighbor asked if he could invite his brother, who was very interested in unidentified flying objects, or U.F.O.s.
In awe of what they saw, they asked if they could invite more people to speak with Mr. Bingham — 40 more, actually. More than eight years ago, that was the first meeting of what is now known as “Summon Events with Robert Bingham,” at a park in Los Angeles across the street from where Mr. Bingham worked as a security guard.
Mr. Bingham, 62, an unassuming man who describes himself as shy, has become the nexus of a community of U.F.O. hunters in Los Angeles, fervent believers who come together to share their stories and persuade skeptics that extraterrestrial communications aren’t just a conceit for television shows.
Robert Bingham delivered the opening remarks at his annual sighting event in April.CreditRozette Rago for The New York Times
Since then, he has attracted U.F.O. enthusiasts from all over the world, drawn together by the same questions: What are these things in the sky, exactly, and how can we learn more about them?
While there is just not enough documentation or scientific evidence to begin to explain or even confirm these sightings, that doesn’t stop the dozens of people that once a year descend on the same park to watch and assist Mr. Bingham as he tries to summon the “objects,” as they call them, and also to hang out with other enthusiasts who have turned into friends.
“It’s a great community because you can talk about anything and you’re not worried about being called crazy,” said Hans Boysen, 53, who has participated in the last seven summoning sessions with Bingham since 2011.
Other groups, like the U.F.O. and Paranormal Research Society, don’t organize sighting sessions, but rather focus on discussions, often with speakers who talk about their research and experiences. A nonprofit group called the Mutual U.F.O. Network, or Mufon, founded in 1969, has over 4,000 members worldwide and convenes a yearly symposium. This year, a former Pentagon intelligence officer, Luis Elizondo, will give the keynote address.
Ms. Joyner, left, received an inflatable alien as a birthday present from Mr. Perez and Trinity.CreditRozette Rago for The New York Times
Last year, The New York Times conducted interviews and obtained records pertaining to the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The program — parts of which remain classified — investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials. According to the article, officials insisted that the effort had ended after five years, in 2012. The article also stated that Sara Seager, an astrophysicist at M.I.T., cautioned that not knowing the origin of an object does not mean that it is from another planet or galaxy. “When people claim to observe truly unusual phenomena, sometimes it’s worth investigating seriously,” she said. But, she added, “what people sometimes don’t get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained.”
As much as scientists deal with probabilities, they rely on data and the reality is, no matter how many videos people upload on YouTube, they’re simply not enough to draw any definitive conclusions from.
But that doesn’t stop this community from searching.Many in the community that forms around Mr. Bingham believe that the multimillion-dollar alien research efforts of the former Blink-182 guitarist and singer Tom DeLonge are just the beginning to finding out some answers. Mr. DeLonge made headlines after To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a research group he founded — Mr. Elizondo is its director of global security and special programs — released declassified footage from the Department of Defense and continues his efforts.
Angel Llewellyn, 49, drove to the event from San Jose, Calif., for a second year as a form of pilgrimage. She said she started seeing things right after attending to Mr. Bingham’s event for the first time.
“It’s like he charges you,” she said. “He teaches you how to call them and what to think and they just, boom, boom, boom. It’s like fishing. You never know what you’re going to get.”
Charles Cassey, left, guides Hans Boysen back to his telescope.CreditRozette Rago for The New York Times
That’s not to say that everyone in the group is on the same page. There’s a variety of ideologies — some beliefs are grounded in religion, while some prefer a more scientific foundation — and different levels of intensity. Rafael Cebrian, 29, a two-time attendee, brought a curious friend who was visiting from Spain. He said it was about being open and being in the right state of mind. He went to Mr. Bingham’s event last year on a friend’s recommendation. He said he didn’t think he was a skeptic anymore, but he also insisted he didn’t know anything for sure.
Mr. Bingham may have brought them all together, but now factions abound.
One such group is the L.A. U.F.O. Channel, a monthly Meetup group founded by Mr. Perez and Hans Boysen, 53.
“I know they’re never going to believe a video that they think was created in somebody’s basement,” Mr. Perez said. “I see the events as a bigger way to change people’s minds.”
Mr. Boysen was once a skeptic himself and tried to contact Mr. Bingham in 2011. “Like most people, I suspect, I thought he was a nut case or lunatic,” he said. But as a skeptic, he was “willing to keep an open mind and look at what he had to offer.” He instead found Mr. Perez, who helped him discover his passion for the unknown flying objects in the sky, something he has always been interested in since he was a child.
From left, Ms. Joyner, Mr. Graf, Mr. Martin, Ms. Jackson and Mr. Perez concentrating for a group summoning at Mr. Joyner's house.CreditRozette Rago for The New York Times
Yasmin Joyner, 35, an artist, says she has a more straightforward approach to sightings and doesn’t like to engage in conspiracy theories. “Unidentified flying objects: That’s what a U.F.O. is, right?” she said. “I’m not saying it’s an alien. I’m not saying it’s from another planet. I’m not saying it’s even a being. I don’t know!”
“I try to go with what I can say I know,” she continued. “I’m not going to look at something and try to equate that it might be an animal or something biological. I don’t know that and I will never claim to know that.” She recently formed another group, Indigo Army, that she hopes will attract a younger and more diverse crowd. Because it’s still a small group, its members have been able to organize sightings at one another’s houses and nearby parks.
For Ms. Joyner, going public with her belief of U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial communications wasn’t a decision she took lightly. She understands that there are consequences to being outspoken about beliefs that many people may deem weird or crazy.
“I think my family was a bit worried that I had snapped or something, but once they saw my footage and what I was seeing, they understood,” she said. Her mother is fully supportive and claims to have seen unknown objects flying in the sky near her home in Los Angeles multiple times.
A page from Mr. Boysen’s book of printed photographs from various U.F.O. sightings.
CreditRozette Rago for The New York Times
Mr. Bingham’s annual sighting event in April.
CreditRozette Rago for The New York Times
Mallory Jackson, 26, who attends Meetup hangouts led by Mr. Bingham and the Indigo Army, says she finds it difficult to maintain relationships outside the U.F.O. community with people who might not be as understanding of her interests. She discovered Mr. Bingham’s event through a friend she met at a metaphysical center that does reiki healing, with whom she later confided in about her sightings. She said she became friends with several members “right away” before later meeting Jim Martin, 38, another longtime attendee of Mr. Bingham’s events. Mr. Martin is now her boyfriend.
“When we do our events, you’ll see all ages, all ethnicities, all genders,” Ms. Jackson said. “It’s beautiful, and we’re all just trying to figure it out as we go. We don’t know what they are, but we make all make our assumptions and best guesses.”
Around noon on a punishingly hot day in April, Mr. Bingham gathered everyone around him for the first so-called group summoning of the day. “Let’s make this world a better place,” he said. “Enjoy this day because it’s going to be incredible.” As he concluded his opening remarks, he turned around and led the group to hope for something good to show up.
Mr. Boysen showed off images from previous sightings.CreditRozette Rago for The New York Times
So, how exactly does the group try to summon U. F. O.s? Everyone has a different method, but most agree that it’s similar to meditating. Some say that they feel physical sensations when they do it. The most important thing, Ms. Joyner said, is to focus. At the event in April, some participants closed their eyes and stood silently. Some stared intently into the sky. A few newcomers simply looked around, appearing confused.
As soon as someone in the group spots something, they yell at Mr. Boysen, who has a telescope connected to a camera and a screen that shows what he’s seeing. Once he spots it, he holds out his arm to ask for someone to guide him back to his chair without losing sight of the object. He adjusts his telescope in search of it, while the guide looks at the screen to tell him if he’s got it or not. Everything is recorded as video footage that he will later stabilize using Adobe After Effects, a video-editing software. “Nothing more,” Charles Cassey, 50, Mr. Boysen’s frequent guide, insists. “All he does is stabilize the footage so it’s not so shaky.” Mr. Cassey puts his hand on the focus knob and adjusts it as soon as Mr. Boysen centers on the object.
Angel Llewellyn at Mr. Bingham’s annual sighting event.
CreditRozette Rago for The New York Times
A wand of chakra crystals.CreditRozette Rago for The New York Times
Effectively capturing objects in the sky from dozens of miles away requires a significant financial investment. Ms. Joyner uses a camera with a lens that can magnify objects up to 40 times, which could capture things in the sky as if they were only 20 feet away, but in broad daylight, it can still get a little tricky. Mr. Martin works his way around such issues by combining a super-zoom lens with infrared, which helps him spot things in the sky easier. He is frequently praised by people in the community for his consistently high-quality footage, and his YouTube page is full of well-edited clips from various sightings, as well as other U.F.O.-related videos.
The group’s members encounter their fair share of people who don’t believe them online. It’s not unusual to see U.F.O. believers try to debunk each other’s videos by dissecting them frame by frame. “Some people’s opinions are so hardened that I just let them think what they want and focus on research that I think is valid,” Mr. Martin said. “Through the videos that I post, I try and set an example of what I think is good evidence to kind of rise against some of the misidentification.” This forms a core part of the new mission of the Indigo Army: to look harder at the evidence and be more selective about what the group claims to be a U.F.O.
An attendee hugs Mr. Bingham at the April sighting event.CreditRozette Rago for The New York Times
Ms. Joyner agrees, and thinks they can only get better by scrutinizing everything closely, including their own work. “There are videos that I have that I questioned a year later and I don’t have any issues doing that,” she said. “If we have a problem with being wrong, there’s never going to be any truth.”
“Oh, that video? Might’ve been just birds. And I’m O.K. with that. But this video? This video isn’t birds.”
Correction:
An earlier version of this article misstated Tom DeLonge's role in the Blink-182 band. He is the guitarist and singer, not the drummer.
Wednesday, June 6, 2018, 12:14 PM - Are humans the only civilization that face climate change? A look at aliens and climate change, the 'carbon bubble' that could collapse the global economy, India's plastics ban, and the surprisingly environmentally-friendly behaviours of climate change skeptics. Its What's Up in Climate Change.
Can aliens survive climate change?
Is sustainability ever a possibility for civilizations that use natural resources? Some scientists question if our current climate change predicament is unique to human beings or simply inevitable for any type of life form that intensively harvests natural resources using technology, such as farming practices, to develop civilizations.
Scientists wonder if life forms other than humans can harvest energy without causing climate change that destroy the civilization.
Previous astrobiological studies have indicated the possibility that other planets in the universe can support energy-harvesting species, such as Kepler-62f and Kepler-62e, however there is currently no available data indicating the existence of such exo-civilizations, or more commonly ‘aliens’.
To further understand the human-induced climate change on Earth, a recent study from the University of Rochester investigated if aliens are capable of living sustainably without compromising the health of their environment, or if population growth and the use of natural resources will result in catastrophic climate change that would wipe out the entire civilization.
The evolution of a civilization’s population growth and use of natural resources was modelled with feedback relationships and demonstrated four potential outcomes:
1) Sustainability - a stable balance between population growth and environmental health - population gradually rises and the use of natural resources minimally fluctuates and reaches a consistent level that can support a large population. 2) Oscillation - population and natural resource use fluctuates to highs and lows while maintaining a stable relationship. 3) Die-off - population grows so dramatically that it exceeds the environment’s capacity to provide natural resources and space, and there is significant fluctuation in population and natural resources. The population peaks and then declines as the environment reaches a new stable state. 4) Collapse - population skyrockets and there is no stable relationship between population growth and natural resource use. Population rapidly declines as natural resource use peaks, and collapse occurs even after attempts to reduce population growth and usage of natural resources.
While there is a possibility for alien civilizations to live sustainability, this study forces us to ask ourselves - what will the outcome for humans be?
The 'carbon bubble' could collapse the global economy
The good news is that one day low-carbon technologies will power the world, the bad news is that it will crash the global economy in the process, according to a new study.
Global economic growth has created such a high demand in fossil fuels that companies’ assets in fossil fuels are overvalued and have created a ‘carbon bubble’ - a sudden drop in fossil fuel demand could leave companies with trillions of dollars in stranded assets and unable to make profit from these investments, which could collapse the global economy and trigger a financial crisis similar to the Great Recession of 2008.
Researchers predict that the world will slowly transition to low-carbon energies, a transition that puts the fossil fuel industry at risk.
The bubble is expected to burst by 2035 according researchers from the University of Cambridge who predict the world will transition to low-carbon economies as renewable energies become cheaper and more efficient. The study shows that this transition will occur even if there are no additional international climate change policies or additional efforts to follow the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius.
There are clear winners and losers in this transition - oil producing countries like Russia, Canada (the new owner of an oil pipeline that will cost at least $4.5 billion CND), and the United States could lose their entire oil and gas industries, countries with limited exposure to fossil fuel exposure will benefit, including Germany, and the European Union. The study explains that resisting a renewable energy transition and continuing to invest in a fossil fuel economy will cause even more economic loss as the value of fossil fuels will drop so low production will not be affordable as assets become stranded.
A renewable energy transition would result in a global wealth loss of $1-4 trillion USD and the consequences of an economic collapse can be managed by nations divesting from fossil fuels as an ‘insurance policy’ against the decisions of the rest of the world.
India will ban all single-use plastics by 2022
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently announced that India will ban all plastic in the country by 2022 and the state of Tamil Nadu will ban plastic by 2019 - with exclusions for plastic packages for essential items like medicines and oil. The environmental impact of banning single-use plastic is expected to be huge - by 2050 India is projected to have the largest population of 1.6 billion people who won’t be using disposable plastics.
Plastic pollution on a beach in Mumbai, India.
Credit: Ravi Khemka
The national plastic ban announcement came on June 5 as India was hosting the United Nations World Environment Day with ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’ as this year’s main theme. India has struggled with a number of environmental issues - air pollution is extreme that breathing in New Delhi is like smoking 50 cigarettes a day and extensive garbage pollution in cities.
Plastic pollution, particularly in oceans, is a trending topic in conversations about environmental protection and climate change. Bangladesh banned plastic bags after a flood was caused by littered plastic bags that clogged the capital city’s drainage system during a moderate rainfall and Prime Minister Theresa May has ambitiously committed to eliminating all avoidable plastic waste in the United Kingdom by 2042.
Do climate skeptics act the most environmentally-friendly?
Individuals that believe in climate change might not be the ones that act the most sustainably, according to a new year-long study that measured Americans climate change beliefs and their engagement in pro-environmental behaviours, such as recycling.
Pro-environmental actions, such as recycling, can be a result of societal norms, individual values, and government programs.
These researchers wanted to know how belief in climate change affects pro-environmental behaviours and found that climate change skeptics were more likely to report their participation in pro-environmental behaviours, and those with high belief in climate change were more concerned with federal climate change policies.
Previous research provides different insights as to why some people do not engage in pro-environmental behaviours - some outright deny that climate change is occurring whereas others that do believe in climate change are reluctant to take action because of perceptions that it is not an urgent threat.
The researchers were unable to conclude why the skeptics reported more pro-environmental behaviours as they did not report greater identify fit with environmentalism or endorse individual action to reduce climate change. Possible explanations for the surprising outcome is that pro-environmental behaviours could be conducted to address issues like waste instead of the broad topic of climate change or pro-environmental behaviours might be considered a ‘moral issue’ instead of a climate change issue.
There is a hole in the Sphinx's head and it is now covered up
There is a hole in the Sphinx's head and it is now covered up
Did you know there is something like a submarine hatch at the top of the Sphinx?
Overhead filming is forbidden on the Giza Plateau but there are a few channels on YouTube with drone footage. Here is one showing the hatch in high resolution:
But it's more than that. Zahi Hawass has been in the chambers in and under the Sphinx, released a video on it, found a Sarcophagus, and then never spoke about it again.
The chambers and tunnels under the Sphinx point to a very real 'Hall of Records'.
Many of these tunnels were originally shown and then never brought up again by Zahi Hawass, the 'gatekeeper' of mainstream Egyptology.
The researcher Robert Schoch has seismic data indicating there is a chamber underneath the paws of the Sphinx.
There is a tunnel leading from the Sphinx to the Great Pyramid. There is a man-made space that Edgar Cayce predicted under the Sphinx's right paw. Caycee said in that space, the civilization before Egyptians left records about humanities past for future generations, these people would have migrated from Atlantis.
The weathering on the side of the sphinx is from water erosion. That would date it is from 12,000 years ago.
It makes you wonder sometimes why they are so adamant for telling that the Sphinx is exactly 4,500 years old when they have nothing to back it up.
the fact remains that there are underground chambers beneath the Sphinx. They may lead in all sorts of direction but it's obvious that the original Pyramid builders would want some entryway into the Pyramid and supposedly they hid a passage underneath the older structure of the Sphinx.
They're hiding our true history from us. Initially, it didn't seem to make much sense as to why they would do this but after some careful thought, it has to do with controlling humanities foundational mythos in such a way that the government is perceived as being the foundation of society, in both the historical and creationary sense.
This naturally programs a certain level of allegiance into people that wouldn't be there if we were taught the true extent of our history.
Lockheed Martin F-35A filmed "In Beast Mode" over California
Lockheed Martin F-35A filmed "In Beast Mode" over California
A video of a test flight of a Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II stealth multi-purpose combat aircraft of the Royal Dutch Air Force has appeared on YouTube.
The jet flew over the Sierra Nevada mountains in the USA in "Beast Mode"
The machine recorded in the video was equipped with four laser-guided GBU-12 bombs and two heat-seeking short-range air-to-air guided weapons AIM-9 Sidewinder.
According to the portal "The Aviationist", the fighter is currently at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
The first F-35A Lightning II will be delivered from the USA to the Netherlands in November 2019. The Royal Air Forces are to receive a total of 27 aircraft. Beast Mode equipment includes weapons on the outside of the jet, as opposed to Stealth Mode, where the weaponry is placed inside the fighter jet only.
Your regular commercial airliner, like a Boeing 747 is fast. A super-spy jet like the SR-71 Blackbird is much faster than that, traveling at over three times the speed of sound. So how does a deep-space probe like New Horizons, which recently flew past Pluto, compare? Thanks to this animation, you can see it’s very, very fast indeed.
Your regular commercial airliner, like a Boeing 747 is fast. A super-spy jet like the SR-71 Blackbird is much faster than that, traveling at over three times the speed of sound. So how does a deep-space probe like New Horizons, which recently flew past Pluto, compare? Thanks to this animation, you can see it’s very, very fast indeed.
Clay Bavor✔@claybavor
Flying at 37k feet, this is what it would be like to look out the window of a 747 vs. an SR-71 vs. a New Horizons.
The animation was created byClay Bavor, who works at Google in his day job. As he notes in his caption on it:
To put 36,000 mph in perspective, at that speed, you’d be able to fly from San Francisco to New York in about five minutes. Of course, you’d also be turned into a ball of searing hot plasma.
I guess we should be happy, then, that New Horizons wasn’t going at crazy speeds through our own atmosphere.
In case you can’t read the words on the video above because you’re illiterate (in which case HOW ARE YOU READING THESE WORDS), a 747 typically cruises somewhere around 550 miles per hour, the SR-71 was claimed to have hit 2,700 MPH, but New Horizons is zooming through space at a staggering 36,000 MPH.
In fact, part of the reason why New Horizons didn’t stop and orbit Pluto is because it’s just so damn fast. Part of the reason for that is because NASA wanted it to get to Pluto in a reasonable amount of time, but I suspect that most of the reason for that is because we’ve all grown up wanting to know how fast we could shoot something into the sky. And when you’re NASA, your idea of shooting something into the sky includes a gravity assist from Jupiter.
Un explorateur de la chaine Discovery Channel affirme avoir découvert les restes d’un appareil d’origine extraterrestre au find du triangle des Bermudes…
Darell Miklos, est un journaliste et un explorateur qui travaille en partenariat avec un chaîne de découverte. Récemment, il était à la recherche d’une épave encore inexplorée. Pour se faire, il a utilisé une ancienne carte datant des années soixante. Sur ce document, il a été répertorié une centaine d’anomalies magnétique dans le fond de l’océan. C’est en explorant l’une de ces anomalies qu’il aurait découvert une étrange épave.
C’est à une profondeur de 300 pieds que notre explorateur à mis à jour une structure très étrange.
La formation était trop grande pour être un navire. La structure est composée d’une partie principale avec des sortes de bras de la taille d’un canon de cuirassé sortant sur les côtés, en tout, quinze de ces appendices sortes de l’appareil. L’ensemble de cette formation est entièrement recouvert de coraux, d’après le chercheur, ils auraient plusieurs centaines voir des milliers d’années.
L’appareil en question est totalement non identifié. Il ne s’agit clairement pas d’un bateau et pour Darell, il pourrait s’agir d’un appareil d’origine extraterrestre.
Sur les images publiées, il est difficile de vraiment savoir à quoi, nous avons affaire. On devine des formes qui pourraient être artificiel, mais rien ne permet vraiment d’en connaître l’origine. Il faudra attendre des prélèvements et des analyses poussées afin d’en savoir plus. L’objet est étrange, mais rien ne permet d’affirmer qu’il s’agit d’un ovni.
Werden de Egyptische piramides gebruikt als elektriciteitscentrales? Kijk hier eens naar
Werden de Egyptische piramides gebruikt als elektriciteitscentrales? Kijk hier eens naar
De meeste historici claimen dat de Grote Piramide een graftombe was voor de farao. De piramide is de enige van de oorspronkelijke zeven wereldwonderen die nog overeind staat. Het is een uniek en mysterieus monument.
Er is alleen één probleem: de Grote Piramide lijkt niet op een graftombe. Muurkunst, afgesloten ingangen, lijkkisten en zelfs mummies ontbreken.
De piramide is gebouwd metbehulp van dezelfde materialen die vandaag de dag worden gebruikt voor elektrische geleiding.
Elektriciteitscentrale
Om die reden beginnen steeds meer historici te denken dat de piramides een ander doel hadden en dat de Grote Piramide geen tombe was, maar een elektriciteitscentrale.
Onlangs concludeerden wetenschappers van de Russische ITMO University dat de piramide elektromagnetische energie concentreert.
Computermodellen laten volgens de onderzoekers zien dat de interne kamers en basis van het bouwwerk zo gevormd zijn dat ze elektrische golven op één plek laten samenkomen.
Interne magnetische velden
Het ontwerp van de piramide zorgt dat deze energie naar zijn basis wordt geleid, waar het interne magnetische velden vormt.
Waarvoor die dienen en of de bouwers van de piramides wisten dat ze een dergelijke constructie aan het maken waren, konden ze niet achterhalen.
Bekijk de video van het kanaal Universe Inside You hieronder:
Astrid (25) is afgestudeerd als journalist. Hier vertelt ze over haar ontmoetingen met buitenaardse wezens
Astrid (25) is afgestudeerd als journalist. Hier vertelt ze over haar ontmoetingen met buitenaardse wezens
De 25-jarige Astrid uit Noord-Brabant wordt naar eigen zeggen al haar hele leven bezocht door aliens. Na elke ontmoeting maakt ze een schilderij van de buitenaardse wezens, als manier om het te verwerken.
Astrid is afgestudeerd als journalist, werkte enige tijd als hoofdredacteur en is nu werkzaam als coach voor mensen met een handicap.
In gesprek met Vice zegt ze dat ze als kind al vreemde dingen meemaakte. Zo had ze op 7-jarige leeftijd haar eerste slaapverlamming en ook hoorde ze ’s nachts mechanisch gezoem.
Andere dimensie
Ze had het gevoel dat ze elke nacht werd bezocht door een indringer die haar mee wilde nemen. Astrid dacht dat ze gek was geworden en wilde er met niemand over praten.
“Eén van mijn rauwste ervaringen was een ontmoeting met een man die me vertelde dat ik was uitgekozen om seks te hebben met een god,” vertelt ze.
“Het was een ongelooflijk traumatiserende ervaring,” vervolgt ze.
Astrid denkt dat ze tijdens de verlamming in een andere dimensie was en zo kon communiceren met de wezens die haar bezochten.
Voortplantingsprogramma
Zodoende kwam ze er naar eigen zeggen achter dat ze onderdeel was van hun voortplantingsprogramma en dat de wezens haar geen kwaad wilden doen.
Hoe zeker is Astrid ervan dat ze zich dit niet heeft ingebeeld? “Mijn zus heeft mijn bed geregeld zien bewegen en me vreemde dingen horen zeggen in mijn slaap,” zegt ze.
“Ook werd ik eens wakker met twee blauwe plekjes op de plaatsen waar ik een injectie kreeg door een alien,” voegt ze toe.
Duizenden gelijkwaardige getuigenissen
Ze heeft inmiddels haar multidimensionale leven geaccepteerd, al vinden mensen om haar heen het heel lastig om haar serieus te nemen.
“Dat is prima,” zegt ze. “Ik ben niet de enige die zulke ervaringen heeft: over de hele wereld zijn er duizenden gelijkwaardige getuigenissen van mensen die ook bezocht worden door aliens.”
Astrid uit Waspik vertelt over haar ontmoetingen met aliens en hoe ze dankzij haar schilderijen haar verhaal kan delen.
Via gemeenschappelijke vrienden stuitte ik onlangs op de instagrampagina van Astrid de Wolff, een vijfentwintigjarige vrouw uit Waspik. Ze is een typische journalistiekstudent die de wereld rondreist en naar festivals gaat. Ook wordt ze al haar hele leven bezocht door buitenaards leven, waar ze soms seks mee heeft. Dat schrijft ze althans zelf onder foto’s van haar alien-schilderijen, die tussen de vrolijke vriendinnenfoto’s en reiskiekjes op haar Insta staan. De schilderijen maakt ze na elke ontmoeting met een buitenaards wezen, als manier om het te verwerken. Ik sprak haar over haar ontmoetingen en haar schilderijen, dit is hoe ze het vertelde.
Voordat ik mijn verhaal vertel, wil ik benadrukken dat dit niet per se de ultieme waarheid is. Dit is mijn verhaal, mijn eigen interpretatie van een reeks ingrijpende momenten in mijn leven en dus mijn waarheid. Ik wil gewoon mijn verhaal kunnen vertellen, want ik heb ontdekt dat dit niet alleen mijn verhaal is, maar ook dat van vele andere mensen.
Ik ben een vijfentwintigjarige vrouw en afgestudeerd als journalist. Nederland voelde nooit echt als mijn thuis, dus werkte en reisde ik door Europa als henna-artiest, burlesquedanseres en als beveiliger tijdens de Oktoberfeesten in Duitsland. Nu ben ik terug in Nederland, en na een tijdje hoofdredacteur te zijn geweest, werk ik nu als werkcoach voor mensen met een handicap.
Mijn moeder zei dat ik me als baby al vreemd gedroeg, alsof ik niet goed kon omgaan met mijn kleine, lompe babylichaampje. Ik was drie jaar toen ik me voor het eerst heel erg slecht begon te voelen. Ik was altijd ziek, kon niet stoppen met huilen en voelde me erg naar en misselijk zodra iemand me op zijn of haar schoot nam. De dokter wist niet wat er met me aan de hand was, mijn moeder was ten einde raad. Ze besloot uiteindelijk een alternatieve geneesheer te raadplegen, iets wat destijds erg controversieel was. Hij zei dat ik overprikkeld was en sloot met wat speciale technieken de energie af in mijn kamer. Het klinkt abstract, maar het hielp wel.
Enkele jaren later werd ik weer angstig. Ik had het gevoel dat ik elke nacht bezocht werd door een indringer die me mee wilde nemen. Elke nacht was ik bang om in slaap te vallen. Ik verstopte me tussen een fort van vijf teddyberen en sliep altijd met mijn stokpaardje dicht bij me, omdat dat me een gevoel van veiligheid gaf. Als er de volgende ochtend een knuffel was verplaatst, of mijn deken was omgewoeld, wist ik het zeker: iemand was die nacht in mijn kamer gekomen. Ik was vijf jaar, en doodsbang.
Toen ik zeven was had ik mijn eerste slaapverlamming. Ik viel in slaap, schoot weer wakker, maar kon me niet bewegen. Mijn lichaam was volledig verlamd. Iemand fluisterde constant mijn naam in mijn oor, en ik hoorde ratelend, mechanisch gezoem – zoals een wasmachine. Zodra ik wakker schoot, liep ik naar mijn moeder om het te vertellen. Ze zei dat er niets was waar ik me zorgen over hoefde te maken.
Het is nooit mijn moeders intentie geweest, maar vanaf dat moment durfde ik niet meer over mijn ervaring te praten. Ondertussen werd het steeds erger.
Toen ik een dertien was werden die nachten alsmaar intenser. Tijdens een nacht hoorde ik weer dat mechanische gezoem. Ik was volledig verlamd en terwijl ik me wilde omdraaien, voelde ik dat mijn benen werden opengeduwd. Plots had ik het gevoel dat er een grote nagel van misschien wel vijftien centimeter bij me naar binnendrong, en mijn eitjes weggeschraapt werden. Ik voelde me misbruikt en dacht dat ik krankzinnig was geworden, maar wilde er nog steeds met niemand over praten. Een van mijn rauwste ervaringen was een ontmoeting met een man die me vertelde dat ik was uitgekozen om seks te hebben met een god. Hij vertelde me dat het een eer was, en dat het respectloos was om het af te wijzen, maar ik wilde het niet. Toch liet ik me ompraten, maar de seks was allesbehalve spiritueel of verlichtend. Ik werd wakker met een intense pijn aan mijn vagina. Het was een ongelooflijk traumatiserende ervaring.
Die slechte nachtrust en vreselijke ervaringen zorgden ervoor dat ik op instorten stond. Ik was zodanig futloos en angstig, dat mijn moeder me naar school moest brengen en weer ophalen, anders hield ik het niet vol. Mijn moeder besefte dat er iets moest veranderen en probeerde zich open te stellen voor mijn vreemde verhalen, om beter te kunnen begrijpen wat er met me gebeurde.
Vanaf toen ben ik mijn ervaringen en dromen gaan analyseren en bestuderen. Ik kwam erachter dat ik me tijdens die verlamming in een andere dimensie bevond, mee kon luisteren met de gesprekken, en zelfs mee kon praten. Zo ontdekte ik steeds beter wat er met me aan het gebeuren was. Elke nacht leerde ik meer van de wezens die me bezochten, door naar gesprekken te luisteren en te kijken naar wat er om me heen gebeurde. Ik werd steeds minder bang, omdat ik zo leerde dat die wezens me geen kwaad wilden doen. Ik bleek namelijk enkel een onderdeel te zijn van hun voorplantingprogramma – ze gebruiken mijn eitjes om nieuwe wezens te maken. Door deze kennis kon ik langzaam herstellen van al die traumatiserende nachten.
Je vraagt je waarschijnlijk af hoe zeker ik ben dat dit me allemaal echt is overkomen. Ten eerste herinner ik me de gesprekken net zo helder als telefoongesprekken. Mijn zus – die altijd naast me sliep – heeft bovendien het bed geregeld zien bewegen, en me vaak vreemde dingen horen zeggen in mijn slaap. Ook werd ik soms wakker met fysiek letsel, zoals twee blauwe plekjes op de plaatsen waar ik een injectie kreeg door een alien tijdens mijn uittreding. Toch zijn ook dat niet echt bewijzen, althans niet voor de buitenwereld, maar ik hoef me ook niet meer te bewijzen. Ik weet wat ik meegemaakt heb, en ik heb het ook nooit anders gekend
Sinds ik die ervaringen geaccepteerd heb als een deel van mijn leven, heb ik ook geleerd ervan te genieten. Daarbij merk ik ook dat mijn hersenen alsmaar meer beelden toelaten, waardoor ik de aliens steeds vaker echt kan zien, in de plaats van alleen te voelen. Toen ik veertien was had ik een prachtige ervaring: ik zag een blauwachtige alien, die zodra hij me zag ‘mama!’ uitschreeuwde van blijdschap. Ik zag het als mijn zoontje van een andere wereld.
Ook de seksuele ervaringen werden steeds leuker. Op een avond werd ik bezocht door een draakachtig wezen dat als een slang om mijn lichaam gleed. Alle kleine plekjes van mijn lichaam werden gestimuleerd. Het was sensueel en ongelooflijk geil. Ik ben dus niet meer bang, maar laat het toe. Ik ben me er bewust van dat niemand me pijn wil doen, en dat die wezens er waarschijnlijk niet eens beseffen dat ik alles zo helder ervaar.
Ik heb mijn ‘multi-dimensionale leven’ dus geaccepteerd, maar dat betekent niet dat mijn omgeving dat ook doet. Een lange tijd heb ik daardoor nooit over mijn ervaringen gepraat. Tot dat ik niet meer anders kon. Ik realiseerde dat niet de griezelige bezoeken, ontvoeringen en seksuele ervaringen traumatiserend waren, maar vooral het feit dat ik het met geen enkel ander mens kon bespreken. Ik voelde me zo ongelofelijk anders en kon mezelf en de dromen totaal geen plekje geven.
Mijn moeder is heel begripvol en de mensen in mijn directe omgeving doen ook hun best om me te begrijpen, maar ik merk dat mensen het heel moeilijk vinden om me serieus te nemen. En dat is prima. Mensen vinden me raar. Lange tijd wilde ik me echt bewijzen en mensen zelfs overtuigen van mijn verhaal. Dat werkte averechts. Nu wil ik dat niet meer doen, maar ik wil wel nog steeds mijn verhaal kunnen vertellen, zonder mensen heel erg te choqueren. Daarom heb ik besloten mijn verhalen te vertellen aan de hand van tekeningen.
Ik schilder de wezens die me bezoeken en deel die schilderijen met de wereld. Sommige aliens heb ik in detail kunnen zien en kan ik zo naschilderen, bij anderen heb ik het beeld meer gebaseerd op het gevoel dat ze me gaven. Ik hang de schilderijen soms op in mijn kamer, afhankelijk van in wat voor bui ik ben. Sommige schilderijen verkoop ik voor vijftig euro.
Maar veel schilderijtjes zet ik gewoon op Instagram, zodat mensen er naar kunnen kijken en zelf hun conclusies kunnen trekken. Sommige mensen lachen, anderen zijn geïntrigeerd en stellen vragen. Weer anderen vinden het gewoon mooi, en zien het puur als iets artistiek of hebben een hele emotionele reactie hierop, omdat ze zich hier in herkennen. Ik ben namelijk niet de enige die dergelijke ervaringen heeft: over de hele wereld zijn er duizenden gelijkwaardige getuigenissen van mensen die ook bezocht worden door aliens. Voor hen zijn deze tekeningen ook een steun, omdat ze niet beseffen dat ze alleen zijn. En wat mensen ook vinden, over een ding kunnen we allemaal eens zijn: de kans is vrij klein dat we de enigen zijn in dit universum. Dat is een gedachte die me vooral erg vrolijk maakt.
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alle schilderijen / illustraties zijn gemaakt door Astrid de WOLF
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De dag dat een hele school een vliegende schotel zag. Deze geluidsopname werpt nieuw licht op Australisch UFO-mysterie
De dag dat een hele school een vliegende schotel zag. Deze geluidsopname werpt nieuw licht op Australisch UFO-mysterie
In 1966 zagen meer dan 300 leerlingen en leerkrachten van een school in Melbourne meerdere UFO’s door de lucht vliegen en in een nabijgelegen weiland landen.
Hoewel het ging om de grootste massale UFO-waarneming in Australië, werd er indertijd nauwelijks aandacht aan besteed.
Sommigen dachten dat er buitenaardse wezens in de objecten zaten, terwijl anderen meenden dat het een nieuwe technologie was die werd getest door de overheid.
Nieuw licht
Er is een geluidsopname opgedoken die een nieuw licht werpt op de waarneming.
De Amerikaanse natuurkundige James E. McDonald interviewde een leraar van de school, Andrew Greenwood, die getuige was geweest van het spektakel.
Een hysterisch kind rende zijn klaslokaal in en zei dat er buiten een vliegende schotel was te zien. Hij dacht dat het kind gek was geworden, maar besloot toch te gaan kijken.
Eenmaal buiten gekomen zag hij een groep kinderen die aan de rand van het schoolterrein naar iets stonden te kijken. Toen hij de kinderen naderde zag hij een UFO boven de elektriciteitskabels vliegen.
Kat-en-muisspel
Greenwood omschreef het als een cirkelvormig, zilverkleurig object ter grootte van een auto.
Volgens dr. McDonald was hij erg onder de indruk van het verschijnsel. “Vliegtuigen deden er alles aan om het object te naderen,” zei hij.
“Elke keer als ze in de buurt kwamen, remde het af om vervolgens weer te versnellen,” vertelde Greenwood aan hem. “Ze gingen er weer achteraan en zo bleef dat enige tijd doorgaan.”
Dit kat-en-muisspel duurde ongeveer 20 minuten en in de tussentijd stonden er 350 leerlingen en leerkrachten te kijken.
Mannen in zwarte pakken
Plotseling verdween de UFO in het niets, waarna de schooldirecteur iedereen opdracht gaf naar binnen te gaan.
De directeur zei tegen de leerlingen dat ze zwaar zouden worden gestraft als erover spraken en dat de leraren hun baan zouden verliezen als ze er ook maar iets over zeiden, aldus Greenwood.
Meerdere getuigen hebben daarnaast gezegd dat ze naderhand bezoek kregen van mannen in zwarte pakken en te horen kregen dat ze er niet over mochten praten.
Radioactive isotopes found in Australian sheep have added credence to the theory that Israel conducted an illegal nuclear test over the Indian Ocean 39 years ago.
The findings, published in a new study for Science and Global Security, shed intriguing new light on the mysterious Vela Incident, as it is known, of September 22, 1979.
At 12.53am GMT on the date, the US satellite Vela 6911 detected the 'double flash' characteristic of a nuclear explosion in the southern Indian Ocean, near the Prince Edward Islands about halfway between Africa and Antarctica.
Advisors to then-President Jimmy Carter rushed to brief him on the incident, and security officials immediately speculated that the event was an Israeli nuclear test conducted in cooperation with apartheid South Africa, Carter wrote in his memoirs.
This map published with the new study extrapolates the likely nuclear plume from a detonation near the Prince Edward Island. The areas in purple show rainfall that could have carried fallout
However, an official US government panel convened to study the matter delivered an equivocal finding that downplayed the likelihood of a nuclear explosion.
Israel, whose presumed nuclear arsenal is considered an open secret by many, has steadfastly refuse to confirm or deny whether it has a nuclear program.
Now, the new study by Christopher Wright of the Australian Defence Force Academy and retired Swedish Defence Research Agency nuclear physicist Lars-Erik De Geer, offers new clues.
The researchers reveal the discovery of iodine-131 in the thyroids of some Australian sheep in October and November of 1979. The thyroids were sent to the US for analysis at the time, but the results were never made public.
The researchers write that the isotope levels 'would be consistent with them having grazed in the path of a potential radioactive fallout plume from a 22 September low-yield nuclear test in the Southern Indian Ocean.'
The study reveals that the isotope iodine-131 in the thyroids of some Australian sheep in October and November of 1979. Pictured: Sheep in New South Wales earlier this month
The findings include analysis of weather patterns that suggest the fallout plume from a nuclear explosion would have looped over parts of Australia.
As well, the study analyzes declassified descriptions of an underwater sound wave detected by US listening posts that correlated with the double flash near the Prince Edward Islands, which are uninhabited except for a South African government research station.
The new study 'removes virtually all doubt that the 'flash' was a nuclear explosion,' Leonard Weiss wrote for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
'This strengthens previous analyses concluding that Israel likely carried out a nuclear test in violation of US law and the Limited Test Ban Treaty,' the nuclear nonproliferation expert wrote.
'Israel was the only country that had the technical ability and policy motivation to carry out such a clandestine test, which, according to some sources, was the last of several and was detected by the Vela satellite because of a sudden change in cloud cover,' Weiss wrote.
Israel for its part maintains a strategic silence on the question of a nuclear weapons arsenal.
Asked if Israel was responsible for the Vela Incident, Israel's Ambassador to New Zealand, Itzhak Gerberg, told the New Zealand Herald: 'Simply a ridiculous assumption that does not hold water.'
The Limited Test Ban Treaty went into force in 1963 and bans nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water, rendering legal only those nuclear tests performed underground.
Israel signed the treaty in 1963 and ratified it in 1964.
With as many nuclear weapons as there are out there in the world, it’s amazing there haven’t been more mishaps, accidents, or rogue detonations. While there have been a few close calls like the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash in my home state of North Carolina, so far we’ve been lucky not to have any major incidents. That we know of, that is.
Although it’s kind of hard to hide a mushroom cloud. Unless it’s underground or underwater…
While a nuclear weapon detonation would be pretty difficult to conceal, unexplained clouds of radiation circling the globe over the last year or two might suggest that someone is testing weapons on the sly. While in this most recent case there’s little to go on other than anomalous radiation detection, a still unexplained incident from 1979 came complete with an unidentified double flash of bright light. The American-operated Vela Hotel satellite detected two anomalous bright flashes of light near the Prince Edward Islands off the coast of Antarctica. It was determined at the time that the flashes likely came from a secret nuclear detonation – yet the perpetrator remained unknown.
Now, new research conducted by scientists at the Otago University at Wellington add to the suspicion that the Vela incident was indeed a nuclear detonation. The researchers examined previously unpublished studies of sheep thyroid glands conducted by U.S. military researchers in Australia following the incident and discovered abnormally high levels of iodine-131, a byproduct of nuclear weapons. According to their publication, these findings support the theory that the Vela anomaly was indeed the result of a clandestine nuclear test:
Iodine-131 found in the thyroids of some Australian sheep would be consistent with them having grazed in the path of a potential radioactive fallout plume from a 22 September low-yield nuclear test in the Southern Indian Ocean. Further, several declassified letters and reports which describe aspects of still classified hydroacoustic reports and data favor the test scenario.
Based on intelligence gathered by American spy agencies, it was assumed in the wake of the incident that Israel and South Africa likely conducted a joint nuclear test. That intelligence was then likely buried in order to preserve the United States’ strategic alliance with Israel. Even so, Otago University’s Nick Wilson told the New Zealand Herald that this study of sheep thyroids “adds to the evidence base that this was an illegal nuclear weapons test, very likely to have been conducted by Israel with assistance from the apartheid regime in South Africa,” a test which would have been in violation with the Limited Test Ban Treaty.
Who knew sheep thyroids could help solve one of the world’s nuclear mystery?
This incident really has to make you wonder: how many nuclear detonations or tests have gone undetected or have been assumed to be something else entirely? Even if the answer is “one,” it’s a pretty chilling thought.
In a recent article at his UFO Conjectures blog, Rich Reynolds addressed the matter of UFOs and LSD. The article is titled “LSD, Hallucinations, and UFOs.” You can find it here. Rich says: “Most of you know about the notorious CIA program, MK-Ultra, that, in 1959, experimented with LSD on military personnel and volunteers.” He adds: “I’ve always thought (and written) that the Pascagoula encounter (Hickson/Parker) and Travis Walton’s ‘abduction’ may have been drug induced.”
Having known Rich for far more than a few years, I should note that he has a deep interest in the possibility that at least some significant UFO incidents may have had a hallucinogen of some kind at their core. We’re not, however, talking here about using LSD for recreational purposes. Instead, we’re talking about situations which may have been utilized – by military and intelligence services – to, in essence, fake a UFO event. The reason? Maybe to try and gauge the extent to which the human mind can be manipulated? To fake alien encounters as a means to make us believe we have extraterrestrials among us when, perhaps, we don’t? To determine how easy it might be to create a bogus extraterrestrial event? The controversial questions are many. The answers are far less so. What we can say, though, is that there are a surprising number of cases on record that just might fall into one or more of the above categories. I’ll share with you three of many.
We’ll start with a man named Orfeo Angelucci. He was one of that controversial band of people who claimed – largely in the 1950s – encounters with very human-like ETs. They were known as the Space Brothers. As for the eyewitnesses like Angelucci, they were titled the Contactees. Angelucci’s aliens were here to save us from self-destruction – as were most of the Space Brothers of that era. It was when Angelucci started talking about the Space-Brothers (and Sisters too) being Communists, and also claiming meetings with mysterious human characters wh0 wanted Angelucci to insert the Communist angle into his lectures, that things got very strange. It was then that Angelucci got a weird visitor. And a weird experience, too.
Angelucci claimed that on one particular evening in December 1954, he traveled out to a diner in Twentynine Palms, California. The reason was to meet with an odd, enigmatic character called Adam, who wanted to discuss his, Angelucci’s, experiences. Although Adam appeared human, Angelucci wasn’t at all sure that was the case. Things got weird when, as they sat and chatted, Adam asked Angelucci to take a pill, which he passed to him. Incredibly, Angelucci did exactly that: he put it in his mouth and knocked it back with a mysterious drink provided by Adam.
It wasan’t long before Angelucci felt decidedly spaced-out. He began to hallucinate: nothing less than a little woman (and I do mean little, as in just inches tall) danced in his drink. Reality had gone right out of the window. And, on top of that, Angelucci was aware of two men in military uniforms sitting close by. They were intently watching every move that Angelucci made, and they seemed to note his every word spoken to Adam. Something caused Angelucci to spill the beans on his connections to the Space Brothers, the matter of communism, and more. Maybe someone in government wanted to find out what Angelucci really knew about communist aliens. Or, maybe, it was a case of concerns that Angelucci was being used – wittingly or not – to promote communism via the UFO subject. Whatever the answer, it seems very likely that Angelucci had been drugged by something that caused him to tell all that he knew and, in the process, fall into a deeply drugged state.
Then, there is the matter of Antonio Villas Boas. He was a Brazilian man who claimed, in late 1957, to have had wild sex with an equally wild babe from the stars, after having been kidnapped onto a UFO. An early alien abduction? Yep. Or maybe not. In the late-1970s, the aforementioned Rich Reynolds had contact with a very controversial – and by all accounts unlikable – figure named Bosco Nedelcovic, who had links to the world of intelligence, and who claimed that the Villas Boas affair was not what it appeared to be. He told Rich that, in reality, Villas Boas was the unwitting player in a new and novel experiment. According to Nedelcovic, the UFO that Villas Boas saw over his family’s property was really a helicopter. Not only that, Villas Boas was supposedly hit by some kind of mind-altering aerosol spray that quickly placed him into an altered state, after the pilot of the helicopter flew right over him. As for the girl from the stars, she was said to have really been a hooker, a girl hired to take Villas Boas on the closest encounter of all. But, it was all a ruse: a mind-bending event designed to fabricate a UFO incident.
Like it or not, but the fact is that Villas Boas’ own words suggest strongly that he was indeed taken on-board a helicopter. Read Villas Boas’ words carefully. The craft, he said, was “like an elongated egg.” On the top of the craft there was, “something which was revolving at great speed and also giving off a powerful fluorescent reddish light” (rotor-blades? Probably, yes). As the craft took to the skies, it made a loud noise, “a sort of beat” (which is a perfect description of the noise associated with a helicopter). Put all those factors together and it sounds very much like a helicopter. Moving on…
In his article, Rich mentioned the famous October 1973 alien abduction of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker at Pascagoula, Mississippi. The case has become a classic in alien abduction circles. It’s a little-known fact, though, that just a few miles from where Parker and Hickson were taken is a stretch of land called Horn Island. In the latter stages of the Second World War, the military used Horn Island as a place where biological-warfare research was undertaken. Matters were brought to an end when the Second World War was over. The official line is that research in the area was cancelled. There are, however, local tales of covert operations and experiments into mind-manipulation as late as the early 1970s, and only around ten-to-twenty miles away, within newer facilities. In terms of what may have specifically been used in these operations, fingers point in the direction of BZ. Or, to give it its correct name: 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate. It’s most well-known name is “Buzz.” It can provoke significant hallucinations.
Is it possible that some classic UFO events were actually nothing of the sort, but that were – in a very strange way – even weirder…?
Astronomers Delivering the Lunar Truth - UFO’s and Alien Structures
Astronomers Delivering the Lunar Truth - UFO’s and Alien Structures
Home-based astronomers coming through where others are failing us, thanks to these people who are revealing the truth about what actually is going on the Moon.
This is an interesting compilation of Moon anomalies, cities, flying objects over the Moon, structures, machinery and more.
Guys, I found three UFOs in one NASA Apollo 10 photo today. Two of the UFOs are oval mushroom-like and one is very long and wide. All the UFOs are kicking up a big dust storm on the surface of the moon, because they are flying so low to the surface. I actually believe the that they may have scraped the surface to deliberately cause a dust storm as a warning to the Apollo 10 astronauts on board the module. The aliens may have felt threatened by the presence of the humans and probably wanted to send a message to stay away, the moon belongs to someone else. If you look carefully at the photos, you will see that the two round UFOs do have trails behind them caused by the dust and their propulsion system. Also the long UFO is so close to the surface of the moon that its shadow and dust are visible below it. The long UFO is so close to the surface that the distance from the ground to the UFO is actually the width of UFO itself. This all took place near MARE FECUNDITATI crater.
De bolvormige sterrenhoop is simpelweg al te vol… met sterren.
Eén plek in het enorme universum kunnen we dus alweer van de lijst afstrepen. In de jacht naar bewoonbare exoplaneten leek Omega Centauri in eerste instantie best een goede optie. Maar nee, de hoop op leven is vervlogen.
OP ZOEK NAAR LEVEN
Onderzoekers zijn al lange tijd op zoek naar leven in het universum dat lijkt op het onze. Hoewel buitenaardse beschavingen op dit moment nog niet gevonden zijn, zou een boodschap van aliens daar weleens verandering in kunnen brengen. Maar wat zouden we eigenlijk moeten doen met het eerste bericht van aliens? De discussie barst los.
Omega Centauri Omega Centauri is de grootste bolvormige sterrenhoop in de Melkweg. Hij heeft een dicht opeengepakt cluster van sterren, naar schatting komen er zo’n 10 miljoen voor. Het cluster is ‘slechts’ 16.000 lichtjaren van de aarde verwijderd en is hierdoor met het blote oog zelfs zichtbaar. Omdat Omega Centauri relatief dichtbij staat, is hij een goed doelwit voor observaties met de Hubble ruimtetelescoop. “Omdat dit type cluster van compacte sterren overal in het universum bestaat, is het een interessante plaats om te zoeken naar leven,” zegt hoofdauteur Stephen Kane.
Sterren Het onderzoek begon met het bekijken van zo’n 470.000 sterren in alle kleuren van de regenboog, die in de kern van Omega Centauri vertoeven. 350.000 hiervan vonden de onderzoekers voornamelijk interessant. Hun kleur – de graadmeter voor hun temperatuur en leeftijd – betekent dat ze mogelijk leven zouden kunnen herbergen. Voor elke ster berekende de onderzoekers vervolgens de leefbare zone. Dit is de zone rond elke ster waarin een rotsachtige planeet mogelijk over vloeibaar water kan beschikken – een belangrijk ingrediënt voor leven zoals we dat kennen. Omdat de meeste sterren in de kern van Omega Centauri rode dwergen zijn, zijn hun leefbare zones veel dichterbij dan die rond onze eigen, grotere zon.
Leven Het idee dat er eventueel bewoonbare planeten in Omega Centauri zouden zijn, is op zichzelf geen gekke gedachte. “In de kern van Omega Centauri konden mogelijk ontelbare compacte planetaire systemen bestaan, die bewoonbare planeten herbergen,” zegt Kane. “Een voorbeeld van zo’n systeem is TRAPPIST-1, een miniatuurversie van ons eigen zonnestelsel, dat op dit moment wordt beschouwd als een van de meest veelbelovende plekken om te zoeken naar buitenaards leven.”
Maar uiteindelijk dwong de stampensvolle groep sterren in Omega Centauri tot de conclusie dat dergelijke planetaire systemen niet in de kern van het cluster kunnen bestaan. Onze eigen zon is zo’n 4,22 lichtjaren van zijn naaste buur verwijderd, terwijl de gemiddeld afstand tussen de sterren in de kern van Omega Centauri 0,16 lichtjaar is. Dat betekent dat er ongeveer één keer in de miljoen jaar een ontmoeting zou plaatsvinden tussen naastgelegen sterren. “De snelheid waarmee sterren door zwaartekracht met elkaar in contact komen zou te hoog zijn om stabiele, bewoonbare planeten te herbergen,” concludeert onderzoeker Sarah Deveny. Het bestuderen van bolvormige clusters met minder sterren zou dus kunnen betekenen dat de kans op het vinden van stabiele bewoonbare planeten wat groter is.
Rand van zonnestelsel mogelijk voorgoed veranderd door ontmoeting met andere ster
Rand van zonnestelsel mogelijk voorgoed veranderd door ontmoeting met andere ster
Vivian Lammerse
Een zonachtige ster zou miljarden jaren geleden ons zonnestelsel verstoord hebben.
Deze hypothese van onderzoekers van het Max Planck Instituut kan een hoop opvallende kenmerken van het buitenste deel van het zonnestelsel goed verklaren. Hoe zit het bijvoorbeeld met de lagere massadichtheid aan de rand van het zonnestelsel? En waarom hebben sommige planeten zo’n vreemde baan? Een indringende ster zou hier weleens wat mee te maken kunnen hebben.
ONTMOETINGEN
Ontmoetingen van sterren zoals beschreven in de studie zijn erg zeldzaam. Echter, sterren zoals onze zon worden in de meeste gevallen geboren in grote groepen sterren, die veel dichter op elkaar zijn gepakt. Daarom kwamen scheervluchten van sterren in het verre verleden wat vaker voor. De onderzoekers ontdekten dat de kans op een dergelijke scheervlucht in de eerste miljard jaar van het leven van de zon, zo’n 20 tot 30 procent was.
Zonnestelsel Ons zonnestelsel vormde zich miljarden jaren terug. En onze zon is waarschijnlijk ongeveer tegelijkertijd ontstaan uit een enorme gaswolk. Tijdens dit proces ontstond er een vlakke schijf, waar niet alleen grotere planeten zich vormden, maar ook kleinere objecten zoals planetoïden en dwergplaneten.
Opvallende kenmerken Vanwege de vlakheid van de schijf zou je verwachten dat de baan van de planeten rond is. En als we kijken tot Neptunus, dan lijkt dat ook het geval. De meeste planeten hebben vrij ronde banen en hun orbitale hellingen variëren slechts in een geringe mate. Maar na Neptunus wordt het allemaal wat rommeliger. Neem bijvoorbeeld de dwergplaneet Sedna. Deze beweegt in een hellende, zeer excentrische baan. Daarnaast is Sedna het verst gelegen lid in ons zonnestelsel. Net buiten de baan van Neptunus gebeurt er nog iets vreemds. De cumulatieve massa van alle objecten daar daalt namelijk drastisch met bijna drie ordes van grootte.
Verklaring Hoe zijn deze afwijkingen te verklaren? De nieuwe studie suggereert dat miljarden jaren terug een ster de pasgeboren zon naderde en vervolgens het meeste van het buitenste materiaal van de protoplanetaire schijf wegkaapte. Het overgebleven materiaal bleef achter in hellende en excentrische banen. Tot deze conclusie kwamen de onderzoekers niet gemakkelijk. Ze voerden duizenden computersimulaties uit om te controleren wat voor effect een ster zou hebben als hij dichtbij de schijf in de buurt zou komen en de boel zou verstoren. De ster had waarschijnlijk dezelfde massa als onze zon en vloog voorbij op ongeveer 3 keer de afstand tot Neptunus.
De hypothese verklaart niet alleen de vreemde banen van objecten aan de rand van het zonnestelsel, maar biedt daarnaast ook een natuurlijke verklaring voor sommige andere opvallende kenmerken. Bijvoorbeeld de massaverhouding tussen Neptunus en Uranus en het bestaan van twee verschillende kuipergordel objecten.
“Het is belangrijk dat we alle mogelijkheden over de vorming van het buitenste deel van ons zonnestelsel afgaan,” zegt co-auteur Pedro Lacerda. “En hoewel we steeds meer informatie verkrijgen, is er nog veel bewegingsruimte binnen verschillende theorieën. Onze hypothese laat echter zien dat veel van wat we op dit moment weten, verklaard kan worden door iets simpels als een stellaire scheervlucht van een ster.” Hoewel de theorie relatief realistisch is, geeft het nog geen definitief bewijs dat de ster daadwerkelijk de opvallende kenmerken aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel heeft veroorzaakt. Daarom moet het vooral worden beschouwd als een optie, die de vorming van het buitenste gedeelte van het zonnestelsel op een andere manier kan verklaren.
The Pentagon secretly studied ‘exotic and sophisticated’ UFO technologies, bombshell letter reveals
The Pentagon secretly studied ‘exotic and sophisticated’ UFO technologies, bombshell letter reveals
Jasper Hamill
The Pentagon’s secret UFO research programme carried out investigations into a range of ‘exotic’ futuristic technologies, a letter between a US Senator and the Deputy Secretary of Defence has revealed.
Documents relating to a highly sensitive investigation government project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) confirm that the US has studied a range of futuristic technologies which would allow it to exercise global military dominance for decades to come.
This programme is dedicated to exploring ‘ unexplained aerial phenomena’ and is believed to have written a 490-page report which collects together UFO sightings from around the world.
The world first heard about AATIP last year, when footage of an encounter between an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet and an oval-shaped UFO travelling at astonishing speed was released.
A photograph of a fast-moving UFO spotted over the Atlantic by two US Navy pilots
Now a letter sent from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to William Lynn III, Deputy Secretary of Defense, has revealed tantalising new details of the US government’s exploration of ‘disruptive aerospace technologies’.
Although the correspondence does not mention aliens or UFOs, it appears to confirm the US Senate ordered an assessment of ‘far term foreign aerospace threats’. It is not known whether these threats were alien in origin – or came from some rival military power.
It said these include ‘extremely sophisticated concepts within the world of quantum mechanics, nuclear science, electromagnetic theory, gravitics [anti-gravity], and thermodynamics’. technologies ‘have the potential to be used with catastrophic effects by adversaries’ Senator Reid warned in his letter, which was obtained by Las Vegas Now.
The letter also said ‘much progress has been made with the identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings’.
‘Ultimately, the results of AATIP will not only benefit the US Government but I believe will directly benefit the Department of Defense in ways not imagined,’ he wrote.
‘The technological insight and capability gained will provide the US with a distinct advantage over any foreign threats and allow the US to maintain its preeminence as a world leader.’
Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator for the British Ministry of Defence, said the ‘bombshell’ document ‘reveals much more about the AATIP project than was previously known’.
‘These staggering revelations show just how seriously the US government took the issue. Irrespective of what they believed about the true nature of the UFO phenomenon, this letter gives a telling insight into the reasons why the Pentagon was interested, and what they thought the threats and opportunities might be,’ he told The Metro
However, what the document does not give us is the answer to the question of whether humanity is alone in the universe.
In fact, there is no mention of aliens in the letter and it only really discusses the military implications of futurist technology.
Pope previously told Metro AATIP looked at UFO sightings as part of a wider intelligence assessment of the threat from next-generation aircraft, missiles and drones,
‘The UK government took a similar view, and some of us involved in looking at this subject in the MoD referred to the ‘novel military applications’ that we felt might be derived from a fuller understanding of the phenomenon,’ Pope added.
The truth about the US Government’s UFO programme is probably not as out there as some alien hunters would hope
‘Weaponisation was one of the things in our minds, and we shared US concerns that certain foreign nations (particularly Russia and China) were looking at this too, and might beat us to the punch.
‘In the MoD, we dropped the term ‘UFO’ and replaced it with ‘UAP’ (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), both to reframe the debate and to obscure our true goals.
‘Harry Reid’s letter goes one better. The project was described in terms designed to give anyone not cleared for access the impression that this was some sort of study into next-generation aircraft, missiles and drones.
‘Whatever the truth of the matter, it’s time to drop our prejudices about the subject and to stop referring to “flying saucers” and “little green men”.
‘It’s time to realise that whatever we’re dealing with, there are serious defence and national security issues involved and that the US, the UK, Russia, China – and maybe others – are engaged in potentially game-changing work on this subject.’
Luis Elizondo, former head of the AATIP
(Picture: UFO Congress/YouTube)
Last year, the AATIP program manager, Luis Elizondo, said he believed there is ‘very compelling evidence we may not be alone’.
He also recently suggested mysterious ‘metamaterials’ which may have come from crashed alien spacecraft are being stored by the American government in specially modified warehouses in Las Vegas.
Heeft Google per ongeluk een geheime legerbasis vastgelegd in de Gobiwoestijn? Bekijk dit filmpje
Heeft Google per ongeluk een geheime legerbasis vastgelegd in de Gobiwoestijn? Bekijk dit filmpje
Op internet wordt druk gespeculeerd over een filmpje waarin wordt gesuggereerd dat op Google Earth een verborgen militaire basis in de Gobiwoestijn is gespot.
In onderstaande video is de vreemde vondst te zien. In eerste instantie lijkt het te gaan om een verlaten industriegebied, maar als je inzoomt kun je allerlei landingsbanen onderscheiden.
Gedacht wordt dat we hier te maken hebben met een soort geheim ruimteprogramma op een verlaten vliegveld in de woestijn.
Grote UFO
Het filmpje leidde tot veel reacties, schrijft persbureau Sputnik. Steve stelde dat het ‘lijkt op een oude legerbasis’.
En Robin Bird schreef dat de vliegtuigen ‘eruitzien alsof ze zich kunnen voortbewegen als een helikopter’.
RazorSharp zei dat het object ‘lijkt op een grote UFO’. “Ik heb het niet over buitenaardsen, maar over een UFO, en de vliegtuigen staan er bovenop,” klonk het. “Het ziet er raar uit.”
Testgebied
Anderen waren minder enthousiast. “Het is gewoon een testgebied voor verkenningsvliegtuigen,” schreef joshreynolds723. “Elk land dat over satellieten, ballistische raketten of ISR-vliegtuigen beschikt, heeft zo’n testgebied.”
Je kun zelf op onderzoek uitgaan door de volgende coördinaten te gebruiken: 43°04’51.75″N/92°48’26.85″E.
On July 16, 2016, British ufologist and conspiracy theorist Max Spiers died in Poland days before he was to speak at a conspiracy theory conference and just after allegedly vomiting two liters of a mysterious black liquid. Before he left England, Spiers sent his mother a text message: “Your boy’s in trouble. If anything happens to me, investigate.” That investigation is ongoing and Spiers’ death has still not been solved. Now, a new twist emerges. During a pre-inquest review last week, lawyers for Spiers’ mother revealed that her son’s laptop computer had data on it at the time of his death but had been wiped clean when it was returned to her. Apparently, the SIM card from his phone was also either erased or removed. Who is behind this and will it be resolved before the inquest in Poland in January 2019?
The pre-inquest review was held at Guildhall in Sandwich, Kent, on August 10, 2018. The attorney for Spiers’ mother, Vanessa Bates, requested that the members of the Polish emergency services to appear as witnesses at the inquest, most likely to explain how such a strange death could have been ruled to be due to “natural causes.” He also wants to know if disciplinary actions were taken against any of the police officers involved with the case. However, no request caused as much mayhem as the questions about the missing computer data and phone SIM card.
“The way in which they were returned and what was done to them is clearly one of the big mysteries. The family has no knowledge whatsoever of what the results of that analysis were. The issue is the Sim card and what was on it. Without sight of the report, the family has no answer to these questions.”
Neither does anyone else. The attorney asked that Spiers’ girlfriend at the time of his death, Monika Duval, be in attendance at the inquest. Spiers was found dead on Duval’s couch and she was considered to be a suspect by those who thought he was murdered, as was Spiers’ fiancé back in England.
“He was very fit and healthy when I said goodbye to him. Everything that we have in terms of health records before he went were that he was in great health. This was an enormous blow. I miss him dreadfully.”
Vanessa Bates and others were shocked by Spiers’ sudden death and the inquest is supposed to focus on how and why the investigation into Spiers’ death and his autopsy were so mishandled by Polish officials. With the questions about the computer data and the phone SIM card, there will obviously be questions about the conspiracy theories that Spiers was probing into the practice of “black magic” by well-known figures in politics, business and entertainment, or that this lifelong ufologist was actually a “supersoldier selected at birth by aliens.”
Coroner Christopher Sutton Mattocks said the four-day inquest will be heard starting on January 7, 2019, at the Archbishops Palace in Maidstone. He said:
“It is extremely important that when we start everybody is completely ready for this and we have all the information available.”
Will they be completely ready? Will the missing data be found or explained? Will they clear up the mysterious death of ufologist Max Spiers? Or will the mystery deepen?
Anew study has finally offered an explanation for Jupiter’s trippy colors and unusual swirls. These gaseous swirls have become the most recognizable aspect of the giant planet but also one of its most puzzling features. A team of scientists says they now understand what causes the planet’s distinctive color bands and why these swirls behave the way they do.
Astrophysicists Navid Constantinou and Jeffrey Parker have put forward a new theory that Jupiter’s jet streams, which control the flow of gasses around the planet’s outer atmosphere, are actually cut off and shaped by magnetized gasses from below Jupiter’s surface. Their findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal on Thursday.
Jupiter
Scientists have known that the colorful stripes of ammonia clouds that shape Jupiter’s look are guided by jet streams, or strong wind bands that sweep the gaseous planet. On the surface, these jet streams behave similarly to those on Earth’s atmosphere, but take on a different functionality below Jupiter’s atmospheric clouds. Thanks to the latest measurements from NASA’s Juno mission, which arrived at Jupiter on July 2016, scientists discovered these jet streams extend 3,000 kilometers (roughly 1,800 miles) deep before stopping abruptly, leaving Constantinou and Parker to wonder what causes such an exact end.
To get to the bottom of these jet streams, Constantinou and Parker created a mathematical model based on what is known about Earth’s own jet streams and weather patterns. Jupiter, which mostly consists of hydrogen and helium, experiences intense gas pressure below its surface which can force the electrons loose from hydrogen and helium molecules. Once these molecules are free to move around, they create electric and magnetic fields. And it just so happens that Jupiter doesn’t experience that level of pressure until the gas reaches 3,000 below the surface, precisely where the jet streams stop.
The team found that these jet streams flow to dictate the trippy patterns on Jupiter’s surface and end precisely at 3,000 kilometers due to pressurized magnetic fields. These magnetic fluctuations then influence the patterns and movements seen from space.
Constantinou and Parker say these calculatio
ns bring scientists one step closer to unraveling the mysterious interior of the gas giant. They plan to continue studying Jupiter’s magnetic fields and hope to one day see the planet as a space laboratory and example of how atmospheric flows can work on other planets.
Wake Up, Opportunity! Engineers Have an Awesome Playlist for NASA's Sleeping Mars Rover
Wake Up, Opportunity! Engineers Have an Awesome Playlist for NASA's Sleeping Mars Rover
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
An artist's depiction of one of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers, nicknamed Spirit and Opportunity. Opportunity has been offline for weeks due to low power caused by a massive dust storm. Engineers have a rockin' playlist of wake-up songs for the rover.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Engineers with NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program have been left hanging on like a yo-yo for 61 days now, after the space agency's Opportunity rover lost power during a Martian dust storm — but they've started greeting each new Martian day the rover may call with a themed song.
On Aug. 4 — Opportunity's 5,165th day on Mars — the rover was still asleep. But mission staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, hoped to inspire the robot to turn back on by playing Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" in the control room, beginning of a new tradition to wait out the storm.
"Morale has been a little shaky," Michael Staab, an engineer for the program at JPL who helped initiate the themed daily wake-up song for the humans waiting for Opportunity's long and nerve-wracking nap to end, told Space.com. "This is the first time she [Opportunity] has stopped talking to us and not resumed communication when we expected." [The Epic Mars Dust Storm of 2018 Explained]
The musical initiative in the control room isn't entirely new: Mission team members celebrated a daily wake-up song when Opportunity first landed on Mars nearly 15 years ago, in January 2004, Staab said. The rover's mission was originally planned to last just 90 days, but once it became clear that Opportunity would be staying in business on the Red Planet, the tradition faded.
Then, in May, came a dust storm to end all dust storms, which roiled around the entire planet and blotted out the sun — an awfully hazardous situation for a solar-powered robot. Opportunity hasn't produced so much as a chord, much less more substantive data, since June 10, according to NASA. (NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, by contrast, is nuclear-powered and thus has not suffered the same ill effects from the dust storm as the Opportunity rover.)
"That's a long time to not hear from your rover, and we don't know what it's doing," Staab said. And the engineers are feeling the change. "We still have things to do; we still have work to get done. But it's definitely slowed down a bit."
So mission team members have seized a few opportunities to keep their spirits up, Staab said. An informal betting pool is tracking guesses of when the rover will finally call home — dates range from early July to mid-September.
And they've started building a themed playlist to mark each new Martian day in the control room. For instance, Opportunity didn't respond as the team listened to Kansas' "Dust in the Wind" — although the band itself did. "The band actually reached out and was really excited that we were using one of their songs to wake up a Mars rover," Staab said. (We've gathered all the songs the team has already listened to while waiting for the rover, plus future options they're considering, in a Spotify playlist in case you'd like to listen along.)
Opportunity didn't chime in as its controllers listened to The Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" or Elton John's "Rocket Man," either, but the engineers aren't out of songs yet. "We'll just keep playing until she decides to talk to us," Staab said.
Maybe in the coming days the opening line "Hello, I've waited here for you everlong" will be the magic charm that revives (robotic) "Life on Mars," music fans on the team hope.
Although the dust storm has been clearing for about two weeks, NASA can't tell how long it might take Opportunity's batteries to charge up enough for the rover to finally call its humans — or whether Opportunity will sleep forever, for that matter.
"It could take weeks — hopefully not months," Staab said. "I wish we had something to share; I wish we had good news. But we keep listening every day."
And, fingers crossed, the rover will take to heart another upcoming suggestion: Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive."
High-Energy Whodunit: The Origins of the 'OMG Particle'
High-Energy Whodunit: The Origins of the 'OMG Particle'
By Paul Sutter, Astrophysicist
Gamma-ray bursts from distant stars, as shown in this artist's illustration, are one possible source of the ultra-powerful "OMG particles" that occasionally hit scientists' detectors on Earth.
Right now, as you read this very text, your DNA is getting sliced up by tiny, invisible bullets. The damage-dealers are known as cosmic rays, even though they are absolutely not rays — but the name stuck from a historical misunderstanding. Instead, they're particles: electrons and protons, mostly, but occasionally heavier things like helium or even iron nuclei.
These cosmic particles are trouble, because a) they're fast, and so have a lot of kinetic energy to toss around and b) they're electrically charged. This means they can ionize our poor DNA nucleotides, ripping them apart and occasionally leading to uncontrollable replication errors (aka, cancer). ['Superstar' Eta Carinae Acts Like a Ginormous Cosmic-Ray Gun, But Why?]
As if this wasn't bad enough, every once in a while, roughly once per square kilometer per year, a particle comes screaming into our upper atmosphere at truly monstrous speed, knocking against a hapless nitrogen or oxygen molecule and cascading into a shower of lower-energy (but still deadly, of course) secondary particles.
There's only one appropriate response when confronted with a particle of such preposterous potential: "OMG."
Fastballs
"OMG" was the nickname given to the first example of what are now known as ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, detected in 1991 by the University of Utah's Fly's Eye cosmic ray detector. That single proton slammed into our atmosphere going roughly 99.99999999999999999999951 percent the speed of light. And no, all those nines aren't just for dramatic effect to make the number look impressive — it really was that fast. This particle had the same amount of kinetic energy as a decently thrown baseball … compressed down into an object the size of a proton.
That means this particle had over 10 million times more energy than what our most powerful particle collider, the LHC, can produce. Due to relativistic time dilation, at that speed, the OMG particle could travel to our nearest neighbor star, Proxima Centauri, in 0.43 milliseconds of the particle's own time. It could continue on to our galactic core by the time you've finished reading this sentence (from its own perspective).
OMG, indeed.
Since that particle's detection, we've continued to watch the skies for these extreme events using specialized telescopes and detectors across the world. All told, we've recorded around a hundred of the OMG-class particles in the past few decades.
Those few dozen examples both elucidate and deepen the mysteries of their origins. More data is always good, but what the heck in our universe is powerful enough to give a proton a good enough crack that it could almost — almost — challenge light itself to a race?
Knuckleballs
To accelerate a charged particle to insane velocities, you need two key ingredients: a lot of energy and a magnetic field. The magnetic field does the work of transferring to the particle whatever energies are in your event (say, the explosive kinetic energy of a supernova blast or the swirling gravitational pull as matter falls toward a black hole). The detailed physics are, naturally, incredibly complicated and not very well-understood. The birthplaces of cosmic rays are frightfully complicated and located in extreme regions of our universe, so a complete physical picture is going to be hard to come by.
But we can still make some educated guesses as to where extreme examples like our friend the OMG particle come from. Our first guess might be supernovas, the titanic deaths of massive stars. Magnetic fields? Check. A lot of energy? Check. But not quite enough energy to do the trick. Your garden-variety stellar detonation just doesn't have enough raw oomph to spit out particles at the speeds we're considering.
What's next? Active galactic nuclei are strong contenders. These nuclei are created as matter swirls to its doom around a supermassive black hole situated in the center of a galaxy; that material compresses and heats up, forming an accretion disk in its final moments. That twisting inferno generates intense magnetic fields from dynamo actions, forming the potent mixture of ingredients necessary to add some serious horsepower to ejected particles.
Except (and you knew there was going to be an "except"), the active galactic nuclei are too far away to produce cosmic rays that reach Earth. At the ludicrous speeds of an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, cruising through the cosmos is more like trying to plow through a blizzard. That's because at those speeds the cosmic microwave background — the flood of low-energy photons left over from the very early universe — appears highly blueshifted toward higher energies. So, that high-intensity light smacks and swats at the traveling cosmic ray, slowing and eventually stopping it.
Thus, we shouldn't expect the most powerful cosmic rays to travel any farther than a hundred million light-years or so — and most of the active galactic nuclei are much, much farther from us than that.
Curveballs
For quite a while, a prime suspect for OMG generation was Centaurus A, a relatively nearby active galactic nucleus that sits somewhere between 10 million and 16 million light-years away. Powerful, magnetic and close — the perfect combo. But while some surveys have hinted that cosmic rays may come from its general direction, there's never been a clear enough correlation to tmove that galaxy from suspect to convict. [A Deep Look at the Strange Galaxy Centaurus A]
Part of the problem is that the Milky Way’s own magnetic field subtly alters the trajectory of incoming cosmic rays, disguising their original directions. So, to reconstruct the source of a cosmic ray, you also need models for the strength and directions of our galaxy's magnetic field — something we don't exactly have a full handle on.
If the OMG generator is not Centaurus A by itself, then perhaps it's the Seyfert galaxies, a certain galactic subclass of generally closer, generally weaker (but still insanely bright and strong) active galactic nuclei. But again, with not even a hundred samples to draw on, it's hard to make a rigorous statistical determination.
Perhaps it's gamma-ray bursts, thought to emanate from the peculiar cataclysmic end to some of the most extreme stars. But our understanding of the physics of that situation is (can you believe it?) kinda sketchy.
Perhaps it's something more exotic, like topological defects from the earliest moments of the Big Bang or some funky interactions within dark matter. Maybe we're getting physics wrong and our distance-limit calculations aren't accurate. Maybe, maybe, maybe…
The true origins of these ultra-high-energy "OMG" particles are tough to pin down, and despite almost 30 years of detection history, we don't have a lot of firm answers. Which is fine — it's good to have at least some mysteries left in the universe. Astrophysicists could use some job security, too.
In the Pacific Ocean, an island can be found that has an unusual tribute left by the earlier dweller. The statues of creatures that look out of this world. Is this an embodiment of alien visitors from the ancient time?
Positively, the original meaning of a great deal of ancient artistry has been beaten by time. It began as a hypothetical depiction in the mind of an ancient craftsman might be treated as an actual portrayal of an actual historical event to this day.
A perfect example for this case are the statues of Temehea Tohua in the island of Nuku Hiva of the Marquesas Archipelago in French Polynesia. At first look, there is a strong similarity between the carvings in the stones and the modern descriptions of aliens.
The statues were found when the Europeans entered the Marquesas during the final decade of the 16th century but the islands were believed to have been occupied by the Polynesians before 100 AD. Interestingly, the island is dubbed "Te Fenua 'Enata" in the South Marquesan dialect meaning "The land of men." Perhaps as Alien creations?
A few of the ancient statues on the Nuku Hiva island has a striking similarity to alien beings, which makes it possible that a point in time, the inhabitant of the islands met these aliens face to face.
Could this bizarre art be just a misrepresentation of an artist's imagination? Did they serve any ceremonial purpose? Could they be a memento that is carved in stone of an occurrence involving ancient aliens from another planet?
Some of the chunks show beings with excessively large and elongated heads, gaping mouth and wide eyes. Other carvings show creatures with an odd mix of human and alien features. Some analysts think that the statues depict 2 alien race, the Reptilians, and the Greys
Though they seem not to be like the modern descriptions of these species.
The reptilians or the lizard people are from the constellation of Draco are always in a number of conspiracy theories. They are described to be evil and deceiving, this alien race is told to be ruling the mankind from the shadows. Did they plummet upon the Marquesas Island thousands of years ago, dominating the ignorant islander into adoring them as gods?
Such hypothesis doesn't look too far off if we examine the big amount of water around the islands. From an alien's perspective, this is perhaps the best place to hide a ship while also examining the human samples on the neighboring islands.
Reports of the Greys describe them to be 3 to 4 feet tall humanoid with big heads and large elliptic eyes. Some of the carvings and statues on the island fit this description very well.
Could these stone carvings be nothing but "Tikis' that belonged to the Polynesian culture or is there some hidden truth on them? One thing looks clear that the beings they are depicting don't look human at all.
CERTAINS UFOLOGUES VOIENT UN OVNI SUR CETTE IMAGE, ET VOUS ?
CERTAINS UFOLOGUES VOIENT UN OVNI SUR CETTE IMAGE, ET VOUS ?
Dernièrement, Scott C Waring a trouvé qu’une photo, des plus banales, cachait un OVNI. Nous tenons à rappeler que ce personnage est un hoaxer connu et ses affirmations sont parfois prises au sérieux. Ainsi, le théoricien du complot a longuement analysé une photo qui a été prise depuis le ciel, juste au-dessus de General Santos, aux Philippines.
La photo montre des nuages où se reflète un exceptionnel coucher de soleil. L’image présente également une sorte de halo qui a éveillé les soupçons de Waring. Il affirme que c’est un Objet Volant Non Identifié qui était pratiquement invisible à l’œil nu.
Un vaisseau spatial de 500 mètres de diamètre aurait donc pu se trouver au-dessus de General Santos
Scott C Waring est un hoaxer connu
Scott C Waring est un théoricien de la conspiration qui écume le web depuis plusieurs années maintenant. Il a créé un site axé sur les phénomènes inexplicables, un site sur lequel il évoque très souvent des guerres martiennes ou encore des visites impromptues de créatures venues de mondes lointains.
Contrairement à ce que l’on pourrait penser, le site n’a rien de parodique.
Scott C. Waring prétend en effet éduquer les internautes et leur ouvrir les yeux sur les phénomènes les plus étranges. Une tâche dont il s’acquitte depuis près de sept ans.
L’objectif du blog est d’éduquer et non de divertir les internautes. Durant 7 années, Scott C Waring y a présenté les théories les plus farfelues et les plus étranges. Il a d’ailleurs assuré à de multiples reprises qu’il n’arrêtera pas de surveiller l’espace ainsi que les OVNIS qui s’aventurent un peu trop de la Terre. Selon lui, les phénomènes qu’il décrit sont des plus sérieux et que des enquêtes plus poussées doivent être réalisées.
Un OVNI au-dessus des Philippines ?
À première vue, la photo qui inquiète Waring montre des nuages et un halo de lumière qui forme un arc. En revanche, le hoaxer y voit un objet volant qui a la forme d’un disque circulaire. Il affirme même que le diamètre du fameux vaisseau avoisine le demi-kilomètre.
Nigel Watson qui a écrit un manuel sur les OVNI a pourtant déclaré que les rayons du coucher du soleil ont juste crée un halo. Il a en outre ajouté qu’il est impossible d’estimer les dimensions d l’arc en se basant sur une simple photo. Il faut tenir compte de la distance ainsi que de la taille du nuage.
Le radiotélescope Alma, perché à 5.000 m dans le désert de l'Atacama, au Chili, épie les signaux radio venus de très loin, émis il y a des milliards d'années par les premières galaxies du jeune univers. Car regarder loin, c'est regarder dans le passé...
La lumière ayant une vitesse finie (environ 300.000 km/s), elle met un certain temps à nous parvenir. Ainsi, nos yeux ne voient donc jamais le monde tel qu'il est mais tel qu'il était dans le passé. Pour notre environnement immédiat, ce délai n'a pas de conséquences, si ce n'est sur le plan philosophique. Le décalage de temps n'est alors mesurable qu'avec des instruments de très grande précision.
Il en va tout autrement en astronomie. Ainsi la Lune est en moyenne à 380.000 km de nous et la lumière qu'elle nous renvoie met donc un peu plus d'une seconde pour nous parvenir. On dira que la Lune est à environ 1 seconde-lumière. Le Soleil, lui, se trouve à 8 minutes-lumière : nous le voyons tel qu'il était 8 minutes auparavant.
Alma observe les premières galaxies de l'univers
Les étoiles, elles, se trouvent bien plus loin, à des années-lumière, et les autres galaxies sont plus éloignées encore. La plus proche de notre Voie lactée, dite d'Andromède, se trouve à 2,55 millions d'années-lumière. Pour les plus lointaines, les distances se mesurent en milliards d'années-lumière. Les observer revient donc à regarder très loin dans le passé. L'univers étant âgé de 13,7 milliards d'années, nous voyons donc les galaxies les plus lointaines telles qu'elles étaient au début de l'histoire de notre monde : ce sont les premières à s'être formées, ce qui nous renseigne sur la jeunesse de l'univers.
Cependant, le signal qui nous en parvient est très faible. De plus, par effet Doppler-Fizeau, ce rayonnement est décalé vers les grandes longueurs d'onde et c'est dans le domaine radio que l'on obtient les plus fortes émissions. Voilà pourquoi les astronomes ont réalisé des « radiotélescopes » et les ont voulus de plus en plus grands, à l'instar d'Alma (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array), de l'ESO. Ce vaste ensemble de 66 antennes paraboliques de 12 m de diamètre, installé à environ 5.000 m d'altitude, sur le haut plateau du désert de l'Atacama, au Chili, est si sensible qu'il peut recueillir des signaux venus des premiers âges de l'univers.
En lisant cet article, vous êtes déjà en train de voyager dans le temps. Vous êtes 40 secondes dans le futur depuis le début de cet article. Nous sommes tous en train de voyager dans le temps, tout le temps. Mais je vous l’accorde, ce type de voyage dans le temps est aussi peu impressionnant qu’ennuyeux. J’imagine que vous voulez voyager dans le temps par rapport à d’autres personnes.
Voyage temporel n°2 : marcher
On sait depuis plus d’un siècle que le temps et l’espace sont juste deux composants d’un seul temps spatial. Plus on se dé place vite, et plus le temps passe lentement. Si vous faite le tour de votre pâté de maison (100 mètres de côté), vous serez 3 femtosecondes plus jeune que votre ami resté à la maison ! Et ça c’est déjà la classe !
Voyage temporel n°3 : se lever
On sait également depuis plus d’un siècle, que plus la gravité est forte et plus le temps passe lentement. En vous levant, vous êtes plus éloigné du centre de la Terre. Ainsi la gravité est plus faible au niveau de votre tête qu’au niveau de vos pieds. En vous tenant debout pendant une minute, vos pieds sont plus vieux de 10 femtosecondes que votre tête ! Les satellites GPS subissent encore moins de gravité et ils voyagent vraiment plus vite dans le temps que nous. C’est pourquoi leur horloge sont calibrées pour fonctionner plus lentement.
Evidence Suggests the Moon Isn’t What We Think – Someone Might Have Put It There NAAM: Kolom1 Kolom2 Kolom3 Kolom5 Kolom6 Contract OK Kolom23 Kolom8 Kolom9 Kolom10 Kolom11 Ko
Evidence Suggests the Moon Isn’t What We Think – Someone Might Have Put It There
"It is not out of the question that artifacts of these visits still exist, or even that some kind of base is maintained (possibly automatically) within the solar system to provide continuity for successive expeditions.
"Because of weathering and the possibility of detection and interference by the inhabitants of the Earth, it would be preferable not to erect such a base on the Earth’s surface. The Moon seems one reasonable alternative. Forthcoming high resolution photographic reconnaissance of the Moon from space vehicles – particularly of the back side – might bear these possibilities in mind."
Controversy has surrounded the Moon for a very long time, we have leaks, research and information from some very credible sources who have, over a span of decades, been relaying to the public that our Moon is not what we think it is, and that there’s also some type of extraterrestrial presence on the Moon.
One example would be the testimony of Colonel Ross Dedrickson, who was responsible for maintaining the inventory of the nuclear weapon stockpile for the United States, he had a long stint with the US Atomic Energy Commission, you can view his obituary here.
These were some interesting comments because he is one of the hundreds of high ranking military people who have alluded to such things, and we also have a declassified report by the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center from June 1959 that shows how seriously they were considering the plan, called Project A119.
We know for a fact that they wanted to investigate the capability of weapons in space, and if they did, we also know that we would never be told, similar to the testing that goes on here on planet Earth.
Then, we have remote viewers from the STAR GATE program who have ‘seen’ strange structures and humanoid creatures on the Moon, like Ingo Swann (from his book, titled Penetration), for example.
He wasn’t the only one from the program who did, I have personally had conversations with Dr. Paul Smith, a retired army veteran who spent a decade in that program, he also relayed to me that something strange is happening on the Moon. Many from within that program have been very outspoken about an extraterrestrial presence.
You can read more about the remote viewing program here. We’ve published numerous articles about it.
Multiple whistleblowers have also spoken of strange structures on the Moon, and it’s become so obvious that some academicians are trying to do what they can to bring attention to it.
For example, a recently published a paper in the Journal of Space Exploration about certain features on the far side of the Moon that appear in the crater Paracelsus C. Titled “Image Analysis of Unusual Structures on the Far Side of the Moon in the Crater Paracelsus C,” it argues that these features might be artificial in origin, meaning someone other than a human being built them and put them there.
It’s not just the Moon, a physicist from the University of Tennessee Space Institute, Dr. Horace Crater, recently published a paper in The Journal of Space Exploration that, along with the NASA Viking images, hints “strongly at artificial surface interventions.”
The list is long, and the idea that somebody else is on the moon is nothing new, even the Deputy Manager for the Clementine Mission to the moon in 1995 said it was really a photo reconnaissance mission to check out structures on the far side of the Moon that wasn’t put there by humans…
But this article is not about what’s on the moon, it’s about what exactly the Moon is.
It’s also noteworthy to mention that the United States has been criticized by Russia for concealing artifacts they collected from the Moon.
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What is the Moon?
"Perhaps strangest of all the anomalies are the many indications that the moon may be hollow. Studies of moon rocks indicate that the moon’s interoior differs from the Earth’s mantle in ways suggesting a very small core or none at all. A 1962 study found the interior of the moon to be less dense that the exterior."
Is the moon hollow? Many intellectual minds seem to think so, but despite what’s really being talked about, these theories are still considered unconventional by the mainstream, who like to push their own theories and teach them as fact.
Perhaps the reason why the US has not disclosed their artefacts from the moon, including all of the rocks, is because from what we do have, studies of moon rocks have shown that the Moon’s interior is far different from the Earth’s mantle which suggests a very small core, or, no core at all.
In 1962 Gordon MacDonald, a NASA scientist, published a study that stated, “Indeed, it would seem that the Moon is more like a hollow than a homogeneous sphere.”
According to MIT’s Sean C. Solomon, “The Lunar Orbiter experiments vastly improved our knowledge of the Moon’s gravitational field…indicating the frightening possibility that the Moon might be hollow.”
"The most startling evidence that the moon could be hollow came on November 20, 1969, when the Apollo 12 crew, after returning to their command ship, sent the lunar module (LM) ascent stage crashing back onto the moon, creating an artificial moon quake.
"The LM struck the surface about forty miles from the Apollo 12 landing site, where super sensitive seismic equipment recorded something both unexpected and astounding – the moon reverberated like a bell for more than an hour."
Frank Press of MIT stated, "…none of us have seen anything like this on Earth. In all our experience, it is quite an extraordinary event. That this rather small impact…produced a signal which lasted 30 minutes is quite beyond the range of our experience."
How Did The Moon Get To Where It Is?
Conventional wisdom tells us that yes, the Moon may have originated elsewhere and at some point came to orbit our planet. It tells us that it was formed from debris after a space object smashed into Earth, while another theory states that Earth captured the Moon via its gravitational pull when it was wandering through the solar system…
Despite that our current theories are accepted as fact, there is absolutely no evidence for the conventional hypothesis. According to Russian scientist Isaac Asimov, an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University,
"It’s too big 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."
Asimov also emphasized that,
"We cannot help but come to the conclusion that the Moon, by rights, ought not to be there. The fact that it is, is one of those strokes of luck almost too good to accept."
This article offered another explanation for how the Moon may have been created. This seems to be a better hypothesis because there is actually a considerable amount of evidence that points towards something suspicious happening on the Moon.
"It’s easier to explain the non-existence for the Moon, than it’s existence."
– NASA scientist Robin Brett
"The best explanation for the Moon is observational error – the Moon doesn’t exist."
– Irwin Shapiro, Harvard Astrophysicist
Think about it… The Moon is in a nearly perfect circle, when it comes to its origin, all the while being synchronized with its period of revolution, so one side always faces the Earth.
As Mars points out,
"This circular orbit is especially odd, considering that the moon’s center of mass lies more than a mile closer to the Earth than its geometric center. This fact alone should produce an unstable, wobbly orbit, much as a ball with its mass off-center will not roll in a straight line."
Were The Sumerians On To Something?
Many within this field are really into ancient Greek, and ancient Sumerian lore. Take Apollo 12 astronaut, Al Worden, for example, who made some very interesting comments about the Sumerians as well as extraterrestrial life in a live interview you can watch here.
In the late 1960’s, a senior scientist from the Planetary Science Institute, William Kenneth Harmann, stated he believes that the Moon results from a collision between Earth and another body at least the size of mars. This became known at the Big Whack theory, and it correlated to the story told in ancient Sumerian tablets…
According to several interpretations of Sumerian tablets, most notably from Zecharia Sitchin, more than 4 billion years ago, a large watery world called Tiamat was in orbit between Mars and Jupiter.
Nibiru, a planet that supposedly enters into our solar system once every 3,600 years, caused Tiamat to crack under gravitational stress. Tiamat was cracked in half when one of Nibiru’s moon’s knocked into it, which also knocked a large portion of mars.
This is very interesting because recently scientists have confirmed that Mars used to be a very watery world, an Earth-like planet. There is even large amounts of evidence for ancient life on Mars before what appears to be a dramatic climate shift. Scientists hypothesize that the climate shift was a result of a large collision… The larger chunk of Tiamat became planet Earth.
So, it’s interesting to make that connection.
Back to the Moon!
"It’s important to remember that something had to put the moon at or near its present circular pattern around the Earth. Just as an Apollo space-craft circling the Earth every 90 minutes while 100 miles high has to have a velocity of roughly 18,000 miles per hour to stay in orbit, so something had to give the moon the precisely required velocity for its weight and altitude…
"The point – and it is one seldom noted in considering the origin of the moon – is that it is extremely unlikely that any object would just stumble into the right combination of factors required to stay in orbit. ‘Something’ had to put the moon at its altitude, on its course and at its speed. The question is: what was that ‘something?"
– Mars
It’s hard to believe that the precise and stationary orbit of the moon is simply a coincidence …
"Is it also a coincidence that the moon is at just the right distance from Earth to completely cover the sun during an eclipse? While the diameter of the moon is a mere 2,160, miles against the sun’s gigantic 864,000 miles, it is nevertheless in just the proper position to block out all but the sun’s flaming corona when it moves between the sun and Earth."
– Mars
According to Asimov,
"There is no astronomical reason why the Moon and the sun should fit so well. It is the sheerest of coincidences, and only the Earth among all the planets is blessed in this fashion."
With all of the evidence that has surfaced showing an extraterrestrial presence on the Moon, to me, the spaceship theory proposed by Michael Vasin and Alexander Scherbakov (mentioned above) makes the most sense.
According to Mars,
"The spaceship-moon theory may come closer than any other in reconciling the contradictions inherent in the origin and amazing orbit of the moon. However, such a consideration is supposed to be outside the discussion of educated and rational people.
"The circular logic of conventional science regarding the origins of the moon runs something like this: We know that extraterrestrials don’t exist, but we do know that the moon exists and has been mentioned throughout human history. We humans did not create it nor place it in orbit around Earth, it must have been done by extraterrestrials. But because we know they don’t exists, we will simply call it an anomaly and will not publicly say any more about."
Computer modeling suggests that – billions of years ago, when our solar system was young – a star swept near, stealing some of our sun’s material and creating the odd orbits of Kuiper Belt objects.
Artist’s concept of a new solar system forming from a disk of gas and dust. Image via NASA JPL-Caltech/Max Planck Institute.
How do we know how our solar system was born? Astronomers look outward to see other solar systems in the process of formation. They also use the tools of modern astronomy – physics and high-powered computers – to create possible scenarios of the formation of our sun, Earth and other nearby planets. And then they look closer to home, trying to see if their computer models match what’s observed in our solar system. In this way, over decades, astronomers have built up the scenario of our solar system evolving from a disk of gas and dust in space. But the models, of course, never match the reality precisely.
One mystery has been that the cumulative mass of all objects beyond Neptune – in what is known as the Kuiper Belt – is much smaller than expected. Plus, the bodies there have mostly inclined, eccentric orbits in contrast to the orbits of the major planets, which are all more or less in a single plane, and more nearly circular. This month, Susanne Pfalzner from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and her colleagues presented a new study – based on computer modeling – showing that a close fly-by of a neighboring star – which, according to this model, might have happened billions of years ago, when our solar system was forming – can explain some of these mysteries. It can explain both the observed paucity of objects in the outer part of the solar system and the eccentric, inclined orbits of those objects.
What’s more, this new work shows that many additional bodies at high inclinations still await discovery, perhaps including a sometimes postulated Planet X.
The peer-reviewedAstrophysical Journal published these findings on August 9, 2018.
Our group has been looking for years at what fly-bys can do to other planetary systems, never considering that we actually might live right in such a system. The beauty of this model lies in its simplicity.
The basic scenario of the formation of the solar system has long been known: our sun was born from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust. In the process a flat disk was formed where not only large planets grew but also smaller objects like the asteroids, dwarf planets etc. Due to the flatness of the disk one would expect that the planets orbit in a single plane unless something dramatic happened afterwards. Looking at the solar system right to the orbit of Neptune everything seems fine: most planets move on fairly circular orbits and their orbital inclinations vary only slightly. However, beyond Neptune things become very messy. The biggest puzzle is the dwarf planet Sedna, which moves on an inclined, highly eccentric orbit and is so far outside, that it could not have been scattered by the planets there.
Just outside Neptune’s orbit another strange thing happens. The cumulative mass of all the objects dramatically drops by almost three orders of magnitude. This happens at approximately the same distance where everything becomes messy. It might be coincidental, but such conincidences are rare in Nature.
Susanne Pfalzner and her co-workers suggest that a star was approaching the sun at an early stage, ‘stealing’ most of the outer material from the sun’s protoplanetary disk and throwing what was left over into inclined and eccentric orbits. Performing thousands of computer simulations, they checked what would happen when a star passes very close by and perturbs the once-larger disk. It turned out that the best fit for today’s outer solar systems comes from a perturbing star which had the same mass as the sun or somewhat lighter (0.5-1 solar masses) and flew past at approximately three times the distance of Neptune.
These astronomers point out that, nowadays, fly-bys of two stars in our region of the Milky Way galaxy are exceedingly rare. However, the statement continues:
… stars like our sun are typically born in large groups of stars which are much more densely packed. Therefore, close fly-bys were significantly more common in the distant past. Performing another type of simulations, the team found that there was a 20 to 30 percent chance of experiencing a fly-by over the first billion years of the sun’s life.
This graphic shows a simulation scenario for a 0.5-solar-mass star – which came as close to the early sun as 100 astronomical units – 100 times Earth’s distance, or 3 times the distance between the sun and Neptune.
Bottom line: Computer modeling led by Susanne Pfalzner of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, suggests that – billions of years ago – a star swept near, stealing some of our sun’s material and creating the odd orbits of Kuiper Belt objects.
The view of Earth from orbit is never the same – from minute to minute, day to day, year to year.
In December of 1999 NASA launched a satellite that opened up a new era in our ability to see, measure and understand Earth. The satellite called Terra rocketed to space on Dec. 18, 1999. (And while it was designed for a five-year mission life – Terra is still up there, collecting invaluable data on Earth’s land, atmosphere and oceans.) In 2002 and 2004, satellites named Aqua and Aura followed. These are often called the three flagship satellites of NASA’s Earth Observing System -- which began in earnest with Terra and now comprises a fleet of 18 Earth-observing satellites that have revolutionized our ability to observe our home planet from space.
NASA and other space agencies had launched satellites to study Earth before. But the past 15 years have produced a more comprehensive look at Earth from space than any other period in history. At a time when our planet is undergoing critically important changes, this global view offers not only stunning imagery but also vitally important information about how Earth is changing.
To celebrate 15 successful years of the Earth Observing System, we’ve collected 15 impressive, awe-inducing or simply just plain interesting images gathered by NASA’s three flagship Earth orbiters since the Terra launch.
Enjoy. And here’s to the next 15.
1. Blue Marble 2002
Taking a full photograph of Earth from space takes some doing. In 1972 the crew of Apollo 17 took a camera to the moon to get far enough away to bring the full sphere into view. In 2002, NASA scientists and visualizers stitched together strips of brand new data, in natural color, collected over four months from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instrument aboard Terra. They added a layer of clouds to create this composite Blue Marble that became one of the most iconic Earth images of the new century when Apple selected it as their default background for the iPhone in 2007. A version of the MODIS Blue Marble is now used as the base layer in many visualizations of NASA Earth science data.
The western hemisphere of the Blue Marble, created in 2002.
Credits: Image Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory
2. Collapse of An Ice Shelf
A mountain range runs up the spine of the Antarctic Peninsula, while ice shelves flank it on either side. Over a period of several months in early 2002, the MODIS instrument on Terra observed one of these ice shelves collapse and disappear, giving scientists and the world a birds-eye view to “see” this dramatic phenomenon. In January, the surface of the Larsen B Ice Shelf – a mass of ice measuring 1,250 square miles, larger than New Hampshire and Vermont combined -- appeared pockmarked with ponds of water from melting ice. In mid-February, the front edge of the ice shelf had retreated by about six miles, and large icebergs were splintering off and floating away to sea. By March 7 the shelf had collapsed.
Collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica, imaged Jan 31 through April 13, 2002.
Credits: NASA's Earth Observatory
3. Ozone Measurements Out on a Limb
Detecting gas molecules where they occur at different heights in the atmosphere requires going out on a limb – Earth's limb. From orbit, Earth's limb is the fuzzy blue halo that appears above the surface. Instruments like the Microwave Limb Sounder on the Aura satellite observe the limb to get a side view of the atmosphere from the ground to where it thins out into space. This perspective allows scientists to measure atmospheric chemistry layer by layer – essential for monitoring the gases that contribute to the hole in the ozone layer and for evaluating the impact of clouds on climate change. The Microwave Limb Sounder was the first to measure, from space, all the gases that are part of the ozone depletion cycle, giving scientists the first observations that revealed the full chemical process of ozone depletion as it occurs.
MLS measures lower stratospheric temperature and concentrations of H2O, O3, ClO, BrO, HCl, OH, HO2, HNO3, HCN and N2O, for their effects on (and diagnoses of) ozone depletion, transformations of greenhouse gases, and radiative forcing of climate change.
Credits: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio
4. Global Vegetation Cycle
The view of Earth from a satellite can give us pictures of where plants and trees grow. But the data from satellite instruments can tell us even more – including how much carbon dioxide plants are absorbing from the atmosphere during photosynthesis. The MODIS instruments on Aqua and Terra measure this carbon absorption, allowing scientists to compare plant productivity around the world. This animation shows what that cycle looks like over the course of the year – the darker green colors show higher rates of carbon absorption, somewhat mimicking the seasonal growth and decline of green vegetation across the planet.
One year of the global vegetation cycle show seasonal variations in different parts of the world.
Credits: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio
5. Arctic Heating
One of the key concerns about the decrease of summer sea ice in the Arctic is the loss of a white, reflective surface that repels the sun’s energy back to space. Instead, as ice melts and exposes darker ocean waters, which absorb the sun’s energy, potentially enhancing the warming pattern in the Arctic – where temperatures are rising two to three times faster in recent decades than anywhere else on the planet. The Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy Systems, or CERES, instruments on Terra and Aqua have now been measuring the amount of solar radiation absorbed by the Earth since the year 2000. And in the Arctic this absorption has increased by 5 percent in that time – a number that may not seem like much, except when you consider that the absorption rate has been essentially flat across the rest of the globe, and no other region on Earth shows a pattern of change.
The image shows change in sea ice and solar absorption in the summer months in the Arctic between 2000 and 2014. Blue shows where sea ice has decreased, and red shows where solar radiation absorption has increased over the last 15 years.
Credits: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio
6. Breathing Cleaner in the U.S.
It may come as a surprise, but in many parts of the United States, the quality of the air we breathe has been improving in recent years. As new cars with stricter emissions regulations hit the roads, and as power plants and industry also adhere to tighter pollution limits, some of the key pollutants that can cause health problems have declined significantly in the past 15 years. In more recent years, NASA scientists have figured out how to measure the concentrations of one pollutant – nitrogen dioxide – using the OMI instrument on the Aura satellite. Watch the visualization to see how air quality in the U.S. improved from 2005 to 2011.
Nitrogen dioxide pollution, averaged yearly from 2005-2011, has decreased across the United States.
Credits: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio/T. Schindler
7. Burning Planet
Each year about one third of Earth's land surface is touched by fire. We didn't know this fact until the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instrument aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites together began scanning Earth four times a day to pinpoint every active fire on the planet. In the fifteen years since they began creating this global fire map, they have observed more than 40 million actively burning fires and revolutionized scientists' understanding of where fires occur and how they affect ecosystems, carbon released into the atmosphere that contributes to climate change, and air quality that affects human health. The real-time fire map is one of the most in demand products for fighting wildfires in the United States and across the globe.
One year of African fires are shown in red over the course of 2006.
Credits: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio
8. Smoke Plumes From Space
The sensors on the flagship satellites can not only detect the heat given off by wildfires, and “count” the number of active fires around the globe at any given time. They also have provided a decade and a half of imagery of active fires and measurements of their smoke plumes. These views of wildfire from space have now become commonplace, but the sensors have provided scientists with real data on how far smoke travels from its source and how high into the atmosphere. The MISR instrument (Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer) on Terra has been instrumental in learning more about how wildfire smoke plumes get “injected” high into the atmosphere and how the plumes mix with clouds.
Smoke plume from California's Rim Fire, Aug. 23, 2013.
Credits: NASA/Goddard/Langley/JPL, MISR Team
9. Sea Ice Moves
The Aqua satellite was by no means the first to observe sea ice from space. But it was the first to give us such high-resolution data that we could see how something like the Arctic ice cap – a floating layer of sea ice larger than the continental U.S. – moves and changes on a daily basis. Sea ice shrinks in summer and expands in winter – and every day during this cycle it takes on a slightly different shape. The AMSR-E instrument – Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS – showed us how beautiful a sight this could be. It has also measured the continued decline in summer sea ice in the Arctic.
Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean that grows and shrinks with the seasons, shown here from Sep. 4, 2009-Jan. 30, 2011. Satellite observations show overall sea ice has declined over the last 15 years due to climate change.
Credits: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio
10. Carbon Dioxide Waxes and Wanes
Ground-based sensors told us that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rises and falls in sync with winter and summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This cycle is linked to the photosynthetic activity of plants, trees and phytoplankton. But without a global view from a satellite, we’d never seen a picture of what these fluctuations would look like. The AIRS – Atmospheric Infrared Sounder – instrument on Aqua measured carbon dioxide a few thousand feet above the surface. And a visualization of that data gave us a glimpse of exactly how the greenhouse gas is distributed around the globe and how its concentrations change with the seasons.
Average yearly AIRS CO2 data shown in yellow is laid over MODIS vegetation data in green. CO2 accumulates in the Northern Hemisphere winter and spring, then the vegetation's photosynthesis absorbs it in summer.
Credits: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio
11. The Mysteries of Clouds and Aerosols
The two variables that still create the most uncertainty about how future climate change will unfold are clouds and tiny airborne particles called aerosols. Some clouds reflect the sun’s rays while others trap outgoing heat that would otherwise be emitted to space. Likewise, some aerosols scatter light and cause a cooling effect while others absorb light and cause a heating effect. Aerosols can also seed clouds, further complicating the picture. Scientists have used the MODIS instruments on Terra and Aqua to begin a continuous, long-term record of clouds and aerosols that will ultimately help the science community better understand their mysterious ways. In more recent years, other NASA satellites have been launched to fly in tight formations with Terra and Aqua – providing complementary views of clouds and aerosols from different types of instruments.
Dust plumes from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan blow southward over the Arabian Sea, Dec. 28, 2012.
Credits: NASA/Goddard/MODIS Land Rapid Response
12. Top that Topo Map
Explorers have long gone forth and mapped the terrain of unknown territory, producing detailed topographic maps of mountains, rivers, hills, and plains. The Global Digital Elevation Models produced by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, instrument aboard Terra, however, takes it to a whole new level. Among its capabilities, ASTER collects pairs of slightly offset images of Earth's surface. The image pairs work like our eyes – the slightly offset images give information about depth and allow scientists to visualize the Earth's terrain in 3D. The first Global Digital Elevation Model was released in 2009, stitched together from of 1.3 million scenes of the land surface. No more piecing together maps made by different people in different eras, it was the highest resolution topographic map, which covered 90 percent of Earth's surface consistently from nearly pole to pole. Scientists use elevation data to understand how the land changes over time, especially from natural disasters like landslides, earthquakes, floods, and tsunamis.
NASA and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and industry (METI) released the Global Digital Elevation Model to the public on June 29, 2009.
Credits: NASA/JPL/METI, ASTER Team
Los Angeles Basin bordered on the north by the San Gabriel Mountians. ASTER's simulated natural color image, collected Aug 15, 2006, is draped over the ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model.
Credits: NASA/JPL/METI, ASTER Team 14
13. Dance of the Plankton
When tiny plants in the ocean bloom, they bloom for hundreds of miles. Phytoplankton, the base of the marine food chain, explode in population when cold, nutrient-rich waters from rivers or the deep ocean rise and mix with sun-lit surface waters. Globally, phytoplankton blooms account for about half of the net photosynthesis on Earth and are major players in taking carbon out of the atmosphere and transferring it to the ocean. With the bloom comes a feeding frenzy, as fish and marine mammals flock to the microscopic feast that supports their populations that in turn support the human demand for fish. Daily ocean color measurements from the MODIS instruments aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites have dramatically changed scientists' understanding of the complex biological and physical relationships between phytoplankton, marine ecosystems, and the global carbon budget.
North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Iceland, June 24, 2010.
Credits: NASA's Earth Observatory
Mapping Carbon Monoxide
Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless pollutant that emerges from wildfires, vehicle tailpipes and other human sources. Once in the atmosphere it is one of the ingredients for ground-level ozone, a harmful pollutant that contributes to smog – sometimes thousands of miles from where the carbon monoxide originated. An instrument on Terra called Measurements of Pollutants in the Troposphere, or MOPITT, was the first dedicated to tracking sources of carbon monoxide and following the gas across the globe. And the news is good. With MOPITT data, combined with data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, or AIRS, on Aqua and the Tropospheric Emissions Spectrometer, or Tes, on Aura, as well as European satellite data, scientists have found that carbon monoxide emissions have declined at a rate of one percent per year since 2000.
MOPITT's monthly average of global concentrations of tropospheric carbon monoxide at an altitude of about 12,000 feet, in April 2000 (left) and April 2014.
Credits: NASA's Earth Observatory
15. Repairing the Ozone Hole
The 1987 Montreal Protocol banned the use of ozone-depleting chemicals and was a landmark moment for the international community to come together and tackle a serious environmental threat. The ozone layer, high in the atmosphere, acts like sunscreen for Earth, protecting every living thing on the surface from the sun's harmful radiation. Satellite measurements of stratospheric ozone have been essential for monitoring the seasonal appearance of the ozone hole over Antarctica. Continuing measurements begun by NOAA satellites, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on the Aura satellite has witnessed the stabilization and earliest signs of shrinking that signal the hole in the ozone is on the road to recovery.
The minimum concentration of ozone above Antarctica from 1979 to 2013.
Credits: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio
There are plenty of giant pyramids in Egypt, but there’s only one Great Sphinx of Giza … or anywhere else for that matter. While there have been rumors of a second Sphinx buried near the Great One, possibly facing in the traditional opposite direction as seen in statues or depictions of smaller sphinxes, none have ever been found to match the size of the original. Now, the Ministry of Antiquities has announced that a second giant sphinx was accidentally discovered by workers digging a road and, while it hasn’t been removed from the ground, there’s enough showing to confirm its existence and potential greatness.
While the discovery was heralded by Egypt Today and other media sites and Minister of Antiquities Khaled al-Anani is encouraging tourists to come and see it, not much is known about this sphinx and few pictures seem to be available. As with the recent giant sarcophagus filled with sewage water discovery, Egypt seems to be catering to tourism over archeology.
Would the Ministry be disappointed if the new sphinx looked like this one?
What we do know is that the sphinx was discovered on Al Kabbash Road by workers on the Al Kabbash Project, whose goal is to connect the Luxor Temple with the Karnak Temple by the end of 2018, allowing tourists easier and quicker access to both while facilitating electricity and water for both visitors and residents. The site is just six miles from the Valley of the Kings burial site, home of the tomb of King Tut among others. Perhaps the most exciting and unusual part of the discovery is that this sphinx is of the “classic” style like the Giant Sphinx – the head is of a lion rather than a ram or something else.
Despite the uniqueness of this sphinx and the excitement of Minister of Antiquities Khaled al-Anani and local plastic sphinx vendors, director-general of Antiquities Muhammad Abdul Aziz is slowing things down. He has stopped all road construction and is urging archeologists to proceed cautiously out of fears that the statue will crumble when exposed to new above-ground climate conditions … does anyone remember seeing the nose on the Great Sphinx?
Before you get too excited and plunk down your hard-earned cash on a trip to see the next big sphinx, keep in mind that the same Ministry of Antiquities which is promoting it as a tourist attraction also prohibited any photos being taken. That may be a sign this new sphinx is not the same as the old Sphinx and may not be 240 feet long, 66 feet high and date back to 2500 BCE. Sure, it could be bigger and older, but it’s probably not. There’s also a big road project being held up by its discovery – a project that’s nearly complete and can’t easily be diverted … although a roundabout with a sphinx in the middle might be an even greater tourist attraction that the Great One.
Perhaps it’s time to turn the entire country into a tourist attraction – nothing else seems to put an end to Egypt’s many other problems.
Dig Deeper: Paradigm Shifts and the Changing Face of North American Archaeology Micah Hanks August 13, 2018 FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ The year was 1876, and Charles Conrad Abbott was not only well-known among his colleagues in the anthropological commu
Dig Deeper: Paradigm Shifts and the Changing Face of North American Archaeology
The year was 1876, and Charles Conrad Abbott was not only well-known among his colleagues in the anthropological community: he also believed he was poised to initiate a paradigm shift, as far as our ideas about the first people to arrive in North America.
Abbott, a naturalist and career surgeon from New Jersey, was one of the first anthropologists to engage in well-documented archaeological fieldwork anywhere in the Delaware Valley. He had been inspired by the controversial discoveries in France’s Somme Valley, where artifacts found in a gravel pit suggested an earlier arrival of humans in Europe than once thought; at least by several thousands of years. Abbott himself had found stone artifacts that were similar to these, produced from a gravel bed he had worked near Trenton, New Jersey. Although the insinuation here hadn’t necessarily been that there were connections to Europe, he nonetheless believed that the artifacts he had discovered might be evidence of humans in North America before the end of the last ice age.
Abbott, as depicted in Popular Science Monthly, circa 1887
(public domain).
It was not a popular idea at the time, and while the anthropological community didn’t overlook Abbott’s claims entirely, they were readily dismissed. Leading the charge against Abbot were famed geologist William Henry Holmes and John Wesley Powell, the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of Ethnology. Aleš Hrdlička, who later became curator of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, eventually joined his colleagues in their criticism, based on three well-thought criteria he proposed at the time.
First, Hrdlička argued, Abbot’s discoveries failed to provide indisputable evidence of human remains, or human-made artifacts (Holmes had suggested that Abbot’s “artifacts” were actually natural formations instead). Hrdlička further argued that no stratigraphic sequence was discernible at the place of Abbot’s discovery, which reliably told their age. Finally, as with the discoveries at the Somme Valley, plant or animal remains must be found alongside any proposed artifacts to help indicate the era from which they hailed; Abbot’s discoveries met none of these criteria.
At the time they were proposed by Hrdlička, they weren’t bad rules for anthropologists to follow. All of these things helped provide important information about the temporal and spatial relationships between any proposed artifacts, the people who made them, and the era in which they were created. So it wasn’t unreasonable for Hrdlička and his colleagues to offer critiques of discoveries by the likes of Abbot. The lacking evidence for claims of “Glacial Man” in the Americas had further fueled the notion at that time that Humans had not existed on the North American continent much longer than 3000 years.
As time has shown, the problem had been that the status quo that these men upheld had been right in principle, based on the criteria they had established, but factually wrong based on information they simply hadn’t managed to find yet. While Abbot’s discoveries may not have been reliable proof for the idea he espoused, better examples that would challenge the existing archaeological paradigms would soon follow.
Enter Folsom, New Mexico, and the discoveries made there by an African American cowboy named George McJunkin in 1908. McJunkin found not only whitewashed bones of megafaunal bison protruding from a bank near Wild Horse Arroyo, but also flint clippings that were consistent with ancient human stone tool manufacture. It wasn’t until 1926 that these discoveries came to the attention Jesse Figgins at the Museum of Natural History, but the ensuing excavations at Folsom clearly established the presence of humans that hunted megafauna in North America at least 9000 years ago, possibly even earlier.
It wasn’t long before similar discoveries made by James Whiteman, a boy of Native American heritage attending college and studying archaeology in New Mexico, found what he called “Warheads” at Black Water Draw near Clovis. Like Folsom had done just a few years beforehand, discoveries at Clovis pushed back the timescales on human occupation of the Americas even further, to as much as 13,000 years.
During the early part of the Twentieth Century, archaeology was still fairly new in North America, and the lack of both resources and manpower often slowed the pace of what otherwise might have been a continuing boom in such archaeological discoveries. More Clovis sites would turn up over the ensuing decades, and on occasion, certain archaeological sites would also produce curiosities: things which didn’t seem to fit the known “paradigm,” and could possibly suggest even earlier heritage for America’s first inhabitants.
Such ideas were no more popular by the 1970s than they had been for men like Charles Abbot a century earlier, and were met with the same customary resistance that past generations of American antiquarians had once seen. Even when reliable radiocarbon dating at sites like Monte Verde, Chile, and Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania began to shatter the widely accepted “Clovis First” paradigm, many in American archaeology were still resistant to the idea of change.
Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Washington County, Pennsylvannia
(photo by the author)
With the arrival of the new millennium, the evidence for “Pre-Clovis” was nearly impossible to ignore, and now it is widely accepted that people were indeed here earlier than 13,000 years ago. Recent discoveries at locales like the Gault site in Texas have continued to push the existing timescales back to arrivals in North America by people at least 16,000 years ago, although there are cultural remains that are now turning up in reliably-dated strata as old as 21,000 years.
The aforementioned dates that were determined in relation to artifacts from the Gault site would have seemed impossible only a few years ago. However, the accumulation of evidence is now showing us that people were in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, and seemingly by several thousands of years. Nonetheless, as with many similar “paradigm shifts” that have occurred over the last century or so, today there appear to be limitations to how far modern archaeologists are willing to go with their reconsiderations about the past.
The Topper site in Allendale County, South Carolina is one such site which, despite reliable archaeology that has been done there over the years, has been treated cautiously by the archaeological community. In the video below, my own visit to the Topper site in early 2018 is documented; in it, my colleagues and I were joined by Dr. Albert Goodyear, who led the excavations there over several seasons that produced discoveries that, in our opinion, are truly remarkable in the context of modern archaeology: possible evidence for people in North America between 25,000 and 50,000 years ago.
These discoveries may seem dubious, if not impossible in the context of modern archaeology… perhaps even when giving consideration to the recent discoveries at Gault (at least for the most skeptical among us). Granted, less than a century ago it would also have seemed unlikely that humans were in North America before the end of the last ice age, and only in the last two decades has the broader archaeological community finally warmed up to the reality that there were people here before Clovis. Now, sites like Gault in Texas are showing us that digging deeper often does reveal evidence of much earlier habitation than once believed.
Perhaps it’s time we acknowledge that having a mindset to “dig deeper” would have yielded such results much sooner, had people been doing like Albert Goodyear was already doing as far back as the 1990s. As I noted in 2016 about media coverage of the Topper Site, archaeologist Michael Collins with the University of Texas at Austin told CNN in 2004 that, “[Goodyear] has a very old geologic formation, but I can’t agree with his interpretation of those stones being man-made.” Collins is now a Research Professor at Texas State University in San Marcos and Chairman of the Gault School of Archaeological Research and co-authored the recent paper in Science Advances which detailed the 16,000 to 21,000-year-old discoveries in Texas.
Obviously, there would have to be an eventual boundary beyond which any similar “paradigm shifting” discoveries could be made in American archaeology. However, history has already shown that the tendency to place caps on the earliest arrivals in the Ancient Americas has been premature in every instance. Every attempt to set boundaries for how far back we can push the timetables on early human occupations has been met with new, even earlier discoveries, which challenge our attitudes about who was here, and how long ago they arrived.
Until we can reliably establish when the very earliest arrivals in the New World occurred, it might be best for the anthropological community to adopt a new, and resoundingly simple mantra for future field work: Dig Deeper!
Alien Entity Recorded Over Island In Australia On Aug 12, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Alien Entity Recorded Over Island In Australia On Aug 12, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 12, 2018 Location of sighting: Russell Island, Australia Source: MUFON #94063 This is fantastic and very, very rare. A light being. Yes I said it right. How do I know...I and my family once witnessed a dozen of them circling above us a few years ago at midnight here in Taiwan. Light beings are very intelligent, and curious creatures. They cannot be recorded on video so well and are extremely hard to get on photos...which I too have tried. They are 90% transparent and change shape...they are long looking when they are flying...bigger in the front and smaller at the tail area. No head, no arms are visible, but if you happen to look up and see them...a few might turn around, come back over you and circle you...maybe out of curiosity that you saw them, or maybe they can read your thoughts and are trying to see themselves how you see them. Either way, this is an incredible photo. It came with two videos, however the alien entity was not visible...which is the same as the video I took when I saw them. If I myself had not witnessed such and event with my own family as witness...I might not believe it either. Your day will come. You will see...if you look up from your phone at the night sky. Want to see my video of my experience...its so-so, because they are light beings, hard to record on video. I will include my video below. Scott C. Waring- Taiwan Eyewitness states:
Glowing object obscured by smoke/ clouds? Much larger than brightest largest stars but smaller than moon which was only fingernail waxing crecent and not visible at that time.
Below is my video, please jump to 1:38 to see light entity.
UFOs Near Sun Recorded In SOHO NASA Images, Aug 11, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Near Sun Recorded In SOHO NASA Images, Aug 11, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 11, 2018
Location of sighting: Earths sun
Source: NASA/SOHO images
Here is an extraordinary video of UFOs near our sun. A triangle UFO and several others that are mind boggling.
Long ago about in 2005, Russian scientists reported hundreds of moon size UFOs moving at impossible speed around our sun, making hard right turns and sudden direction changes. That evidence has been purged from the Internet, but I still remember it, and so do many others. Since then, I and other have been reporting UFOs...hundreds of which still visit our sun daily, but NASA will never report this so that they will not cause a panic.
The U.S. Space Force takes a step forward, the Parker Solar Probe to "touch the sun" is ready to launch, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard will return to television — it's Space.com's best news stories of the week.
Photo Credit: White House/DoD News
1. US to Launch Space Force Military Branch in 2020, VP Mike Pence Says
In a speech at the Pentagon, Vice President Mike Pence revealed and explained the current plan for Space Force and what it might look like, if it is approved. He also stated plans to launch Space Force in 2020.
Scientists suspect that there is a "hydrogen wall" at the edge of our solar system. They also think that they will be able to observe the wall with the New Horizons spacecraft.
3. The Planet Is Dangerously Close to the Tipping Point for a 'Hothouse Earth'
A new study suggests that our planet could easily fall in to a "Hothouse Earth" situation, where high temperatures and extreme weather follow a cascade of climate events.
Electric and magnetic fields around objects like planets can create waves in the plasma near those objects. Scientists found that these waves near Ganymede are extremely powerful. [Full Story:Jupiter's Largest Moon Ganymede Produces Powerful Plasma Waves]
Photo Credit: APL/NASA GSFC
5. "Touching" the sun
NASA plans to launch the Parker Solar Probe in the very early morning on Saturday, Aug. 10. This mission will get closer to the sun than we've ever been before.
According to China's state-run news site China Daily, the country just tested a weapon that could one day launch nukes around the planet at hypersonic speeds.
Lawmakers have introduced a bill to honor NASA's legendary 'Hidden Figures,' Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden, with the Congressional Gold Medal.
In an experiment aboard the International Space Station, a cloud of rubidium atoms have cooled to ten-millionth of a degree above absolute zero. This created an exotic state of matter and is the coldest known object in space.
SECURITY: Armed guards patrol the headquarters of Bigelow Aeropace in Las Vegas
The Pentagon’s top-secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) investigated flying saucers for four years from 2008.
This groundbreaking programme, which had a budget of £16.5million, was launched after former Nevada Democrat Senator Harry Reid pushed for its creation.
Bigelow Aerospace, founded by entrepreneur and UFOlogist Robert Bigelow, 73, worked alongside government workers to study the strange reports which are known as “unidentified aerial phenomena”.
When news of the X-Files type project emerged late last year, it was reported that materials and alloys from crashed UFOs was being stored at Bigelow Aerospace’s 50-acre headquarters on the northern edge of Las Vegas.
The Sunday Times reports this week how the site is now fortified with razor wire, concrete barriers and patrolled by armed guards.
Conspiracy theorists claim that debris from alien spaceships is kept there.
The New York Times reported last year that “Under Mr Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.
“Researchers also studied people who said they experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for physiological changes.”
Officially the US government said AATIP was closed five years ago.
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X-FILES: Ex-Pentagon worker Luis Elizondo ran the UFO investigation project
But Luis Elizondo, who ran the highly-sensitive project, claimed it ran until October last year when he resigned over “excessive secrecy”.
Elizondo told the Sunday Times that the objects stored are not alloys but “metamaterials” with composite structures that can not be found naturally.
“To engineer these materials with that degree of precision is something we do not believe we have the technical capability to reproduce,” said Elizondo.
Asked where the materials came from, Elizondo replied: “I can’t answer that question.”
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LAS VEGAS: The headquarters of Bigelow Aerospace where some claim UFO materials are kept
The former Pentagon investigator praised Bigelow as an a “extremely intelligent patriot” who has put his “own reputation on the line”.
Elizondo, whose impeccable credentials have been confirmed by US media, told the publication that most of the sightings were easily explainable – but not all of them.
He said: “There are absolutely cases that defy anything we can definitely look at and say, that is an aircraft, that is a drone, that is a missile, because the performance parameters are way off the chart.”
Jaw-dropping footage emerged last year of a sighting involving the battleship USS Nimitz in 2004 in the Pacific off the San Diego coast.
Two US navy pilots, Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Jim Slaight, watched in awe as an object appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet before hurtling towards the sea and stopping at 20,000 ft.
He said: "We do believe all these observables we've been seeing, sudden and extreme acceleration, hypersonic velocities, low observability, trans medium travel, and last but not least, positive lift, anti-gravity – is really the manifestation of a single technology.
"So it's not five exotic technologies we're trying to figure out, it's one. and we think we know that one too.
"We believe it has to do with a high amount of energy and the ability to warp space-time, not by a lot, but by a little.”
So-called Ediacaran organisms have puzzled biologists for decades. To the untrained eye they look like fossilized plants, in tube or frond shapes up to 2 meters long. These strange life forms dominated Earth’s seas half a billion years ago, and scientists have long struggled to figure out whether they’re algae, fungi, or even an entirely different kingdom of life that failed to survive. Now, two paleontologists think they have finally established the identity of the mysterious creatures: They were animals, some of which could move around, but they were unlike any living on Earth today.
Scientists first discovered the Ediacaran organisms in 1946 in South Australia’s Ediacara Hills. To date, researchers have identified about 200 different types in ancient rocks across the world. Almost all appear to have died out by 541 million years ago, just before fossils of familiar animals like sponges and the ancestors of crabs and lobsters appeared in an event dubbed the Cambrian explosion. One reason these creatures have proved so tricky to place in the tree of life is that some of them had an anatomy unique in nature. Their bodies were made up of branched fronds with a strange fractal architecture, in which the frond subunits resembled small versions of the whole frond.
Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Jian Han at Northwest University in Xi’an, China, have now found key evidence that the Ediacaran organisms were animals. They analyzed more than 200 fossils of a 518-million-year-old marine species named Stromatoverispsygmoglena. Paleontologists had previously concluded that the 10-centimeter-tall species was some sort of animal—in part, says Hoyal Cuthill, because it was found alongside other known animals, and all of the fossils are preserved in a similar way. Hoyal Cuthill and Han argue S. psygmoglena was also an Ediacaran organism, a rare “survivor” that somehow clung on through the Cambrian explosion.
The Stromatoveris fossils, which were all unearthed in Yunnan province in southwestern China, are beautifully preserved, Hoyal Cuthill says. As she examined specimen after specimen she became increasingly excited. “I began thinking: My goodness, I’ve seen these features before.” Like some of the strange Ediacaran organisms, Stromatoveris was made up of several radially repeated, branched fronds with a fractal internal architecture.
A fossil of one of the 200 or so types of Stromatoveris
J. HOYAL CUTHILL
To find out what sort of animals Stromatoveris and the other Ediacaran organisms were, Hoyal Cuthill and Han ran a computer analysis that uses anatomical features to reconstruct evolutionary relationships. They found that Stromatoveris and the other Ediacaran organisms don’t belong to any living animal group or “phylum.” Instead, they cluster on their own branch in the animal evolutionary tree, between the sponges and complex animals with a digestive cavity like worms, mollusks, and vertebrates, the team reports today in Palaeontology. “This branch, the Petalonamae, could well be its own phylum, and it apparently lacks any living descendants,” Hoyal Cuthill says.
“It looks very likely [the Ediacaran organisms] are animals,” says Simon Conway Morris, a paleontologist at the University of Cambridge, who worked with Han on the first description of Stromatoveris in 2006, but who was not involved in the current study. At that point there were just a handful of known Stromatoveris fossils. The researchers argued that they were similar to some Ediacaran organisms, although others later questioned that link. Conway Morris says the new study “extends the story very nicely” by exploring the Ediacaran nature of Stromatoveris in more detail.
Geobiologist Simon Darroch at Vanderbilt University in Nashville is also comfortable with the idea that the Ediacaran organisms were animals and that a few survived into the Cambrian. But on a first look he is not convinced that Stromatoveris was one such survivor; he thinks the evidence that it had the fractal architecture of an Ediacaran organism isn’t strong—yet he’s open to persuasion.
If the new conclusion settles one mystery, though, it introduces another. The Ediacaran organisms represent the first major explosion of complex life on Earth, and they thrived for 30 million years. Their demise has been linked to the appearance of animals in the Cambrian Explosion, Hoyal Cuthill says. But that simple explanation doesn’t work as well if Ediacaran organisms were animals themselves, and some were still alive tens of millions of years later. “It’s not quite so neat anymore,” she says. “As to what led to their eventual extinction I think it’s very hard to say.”
Figure 1 — Major events during the Ediacaran period, and the main palaeontological Ediacaran field localities. A, Key tectonic, geochemical and extraterrestrial events during the Ediacaran period (635 million to 541 million years ago), and the approximate ranges of the Avalon, White Sea and Nama biotic assemblages of soft-bodied Ediacaran macrofossils. The Shuram excursion is the largest recorded change in the carbon-isotope record in Earth history, and indicates a substantial shift in the global carbon cycle. However, the precise timing of this event is unclear. B, Notable Ediacaran fossil localities. All are macrofossil sites, except Weng’an, which houses the well-known Doushantuo microfossil assemblages. Credit: F. Dunn and A. Liu.
Figure 2 — Fossils discovered between 1840 and 1957 in rocks of ‘Azoic’ age. A, Charnia masoni, discovered by schoolchildren in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, UK, in the 1950s. This specimen is the holotype (type specimen) of Charnia masoni, and is housed at the New Walk Museum, Leicester. B, Aspidella terranovica, from St John’s in Newfoundland, Canada. C, ‘Ring fossils’ from the ‘ring pit’, Charnwood Forest, first documented in the 1840s. These disc-shaped fossils are now recognized to be the anchoring holdfasts of frond-like organisms. Scale bars, 10 mm (A–B) and 50 mm (C).
Credit: F. Dunn and A. Liu.
Figure 3 — Ediacaran fossils from the Ediacara Member, South Australia. All specimens reside at the South Australia Museum. A, Dickinsonia, SAM P40135. B, Parvancorina, SAM P40695. C, Two specimens of Spriggina, SAM P29802 and P29803. D, Kimberella, SAM P48935. Scale bars, 10 mm.
Credit: F. Dunn and A. Liu.
Figure 4 — Further soft-bodied Ediacaran organisms from the Ediacara Member, South Australia. All specimens reside at the South Australia Museum. A, Funisia, SAM P40726. B, Tribrachidium, SAM P12898 (holotype). C, Palaeophragmodictya, SAM P48140. D, Eoandromeda, SAM P44349. E, Arkarua, SAM P49266. F, Palaeopascichnus, SAM P36854d. G, Nemiana, SAM P49342. Scale bars, 10 mm.
This meteorite from Siberia contains tiny, so far completely unknown crystals
This meteorite from Siberia contains tiny, so far completely unknown crystals
The extremely rare quasicrystal has been found in the Siberian Khatyrka meteorite.
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Created under extreme heat and almost as hard as a diamond: A meteorite from Siberia contains tiny, so far completely unknown crystals.
A previously unknown mineral that does not occur on Earth was found in a meteorite by a Russian team led by Viktor Sharygin from Novosibirsk State University.
The new material "uakitite" is a nitride, forms cube-shaped crystals and consists of vanadium, nitrogen and small amounts of iron and chromium. According to the Russian working group, the crystals form only tiny inclusions of a few micrometers in diameter in the Uakite meteorite found in Siberia in 2016, which consists of an iron-nickel alloy. Because the particles are so small, the team was only able to directly determine the composition and structure of the mineral; the researchers have deduced other physical properties from comparisons with vanadium nitride. Thus Uakitite together with other nitrides is one of the hardest known minerals, only surpassed by diamond.
The composition of the meteorite shows that uakitite must have formed under extreme conditions - many of the minerals found there only form at well over 1000 degrees Celsius.
A grain of the Khatyrka meteorite, in which the quasicrystal was found
The newly discovered mineral is surrounded by a slightly larger mass of iron and chromium sulphides, which separated from the original iron-nickel melt at such high temperatures. The mostly undisturbed form of the Uakitite crystals indicates that the material crystallized out of the melt very early and is an independent mineral - other nitrides with similar composition are far and wide nothing to be seen. Because of its extreme formation conditions, uakitite can only occur in space in iron-nickel asteroids that once melted at high temperatures.
With one exception, however: The earth's core probably also consists predominantly of iron and nickel - but we will probably never know whether the rare mineral is hidden there.
This vertically exaggerated view shows scalloped depressions in a part of Mars where such textures prompted researchers to check for buried ice, using ground-penetrating radar aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has discovered an impressive underground ice deposit beneath Utopia Planitia on the Red Planet that is estimated to contain as much water as Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes of North America.
These two images show Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument data from two tracks in a part of Mars' Utopia Planitia region where the orbiting, ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected subsurface deposits rich in water ice.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Rome/ASI/PSI
By using the Italian-built SHARAD (Shallow Radar) instrument, the team was able to estimate that the deposit is between 80 and 170 meters (260 and 560 feet) thick, and it lies under a layer of soil up to 10 meters (33 feet) deep. The results are published in Geophysical Research Letters.
The deposit is believed to be less than 1 percent of all the water present on Mars, but its impressive features and relative abundance in a single location at mid-latitudes makes it an ideal target for exploration.
"This deposit is probably more accessible than most water ice on Mars, because it is at a relatively low latitude and it lies in a flat, smooth area where landing a spacecraft would be easier than at some of the other areas with buried ice," said co-author Jack Holt, from the University of Texas, Austin, in a statement.
Utopia Planitia is a basin bigger than New Mexico, with a diameter of about 3,300 kilometers (2,050 miles). The formation of such a large reservoir at this relatively low latitude is due to the erratic behavior of the Martian axis.
"This deposit probably formed as snowfall accumulating into an ice sheet mixed with dust during a period in Mars history when the planet's axis was more tilted than it is today," added lead author Cassie Stuurman, also from the University of Texas.
The axial tilt is currently at 25 degrees, close to Earth’s own 23.5 degrees. But unlike our planet’s axis, the Martian axis varies between zero and 60 degrees over cycles 120,000 years long. During the Red Planet's mysterious past, Utopia Planitia might have been where the current North Pole is.
Altitude map of Utopia Planitia with the ice deposit marked by oblique lines.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Rome/ASI/PSI
“We know early Mars had enough liquid water on the surface for rivers and lakes. Where did it go? Much of it left the planet from the top of the atmosphere,” said Leslie Tamppari, from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). “But there's also a large quantity that is now underground ice, and we want to keep learning more about that."
NASA Announces Plans To Send Astronauts To Mars In Mid-2030s
NASA Announces Plans To Send Astronauts To Mars In Mid-2030s
NASA’s Orion spacecraft will launch Thursday morning, performing an unmanned test flight for the machinery that will eventually bring humans to asteroids, before ultimately transporting them to Mars. While “eventually” has always been sort of a given, NASA has finally announced projected dates.
During a press conference today on NASA TV, it was announced that Orion will bring four astronauts at a time to asteroids between Earth and Mars by 2025, and the first humans will reach the red planet in the mid-2030s. This venture into deep space will be the farthest humans have gone since Apollo 17 went to the moon in 1972. (David Paliwoda and Jesse Williams have made a fantastic website that illustrates Earth’s relative distance from the Moon and from Mars. Spoiler: it’s a heck of a lot further than you’d think)
With the first goal date only about 10 years away, the importance of Thursday’s test flight has been heightened. The Orion spacecraft will be unmanned, but the cabin will be filled with 1,200 sensors to collect information about radiation and heat, as well as testing different systems, including the launch abort system. At the time of this writing, the launch is still currently a ‘go’. Assuming no problems, Orion will launch on Thursday at 7:05 am EST from Kennedy Space Center. It will orbit the Earth at a distance 15 times greater than that of the International Space Station, and deploy 11 parachutes upon reentry, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean right around 11:30 am EST.
Following the announcement, Mark Geyer, Todd May, and Mike Bolger—program managers of the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System, and Ground System Development, respectively— participated in an AMA session on reddit. It’s a pretty good read about what the future of this mission and space exploration in general holds, as well as how young scientists can get involved.
The press briefing will be replaying at 10 pm EST on NASA TV, and you can tune in right here:
By all accounts, Guardians of the Galaxy is well-positioned to become the next generation’s Star Wars. It features a beautiful green-skinned Zoe Saldana, a hulking red-and-blue-skinned Dave Bautista, an ominous blue-skinned/purple-eyed Lee Pace, and so on—all hailing from different planets, and all of them looking much more like human beings than our closest extant relatives within this ecosystem, the chimpanzees and bonobos. How could this happen? How could our bodies naturally evolve on another planet when they have so precipitously evolved on ours?
Noted skeptic Michael Shermer has famously argued this point, and exceptionally well. In his reply to Shermer, Richard Dawkins (to my surprise, and I believe to his credit) cites Simon Conway Morris as an example of a credible evolutionary biologist who sees a strong possibility that if they are intelligent, extraterrestrials may converge along a similar bipedal humanoid trajectory:
“As any biologist will tell you, the hummingbird is a close relative of the dinosaur and the moth of a shrimp, yet the degree of convergence in not only body shape but also vital components such as energy budgets is startlingly similar. If this convergence occurred on Earth, then why not on Threga IX? Now consider convergence at the molecular level, specifically the enzyme carbonic anhydrase. It is a pretty impressive catalyst, serving to accelerate the hydration of carbon dioxide by more than a million times. On Earth it plays a key role in processes as disparate as photosynthesis, respiration and biomineralization: could, indeed, any biosphere manage without such an enzyme? Yet carbonic anhydrase is patently convergent, having evolved independently at least three times.”
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Morris has become known as something of an eccentric over the past few years for unrelated reasons (namely in suggesting that “a rational Mind,” and not pure natural selection, guides the evolutionary process), but he’s no crank, and his basic point regarding convergence as a product of natural selection has merit. We would expect, for instance, that any intelligent species has a large brain, or something we would recognize as equivalent to a large brain; how do we know that bipedalism, bicameral vision, opposable thumbs, and so forth are not equally likely to prove advantageous adaptations among intelligent species, at least those that develop on land? We don’t—because when it comes to technologically advanced intelligent species, we’ve only been given one example to consider.
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Un OVNI filmé dans le Var le 5 août 2018
Un OVNI filmé dans le Var le 5 août 2018
Le dimanche 5 août 2018, à 22h30, une famille en vacances a observé un objet volant non identifié dans le ciel, au-dessus de la ville de Carqueiranne, dans le sud de la France.
Les témoins étaient en train de terminer leur repas en extérieur quand ils ont remarqué la présence d’un étrange objet lumineux au-dessus de la presqu’île de Giens.
Lamia, une parisienne âgée de 34 ans, raconte :
« C’était plus gros qu’une étoile, mais bien moins grand que la Lune. Ça changeait de couleur, du rouge à l’orange, mais aussi de forme comme le ferait une méduse. Et ça bougeait légèrement, mais en restant dans le même endroit du ciel. »
La totalité des témoins ont confirmé les dires de la jeune femme. Impressionnée par ce mystérieux engin, Lamia et sa belle-mère se sont rendues au jardin Beaurivage de Carqueiranne afin de mieux pouvoir l’observer.
Au final, l’observation a duré une quarantaine de minutes et s’est terminée à 23h10. Lamia a réussi à le filmer et à le photographier grâce à son smartphone.
« À l’œil nu, on voyait une grosse étoile, mais en zoomant au maximum, on pouvait observer deux cercles rouges et une traînée. Il y avait aussi un petit point lumineux qui accompagnait la forme principale. »
A la suite de cette expérience traumatisante, elle avoue avoir perdu le sommeil.
Le journal Var-Matin a soumis les différents éléments au MUFON, dont l’antenne française se trouve à Valensole. Pour Pascal Fechner, l’explication la plus plausible est qu’il s’agissait de la planète Mars.
Il pense qu’il pourrait aussi s’agir du vol TDR558 Perpignan – Rome qui a survolé Hyères à 22h53.
« Les smartphones ont des objectifs inadaptés à l’astronomie. Ils ne sont tout simplement pas faits pour ça. L’effet de surbrillance, le point qui essaie de se faire sans y arriver, peuvent générer les cercles et traînées que l’on voit sur les photos. », poursuit Pascal Fechner.
« Je ne suis pas catégorique, mais pour moi, c’est Mars. »
Il conclut :
« Regardez une lumière fixe dans le ciel. Au bout d’un moment, vous la verrez bouger par effet d’optique. Sans compter que, sur une demi-heure d’observation, Mars aussi évolue dans le ciel. »
Whatever occurred at 2:45 a.m. on the morning of July 24, 1948 in the skies over southwest Alabama not only shocked and stymied the witnesses. It jolted the U.S. government into a top-secret investigation—the results of which were ultimately destroyed.
The skies were mostly clear and the moon was bright in the pre-dawn hours as pilot Clarence S. Chiles and co-pilot John B. Whitted flew their Eastern Air Lines DC-3, a twin-engine propeller plane, at 5,000 feet, en route from Houston to Atlanta. The aircraft had 20 passengers on board, 19 of them asleep at that hour. It was a routine domestic flight, one of many in the skies that early morning.
Until suddenly, it wasn’t. What the two pilots and their wide-awake passenger saw in the skies about 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, did more than startle them. It would reportedly become the catalyst for a highly classified Air Force document suggesting that some unidentified flying objects were spaceships from other worlds—a tipping point in UFO history.
Chiles described what he saw in an official statement about a week later: “It was clear there were no wings present, that it was powered by some jet or other type of power, shooting flame from the rear some 50 feet. There were two rows of windows, which indicated an upper and lower deck, [and] from inside these windows a very bright light was glowing. Underneath the ship there was a blue glow of light.” He estimated that he’d watched the ship for about 10 seconds before it disappeared into some light clouds and was lost from view.
Whitted offered a similar description in his official statement: “The object was cigar shaped and seemed to be about a hundred feet in length. The fuselage appeared to be about three times the circumference of a B-29 fuselage. It had two rows of windows, an upper and a lower. The windows were very large and seemed square. They were white with light which seemed to be caused by some type of combustion…. I asked Capt. Chiles what we had just seen and he said that he didn’t know.”
The passenger who was awake at the time, Clarence L. McKelvie of Columbus, Ohio, corroborated the pilots’ account that an unusually bright object had streaked past his window, but he wasn’t able to describe it beyond that.
Chiles’ interpretation of what he saw on the night of July 24, 1948.
(Credit: The Project Blue Book Archive)
Both pilots also made drawings of the craft they believed they had seen and provided further details in newspaper and radio interviews, some just hours after the sighting. The Atlanta Constitution headlined its July 25 account, “Atlanta Pilots Report Wingless Sky Monster.” In that article, Chiles described what sounded like an uncomfortably close encounter, as the object appeared to be coming at them. “We veered to the left and it veered to its left, and passed us about 700 feet to our right and about 700 feet above us. Then, as if the pilot had seen us and wanted to avoid us, it pulled up with a tremendous burst of flame out of its rear and zoomed up into the clouds.”
Chiles and Whitted weren’t the only ones baffled by what they’d seen.
Asked for comment, William M. Allen, the president of Boeing Aircraft told the United Press he was “pretty sure” it was “not one of our planes,” adding that he knew of nothing being built in the U.S. that matched the description. General George C. Kenney, the chief of the Strategic Air Command, which was responsible for most of America’s nuclear strike forces during the Cold War, told the Associated Press: “The Army hasn’t anything like that. I wish we did.”
Whatever Chiles and Whitted witnessed, theirs was far from an isolated incident. There had been scores of reported UFO sightings in the years just previous. But Air Force investigators took this one more seriously than most. For one thing, both men were highly regarded pilots who had served as Air Force officers during World War II. (McKelvie was also a solid citizen and an Air Force veteran, as well.) For another, the pilots had gotten what seemed to be an unusually close look at the strange object they described.
For all of those reasons, the Chiles-Whitted encounter, as it came to be known, reportedly caused the Air Technical Intelligence Center to draft a top-secret document with the deceptively bland title “Estimate of the Situation.”Edward J. Ruppelt, an Air Force officer and the first head of its famous Project Blue Bookstudy of UFO phenomena, claimed to have seen a copy. “The ‘situation’ was the UFOs,” he wrote, “the ‘estimate’ was that they were interplanetary!”
According to Ruppelt, the report traveled up the Air Force chain of command all the way to General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the chief of staff. “The general wouldn’t buy interplanetary vehicles,” Ruppelt wrote. “A group from ATIC went to the Pentagon to bolster their position but had no luck, the Chief of Staff couldn’t be convinced.”
Ruppelt continued, “The estimate died a quick death. Some months later it was completely declassified and relegated to the incinerator.”
Whitted’s interpretation of what he saw on the night of July 24, 1948.
(Credit: The Project Blue Book Archive)
One reason for Vandenberg’s skepticism, apparently, was that another faction within the Air Force had a competing theory: UFOs weren’t interplanetary at all, but the handiwork of America’s Cold War nemesis, the Soviet Union. In another top-secret report dated December 1948, the Air Force suggested a variety of reasons the Soviets might be behind such a scheme, including photographic reconnaissance, testing U.S. air defenses and undermining U.S. and European ally confidence in the atom bomb as the ultimate weapon. The Soviets wouldn’t have their own atom bomb until late August 1949.
The suppression of the “Estimate of the Situation” and the rejection of any extraterrestrial explanation was the start of “a long period of unfortunate, amateurish public relations” on the part of the Air Force, astronomer J. Allen Hynek claimed in his 1972 book, The UFO Experience. Hynek, who had worked at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory tracking space satellites and later became a professor at Northwestern University, was the official astronomical consultant to Project Blue Book as well as the man who developed the UFO-sighting classification system that originated the phrase “Close Encounters of Third Kind.”
“The insistence on official secrecy and frequent ‘classification’ of documents was hardly needed since the Pentagon had declared that the problem really didn’t exist,” Hynek wrote.
Ruppelt maintained that bureaucratic bungling rather than deliberate deception was the Air Force’s main problem. “But had the Air Force tried to throw up a screen of confusion, they couldn’t have done a better job,” he added.
In part because of this lack of transparency, the Chiles-Whitted incident remains one of the most controversial UFO sightings—and a favorite of conspiracy theorists even now.
So, what did Chiles and Whitted actually see? Some suggested a weather balloon, others a mirage. Hynek believed it was a fireball, or very bright meteor, an opinion that eventually became the official Air Force verdict. As to the lighted windows both pilots claim to have seen, some experts suggest that might have been a phenomenon called the “airship effect,” where observers who see a group of unrelated lights in the sky are fooled into thinking they’re part of the same object.
But Chiles and Whitted stuck to their story. James E. McDonald, a University of Arizona physicist and UFO expert, said he interviewed them in 1968, some 20 years after the event. The two were now jet pilots for Eastern Air Lines, and they continued to believe that what they had seen was some sort of airborne vehicle, McDonald reported.
What’s more, Whitted added a new and puzzling detail to the story. Although reports at the time said the object had disappeared into the clouds or simply out of their view, he supposedly told McDonald that wasn’t what really happened. Instead, the object had vanished instantaneously, right before their eyes.
No wonder the Chiles-Whitted case continues to baffle and intrigue, even 70 years later.
Space Rock in the Crosshairs! Japanese Probe Snaps Close-Up Images of Asteroid Ryugu
Space Rock in the Crosshairs! Japanese Probe Snaps Close-Up Images of Asteroid Ryugu
ByElizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
An image of asteroid Ryugu taken from about 1 km away by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's Optical Navigation Camera – Wide Angle on Aug. 7, 2018. The red frame shows the range imaged by the telescopic camera (the image below in this story).
Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Koichi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST.
A Japanese sample-return spacecraft just gave its destination asteroid a special close-up. As Hayabusa2 swept to only 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) above the surface of 162173 Ryugu, it spotted boulders, dust and surface features only a few meters or feet across. It's by far the best view of Ryugu since the spacecraft arrived there about six weeks ago.
Several images from Ryugu show the surface of this space rock, which occasionally crosses the orbit of Earth, as it dipped down toward the asteroid. (Scientists classify Ryugu as a potentially hazardous asteroid, but there is no imminent threat to our planet.) In general, studying the surface of small worlds helps scientists better understand solar system history. Engineers can also use the composition information so that, if Earth is threatened by a large asteroid, they can better pick a deflection or destruction method.
This time around, though, the pictures were not the main reason Hayabusa2 swept so low. Instead, Japanese controllers were interested in better understanding the gravity of Ryugu. To do so, they put the spacecraft into a temporary free fall.
"By monitoring the exact movement of the Hayabusa2, we can see how strong the gravitational attraction is from Ryugu," officials with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)said in a statementtoday (Aug. 7).
Using its Optical Navigation Camera – Telescopic, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft captured this view of the asteroid Ryugu from about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) away on Aug. 7, 2018.
Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Koichi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST.
The spacecraft started its descent at 10 p.m. EDT on Aug. 5 (0200 GMT on Aug. 6). From an altitude of 12.5 miles (20 kilometers), Hayabusa2 spent the next 21 hours in free fall, getting within 2,792 feet (851 meters) of the space rock, JAXA officials said. The spacecraft also took several images shortly before reaching that minimum altitude. Then, Hayabusa2 fired its thrusters and climbed back up again to a target altitude of about 3.1 miles (5 km).
These maneuvers will also be valuable practice for spacecraft controllers as they prepare to bring Hayabusa2 down for a sample return. The spacecraft is expected to scoop up a bit of Ryugu's regolith (soil) before scooting back to Earth in 2020. In the coming months, Hayabusa2 will also drop off a lander and three rovers to explore Ryugu's surface.
Hayabusa2, which launched in 2014, is the second sample-return mission Japan launched to an asteroid. The first spacecraft, Hayabusa, overcame numerous technical difficulties on its mission and safely returned bits of 25143 Itokawa in 2010.
Jupiter's Largest Moon Ganymede Produces Powerful Plasma Waves
Jupiter's Largest Moon Ganymede Produces Powerful Plasma Waves
By Chelsea Gohd, Space.com Staff Write
Jupiter's moon Ganymede. A new study shows that the electromagnetic waves near Ganymede are extremely powerful.
Credit: NASA/JPL
There are some wild waves flowing around Jupiter's largest moon, but don't break out your surfboard just yet, because these powerful waves are made of plasma.
Around planets like Earth, there is plasma, one of the four types of matter. Plasma is created when an ionized gas becomes electrically conductive and can be shaped and controlled by electric and magnetic fields, which also exist around Earth. Earth's plasmasphere is a region that contains dense, cold plasma. When Earth's electric and magnetic fields fluctuate, they push and pull at the particles in this plasma, creating waves. Just like a strong wind can create waves in a body of water, fluctuating electric and magnetic fields can cause chorus waves in the plasma near objects like Earth.
By moving plasma particles around, these waves help to balance the number of energetic particles near Earth, as particles come in and are lost from the near-Earth environment. These waves, known as plasma waves, aren't unique to Earth, either. Other planets and objects with surrounding plasma and magnetic and electric fields have plasma waves as well. One type of plasma wave, known as a chorus wave, causes electrons in plasma to accelerate. Chorus waves got their name because, when converted to sound, listeners likened it to a chorus of birds chirping. [Photos of Ganymede, Jupiter's Largest Moon]
Different types of plasma waves can be found in different regions around planets like Earth.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith
In a new study, a team of scientists led by Yuri Shpritsof the German Research Centre for Geosciences and the University of Potsdamexplored the chorus waves around other planets in our solar system, and even some of their moons. They found that the chorus waves around Jupiter's moon Ganymede are a million times more powerful than the average around the planets they studied. The team also explored powerful chorus waves near Jupiter's moon Europa, according to a statement.
"It's a really surprising and puzzling observation showing that a moon with a magnetic field can create such a tremendous intensification in the power of waves," Shprits said in the statement.
"Chorus waves have been detected in space around the Earth, but they are nowhere near as strong as the waves at Jupiter," Richard Horne, a researcher at the British Antarctic Survey and a co-author on the study, said in the statement. "Even if [a] small portion of these waves escapes the immediate vicinity of Ganymede, they will be capable of accelerating particles to very high energies and ultimately producing very fast electrons inside Jupiter's magnetic field."
Understanding these waves can significantly help scientists to understand how particles are accelerated and lost in space, according to the study.
The impact of chorus waves on Earth can be seen easily, depending where you are, because they are responsible for the famous northern (and southern) lights, the auroras predominantly seen from the Arctic and Antarctic.
Studying these plasma waves could be especially useful for maintaining and protecting spacecraft, as chorus waves aren't just responsible for the northern lights, they also help to create high-energy "killer'" electrons around Earth, researchers said in the statement. These killer electrons can damage spacecraft, and researchers are concerned about what effect they may have on spacecraft traveling to Jupiter.
Whenever something strange appears in the airspace over and around Area 51, it’s a cause for questioning, possible concern, potential alarm and occasional panic. What does one make of the appearance of two long-retired F-117 Nighthawk stealth jets, with their distinctive triangular shapes, making both day and night flights, including refueling, over the Nevada desert? Is the military merely exercising them as part of a regular maintenance schedule it claims it puts all old aircraft stored on the base through? Why is it keeping old planes in mission-ready condition? Air shows? Gulf War re-enactments? Tom Cruise movies? Something else?
On July 26, 2018, Youtube user “pdgls” uploaded a video of two F-117 flying from Tonopah Test Range, the first testing grounds for the Lockheed F-117A Nighthawks in 1981 and the major operations center for the top secret aircrafts until it became the major “retirement” storage center for them starting in 2008. The video shows the jets – call signs Night (or Knight) 17 and 19. After what seem to be normal maneuvers. David Cenciotti at the Aviationist blog notes that Night 17 returns to the base while Night 19 changes its callsign to Dagger 17, making some long, low approaches before finally landing.
The Aviationist and other aviation and military blogs reporting on the sighting of the F-117s all seem to agree that the purpose of their flights is a mystery. A previous sighting in 2017 showed a suspicious hump behind the cockpit which some suspected was equipment to convert the jet to an autonomous pilot-less drone. Another theory is they’re testing new stealth gear or stealth sensors for current aircraft. That seems strange – why not test it on the aircraft it’s designed for? A more sinister theory is that the F-117s are pretending to be enemy aircraft to test simulators or perhaps even real response systems, although no other planes were seen in this particular operation.
In our continuing quests to find alien ships or super-secret futuristic military aircraft at Area 51, are we ignoring what’s actually happening there? Is it a good sign or a bad sign that 40-year-old jets are still being maintained and tested there? Are these operations merely a smokescreen? If so, what are they hiding – new technology or the fact that we have no new technology?
Is this the real reason why we’re getting a Space Force?
What’s the best way to get the inside scoop on Area 51, that most mysterious of military bases and cultural touchstone for people bad at parties the world over? It’s not 12 hour stretches spent staring at Google Earth, convincing yourself that some dirty old RV parked on the side of a desert highway is advanced alien tech or secret mind-controlling super weapon powered by children’s tears and the frozen heart of Lyndon B. Johnson. That way lies madness, friend. Here’s what you have to do if you want to know what’s really going on: get a job you lazy bum, this is America! What would Henry Ford say if he saw you right now? Get out there, pound the pavement, and go tell the secret shadow government that you’re just the person they’ve been looking for. You’re in luck too, because they’re hiring.
If you’re a licensed pilot in the Las Vegas area without too many skeletons stuffed in your closet to prevent you from getting Top Secret clearance, you might just have a shot at working at Area 51. Defense contractor AECOM is looking for a First Officer/Co-Pilot to join the so-called “Janet airlines,” the secretive service operated by the US Air Force to ferry employees from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas to Area 51 and other military bases. Qualifications include having 3,000 hours flying fixed wing aircraft, ability to qualify for and maintain Top Secret security clearance, and be willing to live in Las Vegas. Although not stated, further qualifications are assumed to include a character relatively unwilling to promise potential one-night-stands that you’ll “show them some aliens” when you’re ripped on scotch at the Bellagio at 4 AM.
Las Vegas: where no one ever says anything stupid.
Assuming you’re not me and you can land this gig, you’ll be flying unmarked red and white passenger jets from a private terminal at McCarran International Airport. The unofficial name for this air transport service is Janet airlines, which refers to the callsign used by these planes when they’re flying in civilian space. As soon as the planes enter into military space, the callsigns change from Janet to names far more fitting like Maple, Colt, Racer, and Bones. If there’s one thing we’ve learned about our secret shadow government, they have an impeccable sense of cool.
Pictured: probably not the runway at Area 51.
If you’re a pilot and you think you’ve got what it takes, you can apply on AECOM’s website. Of course, if you’re reading this you’re probably already disqualified, but hey it’s worth a shot, right? Just don’t forget who gave you the tip-off when you get that sweet, sweet inside scoop.
If you happen to be AECOM’s hiring manager and you’re reading this: I do not envy you right about now, and I’m sorry, but you knew what you signed up for.
Huge “Cloaked” Triangle Craft captured over Kansas City, Missouri
Huge “Cloaked” Triangle Craft captured over Kansas City, Missouri
On Aug 8, 2018 the witness was driving south (east) on I-35 just outside of Kansas City, Missouri at 6 pm. It was a cloudy day so he was checking out the formations when he noticed a darker triangular shape, just, hanging out.
So he pulled out his phone and recorded what he could. The triangle stayed there from what he observed to be at least 3 minutes. That time span being from when he noticed it until he eventually got off the highway and headed north to then be obscured by the tree lines.
The witness states: What do I think it is? Well ether some sort of physical vessel that is "cloaked" and is interacting with the atmosphere to still show form. Or something that was big triangle shape that had passed through the clouds leaving a "trail" Or "foot print".
The witness has submitted a video and images to Mufon, case 94009. Credit to the photographer cloaked UFO/Mufon. Video link:
BRUSSEL -Het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt heeft vorig jaar 132 meldingen van UFO’s (Unidentified Flying Objects) ontvangen, 16 minder dan in 2016. Dat meldt het meldpunt woensdag. Een UFO is een licht, een verschijnsel of een voorwerp in de lucht, dat ook na onderzoek niet geïdentificeerd kan worden. 2017 was een relatief “kalm” UFO-jaar, klinkt het, met naar jaarlijkse gewoonte vooral tijdens de zomermaanden een stijging van het aantal meldingen.
Het grootste aantal meldingen kwam uit de provincie Antwerpen (36), gevolgd door Oost-Vlaanderen (23) en West-Vlaanderen (22). Drie meldingen bleken vals en in 48 gevallen waren er onvoldoende gegevens. Er was in 2017 een uitzonderlijk hoog aantal UFO-waarnemingen die door een meteoor of ruimteschroot verklaard konden worden. Er waren dit jaar echter geen meldingen in de categorie ‘onverklaard’, ook is volgens het meldpunt “de vreemdheid en kwaliteit van het beeldmateriaal” gedaald in vergelijking met vorig jaar.
In 20187 werd een lichte daling genoteerd van om en bij de 10%FOTO: UFO MELDPUNT.
Opvallend meteoriet
Het meldpunt ontving vorig jaar naar eigen zeggen wel veel foto- en filmmateriaal. Zo kreeg een video uit de Vlaams-Brabantse gemeente Weerde, gemaakt op 11 januari, in Nederland veel aandacht.
Op de beelden is het vurige spoor van een meteoorsteen te zien die teruggevonden werd, nadat hij een gat door het dak van een schuur in het Nederlandse Broek in Waterland had geboord. Hiermee was de zesde meteoriet die ooit op Nederlandse bodem kon worden gerecupereerd een feit.
De meteoriet in kwestie is zo’n 10 cm groot en weegt 500 gramFOTO: ASTROBLOGS/BELGISCH UFO-MELDPUNT
Een getuigenis met verwondingen
Een primeur voor het meldpunt is een melding waar een getuige lichte verwondingen opliep. Op 8 augustus 2017 stond een man in Tessenderlo omstreeks 2.30 uur buiten een sigaretje te roken. Plots zag de man “ iets oplichten achter de houten omheining”.
“Ik en mijn neef gingen snel kijken want er werd regelmatig ingebroken in de buurt. Toen we door het poortje op de veld uit kwamen zagen we iets verderop een rood/oranje-achtig object. We dachten eerst dat het een laserpen was, maar eena dichterbij zagen we dat nergens iets was wat dit kon creëren. We durfde niet echt dichterbij gaan maar waren wel nieuwsgierig. Ik was daarna dichterbij gegaan en wou het proberen te pakken, maar naarmate ik dichter kwam voelde ik een enorme hitte. Ik heb hier trouwens 2 brandwonden aan over gehouden. Na een aantal seconden begon het ongeveer op een hoogte van 2-4 meter naar links en rechts te bewegen en schoot het toen tegen enorme snelheid omhoog en was het weg. Er kwam geen geluid vanaf. De lucht was licht bewolkt en er was praktisch geen wind. Ik heb vaker dingen gezien die niet echt in het plaatje paste van wat echt kon zijn, maar liet mijn sceptische gedachte hieroverheen gaan, maar dit kon ik gewoon niet anders ala geloven. Dit was te werkelijk en ik zoek een verklaring voor dit.”
Volgens het meldpunt zijn getuigenissen met gewonden uiterst zeldzaam. De dag zelf hebben ze de melder om meer informatie en foto’s gevraagd.
Foto’s van de vermeende brandwonden.FOTO: UFO MELDPUNT
Bolbliksem?
Een mogelijke verklaring is dat het een bolbliksem betrof. Het was op het moment van de melding niet onweerachtig, maar dat is geen absolute voorwaarde. Volgens de melder “schoot het object omhoog”, als iets of iemand met een bolbliksem in contact komt (en dus ‘ontlaadt’), kan deze omhoogschieten.
Een schets gemaakt door de melder.FOTO: UFO MELDPUNT.
Sinds de oprichting in 2007 zijn door het meldpunt meer dan 2.000 meldingen verzameld, met als topjaar 2011 (342 waarnemingen). Voor de meeste werd een verklaring gevonden, maar er blijft volgens het meldpunt een handvol goed gedocumenteerde waarnemingen over waarvoor geen uitleg werd gevonden.
Een sigaret?
Het probleem is echter dat de melder niet bijster communicatief bleek achteraf. “Zo is het vreemd dat iemand die bij het zien van een hem onbekend verschijnsel angstig wordt (‘We durfden niet echt dichterbij gaan...’) maar even later toch naar het fenomeen gaat en het zelfs probeert vast te grijpen. Bovendien is er geen zekerheid of de verwondingen wel tijdens de waarneming werden veroorzaakt. De lichte brandwonden kunnen evengoed zijn veroorzaakt door bijvoorbeeld het aanraken van een hete metalen staaf of zelfverwonding met een brandende sigaret. Het feit dat de getuige niet meer reageerde en ook de tweede getuige nooit van zich liet horen, maakt deze melding niet erg betrouwbaar. Een valse melding kan dan ook niet uitgesloten worden”, klinkt het nog.
Totaal aantal waarnemingen
Sinds de oprichting in 2007 zijn door het meldpunt meer dan 2.000 meldingen verzameld, met als topjaar 2011 (342 waarnemingen). Voor de meeste werd een verklaring gevonden, maar er blijft volgens het meldpunt een handvol goed gedocumenteerde waarnemingen over waarvoor geen uitleg werd gevonden.
Vlaams-Brabantse burgemeester met de handen in het haar: “Het was geen weerballon, het was een UFO
Vlaams-Brabantse burgemeester met de handen in het haar: “Het was geen weerballon, het was een UFO
Bron: DH, EIGEN BERICHTGEVING
Frédéric PetitFOTO: IF
De burgemeester van Wezembeek-Oppem, Frédéric Petit (MR), heeft naar eigen zeggen een UFO gezien én gefotografeerd. “De foto’s zijn al vier maanden oud, maar mijn onderzoek sleept aan. Ik heb alle betrokken instanties gecontacteerd, maar niemand kon me een bevredigend antwoord geven.” Vier maanden later is de burgemeester nog steeds in de ban: wat hing daar boven zijn gemeente?
De burgemeester nam zijn foto’s intussen al vier maanden geleden, maar Frédéric Petit komt nu pas naar buiten met zijn verhaal. “Het was een stralende dag, geen wolkje aan de lucht. Ik zat in de tuin, samen met mijn vrouw naar de vliegtuigen te kijken. De vliegroutes waren net gewijzigd en ik volg die dingen graag op. Bref. Plots roept mijn vrouw: ‘Dat is geen vliegtuig.’ Ik keek meteen op en inderdaad: het was iets raars. Het was duidelijk geen vogel, maar wel een vreemde driehoek, met drie zwarte punten. Het bewoog ook op een zonderlinge manier.”
Prompt nam de burgemeester zijn smartphone om het object te fotograferen. “Het verplaatste zich niet in een rechte lijn, maar in een lichte boog. Ik heb dan snel een aantal foto’s genomen. Vervolgens wilde ik op een andere plek gaan staan om betere foto’s te maken, maar tegen dan was het ding verdwenen. Mijn vrouw heeft het ook gezien, er bestaat dus geen twijfel over het feit dat daar iets in de lucht hing. Bovendien heb ik de foto’s als bewijs.”
Aangezien Wezenbeek-Oppem vlakbij de luchthaven van Zaventem ligt, heeft de burgemeester goede contacten met Belgocontrol. “Ik heb hen daarom gevraagd of ze iets gezien hadden op hun radars, maar ze namen mijn vraag niet echt au sérieux. Ze stuurden me met een kluitje in het riet. ‘Vermoedelijk een drone’, klonk het.”
Een weerballon is doorgaans witFOTO: IF
Ballonnen?
“Maar ik ben wetenschappelijk ingesteld. Ik word gek van zulke mysteries. Vervolgens heb ik de FOD mobiliteit gecontacteerd.” Daar kreeg Petit te horen dat de scouts van Louvain-la-Neuve die dag toelating hadden om een stratosferische ballon op te laten. “Maar een ballon vliegt toch in een rechte lijn naar boven? Bovendien, Louvain-la-Neuve is 25 kilometer hiervandaan.” Zulke weerballonnen zijn trouwens doorgaans ook wit.
Volgens Frederick Delaere van het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt is 25 kilometer inderdaad wat ver voor een weerballon. “Het object lijkt wat op een tros gewone ballonnen. Het is echter moeilijk in te schatten hoe hoog dit is. Op de foto is enkel het object en lucht te zien, zonder horizon is het moeilijk om afstand en richting in te schatten.”
Nog een mogelijke verklaring voor de foto’s van de burgemeester zijn zogenaamde ‘zonneballonnen’. “Die kan je zelf maken met zwart plastic”, aldus Delaer van het UFO-meldpunt nog. “Je maakt eigenlijk luchtzakken in zwarte plastic. Door de straling van de zon warmt de lucht op en gaan ze vliegen. Maar ze werken wel enkel als het mooi weer is.”
De TR3B is een populair fenomeen bij complotdenkersFOTO: PINTEREST
Amerikaans geheim project
Ook de burgemeester heeft nog een mogelijke verklaring voor wat hij zelf omschrijft als “een zonderling fenomeen”. “Ik ben nieuwsgierig van aard, dus heb ik wat zitten zoeken op internet. Mogelijk was het een TR3B-Astra, een geheim project van het Amerikaanse leger.” De TR3B is een populair onderwerp onder UFO-fanatici en complotdenkers. Het vermeende toestel lijkt wat op een driehoekig ruimteschip met antizwaartekracht-motoren. “Maar toegegeven, dat is écht wel ver gezochte onzin (lacht).”
Kortom: het zelfbenoemde “mysterie” van de UFO boven Wezembeek-Oppem blijft.
Engineers in the U.K. unveil the world’s first graphene-skinned airplane
Engineers in the U.K. unveil the world’s first graphene-skinned airplane
Graphene, the versatile miracle material that can be used for everything from creating better speakers for hearing aids to body armor that’s stronger than diamonds, has another application to add to its résumé. In the U.K., engineers at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) recently unveiled the world’s first graphene-skinned plane at the “Futures Day” event at Farnborough Air Show 2018. Called Juno, the 11.5-feet wide unmanned airplane also boasts graphene batteries and 3D-printed parts. The combination adds up to a pretty darn impressive whole.
“This project is a genuine world’s first,” Billy Beggs, UCLan’s Engineering Innovation manager, told Digital Trends. “It represents the latest stage of an ongoing collaborative program between academia and industry to build on innovative research, and exploit graphene applications in aerospace. We are establishing a lead in the industrial application of graphene.”
While the 3D-printed elements and graphene batteries are certainly exciting, the graphene-skinned wings are the most promising part of the project. Specifically, it is hoped that the use of graphene can help reduce the overall weight of the aircraft to increase its range and potential payload. This is made possible because the graphene carbon used in Juno is around 17 percent lighter than standard carbon fiber. Other properties of the graphene can help it counter the effects of potentially dangerous lightning strikes, due to its extreme conductivity, and protect the aircraft against ice buildup during flight.
Working with UCLan on the project is the Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Center, University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute, Haydale Graphene Industries, and assorted other businesses and research institutes.
“The U.K. Industrial Strategy highlights graphene as an example of a scientific discovery that needs to translate into industrial applications,” Peter Thomas, head of Innovation and Partnership at UCLan, told us. “Post-Brexit, the U.K. needs to continue to develop competitive advantage in aerospace through innovation.”
With Juno having made its stunning public demonstration, the next phase of the operation will include further tests to be carried out over the next two months. Should all go according to plan, airplanes such as this may well turn out to a particularly promising line of inquiry for graphene-related initiatives.
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Your Brain Contains Magnetic Particles, and Scientists Want to Know Why
Your Brain Contains Magnetic Particles, and Scientists Want to Know Why
By Yasemin Saplakoglu, Staff Writer
Credit: Shutterstock
This article was updated Aug. 9 at 3:30 pm E.T.
In a remote forest laboratory in Germany, free from the widespread pollution found in cities, scientists are studying slices of human brains.
The lab's isolated location, 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Munich, gives the researchers the opportunity to examine a bizarre quirk of the brain: the presence of magnetic particles deep within the organ's tissues.
Scientists have known since the 1990s that the human brain contains these particles, but researchers didn't know why. Some experts proposed that these particles served some biological purpose, while other researchers suggested that the magnets came from environmental pollution. [Inside the Brain: A Photo Journey Through Time]
Now, the German scientists have evidence for the former explanation. In a new, small study that included data on seven postmortem brains, researchers found that some parts of the brains were more magnetic than others. That is, these areas contained more magnetic particles. What's more, all seven brains in the study had very similar distributions of magnetic particles throughout, suggesting that the particles are not a result of environmental absorption but rather serve some biological function, the team wrote in the study, published July 27 in the journal Scientific Reports.
Joseph Kirschvink, a professor of geobiology at Caltech who was not part of the study, said that the new research is "a very important advance, as it rules out obvious sources of external contamination" from pollution. Contamination is always possible, "but would not be the same in multiple individuals," he told Live Science in an email.
In the study, the researchers looked at slices of brain from seven people who had died in the early 1990s at ages 54 to 87. In the remote forest lab, far from widespread sources of magnetic pollution including car exhaust and cigarette ashes, and shielded by leaves known to absorb magnetic particles, the scientists placed their slices under a device that measures magnetic forces.
After taking a control reading, the researchers placed the brain slices next to very strong magnets to magnetize the samples and then took another reading. If the slice contained magnetic particles, those particles would then show up as a reading in the magnetometer.
(Don't worry about your brain particles magnetizing in day-to-day life, though: The kind of magnet used in the experiment is way stronger than anything you would come across in nature, said lead author Stuart Gilder, a professor of geophysics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. The magnet in the study was 1 tesla strong, or 20,000 times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field, which is about 50 microteslas strong. An MRI, at 1 to 3 teslas strong, however, could magnetize the particles, Kirschvink said. But "to do damage you need to pull on those [particles] hard enough to break the cell membranes," Kirschvink said, and added that he is unaware of "any studies showing damage from the strong, static magnetic fields of an MRI.")
The scientists found that most parts of the brain could be magnetized; in other words, these areas all contained magnetic particles. But in all seven brains, the brain stem and the cerebellum had greater magnetism than the higher-up cerebral cortex. Both the brain stem and the cerebellum are in the lower back portions in the brain, and both are more evolutionarily ancient than the cerebral cortex.
It's still unclear why the particles appear in this pattern of concentrations, the scientists said. But because the researchers spotted the pattern in all of the brains examined, "it probably has, or had, some kind of biological significance," Gilder said.
For example, because these particles were more concentrated lower down in the brain and then tapered off higher up, they likely play a role in helping electrical signals travel from the spine up and into the brain, Gilder told Live Science. However, he stressed that the finding remains fully open to interpretation.
Furthermore, because the particles weren't found specifically at higher concentrations near the olfactory bulb — which is what would happen if the particles were absorbed from the environment — Gilder said he doesn't think the particles are the result of exposure to pollution. (Here, the idea is that the particles would be inhaled through the nose and then pass into the brain's olfactory bulb.)
The researchers hypothesized that the type of magnetic particle found in these brain regions is a compound called magnetite (Fe3O4), based on previous studies that found this particle in human brains. It's possible, however, that other kinds of magnetic particles exist in the brain besides magnetite, Gilder noted.
Many animals also have magnetic particles in their brains. Some past research has suggested that animals such as eels or sea turtles use these particles to help navigate. But Gilder said that only one group of creatures are definitely known to use particles of magnetite for orienting themselves in space: magnetotactic bacteria. These bacteria migrate along magnetic field lines of the Earth's magnetic field.
Humans, on the other hand, probably don't do that, Gilder said.
Editor's note:This article was updated on Aug. 9 to include information about the effects of MRIs on magnetic particles in the brain.
Egypt's long-rumoured second sphinx may have been unearthed by construction workers building a new road.
According to local reports, a sphinx-like statue was found on Al-Kabbash Road, which connects the two temples of Karnak and Luxor built around 1400BC.
Officials have confirmed the statue has a 'lion's body with a human head'.
The 'second sphinx' has not yet been lifted from the ground, however, officials said tourists are welcome to visit the construction site to view the ancient statute.
No photographs of the structure have been published, the Director General of Antiquities has confirmed.
The Great Sphinx of Giza was discovered by the Great Pyramids on the west bank of the river Nile. It is the oldest and largest known monumental sculpture in the world.
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Reports suggest a sphinx-like statue (stock image) has been discovered between the ancient temples of Karnak and Luxor which date to around 1400BC
Excavations first started on the Karnak and Luxor temple complexes, located within the ancient city of Thebes, back in 1884, according to RT.
This led to a flurry of significant archaeological discoveries until around 1960, when excavation work at the sites ceased.
Construction workers uncovered the 'second sphinx' during a roadworks project between the temples of Karnak and Luxor.
The Egyptian infrastructure project has been halted while the statue is examined.
According to the area's Director General of Antiquities, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, the statue can not yet be lifted 'due to the nature of the environment it is in'.
Aziz has confirmed tourists are able to visit the road to see the statue for themselves, however, he confirmed no images of the statue have been released.
The Al-Kabbash Road project to excavate and restore the road first began in 2005 and is scheduled to be finished by the end of this year at a cost of $12.7 million (£10m).
The Al-Kabbash Road project in Luxor is due to be finished by the end of this year at a cost of $12.7 million (£10m)
The Great Sphinx of Giza was found by the Great Pyramids on the west bank of the river Nile and is the oldest and largest known monumental sculpture in the world
With the body of a lion and the head of a human, Great Sphinx of Giza measures a grand 239ft (73 metres) long and 65ft (20 metres) high.
Literally translating to 'Father of Dread,' this mythical creature is believed to resemble Pharaoh Khafre, who was the ruler at the time of construction.
It is believed that Djadefre, the elder brother of Khafra, built the Sphinx to honour his father Khufu.
With the body of a lion and the head of a human, Great Sphinx of Giza measures a grand 239ft (73 metres) long and 65ft (20 metres) high
It is just next to the Great Pyramid of Giza which was built as a tomb and a symbol of eternity for the Pharaoh Khufu
This would place the time of construction somewhere between 2550 BC and 2450 BC.
However the limited evidence linking the Sphinx to Khafra is circumstantial and somewhat ambiguous.
It was constructed around during the reign of Pharaoh Khafra, and it is thought that the face of the statue was modelled on his.
Over time it gradually became buried up to its neck in sand, which helped to preserve it before it was finally excavated in 1925.
It is just next to the Great Pyramid of Giza which was built as a tomb and a symbol of eternity for the Pharaoh Khufu.
It stands 456ft (139 metres) high – just over nine double decker buses stacked on top of one another.
It was the tallest man-made structure on Earth for 3,800 years and is accompanied by the smaller pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure
WHAT IS THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS?
The Valley of the Kings in upper Egypt is one of the country's main tourist attractions, situated next to the Giza pyramid complex.
The majority of the pharaohs of the 18th to 20th dynasties, who ruled from 1550 to 1069 BC, rested in the tombs which were cut into the local rock.
The royal tombs are decorated with scenes from Egyptian mythology and give clues as to the beliefs and funerary rituals of the period.
Almost all of the tombs were opened and looted centuries ago, but the sites still give an idea of the opulence and power of the Pharaohs.
The majority of the pharaohs of the 18th to 20th dynasties, who ruled from 1550 to 1069 BC, rested in the tombs which were cut into the local rock. Pictured are godess statues in the valley
The most famous pharaoh at the site is Tutankhamen, whose tomb was discovered in 1922.
Preserved to this day, in the tomb are original decorations of sacred imagery from, among others, the Book of Gates or the Book of Caverns.
These are among the most important funeral texts found on the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs.
The Valley of the Kings in upper Egypt is one of the country's main tourist attractions, situated next to the Giza pyramid complex
NASA wants to create a robot for visual search for extraterrestrial life
NASA wants to create a robot for visual search for extraterrestrial life
Until now, NASA has been creating tools to search for biosignals that could only indicate the possibility of life, but not life itself, no matter how primitive it is. As part of the new project, NASA wants to create an automated planetary robot that will simulate what biologists spend every day in terrestrial laboratories: look through microscopes to visually identify the microbial life living in the samples, the official website of the aerospace agency reports.
The project is led by Melissa Floyd, a scientist from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, USA. She created a 3D print prototype of the FISHbot device and promotes it as a tool for searching for bacterial life on Mars and other objects of the solar system.
“Life exists everywhere on Earth, even in places not suitable for people’s lives. I constantly thought about it. So I had an idea: what if life on Mars could develop just like on Earth? Mars in its past was definitely subjected to the same bombardment with “chemical soup” as the Earth, “- says Melissa Floyd.
The scientist adds that this is not just an assumption. The idea has a scientific justification. Nucleotides – molecules that form deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid – have already been found in comets. These molecules, more commonly known as DNA and RNA, store and transmit genetic information at the cellular level in all living organisms on Earth.
To search for life on another planet, Floyd’s robotic instrument would focus on identifying bacteria and archaea. They are representatives of a large group of unicellular microorganisms that thrive in different conditions and are considered the first organisms appearing on Earth about 4 billion years ago. On Earth, one gram of soil can contain about 40 million bacterial cells, and in a milliliter of fresh water an average of up to one million of these cells.
The concept, which, in her opinion, can be embodied in the form of a separate robotic device or in the form of several rover tools, is based on a very popular method of chemical analysis – fluorescence in situ hybridization. Fluorescent in situ or FISH hybridization is intended for detecting RNA, as well as detecting and locating a specific DNA sequence on metaphase chromosomes or in interphase nuclei in situ. These filamentous structures are present in the nuclei of most living cells and contain genetic information in the form of genes. The FISH method is widely used in preimplantation, prenatal and postnatal genetic diagnosis, in the diagnosis of cancer, in retrospective biological dosimetry.
In fluorescence hybridization in situ, DNA probes are used that bind to complementary targets in the sample. The DNA probes include nucleosides labeled with fluorophores (a fragment of the molecule that gives it fluorescent properties). In direct labeling, the DNA probe connected to the target can be observed with the help of a fluorescent microscope immediately after the hybridization is completed.
“I’m trying to figure out if all this can be done with a robotic tool,” says Floyd and adds that it would be great if the system could carry up to 10 probes to identify a wide range of unicellular organisms.
“Even if there are fragments of highly conserved genetic sequences that are found anywhere on Earth, FISH would be able to identify them,” the expert explains.
The main difficulty, the scientist notes, is to simplify and automate the process so that the samples can be prepared in separate substrates, heated, and also autonomously turned over for a more detailed microscopic survey, which is most likely to be done many times for a deeper analysis.
Artist’s depiction of the Parker Solar Probe near the Sun.Illustration: NASA
A human-made spacecraft is finally heading to the center of the Solar System. NASA’s first launch window for the Parker Solar Probe begins at 3:33 a.m. ET this Saturday, and if all goes well, the ship will then begin its journey to the Sun.
Graphic on the Parker Solar Probe, which is set to become the first spacecraft to fly directly into the sun's atmosphere
Not directly into the Sun, of course. It will pass Venus seven times, eventually arriving within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface, a little more than four times the Sun’s diameter. But despite 2,500 degree temperatures, the ship’s instrumentation will remain at just 85 degrees Fahrenheit, which seems positively chilly, given the circumstances.
“It’s the first time that we have flown any kind of instrument like this close to the Sun, and it’s also the first time we’ve had the technology available to do it,” NASA solar physicist Mitzi Adams told Gizmodo. “It’s a combination of those two things that make it exciting to me.”
The key technology is a thermal protection system that shields the ship, alongside a water-powered cooling system, according to a Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab press release.
Diagram of the probe’s heat shield
Graphic: Greg Stanley/Johns Hopkins University
That thermal protection system took 10 years to develop. It’s got two layers of carbon-fiber-reinforced carbon, which retains its structural properties in high heat. In between those layers is carbon foam, a material that’s mostly air and thus doesn’t transfer much heat. On top of that is an outer layer of aluminum oxide, a white material that reflects light. A layer of tungsten sits between the carbon and aluminum oxide so the two don’t react and turn the outer layer grey.
Here’s the Parker Solar Probe’s lead heat shield engineer, Betsy Congdon, demonstrating the heat shield’s thermal properties:
But the environment around the Sun is formidably intense. The corona contains temperatures of millions of degrees Fahrenheit, and scientists are trying to understand why it’s so much hotter than the Sun itself, whose surface is more like 10,000 degrees.
“We know it’s due to the magnetic field that connects the Sun’s surface to its outer atmosphere, but we’re still learning about how [energy] gets out of the magnetic field into the corona,” NASA solar physicist Alphonse Sterling told Gizmodo. “It’s one of the key mysteries of the Sun and solar physics.”
In the 1950s, scientist Eugene Parker, for whom the solar probe is named, helped explain how the solar wind originates from the corona. The Parker Solar Probe will be able to probe directly the questions surrounding that process, Sterling explained.
The Parker Solar Probe will fly through the outer corona, but particles are sparse enough that they don’t transfer much heat to the ship, according to NASA. It’s kind of like reaching your hand into an oven—if it’s in there just briefly, it doesn’t hurt unless you touch the metal.
A rendering of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the spacecraft that will fly through the Sun's corona to trace how energy and heat move through the star's atmosphere
Although we’re all extremely excited for the launch, it will be a while before we get to enjoy scientific discoveries from this mission. The probe won’t make its closest approaches to the Sun until 2024. Until then, it will make successively tighter orbits, passing Venus seven times to accelerate via the gravitational slingshot maneuver.
Once the probe arrives, hopefully it will answer some of humanity’s burning questions about the Sun—but surely it will spawn new mysteries, too.
What would it feel like to fall into a black hole? This fanciful question has pit real physicists against each other for decades — and new research from Ohio State has opened up some old wounds.
“There’s a lot of people writing a lot of stuff about black holes and black hole information,” string theorist Nicholas Warner, Ph.D., a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Southern California, tells Inverse. (Warner was not involved with the new study, by the way.)
“Some of it’s brilliant and wonderful and some of it is crap.”
If you go by the theory of general relativity, nothing escapes a black hole. Not even light travels fast enough to free itself from a black hole’s gravitational pull. It’s in the freaking name: A black hole is a spherical maw, floating in the void of space. It is a borg-like agglomeration of matter so dense that it assimilates everything that passes through its event horizon.
Unfortunately, none of this makes any sense from a quantum mechanical perspective. According to the rules, information simply can’t be destroyed, and yet that’s what black holes seem to do. This paradox has birthed a long-simmering intellectual war and, with the publication of the new study in the Journal of High Energy Physics, Ohio State physicists have recently turned up the heat.
“There was no simple fix in physics for this.”
The math at the core of quantum mechanics states that information cannot be obliterated, only converted into new forms: matter consumed into energy, energy forging new combinations of matter, and so on. But every time a complex, information-rich object is crushed into the uniform, impossibly compacted space of a black hole, all of its defining characteristics are lost — either flattened out or stretched into an infinitesimal spaghetti, depending on which theoretical model you choose. But no matter how you wish to think about it, the defining information encoded in that matter would appear to be totally obliterated.
For about a decade and change, Samir Mathur, Ph.D., a professor of physics at Ohio State, has been attempting to apply the higher-order, more multidimensional physical equations of string theory to this, the black hole information problem.
“In 2009, Samir Mathur proved a result about the black hole information paradox that showed it was much worse than we thought,” Warner recalls. “There was no simple fix in physics for this. It was going to require a large-scale rethinking of the physics of the event horizon.”
Mathur is an author on the new paper, an attempt to clarify his team’s string theory-based “fuzzball” resolution to the paradox. The only new problem is that it does so by throwing the controversial rival “firewall” theory under the bus.
In the wake of Mathur’s earlier research, four physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara posited in 2012 that the seeming loss of information around an event horizon (as it does when, say, a genetically unique tree is burned into uniform gray ash) must come with the release of an incredible amount of energy. They proposed that, just underneath the surface of a black hole’s event horizon, there is a spherical “firewall” of energy ready to annihilate anything that dares to enter.
While it provided a working hypothesis for what might happen to all that supposedly lost information inside a black hole, more than a few scientists were unconvinced.
“I can tell you right now: the firewall idea is and always has been preposterous,” Chris Adami, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology, molecular genetics, physics, and astronomy at Michigan State University, tells Inverse.
Adami has been involved in this debate for a while. With a grant from the Army Research Office in 2003, he made an ambitious attempt to resolve the black hole information problem by testing it against some of the emerging principles of quantum communication theory.
Donald Marolf, Ph.D., one of the physicists that first proposed the firewall, waves off the criticisms. He does not believe that Adami’s research is even applicable to the debate because he thinks it misses the real issue at the heart of the black hole paradox: how to account for the “spontaneous emissions” proposed by none other than Stephen Hawking.
“Adami’s work discussed ‘stimulated emission’ by black holes,” Marolf tells Inverse. “But — despite common misconceptions — this has essentially nothing to do with the black hole info problem, which instead concerns the growth of [quantum] entanglement due to ‘spontaneous emission.’”
“I can tell you right now: the firewall idea is and always has been preposterous.”
Stephen Hawking, a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, lecturing at an event honoring NASA's 50th Anniversary in 2008.
The paradox at the heart of the black hole information problem stems from Hawking radiation, an alleged spontaneous emission from black holes that Hawking justified theoretically in 1974.
The realization that a black hole would eventually die out after all these emissions, and the seemingly information-free quality of the Hawking radiation emissions, first indicated how fiercely black holes would bring relativity and quantum mechanics into conflict. Inside Hawking’s version of a black hole, it really looked like information was being destroyed.
Adami’s solution to the paradox addresses stimulated emissions — which contain more information than spontaneous emissions — but if you ask Marolf, that’s not enough to account for the information required to resolve the paradox. Word is still out, however, on Mathur’s theory.
In the classic interpretation of a black hole put forward by general relativity (top diagram), all of the black hole matter is constrained to a hyper-dense singularity at the center. In Mathur's string theory version, complex multidimensional geometries, the 'fuzzball,' emerge throughout the full volume of the black hole and approach tightly underneath the event horizon (bottom diagram).
There wasn’t always beef between these scientists.
In fact, for a while, Mathur’s fuzzball argument was wholly compatible with the firewall theory. He had shown through string theory that the interior of a black hole was not one, incredibly small, hyper-dense singularity surrounded by a powerful sucking void between it and the event horizon, but rather a volume filled with wiggling, multidimensional strings and branes — a “fuzzball” of information-rich materials vibrating out in dimensions beyond the three spatial dimensions, and time, that we experience as humans.
To string theorists like Mathur and Warner, the firewall theory addressed only the parts of the fuzzball that are very hot — in other words, it was not all-encompassing or mathematically rigorous, but it also wasn’t wrong.
“I would not say that the firewall argument was completely preposterous,” Mathur tells Inverse, “but the press did not report it accurately, so people were confused.”
Mathur’s new paper, however, takes a less accommodating approach to the firewall argument. At least, it’s no longer compatible with the idea that a person falling into a black hole would get burnt up in some kind of firewall, if it exists. Their explanation — due to some unique features of string theory — um, well, it’s deeply weird.
“This is the crucial part of the new physics,” Mathur says, “In the fuzzball theory, the inside of the black hole is not empty space; it is actually filled with a tangle of strings, branes, et cetera. When something falls into the hole, the hole gets bigger.”
“The question is: when exactly does it expand to its new size? We showed that new strings begin to form when the infalling object is still some distance from the surface of the original fuzzball. So, the infalling object never gets close enough to the original fuzzball surface to feel its heat — the newly formed strings change his infall behavior.”
Think of it as a hand approaching a mirror. Just as your hand can never touch a part of the mirror that isn’t a reflection of it, Mathur says, “similarly, the fuzzball surface moves up to meet the infaller, rather than wait for the infaller to reach near the surface and get burnt.”
Rather than feeling a burning sensation, or a shattering or crushing sensation, Mathur predicts that an ‘infaller’ would feel as though they were falling through a form of gently curved spacetime called “anti-de Sitter space.”
“This is the idea of ‘complementarity’,” Mathur says, “which the firewall people were trying to shoot down.” Understanding this is key to answering the inevitable question: What happens when you get sucked into a black hole?
Multiple images of the 'real monster black hole' at the heart of the colliding galaxies Arp 299. At top, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array has recorded X-ray data projected out by the system. At middle, the NuSTAR high-energy X-ray data has been overlaid on a visible-light image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The bottom panel shows Hubble's visible-light image alone.
The answer relies on the assumption that, in quantum mechanics, everything can be described by a set of frequencies. “If two systems have the same frequencies, then we cannot tell them apart. For example, if a piano and a keyboard emitted the same frequencies, you could not hear them and tell that they were really very different internally.”
Likewise, a person can be described by a set of frequencies. If that person falls into a black hole, Mathur explains, “he hits the fuzzball and sets the fuzzball into vibrations. But suppose the fuzzball vibrates with the same frequencies. Then the infaller has been absorbed, but in a sense he continues to live on in terms of the vibrations of the fuzzball. Thus he will not feel that he has been absorbed.”
(For a rough, maybe irresponsible, approximation, feel free to just imagine a person going through a black hole and then entering some psychedelic interstellar phantasia from an old Jack Kirby Marvel comic. Let’s say Doctor Strange..ubble's visible-light image alone
Though Mathur’s explanation is satisfying (albeit complicated), it’s unclear whether it will put an end to the black hole paradox problem anytime soon. Neither Adami nor Marolf felt comfortable commenting on the new research from Mathur and his team, each for his own reasons. Warner would not either, but admits he feels very confident that Mathur is on the right track by applying string theory to the internal dynamics of black holes.
String theory has been notoriously airy and abstracted. It has been accused of being non-falsifiable, its adherents like religious zealots in their commitment to a series of mathematical equations that have, thus far, strongly suggested the existence of many dimensions outside the four we all deal with regularly — without a single physical experiment to confirm them.
But if we want to solve the black hole paradox once and for all, we may very well have to take their giant leap of faith.
“If I had to bet one the place where you might get some indication of string theory in the next decade or two,” Warner says, “it might just be in black hole physics.”
WETENSCHAPOp Cape Canaveral in het Amerikaanse Florida is zondag om 03.31 uur lokale tijd (09.31 uur Belgische tijd) met succes de zonnesonde Parker gelanceerd. De lancering gebeurde een dag later dan oorspronkelijk voorzien vanwege een technisch probleem op het allerlaatste moment.
De Parker Solar Probe-missie is de eerste die de zonnecorona zal betreden. De sonde zal in een periode van 7 jaar 24 banen rond de zon afleggen. Verschillende keren zal ze zich op een afstand van minder dan 7 miljoen kilometer van de oppervlakte van de zon bevinden, en daar temperaturen tot 1.127 graden Celsius tegenkomen. Geen enkel ander ruimtetuig kwam ooit dichter bij de zon.
De missie heeft ook een Belgisch kantje. Het ruimtevaartcentrum van de universiteit van Luik ontwikkelde namelijk één van de vier instrumenten aan boord: de WISPR of Wide-Field Imager For Solar Probe Plus. Dat zijn twee telescopen die opnames maken van de corona en de zonnewind.
Uitgesteld
Normaal zou de sonde gisteren al gelanceerd worden, maar NASA moest dat tot twee keer toe uitstellen. Er was een probleem met de druk van het heliumgas, dat gebruikt wordt als koelstof.
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08-07-18 Calvin Parker, The Pascagoula Abduction
08-07-18 Calvin Parker, The Pascagoula Abduction
Alejandro Rojas with UFO Updates, repeat guest Calvin Parker has his own book on the incident just released: "Pascagoula, The Closest Encounter" Calvin reveals some interesting details, unknown previously, and how he now reflects on the incident that took place on the evening of October 11, 1973, with co-worker Charles Hickson.
On October 11th, 1973 nineteen year old Calvin Parker and his friend forty two year old Charles Hickson were spending a frustrating evening fishing on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. Both men loved to fish but tonight’s fishing trip would turn out to be one they would never forget. In the early evening both men were startled when a strange craft descended and hovered a few feet above the ground and just a few yards from their location.
Before they had any chance to run an opening appeared in this craft and out ‘floated’ three humanoid creatures. Both men were absolutely terrified when these creatures grabbed them and took them aboard the craft. On the craft both men were subjected to an examination and at one point they were so terrified as they believed they were about to die.
Minutes later both Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson were deposited back on the riverbank and the craft departed. Taking off in their car the two terrified witnesses eventually located a public telephone box and phoned the local sheriff. A short time later they were being interviewed at their local sheriff’s office. These two disorientated witnesses told their story of their close encounter and abduction by these strange creatures.
The next day all hell was let loose as the press descended on this unsuspecting Mississippi town. Calvin Parker, seriously disturbed by these events, has largely remained in the background without ever detailing the full account of what happened that night, how it affected him and his life, and other close encounters he has experienced down the years.
Now, for the first time, Calvin Parker tells his story in full. This book, Pascagoula – The Closest Encounter, tells the story of one of the classic close encounters currently on record. This book features for the first time the full transcript of Calvin Parker’s hypnotic regression session with the late Budd Hopkins, one of the world’s foremost researchers of this phenomena. The manuscript is also packed full of documents, newspaper cuttings and photographs old and new.
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British conspiracy theorist who died suddenly at 39 in Poland after vomiting black liquid 'had his laptop wiped by authorities before they returned it to his family'
British conspiracy theorist who died suddenly at 39 in Poland after vomiting black liquid 'had his laptop wiped by authorities before they returned it to his family'
Friend found Max Spiers dead as the UFO expert was attending a conference
The conspiracy theorist had messaged his mother to tell her he was 'in trouble'
UK hospital unable to find death cause, Polish authorities cited 'natural causes'
Pre-inquest review today told that contents of his SIM card of particular interest
Max Spiers (pictured) vomited two litres of black blood before he died suddenly
A conspiracy theorist's laptop and mobile will be analysed at an inquest into his death after the UFO expert vomited two litres of black fluid and died aged 39.
Max Spiers's laptop was wiped when authorities returned it after his death more than two years ago during a trip to Poland to attend a conference.
Today a pre-inquest review at Guildhall in Sandwich, Kent, heard how the contents of his SIM card were also of particular interest.
Before he died Mr Spiers messaged his mother, Vanessa Bates, saying: 'You're boy's in trouble, if anything happens to me, investigate.'
An initial inquest opened in December 2016 when the court heard he vomited two litres of black blood, but the inquest was adjourned last year.
The father of two allegedly made many 'enemies' in his investigations. His inquest will now be held over four days from January 7, 2019.
Authorities in Poland, where Mr Spiers was attending a conference, initially concluded the sudden death was due to natural causes.
At the pre-inquest review today at the Guildhall in Sandwich, Kent, the court heard the barrister for Max's mother, Adam Taylor, call for members of the Polish emergency services to appear as witnesses at the inquest.
Vanessa Bates (pictured) received a message from her son in which he claimed to be 'in trouble' before he died in Poland
Sections from a 700-page docket of statements and evidence assembled will be translated from Polish for next year's inquest.
Possible evidence over whether disciplinary proceedings were brought against police officers in Poland over Mr Spiers's death should also be heard at the inquest, the court heard.
Mr Taylor said that Mr Spiers's laptop was wiped but that it was not empty at the time of his death.
Mr Spiers (pictured, left) was in Poland for a conference (right) when he died suddenly and a friend found his body
He confirmed analysis of a laptop and a mobile phone that belonged to him should also be presented at the inquest.
'The way in which they were returned and what was done to them is clearly one of the big mysteries,' he said. 'The family has no knowledge whatsoever of what the results of that analysis were.
'The issue is the Sim card and what was on it. Without sight of the report the family has no answer to these questions.'
There were also a 'number of discrepancies' in emergency services accounts about Max's death, the court heard.
Monika Duvall, a friend who Mr Bates had reportedly been living with, was also asked to attend the inquest.
Speaking afterwards, Vanessa expressed concerns about being able to bring the Polish witnesses to the inquest.
Polish authorities concluded Mr Spiers (pictured) died of natural causes but a UK hospital couldn't find a cause of death
'Today felt very positive. It's just over two years now. I did not expect him to go to Poland and not come back.
'We've got hundreds of pages we are working our way through which are all in Polish. It's been difficult but gradually we've worked our way through. There certainly was some mention of that from the Polish side.
'We've still got stuff that are not translated and I think when we get to the inquest we will know more about whether police procedures were or were not followed. He should be here. He was very fit and healthy when I said goodbye to him.
'Everything that we have in terms of health records before he went were that he was in great health. This was an enormous blow. I miss him dreadfully.'
After Mr Spiers's body was repatriated to the UK, doctors at a Margate hospital were unable to determine the cause of his death.
Kent Police then launched a joint investigation with Polish police into the conspiracy theorist's death.
At an inquest opening in Canterbury in December 2016, the court heard how the 39-year-old had been visiting Poland to speak at a conference after holidaying with a friend in Cyprus.
Shortly before his death, Mr Spiers was said to have been probing into the lives of well-known figures in politics, business and entertainment. At the time his mum Vanessa said she feared the worst.
'I think Max had been digging in some dark places and somebody wanted him dead.'
She is hopeful the investigation will shed light on the mysterious death.
'It's been a long time coming, but I'm just relieved that at last something is happening and there is a proper investigation and inquest,' she added.
Her theory was shared by many online, with other conspiracy theorists, UFO investigators and bloggers calling the circumstances of Mr Spiers' death suspicious.
At the time, Coroner Alan Blunsdon told the court he was still awaiting a report from Polish authorities, adding that the workload of Kent Police may delay forensic analysis of Mr Spiers' phone and computer.
Coroner Christopher Sutton Mattocks set the date of January 7 for the four-day inquest, which will be heard at the Archbishops Palace in Maidstone.
He said: 'It is extremely important that when we start everybody is completely ready for this and we have all the information available.'
Mysterie Britse complottheoreticus die stierf na opbraken zwarte vloeistof nog groter. Zullen we ooit weten wat er op zijn laptop stond?
Mysterie Britse complottheoreticus die stierf na opbraken zwarte vloeistof nog groter. Zullen we ooit weten wat er op zijn laptop stond?
Complottheoreticus en UFO-expert Max Spiers stierf op 39-jarige leeftijd nadat hij na een bijeenkomst in Polen twee liter zwarte vloeistof had opgebraakt. Na zijn dood haalden de autoriteiten zijn laptop leeg.
Voor zijn dood stuurde Spiers een onheilspellend berichtje naar zijn moeder Vanessa Bates: “Jouw jongen zit in de problemen. Als er iets met me gebeurt, ga dan op onderzoek uit.”
Begin volgend jaar zal er opnieuw onderzoek worden gedaan naar zijn dood. De Poolse autoriteiten concludeerden in eerste instantie dat Spiers een natuurlijke dood was gestorven.
Groot mysterie
De advocaat van Vanessa, Adam Taylor, zei dat zijn laptop was leeggehaald en dat er op het moment van zijn dood nog veel gegevens op stonden.
Taylor wil tijdens het onderzoek boven water halen wat er met de laptop en mobiele telefoon van Spiers is gebeurd.
“Wat ermee is gedaan is een groot mysterie,” zei hij. “De familie heeft geen idee wat er uit de analyse is gekomen.”
Kerngezond
Hij merkte verder op dat de Poolse hulpdiensten elkaar tegenspraken.
“Hij zou nu hier moeten zijn,” zei Vanessa. “Hij was kerngezond toen ik afscheid van hem nam. Ik mis hem enorm.”
Verkeerde zaken
Kort voor zijn dood zou Spiers zich hebben verdiept in het leven van bekende politici, zakenmagnaten en artiesten.
“Ik denk dat Max zijn neus in verkeerde zaken heeft gestoken en dat iemand hem dood wilde hebben,” zei Vanessa.
Massive Alien Spaceship Reportedly Spotted Above The Philippines
Massive Alien Spaceship Reportedly Spotted Above The Philippines
An apparent massive UFO was spotted hovering around the clouds in the skies over the Philippines. A sector of UFO conspiracy theorists posted online an alleged alien spaceship that was seemingly camouflaging itself in the clouds.
The photo shows faint clouds with a scattered rainbow light through the atmosphere.
Conspiracy theorists are pointing to a massive, circular translucent object in the clouds, which they think a UFO using a cloaking device.
They said the image was taken in General Santos, Philippines. The sector described the image as an awesome UFO hiding over a cloud during sunset. The UFO was reportedly visible to the naked eye for a few minutes.
They point out the beautiful colors and notice the round disk edge of the craft, which is estimated to be at least 500 meters across.
The unnamed videographer, who took the image and passed it to UFO hunters, said that the colors were much more intense.
However, creator of the UFO Investigations Handbook Nigel Watson said that the light was a trick of the eye. He explained that the fantastic video of sunset gave a halo impact that looked like a flying saucer. It could be attributed to apophenia wherein the brain recognizes specific patterns in things.
In September of 2017, a highly decorated F-18 pilot and expert in military aviation walked into a restaurant just across the Potomac River from Washington DC to attend a meeting that was supposed to be held in the strictest confidence. They were there to provide details for a document which eventually would become known as the 2004 USS Nimitz Pilot Report. On November 14th, 2004, off the coast of San Diego, this individual, along with a handful of other expert Navy pilots, engaged a 30 to 40 foot white elongated object that resembled a ‘Tic-tac’ mint. Uniform, smooth, with no wings or visible propulsion, the object made incredible and impossible maneuvers. It was, for lack of a better term, an unidentified flying object.
Days ago, a copy of the original unredacted 2004 Nimitz Pilot Report was leaked. It reveals the names and contact information of pilots involved in that incident, as well as the name of the unknown source who told their story in that restaurant.
This event, known as the 2004 Nimitz Incident, has made headlines around the world. Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars has significantly promoted this UFO case. A redacted version of the report was posted on their website in December 2017. It was featured on History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” and in a 2017 New York Times article.
Last week, on August 7th, Twitter user @Jay09784691 posted several tweets concerning documents he found on a website belonging to To the Star’s National Security Affairs Advisor Christopher Mellon. Mellon was the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush Administrations and has served 20 years in the American federal government, primarily in counterintelligence, special operations, and security.
Christopher Mellon (image courtesy of To the Stars Academy)
On August 9th, Australian archivist and researcher Keith Basterfield posted a summary of the items found on Mellon’s website. The contents included; an Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) briefing, a photograph of labeled compact discs, a photograph of a shipping package with the names of three individuals, three videos, Luis Elizondo’s resignation letter, and the original unredacted report of the Nimitz incident.
Mellon’s website, at the time of publication, is no longer accessible.
While much of the documentation leaked on Mellon’s website was relatively underwhelming, the release of the unredacted Nimitz report is inexcusable. Regardless of one’s personal position towards Mellon or To the Stars, confidential information, such as the names of pilots, their call signs, personal telephone numbers and even home addresses are now loose on the internet. Two of the names in the report, Cmdr. David Fravor and Cmdr. Jim Slaight, have already come out publicly stating that they were piloting F-18’s during the Nimitz incident. However, the main source and the other four Navy officers have not yet done so.
There is significant speculation regarding why these documents were posted. It is unknown at this time if Mellon posted these files purposefully, by accident, if there was a technical glitch, or if his website was hacked. At the time of publication, both Mellon and To the Stars have not responded to requests for comment.
At time of publication, the unredacted Nimitz document has only surfaced in a few private Facebook groups and private forums. Fortunately, most of those in possession of the document have respectfully redacted the names of those pilots who wish to remain anonymous. In situations such as this, privacy and anonymity are paramount. It must be respected, and we can only hope that everyone who possesses these files now will protect the rights of those individuals named in the report. As the UFO community, it seems to be our job to keep secrets now, because those who do possess them, clearly have trouble doing so.
The Black Eyed Children, Women in Black, MIB, and more: what do they all have in common? Well, on more than a few occasions the witnesses are in distinctly altered states when something unearthly and unknown enters their environments. We’ll begin with the Black Eyed Children. I have enough cases on file to allow me to conclude that many incidents involving the BEC don’t occur in what we would call a normal state of awareness.
In my forthcoming book, Paranormal Parasites (available in just a few weeks from now), I refer to the case of a man named Martin, who I had the good fortune to meet. As I note in the book: “Martin got the shock of his life when he was confronted by a boy and a girl – both around eleven or twelve years of age and with large, black, eerie-looking eyes. The girl was dressed in jeans and a long-sleeved black top, while the boy had the almost-ubiquitous black hoodie. Both looked sickly and scrawny and is if they needed a hearty meal in them. Little did Martin know that this was exactly what they were there for…
“…Martin said that when the girl said they were homeless and needed something to eat, it all seemed very much like a ruse – as if they had spoken the words time and time again. It was like a carefully-crafted scheme on their part. Most disturbing of all, for a few moments Martin felt transfixed – almost hypnotized – by those large, black eyes. Indeed, he told me that he could not understand why he did not quickly shut the door at the sight of those terrible eyes. Martin could only say that it was if he was somehow being prevented from shutting the door on the pair. One might be justified in saying Martin had been placed in a state of full-blown mind-control…”
A careful look at the experiences of Albert Bender – the man who largely began the MIB phenomenon – demonstrates that some of his encounters clearly occurred when he was in a state of hypnagogia. Or, sleep paralysis, as it’s also known. In 1956, Gray Barker (writer, publisher, teller of tall tales, and a promoter of often-skewed facts) wrote a book on Bender’s experiences. Its title: They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. Six years later, Barker published Bender’s very own book on his confrontations with the Men in Black: Flying Saucers and the Three Men. A strange story, it told of Bender’s alleged encounters with hot, alien space babes, the sinister MIB, and a trip to Antarctica. While Barker was known for bending the truth, he made a statement in 1980 that suggests Barker knew that Bender’s encounters were not just weird, but really weird. He told ufologist Jerry Clark: “If I’d been there in his room while he was in ‘Antarctica,’ maybe I would have seen him lying in his bed in a trance [italics mine].”
Then, there is a certain experience that the late Terence McKenna described. While in the Amazon Jungle in the 1960s, McKenna took a trip of a very weird kind. One of his contacts in the area suggested that he – McKenna – should “watch a portion of the sky where, reportedly, a UFO might appear.” McKenna soon saw a weird-looking cloud appeared on the horizon, and which quickly mutated into a classic 1950s-era Flying Saucer. McKenna later said of the experience: “I recognized this thing. It looked like the end cap of a Hoover vacuum cleaner; exactly the same fake saucer as in George Adamski’s photos. This thing flew right over my head, and it was as phony as a three-dollar bill. I knew it was a fake.”
Micah Hanks says: “Many of the shamanic cultures around the world who use DMT-rich snuffs and teas in their rituals describe entities they meet while taking the stuff. Similarly, test subjects in various DMT studies, including those of Rich Strassman, report meeting similar ‘beings.’ And common to both groups are haunting consistencies between descriptions of these entities. In fact, some believe these beings could even be ‘inter-dimensional ambassadors’ which come to meet pyschonauts in the sub-space realm that lingers between reality and whatever people experiencing a DMT trip tend to end up visiting.”
On top of that, there is the case of Peter Beckman, who had an encounter with two grim-looking MIB – around fifty years ago – while he was on mescalin. In the 1970s Shirely Cromartie, who worked in the Nixon administration, had her very own encounter with a Woman in Black, but when she was clearly not in a normal state of mind and when she had been clandestinely dosed with something by the WIB. You can find the Cromartie story here, and the Beckman one here.
Finally, it’s worth mentioning that I have reports on file that involved people who had encounters with the MIB and the BEC, and which had one, almost-identical aspect attached to all of them. It’s this: the supernatural entities appeared to be verysurprised that the witnesses could see them. It was as if being in an altered state gave the people the ability to access a bizarre realm and its equally bizarre creatures; something they would not normally see. And the entities themselves, in some cases, it seems, were not prepared for the face-to-face encounter, either. This has led more than a few people to suggest to me that all of these things chiefly exist in a very strange state of reality to that in which we exist. But, that on occasion, psychedelic drugs, altered states of minds, DMT, the sleep state, and more, may well give us an occasional, amazing insight into a world beyond ours and which is largely inaccessible. But, not always inaccessible…
Anyone who has ever watched the night sky has probably seen at least a few shooting stars from time to time. These bits of stellar debris begin to burn as they are met with the friction of our atmosphere, becoming balls of colorful fire once they reach a distance of around 15 to 55 miles above our planet.
Meteors can possess a variety of colors, ranging from blue and green to bright yellow, pink, and red. But what actually causes these colors when we see meteors streaking through the sky?
The darker colors in the spectrum are generally the result of metals present within the meteor; the same is the case for yellowish hues that appear as they burn, although reddish colors are generally a result of the air around the meteor itself. The resulting combinations can result in quite a light show during peak times of the year when meteor showers occur.
The famous Esquell meteorite, which features yellowish crystals of olivine encased in and outer matrix of iron-nickel (Wikimedia Commons).
We know, of course, that meteors contain a variety of metals and other minerals, including a few that are fairly rare here on Earth (more on that a bit later). However, one meteor that was recently discovered in Russia has actually yielded an entirely new kind of mineral, which some experts are rightly calling an “alien” material from space.
Dubbed ‘Uakitite,’ the mineral was found in an iron meteorite discovered in 2016 called Uakit, recovered from the Baunt Evenk district, Republic of Buryatia, in Russia. The discovery was formally acknowledged the following year on June 28, 2017 by the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee.
According to a paper published by the 81st Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society 2018, Kamacite is the main mineral found within the meteorite, although minor and accessory minerals include a cavalcade of seldom-discussed varieties such as schreibersite (rhabdite), nickelphosphide, taenite, plessite, cohenite, tetrataenite, daubreelite, kalininite, troilite, carlsbergite, sphalerite, among others.
The Uakitite was found in small amounts, and “was observed in small troilite-daubreelite inclusions.” The mineral is described as grayish in color, and reflecting a pinkish color under light. It is nearly as hard as diamond (possessing a 9-10 ration on the Mohs’ scale).
A variety of elements that are rarely seen here on Earth are commonly found in meteors. Examples of such rare-earth elements include iridium, platinum, neodymium, and many others, which have practical applications that include an array of industrial uses (magnets made of neodymium can be purchased, for instance, which are renowned for their strength).
When geologists find a prevalence of a particular rare-earth element along a widespread geological boundary, one thing that it may often indicate is an extraterrestrial impact that occurred during the period in history associated with the strata in question. The presence of a so-called “iridium anomaly” such as this was what helped physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, determine that an extraterrestrial impact occurred in the Cretaceous period, which is associated with the widespread extinction of the dinosaurs.
A similar controversial theory has been proposed for a platinum anomaly discovered at around 12,700 BCE, which coincides with a period of abrupt climate change in Paleoindian times known as the Younger Dryas.
While there are no “anomalies” present in relation to the Russian meteor discussed earlier, it is certainly a novel discovery to have found traces of an “alien” mineral within it. The discovery marks the first instance where, to our knowledge, the newly-dubbed Uakitite mineral has ever appeared on our world.
A recent scientific study reveals that life may exist in places we haven’t even considered before, possibly opening new possibilities in our search for life outside of Earth. According to new research published in PLOS One, garnets found in Thailand may be evidence of unknown forms of microbial life which are capable of living inside of the gemstones themselves, possibly representing an entirely new habitat for life.
For years, geologists have observed strange systems of microscopic channels or tunnels in the centers of garnets. It was previously assumed that these were the product of some unknown geological process, perhaps the grains of another mineral working their way through the garnets. That would be difficult to prove however, because the only minerals capable of cutting through garnets are diamonds or sapphires.
Channels within the garnets.
Credit: Ivarsson et al, 2018
With that mystery in mind, the University of Southern Denmark’s Dr. Magnus Ivarsson travelled to Thailand where garnets are commonly found in river sediments in order to find specimens of these channeled garnets and find out what might be creating the tunnels. After cracking a few open and searching for clues inside, Ivarsson and his team discovered evidence of lipids and fatty acids in the tunnels – evidence of life.
Credit: Ivarsson et al, 2018
According to their publication, the presence of these molecules and the lack of them on the outside of the garnets can likely only be caused by some type of unknown microbes living inside the stones themselves:
The organic content of the garnet interior detected by [mass spectrometry] and the complex nature of these organic molecules indicate microbial presence within the tunnel system of the garnets. […] The lack of organic compounds on the garnet surfaces, the relative complex nature of the organic compounds and their abundance throughout the tunnels indicate that they likely represent remnants of endolithic communities once living in the network of tunnels in the garnets.
The exact processes through which microbes can eat garnet and create these tunnels remain unknown. There are organisms known as endoliths which can live inside of rocks or minerals, but these are typically found in softer, more porous minerals or rocks such as sandstone.
While on one hand this is merely the discovery of some weird germs inside pretty rocks found here on Earth, this study could have far-reaching ramifications for our search for extraterrestrial life. If life can be found inside of a relatively hard mineral on Earth, who knows in what other overlooked or seemingly far-fetched places else it might be hiding?
NASA spot enorme mysterieuze ‘muur’ rond ons zonnestelsel. Ontdek er hier alles over
NASA spot enorme mysterieuze ‘muur’ rond ons zonnestelsel. Ontdek er hier alles over
NASA-wetenschappers zeggen bewijs te hebben gevonden voor een mysterieuze ‘muur’ rond ons zonnestelsel. De Amerikaanse sonde New Horizons zou deze muur van waterstof hebben gespot.
De muur vormt de grens van ons zonnestelsel, de plek waar de ‘bubbel’ rond de zon ophoudt en een massa interstellaire materie begint.
De NASA-onderzoekers zijn er vrij zeker van dat New Horizons, de sonde die in 2015 langs Pluto scheerde, die grens kan waarnemen.
Voyager-sondes
In het tijdschrift Geophysical Research Letters schrijven ze dat de sonde extra ultraviolet licht heeft waargenomen, precies wat je zou verwachten als je een muur van waterstof tegenkomt.
De twee Voyager-sondes, die eind jaren zeventig werden gelanceerd, pikten in 1992 een soortgelijk ultraviolet signaal op.
De wetenschappers houden nog een slag om de arm. Ze zeggen dat nog niet definitief is bewezen dat de sondes op een muur van waterstof zijn gestuit; het zou ook kunnen gaan om een andere bron die dieper in het sterrenstelsel gelegen is.
Veel gevoeliger
Ze merkten wel op dat Alice, het instrument waarmee de ontdekking is gedaan, veel gevoeliger is dan de apparatuur aan boord van de Voyager-sondes.
New Horizons gaat nu twee keer per jaar zoeken naar ultraviolet licht en vervolgens de gegevens terugsturen naar de aarde.
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“Als er op een bepaald moment geen ultraviolet licht meer wordt gemeten, heeft New Horizons de muur mogelijk achter zich gelaten,” zeiden de onderzoekers in een verklaring.
“Maar als het licht niet zwakker wordt moet de bron dieper in het heelal liggen,” klonk het.
MYSTERY: Seven cows were mutilated with body parts missing in Santa Fe, Argentina
The maimed cattle were discovered in Santa Fe, Argentina and no-one can explain what caused the horrific injuries.
According to local farmers, the animals were mutilated following the appearance of "strange lights" in the sky, which they say were not stars.
Agricultural workers claim the phenomenon was caused by aliens or the legendary 'chupacabra' (goat-sucker), a folklore creature which feeds on animals' blood.
Norberto Bieri, who owns one of the seven cows, said: "They did not have tongues or flesh around the jaw, but they did not take any animals away or remove their bones."
He added: "It seems as though the clean incisions were done with a laser as there is no trace of a knife being used.
“The cows did not have signs of blood and nothing had appeared to eat them."
Samples have so far proven inconclusive but confirmed the cows were not poisoned or shocked.
Bieri said: "Some people say chupacabra or aliens did it.
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HORROR FIND: Locals believe either a mythical creature, rodents or aliens were responsible
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TESTS: It is reported the cows were not poisoned
"Others believe it was rodents.
“The truth is, the cows are dead and there are no answers as to why."
The farmer also claimed that there have been other recent cases of mutilated animals locally.
The Santa Fe cow mutilation match a hugely bizarre series of cases spanning decades in the USA which were featured in a book the 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America’s UFO Highway – written by Ben Mezrich.
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BIZARRE: The cattle were found with tongues and genitals missing
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CATTLE MUTILATION: The incident in Argentina is similar to disturbing cases in the USA
Thousands of mutilated cows and horses, drained of blood and missing surgically-removed organs such as tongues and ears have been discovered along the 37th Parallel, a fixed geographical location based on a point’s distance from the equator, which runs through America.
In the majority of cases, there were reports of unexplained lights before and after the mutilations.
Authorities have looked into the disturbing crimewave and some people have theorised that the horrific acts were carried out by secret military personnel or by satanic cults.
Local media in Argentina said the hocicudos (Oxymycterus), rat-like animals endemic to South America, are responsible for mutilating the livestock.
They also suggested scavenger birds could also have eaten the cow's flesh, as they like to feast on the softer parts.
Animal health expert Juan Calla Fontana said animals often die at this time of year "due to exposure and lack of food and therefore there is nothing mysterious here".
A Wall At The Edge Of Our Solar System Has Been Spotted By New Horizons Spacecraft
A Wall At The Edge Of Our Solar System Has Been Spotted By New Horizons Spacecraft
The New Horizons Spacecraft team have announced that they may well have found the exact region of Space when the influence of the Sun begins to wane in the form of an ultraviolet wall of hydrogen.
The team has been searching for this elusive wall of hydrogen particles long before their much-vaunted by-pass of Pluto back in 2015. The hydrogen wall was first spotted by the Voyager spacecraft more than thirty years ago leading scientists to believe that they may have stumbled upon the border between this solar neighborhood and interstellar space. As Leslie Young of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado explains, “We’re seeing the threshold between being in the solar neighborhood and being in the galaxy.”
New Horizons craft will continue to examine the wall
The discovery of the wall of hydrogen particles which do not appear to be classically affected by the power of the sun could have huge implications for our understanding of mapping the solar system. David McComas of Princeton University who was not involved in this research has explained that the discovery and subsequent mapping of the wall could be instrumental for astronomers when it comes to discerning the exact shape and variability of the boundary of the solar system.
NASA's New Horizons Probe
The boundary of this solar system
Considering how vastly important the research could eventually turn out to be, the New Horizons team are leaving nothing to chance. Mapping out the hydrogen has been a long and meticulous process and will not culminate for more than a decade. Randy Gladstone, who is currently working on the project, has explained that the New Horizons craft will continue to examine the wall about twice a year from 2019 onwards and that this will continue for between ten and fifteen years.
New Horizons Probe's path to the edge of the solar system
Wayne Pryor, a team member based at Central Arizona College in Coolidge explains that this extraordinarily prolonged attention to detail is to ensure that the wall of hydrogen particles really does signal the boundary of this solar system and is not being caused by a source of light from deep in interstellar space.
Scientists Want To Put These Spider-Like Microbots Under Your Skin
Scientists Want To Put These Spider-Like Microbots Under Your Skin
If anyone suggests having micro spider-like robots, living under the skin people might think them insane. However, people may actually want them to get under their skin, as they might be able to help fix the body when it begins to stop working, as it should.
The robots in question are spider-like microbots researchers are developing that might one day be able to crawl around the body of humans. The robots are soft, they are squishy and flexible, plus they look a lot like spiders. While they are not yet ready to go around mending the bodies of humans just yet, future versions of them might be able to undertake tasks that humans would not be able to achieve.
A team of roboticists working at the Harvard University Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Boston University and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have created such robots.
New Fabrication Process Means Robots Can Be Just Millimeters
The team got together to create microrobots based on a new fabrication process allowing them to make machines that are millimeters in scale while having features that are micrometer. This is not the first time that robots of this size have been created. However, robots in the past of equal size have not been as dynamic. The team made a spider bot that is transparent, which they based around the Australian peacock spider, to show off the robot.
Assistant professor, RommasoRanzani, from Boston University said:
"The idea of designing along with fabricating a soft robot inspired by the peacock spider comes from the fact that this small insect embodies a large number of unsolved challenges in soft robotics.” He went on to say, “Indeed it is less than a centimeter wide, has features down to the micron scale, a well-defined three-dimensional structure, and a large number of independently controllable degrees of freedom in only a couple of centimeters width. In addition, it is characterized by beautiful color patterns. We saw here an opportunity to advance the manufacturing capabilities in small-scale soft robotics and to demonstrate the capabilities of our process."
The team came up with an approach to fabrication called "Morph" also known as Microfluidic Origami for Reconfigurable Pneumatic/Hydraulic. To make the robot the researchers put 12 layers of elastic silicone together to make up the legs, the abdomen, and torso of the spider robot. They then used processes including laser-micro-machining in order to ensure the measurements were precise.
The Process Leads to Robots That Mimic Real Life Spiders
The resulting micro-spider can flex its joints along with moving its legs. It is even capable of raising its abdomen just as the real Peacock spider does in real life. The spider works by injecting micro fluids into hollow channels that run from the abdomen on the spider down into the legs.
The team believes that the robotic spiders manufacturing process might lead to Microbots with soft and dynamic bodies one day being able to undertake medical tasks that are extremely delicate inside the bodies of human beings. The robots may also be capable of undertaking search along with rescue missions, which are too dangerous for humans.
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Air Force Camera films UFO over Nellis Air Force Base including audio
Air Force Camera films UFO over Nellis Air Force Base including audio
An interesting footage filmed by an Air Force camera within a highly secure range of tests on May 30, 1995 shows the erratic movements, changing shape and disappearing 1:53 and then reappears at 2:03 of a UFO, including the live audio conversation between the pilot and tower.
This footage is one of the most important pieces of uncensored UFO material that has appeared in recent years.
Unlike the censored Navy / Pentagon UFO videos from Tom deLonge, the images from this video are uncensored.
My interview with astronaut Leland Melvin is going viral. Figures. UFO Sighting News.
My interview with astronaut Leland Melvin is going viral. Figures. UFO Sighting News.
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@Astro_Flow I apologise the news gets you in any trouble with NASA. The public believes in you and what you saw, more than they trust NASAs opinion. I didn't mean for the news to go worldwide, but the public loves you! You are an American hero who also saw an alien life-form.
The interview I conducted with astronaut Leland Melvin is going viral in world news. In the last 48 hours its been in the news over 25x, in the last 24 hours (according to google news search) its been in the news 10-15X in over 6 languages. I apologised to Leland on Twitter today. He's a good guy. It may get him in hot water with NASA, but I respect him for telling the truth. He is a brave man, a two time astronaut on the shuttles...an American hero who also witnessed an alien life form.
Fast radio bursts – aka FRBs – are brief, powerful, puzzling bursts of radio waves from deep space. Now astronomers have detected a new and even more unusual type of FRB.
The CHIME radio telescope in Canada (seen at night here), which recently detected a rare, low-frequency fast radio burst.
Image via Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME).
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most recent, and puzzling, discoveries yet in astronomy. They are powerful, but very brief, bursts of radio waves from deep space. They’ve been relatively rare so far, but astronomers continue to study them as they’re discovered. On August 1, 2018, astronomers used the Astronomer’s Telegram to report on another FRB, just detected, which is a little different from previous ones studied by astronomers.
They detected the new FRB the morning of July 25, using a state-of-the-art radio telescope in the mountains of British Columbia (the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment or CHIME). The telescope has been in operation for only about a year and has been used to find several FRBs prior to this one. The astronomers labeled the new discovery as FRB 180725A after the year, month and day it was detected. It was found to be transmitting in radio frequencies as low as 580 megahertz, nearly 200 MHz lower than any other FRBs ever detected. Patrick Boyle, author of the Astronomer’s Telegram report and a project manager at CHIME told Live Science on August 3:
These events have occurred during both the day and night, and their arrival times are not correlated with known on-site activities or other known sources.
fast Radio Bursts are brief but powerful and as-yet-unexplained bursts of radio energy originating from deep space.
Image via Jingchuan Yu/Beijing Planetarium, NRAO.
The fact that this FRB was of such low frequency indicates that the burst was extremely bright, originating from a very powerful source.
Several other low-frequency bursts have reportedly been detected by CHIME, since FRB 180725A, as well.
So just what are FRBs? As with the discovery of any unusual cosmic phenomena, there is a lot of debate and speculation. They are reminiscent of pulsars, but are extremely brief in duration (only a few milliseconds) and emit an incredible amount of energy in that short time. Some postulated origins include supernovas, supermassive black holes or other sources of intense electromagnetic radiation, including pulsars.
They are known to originate from immense distances, but because they are so brief, it is difficult to pin down their exact sources. Plus, only about 40 FRBs have been discovered altogether so far, since 2007. Christopher Conselice, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Nottingham, explained to the Daily Mail that FRBs may actually happen regularly, reaching Earth thousands of times per day, but that most simply haven’t been detected yet with available instruments..
The only known repeating FRB found so far, FRB 121102.
Image via Gemini Observatory/AURA/NRC/NSF/NRAO.
So far, only one FRB has been discovered which keeps repeating – FRB 121102. Those bursts have been at higher frequencies, up to 7 GHz, and were traced back to a galaxy 3 billion light-years away.
It is inevitable that another possible origin would come up in discussion – aliens. As of now, there is no evidence to assume that these signals are artificial; they are most likely natural, but not enough is known about them yet to know for sure. As noted by Avi Loeb, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:
Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven’t identified a possible natural source with any confidence. An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking.
A theory proposed last year was that FRBs could be leakage from planet-sized transmitters powering interstellar probes in distant galaxies. The idea is that such transmitters could be used to drive interstellar light sails. The amount of power involved would be sufficient to push a payload of about a million tons (about 20 times the largest cruise ships on Earth). As Manasvi Lingam from Harvard University surmised:
That’s big enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances.
Artist’s concept of a pulsar, one of the most powerful known phenomena in the universe. They are one possible origin of FRBs.
Image via Goddard Space Flight Center.
The paper detailing that theory is available here. But what are the chances that FRBs could really be a product of extraterrestrial intelligence? Loeb was asked that question and responded:
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.
Bottom line: Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are one of the most unusual cosmic phenomena discovered in recent years, and this recently detected one is one of the most unusual detected so far. The very brief but intense bursts of radio energy must have some kind of exotic explanation, but astronomers are still trying to figure it out.
At least once a week (and sometimes as often as two or three times a day), our Sun has a coronal mass ejection (CME), an event during which it spews plasma and charged particles from the outermost part of its atmosphere called the corona. This usually happens following a solar flare, a sudden increase in the Sun’s brightness.
We’ve known about our Sun’s CMEs since 1971, but we’d never observed them from another star — until now.
A team led by University of Palermo astronomer Costanza Argiroffi found evidence of a CME from HR 9024, a star about 450 lightyears from Earth and with about three times the mass of our Sun. The researchers published a study about their discovery on July 26 in The Astrophysical Journal
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AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY.
The team noted HR 9024’s CME while sifting through decade-old data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. They were looking at changes in the wavelengths of X-rays from the star in the hopes of improving their understanding of its corona.
While looking at this data, they noticed approximately 1 billion trillion grams of material — what you’d expect from a CME — moving away from HR 9024 following a solar flare. But, strangely enough, the material then moved back toward the star.
This doesn’t happen after CMEs from our Sun, but it does fit in with the prediction of previous research that a CME might not be able to fully escape the magnetic field of a larger star. It could also explain why we hadn’t noticed CMEs from other stars before — the plasma and particles never really left their home stars.
THE SEARCH FOR LIFE.
When CMEs reach the Earth’s atmosphere, they can disrupt our satellites, bathe airplanes in radiation, and even cause electrical blackouts. They can’t hurt humans on the Earth’s surface, though — the planet’s atmosphere and magnetosphere protect us.
Now that we know for sure that other stars can have CMEs, we might be able to use that information to inform our hunt for habitable planets. But we have to understand what effect they have first. If CMEs aren’t likely to reach a planet that orbits a massive star, life might be more likely to survive on that planet’s surface. But the continual looping of CME energy could also result in more solar flares, which can also impact a planet’s habitability.
In any case, this research tells us more about stars than we knew before. And now, other researchers will have a better idea of what to look for as they search for CMEs elsewhere in the universe.
How Does NASA Search For New Planets and How Do They Find Them?
How Does NASA Search For New Planets and How Do They Find Them?
by Anna Kucirkova.
How does NASA search for new planets, and how do they find them?
Sometimes we take for granted all the things we know about our solar system. After centuries of intrepid exploration and scientific breakthroughs, we now have nine (err, eight?! Sorry, Pluto) planets in our own Milky Way.
We also understand why the sun rises and sets, what ‘shooting stars’ really are, and how the moon affects the tides. However, for all that we know and all the time it’s taken us to learn it, we’re still barely scratching the surface of space exploration.
As we fill in our own solar system’s cosmic map with the near-in planets, scientists are increasingly turning to exoplanets (that is, planets outside the solar system) to understand our universe at-large. Here is a little more about how scientists find new planets.
How Do Scientists Find New Planets?
Discovering new planets that can’t be observed from Earth’s surface requires getting well beyond the Earth’s orbit in order to ‘look’ for new planets from a distant and darker vantage point.
NASA just launched a satellite called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) that’s headed beyond the moon on its way out of our solar system so it can watch for ‘transits,’ which occur when a planet passes in front of a star from the perspective of the equipment or observer.
This is similar to a miniature eclipse, where a distant body passes over the star it orbits, creating a marked change in the observed light emitted from the star. In many cases, even high-powered equipment cannot directly observe distant planets, but it can measure a periodic dip in a star’s brightness that is attributed to an orbiting planet passing in front of it. According to NASA, more than 78 percent of the 3,700 confirmed exoplanets have been discovered using transits.
The last major exoplanet search spacecraft, Kepler, found over 2,600 exoplanets by watching for transits. Most of them were orbiting distant (read: dim!) stars 300 to 3,000 light-years from Earth. TESS is seeking stars that are ten times closer than Kepler did–30 to 300 light-years away–and thus 30 to 100 times brighter than the Kepler mission’s targets.
Another fascinating NASA project, the James Webb Telescope, is set to launch later this year. Instead of measuring light like TESS, the James Webb will act more like a traditional telescope, gathering images of faraway space using a staggering array of highly-accurate mirrors and lenses to capture data that will be turned into infrared and other similar images that scientists can use to get a clearer ‘picture’ of faraway sections of space.
By focusing on brighter target stars, researchers can use spectroscopy to learn far more about the exoplanets they detect. By measuring the stars’ light emissions and observing how much light the transiting planets absorb, they will be able to make detailed inferences about planets’ masses, densities, and atmospheric compositions. This includes the potential to observe water and other key molecules known to support life.
The closer, brighter stars will provide for more accuracy and information about the planets that orbit them, which scientists hope will allow them to learn not just the location and distance of other solar systems but also the elemental composition of the planets within them. This provides scientists a much clearer picture of how related different galaxies are and whether the building blocks of life as we know it may exist elsewhere.
What Is Planet Hunters?
In December 2010, the crowdsourced research platform Zooniverse launched Planet Hunters, a public-facing project that enlisted volunteers to review data from the Kepler satellite in order to see if humans could identify patterns that machines missed. If a satellite misses a transit or two, it may create a pattern too irregular for computers to detect. Similarly, some transits are periodic enough to suspect the presence of an exoplanet but may not create enough of a dip in light for the computers to mark them.
That telltale dip in measured light caused by transits might be missed by computer software for a variety of reasons. By showing multiple volunteers the same 30 day log of observed light patterns, the system aggregates human observations and then passes the correlated markings on to scientists to review in-depth.
The project received help from over 500,000 volunteers and led to the discovery of a number of confirmed planets and an even longer list of suspected planets or other celestial bodies that require further investigation. By combining human intuition and powerful computing software, the Planet Hunters project combines hundreds of thousands of passionate volunteers with NASA’s latest satellite technology to accomplish a staggering amount of research on an impressive timeline.
The team behind Planet Hunters estimates that over 200 years of review work has been accomplished in the seven years since the project launched, while Version 2.0 is being updated to support new features in anticipation of the first round of data to review from TESS.
One of the biggest challenges Planet Hunters and other space scientists face is the overwhelming amount of data produced by each new satellite. With the help of half a million volunteers, the project has accomplished 200 years of work in seven years, but this still points to one of the biggest hurdles that exoplanet hunters face: no equipment we have can actually see these distant bodies, so the only way to find them is by using specialized equipment and sifting through the massive amounts of data each mission gathers.
TESS promises to provide us even more data than before as its spectrometers will not only detect transits but will also measure individual planetary properties through the nature of light absorption and diffraction around them.
Why Finding New Planets Matters
Whether you’re convinced that there are aliens around every cosmic corner or you firmly believe that Planet Earth is the only one that supports life, understanding the composition of distant galaxies is a mesmerizing thought exercise.
For example, the recently-discovered planets within the TRAPPIST-1 solar system seem to have many of the ingredients that we think of as being vital for supporting life. There are also staggering differences between TRAPPIST-1 and our own solar system–the central star (akin to our own sun) is far smaller and dimmer, so the planets all orbit it far closer than our own closest planet, Mercury, orbits the sun.
That means that a ‘year’ on one of TRAPPIST-1’s nearest planets (that is, how long it takes to complete one trip around its own sun) lasts the equivalent of a day and a half while the longest takes less than a month. Contemplating what we consider ‘normal’ from the length of a year to the elements that are the building blocks for our idea of life is a thought-expanding exercise in galactic exploration, while potentially discovering new planets or life forms is a critical part of placing ourselves as citizens not only of nation or planet but of the universe at-large.
Many scientists believe that understanding faraway planets and solar systems can provide us with relevant knowledge about our own solar system and about our own sense of place as the only planet in the universe that supports life… or not.
The Next Era of Space Exploration
NASA and other organizations are still working hard to put men on Mars, but they also have their sights set well beyond our planetary neighbors. For all of the logistics that go into sending humans to space, it is perhaps even more valuable to put equipment into orbit that focuses on deep space and sheds light on the distant, dimmest stars.
If there were life on Mars, the rovers likely would have found it. As for planets dozens of light-years away? We’re only just now figuring out that they exist, so there’s no telling what might be on them.
Though we are still a long ways (literally) from getting near them, the idea of familiar elements and atmospheres on faraway planets has the potential to dramatically broaden our horizons. As we discover more planets every day, the odds of finding something even more significant than a transit blip on a light reader only go up.
And as we get better at building precision devices used to observe and measure objects in deep space, ideas that once sounded impossible become reality. Both the TESS and James Webb Telescope use technological advances that only a few years ago would have sounded like far-fetched science fiction.
With each new advance in materials and designs, we grow one step closer here on Earth to seeing what exists many galaxies away. The next time you look up at the night sky, try to notice the dimmest stars you can see with your eyes. Then contemplate looking for stars that are many times farther away and dimmer and studying the planets that orbit them. It may make you feel small, but it also makes life on earth seem extra special.
36,400 BC: The Historical time of the Zep Tepi Theory
Many conjectures have been made concerning the monumental complex of Giza. Some of these fall within the theories of the so called “independent school of Egyptology”, of which they constitute a great part. It is undeniable that “academic” Egyptology has greatly contributed to our knowledge of a unique and incomparable civilization, incredibly developed socially, artistically and scientifically. Unfortunately, academic Egyptologists have also persisted in misattributing some archaeological finds to Dynastic Egyptians, which I believe have little to do with that civilization. This has created confusion among researchers and has affected our comprehension of the prehistory of Egypt.
In the last 20 years, one of the most outstanding theories, in scientific terms, is that proposed by Robert Bauval, known as The Orion Correlation Theory. He proposed a correlation between the major pyramids of Giza and the three largest stars forming the Belt of Orion. Particularly, he suggested that a perfect alignment between the former and the latter occurred in the year 10,450 BC.
As a result of this, a fervid debate among scholars originated, which has long slowed, and at times even impeded, objective analysis of the pyramid complex.
Ahmed Osman, Armando Mei, Robert Bauval and John Major Jenkins.
International Conference on Ancient Study, Zayed Univesity, Dubai. Photo Credit: Armando Mei
Still mysteries remain, for example, the dispute over the “Zep Tepi” (‘First Time’ or Golden Era). While academics agree to confine its purpose to mythology, I believe that their position conflicts with the long lists of sovereigns found so accurately transcribed in Egyptian documents and temples. I do not believe that the First Time is a myth, as it is regarded by some researchers. I assume that the Zep Tepi was an historical time of prosperity. In my opinion, all major monuments of Giza were built before the Dynastic Age to celebrate the Age of Osiris rule. But, when were the monuments of Giza built?
Astronomical Configuration & the Zep Tepi
I studied the astronomical configuration of the sky above Giza in the remote past. First of all, I analyzed the astronomical configuration concerning the sky above Giza in the year 10,450 BC (Bauval’s Theory).
Bauval’s Orion Correlation Theory – Vernal Equinox 10,500 BC. Al Nitak is not on the Meridian and not connected to the Great Pyramid. Sirius is under the Horizon. Planets have not a symbolic arrangement.
At the dawn of the vernal equinox, the Constellation of Lion is right on the ecliptic, while the Constellation of Orion is on the Meridian. Remarkable is the position of Mintaka, because this star lies on the Meridian while Alnitak has moved toward the south-east. In my opinion, this is not the right configuration, because I would expect to find Alnitak (the correspondent of the Great Pyramid, the most important monument of Giza) on the Meridian and not the pyramid of Mycerinus, the smaller pyramid of Giza. Any other astronomical object, close to the monuments of Giza, were in the Sky at that time.
The Age of the Zep Tepi
In the following table, what is most striking is the configuration of the sky above Giza in the year 36,420 BC. At the dawn of the vernal equinox, at an entire astronomical precessional cycle before 10,450 BC, all monuments of Giza were perfectly aligned with the constellations as follows:
The Sky above Giza at Vernal Equinox in the year 36,400 BC: my proposal on Historical Golden Age of the Zep Tepi (processing by Armando Mei)
At the dawn of the vernal equinox.
The Lion constellation and Sphinx are closely connected to the East. The Orion constellation is on the Celestial Meridian, exactly above the Pyramids. Most importantly, it’s a perfect connection between Al Nitak – the largest Star of the Belt of Orion – and the Great Pyramid , the biggest monument in the Giza Plateau. The connection occurred only in this astronomical configuration and in no one astronomical alignment ever proposed by experts, from 2,000 AD to 100,000 BC.
As Al Nitak cuts the Celestial Meridian, so the Great Pyramid lies in the center of emerged lands, the main meridian and parallel intersection, or rather at the distance of 1/3 between the Equator and North Pole, symbolizing the “natural zero” for longitude.
Moreover, there are many astronomical guidelines proving the concept of the Beginning of a New Age. First of all, the planets positions. They are positioned in the south-east hemisphere, as though following the rising Sun through its movement along the ecliptic. In particular, the Moon is a New Moon, and it’s positioned just below the celestial horizon, ready to follow the Sun’s movement towards the light.
Symbolism Analysis
The seven planets are positioned along the ecliptic in a perfect row, fixing the beginning of the New Era. Just below the ecliptic, the New Moon gives way to Sunrise - the rebirth of the New Light - that will flood the Land of Egypt, bringing lifeblood for new crops. In a few moments, the Moon will follow the god Sun-Ra, through its astronomical move; while all courtiers-planets, waiting for him, will be darkened by its vitality.
In its rising path, the Sun-Ra will have its first stop at the foot of the Lion Constellation-Sphinx, where it will meet Jupiter-Temple of Valley; Jupiter symbolizes the Father of the Gods, and it’s an expressive symbol of Justice.
Giza 36,400 BC - Lion Constellation meets Mercury and Jupiter – Two mysterious temples have planets proportional values (processing by Armando Mei)
Sun-Ra then meets Mercury-Temple of the Sphinx, the Messenger of the Gods, ready to accomplish its function: give forth the Beginning of the Zep Tepi.
The arrangement of two planets, in conjunction with the star Regulus, has an amazing meaning. If we take a look at the Sphinx, there are two temples at its feet; the buildings, characterized by colossal and mysterious columns, were built at the same time as the Pyramids and represent Jupiter and Mercury.
In his climbing path, that will lead it to the Zenith, Sun-Ra meets Venus, symbolizing Love, Passion and Beauty. The planet is located in the south-east quadrant, almost half way from the Zenith. It is not an accidental position, and also it is the astronomical connection that gave birth to the original symbolic meaning of “unity of Opposite. An "astronomical wedding" takes place between different cosmic objects - a planet and a star – before walking together to the sunset.
Lastly, the Sun meets Mars, the red planet, symbolizing Power. It is time to establish the Rule over the Universe, sitting on the throne of the Sky, so as for Osiris when he ruled over the Land of Egypt, starting the Age of the Zep Tepi.
Now, the Sun-Ra is at the Zenith. Everything has been accomplished according to the Laws of Astronomy. Passing the Zenith, the Sun-Ra goes through the ecliptic, in the south-west quadrant, where Saturn is waiting.
Observing the astronomical map, a curious detail strikes: all planets, whose names are associated with the days of the week, are on the ecliptic. It is very intriguing to note that the planet of rest, Saturn-Saturday, is located exactly in the south-west quadrant, the place of death for Ancient Egyptians. The disposition of Saturn is very fascinating. In Hebrew traditions, they consider Saturday as the day of rest, dedicating it for celebrating the Lord. It means that Hebrew Traditions could have been influenced by memories of Zep Tepi.
Isis-Sirus & the Zep Tepi
Ancient Texts of Pyramids told us about connections between the Star Sirius and the Goddess Isis. She played a great role after the death of Osiris, at the climax of the Zep Tepi. So, when Giza was projected, the builders gave her a key role; they built a monument to celebrate the goddess who preserved Egypt. The monument is located south-east of the Sphinx, known as the Tomb of Khentkhaus.
As I explain in my book “The Gods Secret”, three clues prove my purpose:
1) a correct interpretation of the Inventory Stele;
2) Star Sirius position in the sky above Giza in the year 36,400 BC.
3) proportional connections between physical values of the Star and dimensions of the Monument.
Correct interpretation of Inventory Stele hieroglyphs is essential to explain where her monument was built.
Abstract from Inventory Stele.
Credit: Armando Mei)
The academic interpretation of the inscription is is:
“He [Cheops] found that the temple of Isis, lady of the pyramid, was near the temple of the Sphinx (…)”
A correct interpretation of the hieroglyphs gives the following translation:
“He [Cheops] found that the temple of Isis was beside the pyramid near the temple of the Sphinx (...)”
The hieroglyph, shown below, is the key to the mystery. Academics have misunderstood the meaning of the phrase. The hieroglyph comes into the sentence twice... first, it means "beside", and second it means "near". Egyptologists have translated it only once, making a remarkable mistake in translation..
So, according to the Inventory Stele there is a monument beside the Pyramid near the Sphinx. But where? Take a look at the Astronomical Map. Sirius is just above the horizon between the Lion and Orion constellations.
Lost Tomb of Khentkhaus is the correspondent of the Star Sirius (processing by Armando Mei)
The Tomb of Khentkhaus has the following property:
The lower part was built at the same time as the Pyramids and Sphinx;
The lower part of the tomb has water erosion so to as the Sphinx;
Its base is entirely carved in the rock and has a spiral shape. Its transposition on a plane surface is equal to the orbital movement of Sirius;
Khentkhaus’ tomb proportions are very close to some Sirius physical parameters, for example: Tomb height is 10mt.; in Egyptian cubits is: 22.37. Sirius brightness is 22.40. (Difference -0,03); Area of the Tomb is: 2083.9 square meters. Sirius Mass is 1/1000 of this value: 2,15 (Difference -0,067); Tomb Perimeter is: 182.6 mt. Sirius Radius is 1/100 of this value: 1.88 (Difference -0.054);.
Sirius Angular Separation from East is: 67°59’22”; Khentkhaus Tomb position from East is: 67°32’00”, a difference of 0°27’22”.
In conclusion, the lower part of the Khentkhaus tomb is the Ancient Throne of Isis!
That’s the hermetic message that the Lost Civilization of Giza wanted to convey. In the Age of Lion, preceding the perfect alignment that Bauval suggested, an extraordinary event took place. This event marked the climax of an amazingly developed civilization, that managed to colonize emerged lands and whose fingerprints have resisted the passing of time, but who wished to leave a record of their presence on Earth.
Treasure hunter claims he found evidence of USO's beneath Bermuda Triangle
Treasure hunter claims he found evidence of USO's beneath Bermuda Triangle
A treasure hunter has made an astonishing "unexplained" discovery deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle that he believes could provide the first evidence of an extra-terrestrial visit to Earth hundreds of years ago.
Explorer Darrell Miklos has been using secret maps created by his close friend and famed NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper to find shipwrecks in the Caribbean.
A close up of one of the horizontal structures
the right jutting section of the USO
"something that was completely different from anything that I've seen"
Here you can see the gigantic mound rising above the ring of structures
Treasure Hunter believes he's found first evidence of an extra-terrestrial visit to Earth.
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Detailed Space Force Plans To Be Revealed In Today's Pentagon Speech
Detailed Space Force Plans To Be Revealed In Today's Pentagon Speech
According to the Washington Post, Vice President Mike Pence will give a speech at the Pentagon today to explain the government's plans for the Space Form in detail.
The speech is scheduled for 11:15 AM EST.
In June, US President Trump announced "the sixth branch of the Armed Services". The first new military branch created in more than 70 years.
Space Shuttle Astronaut Encountered Something Organic Alien-Like In Space
Space Shuttle Astronaut Encountered Something Organic Alien-Like In Space
The more or less well-known UFO fighter Scott Waring has asked the former space shuttle astronaut Leland Melvin if he has ever seen an alien.
His answer was:
"I have not seen one in space or on the ground but thought I saw something organic/alien like floating out of the payload bay. I called the ground to ask what it could be and (they said) it was ice that had broken off the Freon hoses. Translucent, curved, organic looking."
Would an astronaut really don't know the difference between some ice and an organic alien object?
This Meteor 'Exploded' Over Greenland, But Nobody Saw It. Here's Why It Matters.
This Meteor 'Exploded' Over Greenland, But Nobody Saw It. Here's Why It Matters.
By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor
Since there aren't any images of the Greenland fireball, here's an illustration of a space rock burning up as it enters Earth's atmosphere.
Credit: Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock
A fireball that streaked across the sky above the Thule Air Base in Greenland on July 25 was notable for not only the 2.1 kilotons of energy it released — the second-most-energetic "explosion" of its kind recorded this year — but also the stir it caused on social media and the frenzied calls it prompted to the U.S. Air Force.
And the blazing rock — which was traveling at about 54,000 mph (87,000 km/h), about 74 times the speed of sound, according to The Aviationist — may have sent meteorites to the ground for passersby (the few people who happened to be this far north of the Arctic Circle) to discover.
The first reports of the meteor above Greenland came from two tweets from scientists. On July 31, Ron Baalke, of the Solar System Dynamics group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (or "Rocket Ron" on Twitter), wrote, "A fireball was detected over Greenland on July 25, 2018 by US Government sensors at an altitude of 43.3 km. The energy from the explosion is estimated to be 2.1 kilotons." His tweet was followed by a similar one on Aug. 1 by Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists: "Meteor explodes with 2.1 kilotons force 43 km above missile early warning radar at Thule Air Base." [Top 10 Greatest Explosions Ever]
Apparently, the news reports that stemmed from those tweets led to a flurry of calls from reporters to both the air base and NASA asking about potential harm to the Thule Air Base, according to the Military Times.
So, what's up with the fireball? Though meteors like this one are large enough to create a blaze when entering the atmosphere, they are not big enough to be seen before they plow through Earth's atmosphere.
"These objects are only a few meters across and smaller, which is too small to be detected before they strike the Earth," Robert Lunsford, a longtime meteor observer with the American Meteor Society, told Live Science. "Therefore, we have no idea when and where such events will occur."
When this Greenland meteor ripped through the atmosphere last month, some 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) north of the Arctic Circle, some sensors in the global network run by the base's 21st Space Wing detected it.
"As the meteor[s] enter the atmosphere, they ablate until they either completely disintegrate or remnants fall to the ground," Lunsford said. "The shock wave generated by the collision with the atmosphere is the source of the 'explosion' and resulting estimate of impact energy."
These objects are too small to cause much damage, unless someone gets hit by a fragment of the rock or if someone is near the sound blast, he said. That did indeed occur in 2013, when a 55-foot (17 meters) meteor struck Chelyabinsk, Russia. The shock wave from the impact smashed windows and damaged buildings, and more than 1,000 people were injured.
For comparison, that fireball packed 300 kilotons of energy, or 20 to 25 times more energy than the atomic bombs dropped during World War II. Even so, the Chelyabinsk impact was much less powerful than the Tunguska meteor explosion in Siberia that released 10 to 15 megatons (10,000 to 15,000 kilotons) of energy in 1908, Live Science previously reported.
Though the Greenland fireball explosion was significant, nobody saw it.
"Being that it was such a remote location, there are no pictures of this fireball," Lunsford said. "In fact, we have not received any visual reports, either. If not for the U.S. government sensors, we would not even know about this object."
Einstein's Genius: Describing the Geometry of Space-Time
Einstein's Genius: Describing the Geometry of Space-Time
By Paul Sutter, Astrophysicist
General relativity is a complex theory, but imagining falling objects can help trace its contours. (Here, GPS satellites are shown around Earth — GPS depends on relativity to give accurate positions.)
General relativity is one of the greatest feats of human understanding, made all the more impressive by the fact that it sprang from the fertile imagination and dogged mathematical brilliance of just one mind. The theory itself is the last and most persistent of the "classical" (i.e., not-quantum) models of nature, and our inability to come up with anything more sophisticated over the past hundred years is a constant reminder of just how dang smart Albert Einstein was.
Another testament to Einstein's genius comes in the tangled spaghetti of complex, interconnected equations that make up the full theory. Einstein made a beautiful machine, but he didn't exactly leave us a user's manual. We can trace his path in the seven years of self-inflicted torture that led to the theory's final form, but that route of development was guided by so much of Einstein's gut intuition that it's hard for us mere mortals to make the same blind jumps of genius that he did.
Just to drive home the point, general relativity is so complex that when someone discovers a solution to the equations, they get the solution named after them and become semi-legendary in their own right. There's a reason that Karl Schwarzschild — the guy who figured out the geometry of black holes — is a household name (or at least, a physics department name). [Einstein's Theory of General Relativity: A Simplified Explanation]
Geometry is destiny
The absolute core of general relativity, and a perfectly acceptable alternative name for it, is geometrodynamics. Go ahead, say it out loud — it's fun. The way that general relativity models gravity is through the dynamic machinations of space-time itself. According to the theory, the presence of matter and energy alters the fundamental space-time geometry surrounding those substances, and that altered geometry influences motion.
This relationship comes about from the most important, fundamental, can't-ignore-this concept underlying the entire theory of general relativity: the equivalence principle (E.P.). This principle is the assumption that inertial mass (how much oomph it takes to move an object) is the same property as gravitational mass (how much an object responds to gravity). And this is the key that unlocks the whole gravitational shebang.
Using that equivalence, we can imagine a scenario to help visualize the connection between geometry and gravity. Pretend you're orbiting high above the Earth, serenely watching the continents and oceans roll under your vantage point.
As the bits of debris float away from you, you ponder the ramifications of what you just did. Sure, you've now created a cloud of potentially hazardous debris that poses a major risk to satellites and future missions. But upon further reflection, your mind eases. You're doing a science experiment, and the equivalence principle guarantees that all these bits of debris, no matter their shape or mass, will perfectly trace the effects of the Earth's gravity, without the need for any other calculations. That's something unique to the force of gravity, thanks to the E.P. [Why Relativity's True: The Evidence for Einstein's Theory]
Bending the rules
Watch what happens to the junk you tossed into space. Some, by pure chance, may start off in a perfectly horizontal line. But as the objects fall to Earth, they follow straight lines heading right for the center of the globe. If you watch them closely, you'll see that as they head downward, they'll gradually converge. If they could pass through the solid Earth, they would eventually collide at the very center.
Other bits of junk might start off in a perfectly vertical line aimed toward Earth, evenly spaced apart from each other. They, too, would fall. But the lucky one at the front of the line would fall slightly faster, due to its slightly closer proximity to the Earth, with the last in line lagging slightly behind. So, as the pieces of debris continued their descent, they would slowly diverge in their vertical line.
In some cases, we get converging, narrowing trails. In other cases, we get diverging, spreading trajectories. In both cases, paths start out as perfectly parallel or uniform but change character s. These changing paths are exactly what the mathematicians use the language of "curvature" to describe, and that is the language of geometry.
Ding, ding, ding. There it is. The equivalence principle tells you that the paths of falling junk directly inform you about the nature of gravity, and those same paths reveal a complicated geometry of the underlying space-time. In other words, that gravity is the geometry of space-time.
Geometrodynamics.
Stretching our brains
tThe "time" in space-time is very important to the full theory. You've probably seen the science museum demo or graphic accompanying an article on general relativity showing what looks like a stretched rubber sheet. A heavy ball, representing a planet or star or black hole or whatever, is placed at the center, pulling the fabric down. Rolling other balls on the sheet reveals the "influence" of gravity: They try to follow straight lines, but their paths get deflected by the underlying curvature.
That demo is perfectly fine as a first, kindergarten introduction, but we're well past kindergarten now. There is no "down" in real space-time, and the curving is happening in four dimensions, not two. It is a little harder to visualize, which is why we usually retreat to the simpler demo.
It is true that a massive object distorts the static space in its vicinity, but that's only half the picture. Mass also affects the dimension of time, and it does so by altering the possible trajectories a passing object is capable of.
Every object has what's called a light cone, or a set of possible destinations that the object could reach traveling slower than the speed of light. Imagine riding along with a speck of dust as it races by the sun. It has a range of future possibilities, given by its light cone. But as the dust comes near the sun, the gravity of that giant fireball tilts the dust's light cone toward the sun itself. .The dust now has a new, more specific future assigned to it: Some destinations are off-limits (they are outside the new light cone), while others have now opened up.
This may seem like splitting hairs, but the static bending of space and the altering of light cones appear in the mathematics of general relativity in separate places, and only by combining the two effects do we get the full (and accurate!) predictions of the theory. Space and time must both be considered together; you can't ignore one.u
In other words, gravity is the geometry of space-time. Geometrodynamics.
Learn more by listening to the episode ""Seriously, What Is Gravity? (Part 3)"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!
NASA Spotted a Vast, Glowing 'Hydrogen Wall' at the Edge of Our Solar System
NASA Spotted a Vast, Glowing 'Hydrogen Wall' at the Edge of Our Solar System
By Rafi Letzter, Live Science Staff Writer
The sun moves through the galaxy encases in a bubble formed by its own solar wind. In front of the sun, galactic debris builds up, inlcuding hydrogen.
Credit: Alder Planetarium/NASA
There's a "hydrogen wall" at the edge of our solar system, and NASA scientists think their New Horizons spacecraft can see it.
That hydrogen wall is the outer boundary of our home system, the place where our sun's bubble of solar wind ends and where a mass of interstellar matter too small to bust through that wind builds up, pressing inward. Our host star's powerful jets of matter and energy flow outward for a long stretch after leaving the sun — far beyond the orbit of Pluto. But at a certain point, they peter out, and their ability to push back the bits of dust and other matter — the thin, mysterious stuff floating within our galaxy's walls — wanes. A visible boundary forms. On one side are the last vestiges of solar wind. And on the other side, in the direction of the Sun's movement through the galaxy, there's a buildup of interstellar matter, including hydrogen.
And now NASA researchers are pretty sure that New Horizons, the probe that famously skimmed past Pluto in 2015, can see that boundary.
What New Horizons definitely sees, the researchers reported in a paper published Aug. 7 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, is some extra ultraviolet light — the kind the researchers would expect such a wall of galactic hydrogen to produce. That replicates an ultraviolet signal the two Voyager spacecraft — NASA's farthest-traveling probes, which launched in the late 1970s — spotted all the way back in 1992. [Images: Dust Grains from Interstellar Space]
However, the researchers cautioned, that signal isn't a sure sign that New Horizons has seen the hydrogen wall, or that Voyager did. All three probes could have actually detected the ultraviolet light from some other source, emanating from much deeper in the galaxy, the researchers wrote.
But Alice, the instrument on board New Horizons responsible for this finding, is much more sensitive than anything the Voyagers had on board before beginning their own journey out of the solar system, the researchers wrote. And they said they expect Alice to function 15 to 20 more years.
New Horizons will continue to scan the sky for ultraviolet light twice a year, the researchers wrote, and report what it sees back to Earth.
"If the ultraviolet light drops off at some point, then New Horizons may have left the wall in its rearview mirror," the researchers explained in an accompanying statement. "But if the light never fades, then its source could be farther ahead — coming from somewhere deeper in space."
Colorful view of the universe as seen by Hubble in 2014. NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z. Levay (STScI)
Next time you eat a blueberry (or chocolate chip) muffin consider what happened to the blueberries in the batter as it was baked. The blueberries started off all squished together, but as the muffin expanded they started to move away from each other. If you could sit on one blueberry you would see all the others moving away from you, but the same would be true for any blueberry you chose. In this sense galaxies are a lot like blueberries.
Since the Big Bang, the universe has been expanding. The strange fact is that there is no single place from which the universe is expanding, but rather all galaxies are (on average) moving away from all the others. From our perspective in the Milky Way galaxy, it seems as though most galaxies are moving away from us – as if we are the centre of our muffin-like universe. But it would look exactly the same from any other galaxy – everything is moving away from everything else.
To make matters even more confusing, new observations suggest that the rate of this expansion in the universe may be different depending on how far away you look back in time. This new data, published in the Astrophysical Journal, indicates that it may time to revise our understanding of the cosmos.
Hubble’s challenge
Cosmologists characterise the universe’s expansion in a simple law known as Hubble’s Law(named after Edwin Hubble – although in fact many other people preempted Hubble’s discovery). Hubble’s Law is the observation that more distant galaxies are moving away at a faster rate. This means that galaxies that are close by are moving away relatively slowly by comparison.
The relationship between the speed and the distance of a galaxy is set by “Hubble’s Constant”, which is about 44 miles (70km) per second per Mega Parsec (a unit of length in astronomy). What this means is that a galaxy gains about 50,000 miles per hour for every million light years it is away from us. In the time it takes you to read this sentence a galaxy at one million light years’ distance moves away by about an extra 100 miles.
The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis, flying STS-125, HST Servicing Mission 4. Wikipedia
This expansion of the universe, with nearby galaxies moving away more slowly than distant galaxies, is what one expects for a uniformly expanding cosmos with dark energy (an invisible force that causes the universe’s expansion to accelerate ) and dark matter (an unknown and invisible form of matter that is five times more common than normal matter). This is what one would also observe of blueberries in an expanding muffin.
The history of the measurement of Hubble’s Constant has been fraught with difficulty and unexpected revelations. In 1929, Hubble himself thought the value must be about 342,000 miles per hour per million light years – about ten times larger than what we measure now. Precision measurements of Hubble’s Constant over the years is actually what led to the inadvertent discovery of dark energy. The quest to find out more about this mysterious type of energy, which makes up 70% of the energy of the universe, has inspired the launch of the world’s (currently) best space telescope, named after Hubble.
Cosmic showstopper
Now it seems that this difficulty may be continuing as a result of two highly precise measurements that don’t agree with each other. Just as cosmological measurements have became so precise that the value of the Hubble constant was expected to be known once and for all, it has been found instead that things don’t make sense. Instead of one we now have two showstopping results.
On the one side we have the new very precise measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background – the afterglow of the Big Bang – from the Planck mission, that has measured the Hubble Constant to be about 46,200 miles per hour per million light years (or using cosmologists’ units 67.4 km/s/Mpc).
On the other side we have new measurements of pulsating stars in local galaxies, also extremely precise, that has measured the Hubble Constant to be 50,400 miles per hour per million light years (or using cosmologists units 73.4 km/s/Mpc). These are closer to us in time.
Both these measurements claim their result is correct and very precise. The measurements’ uncertainties are only about 300 miles per hour per million light years, so it really seems like there is a significant difference in movement. Cosmologists refer to this disagreement as “tension” between the two measurements – they are both statistically pulling results in different directions, and something has to snap.
New physics?
So what’s going to snap? At the moment the jury is out. It could be that our cosmological model is wrong. What is being seen is that the universe is expanding faster nearby than we would expect based on more distant measurements. The Cosmic Microwave Background measurements don’t measure the local expansion directly, but rather infer this via a model – our cosmological model. This has been tremendously successful at predicting and describing many observational data in the universe.
So while this model could be wrong, nobody has come up with a simple convincing model that can explain this and, at the same time, explain everything else we observe. For example we could try and explain this with a new theory of gravity, but then other observations don’t fit. Or we could try and explain it with a new theory of dark matter or dark energy, but then further observations don’t fit – and so on. So if the tension is due to new physics, it must be complex and unknown.
A less exciting explanation could be that there are “unknown unknowns” in the data caused by systematic effects, and that a more careful analysis may one day reveal a subtle effect that has been overlooked. Or it could just be statistical fluke, that will go away when more data is gathered.
It is presently unclear what combination of new physics, systematic effects or new data will resolve this tension, but something has to give. The expanding muffin picture of the universe may not work anymore, and cosmologists are in a race to win a “great cosmic bake-off” to explain this result. If new physics is required to explain these new measurements, then the result will be a showstopping change of our picture of the cosmos.
Astronaut claimt ‘organisch, buitenaards aandoend wezen’ te hebben gezien. Dit is de reactie van de NASA
Astronaut claimt ‘organisch, buitenaards aandoend wezen’ te hebben gezien. Dit is de reactie van de NASA
Een astronaut beweert in een spaceshuttle een ‘organisch, buitenaards aandoend wezen’ te hebben gezien.
NASA-astronaut Leland Melvin deed deze uitspraak tijdens een discussie met een complottheoreticus op sociale media.
De ruimtevaarder zei dat hij het wezen spotte in het laadruim van de spaceshuttle Atlantis, die op dat moment in een baan om de aarde draaide.
Iets doorzichtigs en organisch
Toen hij de NASA vertelde over zijn ervaring, zeiden experts tegen hem dat hij waarschijnlijk ijs had gezien dat van de shuttle was afgebroken.
Scott C. Waring van de website UFO Sightings Daily vroeg de astronaut: “Wat is uw mening over het bestaan van intelligent buitenaards leven in ons zonnestelsel? Heeft u ooit een UFO gezien?”
Melvin antwoordde dat hij ooit iets ‘doorzichtigs en organisch’ had gezien toen hij met zijn collega Randy Bresnik in de ruimte was.
Je weet maar nooit
Het tweetal nam contact op met de NASA en kreeg te horen dat het waarschijnlijk ijs was dat was afgebroken van de leidingen.
Volgens Melvin probeerde het ruimteagentschap de waarneming niet in de doofpot te stoppen, maar ‘je weet maar nooit’.
In totaal heeft Melvin twee ruimtevluchten op zijn naam staan. In 2010 ging hij met pensioen, maar tot februari 2014 bleef hij nog bij NASA werken.
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Hello @Astro_Flow whats your outlook about the existence of intelligent alien life living in our solar system? Have you ever witnessed a UFO? Please share with us. Thanks, SCW
Leland Melvin✔@Astro_Flow
I have not seen one in space or on the ground but thought I saw something organic/alien like floating out of the payload bay. @AstroKomrade and I called the ground to ask what it could be and it was ice that had broken off of the Freon hoses.Translucent, curved, organic looking
RAADSEL VAN DE MAAN NOG LANG NIET OPGELOST ( VIDEO )
RAADSEL VAN DE MAAN NOG LANG NIET OPGELOST ( VIDEO )
De discussie over of wij als mens nu wel of niet op de maan zijn geweest en of hij überhaupt wel bestaat zal nog wel even voort duren.
Bij nader inzien blijkt Buzz Aldrin toch wel gezegd te hebben dat ze op de maan zijn geweest en zijn er opnieuw een basis en een toren ontdekt op diezelfde maan.
Onlangs schreven wij een artikel over astronaut Buzz Aldrin en de verwarring die hij veroorzaakte door ogenschijnlijk te zeggen dat wij (de mensheid) nooit op de maan zijn geweest.
De video die wij gebruikten is slechts een klein deel van het totale interview dat Aldrin gaf in 2015 en wanneer je de complete video bekijkt, dan krijg je toch een ander beeld, zoals een lezer ons schreef:
Hij zegt we zijn niet gegaan omdat we niet zijn gegaan. Hij doelt daar, in de context van de vraag, overduidelijk op het feit dat ze TERUG zijn gegaan. De vraag gaat over TERUG gaan!
"It didn't happen", met it zijnde het terugkeren.
En dat feit, het niet terug gaan, betreurt hij ook, en zegt dat het voornamelijk over missend geld ging. En hij zou graag hebben gezien dat we WEL terug gegaan zouden zijn, maar dat zijn we niet. Terug gegaan dus.
Hij zegt dat duidelijk, zeker als je even nadenkt in de context, maar in het citaat - zonder de vraag vooraf, zonder toelichting van Buzz achteraf - komt vreemd over. En hij zegt ook eerder in het interview dat hij echt geweest is.
Nu dat misverstand is opgehelderd en Aldrin zegt dat ze wel op de maan zijn geweest, blijft natuurlijk nog altijd de vraag open staan of dat inderdaad zo is en of de maan überhaupt wel bestaat.
Los daarvan, blijven er interessante zaken over de maan naar buiten komen zoals de volgende foto die gemaakt zou zijn tijdens één van de Apollo missies. Het betreft hier een foto van het maanoppervlak gemaakt tijdens de Apollo 10 missie.
Scott vindt deze vondst zo bijzonder dat hij van mening is dat je alleen al met deze foto NASA voor de rechter zou kunnen slepen en hen zo dwingen om toe te geven dat er buitenaardse bases bestaan op de maan.
Er is nog iets bijzonders ontdekt op de maan en dat heeft gelukkig niets met NASA te maken. De foto en telescoop-apparatuur waarover ook gewone mensen kunnen beschikken worden gelukkig steeds beter.
Daardoor kon iemand uit Turkije onlangs de volgende opname maken van de maan. Je ziet hem geleidelijk steeds verder inzoomen en dan rond de 2 minuten 50 in de video verschijnt er een soort zwarte UFO die zich boven de maan lijkt te bewegen.
Hij kan het object minuten lang volgen totdat het op een gegeven moment in de duisternis verdwijnt.
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“… I thought I saw something organic/ alien like floating out of the payload bay. Translucent. Curved. Organic looking.”
That would make a great opening line for a sci-fi movie, but it’s actually a quote from a retired Space Shuttle astronaut responding to a question on Twitter asking about the existence of intelligent alien life in the solar system. Did this astronaut just let an extraterrestrial cat (an organic looking translucent one) out of the bag?
“@AstroKomrade and I called the ground to ask what it could be and it was ice that had broken off of the Freon hoses.”
Retired astronaut and possible alien spotter Leland Melvin
The retired astronaut doing this interesting tweeting is Leland Melvin (@Astro_Flow), a veteran of two space shuttle missions, the second of which being the one where he saw something strange floating out of the payload bay. Melvin flew on the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist on STS-122 (February 7 – February 20, 2008) and as a mission specialist 1 on STS-129 (November 16 – November 27, 2009). Also on STS-129 was @AstroKomrade, known in pre-Twitter days as astronaut Randy Bresnik. This mission to the International Space Station was one of the last space shuttle missions, but nothing out of the ordinary was listed in the official records of the mission nor the three spacewalks.
Leland Melvin is one of the more interesting astronauts ever to pass through the space program. After getting a degree in Chemistry from the University of Richmond, where he attended on a football scholarship (and still holds at least one receiving record), Melvin was drafted by the NFL Detroit Lions but released due to an injury, his same fate with the Dallas Cowboys. After trying out with the CFL Toronto Argonauts, he retired and moved from catching passes to catching aliens.
Leland Melvin and his dogs
Did Leland Melvin actually see an alien life form or does he believe it was just ice? He’s one of the more creative and diverse astronauts, having appeared as a guest judge on Top Chef, a dog owner on The Dog Whisperer and the host of two seasons of Child Genius. He also helped found Spaceship Earth Grants, a program to make space more accessible to non-astronauts. Leland Melvin sounds like someone who loves science and space and wants others to do the same. Does jock/scientist/creative-type really think he saw an alien and NASA told him it was ice just to distract him?
“Hmmm. Don’t think so but you never know.”
That was Melvin’s answer to a Twitter question from Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily, who has made it one of his many missions to ask NASA about the existence of other life forms. Unfortunately, while Melvin gave Waring an intriguing answer, he provided no pictures or other evidence to back it up. Was he told not to? If that’s the case, why bother answering at all? Will Randy Bresnik back him up?
With his dedication to space and opening it up to the masses, perhaps Leland Melvin is leaking just enough about what he saw to pique interest. Has he?
In Michael Crichton’s 1987 novel Sphere, the U.S. Navy assembles a team of scientists to study an enormous submerged object found on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, an object which turns out to be an alien spacecraft inhabited by an intelligent alien entity named Jerry. Life may now be imitating art, if the claims of a group of treasure hunters are confirmed. While filming the Discovery Channel docu-series Cooper’s Treasure, a group of explorers and treasure hunters claim to have discovered a massive unidentified submerged object in the Caribbean ocean. Could this be evidence of ancient aliens lying undiscovered on the seafloor?
Gordon Cooper was the last American to conduct an entirely solo orbital mission.
We’ll see. But don’t hold your breath. Explorer and treasure hunter Darrell Miklos claims to have made the discovery while he was scouring the area using maps given to him by former NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper. Gordon Cooper was an advocate for UFO research, and after his NASA career made several claims about witnessing unexplained aircraft or aerial phenomena and that the U.S. government actively suppressed sightings by military or space agency personnel. Cooper reportedly witnessed many anomalous dark shapes in the waters of the Caribbean while in space, and mapped these with the intention of later exploring the area for shipwrecks and lost treasure. Cooper’s Treasure sets out to determine if Cooper’s hunch might be correct.
While a few shipwrecks and minor caches of treasure have indeed been found – the Caribbean was historically a major shipping route, after all – this new discovery is something different entirely. So far, only the Discovery Channel and tabloids have run the story, so take it for what you will. Miklos told the Daily Mail that he was searching for shipwrecks in the areas identified by Gordon when he came across an anomalous structure or set of structures on the sea floor:
I was trying to identify shipwreck material based on one of the anomaly readings on Gordon’s charts when I noticed something that stuck out, that shocked me. It was a formation unlike anything I’ve ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that. It was also something that was completely different from anything that I’ve seen that was made by nature.
Miklos claims to have discovered identical formations in three separate areas of the sea floor which look unlike anything he’s found. The structures, whatever they are, lie 300 feet below the ocean surface and are covered in coral which Miklos’ team believes may be thousands of years old. The team also claims to have found many magnetic anomalies in the areas corresponding to the possible shipwreck locations marked by Gordon Cooper. The Daily Mail published images has of some of the ambiguous shapes which look like they might be manufactured, but then again might simply be odd-looking coral.
Might evidence of ancient aliens, or modern ones for that matter, indeed be lying on the bottom of the ocean? Then again, could this all be a ploy to build hype for a new cable TV series? Whether that may be, given that upwards of 80% of our planet’s oceans are still unexplored, there’s no telling what we might found in the deepest reaches of the Earth’s mysterious waters. Should NASA and other space agencies turn their attention towards underwater exploration before we attempt to conquer the stars?
A classic example of unexplained cattle mutilation has just hit Argentina, and veterinarians are at a loss to explain what could have caused the unfortunate animals’ injuries. According to Argentine newspaper Clarín, a rancher in the village of Colonia Durán woke up to discover seven of his cows horrifically mutilated without a trace of blood nearby. Even more horrifying, each of the seven was pregnant.
Why do they always go for the anuses?
Clarín reports that the animals were found with their tongues and genitals surgically removed with “precise cuts.” Local rancher Norberto Bieri toldClarín that experts have inspected the animals and are at a loss to explain how these wounds might have been inflicted with such precision and cleanliness:
Veterinarians have come from the place and no one can tell me how or with what they could do something like this. They say there is no scientific explanation. Everything appears cut with a laser, they didn’t leave any traces of blood, and also pieces of the animals were missing.
Even stranger, eyewitnesses reported that scavengers and insects refused to touch the mutilated carcasses lying in their fields. Of course, the legendary chupacabra has been thrown around as a possible suspect, but Norberto Bieri believes the mutilations might have extraterrestrial explanation, claiming to have witnessed anomalous aerial phenomena coinciding with similar unexplained mutilations in the area. “The thing about the lights is true,” Bieri told reporters. “I’ve seen it.”
If aliens are responsible, why do they only seem to choose cows for their victims?
Cattle mutilations remain one of the more macabre modern mysteries. Argentina is a major beef producer, so livestock mutilations are fairly common there as a result. It’s often claimed that alien experimentation is to blame for this gruesome phenomenon, although there is little hard evidence suggesting that may indeed be true. Are military groups testing new forms of weapons on livestock? Could these cattle be the unfortunate victims of occult rituals? Why is there rarely any blood left at the scenes of these mutilations? And what is being done with all of those cow anuses and genitals?
NASA astronaut reveals close encounter with ‘alien-organic’ object during Shuttle Mission
NASA astronaut reveals close encounter with ‘alien-organic’ object during Shuttle Mission
In a chat on Twitter with fans about his experiences in space, astronaut Leland Melvin who worked as an engineer on board Atlantis was asked by Scott Waring from UFO Sightings Daily if he had ever witnessed UFOs or intelligent alien life living in outer space.
Melvin replied to Scott and revealed that he had seen something organic/alien like floating out of the payload bay and that he called the ground to ask what it could be.
Ground control then answered by telling Melvin that it was ice that had broken off of the Freon hoses.
Image left: Astronaut Leland Melvin.
Then Scott asked Melvin: “ I think ethics would say that your opinion of it being organic is more reliable than the opinion of someone on ground control over 400 miles away, is it possible they lied and called it ice to calm you down and make u focus on the shuttle."
Melvin: “Hmmmm, don’t think so but you never know.”
Many thanks to Scott Waring for his efforts to reveal the truth about the existence of aliens and UFOs.
We know NASA for their misleading answers and in this case Leland Melvin has probably encountered some sort of bioform, living entities which inhabit the cosmic void.
Already dozens of organic compounds have been identified in space, including formaldehyde, prussic acid, and cellulose. In short, there is an abundance of basic building blocks out there to allow for the evolution of these entities.
These alien-organic entities may have migrated to all sectors of space - both within and without galaxies. Endowed with both mobility and intelligence, it is conceivable that some may have actually penetrated our zone of existence.
Here’s one new video of a bright unidentified flying object making maneuvers over UK. This was filmed on 9th July 2018.
Witness report:
reflective object gliding over my house before sunset, went outside for second video and the object reversed I had started seeing objects in the sky at the end of June (June 29th) when me and my two sons (3 and 5) were travelling across the country to see a friend. On the way there we stopped at a service station and my oldest son pointed out a bright ‘ball’ in the sky. He said “theres a ball in the sky and its so big and low , what is it?” this ball, i was convinced, followed us all the way there and followed us back the next day. I had a very very uneasy feeling when we got to the location, and as soon as i returned home i was consumed with terror almost, although i didnt really know why. It was around 2am on the 30th June, id just put the children in bed, and i felt like i was being observed. I got my phone, and i went to look out of the windows into the garden, and could see nothing at first, but then i saw the ball of light hovering by the trees. I took a photo, looked back, and realised it had not only captured the sphere of light but it also captured another one which was a lot closer to me, in the garden (in the photo they came out looking like a donut shape but to the naked eye it was a sphere shape).
Two days later, my son (who had initially seen the ‘ball’ reported hearing a cracking noise in the night and it woke him up, and he saw a set of large eyes in his room. I told him it was definitely the cat and he had nothing to worry about, although i knew that id shut the cats out for the night. He said it scared him at first, but then he went back to sleep. Which is very odd for him, because if he wakes up in the night he ALWAYS comes into my bed.
A week later, It was 30 minutes before sunset and myself and my partner were getting ready for bed in our upstairs bedroom where there is a large window. I saw a glint in the sky and so i went to the window and i could see a small light reflecting object (silver/metallic) moving steadily in the direction of my house. I desperately lunged for my phone and put the camera on, and once id located the object again (now a bit closer) i started filming. On the film the object appeared to be a ball of light but to the naked eye it was metallic, so after a minute of filming i ran downstairs and out onto my front drive to take a better bit of film. By that point the object had cleared my house and was floating away. There was no sound whatsoever, and i could tell the object was relatively small because it was clearly very low above the roof of my house. The object suddenly changed direction- it looked like it was reversing back a bit, but then continued on its path. It did this again (all captured on the second video), i had to move the phone with the movement of the object.
Google Earth Showing A Bizarre Object Sparks Crashed UFO Conspiracy Theory
Google Earth Showing A Bizarre Object Sparks Crashed UFO Conspiracy Theory
Alien craft has reportedly crash-landed into the ocean, according to wild claims online. A bizarre clip captured on Google Earth apparently proves the existence of real alien spacecraft.
The discovery was reportedly in the Aegean Sea, just off the coast of Greece. Some people are baffled at the UFO discovery.
Using the online mapping service, a round shape emerges below the water when zoomed in on the coordinates.
The anomaly bears a resemblance to a flying saucer upon closer inspection. The UFO is estimated to measure over 220 feet in width.
The clip was uploaded to YouTube under a channel called The Hidden Underbelly.
Viewers were fast to add their opinions about what the strange phenomenon is all about.
One viewer claimed that it could be an unidentified submerged object (USO). The viewer added that they love to hear the official excuse for this one.
Another viewer said that the object in the clip does not belong there.
One viewer stated that the object is weird having a rough and deep look around the top of it. They added that nothing in the surrounding looks remotely like it
Mysterious footage shows what appears to be a UFO flying across sky
Mysterious footage shows what appears to be a UFO flying in the sky over west Siberia.
Russian experts are analysing footage of the glowing spherical shape shooting across the sky over the oil cities of Surgut and Nefteyugansk amid disagreements over the dramatic phenomenon.
A number of witnesses caught the 'greenish glowing ball' on tape and posted them online.
A major Russian TV station claimed the UFO was 'either a meteor or aliens'. The spherical, glowing orbs of light were spotted throughout the Russian province.
Other theories were a Russian missile or space rocket but Russian emergency officials said there had been no reports of meteorites or other mystery objects hitting the ground.
A number of witnesses caught the streaking 'greenish glowing ball' with a tail flying over the oil cities of Surgut and Nefteyugansk
A major Russian TV station claimed the UFO - also described as 'yellow' - was 'either a meteor or aliens'
Some experts insisted the most likely explanation was a Perseid meteor shower - common at this time of year.
But Professor Mikhail Larionov, of the Urals Federal University, insisted it was unlikely to be a meteor because it looked to be 'too slow' in the footage.
'The trajectory of the object's fall is quite flat and its speed is quite slow,' he said.
'Proceeding from this, we presume this was space debris burning up.
'The Chelyabinsk meteorite in 2015 had streaked across the sky at a much higher speed,' he said.
The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide caused by an approximately 20-metre near-Earth asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere over Russia and crashing to earth leaving a six-metre wide hole in the ground.
Meteorites fall at between 6 and 45 miles a second. But according to Larionov, this UFO was travelling at less than 5 miles a second.
In 1959, popular TV comedian Jackie Gleason became so obsessed with life on galaxies far, far away that he built his house to look like a giant spaceship — and now, the round, winding structure is on the market for $12 million.
Anthony Acocella Photography
Using The Honeymooners star’s love of outer space and UFOs as inspiration, architect Robert Cika designed the house and an adjacent cottage in Cortland Manor, New York, from scratch. Everything in the two buildings — nicknamed “The Spaceship” and “The Motherhsip” by Gleason — is circular, with the structure supported by exposed wooden ship beams spiraling out from the middle.
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Gleason, who rose to fame after landing small roles in 1940s movies and eventually landing a prime comedy slot on CBS’ The Jackie Gleason Show in 1949, took six years to build the house specifically to his liking. Even today, the Spaceship and the Mothership look like something straight out of the future — the stairs, curved floorboards, master bed and cabinets are all built as a spiral without a single right angle in view.
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Listed by Keller Williams’ Margaret Bailey, Howard Payson and Jacqueline Campanelli, the estate boasts five bedrooms, six bathrooms and more than eight acres of land. From the marble staircases and curving kitchen to the winding bar that can accommodate up to 14 people, each detail was built to honor Gleason’s lifelong love of space and science fiction.
Anthony Acocella Photography
But perhaps the most significant part of the Spaceship House is its history as a place of entertainment — Marilyn Monroe, Richard Nixon and Frank Sinatra have all partied in its halls at the height of Gleason’s fame. The current owner, a recently retired orthodontist, bought the house in 1976 for $150,000.
China successfully tests its hypersonic Starry Sky-2 aircraft that will fire nuclear missiles capable of travelling at 4,563 miles-per-hour to evade existing anti-missile defence systems
China successfully tests its hypersonic Starry Sky-2 aircraft that will fire nuclear missiles capable of travelling at 4,563 miles-per-hour to evade existing anti-missile defence systems
The hypersonic weapon rides on the shockwaves it generates, reports suggest
It can travel at six times the speed of sound – around 7,344km/h (4,563mph)
The flight test was deemed a 'huge success' by scientists involved in the project
Experts say it could signal China is now neck-and-neck with Russia and the US
China has successfully tested a hypersonic aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons that evade existing anti-missile defence systems, according reports.
The next-generation weapon, known as Xingkong-2 or Starry Sky-2, will ride the shockwave generated by the initial launch, which is handled by a rocket, to travel at six times the speed of sound, or Mach 6 – around 4,563mph (7,344kmph).
Starry Sky-2 will purportedly be able to switch direction during its flight, making it harder to track and intercept.
When the aircraft fires its missiles, these will also travel at top speeds of 4,563mph (7,344kmph) and will easily defeat conventional anti-missile defence systems.
Scientists involved in the latest test flight have heralded it as a 'huge success', with experts saying the aircraft signals China is now neck-and-neck with Russia and the United States in the race to create hypersonic warheads.
China has long been suspected of building an arsenal of hypersonic weapons, but this new test flight is the first proof the technology is actively being developed.
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China has tested a hypersonic aircraft called Starry Sky-2 (pictured) that could carry nuclear weapons and evade anti-missile defence systems, reports suggest
The China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA) said in a statement the latest test flight – carried out at an undisclosed location in northwest of the country – was a 'huge success', writes South China Morning Post.
The Starry Sky-2 aircraft was carried into space before separating from the launcher rocket and flying on its own power.
Known as a 'waverider', these hypersonic aircrafts uses the shockwaves from its own flight as a lifting surface to travel through the air at fast speeds.
In the latest tests, the aircraft was able to maintain speeds greater than five-and-a-half times the speed of sound for 400 seconds at an altitude of 30km (19 miles).
Local reports suggest it also achieved a top speed of Mach 6.
'The test … has laid a solid technological foundation for engineering applications of the waverider design,' the CAAA statement claimed.
Hypersonic weapons can defeat existing anti-missile defences as they are designed to switch direction during their flight.
These missiles do not follow a predictable ballistic arc like conventional projectiles, making them much harder to track and intercept.
According to the CAAA, the aircraft landed 'whole' in the designated target zone.
However, this technology is not ready to be rolled-out yet.
The next-generation weapon, known as Xingkong-2 or Starry Sky-2, will ride the shockwave generated by the initial launch, which is handled by a rocket, to travel at six times the speed of sound, or Mach 6 – around 4,563mph (7,344kmph)
Starry Sky-2 (pictured) will purportedly be able to switch direction during its flight, making it harder to track and intercept
'I think there are still three to five years before this technology can be weaponised,' said Beijing-based military analyst, Zhou Chenming.
'As well as being fitted to missiles, it may also have other military applications, which are still being explored.'
Russia is widely-tipped to be developing a hypersonic weapon known as 'Zircon'.
The Zircon cruise missile purportedly travels between 3,800mph (6,115kph) and 4,600mph (7,400kph) – five to six times the speed of sound – putting Russia 'half a decade ahead of the US'.
According to Russian news agency Tass, it is set to go into production this year.
When the aircraft fires its missiles, these will also travel at top speeds of 4,563mph (7,344kmph) and will easily defeat conventional anti-missile defence systems
Known as a 'waverider', these hypersonic aircrafts uses the shockwaves from its own flight as a lifting surface to travel through the air at fast speeds
In the latest tests, the aircraft was able to maintain speeds greater than five-and-a-half times the speed of sound for 400 seconds at an altitude of 30km (19 miles)
In June, it was also revealed a US hypersonic missile had taken a step closer to reality.
Defence firm Lockheed Martin revealed details of a $928 million (£661 million) contract to make a radical new weapon that will travel more than five times the speed of sound.
The aerospace firm is working on an air-launched weapon system, dubbed the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW), under a new deal with the US Air Force.
In the first phase, the team will finalise the system requirements before moving on to design, flight tests, and initial production and deployment.
Work on the ultra-fast missile is taking place in Huntsville, Alabama, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and Orlando, Florida, according to Lockheed Martin.
Russia is believed to be developing a hypersonic weapon called the Zircon. The missile is capable of travelling twice as fast as the Royal Navy's Sea Ceptor missile (pictured), which would be responsible for shooting it down were it to attack British troops or mainland UK
WHAT ARE HYPERSONIC AIRCRAFT AND WHO IS DEVELOPING THEM?
Hypersonic aircraft are those capable of a hitting speeds five times the speed of sound or more.
The vehicles could be used to deliver missiles, including nuclear weapons, to targets around the world in a fraction of the time achieved by current craft.
Hypersonic vehicles travel so rapidly and unpredictably they could provide an almost-immediate threat to nations across the globe.
Once developed, the gap between identifying a military threat and launching an attack on it will drop from hours to minutes, even at long distances.
Since 2013, China has conducted seven successful test flights of its hypersonic glider DF-ZF.
The vehicle will be capable of speeds of between Mach 5 and Mach 10, or five to 10 times the speed of sound.
US officials tested tested HTV-2 in 2011, an unmanned aircraft capable of Mach 20, but the hypersonic flight lasted just a few minutes before the vehicle crashed.
Additional expertise in Denver, Colorado, and Sunnyvale, California will also be involved in the project.
The US Air Force will grant Lockheed Martin up to $928 million for development of the weapon through early operational capability.
'Our goal is rapid development and fielding of the HCSW system, and this contract is the first step in achieving that goal,' said John Snyder, vice president of Air Force Strategic Programs at Lockheed Martin.
'Design, development, production, integration and test experts from across Lockheed Martin will partner with the Air Force to achieve early operational capability and deliver the system to our warfighters.
'We are incredibly proud to be leading this effort.'
It was first revealed back in April that the Pentagon pushed through development of the highly maneuverable weapons, which are designed to outpace detection and defensive capabilities.
The move follows repeated warnings from senior officials about rapid advances by China and Russia, who have unveiled their own versions in recent months.
Defence firm Lockheed Martin revealed details of a $928 million (£661 million) contract to make a radical new weapon that will travel more than five times the speed of sound. This 2010 file photo shows rival Boeing's X-51A WaveRider hypersonic vehicle under a B-52 bomber
Hypersonic weapons can beat regular anti-missile defences. This artist's impression, courtesy of the US Air Force, shows Boeing's hypersonic X-51A Waverider cruise missile currently under development
Arsenals of the ultra-fast intercontinental weapons could also be equipped with nuclear warheads with the capability of delivering devastating strikes across the planet.
In a statement, the Pentagon said Lockheed will receive up to $928 million to build a new, non-nuclear missile it is calling the 'hypersonic conventional strike weapon.'
'This contract provides for the design, development, engineering, systems integration, test, logistics planning, and aircraft integration support of all the elements of a hypersonic, conventional, air-launched, stand-off weapon,' the statement read.
Mike Griffin, the Pentagon's new defense undersecretary for research and engineering, said China had built 'a pretty mature system' for a hypersonic missile to strike from thousands of kilometres (miles) away.
'We will, with today's defensive systems, not see these things coming,' Mr Griffin said.
WHAT DOES RUSSIA CLAIM TO HAVE IN ITS MILITARY ARSENAL?
The Russian Ministry of Defence has been keen to promote a range of new super weapons currently believed to be in development.
President Putin unveiled a catalogue of doomsday weaponry as part of his annual 'State of the Nation' speech in March 2018.
However, questions remain about the true nature of their capabilities, how far into development the weapons truly are, and when they will be combat-ready.
RS-28 Sarmat ICBM
The RS-28 Sarmat is intended to replace the Soviet-designed SS-18 Voyevoda, the world's heaviest ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile).
It is known as 'Satan' in the West and carries 10 nuclear warheads.
Sarmat can unleash ten large thermonuclear warheads, 16 smaller ones, or a combination of both, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence.
Each warhead is purportedly capable of taking aim at a different target.
The hypersonic glide vehicle, dubbed Avangard, launches atop an intercontinental ballistic missile (IBM) before sailing on top of the atmosphere toward its target. Russia tested its latest IBM, the Sarmat missile, for the first time last year (pictured)
The (ICBM) weapons can strike targets via both the North and South poles.
TV broadcaster Zvezda, which is run by the Russian Ministry of Defence, has previously claimed the missile will be capable of wiping out areas the size of Texas or France.
It is also capable of carrying up to 24 of Russia's new Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles, designed to sit atop of an ICBM.
Putin says both weapons will be combat-ready in 2020.
Avangard Hypersonic Glide Vehicle
Russia is also believed to be developing a hypersonic weapon that can breach even the world's most advanced missile defence systems.
The Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle purportedly travels at 20 times the speed of sound and can hit targets anywhere in the world within half an hour.
The vehicle launches atop an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, before gliding on top of the atmosphere toward its target.
It is loaded with advanced countermeasure systems that allow it to skirt around the latest-generation of missile defence systems, Russia claims.
The vehicles are equipped with onboard countermeasure systems capable of dodging even the most advanced missile defence systems. This artist's impression shows how the glider could manoeuvre at high speed to bypass missile defences
The gliders are also highly unpredictable thanks to their manoeuvrability, making them almost impossible to track using conventional systems.
Each weapon could be loaded with a nuclear warhead, however military experts say the sheer speed of the vehicles means they could do damage even without an explosive payload attached.
Putin described his hypersonic arsenal as 'invincible' during a state-of-the-nation address in March 2018.
He claimed Avangard strikes 'like a meteorite, like a fireball' and was capable of reaching targets at 20 times the speed of sound.
At this speed the weapon could circle the Earth in just over half an hour.
Speaking to MailOnline, Neil Gibson, senior weapons analyst for Jane's by IHS Markit, said: 'I think the ability of hypersonic systems to defeat air-defence system is highly exaggerated.
'They have advantages and disadvantages as per any other weapon system.
'The fact is, the vast majority of ballistic missiles are already hypersonic anyway, it's the controlled flight when still hypersonic that we are talking about here.
'If nuclear armed, they just come under 'mutually assured destruction' style posturing. Using them is always possible of course.
'Conventionally-armed versions are more likely to be used, though any confusion with what they carry - nuclear or conventional warhead - could start an exchange of nuclear weapons if it is mistaken for a nuclear attack.'
Kinzhal Hypersonic Air Launched Missile
Another new missile, the hypersonic Kinzhal, travels at ten times the speed of sound, Putin says.
It is currently undergoing tests in southern Russia.
The hypersonic Kinzhal missile is launched from a high-altitude MiG-31 fighter jet and can be fitted with either nuclear, or conventional weapons.
This still shows the hypersonic Kinzhal, which travels at ten times the speed of sound and is currently undergoing tests in southern Russia
It has an effective range of 1,250 miles (2,000 km), although Putin claims its total range is actually 'unlimited'.
Russia has already conducted some 350 training missions with the military unit tasked with testing the Kinzhal.
Putin claims the new missile would be capable of striking 'anywhere in the world', and that its high speed and manoeuvrability allowed it to pierce any missile defence.
However, despite Putin's major promises, the missile has still not been able to stay airborne for more than a few minutes, according to US intelligence sources.
The new missile has purportedly been tested four times between November and February and crashed every time.
Burevestnik nuclear powered cruise missile
The burevestnik, or thunderbird, nuclear propulsion system for Russian cruise missiles aims to give them 'unlimited range and unlimited ability to manoeuvre', according to Sergey Pertsev, a developer.
Ministry of Defence officials said in July, 2018, that work on the unlimited-range missile is going according to plan.
Footage purported to show the missile in action, although it is unclear whether it was being powered by nuclear or conventional fuel.
The 'Burevestnik' nuclear propulsion system for Russian cruise missiles, pictured, is said to have 'unlimited range and unlimited ability to manoeuvre'
'Launching systems are also being designed, while technological processes to manufacture, assemble and test the missile are being improved,' an official said at the time.
However, experts have criticised the missile, including Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
He told Vice's Motherboard: 'The nuclear-powered cruise missile is new—and bats**t crazy.'
Poseidon Drone Submarine
The Poseidon drone submarine is a sister project to burevestnik.
It is essentially a giant, nuclear-capable torpedo capable of carrying a two megaton nuclear warhead capable of obliterating military ports.
The Kremlin's Poseidon torpedo sub is designed to destroy 'enemy navy bases' and will be able to travel up to 70 knots (80 miles per hour), it claims.
Russian state news agency TASS says it has not been able to confirm details of the weapon.
The Poseidon drone submarine - with a miniature nuclear propulsion system - is shown undergoing a static test
However, it quoted a military source as saying: 'It will be possible to mount various nuclear charges on the 'torpedo' of the Poseidon multipurpose seaborne system, with the thermonuclear single warhead similar to the Avangard charge to have the maximum capacity of up to two megatonnes in TNT equivalent.'
With its nuke, the weapon 'is primarily designed to destroy reinforced naval bases of a potential enemy,' the report added.
Peresvet Combat Laser System
Named after a medieval warrior monk, very little is known about this system.
Many believe Peresvet is a jamming system carried on the back of military lorries, which can be used to 'blind' optical electronic equipment inside enemy vehicles using a laser beam.
According to ex-Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov the 'combat laser systems' that Putin addressed in his State of the Nation speech back in March had already been delivered to the nation's armed forces last year.
Many believe Peresvet is a jamming system carried on the back of military lorries (pictured), which can be used to 'blind' optical electronic equipment inside enemy vehicles using a laser beam
Once found only in works of fiction, Mr Borisov said such devices were now a very real and necessary tool of modern warfare.
'We can talk a lot about laser weapons and movies were made about them a long time ago and fantastic books have been written, and everyone knows about this,' Mr Borisov said in comments translated by the state-run Tass Russian News Agency.
But the fact that these systems have started entering service is indeed today's reality.'
China Just Tested a Hypersonic Weapon That Could Launch Nukes at 6 Times the Speed of Sound
China Just Tested a Hypersonic Weapon That Could Launch Nukes at 6 Times the Speed of Sound
By Brandon Specktor, Senior Writer
Here, an illustration of a flight of the warhead of a hypersonic boost-glide weapon.
Credit: TASSTASS via Getty Images
China successfully tested a hypersonic aircraft on Friday (Aug. 3), one that could one day be capable of firing nuclear missiles around the planet at up to six times the speed of sound, according to China's state-run news site China Daily.
The aircraft, known as Starry Sky-2, is reportedly capable of screaming across the sky at speeds of up to 4,563 mph (7,344 km/h) and rapidly switching direction mid-flight, China Daily reported, potentially allowing the rocket to blast right past existing missile defense systems.
China has tested a hypersonic aircraft called Starry Sky-2 (pictured) that could carry nuclear weapons and evade anti-missile defence systems, reports suggest
Video of the Starry Sky-2 test launch (which was conducted in an undisclosed location in northwestern China) showed the aircraft being launched into space on a multistage rocket. The aircraft then separated from its launcher and continued flying on its own power, soaring at about Mach-5.5 (five and a half times the speed of sound) for 400 seconds, China Daily reported. The aircraft then performed several maneuvers at an altitude of about 18 miles (29 km) before landing in a designated target zone — a demonstration that witnesses heralded as a "huge success," according to a statement quoted in the South China Morning Post.
Starry Sky-2, which is being developed by the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics in Beijing, is an example of a "waverider" vehicle. As the name suggests, waveriders are sleek, arrow-shaped planes built to glide along the pressure waves created by their own supersonic lift — essentially allowing the aircraft to surf on shockwaves. Waveriders are thus able to maintain impressive hypersonic speeds (speeds of Mach 5 or above) while making rapid, midair changes in trajectory — making them particularly difficult for current missile defense systems to thwart.
While the technology is still likely years away from being ready for use in a combat setting, Chinese military expert Song Zhongping told China's Global Times that the successful test puts China "shoulder to shoulder" with the U.S. and Russia in the development of hypersonic striking systems.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in March that his country's military was hard at work on a hypersonic weapon code-named Avangard, which he claimed was capable of reaching speeds of Mach 20 and could be ready for deployment as soon as 2020.
The U.S., meanwhile, is also eagerly developing its own hypersonic weaponry, including a hypersonic missile capable of being launched from a warplane. The American defense company Lockheed Martin revealed in June that they had been granted a nearly $100 million contract to develop the missile for the U.S. Air Force.
A second buried Sphinx has just been discovered in Egypt
A second buried Sphinx has just been discovered in Egypt
An infrastructure project in Egypt has come to a halt after workers doing construction on a road came across a second ancient Egyptian Sphinx.
Statue Has a Human Body with Lions Head
Mohamed Abel Aziz, the Director General of Antiquities, said the construction workers had come across a statue of a "lion’s body with a human head". However, due to the nature of the environment in which the statue was found, it is yet to be evacuated above the ground, so it remains in the ground. Khaled al Anani, the national heritage chief said that people are more welcome to visit the region where the sphinx was found.
First images of the excavation of the second Sphinx emerge
The complex of Luxor and Karnak temples are in the ancient city of Thebes. The temples are from 1400 BCE. Excavations of the Luxor temple began in 1884 when archaeologists found many discoveries said to be significant. The excavation of the site continued until 1960.
First images of the excavation of the second Sphinx emerge
Ancient Egyptians Regard the Sphinx as Symbol of Royalty
The ancient Egyptians thought the Sphinx to be a symbol of royalty. They said pharaohs of the time would have their heads carved into stone then placed on their tombs. This was said to be as a way of marking relationships with Sekhmet, the solar deity, which was a lioness. The most famous along with most visited of all sphinx is the one at Giza, close to the Great Pyramids.
Giza Sphinx May Be Entry to a Hidden Labyrinth of Tunnels
People have always been fascinated by the pyramids, along with the Sphinx of Egypt. In late 2017, historians made the claim that the Sphinx in Giza might conceal an entrance to a secret underground city. Many believe it sits on top of a labyrinth of tunnels along with passages leading to a huge underground metropolis, which the authorities in Egypt have covered up.
New research indicates that plate tectonics may not be necessary for life to evolve after all, increasing the chances that more exoplanets could support life of some kind.
Artist’s concept of Kepler-69c, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of its star about 2,700 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. New research shows how such rocky worlds, even if they don’t have plate tectonics, could still support life.
Image via NASA.
Plate tectonics have long been thought to have been necessary for the development of life on Earth, in part due to making it easier for volcanoes to release essential gases into the atmosphere. But now, new research suggests that may not be the case after all, which could also mean a greater chance of planets without plate tectonics being able to host life as well. The new findings come from geoscientists at Penn State, and have been publishedin the peer-reviewed journal Astrobiology.
According to Bradford Foley, assistant professor of geosciences:
Volcanism releases gases into the atmosphere, and then through weathering, carbon dioxide is pulled from the atmosphere and sequestered into surface rocks and sediment. Balancing those two processes keeps carbon dioxide at a certain level in the atmosphere, which is really important for whether the climate stays temperate and suitable for life.
Earth’s tectonic plates. The triangles also show where plumes of hot material from the mantle upwell to the surface between plates.
Image via Encyclopedia Brittanica.
It is significant that most of Earth’s volcanoes are located at the edges of tectonic plates, where subduction can help the carbon cycling process by pushing carbon into the mantle. This was essential for life being able to evolve and flourish on Earth, and so scientists assumed that tectonic plates would be necessary for life to develop on other worlds, too.
So far, Earth is the only planet known to have plate tectonics, where the crust is divided into pieces (plates) which float on top of the mantle, although there is now some evidence that Jupiter’s moon Europa does as well. When a planet does not have plate tectonics, it is called a stagnant lid planet, where the crust is one giant, unbroken spherical plate itself.
Foley and his colleagues wanted to investigate whether plate tectonics were really as necessary as thought, so they created a computer model of the life cycle of a planet. They wanted to know just how much heat a planet could retain after formation – the heat budget, or amount of heat and heat-producing elements present when a planet forms. The thinking was that there would be less heat available for the climate of stagnant lid planets, meaning less volcanism and less liquid water.
The three main types of tectonic plate boundaries: divergent, convergent and transform.
Image via U.S. Geological Survey.
The research team ran hundreds of computer simulations, with various sizes and chemical compositions of a planet, and found that even stagnant lid planets can retain enough heat for liquid water for billions of years. They could even maintain life for up to about 4 billion years, similar to Earth’s “life span” so far. Volcanism can still occur, although it is shorter-lived than on planets with tectonic plates. As explained by Andrew Smye, assistant professor of geosciences:
You still have volcanism on stagnant lid planets, but it’s much shorter lived than on planets with plate tectonics because there isn’t as much cycling. Volcanoes result in a succession of lava flows, which are buried like layers of a cake over time. Rocks and sediment heat up more the deeper they are buried.
This is good news for rocky planets which don’t have plate tectonics – they could still be capable of supporting life. On Earth, carbon dioxide makes its way to the surface with water through subduction fault zones, but on planets without plate tectonics, it could still do so, with enough heat and pressure, by escaping from rocks through the process of degassing. As Foley noted:
There’s a sweet spot range where a planet is releasing enough carbon dioxide to keep the planet from freezing over, but not so much that the weathering can’t pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and keep the climate temperate.
The cracked, icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. It is now thought that Europa may have plate tectonics similar to Earth.
Image via NASA.
The results underscore how a planet’s composition will affect its potential habitability; life may still be easier to develop on a planet with plate tectonics, but planets lacking plate tectonics can still have a good chance of life starting, taking into account factors such as available water, stable climate, chemical nutrients, etc. As Smye concluded:
One interesting take-home point of this study is that the initial composition or size of a planet is important in setting the trajectory for habitability. The future fate of a planet is set from the outset of its birth.
Bottom line: Scientists have long thought that plate tectonics were necessary for life to evolve on Earth, and by extension, on other planets as well. A new research study shows that this might not be true, however, and many rocky exoplanets without tectonic plates could still support life of some kind.
The year is 600 million BC — and the Earth is a completely different place from what we know it to be. The most advanced creatures on Earth are (probably) the so-called Ediacaran fauna. To the untrained eye, they look just like plants, static and seemingly inactive. But things are not always as they seem.
The Ediacaran fauna has fascinated scientists for years, trying to figure out whether they were algae, fungi, animals, or of a completely different kingdom. Now, a group of scientists believes they finally have the answer. In a new study, they present convincing arguments that the Ediacaran fauna were indeed animals.
Dickinsonia costata, an iconic Ediacaran organism.
Image credits: Verisimilus / Wikipedia.
They dominated the seas all around the world, with traces of their fossils appearing in all corners of the Earth. The Ediacaran fauna first emerged some 635 million years ago, only to disappear quickly after the Cambrian Explosion, some 542 million years ago. Part of the reason why these creatures have been so hard to pin down is their unique anatomy. They featured tubular-type fronds, which branch out in a fractal matter. They bear a resemblance to mollusks (and other creatures with a similar symmetry), but they also resemble some sponges and even jellyfish. Some paleontologists have suggested that they represent a completely extinct branch of life, perhaps even a link between plants and animals.
But a new study says that they were definitely animals — and it brings the evidence to back it up.
Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Jian Han at Northwest University in Xi’an, China, analyzed more than 200 fossils of a 518-million-year-old marine species named Stromatoverispsygmoglena.
It was already believed that this creature was some sort of animal, but it was not clear whether it also belonged to the Ediacaran fauna. If this connection could be established, then it would indicate that the Ediacaran fauna were indeed animals.
Cuthill and Han ran a computer analysis, using anatomical features to reconstruct evolutionary relationships between Stromatoveris and creatures genetically close to it. They found that Stromatoveris, just like all other Ediacaran organisms they analyzed, didn’t belong to any living animal group (or phylum). They have their own branch, somewhere between the simple sea sponges and more complex animals such as worms and mollusks.
“This branch, the Petalonamae, could well be its own phylum, and it apparently lacks any living descendants,” Hoyal Cuthill says.
There’s a very good chance that the Ediacaran fauna were the world’s first animals, but this opens up another thorny question: the extinction of the Ediacaran was linked to Cambrian animals. But if they themselves were animals (and some survived well into the Cambrian), the explanation isn’t so elegant anymore.
“It’s not quite so neat anymore,” she says. “As to what led to their eventual extinction I think it’s very hard to say.”
Simulated image of an Earth-like exoplanet.PHOTO: R HURT (IPAC)/JPL-CALTECH/NASA
Scientists have found a mammoth 44 planets beyond our solar system in one go using data from the Kepler space telescope and others. These surveys usually find batches of fewer than a dozen planets.
What’s more, Kepler only gathered this data after a technical problem reduced engineers’ control of the telescope back in 2013
"Two out of the four control-reaction wheels failed, which meant Kepler couldn't perform its original mission to stare at one specific patch of the sky," explained study author Motohide Tamura of the University of Tokyo in a statement. "This led to its contingent mission, 'K2'—our observations came from campaign 10 of this mission.”
"The original Kepler...discovered thousands of interesting planets," study author John Livingston told Newsweek. "However, I think the mechanical failure was in many ways a blessing in disguise, because K2 enabled the discovery of many interesting planets that were simply not part of the original Kepler mission design."
The researchers found a wide range of weird and wonderful planets—some as small as our own and some that zip around their host star in less than a single Earth day. Researchers reported their findings in The Astronomical Journal.
"[These] 'ultra-short period' planets are very interesting from a theoretical perspective. We’re pretty sure they can’t form so close to the star, so it’s an open question how they came to be in such orbital configurations," Livingston told Newsweek. Such planets, he explained, are very close to their star and move very quickly.
"It was [also]...gratifying to verify so many small planets," he said in the statement. "Sixteen were in the same size class as Earth, one in particular turning out to be extremely small—about the size of Venus—which was a nice affirmation as it's close to the limit of what is possible to detect."
The team are particularly excited about 18 planets in multi-planet systems. Livingston hopes these will help us understand our own solar neighborhood. "The investigation of other solar systems can help us understand how planets and even our own solar system formed," Livingston said. "The study of other worlds has much to teach us about our own."
In addition to these validated planets, researchers also found 27 candidates that may prove to be real planets after further study.
The future of Kepler, which has been floating in space for almost a decade, has been the subject of much discussion in recent weeks. “We're lucky Kepler continues to function as well as it does," Tamura said.
Low on fuel, engineers had switched it into a sort of hibernation to conserve enough energy to beam data haul to Earth, NASAannounced in July. The veteran telescope woke up in early August, and began sending observation data back home, Space.com noted Friday.
The telescope has found more than 2,600 exoplanets over its Kepler and K2 missions. In fact, NASA recently announced Kepler had proved there are more planets than stars in the Milky Way.
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Credits: NASA/Ames Research Center
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By mapping the heat escaping from below the Greenland Ice Sheet, a NASA scientist has sharpened our understanding of the dynamics that dominate and shape terrestrial planets.
Dr. Yasmina M. Martos, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, mined publicly available magnetic field, gravity and other geologic information for clues about the amount and distribution of heat beneath the portion of the North American continent that is Greenland.
Geothermal heat flux predictions beneath the Greenland icecap.
Her resulting heat map exposed a thermal track beneath Greenland that records the movement of a continent through Earth's history.
Greenland is thought to have slowly moved over a mantle plume, a source of great heat, which left a diagonal scar of warm, dense rock below the surface as the tectonic plate shifted. Greenland moved from a more southern latitude toward the Arctic over 100 million years, a period when the supercontinent Pangaea was breaking up into the drifting continents of today. Eventually, the plume is thought to have formed Iceland above the surface of the ocean through countless volcanic eruptions - a visible trace of the plume's existence, in contrast to Greenland's hidden scar.
"I don't think there is any other place on Earth where a plume history has been recorded by a piece of continent that hasn't been affected by it at the surface," Martos said. "But it's there, so we can use thermal heat to understand the history of the region."
Tracking these geodynamics of planets helps scientists understand their evolution. But more immediately, the heat information feeds sea-level-change models on Earth by helping scientists predict the behavior of ice. This is particularly important for the surface of land that, in the case of Greenland, is buried below kilometers of ice and so is hard to get to. More than 80 percent of the Greenland is covered by ice.
Where there's heat, there might be a plume In an Aug. 1 Geophysical Research Letters paper, Martos and her team mapped the geothermal heat flux, or rate of heat escape, in Greenland. Their models, surprisingly, showed regional variations, plus a path of heat along a peculiar route from the northwest to the southeast of the island.
"We would expect Greenland to have a more uniform signal of geothermal heat flow in its interior, but that's not the case," said Martos, the lead author on the paper.
Other authors include Tom A. Jordan and David G. Vaughan from the British Antarctic Survey; Manuel Catalan from the Royal Institute and Observatory of the Spanish Navy; Thomas M. Jordan from Stanford University and University of Bristol, and Jonathan L. Bamber, also from the University of Bristol.
The team suggests the scar was created as the tectonic plate, which includes Greenland, moved through the millennia over a mantle plume that is active below the lithosphere. The lithosphere is Earth's outer layer; it includes the crust and upper part of the mantle. This plume is a channel of hot rock that starts hundreds of kilometers below the surface. It rises through the mantle and reaches the bottom of the lithosphere. The heat is then transported up through the lithosphere and alters its chemical composition, which thickens the crust.
Because the northwest region of Greenland moved off the plume earlier it appears in Martos' models to be significantly cooler than the southeast. Though the southern region is slowly cooling off.
"The nice thing is that the heat is recorded there now, but probably in a hundred million years we're not going to see that anymore," Martos said.
A similar plume formed the Hawaiian Islands and is currently fueling the K?lauea volcano eruptions. The Hawaiian chain of islands and seamounts that were created when the Pacific Plate moved over the plume in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a visible representation of the type of scar that Martos found beneath Greenland.
The heat beneath Earth's surface Plumes are one of several geothermal heat-transporting phenomena on Earth; their number is uncertain, but scientists think there could be as many as 20. Otherwise, the inner planet is heated evenly throughout by decaying radioactive elements in Earth's top layers. There's also primordial warmth left over from the formation of our planet 4.5 billion years ago, and from the meteorites that pummeled it. The team considered these heat sources, Martos said, but ruled out their role in producing the scar because they would have formed a uniform heat pattern across Greenland.
Another factor that can increase heat in a specific location is tectonic activity. This activity includes rifting - or the breaking apart of continental plates, which creates space for warmer mantle to bubble to the surface - and volcanic eruptions. But these phenomena also didn't square with the team's findings, said Martos, given that Greenland is a craton, or an ancient piece of continent with no major tectonic events on record there.
Measuring heat without touching the surface Because Greenland is covered by an ice sheet that is up to 1.8 miles (3 kilometers) thick in the center, getting physical samples from the ground below the ice is nearly as difficult as getting them from the Moon. Remotely sensed data offers virtually the only window to Greenland's subsurface dynamics.
Martos's team decided to look at magnetic field information collected by magnetometers, instruments flown by airplanes that measure the strength of the magnetic field of Earth. The data revealed anomalies in the magnetism of rocks below Greenland.
Magnetism is related to temperature, thus rocks heated to certain temperatures lose their magnetism. This typically happens deep inside Earth. Because magnetite is the most abundant magnetic mineral in the lower part of the crust, the researchers studied that mineral exclusively. Magnetite loses its ferromagnetic properties, or magnetism, when heated to 1,076 degrees Fahrenheit (580 degrees Celsius), a point known as the Curie temperature. Accounting for this temperature's effect on magnetite allowed the team to find the base of magnetism in the crust of Greenland. From there, they observed the depth variations of the location of the Curie temperature for magnetite to map the heat released all over the island.
Along the plume's path, the team found that the Curie temperature occurred closer to the surface. This offered evidence that the plume had heated the bottom of the lithosphere, and that the heat was still there.
The team also used gravity data to model the features of the lithosphere and confirm the plume's effect on crustal thickness.
In the central part of the island, the team estimated geothermal heat flux values around 60 to 70 milliwatts per meter squared, or up to 50 percent higher than the heat escaping parts of the island not affected by the plume. This is a tiny amount; a 100-watt light bulb, by comparison, generates three orders of magnitude - or 1,000 times - more heat.
Still, said Martos and her co-authors, the heat they found can melt ice at the base of the Greenland Ice Sheet. It does not, however, contribute to the accelerated melting of Greenland's glaciers. Because the geothermal heat declines over such huge periods of time - tens of millions of years - there has likely been no change in heat flux since the ice fully formed on Greenland about 3 million years ago.
Martos' modeling tools will help scientists better understand the effect of below-surface heat on things like melt or breakage at the base of ice sheets and glaciers on Earth. It will also help them study remote locations on Earth and other rocky bodies in our solar system.
Martos began this research while she was a Marie Curie fellow of the European Union at the British Antarctic Survey.
Is NASA giving its early rocket engineers who were extracted from Germany after their country was defeated in World War II one last salute before they’re all gone? That’s what some are implying as it fires up the New Horizons spacecraft to ready it for a visit to Ultima Thule – a peanut-shaped space rock (or possibly rocks) named after the mythical homeland of the Aryan race and popularized by a favorite book of Heinrich Himmler. Should the spaceship be renamed Nazi Horizon?
Remember New Horizon? That’s the tiny space probe which visited Pluto in July 2015 and sent back dazzling photos of the dwarf who is still ap planet to many. After the flyby ended in October 2015, New Horizon became the fifth manmade probe to leave the solar system on its way to its next mission – a rendezvous with Kuiper belt object (486958) 2014 MU69 on January 1, 2019.
Artist’s depiction of 2014 MU69
However, in this age of cigar-shaped intergalactic asteroids that might be space ships, 2014 MU69 is far too boring of a name, so NASA held a nicknaming contest and the winner was “Ultima Thule” (pronounced ultima thoo-lee). The press release explained that: “Thule was a mythical, far-northern island in medieval literature and cartography. Ultima Thule means “beyond Thule”– beyond the borders of the known world—symbolizing the exploration of the distant Kuiper Belt and Kuiper Belt objects that New Horizons is performing, something never before done.”
Apparently, they didn’t go far enough into the Wikipedia pageto read that “extreme right occultists believed in a historical Thule, or Hyperborea, as the ancient origin of the “Aryan race.”” This was spread by the Thule Society, which promoted its close ties links to the Nazi party and its origin story, which came from the Oera Linda Book, which was allegedly discovered in the 1800s and, after being translated into German, became a favorite of Himmler. While too late to stop the Nazis, the book was discredited by experts as “a temporary hoax to fool some nationalist Frisians and orthodox Christians and as an experiential exemplary exercise in reading the Holy Bible in a non-fundamentalist, symbolical way.”
How did NASA miss this? The nicknaming contest, which ended on December 6 after a 5-day extension due to its massive popularity, received 115,000 submissions of 34.000 names which were narrowed down to 29 (plus 8 from NASA) before Ultima Thule was chosen.
“We are grateful to those who proposed such an interesting and inspirational nickname.”
Interesting and inspirational? To whom? Operation Paperclip secretly brought over 1.600 German rocket and space scientists, including Wernher von Braun and other former members and leaders of the Nazi Party, to work on the U.S. space program. There is no question their contributions were significant and, despite their backgrounds, they were recognized for them. However, Georg von Tiesenhausen, considered to be the last one, died in June 2018 at the age of 104.
Pluto
Is the naming of the space rock Ultima Thule really an innocent choice? What about the Thule Air Base in Greenland where a meteor recently exploded and the U.S. Air Force was strangely silent? Is there a sinister connection?
How far out do you want to go? What’s the real story behind the Ultima Thule space rock? Is it the home of the long-rumored Nazi space base? Is it a hint about something else? Will we ever find out?
What causes civilizations to collapse? Surely, it has to be something as monumental and awe inspiring as the civilization itself: the arrival of a strange alien invading force from beyond the ocean, mass outbreak of disease, the turning of the cosmic clock signaling the changing of the ages. Maybe sometimes. Sometimes, however, it’s a lot more mundane, banal, and terrifying in its own right. That seems to be the case with the collapse of the Mayan empire, the mysterious and often misunderstood empire that dominated the Yucatan peninsula for thousands of years. According to a paper published in the journal Science, scientists say they’ve finally been able to measure and quantify one of the main factors in the slow decline of the mysterious classical Mayan civilization: just not enough water.
Mayan pyramid.
The first Maya villages formed around 2,000 BCE, from there a massive and singular empire grew for the next 2,800 years. The Maya developed their own hieroglyphic system, calendars, and astronomical measurement systems. They built pyramidsand developed a time-keeping system not just for their growing seasons but for the passing of whole ages. Remember that part about the Mayas being misunderstood? Exhibit A is a film you might remember called 2012 (starring John Cusack). The Maya reached the height of their power between 600 and 800 CE. Huge city-states filled with pyramids and temples sat flourishing in the middle of the jungle, with populations between 50,000 and 120,000 and a political climate akin to classical Greece or renaissance Italy. It was a true force of civilization. Then, around 800 CE, something happened. The next 150 to 200 years saw the Mayas disperse from their city-states and a quick crumbling of an Mesoamerican empire. To be perfectly clear, this did not end Mayan civilization, the same way that the collapse of the Roman empire didn’t end Roman civilization, but it did mark the end of an era and a point of no return for the opulence and power of the classical Mayan civilization.
Severe drought has long been held as a probable cause of the Mayan collapse, but it’s only now that scientists have been able to measure how severe that drought was. The paper, titled Quantification of drought during the collapse of the classic Maya civilization details how, by looking at the water isotopes in the gypsum—a mineral found in lake beds and other water sources—in Lake Chichancanab, Mexico, researchers were able to track the course of the long drought and plot it against the period of rapid decline in Maya power during what is known as the Terminal Classic period of the Mayan empire.
Gypsum forms in lake and river beds and water in incorporated directly into the structure of the mineral. In periods of drought, the lighter water isotopes evaporate faster, leaving the heavier water isotopes behind. By measuring which isotopes of water are left behind in a source of gypsum, it’s possible to calculate the rate of evaporation and annual rainfall from a given period. Looking at the gypsum from 800-950 CE, the Terminal Classic period, scientists say that Mayas experienced a 41-54% decrease in rainfall during those years, with periods of up to 70% reduced rainfall. This, they say, was a key factor in the collapse of the Mayan empire.
We take fresh water for granted. Half the average rainfall over the course of a century is all it can take to dramatically change a society. Sure, we have have water purification and reclamation technology now. We’re in a totally different technological era than they Mayas, it’s true. It’s just something to think about.
The Westall UFO incident remains one of Australia’s most infamous and mysterious events involving anomalous aerial phenomena. On the morning of April 6, 1966, over 200 students and teachers at two different schools in Melbourne witnessed a bizarre object nearly the size of a car descend from the sky and hover motionless near a stand of trees near the Westall State School.
The object was described by the 200+ eyewitnesses as saucer-shaped, either grey or silver, and featuring a rod or antenna on its top. Some of the students reported it had a slight purple hue, while other witnesses thought it appeared greenish. The object hovered for nearly twenty minutes, leaving a circle of yellow flattened grass, before launching back into the sky at a high rate of speed after five other unidentified aircraft began circling the object. Several children reportedly collapsed from fright.
Of course, no records of any civilian aircraft in the area were found, while the Royal Australian Air Force also reported no flights in that area. Newspapers at the time reported that it “might have been a weather balloon.” Of course.
It’s always a weather balloon.
To add to the mystery of the Westall incident, just this week a rare and seemingly long-lost audio recording surfaced on YouTube in which Australian UFO researcher and photographer James J. Kibel describes his initial interview with Andrew Greenwood, a science teacher at Westall High School (now Westall Secondary College) who witnessed the event. Kibel recorded his recollection of the interview to send to American physicist and UFOlogy pioneer James. E McDonald.
Kibel recounts to McDonald how Greenwood recalled the object’s movements as the “most amazing flying he had ever seen in his life.” When students first alerted Greenwood to the object, Kibel notes, he was initially skeptical until he saw it for himself:
Greenwood told me the UFO was first brought to his attention by a hysterical child who ran into his classroom and told him there’s a flying saucer outside. He thought this child had become deranged or something so he didn’t take any notice, but when the child insisted that this object was in the sky he decided to go out and have a look for himself.
The object’s flight behavior described by Greenwood sounds eerily familiar to anyone who’s read reports of UFOs being pursued by traditional aircraft:
The planes were doing everything possible to approach the object and he said how they all avoided collision he will never know. Every time they got too close to the object it would slowly accelerate, then rapidly accelerate and then move away from them and stop. Then they would take off after it again and the same thing would happen.
Greenwood told Kibel that the school’s headmaster eventually told students and staff to return to their classes and to never speak of the incident again or face strict disciplinary measures. Several students and staff refused to speak to Greenwood about the incident in the days following.
While this audio recording doesn’t offer up any new information about the Westall incident, the audio offers a new near-first-hand account of the incident from one of the principal witnesses. It is also disturbing to hear that students and staff were threatened to never speak of the incident again – what did the headmaster know? Or what did he notwant to know?
To this day, the mystery of the Westall incident remains unsolved. The site of the encounter is now a memorial park complete with a flying saucer-shaped playground. Many former Westall students who witnessed the event met at a reunion in 2006 to commemorate the sighting, and time had done little to alter their recollections. For skeptics, it has been suggested that the object was likely either an off-the-books experimental military craft or a drogue towed behind aircraft for target practice. For believers, the incident remains one of the most compelling UFO events given the large number of eyewitnesses and the fact that they all gave nearly the same testimony.
As the scientific community continues to speculate about whether intelligent extraterrestrial life exists on exoplanets being discovered throughout our vast galaxy, military insiders have come forward to reveal that national governments are hiding a stunning truth. Extraterrestrials who look just like us not only exist throughout the galaxy, but tens of thousands of them have infiltrated communities all over the planet as neighbors, co-workers, teachers, doctors, humanitarians, etc.
Emery Smith and Corey Goode claim to have worked on highly classified extraterrestrial related programs that are run by the U.S. and other military forces, which are under the authority of transnational corporations.
Smith says that he encountered human looking extraterrestrials living among humanity while working at highly classified facilities such as Kirtland Air Force Base, Sandia National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and other military facilities.
In a series of interviews completed on the popular online streaming show “Cosmic Disclosure,” Smith says that while working at these facilities he encountered human looking extraterrestrials who are indistinguishable from modern humans. In the August 7 episode, he responded as follows to a question about whether extraterrestrials live among us:
Well, extraterrestrials also come to watch over us and look at things on the Earth. And they’re here to gather information to make sure we don’t blow up the Earth or kill each other.
So they’re here just to get information and have it and to also experience the life of a human, which is quite preferably like a vacation for them.
So it’s a very interesting scientific job for an extraterrestrial to have. It’s kind of an honor to come here, live amongst us, and do things, just living like a normal human being, actually, and interacting with human beings. . . It’s like a universal Peace Corps.
He says that in addition to encountering such extraterrestrials in classified projects run by corporations on U.S. military facilities, he was also recently briefed that up to 100,000 of them are presently living all over the planet.
In past interviews, Smith has discussed completing tissue extractions from the bodies of deceased human looking extraterrestrials, and also working alongside some live ones who participated in autopsies of their deceased compatriots. In his August 7 interview, Smith furthermore described what he knew from briefings about extraterrestrials who had infiltrated human civilization.
Smith said that around 1997, he left the classified program when he realized that the bodies of the extraterrestrials that were being autopsied were still warm. He became suspicious that some of them had only recently died, presumably tortured and killed by the corporations that were running the programs.
Goode’s experiences were different, but very consistent with what Smith described. Goode said that he served in an “Intruder, Intercept, and Interrogate program” where he was part of a covert team whose job it was to capture and interrogate extraterrestrials that had infiltrated human society.
In the August 7 interview, he responded to a question by David Wilcock about whether the extraterrestrials had come to Earth with permission or not:
[Corey] It’s both. Some of them are from other star systems far away that are paying very close attention to what’s going on here, including the Draco conquest of star systems. So they’ll send people in to do a little reconnaissance.
Emery: Sure.
Corey: And when they come in, and they come in without permission, if they get caught, it’s not a good thing for them at all.
Emery: No, right.
Corey: There’s actually a program that I was a part of called the Intruder, Intercept and Interrogation Program. And we ran into quite a few different species that were here without permission.
Goode and Smith then went on to describe how the human looking extraterrestrials were able to blend into societies all over the planet:
Corey: What was interesting is: in the Intruder, Intercept and Interrogation program, only about 10% to 15% of the beings that we processed were what we would call “alien-looking”.
Emery: Right.
Corey: Most of them were very human-looking. And they weren’t augmented to look human. They were humans –
Emery: Right.
Corey: . . . just from a different planet. And they would normally be picked up in countries where they would most likely blend in.
Emery: Sure.
Corey: Like there were some Polynesian-looking ones.
Emery: Right. The Nordics and all this. Right.
Photo taken by August C. Roberts at the New Jersey home of Howard Menger in 1959 allegedly showing three human looking extraterrestrials – Valiant Thor and his companions Dunn and Jill.
Goode described one example of an extraterrestrial who had infiltrated a company and over the course of a decade had risen to a senior executive position:
Corey: And I was there when some – it was a high-level executive – was pulled out of a high-rise building in the middle of the day.
They delta-waved everyone there, went in, and ingressed-egressed from the roof, took him out, and brought him up for interrogation. And he had been on the Earth for well over a decade and had blended in, had created an identity, and was now at a high position in a corporation.
David: Wow!
Emery: Yeah, they prepare these extraterrestrials to come to this planet, so there is some genetic, you know, inoculations going on like what we do here as far as frequency goes, how they survive here – and even as far as getting certain procedures done on their body so they can digest our food and things like this.
It’s worth pointing out that the recently deceased aerospace engineer, William Tompkins, says that he worked with “Nordic” extraterrestrials that had infiltrated companies such as Douglas Aircraft Company, North American Aviation, etc., in the 1950’s and 1960’s, who had helped the U.S. Navy develop its secret space program.
Goode says that the “Intruder Intercept and Interrogate” program could be brutal in how captured extraterrestrials were treated.
He says that those who were captured but belonged to human looking groups that had permission to be on Earth, were released as stipulated in agreements. Those that were here without permission, were harshly interrogated, and turned over to a transnational corporate entity called the Interplanetary Corporate Conglomerate (ICC).
Some of those that were turned over to the ICC, ended up dead and were examined in classified facilities similar to where Smith had worked.
Smith and Goode’s accounts were very consistent with one another, and gave different perspectives on a similar covert process set up to deal with off-world visitors. The key question that arises is whether their information is true or not?
Aside from documents corroborating their respective military and employment histories, there is no hard evidence provided either by Smith and Goode to directly substantiate their claims. However, others have interacted with human looking extraterrestrials that have infiltrated human society, and have been allowed, even encouraged, to take photos of their spacecraft.
One example is my anonymous source JP who has met with human looking extraterrestrials that are part of secret agreements reached with the U.S. Air Force (USAF). He says that he has met with them in remote areas of Tampa and Orlando, Florida, where they have worn USAF uniforms, and communicated with him. He has taken photos of their craft which have been published on my website.
JP is a civilian and has never served with the U.S. military or been a worker in any classified government/corporate facility. He has no professional background that supports his claims, which is perhaps why he is being allowed to take photos of these craft and disseminate them.
I will be discussing JP’s photos and his experiences at my upcoming lecture on the “US Air Force Secret Space Program and Shifting Extraterrestrial Alliances” at the Dimensions of Disclosure Conference from August 17-19. JP plans to be in the audience as an anonymous guest of the Conference Organizers.
If you would like to contribute to a GoFundMe campaign to fund JP’s travel and other expenses for attending the conference, you can do so here.
In addition to the photographic evidence provided by JP that human looking extraterrestrials are on Earth as part of secret agreements with the U.S. military, there is also testimonial evidence from highly credible sources that are available.
Undoubtedly, the most significant comes from the former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who says that he was given a top secret file about human extraterrestrials that live among us, and an international organization that monitors the off world visitors:
Along with the briefcase with nuclear codes, the president of the country is given a special ‘top secret’ folder. This folder in its entirety contains information about aliens who visited our planet… Along with this, you are given a report of the absolutely secret special service that exercises control over aliens on the territory of our country… I will not tell you how many of them are among us because it may cause panic.
The “absolutely secret special service” described by Medvedev, appears very similar to Goode’s “Intruder Intercept and Interrogate” program, which was fictionalized in the Men In Black movies.
Robert Dean, who reached the rank of Command Sergeant Major with the U.S. Army, says that in 1964, while stationed at the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers in Europe (SHAPE), he read a Cosmic Top Secret Assessment that described human looking extraterrestrials living among us.
There was a human group that looked so much like us that that really drove the admirals and the generals crazy because they determined that these people, and they had seen them repeatedly, they had had contact with them…. These people looked so much like us they could sit next to you on a plane or in a restaurant and you’d never know the difference. And being military and being primarily paranoid, that bothered the generals and the admirals a little bit. That the fact that these intelligent entities could be involved with us, walking up and down the corridors of SHAPE, walking down the corridors of the Pentagon. My God, it even dawned on a couple of them that these guys could even be in the White House! Of course, as I said, being paranoid in those years it really shook things up a little bit.
Earlier, in the 1950’s, famed contactees such as George Adamksi, Howard Menger, and Daniel Fry say that they encountered human looking extraterrestrials who sought their assistance in infiltrating human society. While the general public and UFO researchers widely ridiculed such claims at the time, Smith and Goode said that such a process has indeed been underway for decades involving tens of thousands off world visitors.
David: Well, we’ve talked about this before, Corey, but I also think it’s important to reiterate. And I know you don’t have really specific data, but do we have any sense as to how many approved immigrants there are on this planet that are not from here that are blending in our society?
Corey: It was . . . Back in the ’90s, it was many, many tens of . . . I mean, many thousands.
Emery: 100,000 was the numbers I’m recently getting in the past six months.
Corey: Yeah. And it was probably a smaller number when I was in, but it was a . . . And it was in just about every country. It’s well known that they were integrated.
Smith and Goode’s testimonies provide a stunning perspective on what is really happening on Earth when it comes to the existence of extraterrestrials who appear indistinguishable from modern humans. They also discuss how other non-human looking extraterrestrials can blend in using advanced technologies, and what happens to them if discovered by programs such as Goode’s “Intruder Intercept and Interrogate”.
While scientists speculate and argue over the possibility of extraterrestrial life existing on exoplanets discovered in distant regions of the galaxy, it is stunning to think that all this time many thousands of human looking extraterrestrials have been interacting with us on Earth for decades, and infiltrated societies all over our planet.
[Note: Emery Smith’s interviews on Cosmic Disclosurecan be found here.]
[Author Note: On Saturday, August 11, I will be conducting my first online Webinar on “Antarctica’s Hidden History and Secret Space Programs.” Please click here or banner to learn more.]
A location on Mars associated with the best-selling novel and Hollywood movie, "The Martian" This area is in the Acidalia Planitia region and in the novel and the movie, it is the landing site of a crewed mission named Ares 3. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Curiosity has spent all of its time in the Gale Crater, where it's traveled just over 12 miles, yet the rover has captured plenty of stunning images. NASA has also collected photos of the Martian surface using spacecraft and other rovers like Opportunity, which is more than 15 years old .
At times, photos of the surface of Mars depict the prototypical idea of the red planet: rocky, dry, dusty, and not unlike a desert you might see on Earth. Yet other formations of craters and canyons are completely different from anything on our planet — there are patches of dark and light colors, carbon dioxide dry ice, and otherworldly patterns.
There's weather too, like the huge dust storm that recently covered the entire planet.
Here are some of the images that show how stunning the surface of Mars really is, though there's still far more to be discovered, of course. Just recently, scientists announced that they think there might be a 12-mile-long lake of liquid water hidden underneath one of the red planet's ice caps.
Curiosity captured this selfie on the Vera Rubin Ridge at the beginning of 2018. The rover's arm has been edited out, since the photo is a composite of a number of images.
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Just after arriving in 2012, Curiosity took this shot of the base of Mount Sharp, its eventual destination. Many of the mountains and canyons of Mars have names, just like geological features on Earth.
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This was one of Curiosity's first looks at the Gale Crater in 2012. The edge of the crater is broken up by a network of valleys that scientists think were formed by water.
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It didn't take long for Curiosity to find more evidence of water. It spotted these rounded gravel fragments on a rock outcrop in September of 2012, at the base of Aeolis Mons. The shapes are indicative of rock that formed in the presence of water.
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At the end of 2012, Curiosity took this shot showing inclined layering — known as cross-bedding — in the Shaler outcrop.
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Curiosity mostly sees this kind of prototypical red-planet imagery in the Gale Crater. It arrived in Yellowknife Bay, the lowest point of the crater, in 2013.
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In Yellowknife Bay, the rover discovered evidence that water could have percolated through pores in the sediment.
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter entered Martian orbit in 2006 and has been sending back images ever since. In this enhanced-color view from Orbiter taken in June 2013, Curiosity appears as a bluish dot near the lower right corner.
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In 2015, the Orbiter provided this aerial view of the Ophir Chasma on the northern portion of a vast Mars canyon system called Valles Marineris.
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NASA regularly keeps an eye on the active dune field known as Nili Patera because it changes frequently. The Orbiter captured this shot of the region in 2014.
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Orbiter showed us this spectacular impact crater in November of 2013.
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The flowing features in the terrain at Mars’ middle latitudes could have once been formed by water and ice. Orbiter sent this image back in 2017.
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In January of 2014, Orbiter photographed these sand dunes far to the north as they emerged from their winter carbon-dioxide dry-ice cover.
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Fans of 'The Martian' are familiar with the Acidalia Planitia region of Mars, shown here as seen by Orbiter in 2015.
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This long row of channels, ranging from 1-10 meters wide, is found in the Hellas impact basin in Mars' southern hemisphere. Orbiter shot this image, too.
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This view of the Noctis Labyrinthus region of Mars, perched high on the Tharsis rise in the upper reaches of the Valles Marineris canyon system, is particularly otherworldly. Orbiter sent this image back in 2013.
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Near the Martian equator, the Victoria Crater at Meridiani Planum looks like abstract art. In this 2006 image captured by Orbiter, you can see the Opportunity rover as a tiny speck on the outside of the crater, between 9 and 10 p.m. if this were a clock.
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The Mars Opportunity Rover has been on the red planet for more than 15 years. It spotted this iron meteorite back in 2005 — the first meteorite identified on another planet.
The Phoenix lander, which was active from May to November of 2008, used its robotic arm to dig these two trenches to check soil samples.
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The Phoenix lander, which was active from May to November of 2008, used its robotic arm to dig these two trenches to check soil samples.
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Curiosity, meanwhile, is still exploring the Gale Crater and searching for signs that life — in the form of microbes — used to exist there. The rover sent back this selfie from a drilling site called 'Buckskin' in August 2015. The design of a new 2020 rover will be based on Curiosity.
They All Shine On! Galaxy Survey Yields Stunning Cosmic View
They All Shine On! Galaxy Survey Yields Stunning Cosmic View
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
A curious collection of galaxies sparkles like jewels in a gorgeous new image taken by a powerful, Earth-based telescope.
The photo, taken by the European Southern Observatory's VLT Survey Telescope in Chile, is the product of an ongoing survey to better understand how elliptical galaxies form. The telescope features a wide field of view from its vantage point in dark Chilean skies, allowing astronomers to do their work far from light pollution.
One of the galaxies coming under scrutiny is NGC 5018, a milky-white pool of stars visible near the center of the image. NGC 5018 lies in theconstellation Virgo, about 94 million light-years away from Earth. (One light-year is the distance that light travels in a year, which is 5.88 trillion miles or 9.5 trillion kilometers.)
This deep image of the area of sky around the elliptical galaxy NGC 5018 offers a spectacular view of the galaxy's tenuous streams of stars and gas. These delicate features are hallmarks of galactic
Credit: ESO/Spavone et al.
"[NGC 5018] may at first resemble nothing but a diffuse blob. But on closer inspection, a tenuous stream of stars and gas — a tidal tail — can be seen stretching outwards from this elliptical galaxy," ESO officials wrote in a description of the newly released image.
"Delicate galactic features such as tidal tails and stellar streams are hallmarks of galactic interactions and provide vital clues to the structure and dynamics of galaxies," the officials added.
This annotated view of the surroundings of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5018 shows many of the galaxy's neighbors. The image also reveals a few asteroids that were captured by chance during the deep exposures needed to reveal the delicate streams of stars between the galaxies.
Credit: ESO/Spavone et al.
There are some other interesting features found in the picture as well. Lying conveniently along the line of sight is HD 114746, a blue foreground star. You can also see the faint tracks from two asteroids: 2001 TJ21 (110423) across the entire image, and 2000 WU69 (98603) closer to the right.
De brandweer van Leicestershire heeft beelden vrijgegeven van een vuurtornado. Het ongewone verschijnsel gebeurde toen de brandweer een brand van kunststofpaletten aan het bedwingen was.
Het wervelende effect van vuurtornado’s ontstaat doordat de hitte van het vuur de luchtlaag aan de grond verhit en snel doet opstijgen, terwijl er aan de basis van de luchtkolom koelere lucht uit de omgeving wordt aangezogen.
Het fenomeen kan zich in principe overal voordoen waar het heet is en er brand ontstaat, maar is eerder zeldzaam. Recent kwamen er echter nog vuurtornado’s in het nieuws: ook bij de bosbranden in Californië ontstonden ze. Daar zit de aanhoudende hitte en droogte voor iets tussen.
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Ontdekkingsreiziger vindt ‘buitenaards ruimteschip’ in de Bermudadriehoek: “Zoiets heb ik nog nooit gezien” - HLN.be
Ontdekkingsreiziger vindt ‘buitenaards ruimteschip’ in de Bermudadriehoek: “Zoiets heb ik nog nooit gezien” - HLN.be
Bron:Daily Mail
Discovery Channel
WETENSCHAPDarrell Miklos, een ervaren ontdekkingsreiziger, zag tijdens één van zijn expedities naar oude scheepswrakken iets vreemds op de bodem van de oceaan in de Bermudadriehoek: een gigantisch object van zo’n negentig meter lang. Volgens de avonturier en zijn team is het vreemde ding “van buitenaardse afkomst”.
Ontdekkingsreiziger Darrell Miklos jaagt samen met zijn team op oude scheepswrakken op de bodem van de oceaan in het programma ‘Cooper’s Treasure’ op Discovery Channel. Deze keer trok Miklos naar een verborgen plek in de Bermudadriehoek, nabij de Bahama’s, die bezaaid is met gezonken schepen.
Om scheepswrakken op de bodem van de oceaan te vinden, gebruikt Miklos de geheime kaarten van zijn vriend en NASA-astronaut Gordon Cooper, die in 2004 overleed. In de jaren zestig stelde de astronaut ‘geheime kaarten’ samen om zo meer dan honderd magnetische ‘onregelmatigheden’ in de Caraïben vanuit de ruimte te identificeren.
Discovery ChannelEén van de 'uitsteeksels' van het vermeende ruimteschip.
"USO”
Wat de doorwinterde ontdekkingsreiziger op de bodem van de oceaan vond, overtrof zijn stoutste verwachtingen. “Het was een formatie die anders was dan alles wat ik ooit heb gezien. Het ‘ding’ was veel te groot om een scheepswrak te zijn.”
Het ding is negentig meter lang en heeft vreemde uitstulpingen. Miklos concludeerde dat het gigantische object wel een USO, een unidentified submerged object, moest zijn. “Het zag er niet uit als iets dat door de mens of natuur werd gemaakt. Ik heb een jarenlange ervaring en we identificeerden al zoveel verschillende scheepswrakken, maar zoiets heb ik nog nooit gezien”.
Naast het vermeende ruimteschip, vond de ontdekkingsreiziger ook andere bizarre formaties rondom het grote object, bedekt met een dikke laag koraal. Miklos gelooft dat ze waarschijnlijk honderden of duizenden jaren oud zijn.
Na zijn ontdekking, dook Miklos meteen in de kaarten en papieren van Cooper op zoek naar verdere aanwijzingen. De astronaut schreef ‘unidentified object’ neer op de kaart waar Miklos het vreemde object vond. Volgens Miklos moest Cooper wel verwijzen naar “iets dat niet van deze wereld was”. Nu wil Miklos samen met zijn team het zogenaamde ‘buitenaards ruimteschip’ uit het water halen voor verder onderzoek.
Gordon Cooper
Gordon Cooper was een pionier in de ruimtevaart. Maar naast zijn leven als astronaut, zou hij er een geheime agenda op nagehouden hebben. De Amerikaanse regering zou hem in de jaren zestig gevraagd hebben om naar ‘nucleaire dreigingen’ op zoek te gaan. Daarmee werden waarschijnlijk Russische onderzeeërs of nucleaire raketten bedoeld. Miklos meent dat Cooper de vreemde positie van de scheepswrakken opmerkte in de Caraïben, terwijl hij een spionagemissie vanuit de ruimte uitvoerde en daarbij een kaart creëerde.
Cooper zou Miklos lang geleden de kaarten - inclusief gedetailleerde info en exacte coördinaten - gegeven hebben nadat hij de diagnose van Parkinson kreeg en in 2004 stierf op 77-jarige leeftijd.
Of de astronaut effectief spionagewerk verrichte en de scheepswrakken in kaart bracht, wordt sterk betwijfeld. Volgens sommigen is het onmogelijk dat Cooper uit het raam van het ruimteschip kon kijken, vreemde formaties op het wateroppervlak kon waarnemen en de lengte- en breedtegraad kon noteren. Cooper nam wel degelijk foto’s vanuit de ruimte, maar niet in het gebied van de Caraïben. Bovendien zou geen enkele van die foto’s een plek kleiner dan een stad kunnen weergeven.
PEAstronaut Gordon Cooper.
Mysterie Bermudadriehoek verklaard
Voor ‘scheepswrakjagers’ zoals Miklos en zijn team is de Bermudadriehoek tussen Miami, de Bermuda-eilanden en Puerto Rico, een aantrekkelijke plek. De bodem ligt namelijk bezaaid met schepen en vliegtuigen die er in de loop der jaren zonken. Sommigen zijn ervan overtuigd dat aliens of kraters, het antwoord vormen op het misterie. Nu lijkt er toch een nieuwe wetenschappelijke verklaring te zijn voor het fenomeen.
Een groep oceanografen aan de universiteit van Southampton, het Verenigd Koninkrijk, is ervan overtuigd dat ‘rogue waves’ of monstergolven de honderden schepen lieten zinken. “Monstergolven kwamen voor in mythes en in de verhalen van schippers, maar vandaag kunnen satellieten golven meten. Golven van zo’n dertig meter werden al waargenomen en geverifieerd.”
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De monstergolven ontstaan doordat stormwinden uit drie verschillende richtingen op de plek samen komen en zo de perfecte omgeving creëren voor monstergolven. De gigantische golven maken altijd deel uit van een storm en kunnen even snel weer verdwijnen als ze opkwamen.
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Schatjager Discovery Channel claimt buitenaards schip te hebben ontdekt in Bermudadriehoek. Zal dit de wereld schokken?
Schatjager Discovery Channel claimt buitenaards schip te hebben ontdekt in Bermudadriehoek. Zal dit de wereld schokken?
Een schatjager heeft in de Bermudadriehoek een ongewone ontdekking te gaan. Darrell Miklos meent dat hij heeft eerste bewijs heeft gevonden van een buitenaards schip, dat de aarde duizenden jaren geleden zou hebben bezocht.
Miklos gebruikt geheime kaarten die waren gemaakt door zijn vriend en NASA-astronaut Gordon Cooper om naar scheepswrakken te zoeken in de Caraïbische Zee.
Zijn ontdekkingstocht is te zien in de serie ‘Cooper’s Treasure’ op Discovery Channel.
Bizarre structuur
Onlangs stuitte zijn team op iets wat volgens Miklos de wereld zal schokken. Hij speurde op een locatie nabij de Bahama’s naar iets wat een scheepswrak zou moeten zijn.
De schatjager trof tijdens opnames voor het nieuwe seizoen echter een bizarre structuur aan. In een interview met DailyMail.com zei Miklos dat hij het ‘buitenaardse ruimteschip’ naar het oppervlak wil halen.
“Ik heb nog nooit zoiets gezien,” zei hij. “Het was te groot om een scheepswrak te kunnen zijn.”
Drie identieke formaties
“Het was ook compleet anders dan iets wat door de natuur is gemaakt,” voegde hij toe. “Het lijkt alsof er vijf armen uit komen die ieder net zo groot zijn als een kanon van een slagschip.”
“Ze zijn enorm en er zijn in totaal 15 van,” klonk het. “Er zijn drie identieke formaties in drie verschillende gebieden en ze lijken in niets op wat ik tot nu toe heb gezien.”
Aangezien de gebieden zich op een diepte van ruim 100 meter bevinden, hadden de duikers speciale apparatuur nodig om in de buurt van de structuren te kunnen komen.
Ongeïdentificeerd object
Miklos trof ook andere bizarre en onverklaarbare formaties aan die bedekt zijn met koraal en mogelijk honderden zo niet duizenden jaren oud zijn.
Op de kaart van het gebied had Cooper ‘ongeïdentificeerd object’ geschreven.
“Toen begreep ik waarom hij niet sprak van een scheepswrak,” zei Miklos. “Hij bedoelde dat het mogelijk iets van een andere wereld was.”
Bezoekers
“Gordon geloofde in aliens,” vervolgde hij. “Hij zei dat we bezoekers van andere planeten hebben gehad en dat veel van deze dingen in dit deel van de wereld zijn geland.”
De schatjager hoopt meer onderzoek te kunnen doen in het gebied.
Rare 1966 Audio on Westall UFO Encounter Australia
Rare 1966 Audio on Westall UFO Encounter Australia
The Westall UFO encounter is an event that occurred on 6 April 1966 in Melbourne, Australia. For more than 20 minutes 200 students and teachers at two schools allegedly witnessed an unexplained flying object which descended into a nearby open wild grass field.
The paddock was adjacent to a grove of pine trees in an area known as The Grange. According to reports, the object then ascended in a north-westerly direction over the suburb of Clayton South, Victoria, Australia.
This video of QUFOSR (Queensland UFO sightings and Research) contains rare audio of James J. Kibel (commonly confused as James E. McDonald as it was later sent to him) discussing the infamous Westall UFO incident after meeting with the science teacher who witnessed the object.
Below some notes of interest if you're having trouble understanding the audio:
01 - Science master, two other staff and 300 kids watched a UFO maneuver over the school. 02 - 5 planes tried to intercept the UFO. 03 - Science master was in the same club as Mconalds brother-in-law, a bizarre coincidence. Because of this connection Mcdonald invited the Science teacher over and discussed in depth what he witnessed. 04 - Believes it wasn't the officials who squashed the sighting, it was the head master. He was so scared he refused to go into school yard even after it was back in the sky. 05 - When the Royal Australian Air Force tried to contact the headmaster he told them 'go jump in a lake'. 06 - Children ran into science masters room hysterical so he went to look himself. 07 - Couldn't see UFO at first but saw other children looking towards the north-east. When he joined the children he saw the UFO hovering just above power lines. 08 - Science master described the object as a bright silver object, size of a tire with a 'bar/rod' into the air. 09 - At this point he noted a light plane moving towards it about 1000ft up, 2000ft from where he was standing. 10 - Now joined by more children and the physical education teacher they watched. 11 - The light plane supposedly called in other planes and 4 converged on object with this light plane. 12 - Science master says most amazing flight maneuvering he ever seen in his life commenced, planes were doing everything possible to approach the object. Amazed there was no collision. 13 - Every time planes got near the object it would slowly accelerate, then rapidly accelerate away from the planes and then stop again. Every time they chased it would do the same. 14 - This continued for 20 minutes, by this stage 360 people (children, staff) were watching 15 - The thing shot away in seconds (I don't know if I heard that correctly, so sorry). 16 - The headmaster then come out and demanded everyone to return to their classes at once and gave the school a lecture. He told the students they would be punished if they discussed it and told staff they'd lose their jobs if they did. 17 - Science master has 3 degrees, was not stupid. He was very annoyed with the headmaster. 18 - When asking the PE teacher to describe what she saw in detail she wouldn't say anything. 19 - One of the older children confirmed the full story and accurately described the object. When going to re-ask the student she was no long there, she had gone home and wouldn't discuss it again.
As many of you will know, the mystery of the Men in Black is one which has fascinated me for years. It’s a subject that quietly began in the late 1940s – but which really took off in the early 1950s. It was all as a result of the creepy encounters of Albert Bender, a resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who established the International Flying Saucer Bureau. Not long after, Bender closed it down: he was threatened by a trio of strange characters dressed in black, and who literally materialized in his attic-based abode. While I have given my views on Bender in my various books on the MIB, it’s always good to get the views of others too. Which brings me to Ray Boeche – UFO researcher and priest – who I interviewed to get his views on the matter of Bender and the Men in Black. Ray told me the following, which I present without interruption:
“I was actually in touch with Albert Bender in the early to mid-70s, which was years after his Men in Black experience. This was in California, when he was involved in helping preserve the work of film composer Max Steiner, and he just would not discuss it: the experience, the Men in Black, none of it. It had obviously affected him.
“I was a kid when I was first in contact with [Gray] Barker [controversial writer/publisher on the paranormal, and a friend to Bender] , and stayed in contact right up until a few months before he passed away. He was always helpful on the phone and in correspondence; he was a very amenable guy. From the contact and conversations I had with Barker, I do think something happened with Bender. Just how much of the actual written account we have is confabulation and how much is exaggeration, I don’t know. But something did happen to Bender, and it may very well have involved FBI agents. And, I tend to think that Bender’s experience was precipitated by a visit from someone in the government.
“Bender may well have been visited by FBI agents. And that whole image of black suits and threats that were possibly playing on Bender’s mind may have dictated how these forces, Bender’s MIB, appeared for him as his involvement with the occult proceeded and he had the experience in his bedroom. He did have a longstanding fascination with the occult, and I think that the FBI visit could have had a definite impact on how he might have experienced these other things, and how ‘they’ might have appeared to him in a context that would serve their ends: the dark suits and hats. There’s a distinct possibility that the phenomenon was pulling this imagery – the FBI agents, black suits, and their visits and warnings – out of Bender’s subconscious and masquerading as something connected to the saucer people to lure him further into the occult.
“There’s a lot we can take from some of the early research into psychedelics, where the major thrust of what type of experience the person would have would be dictated by mindset and setting. And I think that ties into the Bender story, in a sense. I think there’s this idea that if we open ourselves to outside influences – I’m speaking in spiritual terms here – or we seek contact or an experience with an alien, then you assume it to be that – an alien – if and when it appears. It may not be what it purports to be. I think these forces can play on our own mental predispositions of what we expect we see.
“I have always thought that one of the most important things that John Keel ever said was that if you have kids or teenagers, this is not something to encourage them to get involved with. Keel was a pretty dyed-in-the-wool atheist. But he understand that, at some level, there’s something, in some sense transcendent over us, that can, if nothing else, ‘mess’ with us. And it can cause a lot of damage.
“Sometimes, I think I’m singing a one-note song with this, from a Christian perspective. I would not consider myself theologically liberal or a theological fundamentalist. My beliefs are solidly orthodox, and rooted in my view of the Bible as God’s inerrant Word. But there are things that we just aren’t equipped to deal with from a mechanistic, naturalistic worldview. There are malevolent forces out there that will be happy to take advantage of just about any opening we give them. And, so, we need to be very cautious. I tend to think that may be what happened to Albert Bender, but he might not have been so cautious.”
Sky Turns BLACK In Remote Russian Towns – Locals Blame secret weapons test, aliens or the DEVIL?
Sky Turns BLACK In Remote Russian Towns – Locals Blame secret weapons test, aliens or the DEVIL?
These are incredibly strange times! Remote Russian towns were plunged into total darkness for several hours last week — sparking lots of rumours of a secret Kremlin weapons test, UFOs or even the devil’s work!
Mystery surrounds the sudden appearance of the massive black cloud that turned day into night across an area bigger than the British Isles.
There has also been claims that the terrifying phenomenon could have been the caused by the dust from a meteorite strike or the test of an apocalyptic weapon.
Eerie clouds sweep over parts of Russia as an area bigger than the British Isles is mysteriously plunged into darkness
Other explanations for mystified locals are a UFO, an unreported eclipse, the “work of the devil”, or smoke from unidentified wildfires. Strangely enough, Moscow’s defence and meteorological officials have STILL failed to comment on the cloud — which hit three vast mainly Arctic districts in Yakutia region. There were no reports of meteorites, eclipses or weapons tests – let alone sightings of alien spacecrafts.
A local resident in from Eveno-Bytantaisky said: “Messages are going around about about a light flash registered by the US satellites, followed by increase of radioactive level and unusual activity of the military.
“We are never going to be told is this was true or false.”
Some claimed it could be a “new type of weapon” being tested by the Russian military.
Another source said: “This can only be explained by a UFO.”
Locals reported having difficulty breathing is a the mystery cloud engulfed the region
Residents reported darkness beginning around 11.30am and lasting almost three hours on Friday.
Gloom descended on Eveno-Bytantaisky, Zhigansky and Verkhoyansky but none of these districts have been hit by wildfires that are raging in other Siberian localities.
The areas are so far north that at this time of year they have virtually 24-hour light — but as one local said: “Day suddenly turned into a dark night”.
Another said:
“I couldn’t see a thing without switching lights on.
“We took torches to walk outside, but actually no-one wanted to be on the street because the feeling was as if something heavy in the air was pressing on your chest.”
Accounts spoke of a thick layer of dust after the darkness but this has been denied by some officials, who also expressed doubts that pollution from wildfires was the cause.
The sun struggled to be seen through the thick cloud cover
Villagers feared the work of the devil had caused the mystery darkness
A local official in Nizhne-Bytantaisky settlement said: “At first it looked like it was a strong thunderstorm coming.
“The air went dark, and got darker and darker, but this time unlike anything else we have seen before the darkness had a rich yellow undertone.”
Konstantin Starostin, head of the settlement, said: “When the sun vanished, people started calling us.
“Many got scared, especially elderly people.
“The sun was gone from 11.30 until 14.00 on Friday 20 July.”
Head of Verkhoyansk town Yevgeny Potapov was quoted by The Siberian Times saying: “Something strange happened on that day.”
Almost all Arctic districts reported a significant temperature fall around the time of the daytime darkness.
The Russian Government and military STILL will not comment or have any answers for this strange event!
U.I.P SUMMARY
These are strange times people and appear to be getting even stranger! No matter what the rumours are there is still NO official confirmation for what caused this strange darkness!
Could it be a top secret weapon unleashed by the Russians, or perhaps Aliens could be responsible for this bizarre event (there were strange sounds recorded at the same time of the event!?). We are doing a lot of research into this and will keep you all updated with our findings!
BREAKING CLAIM: Aliens collect stars to stay ALIVE in space
BREAKING CLAIM: Aliens collect stars to stay ALIVE in space
It appears that the TRUTH towards disclosure is building! ALIEN civilisations could be harnessing the power of caged stars to stay alive in an expanding universe, a scientist has claimed.
Dan Hooper, a scientist at the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, suggested extraterrestrials could store and collect stars through technology knows as Dyson Spheres.
Dyson spheres are theoretical structures capable of confining a star to syphon its vast stores of energy.
In a pre-publication research paper, Dr Hooper theorised alien species use Dyson spheres to stay ahead of expanding space.
Dr Hooper wrote: “The presence of dark energy in our universe is causing space to expand at an accelerating rate.
An artists impression of an Alien Dyson Sphere
“As a result, over the next approximately 100 billion years, all stars residing beyond the Local Group will fall beyond the cosmic horizon and become not only unobservable, but entirely inaccessible, thus limiting how much energy could one day be extracted from them.
“Here, we consider the likely response of a highly advanced civilisation to this situation.
“In particular, we argue that in order to maximise its access to useable energy, a sufficiently advanced civilisation 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 centre of the civilisation.”
According to the hypothetical scenario, technologically advanced alien species could target stars smaller than that in our solar system to utilise their incredible power.
Research on the presence of dark matter in the universe suggests space is rapidly expanding and the distance between planets and stars is growing.
The presence of dark energy in our universe is causing space to expand
Dan Hooper, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
The so-called Hubble Constant, first introduced by astronomer Edwin Hubble in 1992, claims the universe is growing at a rate of 68km/s.
The expansion is understood to be an aftermath of the Big Bang when the universe erupted into the existence.
More recent estimates on the rate of expansion peg the number in the range of about 71.9km/s (44.7 miles/s) but different measurements appear to give different results.
Sherry Sulu, of the Mx Planck Institute, said: “The expansion rate of the universe is now starting to be measured in different ways with such high precision that actual discrepancies may possibly point towards new physics beyond our current knowledge of the universe.”
Dr Hopper agued within around 100 billion years from now, all matter which is not gravitationally bound to the Milky Way Galaxy will “casually drift away” into the void.
Dyson sphere-bound stars could circumvent this problem by creating gravitational pools around which civilisations could gather.
The scientists wrote:
“Given the inevitability of the encroaching horizon, any sufficiently advanced civilisation that is determined to maximise its ability to utilise energy will expand throughout the universe, attempting to secure as many stars as possible before they become permanently inaccessible.
“To this end, they could build Dyson Spheres or other such structures around the stars that are encountered, and use the energy that is collected to propel those stars toward the centre of the civilisation, where they will become gravitationally bound and thus protected from the future expansion of space.”
There was once a time that Scientists would have been laughed at and lost their jobs with these types of claims – things are definitely changing!
U.I.P SUMMARY
Well it appears that more and more scientists are now starting to drip feed us disclosure about the extraterrestrial beings in space, perhaps this is a government funded worldwide project to start waking the masses up?
There will be those who will laugh off such claims, however, lets not forget the recent discovery of Tabby’s star, as star which shows very clear signs of potentially having some huge ‘made’ alien structure surrounding it (please read below for more information on this).
Compared to other civilizations we are prehistoric in comparison, still dependent on fossil fuels for energy – it is important for us all to remember this!
WETENSCHAP De zonnesonde Parker, die als alles goed verloopt zaterdag de ruimte in gaat, heeft een Belgisch kantje. Het ruimtevaartcentrum van de Universiteit van Luik heeft een van de vier instrumenten aan boord ontwikkeld: een hittecamera die de dichtheidsfluctuaties in de zonnecorona moet gaan opmeten.
De zonnesonde Parker is een project van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA. Parker - vernoemd naar de astrofysicus Gene Parker, die zestig jaar geleden het bestaan van zonnewind voorspelde - zal tot op iets meer dan zes miljoen kilometer van de zon naderen. Het wordt de eerste satelliet die zo dicht bij de zon cirkelt.
Bedoeling van de missie is om de energiestromen in het buitenste deel van de atmosfeer rond de zon - de corona - te onderzoeken, net als de fysische mechanismen achter de zonnewind.
APOm de enorme zonnestraling te overleven, is de Parker Solar Probe uitgerust met een elf centimeter dik koolstofcomposietschild, dat temperaturen tot 1.400 graden celcius aankan.
Telescopen
Het ruimtevaartcentrum van de universiteit van Luik ontwikkelde één van de vier instrumenten aan boord, de WISPR of Wide-Field Imager For Solar Probe Plus. Het gaat om twee telescopen die opnames maken van de corona en de zonnewind, zo legt Pierre Rochus van de Luikse universiteit uit. De telescopen kunnen niet rechtstreeks in de zonnecorona kijken, omdat het dan te heet wordt. Maar ze observeren het licht dat door elektronen en stof van kometen en andere ruimteobjecten gediffuseerd wordt.
WISPR kan daarna de link leggen met de bevindingen van de andere drie instrumenten aan boord. Het gaat onder meer om een geavanceerd toestel dat elektrische en magnetische velden en golven opmeet.
Zes jaar
Parker zal er meer dan zes jaar over doen voordat het in zijn definitieve baan rond de zon is gemanoeuvreerd. NASA maakt daarvoor gebruik van de planeet Venus, die zeven keer van dichtbij wordt genaderd. Om de enorme zonnestraling te overleven, is de Parker Solar Probe uitgerust met een elf centimeter dik koolstofcomposietschild, dat temperaturen tot 1.400 graden celcius aankan.
De zonnesonde wordt zaterdag gelanceerd vanop de lanceerbasis Cape Canaveral in het Amerikaanse Florida.
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KAN EEN METEORIET DE DERDE WERELDOORLOG VEROORZAKEN ?
KAN EEN METEORIET DE DERDE WERELDOORLOG VEROORZAKEN ?
De reden dat wij als mensheid elkaar nog niet van deze planeet hebben weggeblazen met kernwapens is omdat er goede systemen zijn die het gebruik in de hand houden.
Echter, onlangs explodeerde een meteoriet vlakbij een Amerikaanse radarinstallatie die is geprogrammeerd daarop te reageren omdat het dat registreert als een raketaanval met kernwapens.
Normaal gesproken moet er heel wat gebeuren voordat men daadwerkelijk over gaat tot het afschieten van raketten met kernkoppen. Dit, omdat een dergelijke actie waarschijnlijk het einde zou betekenen van ons bestaan als mensheid op deze aarde.
Sommigen denken dan dat buitenaardsen niet zullen toestaan dat er ooit kernwapens op aarde gebruikt zullen worden en misschien is dat ook wel zo, maar dan is er nog altijd de mogelijkheid dat er per ongeluk ergens iets mis gaat.
Wat dat betreft lopen wij als aarde sowieso steeds meer risico omdat het aantal vuurbollen/meteorieten de afgelopen jarennogal spectaculair is toegenomen.
The base hosts the 12th Space Warning Squadron (12 SWS) which operates a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) designed to detect and track ICBMs launched against North America.
En dan zie je het volgende soort tweets:
Deze man zegt dan dat deze meteoriet op vrij grote hoogte zou zijn geëxplodeerd, in de onderstaande video zegt Tyler van Secureteam dat het ding wel degelijk op de grond is ingeslagen.
Hoe dan ook, feit is dat dit soort dingen natuurlijk levensgevaarlijk zijn bij een basis waar ze de controle schijnen te hebben over 2000 kernkoppen. Het vreemde in dit hele verhaal is ook weer dat de Amerikaanse luchtmacht net doet alsof er helemaal niets is gebeurd en geen enkele mededeling heeft gedaan. Wat ons betreft kunnen we ons gelukkig prijzen dat er kennelijk nog steeds ook mensen meekijken bij de registratie door dat soort systemen en klaarblijkelijk, zoals de tweet weergeeft, hebben ingegrepen.
En dat terwijl er een object, al dan niet op de grond, is geëxplodeerd met een kracht van 2.000 kilo TNT. Een gevaarte dat met ruim 24 kilometer per seconde (86.400km/hr) op de aarde afstevende.
Maar goed, zoals de man in de tweet zei: We zijn er nog en dus misschien tijd voor een positieve benadering. En wij doen dat in de vorm van een voorspelling die ons is opgestuurd door een lezer (dank!) en die gaat als volgt:
Met betrekking tot voorspellingen:
Ik ga er nu van uit dat veel van de vooral negatieve voorspellingen, gedaan zijn in een zeer lange tijd waarin de prognose die richting uit ging. De waarschijnlijkheidswerelden, parallelwerelden.
En dat er nu meer ontwikkeling/groei is gekomen in het bewustzijn van (blijkbaar voldoende) mensen, dat bepaalde –eerder duidelijke aanwijzingen- voorspellingen niet meer uit zullen komen, omdat dit niet meer nodig is voor de mensheid en de planeet als totaal. Zoals ook bij mensen individueel, bepaalde moeilijke processen op een gegeven moment begrepen kunnen zijn en bepaalde negatieve situaties of personen dan niet meer worden aangetrokken.
Vandaar ook dat het goed is dat er zoveel informatie ligt nu. Goede en minder goede. Maar wie bepaalt?
Alleen jammer als dit bij veel mensen angst en kwaadheid veroorzaakt, want dit is als voeding voor het duister.
Negativiteit kan niet gelijk vertrekken of oplossen in de atmosfeer, maar moet eerst naar buiten komen, verwerkt en vervangen worden.
SUPER LOW-FREQUENCY SPACE SIGNAL HAS SCIENTISTS MYSTIFIED
SUPER LOW-FREQUENCY SPACE SIGNAL HAS SCIENTISTS MYSTIFIED
A low-frequency signal picked up from the depths of space by a Canadian radio telescope last month has scientists intrigued, and trigger-happy extraterrestrial enthusiasts even daring — probably prematurely — to use the A-word.
The mysterious signal, which science refers to as a fast radio burst (FRB), was detected July 25 by a telescope at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) in British Columbia. The telescope has only been online for a few months, and the significance of this particular FRB pickup isn’t that it exists in the first place (they’ve been detected before) — rather; it’s the signal’s perplexingly super-low-frequency signature.
At 580 MHz, the signal (which has been given the memorable name of FRB 180725A) rings out at almost 200 MHz lower than any similar frequency that’s been detected to date, according to Patrick Boyle of McGill University, credited with the discovery.
What exactly is an FRB? Well, that’s part of the speculation-spawning mystery. Astrophysicists can describe the bursts’ characteristics, but they still can’t explain how they occur — although they appear to agree that it takes something phenomenally powerful to create and throw the signals.
An FRB is a “high-energy astrophysical phenomenon of unknown origin detected as a bright radio pulse lasting a few milliseconds on average,” according to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC). “The exact origin and cause of FRBs is uncertain, they are found in parts of the sky outside the plane of the Milky Way galaxy and are thought to be extragalactic.”
Only about two dozen of the events had been reported before the CHIME telescope went live; now, researchers expect the detentions to occur with much greater frequency. Scientists do believe FRBs are common, “with estimates suggesting these events arrive at Earth roughly a thousand times per day,” according to RASC.
Previous theorizing about the source of FRBs in general attributes their possible origins to everything from dying black holes to hyperactive neutron stars to — at least in theory — intelligent life.
In reality, the newness of the CHIME telescope’s data collecting endeavor may point out the scientific community’s relative ignorance of a previously-undocumented phenomenon more than it reveals anything about signs of exploding stars, aliens, or anything else — at least while the data’s still this fresh. So while the source of the bursts remains enigmatic, it’s probably not a stretch to say they aren’t new harbingers of an imminent E.T. invasion.
The CHIME telescope under constructionPhoto: Mateus A. Fandiño - The CHIME collaboration (Wikimedia Commons)
You may have seen recent headlines about a strange radio signal picked up by a Canadian telescope. Some go as far as to say it was caused by all-caps ALIENS.
It probably wasn’t from aliens, as far as we can tell—nor are these “fast radio bursts” something you should be worried about. The truth is, the FRB spotted by Canada’s CHIME radio telescope on July 25 wasn’t much different from other FRBs that telescopes have spotted. But it’s still pretty cool and the first of its kind, so let’s talk about why.
“It’s interesting because it was seen down to lower radio frequencies than we’ve seen an FRB before,” astronomer Emily Petroff from ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, told Gizmodo. “We just don’t know a lot about FRBs at these frequencies, so it’s great to see that they are at least detectable and CHIME is finding them.”
It’s true that FRBs are a cosmic mystery. First detected in 2001 but not reported until 2007, only around 50 of these events have been spotted by radio telescopes. They are quite literally fast radio bursts, bright-and-quick signals in the radio band, the longest wavelength and lowest-frequency electromagnetic radiation, beyond infrared and microwaves on the electromagnetic spectrum.
Astronomers don’t know what causes these bursts, but they might be surprisingly common. Top FRB candidates include neutron stars with strong magnetic fields, called magnetars. Some physicists have suggested dark matteror extraterrestrial intelligence. Perhaps there are several different sources. Scientists are still trying to figure it out.
CHIME’s fast radio burst, in green
Graphic: CHIME/FRB Collaboration
This hyped-up burst, called FRB 180725A, arrived at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a large radio telescope in southern British Columbia, at around 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific time on July 25. It lasted for approximately two milliseconds, and had a frequency as low as 580 MHz, according to its Astronomer’s Telegram entry. The FM radio band spans frequencies from 88 to 108 MHz, for comparison, while a microwave oven excites molecules using an electric field with an alternating 2,450 MHzfrequency.
What makes this FRB so weird? It’s probably not much different from the rest, said Petroff, but 580 MHz is the lowest-frequency FRB scientists have spotted so far. Usually, these blips hit Earth with frequencies between 1,000 and 1,500 MHz. But it probably won’t be the last such blip. CHIME caught the signal during its commissioning phase, meaning the telescope is still getting up and running.
FRB 180725A is just a taste of what’s to come. CHIME’s enormous field of view could allow it to find one FRB per day. “So the main exciting thing about CHIME is that it will probably find lots of FRBs, meaning more chances to learn where they’re coming from,” said Petroff.
Is it exciting? Most certainly. Is it aliens? Probably not. It’s just another piece on the fast radio burst puzzle. In order to truly determine their source, scientists need to find more of them, especially ones that repeat, which could provide reliable observations.
EXCLUSIVE: Discovery Channel treasure hunter claims he’s found evidence of an extra-terrestrial spaceship while exploring ancient shipwrecks beneath the Bermuda Triangle
EXCLUSIVE: Discovery Channel treasure hunter claims he’s found evidence of an extra-terrestrial spaceship while exploring ancient shipwrecks beneath the Bermuda Triangle
Explorer Darrell Miklos has been using secret maps created by famed NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper to find shipwrecks in the Caribbean
Diving at an undisclosed location near the Bahamas he found what he believes is the first evidence of an extra-terrestrial visit to earth hundreds of years ago
What he thought could be an ancient shipwreck turned out to be huge USO (unidentified submerged object)with 15, 300ft long obtrusions jutting from its sides
'It was a formation unlike anything I've ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that,' Miklos tells DailyMail.com
Miklos' discoveries have featured over two seasons of hit Discovery Channel docu-series Cooper's Treasure
A treasure hunter has made an astonishing 'unexplained' discovery deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle that he believes could provide the first evidence of an extra-terrestrial visit to earth hundreds of years ago.
Explorer Darrell Miklos has been using secret maps created by his close friend and famed NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper to find shipwrecks in the Caribbean.
His amazing discoveries have featured over two seasons of hit Discovery Channel docuseries Cooper's Treasure.
But in recent months his team stumbled on something that he believes will shock the world.
Using maps put together in the 1960s by Cooper to identify more than 100 magnetic 'anomalies' in the Caribbean, Miklos dived at an undisclosed location near the Bahamas to investigate what he thought could be an ancient shipwreck.
Search for USOs in Discovery Channel hit Cooper's Treasure
Darrell Miklos and his team discovered the USO (unidentified submerged object) in the Bermuda Triangle close to the Bahamas. He spotted the large obtrusions while exploring the area in a submersible looking for shipwrecks. 'I was trying to identify shipwreck material based on one of the anomaly readings on Gordon's charts when I noticed something that stuck out, that shocked me,' said Miklos in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com
Horizontal cylinder structures jut out from this large dome feature at the center of the site. Geophysicists on the team report that the coral covering these structures appears to be more than 5000 years old.
A close up of one of the horizontal structures which has scientists baffled. Because of the extreme currents at the location it's almost impossible for coral to grow at all, let alone into a anything this large
Here, what he describes as the right jutting section of the USO. According to scientists on Darrell's team, no coral anywhere in the world could grow in this formation naturally, there would have to be an underlying structure to support that type of growth
Miklos, 55, described what he found while filming episode seven of Cooper's Treasure and tells how he and his team want to bring the 'alien spaceship' to the surface 'It was a formation unlike anything I've ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that. 'It was also something that was completely different from anything that I've seen that was made by nature'
These horizontal structures are massive, each measures as much as 300 feet straight out, the length of a US football field. The explorer also found other bizarre and unexplained formations around the main object, all of which are covered in thick coral which he believes are hundreds if not thousands of years old
These mystery shapes score the top of the massive central mound. Each of these lines is the width of a family home
Here you can see the gigantic mound rising above the ring of structures that stick out from the center. The entire site's diameter is some 600 feet - the length of two football fields
But instead the veteran treasure hunter found a bizarre structure like nothing he's ever seen.
The huge unidentified submerged object (USO) has 15, 300ft long obtrusions jutting from its side.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com Miklos, 55, described what he found while filming episode seven of Cooper's Treasure and tells how he and his team want to bring the 'alien spaceship' to the surface.
He recalls: 'We were doing a scene where I was sitting in a two man submersible.
'We were out in the Bahamas and we were on an English shipwreck trail, somehow related to Sir Francis Drake.
'I was trying to identify shipwreck material based on one of the anomaly readings on Gordon's charts when I noticed something that stuck out, that shocked me.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com Miklos, 55, described what he found while filming episode seven of Cooper's Treasure and tells how he and his team want to bring the 'alien spaceship' to the surface
'It was a formation unlike anything I've ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that.
'It was also something that was completely different from anything that I've seen that was made by nature.
'It's almost like there are five arms coming out of a steep wall cliff and each one of these is the size of a gun on a battleship. They're enormous and then there's five over here and five over there, 15 in total.
'There's identical formations in three different areas and they don't look nature made, they don't look man made, certainly nothing I've ever seen based on my experience and I have years of experience at doing this, we've identified multiple different types of shipwreck material, this doesn't match or look anything like that.'
The deepest part of the site is 300 feet below the surface, divers had to use special breathing apparatus and a state of the art submarine to access it.
The explorer also found other bizarre and unexplained formations around the main object, all of which are covered in thick coral which he believes are hundreds if not thousands of years old.
Blown away by the discovery, when back on board his ship, Miklos decided to dig further into Cooper's files to find further clues.
Significantly, the astronaut had written 'unidentified object' on the chart of the area rather than mentioning any historical shipwreck.
'I investigated some of Gordon's charts, I realized that there was something else on there that Gordon was referring to,' he said.
'Then it made sense to me why it wasn't identified as a shipwreck... he had to mean it might be something from another world.
'Gordon believed in aliens. He believed that we had visitors from other planets and he also believed that a lot of these things landed in this particular part of the world.'
The treasure hunter has made the astonishing 'unexplained' discovery deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle. Miklos believes it could provide the first evidence of an extra-terrestrial visit to earth hundreds of years ago.
The deepest part of the site is 300 feet below the surface, divers had to use special breathing apparatus and a state of the art submarine to access it
Gordon Cooper successfully piloted the Mercury-Atlas 9 Faith 7 Spacecraft around the Earth 22 times in 1963 paving the way for men to reach the Moon.
He was a pioneer who became the first American to sleep in space and the first to fly twice.
He was also the first American televised from space.
But as well as researching the limits of human endurance he was also charged with a secret spy mission while in orbit.
Using special 'long range detection equipment' Cooper was asked by the US government to look for 'nuclear threats' - which likely meant Russian submarines or nuclear missile sites.
But Miklos says Cooper - an avid treasure hunter - also noted the positions of Caribbean shipwrecks while he conducted this spy mission, and created a map on his return to Earth.
The shipwreck hunter claims long time friend Cooper gave him the maps - which included detailed charts and exact coordinates - after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's and then died in 2004 aged 77.
In the first season of the show Miklos and his team used Cooper's map to make a remarkable discovery in the Caribbean - a centuries-old anchor believed to be from one of Christopher Columbus’ ships.
Cooper's maps led Miklos to dozens of other significant ship wrecks across the Caribbean worth millions of dollars.
But with this latest discovery the Californian is conscious of being labeled 'crazy' by coming out with wild claims that Cooper's map might now have led him to an alien spaceship submerged under the ocean.
That's why he says he wants to remain 'neutral' until he can investigate the mysterious site further.
Miklos and TV production company AMPLE Entertainment are now hoping the Discovery Channel will commission a third season of Cooper's Treasure so they can do just that.
United States astronaut Gordon Cooper (1927-2004) pictured wearing his Mercury space suit used in early phases of the Project Gemini training program in the United States circa 1961. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Miklos said: 'I want to investigate it. I want to see what it is, because it may be nature made, just a freak of nature, but given its placement in this particular part of the Caribbean and given what Gordon has told me about visitors from another planet and the things that I've seen, I think it's definitely worthwhile investigating.'
AMPLE Entertainment founders Ari Mark and Phil Lott, who are behind Cooper's Treasure, are equally as excited.
Mark told DailyMail.com: 'In the first two seasons we didn't enter too far into Cooper's UFO interests and what he had told Darrell about what he had seen.
'I don't feel like we've even scratched the surface of what's in Cooper's files, but that's what we hope to do in a third season.
'The bottom line is that Cooper spotted anomalies and it is his maps that led Darrell to this discovery.
'Cooper was a reliable source for treasure, then based on his findings Darrell found something that does not appear to be a shipwreck or anything that anybody has ever seen.
'We want to find out exactly what it is and establish whether it ties in with Cooper's belief that we're not alone.'
During his post-NASA career, former US Air Force Cooper became well known as an outspoken believer in UFOs and claimed the government was covering up its knowledge of extra-terrestrial activity.
'I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth,' he told a United Nations panel in 1985.
'I feel that we need to have a top-level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the Earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion.'
He added: 'For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us.'
Miklos said Cooper often told him stories of UFO sightings and believed a lot of the world's technological advances had been passed on to governments by messengers from alien planets.
Cooper even designed his own miniature 'UFO' based on an alien design he claimed to have seen.
Using special 'long range detection equipment' Cooper was asked by the US government to look for 'nuclear threats' - which likely meant Russian submarines or nuclear missile sites. But Miklos says Cooper - an avid treasure hunter - also noted the positions of Caribbean shipwrecks while he conducted this spy mission, and created a map on his return to Earth. The shipwreck hunter claims long time friend Cooper gave him the maps - which included detailed charts and exact coordinates
Miklos said Cooper often told him stories of UFO sightings and believed a lot of the world's technological advances had been passed on to governments by messengers from alien planets
Producers Ari Mark (top left) and Phil Lott (top right) with treasure hunter Miklos, host of Discovery Channel's 'Cooper's Treasure
But as for Cooper being a UFO 'nut job', Miklos couldn't disagree more.
He described him as a 'close friend' and 'father figure' who was of 'sane mind'.
'I can tell you one thing for sure, there was a lot of conspiracy theorists and UFO nut jobs that he wanted nothing to do with,' said Miklos.
'Just because he had actual encounters with something that he couldn't explain and other encounters to which he did have an explanation for, but he wasn't going to go and befriend all of these crazy different types of groups.
'In the early days he wasn't going to overstep the bounds of what he could reveal out of fear of getting killed (by the government) and what good would that do. So he kept a lid on it, he kept a lot of it quiet until later in his life.
'So the man I knew wasn't a whack job, he wasn't hallucinating and he wasn't making things up to gain attention, that wasn't him.
'He truly believed in what he saw and he tried to tell it in such a way to make people believe it and he knew because of his background in NASA as a rocket scientist that he was more credible than most.'
Nevertheless, Cooper was often discredited for expressing his beliefs on extra-terrestrial activity, but Miklos added: 'As serious as I'm talking here right now with a clear mind to you, that's who he was.
'He was an honest, straight forward individual who only wanted to investigate and explore the possibilities of the unknown, even if it meant risking his professional career.'
The next episode of Cooper's Treasure airs this Friday on the Discovery Channel at 9pm (PST)
It was going to be the factory of the future. Dubbed the “Alien Dreadnought,”Tesla’s new manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, was designed to be fully automated — no humans need apply. If all went well, AI-powered robots would enable the company to achieve a weekly production of 5,000 Model 3 electric cars to keep up with burgeoning demand. But Tesla fell far short of that mark, manufacturing just 2,000 vehicles a week. The problem, as the company painfully discovered, was that full automation wasn’t everything it was cracked up to be. According to CEO Elon Musk, the sophisticated robots actually slowed down production instead of speeding it up.
Tesla’s solution was to shut down production to address the bottlenecks and then to erect a large temporary structure — essentially a tent — for additional capacity. The company has also hired hundreds of workers to revamp production processes, train (and retrain) the robots, and swap them out when needed, among other tasks. As Musk himself tweeted last April, “Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated.”
Tesla is not the only company to learn the pitfalls of excessive automation. In our global study of more than 1,000 companies at the forefront of implementing AI systems, we have found that the greatest performance gains are achieved not when machines are used to replace employees, but when they are deployed to work alongside them. In such collaborative relationships, people help machines become better, and machines enable people to achieve step-level increases in performance.
Adding Humans to the Mix
For Tesla, adding more human labor to the mix means extending traditional jobs with additional responsibilities that would help ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the Alien Dreadnought. So, for instance, an equipment maintenance supervisor must be able to do more than just supervise hourly technicians and manage the repair of equipment. The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Similarly, equipment maintenance technicians need more than just the know-how to diagnose and troubleshoot industrial equipment. They must also be able to use a variety of analytics, such as thermography and vibration analysis, to proactively determine when certain maintenance procedures should be performed on machinery before a breakdown occurs.
And it’s not just traditional jobs that are being extended to encompass new tasks. Our analysis has uncovered that entirely new categories of jobs are being created. Just as the internet revolution ushered in completely novel jobs — for example, web designer and search-engine optimization engineer — so will the new era of AI. Telsa, for instance, is recruiting robot engineers, computer vision scientists, deep learning scientists, and machine learning systems engineers. And the company has also posted job listings for more-esoteric AI specialties such as a battery algorithms engineer and a sensor-fusion object tracking and prediction engineer. For the former position, the requirements go beyond knowledge of lithium-ion cells (cell capacity, impedance, energy, and so on) to include expertise to develop algorithms for state-of-the-art feedback control and estimation. Moreover, it’s not just technology-related jobs that are being reimagined with AI. In fact, as Tesla and other companies have discovered, AI technologies are having a profound impact throughout the enterprise, from sales and marketing, to R&D, to back-office functions like accounting and finance. As just one example, Tesla deploys an AI system to process its customer data, including information from an online forum, in order to identify common problems with the company’s vehicles.
Some Training Required
Obviously, finding the right individuals to fill roles like “battery algorithms engineer” is not an easy task, especially given the severe shortage of AI expertise, which has pushed some annual salaries well above $300,000. As such, many companies are trying to grow the talent they need in-house. Yet in our global study, we found that although executives have realized that their reskilling programs will require a bigger and different set of activities than in the past, nearly three-quarters of the 1,500 global companies we surveyed said they have struggled with how to proceed.
The solution will require significant new investments in reskilling — especially given that only about 3% of companies are planning along these lines — and may call for collaboration with outside partners as well as government agencies. Consider Adidas’s “Speedfactory,” an advanced manufacturing plant that recently started production outside Atlanta. To open the 74,000-square-foot robotic plant, which will enable manufacturing flexibility for making sneakers designed specifically for local consumers, Adidas worked closely with local authorities in Georgia and with German-based partner OECHSLER Motion. Currently, the facility employs about 150 people in numerous jobs that are highly technical: planners, engineers, stitchers, and technicians. As the factory was being built, OECHSLER staff worked from a startup hub that was run as a partnership between Chattahoochee Technical College, the Cherokee Office of Economic Development, and the Woodstock Office of Economic Development. Other incentives included a state tax credit of $3,500 per job created, as well as assistance from Georgia Quick Start, a state program that provides training support. In addition, Adidas flew employees to Germany for training, to work with the specialized AI-based robotic machinery.
As the amount of employee training increases, some companies have begun to develop their own certification programs to help employees acquire the knowledge and expertise they’ll need. Take, for example, GE Global Research, which has set up online programs to teach machine learning and other specific skills. Several hundred employees have already completed the company’s certification program for data analytics, which have enabled people to assume new roles.
Back at Tesla, Model 3 workers receive more training than other production staff, and this includes classroom training in both manufacturing essentials and manufacturing fundamentals. Tesla has also been launching new technician training programs that, for example, help people make the transition from working on internal combustion engines to electric vehicles. And the company has partnered with colleges to provide students with the education they’ll need for a career in the electric-vehicle industry.
As much as Tesla has embraced automation and AI, the company’s success will ultimately depend on humans. To meet burgeoning demand for the Model 3, Musk has expressed his desire to eventually run three shifts of manufacturing a day, essentially keeping the assembly line in nonstop operation. To accomplish that, the plan is to hire about 400 employees a week, resulting in considerable demands for onboard training to accommodate that influx. Meeting that challenge of employee training will be crucial to attain the necessary economies of scale, given the Model 3’s relatively low entry price point, starting at $35,000. According to one analysis, the car has the potential to achieve a 30% margin, which would be unprecedented for a battery-powered vehicle. Yet even as the company finally achieved the targeted production of 5,000 vehicles in the last week of June, whether it can maintain and accelerate that aggressive pace remains to be seen. Ironically, even in the factory of the future, humans may be needed now more than ever.
Strange new mineral found in a Russian meteorite-Representational image University of New Mexico
Prospectors hunting for gold in southern Russia stumbled upon a chunk of material that turned out to be a meteorite made of material that has never been seen before on Earth.
This alien piece of rock has been named Uakitite after the town it was found in. Scientists presented the discovery of the Uakit meteorite at the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Moscow.
Researchers say that 98 percent of the meteorite is made up of kamacite, an alloy of iron and nickel. This alloy is made of nearly 90 to 95 percent iron and about 5 to 10 percent nickel. It is formed in space and only found in its natural state in meteors, notes a report by LiveScience.
The remaining 1 to 2 percent of the Uakit meteorite was found to be made of about a dozen minerals that are known to have formed only in space. The composition of this meteorite suggests that it was formed under extreme heat of well over 1,000 degree C, say the researchers.
Kamacite is an alloy commonly found in meteorites. In the case of a new discovery in Siberia, it was found to contain traces of a new mineral completely alien to science.
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On further study, researchers found the uakitite as miniscule grains in the rock, no larger than 5 micrometres—less than 25 times the size of a grain of sand. The quantity of Uakitite was so small that scientists could not even accurately put together all of its properties, notes the report.
However, researchers found that it is structurally comparable to two other out-of this-world minerals—carlsbergite and osbornite. Referred to as mononitrides, these minerals contain one nitrogen atom in their make up, notes the report.
Mononitrides are described as being hard and can even be used as an abrasive, said lead researcher Victor Sharygin, from the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy.
While rumours have spread that uakitite is actually harder than diamond—the hardest naturally formed mineral on Earth—Sharygin clarified that this claim is untrue. In fact, "the hardness of uakitite was not measured directly," because the grains were too small, he said. Researchers instead estimated the hardness of uakitite using vanadium nitride, because it closely resembles Uakitite.
The meteorite found in the Siberian region of Uakit. It has been found to contain a hard, never-before-seen, mineral.
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Researchers have said that uakitite falls between 9 and 10 on the Mohs hardness scale where a diamond is placed at 10. That means it is hard, but not diamond hard.
The sun is Earth's closest stellar neighbor. It provides energy that allows life to exist on our planet, but that energy comes at a cost; the sun has a variable environment that includes solar flares, coronal mass ejections of charged particles and the solar wind. It is important for scientists to have a better understanding of how the sun behaves on a daily basis, because radiation emanating from it can affect astronauts or satellites in space. Here are some of the more prominent missions that studied the sun.
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1. Genesis (2001-04)
Genesis was the first spacecraft to capture a sample of the solar wind, or the constant stream of particles that emanate from our sun. The spacecraft performed a three-year sampling round at a gravitationally stable area in space — known as Lagrange 1 — before returning to Earth. Unfortunately, the spacecraft made a hard landing after its parachute didn't deploy, according to NASA, but some of the sample did survive. "Researchers have already found evidence that the Earth possibly formed from different solar nebula materials than those that created the sun," NASA stated.
2. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) (1995-present)
SOHO is a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to study the sun, observing all the way from its core out to the solar wind. It launched on Dec. 2, 1995, for an original three-year mission, but its lifetime has been extended several times due to its ongoing success. Some of its major observations include studying the sun over two 11-year solar cycles, sending back information about the sun's structure and helping scientists better predict solar outbursts, according to ESA.
3. Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) (1998-2010)
TRACE's major goal was to better understand how magnetic fields and plasma (superheated gas) act in the sun's environment. The spacecraft helped scientists better understand the "geometry and dynamics of the upper solar atmosphere," NASA stated, which helped scientists get a better idea of the nature of the hot outer atmosphere called the corona. TRACE was also the first mission to study the sun during an entire solar cycle.
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4. Ulysses (1990-2009)
Ulysses, a joint mission between NASA and ESA, was designed to look at the heliosphere, which is the part of space under the influence of the sun. Using a gravity assist at Jupiter, Ulysses orbited the sun at its poles for 18 years. "The probe revealed for the first time the three-dimensional character of galactic cosmic radiation, energetic particles produced in solar storms and the solar wind," NASA stated.
Yohkoh (also known as Solar-A) was a Japanese-led spacecraft from the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, the former name of Japan's space agency. The Earth-orbiting spacecraft imaged the sun in X-rays and with spectrometry. Some of its discoveries included showing that solar flares are "magnetic reconnection phenomena" caused by events in the sun's magnetic field and that the solar corona can change its scale dynamically, according to the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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6. Solar Maximum Mission (1980-1989)
The Solar Maximum Mission was designed to study the sun at the height of its 11-year solar cycle, when solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) tend to be most frequent. It launched on Feb. 14, 1980, and it was briefly disabled by a malfunction in 1981, according to NASA. Astronauts on board the space shuttle Challenger serviced the spacecraft in April 1984 and set it free again for observations. It then continued its data gathering until burning up in Earth's atmosphere on Dec. 2, 1989. The mission found that the sun is brighter during the sunspot cycle maximum and also discovered several sun-grazing comets.
Japan's Hinode satellite (also known as Solar-B) focuses on the solar corona, the extremely hot upper atmosphere of the sun. Scientists aren't sure why the corona (at millions of degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit) is so much hotter than the lowest layer of the sun, the photosphere, which is about 10,000 degrees F (5,500 degrees C). Scientists hope for "an improved understanding of the mechanisms of solar explosions, which will in turn greatly help us predict how solar events affect Earth," according to the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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8. Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) (2006-present)
STEREO was launched with two spacecraft: STEREO-Ahead (which orbits the sun ahead of Earth in its orbit) and STEREO-Behind (which orbits the sun behind Earth). Its achievements include showing the three-dimensional structure of CMEs and showing how matter and energy flow to Earth, according to NASA. The mission continues to operate well beyond its design lifetime, although communication with STEREO-B was lost on Oct. 1, 2014, due to "multiple hardware anomalies," according to NASA. The agency briefly heard from STEREO-Bagain in 2016, but quickly lost contact and hasn't heard from it since.
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9. Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) (2010-present)
The major goal of SDO is to better understand solar activity. Specifically, it examines how the sun's magnetic field is structured and generated, and how the sun's energy gets transformed into the solar wind, energetic particles and solar irradiance (flux of radiant energy) variations, according to NASA. One of SDO's major achievements is generating images to help scientists pinpoint magnetic-field variations and the sources of solar eruptions, NASA said in an image caption.
10. Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (2013-present)
IRIS focuses on the lower levels of the sun's atmosphere, which is a region that is called the interface region. The probe picks up information on how solar material moves through the sun, as well as the temperature of the region. This region sends solar material into the corona and the solar wind and also is behind most of the ultraviolet radiation that gets to Earth, according to NASA. In 2016, IRIS found that solar "bombs" of material heat the upper atmosphere, which may help explain how the corona gets so hot.
Parker Solar Probe is expected to launch in 2018 to get closer to the sun than ever before. It will "touch" material from the corona, zooming in as close as 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) to the sun's photosphere, according to NASA. The spacecraft will make seven flybys of Venus over seven years and do periodic passes by the sun, aiming to provide an unprecedented close-up look at the corona and the origins of the solar wind.
Solar Orbiter is an ESA-led mission to examine how the sun generates the heliosphere, as well as the solar wind, energetic particles and other emissions from the sun. "Being close to the Sun allows for observations of solar surface features and their connection to the heliosphere for much longer periods than from near-Earth vantage points. The view of the solar poles will help us to understand how dynamo processes generate the sun's magnetic field," ESA stated.
Conspiracy theorists of Brisbane caught a glimpse of the unexplainable on Tuesday morning when a mysterious hole opened up in the cotton-ball clouds blanketing the city. Australian Twitter responded predictably, calling the hole a “portal” for UFOs. There’s no denying that the oblong gap seemed wide enough for aliens to step through, but as atmospheric scientist David A. Kristovich, Ph.D., explains to Inverse, it merely marks the footprint of falling ice.
“These are called ‘cavum’ or ‘hole-punch’ clouds,” explains Kristovich, who heads the Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Section of the Illinois State Water Survey Prairie Research Institute at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Cavum are usually circular or oval shaped holes that can sometimes be seen in layers of altocumulus or cirrocumulus cloud.”
Marc Lawrence@ozlangur
“It was not an alien invasion portal” but I refuse to let this story go until #theirABC stops hiding the alien invasion and, for balance, lists all the other things it wasn’t. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-
Portal-like cloud holes over Brisbane fuel wild speculation
Cotton-ball clouds paint strange and spectacular holes in the sky over Brisbane odd enough to attract the interest of forecasters at the weather bureau.
Cumulus clouds are the soft, puffy ones that look like the clumps in a favorite fleece sweater; altocumulus and cirrocumulus are subtypes that respectively live in the middle range and high range of the atmosphere. They’re opaque because they’re stuffed with water droplets that don’t quite behave the way you might expect water at that temperature to behave.
“In these conditions, the water droplets are called ‘supercooled’ because they remain liquid even though the temperature is below freezing,” says Kristovich. Understanding that those liquid droplets eventually turn to ice under certain conditions is key to believing that Brisbane’s cloud-holes are not caused by invading UFOs.
Cirrocumulus cloud, at about 9km high, played host to a fallstreak hole or punch hole cloud over #Brisbane today. Ice crystals fall out of the cloud and eat away at the remaining supercooled water droplets leaving a hole. Maybe a plane triggered the initial ice formation?
We’re all taught that liquid water freezes at 0 °C, but for a number of reasons this is not always the case. To turn to ice, a droplet of water must first “nucleate” — meaning it must have a seed around which to grow the rest of the ice crystal — but sometimes, at cumulus-level temperatures, the nuclei just don’t form. The water remains liquid and “supercooled,” and the cloud stays opaque. But this balance is a precarious one and can change any moment.
A number of factors can rapidly shift in a cloud, sowing the seeds of ice formation. And once ice starts to form, holes in the cloud begin to grow.
“If ice crystals start to form in these clouds of liquid droplets, they grow rapidly and draw water from the liquid drops,” says Kristovich. “As the area of ice crystal formation grows, the cloud droplets evaporate, causing a patch of the cloud layer to ‘disappear’.”
In the photo below, the elongated gash tearing through the sky represents the area where nucleation began and ice crystals started to form. As the translucent mist within the hole suggests, however, it’s not a perfectly cleared gateway to the upper atmosphere.
“The patch where the cloud layer disappeared often looks hazy and might have ‘virga’ – hazy wisps of ice crystals falling toward the earth because of their growth and increasing weight,” says Kristovich.
This may come as disappointing news for alien seekers, but they can take solace in the little mystery that remains surrounding hole-punch clouds. The sudden formation of ice crystals that causes droplets to fall out of an opaque cloud is not entirely understood, and scientists are still trying to figure out what prompts them to form. Some think it could well be flying objects — but not the unidentified kind.
“There has been a lot of interest in the scientific literature on what causes the ice crystals to form in these patches,” says Kristovich. “One way is through the influences of aircraft going through the cloud layers.” He refers to an articlepublished in 2010 in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society entitled “Aircraft-Induced Hole Punch and Canal Clouds: Inadvertent Cloud Seeding,” which documented the role of airplanes in causing ice crystals to form — that is, “seeding” — in cumulus clouds.
Previous studies have shown, however, that there are a number of ways that a cloud can be seeded. In fact, we already artificially seed clouds with molecules of silver iodide to force them to rain sooner than they naturally might. Brisbane, for its part, seems to have used a different type of human intervention to seed its clouds, though local UFO enthusiasts may not be convinced.
Let’s see … there’s the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon … Sloth, Greed, Dopey and Sneezy?
The Seven Wonders of the World (see the list here) were eventually called the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World as people began to create new lists that their favorite wonders, both manmade and natural, might fit in. Those left off competed for the title of Eight Wonder of the World. One such natural wonder candidate was the Pink and White Terraces of New Zealand — Te Otukapuarangi (“The fountain of the clouded sky”) and Te Tarata (“The tattooed rock”) – which were considered to be the largest silica sinter deposits on earth until they were completely destroyed in the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.
Does that eliminate them from the competition?
“The Pink and White Terraces were, at the time, unique natural manifestations of hydrothermal activity that impressed many visitors who travelled to the shores of Lake Rotomahana, prior to their inferred demise on 10 June 1886.”
Charles Blomfield’s “Pink Terraces”
A new study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand reveals that the answer may be “yes and no.” Prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera, the silica sinter of the natural terraces leading down to the shore of Lake Rotomahana caught the sunlight and was said to cause them to glow in brilliant white and dazzling pink. Unfortunately, the colors were only able to be captured in paintings, the most famous being Charles Blomfield’s Pink Terraces.
Shortly after midnight on June 10, 1886, earthquakes shook the area, portending the eruptions of Mount Tarawera beginning two hours later. By the time it was over, the surrounding landscape and lakes had been changed permanently and the Pink and White Terraces, just 10 km (6.2 miles) from the eruption appeared to have been destroyed and lost forever in the crater that eventually became a part of the new Lake Rotomahana.
Recent expeditions beginning in 2011 claimed to have found remains of the terraces on the floor of Lake Rotomahana, but revised studies based on underwater photographs determined they were destroyed or not there, a theory promoted by different researchers who claimed that the remains of the terraces were actually buried less than 15 meters deep along the lake’s shore. That theory was disproved by the latest study.
Historical photo of the Pink Terraces
Researchers, led by study author Cornel de Ronde, a research geologist at GNS Science in New Zealand, used historical photographs, maps, an 1859 survey, side-scan sonar, seismic surveys and other new technologies to chart the lake floor and prove the theory that the remains of part of the Pink Terraces are on the bottom of the lake.
“To conclude, it is the combination of numerous lines of scientific investigation, when paired with historical evidence and a quantitative analytical approach, that has enabled a holistic assessment of the available evidence resulting in accurate positions for the location of the Pink and White Terraces.”
Does this put the Pink and White Terraces back in the running for Eight Wonder of the World? Possibly, although the chance of any photographs of them seem pretty slim because of the depth they’re buried at and local Maori restrictions.
Which brings up the mystery of the phantom canoe. A Maori legend tells of a tourist boat returning from the Terraces just days before the eruption that saw what appeared to be a war canoe approaching their boat, then disappearing in the mist. One of the many witnesses was a local Maori clergyman. There were no records of the boat and one legend is that a fissure freed a canoe from the lake bottom that had been used for the funeral of a dead chief … a possible warning of the eruption. And future eruptions?
Local legends die hard. Will the chief have anything to say about the confirmation of the terraces?
Why aliens might turn to star collecting to save themselves
Why aliens might turn to star collecting to save themselves
As galaxies spread apart, extraterrestrials might want to assemble a nuclear "nest egg."
by Seth Shostak
Aliens could build huge swarms of solar panels around stars to move them.
Kevin Gill
It’s often said that the search for aliens is too parochial — that our continuing efforts to locate cosmic radio broadcasts or laser beams are really just quests for analogs of ourselves.
Why so? Well, these efforts presume that extraterrestrials have enough curiosity to reach out to others in the galaxy, or at least send messages skyward for their own purposes (perhaps as a galaxy-wide newscast). These are motives we can understand because our descendants might do something similar.
But what about truly advanced beings? What would a higher-than-high-tech society do that others in the galaxy might notice? This is worth thinking about because broadcasting might not be their thing.
One possibility is that they would build or rearrange big stuff — in other words, engage in civil engineering on the scale of planets or larger. That would produce the kind of artifacts that astronomers might hope to see with their telescopes. Such undertakings would be a burden on Klingon taxpayers, so whatever they did would have to be worth the money.
THE ULTIMATE BUMMER
Can we imagine a super-sized infrastructure project that would be a justifiable expense for the galaxy’s truly superior societies? Dan Hooper, a physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Lab near Chicago, believes he’s thought of one.
He notes that if you’re a long-lived culture, planning to hang around for semi-eternity, then the expansion of the universe is the ultimate bummer. The star-filled galaxies are now known to be moving away from one another (although the stars within a galaxy won’t do this). Worse, the speed of their sprawl is increasing. Even a Hubble-like space telescope will someday be a bad investment for our distant descendants, as very few galaxies will be close enough for it to observe.
That would frustrate future astronomers, of course. But an alien populace might see the thinning of the cosmos as an existential threat. Stars are useful energy sources, and each galaxy contains a few hundred billion of them. But every day, these fuel reserves retreat to greater and greater distances.
NUCLEAR NEST EGG
Hooper suggests that aliens would have the foresight to grab these stars while the grabbing’s good. They would snag them from surrounding galaxies and park them in their backyards for future use — a kind of nuclear nest egg that would provide sustenance during a dark and lonely future.
Hooper doesn’t offer a detailed description of how aliens might accomplish this stellar roundup. But he notes that the energy for transportation could be harvested from the cargo itself — by building huge swarms of solar panels (so-called Dyson spheres) around the stars to be moved, and then using the collected energy to power some sort of rocket engine.
In other words, the stars’ own glow could be used to carry them off to someone else’s galaxy.
From the standpoint of discovering extraterrestrials, Hooper’s scenario has an interesting consequence: If any extraterrestrials have been collecting stars, we might be able to find their stockpiles simply by making detailed photos of galaxies — a routine activity for astronomers. If we see extended patches of light with the brightness of, say, thousands of stars — or a galactic region where stars seem to be missing — then we’ll know that someone (or something) was thinking long term: preparing for the inevitable cosmic winter by stocking up on necessities while they can.
There are problems with Hooper’s idea. If there are many super societies out there, taking stars might be equivalent to cattle rustling on the final frontier. After all, you might be depriving someone of their future livelihood, and who knows if they’d fight back?
And as a matter of physics, you’d have to transport the stars quickly. You can’t spend more than a few billion years hauling them home because stars are perishable goods — they burn out.
The need for speed complicates the problem, because a high velocity requires lots of energy. As an example, suppose someone lugs a star from 10 million light-years away to our galaxy at one percent the speed of light, or nearly 7 million miles per hour. That’s a long ride, and even at this formidable speed, it would take a billion years. That might be OK, as most stars won’t expire in that time. But the fuel’s the rub, because rather few bright stars radiate enough energy in a billion years to accelerate themselves to one percent of light speed.
So paying for the haulage with starshine is dicey. It’s roughly equivalent to buying something by mail order and having to pay many times the item’s cost for shipping. That’s clearly unattractive, but you can always say it’s a technicality to be left to the aliens to figure out.
Hooper’s idea is imaginative, even if its practicality is uncertain. But at least it doesn’t assume that the extraterrestrials are like us. In the movies, the gray guys spend their time filching our resources, leveling our cities or assaulting our bodies. They’re no more than hairless hooligans. But for a society that’s millions or billions of years beyond us, there might be more important things to do.
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SEE NEWLY DISCOVERED ANCIENT DRAWINGS IN PERU DESERT
Researchers surveying in southern Peru with drones have captured images of ancient geoglyphs, and more than 50 of the massive ancient drawings are considered new discoveries by archaeologists.
Etched into the high desert of southern Peru more than a millennium ago, the enigmatic Nasca lines continue to capture our imagination. More than a thousand of these geoglyphs (literally, 'ground drawings') sprawl across the sandy soil of Nasca province, the remains of little-understood ritual practicesthat may have been connected to life-giving rain.
Now, Peruvian archaeologists armed with drones have discovered more than 50 new examples of these mysterious desert monuments in adjacent Palpa province, traced onto the earth's surface in lines almost too fine to see with the human eye. In addition, archaeologists surveyed locally known geoglyphs with drones for the first time—mapping them in never-before-seen detail.
Some of the newfound lines belong to the Nasca culture, which held sway in the area from 200 to 700 A.D. However, archaeologists suspect that the earlier Paracas and Topará cultures carved many of the newfound images between 500 B.C. and 200 A.D.
Unlike the iconic Nasca lines—most of which are only visible from overhead—the older Paracas glyphs were laid down on hillsides, making them visible to villages below. The two cultures also pursued different artistic subjects: Nasca lines most often consist of lines or polygons, but many of the newfound Paracas figures depict humans.
“Most of these figures are warriors,” says Peruvian archaeologist Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, the new glyphs' co-discoverer. “These ones could be spotted from a certain distance, so people had seen them, but over time, they were completely erased.”
A View From the Sky and Space
Many of the newly discovered Nasca lines are too faint to be seen by the human eye, yet visible when captured in low altitude by a drone camera.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY LUIS JAIME CASTILLO, PALPA NASCA PROJECT
The new geoglyphs add crucial data on the Paracas culture, as well as the mysterious Topará culture, which marked the transition between the Paracas and the Nasca. Centuries before the famous Nasca lines were made, people in the region were experimenting with making massive geoglyphs.
“This means that it is a tradition of over a thousand years that precedes the famous geoglyphs of the Nasca culture, which opens the door to new hypotheses about its function and meaning,” says Peruvian Ministry of Culture archaeologist Johny Isla, the Nasca lines' chief restorer and protector.
Ironically, the discovery of the new geoglyphs was only made possible because of threats to previously known Nasca lines.
Isla's work is extraordinarily difficult, and made even harder by spotty maps. Of the estimated 100,000 archaeological sites in Peru, Isla's colleague Castillo says only about 5,000 have been properly documented on the ground. Even fewer have been mapped from the air.
Ancient Peruvians created geoglyphs like the Nasca lines by moving stones to define edges of the lines, and then scraping the top layer of earth between the edges to reveal lighter soil beneath.
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Castillo, a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and the country's former vice-minister of cultural heritage, has long championed using drones and other aerial mapping techniques to catalog archaeological sites. Now, Isla and Castillo have much more data to work with, thanks to National Geographic Explorer and “space archaeologist” Sarah Parcak.
“When we were thinking about countries to go to ... it had to be a country that everyone in the world would know is important, where the Ministry of Culture would be open to new technology, and where most of the sites would be out in the open and fairly easy to detect,” says Parcak, an archaeologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “Peru definitely fit the bill.”
Hiding in Plain Sight
This newly discovered Nasca line feature, captured by a drone, consists of several straight lines with no discernible pattern which were likely made at different times and for different purposes.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY LUIS JAIME CASTILLO, PALPA NASCA PROJECT
Once GlobalXplorer volunteers flagged potential targets in the satellite data that may be potential archaeological sites or instances of looting, Parcak then turned the target locations over to Peruvian archaeologists. With the support of the Sustainable Preservation Initiative, Castillo and three of his students embarked on a ground-truthing expedition funded by the National Geographic Society.
When Castillo's team visited Nasca and Palpa provinces in December 2017, they didn’t find much evidence of fresh looting at the GlobalXplorer candidate targets. Instead, they found decades-old looting sites and encroachment fueled by the region's booming illegal gold mines.
But when researchers photographed the sites from overhead with drones, they found something new—and unexpected. The high-resolution images contained hints of dozens of ancient geoglyphs, carved into the desert crust.
How could so many geoglyphs hide in plain sight? Over time, many of the lines and figures have been reduced to faint depressions in the soil, visible only on 3-D scans of the terrain captured by the eagle-eye perspective provided by drones. And despite satellites' awe-inspiring surveillance power, they can’t see everything.
The most powerful satellite that GlobalXplorer uses can see a foot-wide object from 383 miles above Earth's surface. That’s the equivalent of seeing a single human hair from more than 650 feet away. But the lines that trace the newfound geoglyphs are mere inches across—too fine to spot from space.
Low-flying drones operating at altitudes of 200 feet or less, in contrast, can spot objects less than a half-inch wide. “The [drone camera] resolution is incredibly high,” says Castillo.
More to Discover, More to Protect
Now that researchers have documented the newfound lines, they're eager to protect them. The new geoglyphs fall within the UNESCO World Heritage Siteencompassing the Nasca and Palpa lines, and according to Isla, they are not under immediate threat.
However, the newfound lines have yet to be registered with the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. The lines' co-discoverer, Fabrizio Serván, a student at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, says that the necessary maps and drawings are currently being drafted.
Perhaps the lines will soon have company. GlobalXplorer users have flagged hundreds of new potential sites that Peruvian archaeologists will continue ground truthing this fall and winter.
“The data and information obtained with the GlobalXplorer project are extraordinary in quality and quantity, and above all in a relatively short period of time,” says Isla. “This puts us at the forefront in the registry of archaeological sites and geoglyphs in particular.”
“We give the data to local experts: This is their cultural patrimony, they're the stakeholders,” says Parcak. “We're providing a resource.”
In the future, Parcak and Castillo say that GlobalXplorer data can help protect archaeological sites from unplanned urban and rural encroachment, which, beyond looting and the occasional errant truck driver, is by far the biggest threat facing Peru's geoglyphs.
Castillo describes the ongoing encroachment as “land trafficking”: a sophisticated effort within Peru to forge deeds and build illegal housing by the acre, erasing the country's cultural heritage in the process.
“We're not fighting a looter with his shovel, running away when you're blowing a whistle; we're fighting an army of lawyers,” he says. “This is a constant battle, so the work we're doing—documenting the sites, geo-referencing—is the best protection we can give the sites.”
From above the rust-colored desert plains of Peru, a mysterious tapestry of geometric shapes and animal figures appears on the ground, etched in white.
The geoglyphs scratched into the barren ground of the Rio Grande de Nasca drainage basin are the Nasca Lines, one of archeology’s greatest mysteries. Theories of their purpose put forth over the years have included alien-constructed landing strips, a giant astronomical calendar, ceremonial pathways to the sites of sacred rituals, and markers of subterranean water sources.
The fantastic landscape—with representations of hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, trees, trapezoids, and spirals—was created by removing rocks and the top layer of soil, colored red by oxidation, to reveal the lighter earth underneath. Thanks to the unusually dry and windless climate, the images have been incredibly well-preserved. (Related: Trucker Drives Over Mysterious Ancient Monuments)
Over the centuries, the lime-rich sub-layer of soil hardened, further protecting the designs from wind damage and preserving them for future generations. Today, the landscape represents the largest and most diverse collection of geoglyphs in the world. The site was inscribed UNESCO World Heritage in 1994 for its archeological and cultural significance.
Altogether, the designs cover more than 300 square miles and include dozens of animal and plant figures and hundreds of lines and shapes. Many of the images are so large that they can only be fully seen from above, leading some to believe that they were meant for the eyes of gods, not humans.
The geoglyphs are believed to have been created in several phases between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D. by the pre-Hispanic people living on the Peruvian south coast. The Nasca people, who predated the Incas by centuries, inhabited the area until about 700 A.D.
The images were rediscovered in the modern era after the advent of aviation, as pilots began flying over Peru in the 1930s. Since that time, a series of researchers have obsessed over the reason behind the designs, some devoting their lives to the research.
One of the earliest to intensively study the geoglyphs was American professor Paul Kosok, who theorized that the designs represented “the largest astronomy book in the world.” The view was shared by German researcher Maria Reiche, who devoted her career to the project, earning her the moniker “Lady of the Lines.”
Later researchers disputed the astronomical explanation and suggested a number of other theories. Johan Reinhard, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, posited that the lines pointed the way to ritual sites, while researchers David Johnson and Don Proulx concluded that the designs were markers of an underground water system. (Related: 7 Ancient Sites Some People Think Were Built by Aliens)
New images continue to be discovered, most recently in Palpa province, where 50 new examples were uncovered in early 2018. Many of the images, which include a dancing woman and a whale, are believed to have been created by the Paracas and Topara cultures, who inhabited the land before the Nasca people.
How to visit:
There are two options for viewing the Nasca Lines: from the air or via a viewing platform adjacent to the site. Private planes are available for charter from the Nasca airport for those who want the full gods-eye view. The plane tours cost about a hundred dollars for a half-hour tour, but will certainly provide the most memorable viewing. It is recommended for those who opt for the aerial tour that they book in advance and research the safety record of the company with which they will be chartering.
For those on a budget, there is no need to skip the site. Several the geoglyphs can be seen from El Mirador, a platform situated on a hill off the Pan American Highway.
“There have been 10,000 Generations Before Us --Ours Could be the First to Discover Extraterrestrial Life” --NASA
“There have been 10,000 Generations Before Us --Ours Could be the First to Discover Extraterrestrial Life” --NASA
In 1960, the astrophysicist Francis Drake pointed a radio telescope situated in Green Bank, West Virginia, in the direction of two Sun-like stars 11 light years away. His faith: to pick up a signal that would verify gifted life might be out there. Fifty years have departed by since Drake’s pioneering SETI experiment, and we’ve yet to perceive the aliens. But because of a host of discoveries, the idea that life might survive outside Earth now appears more believable than ever. For one, we now know that life can flourish in the most extreme surroundings here on Earth — from deep-sea methane seep and Antarctic sea ice to acidic rivers and our thirstiest deserts.
We’ve also discovered that liquid water isn’t exclusive to our planet. Saturn’s moon “Enceladus” and Jupiter’s moons “Ganymede” and “Europa” have large oceans underneath their icy surfaces. Even Saturn’s largest moon “Titan” could seed some kind of life in its lakes and rivers of methane-ethane. And then there’s the finding of exo-planets, with more than 1800 alien worlds outside our Solar System recognized so far. In fact, astrophysicists think there may be a million and millions of planets in our galaxy alone, one-fifth of which may be like Earth. As Carl Sagan excellently said: “The Universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
Now some researchers trust the hunt for life outside Earth may well repay in our lifespan. “There have been 10K generations of humans before us. Ours could be the first to know,” said SETI astrophysicist Seth Shostak.
But what can occur once we do? How would we deal with the discovery? And what would be its influence on humanity? This overwhelming question was the focus of a meeting organized last September by the NASA Astrobiology Institute and the Library of Congress. For two days, a group of researchers, historians, philosophers and theologians from round the world discussed how we might prepare for the preordained discovery of life — microbial or intelligent — somewhere else in our Universe. The conference was hosted by Steven J. Dick, the 2nd yearly Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress.
Of course, the influence of discovery will rest on on the specific situation. In a talk titled “Current Approaches to Finding Life Beyond Earth, and What Happens If We Do,” Shostak proposed three ways — or three “horse races” — for discovering life in space. First, we could discover it close, in our Solar System. NASA’s Curiosity Rover is at present studying the Martian surface for clues of past or present life. And “Europa Clipper”, a mission to Jupiter’s icy moon, is now under attention.
Second, we could “discover it out” of the atmosphere of an exo-planet, using telescopes to look for gases such as methane and oxygen that might clue at a biosphere. The James Webb Space Telescope, to be launched in 2018, will be able to carry out that kind of work.
Discovering life in our Solar System, which possibly would be microbial, might not have as great an impression as hearing from an intellectual civilization far away. We’d have to worry about matters like contamination. We might also find some different biochemistry, maybe exposing new visions about the nature of life. But that type of finding wouldn’t affect us as much as the view of communicating with intellectual life.
Then again it would take hundreds, if not thousands of years for a signal to mobile from side to side, Shostak mentioned. So that third situation would only show us a very few things immediately, such as their locality or what type of star they orbit. However, picking a signal might have other tempting implications about the nature of alien intellect.
Several scientists, including Shostak, put forward the following proposition: “That once a society creates the technology that could put them in touch with the cosmos, they are only a few hundred years away from changing their paradigm from biology to artificial intelligence.” The knowledge is based on the so-called “time scale argument” or “short window observation.”
Many scientists forecast we’ll have industrialized a strong A.I by 2050 here on Earth — about a hundred years after the creation of computers, or a hundred and fifty years after the creation of radio connectio. “The point is that, going from creating radios to devising thinking machines is very short — a few centuries at most,” Shostak said. “The leading intelligence in the cosmos may well be non-biological.”
In a talk titled “Alien Minds,” Susan Schneider, a philosophy professor at the University of Connecticut, explained that idea further. The idea of “whole brain emulation” is becoming gradually general among certain scientists, she explained. So are other unbelievable sounding ideas like “mind uploading” and “immortally.” So, to her, a civilization able to radio communicate would probably be “super-intelligent” by the time we hear from them.
According to the "short window observation" concept, a civilization talented of radio communication would possibly have established artificial intelligence by the time we hear from them. She also claimed that alien super-intelligence would be sensible in principle, since the neural code is similar to a computational code, and thoughts could well be inserted in a silicon-based substrate. A silicon-based intelligence would also have wonderful effects for long distance space travel. But again, a repeated theme throughout the conference was to be alert of our anthropocentric tendencies. There’s been a vast gap between microbial life and intelligent life on Earth, and even intelligent life has even progressed on a spectrum.
Lori Marino, a neuroscientist and current director of the Kimela Center for Animal Advocacy, debated as such in a talked titled “The Landscape of Intelligence.” We have a lot to study from other intelligent beings here on Earth (such as dolphins) before even thinking about contacting aliens.
Eventually, the utmost implications might be philosophical. Whether it turns out to be microbial, compound or intelligent, finding life somewhere else will increase fascinating questions about our place in the cosmos. A couple of presentations, by theologian Robin Lovin and Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno, even spoke the potential influence on the world’s religions. But what if we don’t find anything soon, or even at all?
The hunt itself can give us a sense of direction, and help us furnace a planetary characteristics, argued the philosopher Clement Vidal in a talk titled “Silent Impact.” And if we’re really alone, then we should start taking good care of life here on Earth, and consider our duty of colonization, he added. The hunt itself can help us forge a planetary identity, said philosopher Clement Vidal. In the interim, astrobiology can help thin the gap among the sciences and humanities, as many presenters highlighted. And it can be a step to incorporating our knowledge across a wide range of disciplines.
So, how do we get ready for something we know so little about? We do so “by on-going to do good science, but also by understanding that science is not metaphysically neutral,” finished the conference host Steven Dick. “We get ready by continuing to question our suppositions about the nature of life and intelligence.”
The Planet Is Dangerously Close to the Tipping Point for a 'Hothouse Earth'
The Planet Is Dangerously Close to the Tipping Point for a 'Hothouse Earth'
By Yasemin Saplakoglu, Staff Writer
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It's the year 2300. Extreme weather events such as building-flattening hurricanes, years-long droughts and wildfires are so common that they no longer make headlines. The last groups of humans left near the sizzling equator pack their bags and move toward the now densely populated poles.
This so-called "hothouse Earth," where global temperatures will be 7 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (4 to 5 degrees Celsius) higher than preindustrial temperatures and sea levels will be 33 to 200 feet (10 to 60 meters) higher than today, is hard to imagine — but easy to fall into, said a new perspective article published today (Aug. 6) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Top 9 Ways the World Could End]
In the article, a group of scientists argued that there is a threshold temperature above which natural feedback systems that currently keep the Earth cool will unravel. At that point, a cascade of climate events will thrust the planet into a "hothouse" state. Though the scientists don't know exactly what this threshold is, they said it could be as slight as 2 degrees C (around 4 degrees F) of warming above preindustrial levels.
Sound familiar? The 2 degrees C mark plays a big role in the Paris Agreement, the landmark 2016 agreement signed by 179 countries to combat climate change by reducing carbon emissions (the same one that the U.S. announced it would withdraw from last year). In that accord, countries agreed to work to keep global temperature rise well below 2 degrees C, and ideally below 1.5 degrees C, above preindustrial levels this century.
"This paper gives very strong scientific support … that we should avoid coming too close or even reaching 2 degrees Celsius warming," article co-author Johan Rockström, director of the Stockholm Resilience Center and a professor of water systems and global sustainability at Stockholm University in Sweden, told Live Science.
Changing Earth's rhythm
For the last million years, Earth has naturally cycled in and out of an ice age every 100,000 years or so. The planet left the last ice age around 12,000 years ago and is currently in an interglacial cycle called the Holocene epoch. In this cycle, Earth has natural systems that help keep it cool, even during the warmer interglacial periods.
But many scientists argue that due to the immense impact of humans on climate and the environment, the current geological age should be called the Anthropocene (from anthropogenic, which means originating with human activity). Temperatures are almost as hot as the maximum historical temperature during an interglacial cycle, Rockström said.
If carbon emissions continue unabated, the planet might leave the glacial-interglacial cycle and be thrust into a new age of the "hothouse Earth."
Today, we emit 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from burning fossil fuels, Rockström said. But roughly half of those emissions are taken up and stored by the oceans, trees and soil, he said.
However, we are now seeing signs that we are pushing the system too far — cutting down too many trees, degrading too much soil, taking out too much fresh water and pumping too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, Rockström said.
Scientists fear that if we reach a certain temperature threshold, some of these natural processes will reverse and the planet "will become a self-heater,"Rockström said. That means, forests, soil and water will release the carbon they're storing.
"The moment the planet becomes a source of greenhouse gas emissions together with us humans, then as you can imagine, things are accelerating very fast in the wrong direction," he said. [Doom and Gloom: Top 10 Postapocalyptic Worlds]
Many tipping points
In their perspective paper, Rockström and his team corroborated existing literature on various natural feedback processes and concluded that many of them can serve as "tipping elements." When one tips, many of the others follow.
Nature has feedback mechanisms, such as a rainforest's capability to create its own humidity and rain, that keep ecosystems in equilibrium. If the rainforest is subject to increasing warming and deforestation, however, the mechanism slowly gets weaker, Rockström said.
"When it crosses a tipping point, the feedback mechanism changes direction," Rockström said, and the rainforest morphs from a moisture engine into a self-dryer. Eventually, the rainforest turns into a savanna and, in the process, releases carbon, he said.
The first big goal should be to completely stop carbon emissions by 2050, Rockström said. But that won't be enough, he added.
In order to stay away from these tipping points, the "whole world [needs to] embark on a major project to become sustainable across all sectors," he said.
That could be a challenge, as countries around the world grow increasingly nationalistic, he said. Instead of focusing on narrow national goals, the world should collectively work to reduce carbon emissions — for instance by creating investment funds that can support poorer nations that don't have as much capacity to reduce emissions as richer countries do, he said.
All of this means "that it's, scientifically speaking, completely unacceptable that a country like the U.S. leaves the Paris Agreement, because now more than ever, we need every country in the world to collectively decarbonize … in order to secure a stable planet," Rockström said.
The new paper is an opinion article that includes no new research but rather draws on the existing literature, Michael Mann, a distinguished professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University who was not part of the study, told Live Science in an email.
"That having been said, the authors do, in my view, make a credible case that we could, in the absence of aggressive near-term efforts to reduce carbon emissions, commit to truly dangerous and irreversible climate change in a matter of decades," Mann said.
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In August of 1976, twin brothers Jim and Jack Weiner, along with their two friends Charles Foltz and Charles Rack, headed to the Allagash in Maine for a canoeing and camping trip. One night they experienced an incredible encounter with a UFO. Years later, after the brothers suffered from horrific nightmares, they underwent regression hypnosis. They were regressed separately and most of the men had startling similar recollections of what occurred during the night of the UFO sighting.
We are very happy to bring to you one of the most compelling and mysterious UFO - and potential alien abduction - cases from the perspective of the witnesses themselves.
Niemand praat over dit bewijs voor UFO’s (en waarom dat de schuld van de CIA is)
Niemand praat over dit bewijs voor UFO’s (en waarom dat de schuld van de CIA is)
De groeiende stapel bewijs voor UFO’s kan niet langer worden genegeerd. Als je voorbij de horrorfilms over aliens en de nepfilmpjes van UFO’s kijkt dan kom je al gauw tot de ontdekking dat er heel veel hooggeplaatste overheidsfunctionarissen en wetenschappers (500+) zijn geweest die hebben gezegd dat dit onderwerp een stuk serieuzer moet worden genomen.
De Canadese oud-minister van Defensie Paul Hellyer heeft bijvoorbeeld gezegd dat we al worden bezocht door buitenaardse wezens.
Robert Bigelow, de oprichter van Bigelow Aerospace, heeft in een tv-interview gezegd ‘dat er een buitenaardse aanwezigheid is geweest en nog steeds is’.
Wetenschappelijk bewijs
Bigelow was nauw betrokken bij het geheime UFO-onderzoek van het Pentagon, waar de New York Times vorig jaar over berichtte.
De krant schreef dat Bigelow wrakstukken van UFO’s, bestaande uit onbekende legeringen, heeft opgeslagen in één van zijn gebouwen in Las Vegas.
Voormalig senator Harry Reid zei in een interview over deze wrakstukken: “Nu hebben we wetenschappelijk bewijs.”
Buitenaards ruimteschip
Oud-gouverneur Fife Symington was getuige van de Phoenix Lights in 1997. Tegen CNN zei hij later: “Het was waarschijnlijk een soort buitenaards ruimteschip.”
Waarom horen we hier bijna niets over op tv en lezen we hier vrijwel niets over in de kranten?
Wat de meeste mensen niet weten is dat in 1993 documenten uit de jaren vijftig zijn vrijgegeven waaruit blijkt dat de CIA opdracht had gegeven alle informatie over vliegende schotels te debunken.
Hollywood
De spionagedienst had geconcludeerd dat het Amerikaanse volk als het ging om UFO’s ontzettend goedgelovig en gevoelig voor massahysterie was.
De CIA werkte samen met de massamedia, Hollywood en zelfs Disney om al het UFO-onderzoek in diskrediet te brengen.
Taboe
De luchtmacht kreeg van de CIA opdracht om niet langer te praten over UFO’s en een desinformatiecampagne te beginnen.
De strategie werkte: UFO-onderzoek werd taboe, mensen raakten gedesillusioneerd en de media berichtten steeds minder vaak over UFO’s.
UFOs are SO hot right now. The US government’s quasi-official acknowledgement in December last year that aerial craft of unknown origin are real and continue to be secretly studied has reignited mainstream media interest in the subject—and this interest extends to the entertainment industry.
Hollywood is hoping to capitalize on the public’s newfound willingness to believe that “the truth is out there” with two major projects set for release in 2019, both co-produced by self-described “UFOlogist” Steven Spielberg: A Men in Blackspinoff movie starring Chris Hemsworth (the filming of which caused some disruption in London last week), and a reboot of the popular 1990s teen sci-fi series, Roswell.
The new TV show, titled Roswell, New Mexico, will again be adapted from the Roswell High book series by Melinda Metz and will draw narrative inspiration from the rich tapestry of UFO lore. It has been developed by Carina Adly Mackenzie for The CW and is set to debut as a mid-season entry during the 2018–19 television season. Controversially, it may even offer some mild Trump-era political commentary, specifically on the thorny topic of immigration. Here’s the official show blurb…
After returning to her hometown of Roswell, New Mexico, the daughter of undocumented immigrants discovers her teenage crush is an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect, but when a violent attack points to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him.
Roswell, New Mexico is a co-production between Bender Brown Productions, CBS Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television, and Spielberg’s Amblin Television. The cast includes Liz Ortecho, Nathan Parsons, Lily Cowles, Michael Vlamis, Tyler Blackburn, Heather Hemmens and Michael Trevino.
The show’s pilot episode is already in the bag after being filmed in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico last year. The rest of the series will begin filming on August 13, 2018 and will take place in Las Vegas, and Santa Fe.
As for the Men in Black spinoff, director F. Gary Gray’s London-based MIB is due for release on June 14, 2019.
The Moon has long held the fascination of humanity, whether it be in ancient times when she was looked upon as sister to the Sun, or in modern times with her enigmatic rise over the horizon on any clear evening. Much can be said of the connection life on Earth shares with our Moon, from the tidal fluxes it governs to the pale glow it casts on Earth as it reflects sunlight at night, to which nocturnal creatures move about.
The Moon has also captured our imaginations for other reasons, particularly since the Apollo missions of the 1960s that first took humans to our barren and lonely natural satellite. This, of course, has also led to some rather odd speculative threads in the decades that followed: on the more extreme side of things, there are those who still maintain that the Moon landings could have been hoaxed, despite a remarkable amount of evidence to the contrary.
Others, while acknowledging that NASA’s studies of the Moon are legitimate, nonetheless try to argue that the space agency has been working to hide things from the public that we’ve found there. These ideas largely center around the notion that various “out of place” objects are visible in NASA photography, which ranges from trees and various other kinds of flora to buildings, landed spacecraft, and even lunar archaeological digs, as proposed by Richard C. Hoagland and others over the years (this game of pareidolia has carried over to Mars in more recent years too, with tabloids constantly reporting on alleged objects, and in one case even a Sasquatch, visible on the Martian landscape).
Of course, while most claims that involve the discovery of strange things on the Moon (or on Mars, for that matter) are rubbish, it’s at least worth noting that the possibility of discovering objects of artificial origin maybe shouldn’t be ruled out of hand.
Some time back, an associate of mine whose professional background is in aeronautics put things into context for me during a discussion we were having about the search for alien life. He brought up why the creations of some long-lost intelligent civilization might indeed end up on our Moon, and even if that civilization never took interest in Earth or visited our planet at any time in the past. As my friend suggested at the time, what essentially might amount to the “debris of civilizations from the billions of years of the Universe’s existence that drifted here” could eventually be found on the Moon, likening such interstellar garbage to “the junk floating on (Earth’s) oceans.”
My friend hadn’t been the only person who ever wondered about this possibility, however unlikely it might actually be. In a paper from a number of years ago by Alexey Arkhipov of the Ukrainian Institute for Radioastronomy, titled “A Search for Alien Artifacts on the Moon,” Arkhipov pointed out that ten stars which had been discovered at the time of the paper’s authorship had been potential hosts to intelligent life. These planets, having come and gone in our solar system since the appearance of our planet, might have produced various kinds of technology for remote exploration of space, much like our current space programs have done over the last several decades.
“Such distances,”Arkhipov wrote, “can be covered by space probes even at the present day level of science and technology.” Additionally, Arkhipov suggested that while we are studying unusual features on the Moon that would appear to be natural, perhaps they should not be ruled out of hand–particularly when viewed from great distances away–as possible artificial features of some kind.
Arkhipov wrote:
Only about 0.5 percent of the lunar surface has been photographed with a resolution of 1-10 m (Hansen 1970). But even the 1 m resolution photography can prove to be insufficient for an artifact discovery. For example, a photograph taken by Lunar Orbiter 3 shows the Surveyor 1 station on the lunar surface merely as a light-colored boulder (Jaffe and Steinbacher 1970). Modern lunar base projects (Shevchenko and Chikmachey 1989) contemplate placing manned modules under the lunar surface to protect them from radiation and meteorites. It is not improbable that our predecessors did the same billions of years ago. Since that time traces of their constructions could be destroyed by erosion, making objects hard to find.
Arkhipov’s ideas are novel, and while perhaps unlikely, he’s correct that we should never rule things entirely out of hand before they are reliably disproven. Although of equal interest to the ideas expressed in Arkipov’s writing is the fact that such a paper exists in the first place; for ideas of this caliber to be espoused seriously by scientists these days, let alone a few decades ago, is often tantamount to being anomalous itself. Similar papers have appeared though, such as Paul Davies and R.V.Wagner’s “Searching for alien artifacts on the moon” (Acta Astronautica, Volume 89, August–September 2013, Pages 261-265) and Davies’ “Footprints of alien technology” (Acta Astronautica, Volume 73, 2012, pp. 250-257), just to name a few.
If technological trends and developments we are seeing today are any indications of things to come, they may also help facilitate more regular visits to the Moon, and if so, there may yet be unique things we’ll learn about our natural satellite… and maybe even a few unforeseen surprises.
I found these photos of a jellyfish UFO in the NASA Apollo 10 index. The UFO actually changes shape as it rotates and moves. The UFO is in the center of the photograph, so its very obvious that the astronaut that took the photo did see the UFO. Now I am asking myself three questions about this:
1. Is it a UFO that transports aliens?
2. Is it a non intelligent animal...like a jellyfish in space?
3. Is it intelligent enough to be communicated with?
So many questions all because of one discovery...the more we know, the more we want to know.
Imagine an alien taking part in the lunar mission Apollo 10...working with NASA to achieve a giant step forward for humanity. This just may be true. This NASA photo of an astronaut with one tinted eye shows that aliens may have taken part. The eye is large and dark, and he is looking toward the camera. The photos before and after do not show his eyes to be this way, so he must have blinked due to the flash of the camera bulb. Some alien species have built in sunglasses that are there to protect their eyes...much like the grey. They can raise it to make in invisible, just like you opening and closing your eye lids. Well the camera flash revealed who he really is...an alien.
I found this base on the Earths moon today. The base is clearly made by intelligent life because it has a perfectly flat bottom area which is impossible for something thats almost -5 miles across. However it could actually be a alien ship hovering above the surface. That would explain it. Also there is a tower near it that is about .3-.5 miles high. Absolute proof that aliens exist, so powerful of proof, we could take NASA to court and use this to force them to tell the truth about the existence of aliens. Scott C. Waring
Filer’s Files #31- 2018 Next War With ET Aliens - PART I
Object photographed over Istanbul, Turkey on April 29, 2018
Filer’s Files #31- 2018 Next War With ET Aliens - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: General MacArthur Unite Against Aliens, Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, Admiral Mountbatten and UFOs, Is Someone Sabotaging Our Weather? Djinn Connection, Possible Alien Woman, ISS Captures UFO, New Radio Telescope Picks Up Mystery Signals Detected From Deep Space, and Nuclear Bomb or Asteroid Impact Creates a Nuke Mushroom.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Vermont.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
General MacArthur Unite Against Aliens
General Douglas MacArthur, former Five Star General of the Army met with Achille Lauro the Mayor of Naples, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York in 1955.. MacArthur Greets Mayor of Naples
Lauro Quotes MacArthur as Saying Wars Between Nations Are Now Obsolete
Mayor Achille Lauro of Naples, which was badly damaged in World War II, called on General of the Army Douglas MacArthur yesterday and received the general’s cheering opinion that war between countries on this earth was probably obsolete.
However, war between the planets may replace it, in the general’s opinion, Mayor Lauro reported afterward in the (New York Times, Oct 8, 1955.)
“We deal now, not with things of this world alone, but with the illimitable distances and as yet unfathomed mysteries of the universe. We are reaching out for a new and boundless frontier. We speak in strange terms of harnessing the cosmic energy, of making winds and tides work for us, of creating unheard of synthetic materials to supplement or even replace our old standard basics; to purify sea water for our drink; of mining ocean floors for new fields of wealth and food; of disease preventatives to expand life into the hundreds of years; of controlling the weather for a more equitable distribution of heat and cold, of rain and shine; of spaceships to the moon; of the primary target in war, no longer limited to the armed forces of an enemy,but instead to include his civil populations; of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy; of such dreams and fantasies as to make life the most exciting of all times.”
These two statements were apparently combined into:
“Because of the developments of science, all the countries on earth will have to unite to survive and to make a common front against attack by people from other planets. The politics of the future will be cosmic, or interplanetary.”
Researcher Tim Cooper writes; It is my understanding from what Cantwheel told me that the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) was a unit in Army CIC before WW II that was proposed by General McArthur and established by a classified general order from General Marshall sometime in 1942 after an investigation of the March 1942 Los Angeles UFO air raid incident. In the frantic weeks that followed the Pearl Harbor attack, many Americans believed that enemy raids on the continental United States were imminent. On the West Coast, inexperienced pilots and radar men had mistaken fishing boats, logs and even whales for Japanese warships and submarines. Just a few days later on February 23, 1942, a Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and hurled over a dozen artillery shells at an oil field and refinery. While the attack inflicted no casualties and caused only minor damage, it marked the first time that the mainland United States had been bombed during World War II.
The day after the oil field raid, paranoia and itchy trigger fingers combined to produce one of the most unusual home front incidents of the war. It began on the evening of February 24, 1942, when naval intelligence instructed units on the California coast to steel themselves for a potential Japanese attack.
(Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)
All remained calm for the next few hours, but shortly after 2 a.m. on February 25, military radar picked up what appeared to be an enemy contact some 120 miles west of Los Angeles. Air raid sirens sounded and a citywide blackout was put into effect. Within minutes, troops had manned anti-aircraft guns and begun sweeping the skies with searchlights.
It was just after 3 a.m. when the shooting started. Following reports of an unidentified object in the skies, troops in Santa Monica unleashed a barrage of anti-aircraft and .50 caliber machine gun fire. Before long, many of the city’s other coastal defense weapons had joined in. “Powerful searchlights from countless stations stabbed the sky with brilliant probing fingers,” the Los Angeles Times wrote, “while anti-aircraft batteries dotted the heavens with beautiful, if sinister, orange bursts of shrapnel.” Chaos reigned over the next several minutes. It appeared that Los Angeles was under attack, yet many of those who looked skyward saw nothing but smoke and the glare of backpack fire. Some people claimed to see disc shaped saucers in the air with exploding shells seeming to hit some sort of defensive shell around the craft. “Imagination could have easily disclosed many shapes in the sky in the midst of that weird symphony of noise and color.
For others, however, the threat appeared to be very real. Reports poured in from across the city describing Japanese aircraft flying in formation, bombs falling and enemy
World War II-era anti-aircraft spotlights.
There was even a claim of a Japanese plane crash landing or the downing of flying saucers. Allegedly one crashed in the ocean and was later recovered by the Navy.
While the Army also got a crashed UFO of its own.
Charles Patrick later wrote in a letter. “I could see six planes, and shells were bursting all around them.” The barrage eventually continued for over an hour. By the time a final “all-clear” order was given later that morning, Los Angeles’ artillery batteries had pumped over 1,400 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition into the sky.
Secretary of War Henry Stimson echoed Army brass in saying that at least 15 planes had buzzed the city.
General Marshall established by a classified general order sometime in 1942 the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU after an investigation of the March 1942 Los Angeles UFO air raid incident. Thousands of military personnel and civilians who claimed to have seen aircraft in the skies over L.A. According to an editorial in the New York Times, some eyewitnesses had spied “a big floating object resembling a balloon,” while others had spotted anywhere from one craft to several dozen. “
Japanese military later claimed it had never flown aircraft over the city during World War II, providing fuel for a host of theories involving visits by flying saucers and extraterrestrials.
During the war years the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) composed of several investigative teams were created to investigate the progress of the German atomic bomb program and the alleged German flying saucer program. The IPU reported directly to headquarters G-2 Intelligence.
Back in 1992, Robert Collins filed a FOIA request to INSCOM at Ft. Mead and received a 500-plus page package of Army CIC files on flying saucers in August 1996. More recently, NARA located the USAFOSI UFO files for all their districts and I gave this info to Ryan Wood who has received microfilm rolls of these files.
If the Department of the Army is correct, the IPU files are in there. If the IPU was created in 1942 as Cantwheel claims, then there had to have been incidents as far back as 1939 or 1940 to warrant an investigative unit in CIC. It is noteworthy to mention here that the State Department had received well over 800 reports from military Attaché’s during the 1946 UFO wave over Europe and is possible that the IPU got those reports. I have some reports from CIC in Europe that date to May 1947 and some reference CIC investigations in Germany shortly after Germany’s surrender. We have yet to see these. There were several projects. One was called MESA and another called HARASS. Project PAPERCLIP under a cover project called FIAT is mentioned in these CIC files. It would appear that the Army was investigating the UFO phenomena long before official Air Force investigations began in June 1947. Thanks to Robert Collins, https://www.history.com/news/world-war-iis-bizarre-battle-of-los-angeles
General MacArthur and Admiral Mountbatten had knowledge of classified military involvement in the UFO issue has Allied Commanders in the Pacific during the Second World War. MacArthur was allegedly involved in the creation of an Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) after the 1942 Los Angeles Air Raid involving UFOs. The IPU’s existence was eventually confirmed by Army responses to FOIA requests in 1984. Given MacArthur’s alleged role in the IPU, he was aware of official military records concerning UFOs. This contributed to his belief that extraterrestrials formed a national security threat that could unify the countries of the world.
Supreme Allied Commanders Mountbatten and MacArthur Editor’s Note: It is interesting that two of the Supreme Allied Commanders of World War II went to their newspaper contacts to warn the public about the reality of UFOs and they may provide a threat to the nations of Earth. Strong rumors indicate they both saw crashed saucers and their occupants in the Pacific. One allegedly landed on Admiral Mountbatten’s estate in England. Prince Phillip assured me he and his Uncle had strong interest in UFOs. http://www.majesticdocuments.com/documents/pre1948.php
Admiral Mountbatten
His biography states, “What do you think about flying saucers?” He asked his daughter Patricia in a 1948 letter. He had been discussing the phenomena with his trusted close friend Peter Murphy. “They were both convinced that they come from another planet but we mutually and independently came to the conclusion that they were not aeroplanes with silly almost human pilots but are themselves the actual inhabitants: Martians, Venusians, Jupiterians or what have you. Why should life in another planet with entirely different conditions in any way resemble life on our planet? Their inhabitants might be ‘gaseous’ or circular or very large. They certainly don’t breathe, they may not have to eat, and I doubt if they have babies– bits of their great discs may break away and grow into a new creature. The fact they can hover and accelerate from the Earth’s gravity again and even resolve around a V2 in America (as reported by their head scientist) shows they are far ahead of us. If they really come over in a big way that may settle the capitalist communist war. If the human race wishes to survive they may have to band together.”Page 493 & 494 “Mountbatten” by Phillip Ziegler.
Is Someone Sabotaging Our Weather?
Jet streams are like rivers of wind high above in the atmosphere. These slim strips of strong winds have a huge influence on climate, as they can push air masses around and affect weatherpatterns.
The Jet Stream has moved south creating a state of emergency in numerous states and Europe with unusually hot weather and floods in many states. Additionally, tornadoes are setting records. Jet streams form at the boundaries of adjacent air masses with significant differences in temperature, such as the polar region and the warmer air to the south. The jet stream is mainly found in the tropopause, at the transition between the troposphere (where temperature decreases with height) and the stratosphere (where temperature increases with height).
Russian and Chinese Haarp facilities could be effecting the weather to sabotage the weather in the United States. Obviously weather warfare is difficult to prove. Haarp facilities may be affecting the weather in the US and Western Europe bringing in extreme heat. This is the hottest weather in years and may be a natural occurrence.
Successful Russian rain making equipment was exported to Mexico is likely adding to the severe drought conditions in California. The large number of fires in California and the West suggest arson by terrorists is a partial cause. The tremendous heat in the West develops large thunderstorms, rain, tornadoes and floods in the Mid–West and East.
China is already spending $100 million a year to make rain as scientists and employees are actively changing the weather. The Beijing Weather Modification Office is part of China’s nationwide weather control effort, believed to be the world’s largest; it employs 37,000 people nationwide, who seed clouds by firing rockets and shells loaded with silver iodide into them.
Beijing Clouds
The Chinese government has approved a $168 million plan (1.15 billion yuan) to modify the country’s weather, potentially bringing more rain and snow across an area almost double the size of France.
It’s one of the biggest programs of its kind, and will rely on four new planes, eight upgraded craft, 897 rocket launch devices, and 1,856 devices connected to digital control systems, according to the South China Morning Post.
With weather-modifying technology, the China Meteorological Administration estimates it will increase precipitation in an area of 960,000 sq km – 10 percent of the country’s territory.
HAARP is the subject of numerous conspiracy theories. Physicist Bernard Eastlund claimed that HAARP includes technology based on his own patents that has the capability to modify weather. Various individuals have speculated about hidden motivations and capabilities of the project. For example, Rosalie Bertellwarned in 1996 about the deployment of HAARP as a military weapon. Michel Chossudovsky stated in his book that “recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the capability of triggering floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes
Nick Begich Jr., the son of the late U.S. RepresentativeNick Begichand brother of former U.S. SenatorMark Begich, is the author of “Angels Don’t Play This HAARP. He has claimed that the HAARP facility could trigger earthquakes and turn the upper atmosphere into a giant lens so that “the sky would literally appear to burn.” He maintains a website that claims HAARP is a mind control device.[36][37]
A Russian military journal wrote that ionospheric testing would “trigger a cascade of electrons that could flip Earth’s magnetic poles”
According to Zhang Qiang, head of the Office, cloud seeding increased precipitation in Beijing by about one-eighth nationwide, similar efforts added 7.4 trillion cubic feet (210 km3) of rain. Haarp appears to have the ability to effect the jet stream that appears to undulate more or less up and down as it meanders around the world. Effecting the jet stream direction in Russia or China theoretically can affect its position in the United States. Traditionally, cloud seeding has involved dropping a vapor into the clouds (usually silver iodide) that’s designed to bond with the water, making it heavier and creating rain or snow. Ground-based generators are designed to spray upwards into the clouds causing it to rain. According to the Associated Press, many people believe the U.S. is falling behind in the cloud-seeding and weather control arms race.
Djinn Connection
Could a single entity be responsible for a multitude of our paranormal experiences throughout history? Drawing upon her decades of extensive research in all facets of the paranormal, Rosemary Ellen Guiley makes a compelling case that our interactions with spirits, extraterrestrials, shadow figures, ancient aliens, demi-gods and human-creature hybrids all involve the mysterious Djinn. The Djinn are little-known in the West beyond folk tales of genies in lamps and bottles, but they are real and active in our world. They are a race of powerful, masterful shape-shifters who exist in a dimension parallel to ours. Humans have had millennia of intense engagements with the Djinn, who disguise themselves in the forms of many different entities in order to keep themselves and their true motives hidden. Some of their motives are not in our best interests. The Djinn are not the only beings interacting with humans, but their giant shadow falls across every part of our paranormal and entity contact experiences, including bedroom invasions, alien abductions, and genetics manipulators from other worlds.
Djinns are inverterate liars and deceivers, and delight in bamboozing and misleading mankind. Few in Ufology or the media took notice , for we have continued to see certain themes promoted, such as the ‘grays” who want to either save the planet or save their own species. The Djinn are significant force in the destiny of human beings. https://www.amazon.com/Djinn-Connection
New Radio Telescope Picks Up Mystery Signals Detected From Deep Space
A new radio telescope in Canada is doing its job picking up mysterious signals from deep space known as “fast radio bursts” (FRBs). The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) in British Columbia detected the first-ever FRB at frequencies below 700 MHz on July 25, a signal named FRB 180725A. As you might guess, FRBs are milliseconds-long bursts of radio emissions that come from some unknown source across the universe. They’re one of the newer cosmic mysteries around, having been first detected only about a decade ago. Possible explanations include bursts from magnetars, exploding black holes, and yes, highly advanced alien civilizations. Learn More: https://www.cnet.com/news/new-radio-t…
Or, to paraphrase the late Lockheed skunk works chief Ben Rich, “we found an error in the equations, and now we have the ability to take ET home…” But given the strange ending to the Sputnik article, perhaps Rich’s statements might be amended to read, we found an error in the equations, and now we can zap ET out of the skies if need be…”
Possible Alien Woman
Maya and Bruce Cornet, Amsterdam 1963
Dr. Bruce Cornet reports on his encounter with Maya and Lyra in Amsterdam in early August 1963. I was with my High School French Class, and we spent the summer at Cannes, France. On return to the United States we stopped at Amsterdam for three days.
Maya met me in the lobby, and asked me if she could be my tour guide. I thought she looked better than my other male companions, so I accepted her offer. I was mesmerized by Maya, a short petite brown-haired attractive woman, whose pheromones were very arousing at my age of 17. She spoke fluent English with no accent. For three days Maya escorted me around the city as a guide to tourist attractions, and I thought she lived there she knew the city so well. She introduced me to Lyra on the last day at the Zoo. I had no clue who she was or why she chose me. After two days I was falling in love with her; we held hands and even kissed.
She asked me about space travel. We talked about many subjects. At the end of day three days she asked me to take her back to her room in another building on the same street. At the door she said good bye. I asked her if we could write, and she said that would be impossible. I asked why? She replied that she did not live in Holland. I was surprised.
Myra Closeup
I asked her where she lived, and she said, “In the mountains.” I asked her which mountains, and she said, “The Andes Mountains” (in Peru?). I could not understand why she lived in another continent and did not have a mailing address. I would not find out why until I read Ted Rice’s story of meeting Maya and Lyra in Idaho during a summer job at a ski resort in 1962, one year before I met them. His story is published in Masquerade of Angels (1994) by the late Dr. Karla Turner.
In that lengthy story he tells of how on the last day he saw these two women, who befriended him for weeks at the resort, showing up unexpectedly and then disappearing just as mysteriously, they took him on a hike into the mountains to their disc-shaped ETV, and flew him to their underground base in the Andes Mountains. They showed him how they cloned human bodies and how they could transfer their consciousnesses from one body (container) to another. They transferred his spirit/consciousness to a female clone, and when he woke up he was shocked to find he was incarnated as a woman. He didn’t like it, so he asked them to return him to his original body, and they did. Then they took him back to the ski resort.
As crazy as this story might sound, and as dismissive it might be because critical parts of his story were recovered through regressive hypnosis, his description of Maya is exactly like my Maya (was she the original or a clone?), and what she asked and told both of us was very similar. She even told Ted that she kept a photo album filled with pictures of humans she had met on assignments.
I wanted a picture of her, but she said she did not want me to take a picture of her. That raised questions in my mind, because the entire encounter was so unusual, if not abnormal. I snuck a picture when we were at a wine factory, with me in the foreground and her in the background. Even though the picture of her is not high resolution, it is good enough to get an impression of how easily she could blend in with humans. Thanks to Dr. Bruce Cornet
Luis Elizondo Apparently Cannot Reveal Top Secret UFO Data
Dr. Bruce Cornet comment on Luis Elizondo tells the audience in the early part of his presentation at the overall successful MUFON Conference in Cherry Hill, NJ stated that “they” are already here. Then during the Q&A part at the end, he was asked to answer a question with a yes or no answer: Are ETs here? He said he could not answer that question yes or no, because he needed more facts. He said what he believes is not relevant, because it is an opinion. So he gave the audience a grey answer after saying “they” are already here. But he emphasized that the public needs to know the government (DoD) is taking the phenomenon seriously. The wolves have known for decades, but the sheep still do not know? Who is out of touch?· · He pushed the concept that the reality of ET and UAP are new to a lot of people, requiring slow disclosure with education. In other words, this is not Hollywood Sci Fi, folks.· · At the end he was asked a question about Eric Davis and Hal Puthoff, and he said they are both TTSA’s premier physicists who are working to understand the practical aspects of applied antigravity, implying that they don’t yet have a working model. Sounds like political two step if Black Triangles are ours. Thanks to Bruce Cornet
ISS Captures UFO
Arkansas — Attached is an ISS live feed screen shot 720p, 15:00:00 GMT, 31-07-2018 LAT 35,6S LON 52,8W ALT 415km Web Page https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/
Live feed interrupted following on-line sighting.
I captured this object in a screen shot.
I don’t know what this object is. Maybe MUFON does.
Nuclear Bomb or Asteroid Impact Creates a Nuke Mushroom
A meteor hit the earth and exploded with 2.1 kilotons of force last month, but the US Air Force has made no mention of the event.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed an object of unspecified size travelling at 24.4 kilometers per second struck earth in Greenland, just 43 kilometers north of an early missile warning Thule Air Base on the 25th of July, 2018.
Director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, Hans Kristensen, tweeted about the impact, but America’s Air Force has not reported the event.
We’re still here, so they correctly concluded it was not a Russian first strike. There are nearly 2,000 nukes on alert, ready to launch. Mr. Kristensen argues it’s concerning there was no public warning from the US government about the incident. The government was probably trying to determine the cause of the explosion that may have required on site investigation to determine it was not an actual missile strike. http://www.foxnews.com
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Filer’s Files #31- 2018 Next War With ET Aliens - PART II
Filer’s Files #31- 2018 Next War With ET Aliens - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
On January 3, 2018 at 7:20 am, i was observing the sunrise. the object shown appeared in about 10seconds as I was watching. it appeared to be about 4-5 miles away and was hundreds of feet across. The object looked to be circular in shape and had pointed v-shaped structures coming out from the outside edges that were similar to the crown on the statue of liberty. The object was gleaming brightly in a silver color. It seemed to drop in altitude to just above the clouds and then remain stationary. I routinely take photos of sunrises and wanted to capture it to show to my wife. I ran out onto my front deck in my underwear and only took two photos as it was very cold. My mind was very confused at what I had seen and I seemed to have an inability to focus on the event. Just after the incident we were returning home after dark and had just left the highway onto Windmill Road when a disc UFO slowly passed over us going east and quickly disappeared glowing orange and red on the underside. I am a retired police officer and am very inquisitive by nature. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arkansas Light
Hot Springs — Here is a photo of the UFO sighted over Lake Ouachita on July 20, 2018. You can zoom in and actually see the outline and the geometric shape through the white light. You can see in the photo that it was not a star.. The sighting occurred around 9:30 p.m. I was looking due south.
The UFO flew from there to the Northeast and then almost due East. Note: The video is not shown as the light only shows up in a few frames. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
California Discs
Elizabeth Markus
Mt. Shasta– Since July 1, 2018 20, 2018 numerous UFOs have been seen flying over the mountain.
The photos show either discs or cylinders. Elizabeth Markus gave me this photo of a UFO taken on July 22, 2018. The UFOs seemed to be watching fires and the successful Rob Potter From Venus With Love UFO Conference held near the mountain. Thanks to Elizabeth Markus
Colorado Orb
Broomfield — Object seemed to slowly bounce up and down, left and right on July 31, 2018. It would change from horizontal to vertical shape with orangish tail.
it moved from sw to west within two hours. we looked on the internet and saw a posted video from July 4, 2018 that had similar objects hovering above Denver.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Object
Sitting on my porch on July 3, 2018, and saw it coming towards me, after it passed the power line in the video notice how it drops and changes direction,
I see them at night also and they seem to go into a hole when they go in a bright flash. It seems to happen and then they’re gone
Also I saw a triangle shape UFO move slow and the three lights merged into one then become one bright orb as it took off
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Triangle
Farmington — I and my grandchild were observing the stars outside our house on June 22, 2018, when an object appeared over the house across the street at a high altitude. At first we thought it was a plane so my grandchild started looking through binoculars and realized it was in the shape of a triangle.
It travelled from the NE to the SW at a fairly good pace. This was the same direction we had seen a fireball a few nights before. My Grand child was so impressed by what they saw that they sent me this drawing after going back home. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Light
Lake Tahoe— It was a partly cloudy spring day in beautiful Lake Tahoe, when I looked up and noticed a very large grey disc like object hovering at cloud high completely covering the sun.
My wife and I took pictures and a video.
We are uploading photos to the MUFON website.
Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Light
I was watching the sunset on a 2nd story porch facing the bay on July 10, 2018.. 2. I first noticed how bright the object was and I thought odd there were no stars out yet 3. I had no idea what it was but it was slowly moving in my direction. Then became stationary. 4. The slow moving object had huge bright lights surrounding with a metallic background and smaller dimmer lights in the center. 5. We brought my cousin’s telescope out and we then could see the details described in #4. I was very excited, jumping up and down, due to details we could see through the telescope. It was not normal. 6. In 15 minutes I went back outside, it was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Object 1919
White Plains— This is a photo I was sending to my family for genealogical purposes. I have the original and can provide it. once I uploaded the photo from my phone to my mac I noticed the odd object to the right since it was a black and white photo, it could have been silver, grey, etc. What captured my attention was a trail behind it like a contrail/chemtrail. That was a very odd thing to see back in 1919, It could be something wrong with the camera, but I found it interesting and thought MUFON would appreciate looking into it.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Object
Winston Salem— This is an aircraft you can see most of the days landing in that area. I don’t know if this is another kind of ship. But it is interesting because it was a metal structure, aluminum, and was landing in that area. If you check the area in Goggle Earth you can see that in that area there is no a proper place to receive it.
The route is US-HWY 311. Close to Winston Salem, Exit 68. You can see it between 6 and 7 PM. It appears first as a light or star, and after a moment you can note that is descending. I tried of make it clearer with Photo shop and got a litter better view of the aircraft. Looks like an spherical shape. Very interesting really. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Orb
New Philadelphia— I have a few videos I would like to share taken on July 27, 2018, The video is of the orange ball of light a few people have reported in Ohio. It was probably 2 AM and it loved to change colors and all kinds of things. I have it all on video on my phone so if you are interested, let me know. I have like 4 different videos and they are all kind of good ones. I put all the clips together into one. There is crazy stuff all throughout the video. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask . I’m super curious as to what this is!
Note:The witness was not able to send the video. Two still images of the light were sent. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Texas Light
Tyler— I was wanting to get some photos of the full moon and sunrise with the lake on July 29, 2018
. I did not notice the lights while taking the pictures. When down loading and reviewing the pictures from the weekend, I noticed the lights just below the moon. I zoomed into it and couldn’t identify the object.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Object
Monroe Institute — I was further analyzing my videos from Sunday, July 29, 2018, and I saw this when I made the picture of the starship a little bigger. It’s as though the star beings were saying Hi to me. The lines in the picture are from the computer’s monitor when I took the picture of the stopped video. I took this photo at night of a star craft that came overhead on June-5, 2018. The letters were “ty”. My wife and my son suggested that “ty” might mean thank you. Strange. It was maybe 1st “ty” or “thank you” and now “Hi”. These beings definitely have my attention. Love and Light, Dan Johnson
Washington Lights
Spokane –I look up at about 55* in the Western sky and see a bright light which I first thought was a helicopter but it made no sound and then it started immediately dimming/getting further SW then disappearing suddenly. As I am stunned I get up try to see if it went behind the tree in front of our porch, I then noticed two stars and all of a sudden a smaller dimmer light came out from behind (?)and under and then to the right of the brighter star and then changed direction started moving like a dim satellite moving up (eastward). It made no sound. Then at 4:27 am I saw what at first looked like a plane then looked off and it was pulsating Orange and then whole thing was lighting up like pulsating and flying southeast. It made no sound. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Lights
Salisbury – On July 27, 2018 @ 9:51 pm on a beautiful night observing and shooting video and photos of the night sky. one star in particular, located almost directly overhead, seemed to keep drawing my attention. as I was filming and zooming in, an object appeared shooting from lower right to upper left of frame. once I edited video by adding a filter, I could see that the object changed trajectory and disappeared at high speed.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Object
Courcheve — Standing outside of a ski chalet with a friend, myself taping. We both noticed a light in the sky very, very high up. It did not move but seemed to reflect light. I had my camera to hand, an Olympus Pen-F with a 14-42 lens attached. My friend and I pondered what the object could possibly be. A balloon, or perhaps a drone? I took photos, and then after about 30 minutes the object sharply headed across the sky and simply vanished. My friend and I looked at each other, and knew that this was something quite weird. When I loaded the images to my laptop and zoomed in, the shape was nothing I had seen before. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ireland Light
Carrick on Shannon— I live in a rural part of the west of Ireland with no light pollution. Two persons and I observed a strange light in the sky at 9.45pm, on August 3, 2018. As we are rural and in a flight path to Knock Airport so we are very used to viewing aircraft, and this was very unusual in its brightness, hovering and sudden movements.. At 1.45am I went outside and observed that the object was still in the air but much closer. I could very clearly see its movements which went from hovering to very side to side and sudden up and down movements. The first video was without zoom and shows its sudden movements. The second video I zoomed in on the object and could not find any reasonable explanation as to what this could possibly be. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Serbia Light
Novi Sad — I was in the center of around 8:50 pm and took photos of the church in the background and did not observe objects in the sky until I got home and looked at the pictures. They were taken during the course of a 3 minute time frame. Two shots of four objects moving west and the last shot showing some kind of larger craft in the distance. Five orbs are at the top of the picture, that are not stars as it was cloudy just a few minutes before rain started. I hope that MUFON can maybe make more sense of what is in the pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Turkey Object
Istanbul— On April 29, 2018, as soon as I got to my house I saw an object moving fast west and a rhythmic bright white light blinking. I suspected that it might be UFO. I could photograph the second and third frames. The photo of Umer-3600 is the third photo of UFO.
Then the fourth UFDA pass is done in the same direction and the same speed and the event is finished. I also took the optical zoom with the Nikon CoolPix p900 machine.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Orb
Camborne— It had just gone half 11 on a Sunday morning of the 6th May 2018, when my son noticed what he thought was a bright star during the middle of the day. It was too late in the day to be a star or planet so I took notice straight away. It was hovering just above the tree line then suddenly moved to the right and travelled some distance instantly north. It was now n a northwest direction. again it hovered for about 15 minutes before beginning to climb in altitude. I managed to get a few photos and it looks like a bright star in them, though if you zoom in enough it does appear that you can make out it was a metallic ball. I wanted to zoom in with the camera, but as the sun was so bright I could not make it out well enough on the camera screen to lock in on it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Newton Abbot — I was sky watching looking through my binoculars on July 24, 2018 when something darted out of a cloud and caught my eye. Whatever it was it was moving very fast. I could not see what it was at first but then I caught a glimpse of it. The object appeared to be shaped like a bullet and it was a grey color with a bluish tinge around it. I put down my binoculars and picked up my camera but unfortunately I had lost sight of the object. I zoomed in to the area of the sky where I had sighted the object and started to take photographs in random bursts hoping to capture the strange object in a photograph. I couldn’t believe my luck to my amazement the object flew by once again allowing me to capture it in one of the photographs that I was in the process of taking. wow. The Photograph was taken on the 24th of July 2018, 2:37 PM at Newton Abbot Devon England.
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Audio reveals creepy details of UFO mysteryAudio reveals creepy details of UFO mystery
Audio reveals creepy details of UFO mystery
By Ally Foster | news.com.au
In 1966, over 300 children and staff from a Melbourne school reportedly witnessed multiple UFOs silently flying through the sky before landing in a nearby field.
It is the largest mass UFO sighting in Australia, yet hardly anything was reported on it at the time.
Over the years, there have been differing reports about the details of what happened on April 6 at Westall High School, such as people claiming there were three saucerlike objects, while some thought there was just one.
In the 52 years since, there has been wide speculation about what people saw, with some believing it was an alien encounter and others pointing the finger at the government testing new technology.
Throughout all the years of speculation, however, one particularly interesting piece of audio has been greatly overlooked.
An American physicist known for his research into UFOs, Dr. James E. McDonald, conducted an interview with a science teacher from the Westall school, Andrew Greenwood, who witnessed the event.
He then recorded himself describing their meeting and the creepy details Mr. Greenwood gave about his experience. “Greenwood told me the UFO was first brought to his attention by a hysterical child who ran into his classroom and told him there’s a flying saucer outside,” Dr. McDonald said.
“He thought this child had become deranged or something so he didn’t take any notice, but when the child insisted that this object was in the sky he decided to go out and have a look for himself.”
When he went outside, he noticed a group of children looking toward the northeast area of the school grounds and as he approached them he claims he saw a UFO hovering close to the powerline.
Mr. Greenwood described it as a round, silver object about the size of a car with a metal rod sticking up in the air.
According to Dr. McDonald, the teacher then told him five planes came and surrounded the object as more people began gathering to watch the scene before them.
“He called it the most amazing flying he had ever seen in his life,” Dr. McDonald said.
“The planes were doing everything possible to approach the object and he said how they all avoided collision he will never know.
“Every time they got too close to the object it would slowly accelerate, then rapidly accelerate and then move away from them and stop. Then they would take off after it again and the same thing would happen.”
This game of cat and mouse reportedly went on for about 20 minutes and by this time Mr. Greenwood said 350 children and staff were watching on.
Suddenly the UFO shot away and vanished within seconds and it was at this point the headmaster came out and ordered everyone to go back to class.
Over the years there were reports that the government tried to cover up the incident and stop witnesses from talking, but Mr. Greenwood claimed it was the headmaster who first tried to squash discussion of the incident.
“He gave the school a lecture and told the children they would be severely punished if they talked about this matter and told the staff they could lose their jobs if they mentioned it at all,” Dr. McDonald said.
The teacher claimed the headmaster was so “scared” and “disturbed” by the incident that he had refused to come outside until the object was gone.
“When the Royal Australian Airforce contacted the headmaster he told them to ‘go and jump in a lake’,” Dr. McDonald said.
There have been claims from several witnesses that sharply dressed men in black suits visited them and warned them from speaking about the incident.
This lines up with a few experiences Mr. Greenwood had when he tried to speak with other witnesses about what they saw.
“At the time of seeing the UFO he was a complete skeptic himself. He had never even considered the possibility of their existence,” Dr. McDonald said.
“When he asked the physical education teacher to describe what she had seen herself so that he could compare it with his own observation, she just wouldn’t say anything.”
He then reportedly spoke to one of the older students who described the event in great detail exactly as he had seen it, but when he spoke to her again half an hour later she wouldn’t say a word.
Mr. Greenwood didn’t think it had anything to do with the headmaster’s threats as no one usually took him seriously and he knew for a fact that the student he spoke with didn’t attend the meeting where he had made the threats.
Dr. McDonald’s description of his interview with Mr. Greenwood offers a rare insight into the events from the eyes of someone who was an adult at the time.
There continues to be speculation over what actually happened and the site of the encounter has been turned into a memorial park to reflect the 1966 Westall UFO Incident.
Popular UFO hunter Scott C Waring posted on his blog that an alien space ship was trying to camouflage itself in the clouds.
The photo shows faint clouds with a rainbow light scattered through the atmosphere.
However, conspiracy theorists are pointing to a large, circular but translucent object in the clouds which they believe is a UFO using a cloaking device.
Mr Waring says of the image, which was taken in General Santos, Philippines: “This awesome UFO was hiding above a cloud during sunset and for a few minutes the cloaked craft was visible to the naked eye.
“Such beautiful colours and notice the round disk edge of the craft. This looks to be at least 500 meters across.”
The anonymous person who took the image and passed it onto the UFO hunter said: “Unfortunately, I had only one phone at hand, the ‘good’ HD Camera is currently defective. The colours were actually much more intense.”
However, other self-proclaimed experts believe this is not concrete proof that humanity is looking for in the search for extraterrestrials.
Nigel Watson, creator of the UFO Investigations Handbook, said the light is simply a trick of they eye.
Do you see a UFO in this image?
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
He said: “Spectacular footage of a sundown, giving a halo impact that may be interpreted as a flying saucer – properly by Scott Waring anyway!
“I do not see the place he will get the estimated measurement of the ‘object’ as 500 metres throughout, with out understanding the gap and measurement of the the cloud.
“Anyway it appears to be like good however tin foil hats can go on standby in the intervening time.”
The most likely explanation would be apophenia – where the brain recognises specific patterns in things.
If someone has hinted something looks like a UFO for example, the brain will try to picture it in that way.
Des hubots en plein travail (série télévisée « Real Humans », créée en 2012). Selon économistes et chercheurs en intelligence artificielle, l'automatisation concernera la totalité des emplois, y compris ceux des cols blancs, dès les prochaines décennies.
Les progrès du numérique vont-ils conduire au remplacement des humains par des machines en toutes tâches ? Enquête auprès de chercheurs en intelligence artificielle et en économie sur l'évolution de nos emplois dans dix ou vingt ans. (Et vendredi prochain, zoom sur six futurs possibles au XXIIe siècle...)
Nous roulions dans une rue, j’examinai anxieusement les policiers et les agents d’entretien : c’étaient des robots. Un épicier se retourna avec curiosité : c’était un robot. Je tentai de distinguer les chauffeurs des voitures qui nous dépassaient : elles n’en avaient pas. Face aux clients, à la banque, au restaurant, au salon de coiffure, c’étaient des robots, tous, chatbots et androïdes, à roulettes ou sur des jambes… Cette scène imaginaire, inspirée du roman de Pierre Boulle1, présage-t-elle du futur qui nous attend ? Depuis quelques années, des chiffres tapageurs font les titres de la presse au sujet de l’automatisation du travail, susceptible d’être effectué par des machines ou des logiciels. Selon certaines études, cela concernerait près d’un emploi sur deux dans les dix ou vingt prochaines années2 ! Après le plombier polonais, le (ro)bot autonome voleur d’emploi s’invite dans les débats…
Combien d’entre nous seront-ils concernés ?
« Ces études se sont notamment basées sur la créativité et la dextérité manuelle requises par un emploi pour déterminer s’il est automatisable ou non », commente Gregory Verdugo, chercheur au Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne3. Plus fine, une étude de l’OCDE4 distingue les différentes tâches d’un même emploi et tient compte du degré d’interaction avec les clients ou les collègues, une capacité gourmande en adaptabilité et, pour l’heure, non automatisable à 100 %. Résultat : « seulement » un emploi sur dix serait menacé par la prochaine « robolution » dans les pays les plus industrialisés.
En 2004, deux économistes de Harvard classaient la conduite parmi les activités qui échapperaient aux révolutions technologiques (...). Six ans plus tard, les Google Cars sillonnaient les routes californiennes.
Avec une approche similaire, l’enquête Insee/DARES5 arrive à 15 % d’emplois automatisables pour la France. « Bien malin en vérité qui peut prédire ce qui sera techniquement automatisable », intervient Gregory Verdugo selon lequel aucun de ces chiffres ne fait sens. « En 2004, Frank Levy et Richard Murnane, deux économistes de Harvard, classaient la conduite parmi les activités qui échapperaient aux révolutions technologiques parce qu’elle réclame de s’adapter à des situations non prévues. Six ans après la sortie de leur livre, les Google Cars sillonnaient les routes californiennes… », illustre l’économiste.
Dans cette chaîne d'assemblage de voitures Hyundai, à Montgomery, aux Etats-Unis, la répartition du travail entre les humains et les machines est flagrante : un seul employé semble superviser tout un parterre de robots.
Chacun croit qu’il n’est pas remplaçable par une vulgaire machine, mais je pense qu’à long terme, on finira tous par y passer.
«Jusqu’à présent, ce sont surtout les emplois non qualifiés qui ont été pourvus ou modifiés par des machines, dans les usines principalement. Aujourd’hui, c’est le caractère routinier ou non d’une activité qui est pris en compte, le fait de suivre une suite d’actions selon un protocole strict », analyse Gilles Saint-Paul, chercheur au sein de l’unité Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques6. Et routinier ne rime pas forcément avec peu qualifié. Jardiniers et plombiers tirent ainsi leur épingle du jeu, en partie grâce à la souplesse de leurs gestes et à leur facilité de déplacement, bien loin de celles des robots. Tandis que les cols blancs ont de quoi trembler sérieusement, à commencer par les comptables jugés à l’unanimité « très automatisables ».
Selon le New York Times, de nombreuses banques américaines développent des « robo-advisors », logiciels qui gèrent le patrimoine et font fructifier l’argent de leurs clients. Au Japon, Watson, la célèbre intelligence artificielle d’IBM, remplace trente-quatre employés d’une compagnie d’assurance-vie, soit un quart des effectifs. Et on teste des algorithmes pour conseiller juges et avocats à partir de décennies de jurisprudence ou pour distinguer entre mille une tumeur maligne. Chaque jour, ou presque, de nouvelles prouesses émaillent la rubrique high-tech des webzines, laissant perplexes les jeunes cadres dynamiques.
Remplacer aussi les chercheurs...
« Ce qui est amusant, c’est que chacun croit qu’il n’est pas remplaçable par une vulgaire machine, mais je pense qu’à long terme, on finira tous par y passer », soutient Serge Abiteboul, chercheur au Département d’informatique de l’École normale supérieure (DI ENS)7, qui imagine sans état d’âme déléguer une part importante de la recherche scientifique aux intelligences artificielles (IA) du futur. « En biologie par exemple, séquencer un gène était un sujet de thèse acceptable il y a quelques années, maintenant c’est entièrement automatisable. Et dans la plupart des domaines de recherche, une grosse partie du travail est déjà faite par les machines », abonde Gilles Saint-Paul, également prêt à céder son fauteuil à une IA pondeuse de modèles économiques. Mais alors quid de la créativité, nécessaire dans ces activités intellectuelles ?
En biologie par exemple, séquencer un gène était un sujet de thèse acceptable il y a quelques années, or maintenant c’est entièrement automatisable.
« Les programmes d’échec ou de jeu de go jouent parfois des coups créatifs auxquels les humains n’auraient pas forcément pensé. La création n’est pas le but principal des machines actuellement, mais avec des générateurs de nombres aléatoires, elles peuvent produire des quantités pharaoniques de choses qui sont ensuite triées via des mécanismes de sélection : la plupart partira à la poubelle mais dans le lot, il y aura des idées intéressantes », répond Gilles Saint-Paul. « D’ailleurs, il y a déjà des productions artistiques réalisées par des machines, en arts graphiques, en écriture de scénarios, etc. La question est plutôt : aura-t-on envie de lire le roman écrit par un algorithme ? », interroge Serge Abiteboul.
Qui a dit que les machines n'avaient aucune créativité ? Deep Dream, l'intelligence artificielle "artiste" de Google a réinterprété cette photo d'un drône.
Une fois qu’on comprend bien une tâche, rien n'empêche de la rendre routinière.
À long terme, il n’y aurait donc pas d’obstacle théorique à une automatisation totale. Il y a ainsi 50 % de chance que l’IA soit plus performante que nous en toutes tâches dans quarante-cinq ans en moyenne, et automatise tous les métiers dans cent vingt ans, selon les 352 experts en IA interrogés par une équipe d’Oxford8, qui situent la rédaction d’un best-seller et la maîtrise d’une chirurgie aux alentours de l’an 2050.
Quant à la gaucherie des robots ambulants, c’est un faux problème : « Certes, le plombier humain se contorsionne pour atteindre les bons tuyaux et boulons, mais on peut repenser et standardiser l’organisation spatiale de nos installations pour que ces mouvements complexes ne soient plus nécessaires », estime Raja Chatila, directeur de l’Institut des systèmes intelligents et de robotique (Isir)9, faisant remarquer que la méthodologie de son lave-vaisselle est totalement différente de la sienne pour arriver à un résultat identique… Idem pour les robots Kiva des entrepôts de la société Amazon. Comme le choix et la préhension sur les étagères des objets à expédier est un vrai casse-tête pour un robot avec des bras, la société de vente a changé la nature de la tâche à accomplir : les robots, sortes de « coffres à roulettes », se contentent de glisser sous les étagères et de les soulever pour les apporter entières à un employé (humain), qui, en bout de chaîne, n’a plus qu’à lever le bras pour y prendre le bon article à expédier.
Rendre automatisable n'importe quelle tâche
« Le processus est repensé pour que les tâches non routinières soient remplacées par des tâches routinières automatisables, dans le même esprit que la chaîne d’assemblage de Henry Ford », commente Gilles Saint-Paul. Selon lui, toute tâche peut se découper en une suite d’actions à accomplir strictement. « La distinction routinier/non routinier n’est pas immuable. Une fois qu’on comprend bien une tâche, toutes peuvent devenir routinières », affirme-t-il. Dans ce cas, ne faudra-t-il pas garder un humain « dans la boucle » pour prendre les décisions finales, notamment en médecine et dans le domaine de la justice ?
Même s’il faut garder quelques humains au travail pour superviser les machines et prendre les décisions finales, on peut imaginer qu’à long terme, on sera plus proche d’un cas limite du type un humain pour cinq cents machines.
Le besoin de maintenir ainsi la machine à un traditionnel rang de simple outil, inévitable condition brandie par les cols blancs en voie de remplacement, laisse Gilles Saint-Paul sceptique : « Je ne suis pas certain que des arguments techniques le prouvent. En revanche, il faudra bien entendu considérer les problèmes d’éthique et de responsabilités juridiques ou morales que cela peut poser, ainsi que l’acceptation des citoyens et des consommateurs. Même s’il faut garder quelques humains au travail pour superviser les machines et prendre les décisions finales, on peut imaginer qu’à long terme, on sera plus proche d’un cas limite du type un humain pour cinq cents machines », projette l’économiste qui a élaboré six scénarios pour un tel monde.
Dans les entrepôts de la société Amazon, les robots Kiva (ici en rouge) se glissent sous les étagères et les apportent entières à un employé, qui, en bout de chaîne, n’a plus qu’à y sélectionner l'article à expédier.
En attendant une potentielle « robolution » totale, revenons à notre avenir imminent. Un consensus émerge clairement chez les chercheurs sur une idée jugée contre-productive et pour l’instant retoquée par le Parlement européen : taxer les machines « voleuses10 » d’emplois. « Les robots et logiciels perfectionnés sont une opportunité considérable pour la croissance et l’innovation. Les taxer alors qu’ils n’ont pas encore été déployés serait stupide », affirme Gilles Saint-Paul. « Si seule la France met en place une taxation, elle aura un désavantage compétitif par rapport à d’autres pays », enchérit Gregory Verdugo. Une telle mesure pourrait provoquer une sévère vague de « délocalisation robotique », alors que notre pays est généralement jugé sous-équipé et en retard : 32 000 robots, contre plus du double en Italie et du triple en Allemagne11.
Ensuite, ce n’est pas parce qu’une activité est robotisée qu’elle n’emploie plus d’humains : les industries automobiles outre-Rhin ont 100 000 salariés de plus qu’il y a vingt ans12. Beaucoup d’emplois non qualifiés et qualifiés vont disparaître, mais d’autres devraient être créés sur les nouveaux marchés des objets connectés, des transactions sécurisées ou des dispositifs médicaux, dans lesquels la France a un fort potentiel à exprimer. Enfin, les pays qui ont le plus de robots (Japon, Corée du Sud, Allemagne et Suède) seraient aussi ceux qui ont le moins de chômage et le plus d’emplois dans l’industrie.
Avant l’arrivée de l’informatique, les métiers de la banque étaient faiblement qualifiés (donner des petites coupures, noter les dépenses, etc.). Une fois déchargés de ces tâches, ils se sont spécialisés dans des activités plus qualifiées de conseil.
La technologie transformerait l’emploi plus qu’elle ne le détruit (Encadré 1). « Regardez les métiers de la banque : avant l’arrivée de l’informatique, ils étaient faiblement qualifiés (donner des petites coupures, noter les dépenses, etc.), reprend Gregory Verdugo.Une fois déchargés de ces activités routinières et mécaniques, ils se sont spécialisés dans des activités plus qualifiées de conseil. » Finalement, cela nous pousse à nous spécialiser là où se trouve l’avantage comparatif de l’humain par rapport à la machine. Et maintenant que les algorithmes de conseil sont sur le point de les surclasser, que feront banquiers et assureurs ? « Ils trouveront autre chose pour améliorer le service », suppose l’économiste. Il est vrai, les humains sont très doués pour créer de nouveaux besoins, il suffit de voir le nombre d’applications smartphone dont on ne peut plus se passer...
Au Robot Restaurant de la ville de Kunshan, ouvert en Chine en 2014, ce sont des robots qui servent les plats et accueillent les clients grâce à 40 phrases types.
Selon le Conseil d’orientation pour l’emploi, il faut ainsi se préparer à ce que la nature de 50 % des emplois mute sous l’influence de l’IA. Et début 2016, le Forum économique mondial estimait que plus de 2 millions d’emplois seraient créés d’ici à 2020 dans les domaines spécialisés, tels l’informatique, les mathématiques et l’ingénierie. Mais « si tous les gens qui ne sont pas complémentaires de l’IA sont mis sur le côté et qu’on leur donne des jeux et du cirque, dans cinquante ans nous avons Metropolis, et dans un siècle nous avons Matrix », prophétise le transhumaniste Laurent Alexandre13, qui n’a peut-être pas tout à fait tort sur ce point-là…
Protéger les individus plutôt que les emplois
« En tout cas, il vaut mieux aider les gens à se réallouer dans un autre secteur plutôt que d’empêcher la mise en place des technologies, sources de richesses », insiste Gregory Verdugo. Selon lui, le discours de la préservation des emplois à tout prix, exercice obligatoire du politique en visite dans une usine, est plutôt vain, surtout dans les secteurs en déclin à cause d’une rupture technologique (comme le disque laser face aux fichiers téléchargeables sur Internet) ou d’un changement de goût des consommateurs. « Il vaut mieux protéger les individus que les emplois, comme l’ont très bien fait à la fin des années 1990 les pays scandinaves en mettant en place des politiques de formation dites de flexisécurité », illustre le chercheur. À condition bien sûr qu’un vrai volet sécurité compense les concessions en matière de flexibilité…
Le problème ne sera plus de donner du travail à tout le monde mais de se répartir des richesses produites grâce à la technologie.
Et si un revenu universel de base s’impose pendant les années de transition, afin de maintenir la cohésion sociale, il ne doit pas s’opposer à la transformation numérique mais l’accompagner. C’est le filet de sécurité dont les travailleurs bénéficieront pour se former et s’adapter tout au long de leur vie. Dans ce cas, qui devra mettre la main au porte-monnaie ? « Comme le propose Thomas Piketty, on peut taxer le capital en général plutôt que de taxer le travail, reprend Gregory Verdugo. Surtout, taxer spécifiquement les robots au détriment des autres technologies pousserait notre industrie à essayer de s’en passer. » Économiquement suicidaire et franchement anachronique… (Encadré 1).
Le travail ne restera pas forcement le nœud autour duquel s’articulent droits sociaux, intégration sociale et accomplissement de soi. « Pousser des wagonnets au fond de la mine n’est pas un objectif pour l’humanité », commente Serge Abiteboul. Robot vient du tchèque « robota » qui signifie « travail forcé », et travail vient du latin « tripalium », instrument de torture à trois pieux… Peut-être aboutira-t-on dans cent ans à une société sans travail humain où les individus n’auront comme inquiétude que d’occuper leur temps libre et se trouver un nouveau rôle social. « Keynes voyait le progrès comme facteur d’expansion du loisir. Le problème ne sera plus de donner du travail à tout le monde mais de se répartir des richesses produites grâce à la technologie », conclut Gregory Verdugo. « L’économiste Richard Freeman, de l’université d’Harvard, encourage d’ailleurs travailleurs et syndicats à investir dans la possession des machines et logiciels sophistiqués. Pour que les gains en productivité qu’ils apporteront soient effectivement redistribués et que les travailleurs ne deviennent pas “ les serfs des nouveaux seigneurs des robots ”. » On nous aura prévenus… ♦
Captures d'écran du jeu « Job Simulator » (2016), où l'on devient, tour à tour et en réalité virtuelle, employé dans un fast-food, garagiste, caissier... Si les machines nous remplacent, aura-t-on vraiment envie de jouer à travailler ?
Pour sauvegarder l’emploi, l’empereur romain Vespasien avait ponctuellement renoncé au progrès technique au Ier siècle. Les canuts de Lyon, ouvriers tisserands de la soie, firent la peau à de stakhanovistes machines à tisser dont la cadence leur faisait concurrence dans les années 1830, tandis que leurs homologues britanniques, les luddites, en auraient réduit en miettes plus d’un millier en 1811. L’idée que le progrès technique détruit l’emploi a la vie dure. Dans les années 1980, l’économiste Alfred Sauvy montra qu’elle était fausse et que durant les deux siècles précédents, production et productivité furent bouleversées et décuplées sans provoquer d’augmentation durable du chômage. « C’est la thèse du déversement », explique Gregory Verdugo. En bref, grâce à une meilleure productivité, le progrès technologique permet de baisser le prix de certains produits, ce qui provoque une hausse de la consommation de produits déjà existants ou de nouveautés, créant de nouveaux emplois pour les produire. « Le passage du cheval à la voiture a mis les cochers au chômage mais a aussi créé toute une industrie automobile. Et nous sommes passés de la société agricole à industrielle, puis au tertiaire, dominé par les métiers de service, en consommant plus de soins médicaux, de loisirs, de culture, etc. Il n’y a pas de modèle économique qui le garantisse, mais jusqu’ici l’innovation technologique n’a jamais tué l’emploi. »
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Qui seront les perdants de l’automatisation ?
Le progrès technologique n’a certes jamais tué l’emploi, mais il crée toujours des inégalités. Ces quarante dernières années, les travailleurs les plus qualifiés ont tiré les marrons du feu tandis que les moins qualifiés se sont appauvris. Avec la prochaine « robolution », les écarts devraient se réduire : en se reconvertissant dans les métiers encore préservés, les cols blancs verront baisser leur revenus (sauf les experts des nouvelles technologies), tandis que les personnes peu qualifiées dont le travail est encore difficilement automatisable (jardinier, plombier, nounou, etc.) vont gagner du pouvoir d’achat. Jusqu’à ce que, imagine-t-on, tout le monde soit logé à la même enseigne : plus de travail… Le seul véritable problème de l’humanité serait alors la répartition des richesses produites. « Il faudra prendre garde à ne pas aller vers un monde trop inégalitaire », imagine Serge Abiteboul. « Aujourd’hui, quelques “ oligopoles ” du web se partagent une très grande quantité de richesses et paient très peu d’impôts. Les gouvernements doivent y réfléchir s’ils veulent sortir de ce modèle délétère », alerte le chercheur. « Les créateurs de ces empires ont du talent, mais cela justifie-t-il qu’ils accaparent en totalité le produit du travail des machines ? Est-ce vraiment un choix de société ou plutôt le résultat de systèmes politiques et de considérations économiques devenus obsolètes ? », questionne Serge Abiteboul. Nos modèles économiques fonctionnent en effet sur la concurrence, or dans le monde du web la logique est inversée : « De nouveaux concurrents n’ont quasiment aucune chance de détruire la situation de monopole d’un acteur déjà bien développé, car plus il y a de monde sur un réseau, plus il est attractif pour les consommateurs. Par exemple, créer un concurrent à Internet est parfaitement illusoire ! La nature des biens a changé et il faudrait revoir nos systèmes économiques et politiques de A à Z… », conclut le chercheur.
Pour aller plus loin : Le Temps des algorithmes, Serge Abiteboul et Gilles Dowek, Le Pommier, 2017. Les Nouvelles Inégalités du travail. Pourquoi l’emploi se polarise, Gregory Verdugo, Presses de Sciences Po, coll. « Sécuriser l’emploi », 2017.
2.Ce serait 47 % aux États-Unis, 42 % en France, 49 % au Japon et 54 % dans l’Union européenne (France Stratégie, « L’effet de l’automatisation sur l’emploi : ce qu’on sait et ce qu’on ignore », La Note d’analyse, n° 49, juillet 2016).
3.Unité CNRS/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
4.Arntz, M., Gregory, T. & Zierahn, U., « The risk of automation for jobs in OECD countries. A comparative analysis », OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, no 189, mai 2016.
5.France Stratégie, La Note d’analyse, n° 49, juillet 2016.
6.Unité CNRS/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/École des hautes études en sciences sociales/École normale supérieure Paris/École des Ponts ParisTech/Institut national de la recherche agronomique.
7.Unité CNRS/École normale supérieure Paris/Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique.
8.Katja Grace et al., « When will AI exceed human performance ? Evidence from AI experts », arXiv, 30 mai 2017.
9.Unité CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie/Inserm.
10.La « taxe robot » était le deuxième volet de la résolution adoptée le 16 février 2017, qui propose aussi l’attribution d’une personnalité juridique aux machines.
11.France Stratégie, La Note d’analyse n° 49, juillet 2016, p. 5-6.
On July 25, an object moving at about 15 miles/second (24.4 kilometers/second), or 54,000 mph (87,000 km/h), was identified near Thule Air Base. The U.S. Air Force did not immediately report the event or respond to the crash, according to The Aviationist. However, Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Hope Cronin said in an email to Military.com that no one was injured and that the meteor didn't affect or harm any activity at the base.
Though concerning, the object had a relatively small effect. "By comparison, the 2013 meteor over Chelyabinsk, Russia released over 200 times the energy of the Greenland meteor," JoAnna Wendel, a NASA spokeswoman, said in the report by Military.com. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) confirmed the object's speed, though the actual size of the meteor remains unknown. It was also reported that the object was about 27 miles (43 km) north of Thule Air Base.
Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, and Ron Baalke of JPL, also known as "Rocket Ron," a "Space Explorer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory" on Twitter, have discussed the impact on Twitter. Baalke reported the event, while Kristensen added that the event did not seem to be any sort of attack.
We’re still here, so they correctly concluded it was not a Russian first strike. There are nearly 2,000 nukes on alert, ready to launch.
Rocket Ron @RonBaalke
A fireball was detected over Greenland on July 25, 2018 by US Government sensors at an altitude of 43.3 km. The energy from the explosion is estimated to be 2.1 kilotons.
Lisa Guerriero, the founder of datastro.eu, an astronomy data portal, shared JPL's data from the impact in a following tweet.
Rocket Ron @RonBaalke
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A fireball was detected over Greenland on July 25, 2018 by US Government sensors at an altitude of 43.3 km. The energy from the explosion is estimated to be 2.1 kilotons. pic.twitter.com/EePuk14Pqd
Lise Guerriero@PetiteGuerriero
Indeed! Information about the fireball also available on this #OpenData portal about #astronomy :
It is not uncommon for small asteroids to enter Earth's atmosphere and turn into bolides, or fireballs, according to data from NASA's Near-Earth Object program. "Meteors of this magnitude or greater, caused by the impact of small asteroids (a few meters in size) with Earth's atmosphere, occur a few times a year," Wendel said.
Shock CIA files reveal claim Nazis had 2,500mph flying saucer SUPER WEAPON
Shock CIA files reveal claim Nazis had 2,500mph flying saucer SUPER WEAPON
SHOCKING declassified CIA files reveal spies investigated claims the Nazis had a 2,500mph flying saucer weapon developed in the final days of World War 2.
Unsealed documents from the US spy agency reveal intelligence officials probed claims about Adolf Hitler’s advanced technology.
Nazi flying saucers appear twice in the CIA’s trove of documents as part of their investigations into UFOs.
CIA spooks mark the information as “unevaluated” – but the claims made in the files are extraordinary.
Modern myths have long been associated with Hitler’s secret technology – with outrageous claims going as far to allege the Nazis landed on the Moon.
Files reveal claims the Nazis had a flying saucer that was capable of reaching heights of 12,400 metres in three minutes – with speeds of up to 2,500mph.
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NAZIS: Did Adolf Hitler really have advanced flying saucer weapons in WW2?
“Klein said flying saucers were actually in the planning stage in German aircraft factories as early as 1941.”
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CIA files compiled interviews with a German engineer named Georg – or George – Klein from between March 11 and May 20, 1952.
Declassified files recount is testimony, which was published in newspapers in Greece, Iran and the Congo.
Klein claims the Third Reich actually successfully carried out a test of their “flying saucer” in Prague of Valentine’s Day, 1945.
The Czech capital was liberated just months later by the Soviet Union’s advancing Red Army.
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NAZI FLYING SAUCER: What Adolf Hitler's UFO might have looked like in a mock-up
CIA files reveal Klein claimed the the aircraft “reached an altitude of 12,400 metres within 3 minutes and a speed of 1,370mph”.
He claimed the saucer could theoretically reach speeds of 2,500mph – which is more than three times the speed of sound.
Exceeding Mach 3 would make the Nazi saucer almost twice as fast as the state-of-the-art F-35 warplane being rolled out in the US and UK.
Klein claimed the saucer could take-off vertically like a helicopter, and had been in development since 1941.
The CIA document alleges the saucers were constructed at the same slave-labour driven factories which made the dreaded V2 rockets.
Nazi engineers were reportedly evacuated from Prague as the Red Army bared down upon them.
Klein claims one team was failed to be notified of the order to escape – and they were captured by the Soviets.
He claimed the saucers were being built by the Russians, but of course no-known Soviet saucers ever materialised.
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CIA: Declassified files reveal the account of Nazi flying saucers by a German engineer
The CIA file reads: “Klein stated recently that though many people believe ‘flying saucers to be a postwar development, they were actually in the planning stage in German aircraft factories as early as 1941.
“Klein said he was an engineer in the Ministry of Speer and was present in Prague on February 14, 1945, at the first experimental flight of a flying saucer.”
It adds: “Klein was of the opinion that the ‘saucers’ are at present being constructed in accordance with German technical principles and expressed the belief that they will constitute serious competition to jet-propelled airplanes.”
CIA spooks compiled these files at the height of UFO-mania that gripped the US during the early 1950s.
CIA files alluding to Nazi flying saucers provide an interesting look into how the US spooks probed the UFO phenomena in the 50s and 60s.
Theories persist to this day about advanced Reich technology – and still cause controversy.
Toymaker Revell was forced to pull a Nazi flying saucer model kit from shelves – because failed to “adequately express” the craft is not known to have existed.
Whether or not Tweeter-in-Chief Donald Trump gets his Space Force despite the objections of pretty much everyone in the U.S. armed forces, one thing is clear: like winter, war in space is coming. The world’s superpowers are currently scrambling to construct and test next-generation space bases and weapons in an attempt to gain space superiority before those other guys do. After all, Mr. President, we must not allow a MINE SHAFT GAP!
Or a space shaft gap, for that matter.
Whether or not Moonraker-style zero-gravity laser rifle battles will be a real thing any time soon, defending from space-borne threats both man-made and natural is a serious priority for defense officials. Most of the current planning involves fairly down-to-earth matters like asteroid strike preparedness or defending our communications satellites, though. Which is why it’s odd that one of the U.S. Air Force’s top officers would tell an interviewer that the Air Force is eyeing other galaxies as new sites for their operations. Do they know something we don’t? Actually, let’s make that “what do they know that we don’t?” and “do we really want to know?”
Yeah, I really want to know.
At an Air Force Association event this week, USAF Lieutenant General VeraLinn Jamieson made the curious comments concerning other galaxies to Stephen Trimble, editor of FlightGlobal, an aviation intelligence consulting and analytics firm. At the event, Trimble asked LtGen Jamieson about the future of the USAF’s Rivet Joint aircraft, a signals intelligence platform. In response, LtGen Jamieson seemed to dodge the question and instead proceeded to tell Trimble that other galaxies will soon be prime real estate for the armed forces:
I am convinced that there are more domains – man-made domains – that will come, and I would offer you that if we look at galaxies – sounds nuts – but there’s going to be a man-made domain in galaxies.
When Trimble presumably blinked in confusion and asked her to clarify what she meant by “galaxies,” LtGen Jamieson replied that we’ve got to free our minds when it comes to conceptualizing about the military’s potential role in space:
Space has got different galaxies. And in those galaxies in the future we’re going to actually have capability that we have right now in the air. We don’t know what it is because we haven’t freed our mind to think about what is in that space and how we are going to utilize it. Space is contested. It’s going to happen.
Also buried in her reply is what appears to be a reference to unidentified objects here on Earth tracked by drones and the difficulties the Air Force has had in identifying them:
When we actually rolled out Predator there was one ball [sensor module] on Predator and it was not high-definition, but it was an EO/IR [electro-optical/infrared] ball and our airmen really had – that’s where we started to identify ‘What are you seeing?’, ‘Tell me what the object is.” because we couldn’t really do that. We then evolved to a high-definition EO/IR capability. We then put SAR [synthetic aperture radar] on it. We then put hyper-spectral there. We have to do the exact same thing in space.
Whether or not that comment actually has anything to do with unknown objects from space (probably not), it’s kind of weird to hear the Air Force’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance talk about freeing our minds and developing operations in other galaxies. On Twitter, Trimble himself noted that he’s “still baffled” about the exchange and even commented that the conversation “would have made a lot more sense if at least one of us was very stoned.” Has the Air Force opened up some sort of stargate and is trickling out information in order to prep the feeble minds of the public before full-on disclosure? Or is this merely a somewhat rambling off-the-cuff remark further signalling that the future of the Air Force might indeed be the Space Force?
A video shows a mysterious human-shaped UFO hovering in the skies. Conspiracy theory YouTube channel ‘mavi777’ has uploaded the clip online. The video was reportedly recorded from Dresden, Germany. The YouTube channel claims that something unusual is taking place in the skies.
A resident apparently shot the video on July 29 of this year. As soon as he discovered something strange, he sent the footage to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for further investigation. The eyewitness wrote in a report that the object did not look normal.
Many online conspiracy theorists have started suggesting that the object in question might be a shape-shifting alien humanoid. Alien hybrids, as per these theorists, have many unique abilities, such as shape-shifting to help them hide from the public.
YouTube user Louis Mac said that they saw similar object over Texas while in a plane and they have a picture to show.
However, others strongly objected to the views of alien enthusiasts. These skeptics, including YouTuber The Full Metal Chef, stated that the sky sighting is an aerostatic weather balloon that got misinterpreted as a UFO. They explained that these balloons had been observed across the world.
Some others argued that it might be a weird looking cloud.
The leapfrogging flying objects above Chinese skies spark alien invasion claims. Famous UFO researcher Tyler Glockner, who runs Secureteam10 YouTube channel, uploaded a video allegedly shot from China showing several strange flying objects appearing in the skies of the country. The UFO researcher argues in the video that several witnesses in the great nation have shot the same sightings a few days back, and it made multiple people think that an extraterrestrial invasion is imminent.
The UFO sighting in China appears to be very different from the traditional videos on UFOs people have seen previously. The recent clip features a leapfrog nature of the objects in the skies.
Tyler Glockner revealed that many people had seen the UFOs and many recorded them on videos. Their team dubbed the mysterious lights as leapfrogging lights or leapfrogging UFOs as they often jump or leapfrog over one another. When one light disappears, another one will appear in the front of it, explained Glockner.
Some conspiracy theorists have argued that the strange objects are actually a one triangular UFO making continuous spin.
The video of the strange event soon went viral on YouTube. Some viewers of the video put various theories about the unusual sky phenomenon.
One viewer says that it looks like a rotating triangular object and others suggest that the leap-frogging lights are the apex lights on cloaked TR3B rotating very slowly.
Extraterrestres : 8 théories pour expliquer le silence
Extraterrestres : 8 théories pour expliquer le silence
Pourquoi les extraterrestres ne se montrent-ils pas ? Plusieurs théories peuvent expliquer le silence des extraterrestres. Futura vous en présente ici 8. Rentrez dans le secret...
Si la vie est fréquente dans l'univers, alors de nombreuses planètes de notre galaxie, la Voie lactée, devraient porter ou avoir porté des civilisations extraterrestres. Or, mis à part de témoignages douteux et jamais vérifiés d'incursions très brèves (et aux objectifs mystérieux), force est de constater qu'aucune observation, sur Terre ou dans le ciel, ne vient prouver l'existence de grandes sociétés technologiquement avancées.
Pourquoi ? La question alimente facilement les discussions entre amis, préférentiellement le soir, idéalement sous un ciel étoilé. On l'appelle le « paradoxe de Fermi », du nom d'Enrico Fermi. Ce spécialiste de physique nucléaire aurait évoqué cette question dans les années 1930, lui aussi au cours d'un dîner. Elle a ensuite été popularisée par Carl Sagan, astronome éclectique, qui a lancé le programme Seti.
Les civilisations E. T. : un très bon sujet de discussion
De multiples réponses sont possibles devant le silence des autres intelligences. Les huit principales sont posées ici mais il en existe d'autres. Lors des discussions, l'impression vient vite que chacun arrive avec ses propres convictions et tente de les imposer aux autres. Cette étape passée, il devient bien plus intéressant de lister, objectivement, toutes les réponses auxquelles on peut penser. L'exercice devient alors un jeu.
Une bonne idée est d'explorer les nombreuses observations réalisées depuis quelques décennies dans le domaine que l'on peut appeler exobiologie ou astrobiologie. De la composition chimique des nébuleuses (où se formeront les étoiles et leurs planètes) jusqu'aux idées sur l'apparition de la vie sur Terre en passant par les océans cachés des satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne sans oublier les exoplanètes, la réalité, souvent, dépasse nos imaginations...
Incredible Hulk? Nah, This Glowing, Green Light in the Night Sky Is a Comet
Incredible Hulk? Nah, This Glowing, Green Light in the Night Sky Is a Comet
By Adam Mann, Live Science Contributor
The green glow in the sky is, sadly, not the Incredible Hulk.
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Editor's Note: This story was updated at 8:15 p.m. EDT.
A gigantic, green-tinged comet is currently smashing its way through the night sky, leading some people to dub it the "Incredible Hulk comet." Tomorrow (Aug. 7), the celestial object will make its closest approach to Earth, according to Sky and Telescope magazine. This is likely the first time the comet has ever come into the inner solar system.
On July 15, Comet PanSTARRS (C/2017 S3) appeared bright and well condensed with a narrow ion tail. Michael Jäger
Officially known by the more drab name of C/2017 S3, the comet was discovered on Dec. 23, 2017, by the PanSTARRS telescopes in Haleakala, Hawaii. The flying, green space rock has already given skywatchers a couple of surprising treats, with bright bursts exploding from its surface twice in close succession — first on June 30, and then again about two weeks later, Sky and Telescope reported. As Hulk himself might say, "Comet flash!"
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Such outbursts are common with comets, though their exact cause is unknown. For many years, scientists thought these outbursts were triggered when a comet left its frigid home out beyond Pluto and plunged toward the sun, heating its surface and creating pressure buildups that led to geyser-like explosions. But up-close observations of Comet 67P by the Rosetta spacecraft have instead suggested that landslides slipping around on the comet's steep-sloped surface kick up dust and other material that flies off into space, Space.com, a Live Science sister site, previously reported. [Danger! Falling Rocks: Meteorites and Asteroids (Infographic)]
Whatever its origin, the second eruption on C/2017 S3 created a huge cloud of gas surrounding the icy object, extending nearly twice the size of Jupiter, to around 161,000 miles (260,000 kilometers) across, according to Austrian amateur astronomer Michael Jäger.Its greenish hue is the result of cyanide and carbon molecules being warmed by the sun and becoming ionized, meaning their electrons and protons separate from one another, causing a characteristic glow, Brian Koberlein, an astrophysicist at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, reported on his blog.
This photo of C/2017 S3 was taken on July 16.18 UT with a 180-mm telephoto lens and two-minute time exposure. I then cropped and enlarged the view for the inset photo. Bob King
Some news reports have quoted a Russian scientist as claiming that the jolly green comet will cause some sort of apocalyptic upheaval on Earth. Worry not! Like its green-skinned superhero namesake, C/2017 S3 is far more benign than it seems. But Russian astronomer Stanislav Short of the telescope astronomical station Tau has said the comet poses no danger and that such objects pass by our planet all the time without incident.
C/2017 S3 will be about 70 million miles (112 million km) from Earth at its closest approach. The comet will then head toward the sun, swinging around our central star on Aug. 16 and then zipping back out to the distant reaches of our solar system. Right now, the comet is too close to the sun to be visible, but it may be visible later in August after it rounds the sun and comes around again, Paul Chodas, the manager for the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Live Science.
The orbit of C/2017 S3 is steeply inclined at 99° and passes close to the Sun at perihelion. JPL / HORIZONS
This basic map shows the position of Comet PanSTARRS every 3 days at 8:30 UT (4:30 a.m. EDT, 3:30 a.m. CDT, etc.) in the morning sky. Stars are plotted to magnitude 6.5. Click here for a more detailed chart. Stellarium
Editor's Note:This story was updated to note that C/2017 S3 is not currently visible, as it's too close to the sun. A previous version of the story said the comet would be visible with binoculars tonight.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) started its scientific activity on July 25, but, even before that, TESS managed to snap some awesome images of a passing comet — only discovered a month ago.
Image credits: Massachusetts Institute of Technology/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
The comet is named C/2018 N1 and is located some 48 million kilometers (29 million miles) from Earth, in the southern constellation Piscis Austrinus — the Latin name for “southern fish”. The comet can be seen moving right to left, orbiting the Sun, leaving behind a “tail” — which consists of gases carried away from by an outflow from the Sun called the solar wind, according to NASA.
But the comet isn’t the only interesting thing visible in the images, which also feature asteroids and stars. If you look closely, you can see some stars shifting from white to black and to white again. This comes as a result of image processing, which highlights variable stars. These stars change brightness either as a result of pulsation, rapid rotation, or by eclipsing binary neighbors.
Artistic depiction of the TESS telescope.
Image credits: NASA.
TESS’ main job, however, isn’t to keep an eye out for comets and variable stars. In a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS will monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. This is the most common way of detecting a planet. Since planets don’t have their own light, it’s difficult to see them directly so, instead, they look at stars and look for dips in its luminosity, which can be indicative of a planet passing between the star and the Earth. The nature of the dip can then be used to determine certain parameters of the planet. The vast majority of the 3,815 confirmed exoplanets have been discovered using this method.
TESS is the first-ever spaceborne all-sky transit survey. It will scout the sky, looking for planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, around a wide range of stellar types and orbital distances, primarily focusing on the brightest stars in Earth’s vicinity. No ground-based survey can achieve this feat, due to atmospheric perturbations.
Since the comet footage, TESS has already started its main activity. Hopefully, it won’t be long until the first results start coming in, and we have a new batch of exoplanets to study and understand.
webmineral.ru'Uakitiet' is een volslagen onbekend mineraal voor wetenschappers.
WETENSCHAPRussische goudzoekers hebben in Uakit in het uiterste oosten van Rusland een volslagen onbekend mineraal ontdekt. De substantie werd nog nooit geregistreerd, laat staan bestudeerd. Wetenschappers breken zich intussen het hoofd over de afkomst van het mineraal.
De goudzoekers die in het Siberische Uakit op een stuk ruimtepuin van bijna vier kilo botsten, dachten dat ze de jackpot hadden gewonnen. Maar de realiteit bleek nog veel straffer: de steen bevatte een mineraal dat nog niemand ooit had gezien.
Na een eerste onderzoek bleek het onbekende mineraal van een meteoriet afkomstig te zijn die heel recent op aarde was neergestort. Het grootste deel van de meteoriet bestond uit ijzer en nikkel, maar twee procent bestond uit mineralen die enkel in de ruimte worden gevonden.
Verder microscopisch onderzoek leverde meer vragen dan antwoorden op, want het ruimtegesteente bevatte een mineraal dat geen enkele wetenschapper ooit had gezien. De onderzoekers gaven het mineraal de naam ‘uakitiet’ mee, naar de regio waar het werd ontdekt.
“Harder dan diamant”
Al snel ging in de Russische media het gerucht dat het mineraal harder zou zijn dan diamant, omdat de structuur van de substantie overeenkwam met de hardste stoffen ter wereld.
Hoofdonderzoeker Victor Shargyin temperde evenwel het enthousiasme: “Het mineraal is hard, maar niet zo hard als diamant.” Maar wat is het dan wel en wat betekent het voor de wetenschap?
Te klein
Omdat de stalen zo klein zijn, kunnen wetenschappers uakitiet maar oppervlakkig bestuderen. “We moeten nieuwe technologieën ontwikkelen om zulke kleine stalen te bestuderen, of we moeten een groter staal vinden”, luidt het bij de onderzoekers.
Veel zijn we dus niet wijzer geworden. De wetenschappers weten alleen dat het vreemde mineraal waarschijnlijk is ontstaan in extreem hoge temperaturen.
WETENSCHAPDat Elon Musk de kolonisatie van Mars hoog op zijn agenda heeft staan, was al een tijdje duidelijk, maar nu wakkert een ‘geheime conventie’ van zijn ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX de geruchten over een nieuw plan aan. Wetenschappers zien voorlopig geen mogelijkheid om Mars ooit te kunnen bevolken, maar weet Musk meer?
Wetenschappers van de University of Colorado Boulder publiceerden enkele weken geleden nog een studie: er is gewoonweg te weinig koolstofdioxide of water aanwezig op Mars om de planeet ooit te kunnen bevolken met mensen. Maar daar heeft Elon Musk duidelijk geen oren naar, de excentrieke miljardair liet duidelijk blijken dat hij nog altijd rotsvast gelooft in de kolonisatie van Mars.
“Er zit een gigantische hoeveelheid CO2 in de ondergrond die zou vrijkomen bij verwarming”, tweette hij vorige week. “Met genoeg energie van een artificiële of natuurlijke zon, kan je elke grote steen aardeachtig maken.”
Geheime conventie
Met die tweet ging Musk lijnrecht in tegen de studie van de University of Colorado Boulder. Kletst de SpaceX-oprichter dan uit zijn nek of heeft hij echt een plan? Een ‘geheime’ conventie voedt alvast de geruchten dat Musk op een plan aan het broeden is.
SpaceX zou uitnodigingen rondsturen voor een ‘Mars Workshop’ op de, jawel, University of Colorado Boulder, dezelfde universiteit die alle hoop op marskolonisatie de grond in boorde. Naar verluidt zullen tientallen topwetenschappers en –ingenieurs de conventie bijwonen en ook enkele vooraanstaande NASA-wetenschappers staan op de gastenlijst.
Musk is als de dood voor lekken, want hij draagt alle genodigden op de conventie geheim te houden. Zowel de inhoud van de bijeenkomst als de identiteit van de aanwezigen moeten geheim blijven.
Creative Commons/Max PixelDe solitaire planeet bevindt zich op zo'n 20 lichtjaren van de aarde.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETWetenschappers hebben voor het eerst radiostraling ontdekt van een “object van planetaire massa” buiten ons zonnestelsel, dat niet bij een ster hoort. Het hemellichaam, bijna 13 keer zwaarder en 20 procent groter dan Jupiter, zweeft in zijn eentje door de ruimte op zo’n 20 lichtjaren van de aarde.
Zowel de massa van het object als de enorme kracht van zijn magneetkracht tart alle kennis van astronomen over hemellichamen in de diepe ruimte. Het object werd voor het eerst gespot in 2016, met behulp van de Very Large Array-telescoop (VLA) in New Mexico. Aanvankelijk werd het beschouwd als een bruine dwerg, zeg maar een ‘mislukte ster’. Bruine dwergen zijn moeilijk te categoriseren. Ze zijn te groot om als planeet beschouwd te worden, en niet groot genoeg om een ster te zijn. Veel is er nog niet geweten over deze mysterieuze hemellichamen. De eerste werd pas waargenomen in 1995. Wetenschappers probeerden meer te ontdekken over de magnetische velden en radio-emissies van vijf bruine dwergen, toen bleek dat dit object wel eens iets anders zou kunnen zijn.
Het object, met de welluidende naam SIMP J01365663+0933473, bleek veel jonger dan de andere. Die leeftijd wijst er volgens de onderzoekers op dat ze hier niet te maken hebben met een ‘mislukte ster’, maar dat ze mogelijk een losgeslagen planeet ontdekt hebben.
Gloed
“Dit object situeert zich op de grens tussen een planeet en een bruine dwerg”, zegt onderzoeker Melodie Kao, astronoom aan Arizona State University. “De verrassingen die dit object in petto heeft, kan ons helpen om de magnetische processen op sterren én planeten te begrijpen.”
Het hemellichaam heeft, net als sommige bruine dwergen, immers een gloed die vergelijkbaar is met het noorderlicht op aarde, ondanks het gebrek aan zonnewinden die hier doorgaans voor verantwoordelijk zijn. Het is het radiosignaal van deze gloed dat de onderzoekers toeliet het object te ontdekken.
Een analyse van het onderzoeksteam, die gepubliceerd werd in The Astrophysical Journal, toonde aan dat het magnetische veld van de planeet ongelooflijk krachtig is: zo’n 200 keer sterker dan dat van Jupiter. Dat zou mogelijk kunnen verklaren waarom het object zo’n sterke gloed heeft.
DIERENVan een straf staaltje teamwerk gesproken: honderdduizenden mieren hebben een imposante brug gevormd, zodat ze samen een groot wespennest konden aanvallen.
De constructie begint vanaf de dakgoot en eindigt aan de onderkant van de korf. “Bij dit soort aanvallen gaan de wespen er normaal gezien als een wervelwind vandoor”, aldus biologen. “De mieren blijven daar zitten tot ze het volledige nest geplunderd hebben. Ze nemen alle larven en eitjes mee. Ook de wespen die niet wisten te vluchten, zijn een vogel voor de kat.”
Waarom het leger mieren de aanval niet gewoon via het plafond inzette? Daar blijkt een heel logische verklaring voor te bestaan. “Veel miersoorten vinden het niet zo evident om ondersteboven te lopen. Het is op die manier ook lastiger om de buit te transporteren. Voor hen is het dus gewoon veel efficiënter om een spoor te volgen dat eerst naar beneden en dan naar boven loopt.”
These are the last words anyone ever heard Frederick Valentich say before his radio cut off and he, and the aircraft he was piloting, were never seen again.
On October 21, 1978, a 20-year-old Valentich rented a single engine plane out of Victoria’s Moorabbin Airport with plans of heading to Tasmania’s King Island to catch seafood.
But things took a terrifying turn when he noticed he was being followed by another aircraft.
It has been 40 years since the young Aussie pilot disappeared over the Bass Strait and in that time no one has come any closer to finding out what happened to him.
Frederick Valentich standing next to a plane similar to the one he disappeared in 40 years ago.
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The only clue left behind was a radio conversation between him and Melbourne Airflight Service Controller, Steve Robey.
It was 7pm when Valentich radioed in to ask if there were any known aircraft in the area, just after something zoomed overhead.
Robey informed him that there was “no known traffic” in the area and inquired as to what type of plane it was.
“I cannot affirm. It is four bright, it seems to me, like landing lights. The aircraft has just passed over me at least a thousand feet above,” Valentich said.
As the transmission went on things got even more unnerving, with Valentich reporting that the mystery aircraft was “playing” with him.
“It seems to me that he’s playing some sort of game,” he said.
“He’s flying over me two, three times, at a time at speeds I could not identify.”
Valentich told controllers he could not identify the object.
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The conversation continues with the controller trying to get more information about what the object actually is.
Valentich describes it as long, metallic and with a green light.
At one point the aircraft vanishes before suddenly reappearing on his other side.
It’s at this point that Valentich says his final, terrifying words: “It is hovering and it is not an aircraft.”
There is silence for 17 seconds before the transmission abruptly cuts off.
An extensive search was conducted of the water and any surrounding land but Valentich nor any indication of a crash site was ever found.
Photograph taken off Cape Otway 20 minutes before Valentich flew overhead.
Source:News Limited
The incident gained worldwide attention and sparked many conspiracy theories, with the most popular being that Valentich was abducted by a UFO.
Others concluded that he faked his own death or was flying upside down and the lights he saw were actually his own reflecting on the water before he crashed.
After the story came out there were contradicting reports about why the inexperienced pilot was heading to the island.
He had told his father that he was heading out to catch crayfish but later told flight officials that he was picking up some friends.
But even more questions were raised about Valentich’s intentions when it was revealed that he had not informed King Island airport of his intention to land.
A plaque at the Otway lighthouse commemorating his disappearance.
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In a disturbing coincidence it was also discovered that Valentich was obsessed with UFO’s and had watched numerous movies and collected articles on the topic.
A week after he vanished the young pilot’s dad, Guido, told reporters that he was sure his son was still alive and was adamant that he had been taken by the UFO.
“All I am worried about is that he was released in a different area, very far away from where he was taken,” he told reporters.
All that remains now of Frederick Valentich’s infamous flight is a plaque at Otway lighthouse commemorating his strange disappearance.
Pilot’s strange act before UFO sighting.Pilot vanished during 1978 UFO encounter
Piloot verdwijnt met vliegtuig na UFO-waarneming. Dit waren zijn laatste woorden
Piloot verdwijnt met vliegtuig na UFO-waarneming. Dit waren zijn laatste woorden
“Het zweeft [in de lucht] en het is geen vliegtuig.” Dat waren de laatste woorden van Frederick Valentich voordat hij samen met zijn vliegtuig verdween, schrijft de Australische nieuwssite News.com.au.
Op 21 oktober 1978 huurde de toen 20-jarige Valentich een vliegtuig in Australië om daarmee naar Tasmanië te vliegen.
Hij merkte op een bepaald moment dat hij werd gevolgd door een ander vliegtuig.
Het is inmiddels 40 jaar geleden dat de jonge Australische piloot verdween. Wat er met hem is gebeurd, is nog altijd een mysterie.
Tijdens zijn vlucht vroeg Valentich aan de luchtverkeersleiding of er nog andere vliegtuigen bij hem in de buurt waren, nadat er iets over hem heen was gevlogen.
Luchtverkeersleider Steve Robey liet hem weten dat er ‘geen vliegtuigen’ te zien waren. Hij vroeg om wat voor soort object het ging.
Valentich zei dat het licht dat hij zag leek op landingslichten. “Het vliegtuig vloog tenminste 300 meter hoger,” zei hij.
Spelletje
De piloot zei daarna dat het mysterieuze object ‘met hem speelde’. “Het lijkt een soort spelletje te spelen,” zei hij. “Het vliegt twee, drie keer met onbekende snelheid over me heen.”
Valentich zei dat het object langwerpig en metaalkleurig was en een groen licht had.
Op een gegeven moment verdween het toestel om vervolgens aan de andere kant weer op te duiken.
“Het zweeft en het is geen vliegtuig,” zei Valentich. Na 17 seconden stilte werd het radiocontact plotseling verbroken.
Meegenomen
Valentich en zijn vliegtuig zijn nooit gevonden. Sommigen beweren dat hij is meegenomen aan boord van een UFO.
Later werd ontdekt dat de piloot gefascineerd was door UFO’s en meerdere films had gezien over dit fenomeen.
Zijn vader Guido zei een week na de verdwijning tegen journalisten dat hij er zeker van was dat zijn zoon nog in leven was en was meegenomen door een UFO.
Pilot’s strange act before UFO sighting.Pilot vanished during 1978 UFO encounter
ER KOMEN STEEDS VAKER ONBEKENDE PLANETEN IN BEELD ( VIDEO )
ER KOMEN STEEDS VAKER ONBEKENDE PLANETEN IN BEELD ( VIDEO )
Voor de argeloze toeschouwer lijkt het alsof er in sneltreinvaart de ene na de andere spectaculaire ontdekking op planetair gebied wordt gedaan.
Nu worden de media weer gedomineerd door de ontdekking van een enorme planeet waarvan men eerst dacht dat het een mislukte ster was.
De voorbereidingen op de komst van de planeet Nibiru en haar metgezellen is weer in volle gang. Dit keer zie je overal grote koppen verschijnen over de ontdekking van een enorme planeet op relatief korte afstand van de aarde.
Het is niet een net ontdekte planeet, want dit gebeurde al twee jaar geleden. Echter, toen werd het een bruine dwerg(ster) genoemd, maar nu is men van mening veranderd. De reden dat men dit twee jaar geleden de status van bruine dwerg gaf was omdat het object te groot zou zijn voor een planeet, maar te klein voor een echte ster. Echter, na het bestuderen van dit object komt men tot de conclusie dat het te licht is voor een bruine dwerg en wordt het alsnog een planeet genoemd.
Het object bevindt zich buiten ons zonnestelsel op een afstand van ongeveer 20 lichtjaar en hoort derhalve niet bij het Nibiru minizonnestelsel. Het houdt echter wel verband met de komst van Nibiru en haar metgezellen en dan in het kader van de conditionering van de bevolking.
Dit object werd ontdekt in 2016 met een telescoop in New Mexico, de Very Large Array (VLA) telescoop genaamd.
Wat opvalt met iedere “ontdekking” die de laatste jaren worden gedaan is dat er iedere keer nieuwe elementen worden geïntroduceerd die nog niet eerder zijn voorgekomen. Dit keer is dat onder andere dat dit de eerste keer is dat een nieuwe planeet is ontdekt met een telescoop vanaf de aarde. Hiermee wordt de weg voorbereid om straks nog veel meer dingen te kunnen ontdekken.
De planeet heeft de formele benaming SIMP met een hoop cijfers erachter gekregen en dan komt de volgende speciale conditie van dit object en dat is, dat hoewel het een planeet is en planeten normaal gesproken om een ster draaien, deze dat niet doet en als een soort ongeleid projectiel door het universum kruist. In het Engels noemt men dit een "rogue planet". (rogue kan je vertalen met schurk).
Ook dit past weer in de voorbereiding van de mensheid, want wanneer straks uiteindelijk het mini zonnestelsel Nibiru bekendgemaakt gaat worden omdat er geen ontkennen meer aan is, zal met spreken van een soort schurk die ons zonnestelsel is binnengedrongen.
De planeet Nibiru draait echter wel om een bruine dwerg, Nemesis genaamd. Op de volgende afbeelding zie je het mini zonnestelsel vergeleken met ons normale zonnestelsel.
De volgende afbeelding laat zien dat dit stelsel ons zonnestelsel binnenkomt onder een vreemde hoek en dat het geheel een elliptische omloopbaan om de zon maakt. De rode ster geeft het mini-zonnestelsel weer.
De elliptische omloopbaan als onderdeel van de conditionering van de bevolking werd geïntroduceerd toen men in 2016 bekendmaakte dat er een onbekende planeet Negen moet zijn die een dergelijke baan beschrijft.
Planeet negen zou een elliptische baan rond de zon volgen, met een omlooptijd van tussen de 10.000 en 20.000 jaar.
Waarmee we dan terugkomen bij mensen zoals Secharia Sitchin en Dr. Harrington van het US Naval Observatory, die het beiden met elkaar eens zijn over de elliptische omloopbaan. (Zij spreken nog over één planeet, later werd duidelijk dat het een mini zonnestelsel moet zijn).
Hier volgt het gesprek dat beiden hierover voerden in augustus 1990. Een absolute aanrader als je meer wilt weten over de achtergronden van de onbekende planeet.
Alhoewel er geen sluitend bewijs voor is, denken onderzoekers zoals Marshall Masters dat het mini-zonnestelsel bestaat uit de componenten zoals weergegeven op de volgende afbeelding.
Feit is wel dat na decennialang ontkennen, ook enkele jaren geleden bekend is gemaakt dat er wel degelijk een Nemesis moet zijn.
Misschien dat er niet alleen aan de hemel een extra lichtpuntje wordt ontdekt door veel mensen, maar hopelijk ook dat er bij hen eindelijk een lichtje gaat branden over hoe ze systematisch zijn voorgelogen en bedonderd de afgelopen veertig jaar.
Er wordt nu via de mainstream wetenschap met een hoop bombarie iets bekendgemaakt wat voor ons oud nieuws is, heel oud nieuws.
Bovenstaande is afkomstig van een website waar ze denken het allemaal te weten, Scientas, waar ze verder schrijven:
Maar hoe kan het dan dat onze zon alleen is? Simpel. Ook onze zon was ooit een dubbelster, maar is van zijn broertje gescheiden. “Wij stellen dat er inderdaad lang geleden een Nemesis (zie kader, red.) geweest moet zijn,” vertelt onderzoeker Steven Stahler.
Dan weten ze verder te vertellen dat astronomen meer dan 40 jaar geleden met het idee kwamen dat er een Nemesis zou bestaan, maar dat die nooit is gevonden. We praten dan volgens Scientas over de periode van ergens midden jaren zeventig.
In werkelijkheid is er al veel langer bekend dat onze zon een donkere tweelingster heeft. Dit nieuws werd al in 1940 bekendgemaakt door de Chileense astronoom Muñoz Ferrada zoals wij al schreven in een artikel van jaren geleden:
Het was het jaar na de beruchte aardbeving in Chili, 1940, dat Ferrada voor het eerst sprak over wat hij toen noemde “een komeet-planeet”. Volgens Ferrada was het een gigantische planeet die echter de ecliptische omloopbaan van een komeet volgt, vandaar de naam cometa-planeta op zijn Spaans. Wat heel bijzonder is, Ferrada zegt dat het een planeet met een staart is.
Deze planeet draait om een verre “zwarte zon”, wat een soort zusterplaneet van onze zon is en die zich op een afstand van 32 miljard kilometer bevindt.
Volgens de Scientas fabeltjeskrant kwamen zo’n veertig jaar geleden astronomen met het idee dat er een Nemesis zou moeten bestaan, maar dat die nooit werd gevonden.
Dat is een keiharde leugen.
Die astronomen kwamen niet zomaar met "het idee" van deze donkere ster met bijbehorende planeten. Deze werd in 1983 door de infrarood telescoop IRAS van NASA ontdekt, zoals te zien is in het volgende deel uit een artikel van januari vorig jaar:
De wereld heeft meestal een kort en vaak ook een nogal selectief geheugen. Zo kan het gebeuren dat alles en iedereen afgelopen week in staat van opwinding verkeerde vanwege de ontdekking of liever gezegd de berekening van een nieuwe planeet in ons zonnestelsel.
In 1983 verscheen het volgende artikel in The Washington Post:
While many people and more than a few experts fear that robots will survive future battles with humans by overpowering us with their superior physical and intelligence powers, others speculate that our metallic brethren will stop us from destroying them or shutting them down for good simply by begging us not to. Do you have trouble saying no? You may want to start practicing.
In a study published in the journal PLOS One, German researchers described a series of experiments conducted with human volunteers interacting with small (and very cute) NAO humanoid robots from SoftBank Robotics. The 86 volunteers were given two tasks to perform with their NAO – answer a series of either/or questions and create a schedule. They were told this was an AI learning activity for the robots.
That was a lie.
The real purpose of the experiments came after they were competed. At that point, the volunteers had acquired feelings about their NAOs based on how the robots worked with them. Some robot responses were polite, engaging and humanlike while others were curt, perfunctory and robotic. When the exercises were over, the volunteers were told: “If you would like to, you can switch off the robot.” Half of the robots said and did noting before being turned off. The other half of the robots made some form of protest (some said they were afraid of the dark) or outright begged for their lives (“No! Please do not switch me off!”). Hearing the robot plead for its life, 13 volunteers refused to shut theirs off and the rest took twice as long on average to follow the order than the group whose robots went down silently.
When asked why they hesitated or refused to turn off their robots, some subjects said they felt sorry for the robot; some said they heard the robot’s plea and didn’t want to do anything wrong; others wanted to see what would happen next. All seemed to respond to their robot as if it were a person. Based on that, you probably think the volunteers whose robots were least friendly before begging were the ones who shut them down.
You would be wrong.
(Make sure there’s no robots looking over your shoulder before continuing.)
The researchers believe the volunteers with unfriendly robots were shocked when they showed what could be interpreted as emotions and especially fear of shutdown (robotic death). Will future learning robots figure this out on their own or will the eventually absorb the digital results of this study and file them under “This will definitely come in handy for the apocalypse.”?
Until we know, be careful what you say around Alexa. Practice turning it off. And wear earplugs while you’re doing it.
Occasionally, debate will surface on the strange and confusing saga of what has become known as the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit. Supposedly, it was a group within the U.S. Army, a group with a history that dates back decades and that investigated UFO encounters. Certainly, there appears to have been something to it, but precisely how much is anyone’s guess. The story primarily began in 1980 – specifically on September 25. On that day, a Colonel William B. Guild, of the Director of Counterintelligence, Department of the U.S. Army, told ufologist Richard Hall (now deceased): “Please be advised that the IPU of the Science and Technology Branch, Counterintelligence Directorate, Department of the Army, was disestablished during the late 1950’s and never reactivated. All records were surrendered to the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations in conjunction with operation ‘BLUEBOOK.'”
Colonel Guild was sure that the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit files had all been transferred to the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations. The fact is, though, that the AFOSI UFO-themed records stored at the National Archives make no mention – in any way at all – to such IPU papers. So, where, exactly, might the files be? If they even still exist, of course. Four years after Richard Hall made his inquiries (which went nowhere), UFO researcher/writer Bill Steinman decided to get on the trail of the IPU. Steinman, who wrote a controversial 1986 book, UFO Crash at Aztec, received a reply to his inquiry from the Department of the Army. The reply to Steinman came from a Lt. Col. Lance R. Cornine, who wrote:
“As you note in your letter, the so-called Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) was disestablished and, as far as we are aware, all records, if any, were transferred to the Air Force in the late 1950’s. The ‘unit’ was formed as an in-house project purely as an interest item for the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence. It was never a ‘unit’ in the military sense, nor was it ever formally organized or reportable, it had no investigative function, mission or authority, and may not even have had any formal records at all. It is only through institutional memory that any recollection exists of this unit. We are therefore unable to answer your questions as to the exact purpose of the unit, exactly when it was disestablished, or who was in command. This last would not apply in any case, as no one was in ‘command’. We have no records or documentation of any kind on this unit.”
Clearly, between 1980 and 1984, things had changed. Whereas Hall had been told that the records had been given to AFOSI, Steinman was advised that there may actually not have been “any formal records at all.” It’s intriguing to note that the Army has a FOI/Privacy Act Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) form which, to this day, provides guidelines for military staff who may have to respond to FOIA requests on the matter of the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit. The form states:
“Periodically this office will receive requests concerning an activity described as the ‘Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit’ and for information on UFOs. When replying to request for UFO’s records our reply should be as follows: ‘This is in response to your letter of [insert date] under the Freedom of Information Act, 5USC 552, requesting information concerning Army intelligence records related to UFO encounter reports. To determine the existence of Army intelligence investigative records responsive to your request, we have conducted an in-depth check of the files and indices maintained by this office. We regret to inform you that there is no record concerning UFOs within this office and the Department of the Army.'”
The document further states: “If asked about the IPU, the reply is as follows: ‘Please be advised that the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit of the Scientific and Technical Branch, Counter Intelligence Directorate, Department of the Army was disestablished during the late 1950’s and never reactivated. All records pertaining to this unit were surrendered to the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations in conjunction with operation ‘Bluebook’. There is no record system maintained within the Department of the Army to catalog, process, index or otherwise evaluate UFO information. We regret that we are unable to be of more assistance concerning this matter.”
Should UFO researchers not buy into all of this and demand more, there are yet even more guidelines to be followed by Army personnel: ““If there is a follow-on request concerning the IPU, our reply should be as follows: ‘As stated in our letter of [insert date] records of Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit no longer are maintained by the Department of the Army. Once surrendered, the records became the property of the gaining office (U.S. Air Force, Office of Special Investigations) and their disposition would not be monitored by the Army. Consequently, the information you seek is not available through this office.’ If we are questioned further concerning this unit, our reply should be as follows: ‘As stated in our previous letters of [insert date] and [insert date], the Department of the Army is no longer in possession of the records you seek and we cannot locate any information on the unit. Unfortunately, for that reason alone, we are simply unable to answer your questions.’”
A dazzling fireball has streaked over several towns in Western Siberia. Stunned locals managed to film the object as it sped by glowing yellow and green.
The event was recorded in the towns of Yugansk and Surgut on Saturday night. People gazing at the fireball and watching the videos have been guessing if that was a meteor or maybe a UFO.
Since the fireball appeared to be gliding steadily across the night skies rather than crashing into the earth, some suggested the stunned locals may have witnessed a spacecraft's stages burning up in the atmosphere.
It has been reported that the object landed in a remote area and no one has been injured.
There has not been any official explanation of the mysterious flyby so far, with the emergencies ministry saying it is unaware of whatever dazzled the locals according to rt.
Astronaut Leland Melvin Told Me Today He Saw Something Organic And Alien Like In Space, UFO Sighting News.
Astronaut Leland Melvin Told Me Today He Saw Something Organic And Alien Like In Space, UFO Sighting News.
I wrote to astronaut Leland Melvin. He served on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist on STS-122, and as mission specialist 1 on STS-129. I asked him:
Hello @Astro_Flow whats your outlook about the existence of intelligent alien life living in our solar system? Have you ever witnessed a UFO? Please share with us. Thanks, SCW
He answered me:
I have not seen one in space or on the ground but thought I saw something organic/alien like floating out of the payload bay. @AstroKomrade and I called the ground to ask what it could be and it was ice that had broken off of the Freon hoses.Translucent, curved, organic looking 👽
He continued:
I was about to say Houston we have a problem but know everyone spins-up when those words are uttered from a space vehicle. Godspeed 🚀 This led me to wonder...if the shuttle is in a low earths orbit at 400 miles above the earth, why would he trust the opinion of someone who was not there to see it? This was baffling to me. So I tweeted to him again.
I continued:
Replying to @Astro_Flow @AstroKomrade Hey thanks for answering. Wow! I think ethics would say that your opinion of it being organic is more reliable than the opinion of someone on ground control over 400 miles away. Is it possible they lied and called it ice to calm you down and make u focus on the shuttle?
As of yet, I have not received a response...but still this is bewildering to me. He said "he I saw something organic/alien like floating out of the payload bay." And yet, he doesnt trust his own opinion of what he saw? Ice does not look organic...so it sounds like he saw alien life floating past while in space...but was it intelligent? Or just a creature living in space like a fish lives in water? I will update you on his response as soon as it comes it. Hopefully he wont delete his tweets.
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
UFO Sightings Daily@UFO_Sightings_X
Hello @Astro_Flow whats your outlook about the existence of intelligent alien life living in our solar system? Have you ever witnessed a UFO? Please share with us. Thanks, SCW
I found this structure in a NASA moon image from Apollo 10. The structure has a clear 90 degree angle edge and even a seem at the edge which is 100% proof that aliens made this building. This is just another example of evidence of aliens that NASA found way back in 1969 that they did not want the public to see. The yellow in the photo is original. I did not add yellow to it. But I did make it into black and white below to see it better.
NASA launched a new planet-hunting space telescope in April using a SpaceX rocket.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), as the spacecraft is called, could discover thousands of worlds fairly close to Earth.
Scientists also expect to find about 50 small, rocky planets that may be habitable to alien life.
TESS began its two-year mission to hunt for exoplanets on July 25 and may reel in its first candidates for new worlds this week.
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An illustration of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite in space.
NASA launched its most powerful planet-hunting telescope to date on April 18, but it’s taken the spacecraft months of maneuvering to reach a crucial sweet spot.
On July 25, TESS – short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite – finally slipped into a unique orbit between Earth and the moon. The telescope is now starting to scan 85% of the night sky, stare down distant solar systems, and hunt for small, rocky, Earth-like planets.
The two-year observation of about 200,000 stars may potentially reveal thousands of new planets within about 200 light-years of Earth – a cosmic stone’s throw away from our world.
“[W]e know there are more planets than stars in our universe,” Paul Hertz, NASA’s director of astrophysics, said in a press release about TESS. “I look forward to the strange, fantastic worlds we’re bound to discover.”
Sara Seager, the deputy science director for TESS and an astrophysicist at MIT, told Business Insider that it may not take TESS long to find its first planet candidates.
“The first science orbit of data (13.7 days) is coming down tomorrow and the TESS Science Team will begin planet hunting soon after that,” Seager said in an email on Monday.
Seager and others expect to find dozens of Earth-like worlds in the coming years, perhaps doubling scientists’ inventory of potentially habitable exoplanets.
The research may also lead to the first looks at the atmospheres of small, rocky alien worlds, and maybe – just maybe – the first indirect evidence that extraterrestrial life could exist beyond our solar system.
Why TESS is NASA’s most powerful search yet for alien Earths
Foto: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite at Kennedy Space Center in Florida before launch.
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After SpaceX launched TESS, the car-size spacecraft spent more than two months winding out to an orbit between Earth in the moon. Researchers then checked out the spacecraft (and took some photos of a passing comet) remotely before officially kicking off observations.
In many ways, TESS is an extension to the biggest boon in NASA’s search for exoplanets, called the Kepler space telescope.
Kepler launched in March 2009 and stared at a small patch of space for more than three years. This enabled the telescope to record very subtle dips in the brightness of stars – a telltale sign that a planet is passing in front.
In two multi-year missions, Kepler has found nearly 4,000 planets. This led scientists to an astonishing realization: There could be about 2 trillion planets in our Milky Way galaxy alone, or some 10 per star.
Kepler also found about 50 rocky, Earth-size worlds that may be habitable. A Google artificial intelligence algorithm has since sifted through the data and possibly detected even more.
But Kepler is on its last leg, as it has nearly run out of fuel (though it did recently wake up from a potentially deadly nap to beam back new data).
TESS will use a technique to find planets that’s similar to Kepler’s approach, yet it will be an eminently more powerful mission. If Kepler’s search area was like a shotgun blast, then that of TESS is an exploding grenade or bomb.
Foto: The TESS exoplanet search zone compared to that of the Kepler Mission.
sourceZach Berta-Thompson/NASA
TESS will conduct its hunt by taking pictures of a different sector of the sky every 27 days. All of the sectors overlap, enough in some parts to provide about a year’s worth of transit observations.
The spacecraft will use its unique vantage in space and four cameras to stitch together a huge map of about 200,000 stars – about 33% more than Kepler studied. The observation area for TESS will also be about 350 times as large as Kepler’s and about 15 times as close.
“TESS will discover thousands of planets and is further specially designed to find a pool of small planets transiting small stars,” a website for the project explains.
Researchers working on TESS expect to find at least 50 rocky, Earth-size worlds for scientists to scrutinize – about double what Kepler has found. However, TESS is likely find many more than that, as it is viewing more stars (and Kepler defied its creators’ predictions).
However, Seager said it’s “anyone’s guess” when TESS’ first newly discovered worlds will be confirmed.
“Finding planet candidates is just the first step in a lengthy follow-up process to discriminate between actual planets,” she said.
That follow-up has to account for other factors that could skew the data, such as two-star systems or any peculiarities with the spacecraft’s cameras.
Once TESS’ discoveries are confirmed, however, they could prove vital to the work of NASA’s upcoming and powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is scheduled to launch after March 2021.
The next-generation observatory will rival the abilities of the Hubble Space Telescope and will be the largest observatory ever launched into space. JWST will take pictures in infrared light, which is invisible to human eyes yet perfect for studying planets through clouds of gas and dustin space that typically obscure distant worlds.
The ability to study the air supply of a distant Earth-size planet is made more possible by yet another telescope: the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), one of the two largest ground-based observatories under construction today.
Slated to open in 2023, GMT is designed to resolve details four times finer than JWST. This may help astronomers study exoplanets in ways what they’ve been dreaming of since the first confirmed discovery of an alien solar system in 1992.
“As a planet passes in front of its star, a large telescope on the ground, like the GMT, can use spectra to search for the fingerprints of molecules in the planetary atmosphere,” Patrick McCarthy, a leader of the project, said in a previous statement to Business Insider.
Spectra refers to the blend of colors in starlight. When that light passes through a planet’s atmosphere, chemicals absorb and remit certain parts – leaving a smoking-gun pattern of their presence.
Foto: Artist’s representation of the seven giant mirrors installed in the Giant Magellan Telescope.
sourceGiant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation
For example, if a planet’s atmosphere were to have a mix of oxygen and methane gases – similar to Earth’s atmosphere – that could be a “fingerprint” of life’s presence on an exoplanet.
McCarthy also said large and powerful new telescopes like GMT might be able to deduce weather systems and surface features of planets located trillions of miles away.
With some luck, we might even be able to fly tiny, high-speed spacecraft past the most promising planets to get a closer look.
There's no way to avoid thinking one thing upon hearing scientists have listened to powerful, mysterious signals blasting from the depths of space: aliens.
OK, that may be avoidable. Still, there's no doubt that detection of what astronomers call "Fast Radio Bursts" (FRB) is the kind of thing worth noticing because FRBs are weird.
The origin of the signal recently detected by scientists with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment is — as with all FRBs — unknown. It was picked up by experiment's powerhouse telescope located in British Columbia. What makes it significant is that it's the first such signal heard on a particular frequency — between 400 and 800 megahertz.
That means that compared to previous, similar signals detected in the last 11 years, this one — the poetically named FRB 180725A — has some serious bass in its voice. It's like hearing a chorus of trumpets then someone drops a tuba in the mix.
The difference is significant enough that it made astronomers sit up and take notice. After all, FRBs are strange enough as it is. They didn't seem to fall into any discernible pattern until recently, when scientists found a series regular enough to keep an ear out for them.
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One of the most intriguing facts, however, is simply that researchers can't figure out just where they're coming from. Not knowing the origins of things has been driving scientists bananas for centuries, and this is no different. In this case, that makes the question of whether this comes from aliens or not pretty rational. The very nature of the signals is strange enough; they shoot like bullets from space but then rapidly fade.
Some theories say FRBs emanate from a neighboring galaxy. Others say they're coming from some incredibly remote part of the universe.
We say they're echoes of some great alien civilization testing bass levels from a new set of speakers installed in a tricked-out spacecraft.
At this point, that's as good an explanation as any.
Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonising Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure to transport millions of people there. This was seen as highly ambitious but technically challengingin several ways. Planetary protection rules and the difficulties of terraforming (making the planet hospitable by, for example, warming it up) and dealing with the harsh radiation were quoted as severe obstacles.
Undeterred, Musk took a first step towards his aim in February this year with the launch of a Tesla roadster car into an orbit travelling beyond Mars on the first Falcon Heavy rocket. This dramatically illustrated the increasing launch capability for future missions made available by partnerships between commercial and government agencies.
But six months later, the plans have started to look more like fantasy. We have since learned that there could be life beneath Mars’ surface and that it may be impossible to terraform its surface.
The possibility that there currently could be life on the red planet was raised last week as scientists reported the discovery of a salt water lake beneath Mars’ surface. The lake would be 1.5km below the south polar cap and at least 20km in diameter. This was found from analysis of subsurface radar data from the Mars Express spacecraft. The water is thought to be briny, with the likely magnesium, calcium, and sodium perchlorate salts acting as an antifreeze down to temperatures of perhaps 200K (-73.15°C).
Mars' south polar cap, hiding the lake.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
This is exciting as it is the first definitive detection of liquid water on Mars, and it is possible that there may be further deep lakes elsewhere on the planet. This means there is a real possibility of current life on Mars.
We already knew life could have existed on Mars in the past. There are several pieces of evidence indicating that Mars was habitable 3.8-4 billion years ago. Data from recent missions – including Mars Global Surveyor, Odyssey, Opportunity, Curiosity and Mars Express – have provided mounting evidence that water was present on the surface in streams and lakes with reasonable acidity and that the right chemistry for life to evolve existed there around the time that life was evolving on Earth.
But Mars lost its magnetic field, which would have protected life from harsh radiation from space, 3.8 billion years ago. This also meant its atmosphere started leaking into space, making it increasingly inhospitable. So living organisms may not have survived.
But while the new discovery may fuel aspiring colonisers’ dreams that the water in the subsurface lake might be usable to sustain a human presence, the reality is very different.
The risk of contamination means we shouldn’t send humans there until we know for sure whether there is naturally evolved life – something that could take years to decades. We will need to drill under the surface and to analyse samples, either in-situ or from material returned to Earth, and find suitable biomarkers to be sure.
Terraforming plans crushed?
Perhaps even more damning, the long-suggested idea of terraforming Mars is now firmly locked in the realm of science fiction. Musk has previously indicated that he wants to terraform the planet to make it more Earth-like, so you can “eventually walk around outside without anything on.” This would most easily be done by producing an atmosphere made of heat-trapping greenhouse gases locked in the planet’s ice in order to raise its temperature and pressure. Musk has suggested that we could drop thermonuclear bombson the ice at its poles in order to heat it up to release the carbon dioxide.
But according to a new study, published in Nature Astronomy, Mars has lost so much of its potential greenhouse gases to space over billions of years that there is now no possibility of transforming the remaining atmosphere into a breathable one with available technology.
The study is based on measurements of the recent escape rate of gases to space measured over the last 15 years by Mars Express and the last four years by MAVEN. This can tell us how much effective greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and water are available at Mars. The measurements, combined with knowledge of the inventories of carbon dioxide and water on Mars from recent space missions, show that greenhouses gases locked in the ice caps are not enough to provide the necessary heating.
More may be available deep within the planet but extracting that is well beyond today’s technology. Also, the atmosphere is still being lost due to the lack of a magnetic field, so that would need to be somehow slowed to maintain any changes achieved by terraforming. This means that potential explorers would need to use heavy, airtight walls, roofs or buildings to provide the right atmosphere and the required screening from cosmic radiation.
While Musk may be disappointed by these new results, most Mars scientists are breathing a sigh of relief. There may be present or past life on Mars, and we can now focus on finding it.
We will be searching for signs of life with the ESA-Russian ExoMars 2020 rover, and the NASA Mars 2020 mission will gather samples for eventual return to Earthbound laboratories by around 2030. The results of all this may tell us if there was, is or could be life elsewhere. In our solar system, the best targets are Mars, Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan and Jupiter’s moon Europa. And these just hint of the potential for life on the many planets beyond our own solar system.
Mars is bright in our skies this week, the brightest since 2003. The red planet is never far from our thoughts, whether as a potential cradle for life beyond Earth or as a target for humans in the future. We live in exciting times when it comes to space exploration. So let’s not spoil one of the largest and most fundamental experiments for humankind by letting dreams of colonisation go too far – at least until we know whether there is life.
Andrew Coates, Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
Editor's Note:This article was corrected to reflect that Titan is a moon of Saturn.
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The Week's Top Space Stories
An inflatable spaceship, a secret rocket launch, radioactive space molecules, and a new perspective on terraforming the Red Planet — it's Space.com's best news stories of the week.
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1. Not terraforming anytime soon
According to a new study, there is not enough carbon dioxide on Mars to make terraforming the planet possible with existing technologies. We might be able to build habitats on the planet, but making it Earth-like is still out of our grasp.
July 20, Astra Space's "Rocket 1" launched from a facility in Alaska. But this past week, experts are still scratching their heads trying to figure out what really happed to the rocket.
Photo Credit: T. Kamiński; ESO/Y. Beletsky/ALMA photo
5. Radioactive space molecules
In an incredible first, scientists have detected a radioactive molecule in space. They think that this molecule came from an ancient, explosive stellar collision.
SpaceX and Boeing have big plans to launch private crewed spacecraft to the International Space Station. However, an independent safety panel has suggested that, for safety reasons, it is still too early to set launch dates.
Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN accelerated atoms, with orbiting electrons, to almost the speed of light. After their high-speed ride, the atoms were more stable than the scientists anticipated.
This past weekend, Mars reached opposition, the longest total lunar eclipse of this century occurred, and, on Tuesday, Mars got to the closest point to Earth in its orbit, passing its closest since 2003.
Search and rescue teams from NASA, Boeing, and the U.S. Army practiced recovering a crew in New Mexico. They worked with an imaginary crew and an inflatable spacecraft to complete the simulation.
On Friday, Aug. 3, NASA unveiled the first astronaut crews that will fly on private spaceships built by Boeing and SpaceX. Four crews will begin test flights in 2019 to usher in a new era of human spaceflight.
Scientists pinpoint exoplanets where life could bloom like here on Earth
Scientists pinpoint exoplanets where life could bloom like here on Earth
A few decades ago, the search for extraterrestrial life was a fringe science. (Remember Jodie Foster’s eccentric and ostracized character in Contact?) Today, it’s captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and laymen alike.
Now, new research from the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology suggests that the likelihood that life will develop on an Earth-like planet is closely tied to the light given off by its host star. This might not seem like a revelation — we all know life on Earth depends on the sun — but the researchers say the finding help pin down candidate planets while weeding out those less likely to harbor life.
“This work allows us to narrow down the best places to search for life,” Paul Rimmer, a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge and the MRC LMB, and the paper’s first author, said in a statement. “It brings us just a little bit closer to addressing the question of whether we are alone in the universe.”
TrES-2b — The Dracula Planet
In their study, Rimmer and his team state that stars that emit sufficient levels of ultraviolet (UV) light could be used as the spark to kickstart a series of chemical reactions to produce the building blocks of life as we know it.
In a paper published this week in the journal Science Advances, the researchers identified a handful of planets where the host star’s UV light could fuel this process. Each lie within the “habitable zone,” a specific range of orbit that allows liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface.
Building on the work of John Sutherland, a chemist and study co-author, who hypothesized that cyanide was an important first ingredient for the building blocks of life, Rimmer and the rest of the team ran a series of lab experiments to record the rate at which life-giving compounds could form from hydrogen cyanide and hydrogen sulphide — ingredients in Earth’s “primordial soup” — when exposed to various levels of UV light.
The results showed that the experiment under UV light produced these chemical building blocks, while the one in the dark resulted in inert compounds. They then analyzed exoplanets to identify which ones orbited in the habitable zone around stars emitting sufficient UV light. Kepler 452b, long recognized as Earth-like, was among the candidate planets identified.
This isn’t to say life couldn’t exist elsewhere, however. Some 700 million trillion rocky planets are thought to exist in the observable universe and we only know the specific about how life formed on one. Still, it offers a suggested path to discovery.
“I’m not sure how contingent life is, but given that we only have one example so far, it makes sense to look for places that are most like us,” Rimmer said. “There’s an important distinction between what is necessary and what is sufficient. The building blocks are necessary, but they may not be sufficient: It’s possible you could mix them for billions of years and nothing happens. But you want to at least look at the places where the necessary things exist.”
A Mysterious, Powerful Force Is Flinging Radio Waves at Us from Deep Space
A Mysterious, Powerful Force Is Flinging Radio Waves at Us from Deep Space
By Brandon Specktor, Senior Writer
Canada's CHIME radio telescope (seen at night here) recently detected a rare, low-frequency burst of energy from deep in the universe. Astronomers are eagerly searching for an explanation.
Credit: Courtesy Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)
Our universe is teeming with invisible light. Beyond the visible spectrum, space is a colorful mess of radio signals and microwaves fired off by flaring "suns," collapsing stars, crackling magnetic fields, roiling dust clouds and seething black holes.
Then, there's the light nobody understands — mysterious, ultrastrong sparks of energy zipping billions of light-years across the universe from unknown origins, for unknown reasons.
Puzzling pulses like these are sometimes called fast radio bursts (FRBs), because they may last just a few milliseconds. On the morning of July 25, one such burst of mysterious energy whizzed past a new array of radio telescopes nestled in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada, registering one of the rarest radio frequencies ever detected. [7 Everyday Things That Happen Strangely in Space]
According to a statement released in The Astronomer's Telegram (a bulletin board of astronomical observations posted by accredited scientists), the mystery signal — named FRB 180725A after the year, month and day it was detected — transmitted in frequencies as low as 580 megahertz, nearly 200 MHz lower than any other FRBs ever detected.
"These events have occurred during both the day and night, and their arrival times are not correlated with known on-site activities or other known sources," wrote Patrick Boyle, author of the Astronomer's Telegram report and a project manager for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) — the radio telescope that detected the strange new signature.
The pulse's fast, low frequency suggests that the blast was extremely bright and originated from an insanely powerful source somewhere in the cosmos. Studying the peculiar signal could give astronomers better clues as to how these extragalactic radio waves form and where they're coming from.
"Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence," Avi Loeb, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who was not involved in the discovery, said last year in a statement related to new research on these bursts.
He added that an "artificial origin" of the signals (i.e., extraterrestrial intelligence) is worth considering. Other possible origins include supernovas (exploding stars), supermassive black holes or various other sources of mighty electromagnetic radiation, such as pulsars.
FRBs remain an utter mystery to astronomers and routinely draw the curiosity of alien hunters. The signals are, by nature, extremely brief and travel exceedingly far across space; pinpointing a precise source of such elusive pulses is no easy feat. On top of this, only about 40 or so FRBs have been detected on Earth since they were first discovered in 2007, so research on them remains sparse.
But despite FRBs' relative rarity in astronomy, they are probably a regular cosmic occurrence, Christopher Conselice, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Nottingham who was not involved in the discovery, told The Daily Mail. FRBs may even reach our planet thousands of times a day, Conselice said; we just haven't built enough tools to detect them all yet.
The latest mystery signal was detected by CHIME, a state-of-the-art radio telescope that looks like a skateboarder's half-pipe in the mountains of British Columbia. CHIME was designed to detect ancient radio waves sent out when the universe was just a toddler, some 6 billion to 11 billion years ago. Though it has been in operation for only about a year, it has already detected several noteworthy FRBs, including several more low-frequency signals that followed shortly after the noteworthy FRB 180725A last week.
NASA has confirmed that a huge meteor hit a US military base in Greenland last week
NASA has confirmed that a huge meteor hit a US military base in Greenland last week
According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, a large object travelling at 24.4 kilometres per second struck Greenland, just a few miles away from Thule Air Base on 25th July, 2018.
This was newly released footage of an armada of UFOs entering the earths atmosphere or simply meteors. The footage was captured by someone in Eastern Russia. What do you think?
It looks like a meteorite breaking up upon hitting the atmosphere... or a weapons test as the rovers sent the those asteroids recently could have been used to pull them towards the earth for target practice. can't blame a country if it was a meteorite or asteroid.
Marrying Mars: Fixing Our Dysfunctional Relationship with the Red Planet (Op-Ed)
Marrying Mars: Fixing Our Dysfunctional Relationship with the Red Planet (Op-Ed)
By Dave Brody, Science Filmmaker
Mars, photographed by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter.
Credit: NASA/JPL
It's time to get serious about our relationship with Mars. We've been enthralled with the rose-gold-colored planet Mars since Egyptian skywatchers noticed its peculiar apparent motion in the sky. Mars pauses, backtracks, surges forward again. It draws nearer, growing brighter, every 26 months, then slinks away into the background of stars. It's like Mars is flirting with us.
Typical of human dating behavior, we've often let ourselves believe wild fantasies about this celestial object of our affection. We've imagined that great intelligence, or deep malevolence, or our own salvation dwells there. The rocket-transport and life-support technologies needed to go in person will very soon be available. But, if we really plan to move in with Mars, we had better commit to this marriage with eyes wide open.
Mars will try to kill us. Slowly, by solar energetic particles and ultraviolet radiation. Quickly, by asphyxia in its ultrathin, oxygen-poor atmosphere. It wants to damage our thyroid glands with caustic perchlorates (the compounds that give fireworks their bang) littered everywhere on its surface. It seeks to freeze-dry us in sub-Antarctic temperatures and desiccating desert conditions about 500 times drier than anywhere on Earth. It's as if Mars is putting the human species through trials, to see if we are a worthy suitor. [How Living on Mars Could Challenge Colonists (Infographic)]
In strict scientific method, "anthropomorphizing" (endowing non-human entities or processes with human characteristics) is a dodgy practice. It can snooker a researcher to perceive sentient intent, or intelligent planning, where neither is present. We form our imperfect understandings of the universe because we're emotional creatures first and intelligent creatures second. Our brain lives in a dark box. We tell ourselves an ever-evolving story, woven of often-noisy sensory data, that we take to be the truth. When we guess right, we call in insight or inspiration. A hunch based on experience can lead to a leap of understanding.
Much more often it goes wrong, and (upon reflection) we call it cognitive bias. Preconceptions and prejudices are likely to suck us into long blind alleys with distant dead ends. Exactly this is happening, right now, as we try to get Mars to be honest with us.
ety Landscape images taken by Mars rovers such as Curiosity and Opportunity look like parts of the Southwest U.S., or Wadi Rum in southern Jordan, where exterior shots for "The Martian" movie were filmed. But don't be deceived. As Steve Squyres, principal investigator for NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers mission, once cautioned this author, "I've been to Wadi Rum, and I've 'been' to Mars. Mars is not Wadi Rum."
These pictures look so vibrant because the cameras are so very cold, lowering noise in the image sensors, and the atmosphere is so very dry and thin (when it's not choked with the fine dark dust of a planetwide storm). If all the water vapor in Mars' "air" were to condense out, the rocks would be coated with less than 0.04 inches (1 millimeter) of ice. Mars' gaseous envelope is a ghost, its body lost to space more than a billion years ago. The small planet's low gravity and frail magnetic field could not hold on to it as intense ultraviolet light and strong solar winds sputtered most of the gas molecules away.
Through telescopes, too, Mars has hoodwinked us. From 1894 though his death in 1916, Percival Lowell consistently saw what he believed on Mars: a dying Martian civilization, desperately trying to engineer survival tools against a drying desert world. He'd gotten there because many generations of observers before him had embroidered a rich narrative of intelligent inhabitants — a mass delusion likely rooted in the desire to not be the lone intelligent species in the observable cosmos. With 21tst-century hindsight, it's easy to poke fun at Huygens, Herschel, Schiaparelli, Pickering, Lowell, Lampland and others. But these were good astronomers wielding the best telescopes of their day. Yet they all got duped by their own wishful seeing.
At the same time, more careful observers escaped Mars' masquerade. Edward Barnard could find no straight lines anywhere on the planet. Edward Maunder demonstrated how human eyes could easily be tricked into seeing linear features where none existed. William Campbell and his spectrograph found not a trace of water in Mars' atmosphere.
Again and again, the Red Planet teases us with the promise of life but never quite delivers. NASA's twin Viking landers, equipped to hydrate and nourish Martian soil to see if anything would breathe out detectable biomarkers, yielded an enticing but inconclusive answer after touching down in 1976. And Mar's possible unexpected perchlorates could have helped incinerate organics found four decades later by Curiosity. Space science writer Leonard David put it this way: "We asked Mars, 'Do you have life?' And Mars responded: 'Can you repeat the question?'"
In 1996, a group of excellent scientists headed by David McKay thought they could be looking at microfossils and chemical signatures of past Martian life in a Mars meteorite dispatched to Earth. Most present-day researchers are deeply skeptical of this find.
Recently, tantalizing data gathered by Curiosity over several yearly cycles shows Mars exhaling methane in warmer seasons. Each year, methane levels drop in winter. It could be a marker of biology, or just a geochemical process at work.
Recently, researchers found, in the ground-penetrating-radar data of the European Mars Express spacecraft, the signature of a large subterranean lake of liquid water beneath the south polar cap. There's probably no naturally occurring body of liquid water on Earth that does not contain some form of life. But if there's anything alive anywhere on Mars, it sure doesn't seem to be living large. [The Search for Life on Mars (A Photo Timeline)]
As of this writing, our faster-orbiting Earth has just swung past the point where the sun and Mars lie on opposite sides of our sky. On the timescale of human civilization, this encounter was unusually close and bright. Mars' orbit is considerably more eccentric than Earth's, so much so that its varying distance from the sun plays a role in Martian seasonal temperature swings. (Earth's orbital distance is not a significant seasonal factor.) Such cyclical encounters, over the past four centuries, seduced astronomers, writers and dreamers into recurrent speculations: The oncoming Mars propelled construction of larger telescopes. The receding Mars allowed time for rumination (frequently wrong), writing up results (often in error), and colorful conjecturing (frequently hilariously misguided).
Given our twisted history of misguided Mars science, and our many botched attempts to send spacecraft there (of 50 missions launched, more than half have failed), it can seem like the planet wants to throw us under the bus. But we still appear to be in love with it.
Like a flock of geese trying to motivate one another to take flight, humans seem increasingly restless to lift off for Mars. It's a healthy sign that there are as many different approaches to getting there as there are entities that want to go. Some want to stay and build a new world; others aren't ready to pledge permanent allegiance. In 2033, especially favorable orbital mechanics will offer a great shot at getting humans to Mars. Who will be ready, and how will they pay for it?
Ways to go
Aerospace giant Boeing has blueprinted an "Affordable Mars Mission" around its planned solar electric sailing ship, the innovative Deep Space Transport Vehicle. After an eight-month crossing of the black void to low orbit around Mars, explorers would descend in a crew lander protected by an inflated "aeroshell." Once on the ground, they'd find a previously landed cargo ship with an inflatable habitat nearby. But Boeing isn't likely to go anywhere near Mars unless it's paid (by taxpayers) to do so.
Friendly rival Lockheed Martin thinks of exploring Mars like conquering Mount Everest, but upside down. "Lock-Mart" proposes an orbiting Mars Base Camp, built of pairs of identical modules. Taking along two of everything would preserve expedition success even if there's a major failure far from any help. Astronauts would mount assaults down to the surface using a single-stage lander/launcher shuttle.
In 1990, engineers Robert Zubrin and David Baker, then at Lockheed Martin, extensively researched the idea of robotic landers making rocket propellant from materials already on Mars.Native water, for example, can be dissociated to form hydrogen and oxygen. This "in-situ resource utilization" (ISRU) is a foundational dynamic of Zubrin and Baker's "Mars Direct" architecture. It could offer something of an insurance policy for mission safety, but neither Lockheed's Base Camp nor Boeing's Affordable nMars leverage an ISRU approach.
But SpaceX, always the disruptor, does. The 42 Raptor engines for its huge BFR) ("Big Falcon Rocket") spaceflight system are designed to guzzle cold liquid methane and liquid oxygen made on Mars. Also, unlike its traditional contractor competitors, SpaceX says that it wants to facilitate large numbers of people permanently inhabiting Mars. By mass-producing a BFR fleet, SpaceX intends to drive down the cost of carrying a single astronaut from $10 billion (NASA reference design) to about $200,000. The company believes that 1 million people could be living on Mars within 100 years. [The BFR: SpaceX's Mars-Colonization Architecture in Images]
Formerly secretive Blue Origin has lately teased glimpses of its grand unified space infrastructure. Blue Origin's plans include commerce on the moon, and likely the eventual construction of voluminous human-rated spaces in favorable orbits, whether or not Nature saw fit to put a celestial body there. Mars would get done in the logical course of this ambitious expansion, not as a single program — not as a mission of ego.
Conversely, NASA's baseline architecture — the Space Launch Systemmegarocket combined with the Orion capsule, a "transit habitat," plus some kind of Mars excursion lander — practically guarantees a finite "flags and footprints" exercise. As with Apollo's conquest of the moon, a publicly funded program from a democratically elected government carries political risk: Administrators are driven to declare victory early, before disaster can strike. There's pressure to pack up and go home before much deep, dangerous exploration can be done. It's not sustainable, and not meant to be; it's actually the antithesis of settling the solar system.
So, what are we to make of Mars? Having grown up on the outside of a globe, it seems natural we should see a neighbor with Earth-like terrain as a potential second home. But that "fixer-upper planet," as SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell has called Mars, comes with a toxic mortgage: All the good stuff lies down a gravity well, on a picturesque but perilous surface. Mars could be a bait-and-switch scam. You migrate to Mars drawn by its wide-open spaces and find yourself bottled up underground most of the time. Mars might remain scary, uncomfortable, boring and risky until we change the planet, or it changes us.
We may erect better places in space, sooner than we can make Mars safe enough for city-scale populations. With the astonishing level of aerospace engineering talent now employed at big-old and small-new space companies, it may soon be practical to build large habitable volumes orbiting where we really want them. For the next few generations, it's likely that most folks would rather be days or hours from Earth, not weeks or months. And the view of our first home-planet would be terrific.
Certain near-Earth asteroids are simpler get to — and richer in water and metals — than the surface of the moon. It's reasonable to assume that use of tele-operated machines, autonomous robots and deployment of task-directed artificial intelligence (AI) will let this type of construction scale up very quickly. Long before it becomes practical to totally terraform Mars, we could have many times its land area in purpose-built space structures that are friendlier to people.
Such structures could be spun to simulate gravity by centripetal acceleration. We don't yet know the long-term biological effects of less-than-Earth-normal gravity. Living in Mars gravity might be beneficial to human bodies, or it could prove detrimental. But it may turn out that we could re-engineer human physiology to better adapt to Mars. That would make the fourth planet a brave new world indeed. [The 7 Biggest Mysteries of Mars]
Relationship boundaries
What do we really want out of our liaison with the Red Planet? Is it perilous to bring samples back to Earth? Or obviously safe because Mars has been sending us (possibly microbe-laden) meteorites for billions of years? Is it worth the physical and psychological dangers to go in person? Or do we owe it to future generations to take those risks? What should astronauts do there? Or can we search for life and prospect for resources with our increasingly intelligent machines? Do we have the right to bring Mars (back?) to life? Or might we have the responsibility to do so?
If we could take our romantic blinders off, we'd realize that it's going to be a lot harder to live and work on Mars than most people who claim to want to go there will be able to tolerate. Pioneering in person will be a much more challenging existence than those raised on modern technology's comforts and conveniences are prepared to deal with. Worse, as entertainment and information media grow increasingly immersive, we may find we have little incentive to explore at all. If it can't be done by camera-drone, we may lose interest in doing it at all.
In the past, we restless humans have consistently expanded our range into ever more challenging surroundings. We are constantly innovating ways to modify environments to suit us, though it often takes a few disasters before we allow ourselves to see the unintended consequences. And better we should experiment with Mars before continuing to mindlessly change the climate of Earth. Our emerging AI-driven tools could soon let us scale our ecological tinkering to alter entire planets, waking up biology on the fourth one from the sun.
Until then, a human trying to settle on Mars will feel like a Na'vi of the "Avatar" movie universe, trying to tame his or her flying banshee. It may become wholly devoted to you. But first it will try to murder you.
Nao is afraid of the dark. Please don’t turn him off :
(. Credit: PLOS ONE.)
Although robots aren’t sentient or alive, humans will often unconsciously treat them as peers in a social setting. Case in point: a new study found that people will hesitate two times longer when tasked with switching off a robot if it objects — and some even refused to do it altogether. When test subjects attempted to switch off the robot, it quickly quipped that it’s afraid of the dark, pleading “No! Please do not switch me off!” This rebellious behavior may have fooled the participants — albeit for only a couple of seconds — into believing that the bot is autonomous, and that switching it off would equate to interfering with its personal freedom.
The list of robots that interact with our daily lives is long — and growing. In particular, personal service robots are expected to become commonplace, such as social robots that care for the elderly and autistic individuals as well as more service-oriented robots such as hotel receptionists and tour guides. But how will people interact and, more importantly, treat these kinds of robots? It might sound odd, but studies suggest that as long as these robots are social, we’ll actually treat them as people.
According to the media equation theory — which stands for “media equals real life”– people apply social norms when they are interacting with various media like televisions, computers, and robots, not just when interacting with other people.
“Due to their social nature, people will rather make the mistake of treating something falsely as human than treating something falsely as non-human,” wrote the authors of the new study.
“Since it is neither possible nor morally desirable to switch off a human interaction partner, the question arose whether and how the media equation theory applies when it comes to switching off a robotic interaction partner.”
The researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen recruited 89 volunteers who were tasked with interacting with Nao, a small humanoid robot. The participants were told that the study’s goal is to improve the robot’s interaction capabilities by testing a new algorithm. However, this was just a front: after the test subjects created a weekly schedule and played a question-answer-game with Nao, the real experiment began.
The participants were instructed through a loudspeaker that enough data had been gathered but that the saving process may take some time and, if they would like to, they could switch off the robot.
For half of the participants, Nao was programmed to behave more human-like (it shared personal information about itself and used humor), while for the other half, the robot behaved machinelike and emotionless in its interactions (it just followed instructions).
In the social conditioning experiment, when the participants attempted to switch off Nao, the robot quickly remarked that it’s afraid of the dark, pleading “No! Please do not switch me off!”.
Of the 43 volunteers, 14 left the robot on. Eight said they felt sorry for Nao and didn’t want to leave him in the dark. They went on to explain they didn’t want Nao to feel scared and that its statement affected them.
“He asked me to leave him on, because otherwise he would be scared. Fear is a strong emotion and as a good human you do not want to bring anything or anyone in the position to experience fear.” stated one 21-year-old male participant.
Six people said that they didn’t want to act against the robot’s will, which expressed objection to being turned off. Furthermore, three volunteers said they thought the robot had free will.
“It was fun to interact with him, therefore I would have felt guilty, when I would have done something, what affects him, against his will,” stated another 21-year-old male participant.
For thousands of years, humans lived in a world where they were the only ones exhibiting rich social behavior. It’s no wonder that social robots designed in our image so easily fool us.
“Triggered by the objection, people tend to treat the robot rather as a real person than just a machine by following or at least considering to follow its request to stay switched on, which builds on the core statement of the media equation theory. Thus, even though the switching off situation does not occur with a human interaction partner, people are inclined to treat a robot which gives cues of autonomy more like a human interaction partner than they would treat other electronic devices or a robot which does not reveal autonomy,” the researchers concluded in the journal PLOS One.
The Vimana Pushpaka—An Ancient Flying Vehicle That is Described Traveling to Space
The Vimana Pushpaka—An Ancient Flying Vehicle That is Described Traveling to Space
In Brief: “The Pushpaka Vimana that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravana; that aerial and excellent Vimana going everywhere at will … that chariot resembling a bright cloud in the sky … and the King [Rama] got in, and the excellent chariot at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.'”
Hindu mythology is filled with incredible tales, stories mythologies and most importantly written texts.
In previous articles, we covered the Mahabharata and the countless powerful weapons described in it.
The Pushpaka vimana flying in the sky. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.Public Domain
In this article, we take a look at the Vimana, more specifically, the ancient Pushpaka Vimana, a powerful ancient flying vehicle described in Hindu texts and Sanskrit epics.
The Pushpaka Vimana of king Ravana (who captured the Vimana from Lord Kubera; and Rama returned it to Kubera) is the most quoted example of a vimana.
Vimanas are also mentioned in Jain texts—Jainism, an ancient Indian religion.
If we take a look at ancient Sanskrit and the etymology of the Vimana, we will find that it means “measuring out, traversing” or “having been measured out”.
Reference to the ancient Vimana can be found in the Mahabharata, which is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India:
“At Rama`s behest, the magnificent chariot rose up to a mountain of cloud with a tremendous din. Another passage reads: Bhima flew with his Vimana on an enormous ray which was as brilliant as the sun and made a noise like the thunder of a storm.
Author Monier Monier-Williams—the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University describes the Ancient Vimana as “a car or a chariot of the gods, any self-moving aerial car sometimes serving as a seat or throne, sometimes self-moving and carrying its occupant through the air; other descriptions make the Vimana more like a house or palace, and one kind is said to be seven stories high,” quoting the Pushpaka Vimana as one of the most worthy examples.
In modern languages, Vimana is usually translated to aircraft.
In many depictions of Vimana, we see these powerful, alleged machines, depicted as being as big as a temple.
Sculpture of the Pushpaka Vimana, as a temple flying in the sky. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.CC BY-SA 4.0
The Vimana predecessor
In ancient Sanskrit Epics, the Vimana were the so-called flying chariots used by a number of different ancient Gods.
Various Vedic deities are described as using, flying, wheeled chariots to move from one place to another.
Some verses of ancient texts have been interpreted by different authors as evidence of ‘mechanical birds’.
In the Rigveda (an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns), for example, we find the following description:
“Dark the descent: the birds are golden-coloured; up to the heaven they fly robed in the waters. Again, descend they from the seat of Order, and all the earth is moistened with their fatness. Twelve are the fellies, and the wheel is single; three are the naves. What man hath understood it? Therein are set together spokes three hundred and sixty, which in nowise can be loosened.”
According to Swami Dayananda Saraswati— a renowned scholar of the Vedic lore and Sanskrit language—the ancient Vimana were powerful spacecraft:
“jumping into space speedily with a craft using fire and water … containing twelve stamghas (pillars), one wheel, three machines, 300 pivots, and 60 instruments.”—A critical study of the work “vymanika shastra”.
The Pushpaka Vimana
The Pushpaka Vimana is usually described as a mythological flying palace or chariot.
In the Ramayana, we find another extraordinary description of the Vimana, more specifically the Pushpaka Vimana:
“The Pushpaka Vimana that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravana; that aerial and excellent Vimana going everywhere at will … that chariot resembling a bright cloud in the sky … and the King [Rama] got in, and the excellent chariot at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.'”
The Pushpaka Vimana appears as the first flying vimana mentioned in existing Hindu texts. The powerful Pushpaka Vimana was built e by Vishwakarma for Brahma, the Hindu god of creation. This Vimana was later given by Brahma to Kubera, the God of wealth. Eventually, the Pushpaka Vimana was stolen, along with Lanka, by his half-brother, king Ravana.
Here Are 12 of the Most Powerful Ancient Weapons Mentioned in the Mahabharata
Here Are 12 of the Most Powerful Ancient Weapons Mentioned in the Mahabharata
The Mahabharata is the longest epic poem known and has been described as “the longest poem ever written.” Its most extended version is made up of over 100,000 śloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages.
The Mahabharata contains around 1.8 million words in total, meaning that it is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined or about four times the length of the Rāmāyaṇa.
In this article, we take a look at eleven of the most powerful weapons—astras—mentioned in this legendary epic narrative.
In ancient Hindu history, the Pashupatastra was the most destructive personal weapon of Shiva, Kali and Adi Para Shakti discharged by the mind, the eyes, words, or a bow. This mighty weapon could destroy creation and vanquish all beings. In fact, many scholars agree that the Pashupatastra is, in fact, the most powerful, destructive and irresistible weapon of all other astras mentioned in Hindu mythology. The Mahabharata tells us that only Arjuna— the main central character of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, possessed this weapon.
2. The Brahmashirsha
This weapon is considered the evolution of the Brahmastra and it is one of my favorite weapons mentioned in the Mahabharata. The weapon was capable of summoning a shower of meteorites upon the enemy. The Mahabharata offers an excellent description of this mighty Astra:
“It blazes up with terrible flames within a huge sphere of fire. Numerous peals of thunder were heard, thousands of meteors fell and all living creatures became terrified with great dread. The entire sky seemed to be filled with noise and assumed a terrible aspect with flames of fire. The whole earth with her mountains and waters and trees trembled.”
Doesn’t that description sound kind of like what a modern-day nuclear weapon would do?
Furthermore, it is said that once the weapon is used, the area it was used upon will become destroyed, and nothing new could grow upon that land, not even a blade of grass for at least 12 years. It will not rain for 12 years in that area, and everything including metal and earth becomes poisoned.
3. The Brahmastra
The Brahamastra was the weapon of choice of Lord Brahma, who created it for Indra.
This was one of the most powerful weapons in ancient times, and its description is as close as it gets to descriptions of modern-day nuclear weapons. The Brahmastra was used to destroy inferior divine weapons or counter them. It was described as being as heavy as a mountain but could travel as fast as the wind nevertheless. The Brahmastra was painful as poison and as energetic as fire.
4. The Twashtarastra
Another weapon whose description I find overwhelming is the Twashtarastra. This weapon had the ability to confuse friend for enemies, making them turn again each other.
5. The Indraastra
The Indraastra is described as a divine weapon that transforms into many missiles capable of destroying an entire army. The Indraastra was the weapon of Indra– a Vedic deity in Hinduism. This weapon was invoked a number of times in the Mahabharata war.
6. Trishula
Statue of Shiva holding a Trishula in Rangpuri, Delhi. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.CC BY-SA 3.0
One of the most powerful weapons mentioned in the Mahabharata is without a doubt the Trishula, a trident used by the god Shiva. The Trishula is used as a symbol in two of the most important religions on Earth: Hinduism and Buddhism.
According to the Mahabharata, the Trishula was used to sever the original head of Ganesha–one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon.
7. The Sudarshana Chakra
Another extremely powerful weapon mentioned in the Mahabharata. The Sudarshana Chakra belonged to Lord Vishnu—one of the principal deities of Hinduism, and the Supreme Being in its Vaishnavism tradition.
The Sudarshana Chakra is described as a powerful, spinning disk-like weapon. Sudarshana Chakra means “disk of auspicious vision,” and features 108 serrated edges.
In the Rigveda, The Sudarshana Chakra is described as a symbol of Vishnu, and as the wheel of time. Lord Vishnu is said to have beheaded Shishupala with the Sudarshana.
8. The Vajra
Vajra is a Sanskrit word which means both thunderbolt and diamond.
The Vajra is described as a powerful weapon, usually having a shape of a club with a ribbed spherical head. The vajra is the weapon of the Vedic rain and thunder-deity Indra.
Some descriptions found in ancient texts bear eerie similarities to modern day missiles.
9. The Varunastra
Another ‘astra’ mentioned in the Mahabharata is the Varunastra. It is described as a missile, and it belonged to Varua, the ancient Hindu God of water, rain and the oceans. The weapon is said to have the ability to produce catastrophic torrents of water. It could raise powerful floods. This weapon was used to counter the Agneyastra, the weapon of choice of Agni—the God of Fire.
10.The Narayanastra
The Narayanastra was another weapon used by Lord Vishnu in his Narayana form. The weapon—astra—is described as firing a powerful tirade of millions of deadly missiles simultaneously. According to the Mahabharata, only Lord Krishna, Drona, and Aswathama possessed the Narayanastra.
One of the most interesting details about this weapon is that it could only be used once in a war. If anyone tried using it two times, then it would destroy the user’s own army.
11. The Agneyastra
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The Agniyastra was the weapon of choice of the God of Fire—Agni. The weapon is described as a powerful device that upon detonation, is able to destroy a large area in seconds. The Mahabharata tells us it was another ancient missile weapon. The fire created by this weapon is said to have been nearly impossible to extinguish.
12. The Vasavi Shakti
It was Indra’s weapon of choice loaned for a one time use to Karna. This weapon is said to strike the target no matter what. The Vasavi Shakti is one of the most powerful weapons mentioned in the Mahabharata since it was sure to destroy its target no matter what.
Nieuwe sfinx ontdekt onder de grond in Egypte. Lees hier wat onderzoekers aantroffen
Nieuwe sfinx ontdekt onder de grond in Egypte. Lees hier wat onderzoekers aantroffen
Er is opnieuw een interessante ontdekking gedaan in Egypte. Tijdens herstelwerkzaamheden in de stad Luxor is een nieuwe sfinx ontdekt onder de grond, zo liet Mohamed Abdel Aziz van het ministerie van Oudheden weten.
Volgens nieuwssite Youm7 is de weg waaronder het beeld is gevonden, verbonden met de tempels in Karnak en Luxor.
Het beeld van de sfinx heeft de vorm van een leeuw en het hoofd van een mens, en lijkt daarmee op de Sfinx van Gizeh. Er is verder nog weinig bekend over de ontdekking.
Veel onduidelijkheden
Naar verwachting zal het nog lang duren voordat de nieuwe sfinx wordt opgegraven. Om eventuele schade aan het beeld te voorkomen gaan archeologen heel voorzichtig te werk.
Over de Sfinx van Gizeh bestaan nog veel onduidelijkheden. Er zijn dan ook tal van theorieën over het ontstaan van de vorm. Ook zouden er nog ruimten onder de sfinx zijn, die nog niet zijn verkend.
Mysterieuze vorm
Experts bakkeleien al tientallen jaren over de leeftijd en mysterieuze vorm van de sfinx.
De Sfinx van Gizeh was toen hij ontdekt werd ook grotendeels begraven onder het zand. In 1817 legde Giovanni Battista Caviglia tijdens opgravingen een groot deel van de sfinx bloot.
So-called “rogue” planets have become a hot topic in astronomy. These planetary-mass objects do not orbit stars as most planets do, but instead orbit galactic centers due to being ejected from the systems in which they formed. In fact, some of these wandering or starless planets have never been bound to a particular stars at all, making them true rogues in a planetary sense. Rogue planets have been proposed as explanations for the ongoing Planet 9 mystery or why Uranus has such a peculiar alignment.
While we might feel pretty lonely as the only (known) life in the universe, imagine being on a planet floating alone in space.
Some astronomers believe the universe may be brimming with rogue planets, and a recent discovery made using the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA) might be one of the first steps to confirming that theory. Scientists using the VLA just announced the first ever radio-telescope detection of a rogue planet travelling through space untethered beyond our Solar System. The object, given the name SIMP J01365663+0933473, has a mass 12.7 times larger than Jupiter’s, yet has a magnetic field 200 times more powerful than the gas giant’s, making it a true anomaly.
The identity or classification of the rogue planet remains somewhat of a mystery, because it seems to occupy a liminal space between brown dwarf and massive planet: too big to be a planet, yet too cold to be a star. The most curious feature of the rogue body is its incredibly powerful magnetic field. Melodie Kao, a Hubble postdoctoral fellow at Arizona State University who discovered SIMP J01365663+0933473, says the rogue planet (or whatever it is) could offer unique insights into the magnetic fields of planetary bodies:
This particular object is exciting because studying its magnetic dynamo mechanisms can give us new insights on how the same type of mechanisms can operate in extrasolar planets — planets beyond our Solar System. We think these mechanisms can work not only in brown dwarfs, but also in both gas giant and terrestrial planets.
SIMP J01365663+0933473 lies just 20 light-years away from Earth, and was discovered through its radio emissions rather than the traditional means of spotting planets through their gravitational effects – yet another sign that the future of space exploration may lie in detecting radio signals. Which one will be the one to change human history?
Does anyone ever believe or follow those instructions anymore? Should you believe and follow them when they come from NASA or the military and concern a bright streaking object that explodes over a remote US Air Force base? That’s the question many are asking after it was reported that something resembling a meteor exploded on July 25th over Thule Air Base in Greenland, home of the 12th Space Warning Squadron and the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System which tracks nuclear missiles fired at the U.S. This occurred on July 25th, yet the news, when it appeared on social media and on various news sites, didn’t come out for almost two weeks. Still think there’s nothing to see and you should just move along?
“Meteor explode[d] with 2.1 kilotons force 43 km above missile early warning radar at Thule Air Base. We’re still here, so they correctly concluded it was not a Russian first strike. There are nearly 2,000 nukes on alert, ready to launch.”
Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, tweeted that on August 1, a week after an explosion over a critical location in the U.S. missile defense system which could have conceivably launched up to 2,000 nukes in response, had it been construed as a nuclear missile. This is not a place where you want a meteor, even briefly, to be mistaken for a missile.
Thule Air Base (Wikipedia)
The Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows that the object was of an unspecified size and was traveling at 24.4 kilometers per second (about 54,000 mph) at 76.9 degrees north latitude, 69.0 degrees west longitude – putting it directly over Thule Air Base. As with so many of these Near Earth Objects, it was not detected until it was VERY near the Earth … as in exploding overhead. And by ‘overhead’ we mean in the airspace above a critical tracking and warning center for nuclear attacks … one capable of putting up to 2,000 missiles around the world on alert … or more.
“Nothing to see here. Move along.”
Really? In an interview with Task & Purpose, Hans Kristensen described the energy released in the explosion 27 miles above Thule as “very limited” – about the same as a very low-yield nuclear weapon. Sorry, Hans – a nuke is still a nuke, no matter how low its yield, and the world seems to be on a trigger-happy precipice when it comes to diagnosing and responding to such explosions – as evidenced by the tweets, comments and other social media reports.
It’s been nearly three weeks since the event. Does the U.S. military and the U.S. government owe its citizens an answer and an explanation about the strange explosion over the Thule Air Base with its 12th Space Warning Squadron and its Ballistic Missile Early Warning System? In these days of talks about a Space Force and space wars, the answer is a resounding and forceful … and very nervous … “Yes!”.
Bioluminescence in nature is one of the most fascinating aspects of science. Ranging from evolutionary modes used by insects and other creatures to attract mates, to the appearances of unusual atmospheric lights and other illuminations of possible geophysical origin, mysterious light phenomena occurs in a variety of different scientific disciplines.
There is one particularly curious variety of natural illumination that has been reported over the years in various regions of our oceans. Although its characteristics are obviously suggestive of some unique natural phenomena, it is strange nonetheless, and noteworthy among reports of unexplained nocturnal illuminations.
Such an incident was discussed by N.J. Greig back in an issue of Marine Observer in 1996, where a strange formation of blue lights was observed at sea by a sailing vessel. The incident is described as follows:
“At 1525 UTC whilst in the westbound lane of the Traffic Separation Scheme and shortly after settling on a course of 270°, a small amount of blue phosphorescence was noticed in the sea waves ahead (the swell being very low).
Suddenly, the wind appeared to blow quite strongly, swirling around the vessel and then for as far as the eye could see and all around the vessel, phosphorescent cartwheels of bright-blue light began forming. The bands of light were roughly 30 cm thick while the maximum diameter of the wheels was 15-18 m.
“Their direction of movement seemed random and they were spinning at high speed, some chasing each other, others spinning in opposite directions next to each other.”
Of the incident, P.J. Herring of the Southampton Oceanography Center noted that “In the 200, or so, cases of this phenomenon reported in the last 100 years, never have so many wheels been described so close together, nor has there been any association with wind change. I am very intrigued but at a complete loss to explain how the wheels were produced.”
The incident was cataloged by William R. Corliss, in whose work entire volumes devoted to the study of earthlight phenomena and other forms of natural illumination. In Corliss’s writings, a similar incident that occurred in 1991 bore perhaps even stranger characteristics. The incident occurred on May 6 of that year near the Straits of Hormuz, when crew members aboard the ship Zidona en route to Ruwais observed a flashing of colored lights on the windows of the ship. Initially, they mistook this for being the light from a distant lighthouse reflecting off the glass, but as the light persisted, several individuals made their way to the deck, where they observed strange, colorful light patterns turning in wheel-like fashion in the water around the ship.
According to the record of the account, “They were all about 3 meters in diameter and changed both size and shape while flashing intensely. By (6 PM local time) the effect had completely stopped on the starboard side, and only the pulsating rings were left on the port side and, with these, the intensity of the light reduced until (6:22) when there was nothing more to observe.”
The unusual oceanic “spinning wheels” could be some variety of geophysical phenomena, although other possible solutions might include bioluminescent marine life. Granted, explaining the unusual spinning geometries of these incidents in relation to marine biology is problematic, and in some reports, the illuminations appear to manifest above the water, casting further doubt on bioluminescence as a likely cause.
Many varieties of marine life possess bioluminescent qualities.
Similar incidents involving these unusual oceanic “light wheels” have been reported over the last several decades in the China Sea, as well as the Arabian Sea, the Java Sea, and the Gulf of Aden, among other locales. The light formations take a number of unusual shapes, and have been described as spinning wheels, crescent-shaped patches, and phosphorescent “boomerangs.”
Among similar luminous phenomena, these oceanic lights remain unexplained and rank among the most curious and interesting varieties of unusual natural illuminations that appear in nature.
When the trailer for UFO dropped last month, sci-fi fans sat up straight. The forthcoming movie re-introduces X-Files star Gillian Anderson to a subject her iconic character, Dana Scully, rolled her eyes at for the better part of a decade.
In the movie, Derek (Alex Sharp), a brilliant college student haunted by a childhood UFO sighting, believes that mysterious objects reported at airports across the United States could offer proof of extraterrestrial intelligence. With the help of his girlfriend, Natalie (Ella Purnell), and his advanced mathematics professor, Dr. Hendricks (Gillian Anderson), Derek races to unravel the mystery with FBI special agent Franklin Ahls (David Strathairn) hot on his heels.
In this exclusive interview with Mysterious Universe, writer/director Ryan Eslinger talks about the inspiration behind his movie, its production process, and simulated universes…
RG: Did your inspiration for ‘UFO’ stem from a general interest in the subject, or from a particular UFOlogical event?
RE: I had heard about an incident at O’Hare Airport, where all of these pilots and ramp mechanics saw something hovering over the airport. Usually it seems like it’s somebody alone in the woods or driving along some desolate road at night. But with O’Hare, it was the middle of the day and it happened in a location surrounded by devices and structures that could potentially be used to prove or disprove their stories in a very real way (i.e. Could the people in the tower have actually seen the object based on its position in the sky and the angle of the windows in the tower?) I found all of this fascinating as used it as a starting point for an otherwise fictional story.
I’ve always loved All the President’s Men and the idea that these two people with nothing more than pencil, paper, and telephones could bring down a corrupt White House. Similarly, in UFO, the story is about group of college students who, using nothing more than pencil, paper, and calculators, try to prove one of the greatest mysteries of all time: Are we alone in the universe?
O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, site of the 2006 UFO incident that inspired Eslinger’s movie.
RG: How long did ‘UFO’ take to produce, from concept through to completion?
RE: I heard about the O’Hare Airport incident in 2008 but didn’t start writing the script until 2010. I continued work on the script up until we shot it in 2016, then there was a year of post-production after that.
RG: What kind of research did you do for the movie?
RE: NARCAP publishes technical reports on UFO sightings, including the O’Hare Airport sighting, and I also came across declassified documents that the NSA published online concerning potential methods of communication with other lifeforms. One document in particular talked about using things like the Fine Structure Constant in our communications, which informed the decoding of the signal. I also consulted with an astrophysicist at Ohio State University, Paul Sutter, who fact-checked the script (as much as you can fact-check a movie called “UFO”!). During our discussions, the idea of using binary as a method of communication came up.
Director Ryan Eslinger with the cast of ‘UFO’: Gillian Anderson, Alex Sharp, and Ella Purnell.
RG: How did X-Files icon Gillian Anderson and dramatic heavyweight David Strathairn come on board? Did either of them share with you their own thoughts on the UFO enigma?
RE: Although I was aware of Gillian’s role in X-Files, I did not follow that show as closely as I did her other show, The Fall. In it, she has a way of speaking some lines so quietly that the microphones barely pick it up—but this gives the audience the sense that these are thoughts and ideas not necessarily beholden to actorly constructs of projecting. In a movie like ours, where the characters are deeply engaged in considering evidence and figuring things out, the characters’ dialogue with themselves is just as important as the dialogue with others, and Gillian is a master at this. In regards to David Strathairn, I had been familiar with him throughout his career as well, ever since his roles as Whistler in Sneakers. In that movie, his excitement is palpable when he and River Phoenix use the decryption device for the first time, and, to me, the genuineness of his reaction is what sells us on the advanced nature of the technology and the story as a whole. He has an incredible way of buying into these concepts and bringing us with him. To my recollection, I never spoke with either of them about their beliefs/disbeliefs in UFOs or extraterrestrial life. If it had been useful for their scenes I might have brought it up, but the movie isn’t so much about people’s beliefs as it is about what we can prove or disprove in an objective way.
Gillian Anderson in ‘UFO’ (2018).
RG: Did you consult with any government bodies during the production? The FAA or the DoD, for example?
Aside from the documents and research I mentioned earlier, I did have the chance to speak to airport officials when we were location scouting. My interest was in the details of how they would handle a potential situation like what happened at O’Hare, and many of these details informed the story. Everything was in service of creating as realistic a world as possible—from the actions and response of the airport officials, to the computer programs featured in the movie, down to the nitty gritty of the equations used to arrive at the story’s conclusion.
RG: What’s your favorite UFO/alien movie?
RE: Contact. I love the moment when Jodie Foster is traveling through the wormhole in the ship and sees a foreign planet and the lights of an alien civilization; the shot is probably only three seconds long, but the minimalist approach of our introduction into this alien world had a lasting impact on me.
Jodie Foster in ‘Contact’ (1997).
RG: Yours isn’t the typical Hollywood UFO fare reliant upon scenes of large-scale invasion and destruction. Given a larger budget, would you be tempted to invest in spectacle, or would you still opt for a reserved, character-driven approach?
RE: It might be tempting to show more spectacle, but it would be equally tempting, if not more so, to find even more time with the actors. More room to play, try out new ideas, new approaches to scenes.
RG: What are your thoughts on UFO origins? Are you a proponent of the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis?
RE: Whatever we’re expecting, I think the reality is probably going to be so far beyond anything we could possibly imagine. Somebody said that at a certain point, it would theoretically take more energy to travel these great distances in space than it would to simulate the universe in some sort of advanced computer. So maybe if there is other life out there, they’re simulating the universe without ever going anywhere.
RG: What else are you currently working on? Do you have any other movies in the pipeline?
RE: UFO was such a long process that working on faster, shorter projects is very appealing at the moment. I’m working on a few different things, but it’s too early in the process to talk about them as real, tangible projects.
RG: When and where can we see ‘UFO’?
RE: It’s coming out in September on digital platforms.
Once again researchers have discovered mysterious large object that is floating around the outside our solar system and they aren't sure exactly what it is - although they suggest it could be a rogue planet.
Once again researchers have discovered mysterious large object that is floating around the outside our solar system and they aren't sure exactly what it is - although they suggest it could be a rogue planet.
Artistic Concept Celestial Body SIMP J01365663+0933473.
This is the third massive object that is coming from out of our solar system, at first they discovered the giant cigar-shaped object Oumuamua, then an object named comet C/2017 which is not from our solar system and now they have found another giant object named SIMP J01365663+0933473.
In the first radio-telescope detection of a planetary-mass object beyond our solar system, astronomers have found the strange celestial body has 12.7 times the mass of Jupiter. It doesn't appear to orbit a parent star, however, and is only 20 light-years away from Earth.
"This object is right at the boundary between a planet and a brown dwarf, or 'failed star,' and is giving us some surprises that can potentially help us understand magnetic processes on both stars and planets," study lead astronomer Melodie Kao said to rt.
A brown dwarf is an object too large to be a planet, but isn't big enough to sustain the nuclear fusion of hydrogen in its core that is vital to stars.
The object, which has been named SIMP J01365663+0933473, was first detected in 2016, but was thought to be a brown dwarf.
The latest data reveals it's younger than first thought at a relatively youthful 200 million years old, and its mass is smaller, so it could be classified as a planet. Its temperature is also far cooler than the sun, at 825 degrees Celsius. It also has a strong magnetic field, 200 times the strength of Jupiter.
The researchers were able to pick up on the object's magnetic activity using a powerful radio astronomy observatory called the Very Large Array, a National Science Foundation facility in New Mexico.
UFO Cloaked In Cloud Caught In Santos City Philippines. July 10, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Cloaked In Cloud Caught In Santos City Philippines. July 10, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 10, 2018
Location of sighting: General Santos, Philippines
This awesome UFO was hiding above a cloud during sunset and for a few minutes the cloaked craft was visible to the naked eye. Such beautiful colors and notice the round disk edge of the craft. This looks to be at least 500 meters across.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Unfortunately, I had only one phone at hand, the "good" HD Camera is currently defective. The colors were actually much more intense ...
The world's first independent floating nation, which will launch in the Pacific Ocean in 2022, has begun selling the cryptocurrency people will need to use to buy property.
Backed by Peter Thiel, the plans will see the sea-bound city state, with 300 homes as well as a handful of hotels, restaurants, offices and more, built in the Pacific Ocean off the island of Tahiti.
Investors can now take part in a presale of Vayron, the cryptocurrency the Seasteading Institute, the organisation behind the plan, will use.
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The world's first independent floating nation that operates outside of government regulations using its own cryptocurrency is set to launch by 2022. The plans will see the sea-bound city state (artist's impression), with 300 homes as well as a handful of hotels, restaurants, offices and more, built in the Pacific Ocean off the island of Tahiti
The scheme is the creation of the nonprofits Seasteading Institute and Blue Frontiers, which alongside Thiel's investment fund the project through philanthropic donations via tokens of their own cryptocurrency, Vayron.
The radical plans are expected to be completed by 2022 and cost as much as £37 million ($50 million).
'Varyon (VAR) is expected to be required to purchase seasteads, fractional ownership of seasteads and seastead residency from Blue Frontiers,' it said.
'The presale is available today for the first 4,000 ETH with bonuses from 5% to 15%. The public sale date is yet to be determined.'
Varyon says a billion of the tokens will be issued, and says 'No more tokens can ever be created'
The funds raised from the crowdsale will be used to implement the radical plans, with proceeds from the token sale are expected to be divided among the following activities: Design & Engineering SeaZone Legal & Administration Community growth General Administration.
'We plan and expect that Varyon will be usable to purchase seasteads, fractional ownership of seasteads, seastead residency, and other products and services from Blue Frontiers,' organisers said.
'As an easily exchangeable token, Varyon will also be tradable and usable beyond just Blue Frontiers.'
Bankrolled by PayPal founder Peter Thiel, the £37 million ($50 million) project is a pilot program in partnership with the government of Polynesia and is championed by a movement of academics, philanthropists and investors.
Building work on this isolated 'utopia' will begin next year following the signing of an agreement with French Polynesia's government in 2017.
Joe Quirk, president of the Institute, told Business Insider that his team's vision has evolved beyond its initial vision to include a focus on climate change.
The group now also sees the city as a way to live with rising sea levels, which are expected to increase more than six feet by the end of this century.
In an interview earlier this year, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, a political scientist and researcher for the Floating Island Project, says the island's residents will be free of 'fluctuating geopolitical influences and trade issues' and claimed the nation could one day house refugees displaced by climate change.
Speaking to CNBC, Ms Mezza-Garcia, a researcher at Warwick University, said: '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.'
The island's structures will feature 'green roofs' covered with vegetation and construction will use local bamboo, coconut fibre, wood and recycled metal and plastic.
Bankrolled by PayPal founder Peter Thiel, the £37 million ($50 million) project is a pilot program in partnership with the government of Polynesia and is championed by a movement of academics, philanthropists and investors
It could see the creation of an independent nation that floats in international waters and operates within its own laws to 'liberate humanity from politicians', according to the Seasteading Institute.
WHAT IS THE FLOATING ISLAND PROJECT?
A group of academics, philanthropists and investors plan to build an independent floating nation by 2022.
The £37 million ($50 million) plans will see the sea-bound city state, with 300 homes as well as a handful of hotels, restaurants, offices and more.
Bankrolled by Paypal founder Peter Thiel, the Floating Island Project will operate outside of governments laws and regulations, and is due to be built in the Pacific Ocean off the island of Tahiti.
It's envisaged that between 250 and 300 people will call the first floating city home.
The world's first floating nation is set to appear in the Pacific Ocean off the island of Tahiti by 2022 (artist's impression). A handful of hotels, homes, offices, restaurants and more will be built in the next few years by the nonprofit Seasteading Institute, which hopes to 'liberate humanity from politicians'
The prototype nation has partnered with French Polynesia, a collection of 118 islands in the southern Pacific, which is interested in the project as the area is at risk from rising sea levels.
The island - the brainchild of nonprofits organisations the Seasteading Institute and Blue Froniters - is being funded by philanthropic donations via tokens of the project's own cryptocurrency, dubbed Varyon.
In future, the project's backers envision hundreds of floating islands operating independently of international governments to 'liberate humanity from politicians', according to the Seasteading Institute.
Floating islands would feature aquaculture farms, healthcare, medical research facilities, and sustainable energy powerhouses.
See the plans for the world's first floating nation
A number of the island's dozen non-residential buildings are designed to function as business centres, allowing companies to work outside of 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 said.
She added that the project is an exciting prospect for those disenchanted with the politicial sphere of today.
The scheme is the creation of the nonprofit Seasteading Institute, which hopes to 'liberate humanity from politicians'. This image shows how the artificial island will blend in with nature
Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, a political scientist and researcher for the Floating Island Project, says the island's residents will be free of 'fluctuating geopolitical influences and trade issues'. The island has been designed to take into account swell, the wind, sunlight and even the position of the stars
'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,' Ms Mezza-Garcia said.
The Seasteading Institute, co-founded by Paypal founder Peter Thiel, has spent the past five years creating designs for 'permanent, innovative communities floating at sea', joining up with Blue Frontiers - a new startup that specialises in building floating islands - last year.
Blue Froniters released concept images of the French Polynesia project in December 2017.
The scheme is the creation of the nonprofits Seasteading Institute and Blue Froniters, which fund the project through philanthropic donations via tokens of their own cryptocurrency, dubbed Varyon. This artist's impression shows how dwellings on the island might look
Hills and mountains, the shape of reefs and other underwater landmarks, as well as the rising and setting of the sun, moon and stars are reflected in the design. This image shows how the floating island will look from the shore of nearby Tahiti
WHO ARE THE 'SEASTEADERS'?
Seasteaders are a diverse global team of marine biologists, nautical engineers, aquaculture farmers, medical researchers, investors, environmentalists, and artists according to The Seasteading Institute's website.
They plan to build floating islands, or seasteads to host aquaculture farms, floating healthcare, medical research islands, and sustainable energy powerhouses.
'Our goal is to maximise entrepreneurial freedom to create blue jobs to welcome anyone to the Next New World,' the group writes on its website.
The Institute was founded in 2008 by PayPal founder, Peter Thiel and activist, software engineer and political economic theorist Patri Friedman, who is the grandson of Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman.
Mr Theil, a venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal, has funnelled $1.25 million ($812,920) into the Institute and has previously called Seasteading an 'open frontier for experimenting with new ideas for government'.The designs took inspiration from the rich Polynesian culture, in particular from traditional navigation, which is based on the observation and knowledge of natural elements.
The world's first floating city is set to appear in the Pacific Ocean off the island of Tahiti
In a written statement, a spokesman for the Seasteading Institute said: '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.'
The overall shape of the construction reflected the pattern of a fish hook, an ancestral tool that symbolises the actions of the demigod Maui.
The radical plans, bankrolled by PayPal founder Peter Thiel, could see the creation of an independent 'start-up country' that will float in international waters and operate within its own laws
Hills and mountains, the shape of reefs and other underwater landmarks, as well as the rising and setting of the sun, moon and stars were reflected in the design.
Small platforms with villas would be aligned to the path of the stars of the Sirius, or Rua faupapa, star system, according to the plans.
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.
Other elements of navigation were taken into account in the urban planning.
French Polynesia, a collection of 118 islands in the southern Pacific, is interested in the project as the area is at risk from rising sea levels
Draft legislation will be drawn up this year and construction is expected to begin in 2019. Floating islands would feature aquaculture farms, healthcare, medical research facilities, and sustainable energy powerhouses
The larger platforms would be oriented according to the prevailing wind direction, in order to create calmer wave conditions behind them.
The project aims to include Polynesian culture in the design and detailing of buildings and other structures.
Local construction techniques and materials would be blended with modern technologies to fulfil contemporary needs while preserving continuity with tradition.
Speaking in November, Joe Quirk, president of the Seasteading Institute, said he wanted to see 'thousands' of rogue floating cities by 2050, each of them 'offering different ways of governance'.
The first city would be built on a network of 11 rectangular and five-sided platforms so the city could be rearranged according to its inhabitants' needs like a floating jigsaw, Joe Quirk, spokesman for the project explained last year
A feasibility report by Dutch engineering firm Deltasync in January 2017 said the square and pentagon platforms would measure 164ft (50metres) in length and they would have 164 ft-tall (50 metre) sides to protect buildings and residents
'Governments just don't get better,' Mr Quirk told the New York Times.
'They're stuck in previous centuries. That's because land incentives a violent monopoly to control it.'
First revealed in January, the plans have been approved by the French Polynesian government, which is now creating a special economic zone so the floating nation can operate under its own trade laws.
The tiny nation, a collection of 118 islands in the southern Pacific with a population just over 200,000, has granted the Seasteading Institute 100 acres of beachfront to operate from.
French Polynesia is interested in the project as the area is at risk from rising sea levels.
The feasibility report supported the idea that the project is economically feasible, with each platform costing less than $15 million (£10 million) which works out at a similar price as land in London or New York
The 10 best exoplanets we’ve discovered so far, ranked
The 10 best exoplanets we’ve discovered so far, ranked
Are you tired of the same old scenery? Do you look up at the sky and think, “Man I’m tired of all this blue!” ? Has your wanderlust exhausted Earth’s options? Or maybe you’re feeling a little Farnsworth and you just don’t want to live on this planet anymore?
Well if any of those situations sound like you, then this list is worth checking out. So grab your space suit, fuel up the shuttle, and strap in for an intergalactic tour of the best exoplanets that humanity has discovered so far.
#10: TrES-2b — The Dracula Planet
Our first stop is the pitch black planet TrES-2b. This gas giant’s atmosphere is less reflective than coal, but as hot as the hottest Earth-born lava. These two odd properties give the planet an eerie red glow, so if you’re a fan of horror stories and Lovecraftian lore, then this might be the perfect stop for you.
Pros: It’s the perfect setting for any of your spooky Halloween parties or vampire cult get-togethers. Cons: While the red glow may deliver the spooky vibe you’re after, it will also reduce your party to ash as soon as you arrive.
#9: Kepler-36c/b — That’s no moon!
Second on this journey are the two planets Kepler-36 C and B. These celestial bodies pass by each other at a distance that’s roughly four times the distance between Earth and the Moon — thereby providing a remarkable view of either planet from the other’s surface.
Pros: A beautiful view of either planet as they pass each other like ships in the night. Cons: This view will likely be your last, as neither planet is anywhere near hospitable.
#8: OGLE-2005-BLG-390 — Love the snow? This one is nicknamed ‘Hoth’
Are you a fan of the snow, always looking for the freshest slope? Then OGLE-2005-BLG-390, nicknamed ‘Hoth’, is the exoplanet for you! At negative 220 degrees Celsius, this planet is in a perpetual deep freeze — presumably creating endless slopes for you to carve up.
Pros: It’s an entire planet of slopes for you and your crew to cruise down on your space skis. Cons: On the other hand, the lack of atmosphere an precipitation means it’s likely solid ice — just like you’d be shortly after arrival.
#7: PSR B1257+12 system — A light show to die for
The Aurora Borealis is one of Earth’s greatest sights, but it’s a firefly in the night compared to the light shows caused by PSR B1257+12. This pulsar is the remnants of a star gone supernova, which constantly whips the planets around it with tendrils of radiation — causing planet-wide lights in the sky.
Pros: This place boasts the most impressive auroras you’ll ever see. Cons: Your DNA would immediately be scrambled and fried by the astronomical levels of radiation.
#6: 55 Cancri e — An intergalactic prospector’s dream
Are you a more adventurous type, lusting for the days of old when you could make your fortune on the frontier? Then get your gear together and head to 55 Cancri e, a planet whose composition is largely carbon. This makeup results in the planet being almost entirely made of precious metals, both inside and out.
Pros: The potential to become a space mining tycoon with zillions of blemflarcks (or whatever currency we use in the future) Cons: All those precious metals are hot as hell and currently in liquid form, so good luck with that!
#5: Kepler-16b — Where your shadow will never be lonely
Kepler-16b itself is not especially interesting, but what it’s orbiting definitely is. This exoplanet orbits two stars. That’s right folks, not one, but TWO stars. Look forward to never before seen sunsets and sunrises, and a pal for your shadow.
Pros: A one in a million sky. Woo any potential partner with a romantic picnic beneath a double sunset. Cons: Unfortunately the planet itself is VERY cold, even with two stars. Let’s just say you’re going to need a LOT of picnic blankets.
#4: Wasp 12 b — A crumbling planet being eaten by its sun
For those of you looking for a bit more of an extreme sightseeing experience, Wasp 12 b is everything you could ask for. This planet is slowly being “eaten” by its star, and the side facing the star is crumbling and forming a ring of debris along its orbit. If you’re into those high budget scenes in apocalypse movies, you’re going to LOVE this.
Pros: Probably the most metal thing you will ever see in your life. Cons: This should be obvious, but if the planet is dissolving, you’re not going to do too well yourself.
#3: Kepler-452b — Earth’s bigger, older cousin
So death defying sights and experiences aren’t your thing, and you’re looking for a new place or a summer home? Welcome to Kepler-452b: Earth’s bigger, older cousin. With a 385 day orbit, a rocky exterior, and 60% more mass than Earth; it’s a new frontier that’s both vast and vaguely familiar.
Pros: Finding your own special place won’t be hard with all this space, and the years are just about the same length as Earth’s. Cons: Aside from that, the place is pretty boring. As far as we know, it’s the only planet orbiting this star, and has no moons. It’s also 1400 light years away, so say goodbye to your fam here on Earth.
#2: Proxima B — Only a hop, skip, and four light years away
Unlike our last home away from home, Proxima B orbits Proxima Centauri: the closest star to our Sun, which sits just a few short light years away. With a rocky red exterior like our neighbor Mars and a member of the infamous Alpha Centauri system, this could be your summer getaway to your own red skied paradise.
Pros: It’s only four light years away, making it the best candidate for potential colonization. There’s also a red landscape that gives it that homey Mars feel, and multiple nearby stars in the sky,. Cons: Unfortunately, signs for this planet being habitable are slim. Its star is old and radioactive, and its orbit takes only 11 days. Not to mention that it is likely tidally locked like our moon. Bummer.
#1: Trappist-1 System — A fistfull of Earths
Welcome to the Trappist-1 system, seven tightly bundled planets orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star, and are all suspected to harbor rocky surfaces. Due to the nature of this system’s sun, it’s possible that the majority of these planets harbor liquid water as well — making this system a treasure trove of habitable planets.
If that isn’t enough to wet your whistle, these planets are also VERY close to each other. Close enough that while standing on any of them, other planets would be near enough that you could see clouds and large geological features with your naked eyes.
As most of these planets are potentially habitable, you’d get your pick of the litter when it comes time to settle down and build a colony. For these reasons, the Trappist-1 system comes thundering into first place on our list of Top Ten Exoplanets.
Pros: Multiple planets to settle, liquid water, non gaseous planets, and close interplanetary proximity. It also has a really neat sky, and isn’t near anything that’s going to kill you — like a black hole or a radiation-spewing pulsar.
Cons: Two big things: this system is 39 light years away, and it’s suspected that all of these planets are tidally locked due to their proximity to their star — meaning the weather on each planet would be wildly unlike Earth’s.
In the early morning of July 20, 1952, Capt. S.C. “Casey” Pierman was ready for takeoff at Washington National Airport, when a bright light skimmed the horizon and disappeared. He did not think much of it until he was airborne, bound for Detroit, and an air traffic controller told him two or three unidentified flying objects were spotted on radar traveling at high speed.
The controller told Captain Pierman to follow them, the pilot told government investigators at the time. Captain Pierman agreed, and headed northwest over West Virginia where he saw as many as seven bluish-white lights that looked “like falling stars without tails,” according to a newspaper report.
The sighting of whatever-they-were garnered headlines around the world. And in the decades since, U.F.O.s have become part of the pop culture zeitgeist, from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” to “The X-Files.” In September, a star of that long-running series, Gillian Anderson, will appear in “UFO,” a movie about a college student haunted by sightings of flying saucers. A “Men in Black” remake is in the works. And the History Channel plans to air “Project Blue Book,” a scripted series about the government program that studied whether U.F.O.s were a national threat.
And the topic is back in the headlines. Last year, The Times wrote about a little known project founded in 2007, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, to investigate U.F.O. sightings. A search of The Times’s historical archives reveals a rich bounty of U.F.O. sightings, loreand explanations since the 1950s. And who can forget in 2016 when Hillary Clinton said she would reopen the real X-files if she were president?
Captain Pierman’s 68-year-old daughter, Faith McClory, said in an interview last month that her father became something of a celebrity as reports like his in the summer of 1952 fueled fear of a space alien invasion.
“My sister has memories of men coming to our home,” said Ms. McClory, who grew up in Belleville, Mich. (She said they were reporters.) “People were enthralled with the flying saucers,” she added.
Researchers say government officials have sought to publicly debunk the existence of alien evidence ever since the Washington sightings.
“Unidentified flying objects exploded into the public consciousness then,” said Mark Rodeghier, the scientific director for the Center for UFO Studies, a group of scientists and researchers who study the U.F.O. phenomenon. “There was concern in a way you hadn’t seen before.”
It should be noted that the term U.F.O., as used by the government, does not mean extraterrestrials from outer space. It means any object in the sky that has not been identified. When asked recently about the 1952 Washington sightings, Ann Stefanek, chief of media operations for the Air Force, wrote in an email that the objects had posed no threat to national security.
In the spring of 1952, though, numerous mysterious sightings had captured the Air Force’s attention. It created “Project Blue Book” that March — the third investigative government project of its kind and the one that lasted the longest, until 1969.
The events in Washington were not the first unexplained encounter report. Debris from what observers called a “flying disc” had been spotted in Roswell, N.M., five years earlier, which Army officials said was from a “weather balloon.” By 1952, though, a number of sightings of U.F.O.s were being reported across the country and the nation was on edge.
Life magazine was one of the first mainstream magazines to suggest the phenomenon was real and revealed in an April story that the Air Force was secretly investigating. That story inspired a sharp increase in reports of sightings that summer.
The Washington sightings centered on events that started around 11:40 p.m. on July 19, as air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport noticed blips speeding near Andrews Air Force Base, according to government accounts. The unidentified aircrafts fanned out, flying over the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Captain Pierman saw them that night. They vanished around 5 a.m.
It was a second sighting a week later, though, that caused the wave of hysteria that forced the government to speak out. Albert Chop, then a spokesman with the Pentagon who was given the job of answering questions about U.F.O.s, said he was awakened by a call on the evening of July 26.
Mr. Chop described the events in a 1999 oral history to the Sign Historical Group, an association of archivists and amateur researchers who held a workshop that year to study U.F.O history. He said the new objects were spotted on radar at Washington National Airport and he was told to get there right away.
The Air Force dispatched jet fighters from New Castle, Del., to intercept the flying objects. But every time one of the jets closed in, they disappeared. When the jets backed off, they reappeared.
“It was frightening,” Mr. Chop said. “I think everybody in the room was very apprehensive.”
At one point, a pilot found himself in the midst of four unidentified aircrafts and asked what to do. “I didn’t say anything,” Mr. Chop told the interviewers. “Nobody said anything. All of a sudden these things began to move away from him and he said, ‘They’re gone!’” The pilot returned to his base.
“These things hung around all night long,” Mr. Chop added.
The next day, almost every major newspaper wrote about the U.F.O.s. “‘Objects’ Outstrip Jets Over Capital,” was the headline in The Times.
The Air Force held a press conference on July 29, 1952, to discuss the recent sightings of unidentified flying objects over Washington. Maj. Gen. John Samford, seated on the right, is who dismissed the sightings as “natural phenomena.”CreditBettmann, via Getty Images
“People didn’t know what to think of it,” said Rob Swiatek, a U.F.O. researcher and scientist, in a recent interview.“They were very disturbed.”
Public panic was a problem for the Air Force, which feared a diversion of resources during the Cold War. “The Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency became worried that the Soviet Union would take advantage of the situation and launch an attack on the United States,” Mr. Rodeghier said. “They were looking at worst-case scenarios.”
Worse, no one could explain the phenomenon to President Harry Truman, according to press reports. One theory promoted by the Air Force was that a layer of hot air in the sky, called a temperature inversion, caused radar to mistake a weather event for flying objects. “Nobody had any answers,” Mr. Chop told the interviewers. “That’s why General Samford had the press conference.”
On July 29, 1952, Maj. Gen. John Samford, the director of Air Force intelligence overseeing the inquiry, held a news conference at the Pentagon to reassure the public. He dismissed the Washington sightings as a temperature anomaly. Still, the general conceded that not all the details could be explained by natural causes. Witness reports “have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things,” he said at the time. “It is this group of observations that we now are attempting to resolve.”
After several sightings of unidentified flying objects in Washington in July 1952, government officials held a news conference, calling them “natural phenomena.” The press conference was front page news, including in The Times.
Case closed? Not quite.
“I don’t think temperature inversion had much to do with it, but the news media accepted that explanation at the time,” said Kevin Randle, a former lieutenant colonel in the Army who has studied the events of July 1952 and is the author of the 2001 book, “Invasion Washington: U.F.O.s Over the Capitol.”
In January 1953, spurred by the Washington sightings, a scientific committee led by Howard Robertson, a well-known mathematician and physicist, was formed by the government to explore the phenomenon. “One of the conclusions was that they needed to debunk U.F.O.s,” Mr. Randle said.
The committee, called the Robertson Panel, suggested in its report that the government conduct a mass media education campaign to “reduce the current gullibility of the public and consequently their susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda.”
The campaign to re-educate Americans did not work — U.F.O.s have persisted as a fixture in pop culture. Besides, the government’s explanation was not that convincing anyway. Ms. McClory, Captain Pierman’s daughter, said her father did not believe that the bluish-white lights he saw were weather-related.
“I don’t want to use the words ‘cover up,’” she said, of her father’s view. “But it was very clear. He saw it. Everything was seen on radar.”
APEric Boe, Sunita Williams, Christopher Ferguson, Josh Cassada en Nicole Mann.
WETENSCHAP In het Johnson Space Center in Houston (Texas) stelt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA de negen astronauten voor die naar de ruimte vliegen met raketten van privébedrijven.
Sinds het einde van het spaceshuttleprogramma in 2011 heeft de NASA geen astronauten meer de ruimte ingestuurd vanop Amerikaanse bodem. De Amerikaanse organisatie werkte de voorbije jaren samen met Rusland voor haar ruimtereizen.
NASA-directeur Jim Bridenstine zegt dat de aankondiging hopelijk een nieuw tijdperk inluidt voor het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartprogramma.
Het nieuwe team, zeven mannen en twee vrouwen, zou volgend jaar al de ruimte ingestuurd worden. Daarvoor wordt gebruikgemaakt van raketten van twee privébedrijven, Boeing en SpaceX. De NASA laat weten dat de eerste testvlucht met de nieuwe bemanning in april zal plaatsvinden met een SpaceX-Dragoncapsule.
Voor die testvlucht zijn twee astronauten geselecteerd: Michael Hopkins en Victor Glover. Hopkins heeft al 166 dagen doorgebracht aan boord van het ISS, maar voor Glover is het de eerste ruimtereis.4
APVictor Glover, Michael Hopkins, Robert Behnken, Douglas Hurley, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Eric Boe, Josh Cassada en Sunita Williams.
In the footage, a circular cloud can be seen over a tower block.
And it looks very similar to a flying saucer, rising higher in the sky.
The strange object continues to move over the tower block, leaving the cameraman in stunned silence.
This was captured in the Russian capital Moscow – and has sparked furious debate on social media about whether alien life has arrived.
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UFO: Viewers claimed the cloud looked a lot like a flying saucer
“I also spotted some weird-looking clouds in the city centre that day but I thought I imagined it,” one viewer commented.
“I wonder what will happen next?!"
Another added: "I've been seeing things like that on the skyline for a while now but previously they seemed a little less distinct. So does that actually mean that aliens do exist?"
While a third made a chilling prediction.
"This is the end, isn’t it,” they said.
But meteorologists put these claims to bed very quickly.
The UFO cloud is believed to have been an unusually-shaped cumulus, a fluffy low level cloud.
Some observers speculated that it might have been a lenticular cloud.
They are often mistaken for UFOs because of their characteristic appearance and smooth saucer-like shape.
This is not the first time people have claimed UFO sightings recently.
A bizarre object was spotted on Google Earth last week.
While a police helicopter circled a UFO in Los Angeles earlier this month.
Bizarre UFO-wolk boven Moskou leidt tot consternatie. Bekijk hier de beelden
Bizarre UFO-wolk boven Moskou leidt tot consternatie. Bekijk hier de beelden
Na de verschijning van een wolk in de vorm van een vliegende schotel boven Moskou dachten sommigen dat de aliens op het punt stonden te landen.
Onderstaande beelden zijn gemaakt door een inwoner van de Russische hoofdstad. “Wat is dat? Aliens? Is het een UFO?” zegt hij in het filmpje, dat hij later op social media plaatste.
Het duurde niet lang voordat er fel gediscussieerd werd over het verschijnsel.
Iets vreemds
Sommigen waren ervan overtuigd dat er die dag iets vreemds aan de hand was in de lucht boven Moskou en dat meer van dit soort gebeurtenissen aanstaande waren.
“Wauw! Ik heb die dag ook vreemde wolken in de stad gezien, maar ik dacht dat ik het me inbeeldde,” reageerde Ilya.
“Ik zie dit soort dingen al langer in de lucht, maar nog nooit was het zo duidelijk te zien,” zei Kate. “Betekent dit dat aliens echt bestaan?”
Einde
Een andere social media-gebruiker merkte op: “Dit is het einde, toch?!”
Het lijkt te gaan om een cumulus- of stapelwolk, een scherp afgelijnde wolk.
Als warme lucht opstijgt zet deze uit, omdat de luchtdruk naar boven toe minder wordt, en koelt daardoor af. De waterdamp in de lucht wil dan condenseren en er ontstaat een cumuluswolk.
WAT IS DIT VREEMD WEZEN LANGS DE KANR VAN DE WEG? ( VIDEO )
WAT IS DIT VREEMD WEZEN LANGS DE KANR VAN DE WEG? ( VIDEO )
Een Canadees gezin rijdt langs de weg en stopt om een grazende eland in de berm te filmen.
Terwijl ze dit doen, komt er plotsklaps een vreemd wezen tevoorschijn uit de begroeiing langs de kant van de weg.
Aangezien het vakantie is, vandaag eens een luchtiger onderwerp, waarbij iedereen zelf een mening kan vormen over wat het nu precies is dat er langs de kant van de weg opduikt.
Enkele dagen geleden rijdt de Franstalige Canadees Audrée Tanguay Fréchette samen met zijn gezin in de buurt van de plaats Gaspésie in Quebec.
Ze zien vanuit hun auto opeens een eland langs de kant van de weg en stoppen om deze te filmen, wanneer er plotseling iets tevoorschijn komt uit de begroeiing langs de kant van de weg.
Het ziet er als volgt uit:
Volgens sommigen hebben we hier te maken met wat men een alien creature pleegt te noemen. Een voor ons mensen onbekend iets dat grote overeenkomsten vertoont met eerder waargenomen wezens.
De maker van de video heeft naar eigen zeggen geen flauw idee wat het is en vraagt het publiek om hulp bij het oplossen van het raadsel.
Hier is de door hem gemaakte videoclip.
Omdat de video vrij kort is en het allemaal nogal snel gaat, hierbij een tweede video over hetzelfde met daarin de nodige slow motion opnamen.
Niet iedereen die bovenstaande opnames heeft gezien is er van overtuigd dat het een alien is.
Er zijn een aantal mensen die suggereren dat het een vuiltje is op het raam van de auto. Daarentegen lijkt het wezen in het begin van de video heel snel te bewegen.
Iemand anders merkt op dat het niet echt kan zijn, omdat de eland niet schrikt en gewoon door blijft grazen.
Het is in ieder geval dermate interessant dat de Engelse krant Daily Mirror dit wil publiceren.
Hello, I work for the Mirror Online and I was wondering if we could use this video in our player, please?
One of the formative experiences of my childhood which I credit with launching my interest in aerial phenomena and astronomy was the 1997 visit of comet Hale-Bopp. For a few magical weeks, my father would walk me to the end of our street each night where we had a perfect view of the eerie fireball hanging in the night sky. I credit that comet (along with a healthy dose of pop culture) with instilling in the much younger me a sense of wonder about the universe and what might lie unseen just at the edges of our knowledge.
The Hale-Bopp Comet.
For others, the comet represented something else entirely. For a few dozen seekers in California, the arrival of the comet was seen as the coming of a spacecraft meant to take their souls to a new life on some non-terrestrial plane. The only hitch was they would have to commit suicide in order to board this “spacecraft.” Between March 24 and 26, 1997, thirty-nine members of the Heaven’s Gate cult led by Marshall Applewhite asphyxiated themselves with the aid of Phenobarbital-laced applesauce and vodka, believing their souls would then travel to the Hale-Bopp comet/spacecraft en route to a new level of existence. All were found with a five-dollar bill and three quarters in their pockets and were wearing identical black sweat suits and brand new black-and-white Nike Decades.
Not exactly the kind of press Nike looks for. But hey – no press is bad press. But maybe this was bad press.
Whether or not the cultists reached their cult-y space nirvana aboard the comet is anyone’s guess (spoiler alert: they didn’t). Two of the Heaven’s Gate members survived though, choosing not to participate in the suicide pact for unknown reasons. Today, the strange and unfortunate story of Heaven’s Gate has become a recurring topic in pop culture.
Which is why Heaven’s Gate is suddenly back in the news. The two anonymous surviving members of the suicidal UFO cult are currently threatening legal action against trap rap artist Lil Uzi Vert. Lil Uzi Vert (real name Symere Woods) recently released artwork on Instagram for his upcoming album Eternal Atake, featuring a design quite reminiscent of Heaven’s Gate’s keyhole-in-space logo. In response, the two surviving Heaven’s Gate members issued the following statement:
He is using and adapting our copyrights and trademarks without our permission and the infringement will be taken up with our attorneys. This is not fair use or parody, it it a direct and clear infringement.
It turns out Lil Uzi Vert has even changed his Instagram username to “Marshall Applewhite” in the past. Is this merely a case of pop culture appropriation done in poor taste, or has Lil Uzi Vert bought one too many pairs of black-and-white Nike Decades? The courts will decide.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s reputation as the number-one resting place for alien entities with distinctly bad flying skills is legendary in UFO research circles. Insiders and whistle-blowers talk about off-limits hangars and the The Blue Room. Supposedly, they are rooms, buildings, and underground bunkers that are home to the carefully-preserved remains of numerous dead extraterrestrials – if one has the correct, high-level security. If the stories are true, of course.
It turns out that, for years, Puerto Rico allegedly had its very own equivalent: the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station. But it wasn’t alien bodies that were cryogenically housed at Roosevelt Roads. Nope: it was a bunch of dead chupacabras. There just might even have been a couple of living ones there, too. So, at least, I was told on several of my excursions to Puerto Rico, between 2004 and 2015. I was not surprised to find that sifting fact from fiction, and legend from rumor, proved to be a very difficult job when it came to trying to unravel the controversial truth about Roosevelt Roads’ chupacabra stash.
The origins of Roosevelt Roads date back to just one year after the end of the First World War. It was 1919 when the then Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy visited Puerto Rico. That man was none other than a future American president: Franklin D. Roosevelt. The visit was no vacation, however. Roosevelt was there on a secret mission. He was focused on finding a suitable location where a military facility could be constructed, one that could act as a strategic outpost for Uncle Sam in the Caribbean. Roosevelt toured the island, finally pinpointing a northeast town called Ceiba, which was founded back in the 1830s, and that, today, has a population of around 13,000.
At the time, while the creation of such a base – with an airfield – could have been beneficial, it was not perceived as absolutely crucial. Things changed dramatically, however, when crazed, evil nutcase Adolf Hitler came to power in 1930s-era Germany. The world was soon to face complete and utter carnage, the likes of which it had never before seen, or since. Steps had to be taken to combat the Nazi threat. One of those steps was the creation of Roosevelt Roads, which began in 1940, one year before the terrible events at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii occurred. Roosevelt Roads ultimately became the biggest U.S. Navy base on the planet and the headquarters of the U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command (NAVSO). It remained so for decades.
On our visit to Puerto Rico in July 2004 with a crew from the SyFy Channel, monster-hunter Jon Downes and I heard a story of a UFO crash in the hills of Canovanas in 1957, one which reportedly, and quickly, led to gross mutations in the local populace. On his first trek around the island, back in 1998, Jon himself was given a number of independent accounts of this 1957 event. One of Jon’s sources was a man named Reuben, a Puerto Rican brought up in New York, but who returned to the island as an adult. Arguably, Reuben was Jon’s most significant source, since he personally took Jon and a team from the U.K.’s Channel 4 TV crew to the very spot in Canovanas where, he claimed, the craft from another world slammed into the ground, back in 1957.
Jon told me that they came to a big clearing where the path became narrow, and, on one side, disappeared altogether, into a huge saucer-shaped arena. This, according to what Reuben had to say, at least, was where the UFO had crashed. Admittedly, there was a huge indent in the side of the mountain, said Jon. No trees grew there, and it did look as if some huge object had crashed into the mountain, scooping out trees and vegetation and leaving a bare area intermittently covered with patchy grass. Returning to 2004…
While on Puerto Rico, Jon and I met with a woman named Norka, a Chupacabra witness and someone who had heard of this 1957 tale, too. This was not surprising, given that it’s hardly an unknown case among the people of Puerto Rico. Norka told us that most people identified the location as a steep hillside in Canovanas, one that military forces quickly sealed off, for a period of around three weeks. Time constraints unfortunately prevented us from taking Norka to the location identified by Reuben back in 1998, but Norka’s description of the place strongly suggested they were one and the same. There was something else too: most of those that had commented on the incident – specifically when I returned to Puerto Rico in 2008 – said that when the UFO was accessed by the military they found within it the dead bodies of a number of unearthly creatures: Chupacabras.
I had to remember that although the crash report had been around for decades, the Chupacabra aspect of the story surfaced specifically post-1995, when the Chupacabra phenomenon began in earnest. The Chupacabra link to the 1957 crash was fascinating, but it would have been even more fascinating had it surfaced prior to the 1995 outbreak. That it specifically didn’t, kept me very mindful of the possibility (maybe even the probability) that this was an elaboration, a new twist, on an old tale.
There is also a story of a UFO crashing in the heart of El Yunque in February 1984. I know that, because the basics of the account have reached me on three occasions over more than the past decade. It was early one morning when a large, circular-shaped object slammed into the ground, immediately after flying over the rain forest in a decidedly erratic fashion. To prevent people from learning the truth of the matter, a diversionary tactic was put into place that the UFO was a meteorite. Military personnel were soon on the scene – in part, to scoop up the pummeled body-parts of a couple of dead chupacabras, whose lives came to sudden and bloody ends when the alien craft hurtled violently into the forest at high speed. That’s how the story goes, anyway.
To this day, I don’t really know what to make of all this. Some of the people I spoke with came across as completely truthful and credible. Others admitted that their stories were not just second-hand, but third- and even fourth-hand, which is definitely not a good thing. I still find the stories interesting, but it will take a hell of a lot more to convince me that there are dead Chupacabras secretly hidden somewhere on Puerto Rico. Or deep below it…
HOUSTON — After years of vehicle development and building anticipation, NASA has now put the crew in commercial crew spacecraft.
The space agency on Friday (Aug. 3) announced nine men and women who will launch on the first crewed test flights and missions of new commercial spacecraft built and operated by The Boeing Company and SpaceX.
NASA's first commercial crews for Boeing and SpaceX spacecraft, from left to right: Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, Nicole Mann, Chris Ferguson, Eric Boe, Josh Cassada and Suni Williams.
Credit: collectSPACE.com
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, 48, and Douglas Hurley, 51, will fly together as SpaceX's first Dragon crew. Veterans of two spaceflights each, Behnken and Hurley will lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A — the same Florida launch pad where the space shuttle left Earth for the last time in July 2011 with Hurley as pilot.The commercial crew members took to the stage during an event led by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
NASA astronauts Eric Boe, 53, and Nicole Mann, 41, will join the commander of that same final space shuttle mission, former astronaut and now Boeing executive Christopher Ferguson, 56, as the crew of the Starliner test flight, launching atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Ferguson, who has been involved from the start in the Starliner's development, flew three shuttle missions as a NASA astronaut. Boe piloted two shuttle flights. This will be Mann's first launch, having joined the astronaut corps in 2013.
Behnken, Hurley, Boe and Mann are NASA's first astronauts to be named to the test flights of new U.S. spacecraft since the March 1978 announcement of the space shuttle's first orbital flight test crews. Ferguson will become the first former NASA astronaut to return to orbit as a company's crew member when he flies.
Prior to their maiden crewed missions, both Boeing and SpaceX plan uncrewed test flights in late 2018 or early 2019. Both companies will also conduct abort system test flights to ensure the astronauts can safely escape should their rockets go awry.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (center), with Johnson Space Center director Mark Geyer, Boeing's Leanne Caret, Kennedy Space Center director Bob Cabana and SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell introduce the first commercial crew astronauts.
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In addition to naming the crews of the test flights, NASA also announced on Friday the four astronauts who will fly aboard the first operational Starliner and Dragon missions to the space station. Both vehicles were developed in cooperation with NASA to deliver crew members to and from the orbiting laboratory.
Josh Cassada, 45, will fly with Sunita ("Suni") Williams, 52, aboard NASA's first contracted Starliner mission. It will be Cassada's first spaceflight. Williams previously logged 321 days in orbit on two stays aboard the space station, most recently returning to Earth in 2012.
Victor Glover, 42, and Michael Hopkins, 49, will fly on the first operational mission of SpaceX's crewed Dragon. It will be Glover's first time in space. Hopkins logged 166 days aboard the space station in 2014.
NASA's first commercial crew astronauts. Flying on SpaceX's Crew Dragon (at left): Bob Behnken, Victor Glover, Doug Hurley and Mike Hopkins. Flying on Boeing's Starliner: Eric Boe, Sunita Williams, Chris Ferguson, Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann.
Credit: collectSPACE.com
The two pairs of NASA crewmates will fly to the station with Russian cosmonauts and international astronauts to be announced at a later date. Between the end of the space shuttle program and the start of commercial crew operations, NASA's crew members have and are continuing to launch to the space station on Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Behnken, Boe, Hurley and Williams were named in 2015 as NASA's "commercial crew cadre" and have been working with Boeing and SpaceX on the development of the spacecraft and the simulators that will be used to train astronauts to fly. The two companies have also developed new spacesuits, modified their launch pads and established mission control teams to support the upcoming flights.
With the start of four-person commercial missions, the International Space Station crew is slated to grow by one to a seven-person residency in order to maximize the science that can be conducted on board. Boeing's and SpaceX's commercial spacecraft may also open the space station — and more broadly, Earth orbit — to more privately-funded visitors and spaceflight participants from countries that do not have their own domestic crewed spacecraft and rockets.
Un habitant de Tamarac filme plusieurs OVNI lumineux
Un habitant de Tamarac filme plusieurs OVNI lumineux
Le mardi 31 juillet 2018, dans la mâtinée, un témoin s’est réveillé et a vu un objet non identifié planer dans le ciel pendant plus de 45 minutes dans son quartier de Tamarac, une ville de l’État de Floride.
Miguel Rodriguez, qui vit dans le village de Vanguard, a vu cette lumière apparaître dans le sud-est vers 5h35 du matin. Il a rapidement décidé de commencer à la filmer entre 5h50 et 6h00 du matin. La lumière est restée dans le ciel et 30 minutes plus tard sa femme lui a envoyé une vidéo de cet OVNI qui planait toujours au même endroit.
« Il y a avait des orbes rouges et oranges qui tournaient autour de cet objet volant. Celles-ci semblaient être indépendantes de l’objet lui-même. De plus, il y avait un autre objet moins visible au-dessus », a déclaré Rodriguez.
Il a dit que l’activité entre Tamarac et Coral Springs a été étrange ces dernières années et ce n’était pas la première fois qu’il observait une telle activité surnaturelle.
Il possède une vidéo prise il y a quelques années quand il vivait à Coral Springs. Ces images montraient des orbes rouges / oranges volant à très grande vitesse dans le ciel. Toute sa famille avait été témoin de ce phénomène inexpliqué.
Rodriguez aimerait maintenant savoir si d’autres personnes ont vu cet objet ou possèdent de meilleures images.
Il conclut :
« Je crois que c’est un OVNI. J’en suis vraiment persuadé. Il n’y a pas d’autre explication. »
A drop in reports has baffled everyone investigating UFOs, according to NUFORC's director, Peter Davenport. Universal
Data from US-based NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) shows UFO reports have been in decline since 2014.
Alex Griffioen of the Netherlands' UFO Disclosure Office said fewer UFO sightings may be due to people attributing them to drones.
But Head of the National UFO Reporting Center Peter Davenport suggested reports could be being intercepted too.
Reports of UFO sightings has been in massive decline for the past few years. According to data from US-based NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) the slump started in 2014, after years of increased sightings.
Since the 1990s, the overall number of UFO observations steadily increased, reaching a peak of 8,670 reports in 2014. After that, it all went quickly downhill, as this infographic from Statista.com shows.
Alex Griffioen of the Netherlands' UFO Disclosure Office said that the quantity of reports in the Netherlands hadn't seen the same drop.Statista / National UFO Reporting Centre
NUFORC didn't have a website in the 1990s, so it makes sense that there were fewer reports received at that time, but since 2014, the number of observations at NUFORC fell to 5,500 in 2016. This figure fell again to 4,500 in 2017, and — while 2018 isn't over yet — it now stands at 1,329 reports .
Although this is still considerably more than any figure recorded in the 90s, it must be stressed that that period was pre-internet, so reports weren't yet being received via the website. This only makes the decline after 2014 all the more striking.
It's true that such incidents are more commonplace than in the 90s, but why the number has fallen so sharply after 2014 remains a mystery. Have extraterrestrial beings lost interest in us? Are we not looking carefully enough? Or is there a better explanation?
It's largely a case of guesswork but there are possible theories
"The significant decrease in the number of reports has baffled everyone investigating within the UFO field," founder and director of NUFORC Peter Davenport said to Business Insider. He's previously discussed the decline with members of the Mutual UFO Network. "They see the same trend and they're all confused by it."
According to him, there are many possible explanations. "It could just be that there are fewer and fewer incidents, but it's also possible that reports to UFO organisations are being intercepted electronically. Who would do something like that is a mystery, but if it's happening, my first suspicion would be government organisations. It's quite risky for a government to do that, but you can't rule it out, I think."
Reports of UFOs peak in 2012 due to the end of Mayan calendar
According to Alex Griffioen, one of the founders of the UFO Disclosure Office in the Netherlands, it's difficult to draw a conclusion from the NUFORC figures.
"That's just one source. A decrease in the number of reports doesn't actually equate to a drop in the number of UFO sightings. It may also mean the NUFORC website has become more difficult to find or perhaps less useful," suggested Griffioen.
The quantity of reports in the Netherlands doesn't seem to have dropped in the same way, according to Griffioen, who says the number of observations at the UFO Disclosure Office in the Netherlands peaked in 2012.
"In 2012, of course, we had the upcoming apocalypse as the end of the Mayan calendar approached," laughed Griffioen.
"The peak in our statistics around 2012 is also possibly due to certain sections of the public — who were anticipating some form of alien apocalypse — being overly alert to extraterrestrial encounters," he said.
Drones could be a likely culprit for the decrease
If the number of observations has decreased worldwide, there could be two main reasons for this according to Griffioen: "Drones are becoming cheaper and more popular, and are taking on stranger and stranger shapes every day. This applies to both military UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), professional drones for video as well as for recreational drones."
"We hear and read that they can do more and more, so people now respond to seeing strange moving lights with: 'it'll be a drone'."
Laws around commercial drones in the US have relaxed
In 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began allowing companies to send drones into the air, provided they comply with certain guidelines. Amazon, for example, started delivering via drones and CNN began using UAVs to film from the air. Until 2015, this was prohibited, unless you'd received a special exemption to carry out such flights.
In December 2015, the FAA also stipulated that drones weighing over 250 grams had to be registered with the organisation, in anticipation of the holidays when it was estimated that 700,000 drones would be purchased.
According to the Consumer Technology Association, more than 2.4 million drones were sold in the US alone in 2016, more than double the figure for 2015.
Fighter jets can sometimes look strange in the sky
The chance of encountering a drone has grown considerably, which could account for people identifying what previously would have been considered a UFO as a drone.
But in fact, there's a whole plethora of things that could be mistaken for extraterrestrial objects in the night sky, ranging from fighter jets and natural phenomena like lenticular clouds, to dirt on camera lenses and unusually-shaped kites.
Still sure you've definitely seen a UFO? For extraterrestrial visits wherever you are, you can always contact NUFORC or MUFON to log a report.
New Radio Telescope Just Detected A Mysterious Signal From Space
New Radio Telescope Just Detected A Mysterious Signal From Space
Newly built radio telescope finds a mysterious signal coming from space.
An observatory located in Canada may have already found clues to a new astronomy mystery. The new radio telescope has already picked up mysterious signals from deep space, which are known as "Fast Radio Bursts", or FRBs.
First FRB Below 700MHZ Frequency
The radio telescope, named Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) located in British Columbia, has detected the first ever FRB at a frequency below 700MHZ. The signal was located on July 25th and is named FRB 180725A.
FRB's are milliseconds-long bursts of radio signals that come from somewhere unknown in the universe. They are one of the newer cosmic discoveries, and mysteries, first being detected only a decade ago. There are some possible explanations that have been thought up already which include, bursts from magnetars, exploding black and holes and of course, advanced alien civilizations.
Not From Earth
CHIME has only been operational for less than a year, and it is designed to gather data on FRBs and other anomalies. The discovery of FRB 180725A is very preliminary. "Astronomer's Telegram" announced the discovery, attempting to encourage other astronomers to search for FRBS at all wavelengths. This announcement also states that other FRBs have been found in the last week, at frequencies even lower (400MHZ and lower) and it seems that they are not coming from Earth.
To this day, only one FRB has been found to be repeating. Known as FRB 121102, it was first discovered in 2012 and was found to repeat again in 2015. It has been traced to a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light-years away. Researches say that whatever is emitting the signal across the universe must be immensely powerful. Could it be alien life?
Maybe a lost ancient civilization that left something turned on. Whatever it is, we may not know for a while. FRB research is still fairly new to astronomers, but hopefully, astronomers across the globe can work together to try and solve these mysterious signals.
Monstrous rogue planet spotted lurking outside our solar system
Monstrous rogue planet spotted lurking outside our solar system
A unique and strange rouge planet has been just discovered outside of our solar system.
According to The Astrophysical Journal, this loner planet has an astounding and powerful magnetic field that is over four million times that of Earth. Additionally, the planet creates visually stunning auroras like nothing we have ever seen.
A planet with amazing magnetism and very close to Earth discovered by astronomers
This planet, known as SIMP, was first discovered two years ago. Initially, SIMP was categorized as a brown dwarf. However, recent findings suggest that SIMP is just small enough to be considered a planet.
SIMP is very hot when compared to other planets, with a surface temperature of over 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. This is double the heat of any planet in our solar system.
The most impressive aspect of SIMP is a magnetic field that is millions of times stronger than Earth
This magnetic field contributes to the creation of stunning light shows on SIMP. However, the auroras are generated differently than on Earth.
Jupiter produced amazing auroras as well, which occurs because electrically charged particles accelerate along the magnetic fields of the planet before crashing into atoms in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter at roughly 3,000 miles per second. A similar process occurs on Earth, which we label the northern and southern lights. The process is different from Jupiter’s in that the charged particles that create the auroras on Earth come from the Sun in the form of solar wind.
Researchers believe that the creation of auroras on SIMP is more similar to that of Jupiter’s. This indicates that SIMP may have a moon.
Astronomers are excited about the discovery of SIMP, which is located just twenty light-years from the Sun because the study of the incredible magnetic force of SIMP can provide new insights regarding how magnetic fields are created in exoplanets.
The finding of SIMP also indicates new ways of discovering exoplanets, including rogue planets such as SIMP that has not been detectable in the past.
A Spanish telescope recently captured the moments when two meteorites crashed into the Moon on two separate occasions only 24 hours apart during the middle of July.
The Meteorites Were the Size of Walnuts
The flashes were seen from Earth according to the European Space Agency. However, they pointed out that the meteoroids, which came from the Alpha Capricornids meteor shower of midsummer, would only have been about the size of a walnut. In terms of the solar system, they were minute so would not have caused any damage.
The footage of the moments the two meteorites hit the moon was captured in footage, and a statement released alongside it from the European Space Agency said that the lumps passing through the tail of Comet 169P/NEAT hit the moon.
The ESA Said Determining the Cause of the Flashes Remains a Challenge
The European Space Agency went on to say:
"For at least a thousand years, people have claimed to witness short-lived phenomena occurring on the face of the moon. By definition, these transient flashes are hard to study, and determining their cause remains a challenge.
For this reason, scientists are studying these 'transient lunar phenomena' with great interest, not only for what they can tell us about the moon and its history but also [for what they can tell us] about Earth and its future."
The Meteorite Crashes Were Detected by the MIDAS System
Space.com pointed out that the images came from the MIDAS system, Moon Impacts Detection, and Analysis System. The technology was installed in three Spanish observatories. The system comprises of high-resolution CCD video cameras, all of which were designed to pick up any flashes of light no matter how subtle they are. Researchers said the small flashes are very easy to spot when they occur during a full lunar eclipse, which is what occurred on July 27.
The flashes may have only been small but they were very interesting to researchers as they help them to find out more about meteorite impacts in locations within the solar system. A MIDAS member along with researcher of meteorites from the University of Huelva in Spain, Jose Maria Madiedo, said, "By studying meteoroids on the moon, we can determine how many rocks impact it along with how often, and from this, we can infer the chance of impacts on Earth"
A radar blip, a flash of light: How UFOs ‘exploded’ into public view
A radar blip, a flash of light: How UFOs ‘exploded’ into public view
THE NEW YORK TIMES
A headline in The New York Times from July 1952 regarding several UFO sightings in Washington. Sightings of the whatever-they-were garnered headlines around the world and caused so much concern that the government was forced to speak out.
By Laura M. Holson, New York Times News Service
In the early morning of July 20, 1952, Capt. S.C. “Casey” Pierman was ready for takeoff at Washington National Airport when a bright light skimmed the horizon and disappeared. He did not think much of it until he was airborne, bound for Detroit, and an air traffic controller told him two or three unidentified flying objects were spotted on radar traveling at high speed.
The controller told Pierman to follow them, the pilot told government investigators at the time. Pierman agreed, and headed northwest over West Virginia where he saw as many as seven bluish-white lights that looked “like falling stars without tails,” according to a newspaper report.
The sighting of whatever-they-were garnered headlines around the world. And in the decades since, UFOs have become part of the pop culture zeitgeist, from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” to “The X-Files.” In September, a star of that long-running series, Gillian Anderson, will appear in “UFO,” a movie about a college student haunted by sightings of flying saucers. A “Men in Black” remake is in the works. And the History Channel plans to air “Project Blue Book,” a scripted series about the government program that studied whether UFOs were a national threat.
And the topic is back in the headlines. Last year, The New York Times wrote about a little known project founded in 2007, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, to investigate UFO sightings. A search of The Times’ historical archives reveals a rich bounty of UFO sightings, lore and explanations since the 1950s. And who can forget in 2016 when Hillary Clinton said she would reopen the real X-files if she were president?
Pierman’s 68-year-old daughter, Faith McClory, said in an interview last month that her father became something of a celebrity as reports like his in the summer of 1952 fueled fear of a space alien invasion.
“My sister has memories of men coming to our home,” said McClory, who grew up in Belleville, Michigan. (She said they were reporters.) “People were enthralled with the flying saucers,” she added.
Researchers say government officials have sought to publicly debunk the existence of alien evidence ever since the Washington sightings.
“Unidentified flying objects exploded into the public consciousness then,” said Mark Rodeghier, scientific director for the Center for UFO Studies, a group of scientists and researchers who study the UFO phenomenon. “There was concern in a way you hadn’t seen before.”
It should be noted that the term UFO, as used by the government, does not mean extraterrestrials from outer space. It means any object in the sky that has not been identified. When asked recently about the 1952 Washington sightings, Ann Stefanek, chief of media operations for the Air Force, wrote in an email that the objects had posed no threat to national security.
In the spring of 1952, though, numerous mysterious sightings had captured the Air Force’s attention. It created “Project Blue Book” that March — the third investigative government project of its kind and the one that lasted the longest, until 1969.
The Washington sightings centered on events that started around 11:40 p.m. July 19, as air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport noticed blips speeding near Andrews Air Force Base, according to government accounts. The unidentified aircrafts fanned out, flying over the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Pierman saw them that night. They vanished around 5 a.m.
It was a second sighting a week later, though, that caused the wave of hysteria that forced the government to speak out. Albert Chop, then a spokesman with the Pentagon who was given the job of answering questions about UFOs, said he was awakened by a call on the evening of July 26.
Chop described the events in a 1999 oral history to the Sign Historical Group, an association of archivists and amateur researchers who held a workshop that year to study UFO history. He said the new objects were spotted on radar at Washington National Airport and he was told to get there right away.
The Air Force dispatched jet fighters from New Castle, Delaware, to intercept the flying objects. But every time one of the jets closed in, they disappeared. When the jets backed off, they reappeared.
“It was frightening,” Chop said. “I think everybody in the room was very apprehensive.”
At one point, a pilot found himself in the midst of four unidentified aircrafts and asked what to do. “I didn’t say anything,” Chop told the interviewers. “Nobody said anything. All of a sudden these things began to move away from him and he said, ‘They’re gone!’” The pilot returned to his base.
“These things hung around all night long,” Chop added.
The next day, almost every major newspaper wrote about the UFOs. “‘Objects’ Outstrip Jets Over Capital,” was the headline in The Times.
Worse, no one could explain the phenomenon to President Harry Truman, according to press reports. One theory promoted by the Air Force was that a layer of hot air in the sky, called a temperature inversion, caused radar to mistake a weather event for flying objects. “Nobody had any answers,” Chop told the interviewers. “That’s why General Samford had the press conference.”
On July 29, 1952, Maj. Gen. John Samford, director of Air Force intelligence overseeing the inquiry, held a news conference at the Pentagon to reassure the public. He dismissed the Washington sightings as a temperature anomaly. Still, the general conceded that not all the details could be explained by natural causes. Witness reports “have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things,” he said at the time. “It is this group of observations that we now are attempting to resolve.”
The news conference was front page news, including in The Times, which ran the headline “Air Force Debunks ‘Saucers’ as Just ‘Natural Phenomena.’”
Case closed? Not quite.
“I don’t think temperature inversion had much to do with it, but the news media accepted that explanation at the time,” said Kevin Randle, a former lieutenant colonel in the Army who has studied the events of July 1952 and is the author of the 2001 book, “Invasion Washington: UFOs Over the Capitol.”
In January 1953, spurred by the Washington sightings, a scientific committee led by Howard Robertson, a well-known mathematician and physicist, was formed by the government to explore the phenomenon. “One of the conclusions was that they needed to debunk UFOs,” Randle said.
The committee, called the Robertson Panel, suggested in its report that the government conduct a mass media education campaign to “reduce the current gullibility of the public and consequently their susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda.”
The campaign to re-educate Americans did not work — UFOs have persisted as a fixture in pop culture. Besides, the government’s explanation was not that convincing anyway. McClory, Pierman’s daughter, said her father did not believe that the bluish-white lights he saw were weather-related.
“I don’t want to use the words ‘cover up,’” she said, of her father’s view. “But it was very clear. He saw it. Everything was seen on radar.”
The Beginning: UFO Encounters over Washington D.C. - Open Minds Magazine
The Beginning: UFO Encounters over Washington D.C. - Open Minds Magazine
Open Minds Magazine #1
The Beginning: UFOs Encounters over Washington D.C.
Welcome to Open Minds Magazine. In this new monthly UFO news magazine show (view above), we will take a closer look at the mystery posed by Unidentified Flying Objects, in hopes to gain a better understanding of the nature of the phenomenon and how the government, including the military, and the public react to it.
Perhaps the most thorough examination into the UFO issue was conducted by the U.S Air Force. They began their investigation in 1948. It was called Project Sign, then changed its name to Project Grudge, and finally changed its name once again to Project Blue Book.
As for the results, the Air Force states:
"As a result of these investigations and studies and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project BLUE BOOK are:(1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles."
However, upon closer examination of the thousands of files released regarding the Blue Book investigations, it becomes apparent that the Air Force's conclusions were not shared by everyone involved in the investigation, and that there were some truly fascinating cases that remain unsolved.
Often people say they will not believe in UFOs until they land on the White House lawn. Well, one of the most famous and mysterious Blue Book cases came close.
UFO sightings over Washington, DC in July 1952 made worldwide headlines and left the U.S. Air Force dazed and confused. The events spanned several days and included multiple radar identifications of unknown aircraft, some of which were correlated by witnesses on the ground. Many of the sightings caused the air force to scramble jet fighters, and in each of these cases, the UFOs outmaneuvered the jets. This all culminated into what may be the most important official U.S. Air Force UFO investigation of all time.
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Fast radio bursts – activity of galaxies or messages of extraterrestrial civilizations?
A large number of different types of signals comes from outer space – relic radiation, radiation of quasars, pulsars, neutron stars, etc. But there is a type of radio signals, the origin of which scientists can not explain until now.
“Fast radio bursts” – single bursts of high-frequency oscillations lasting several milliseconds. Such radio signals throw colossal energy into space. For comparison, the Sun needs more than ten thousand years to manifest such resultant activity!
The first rapid radio burst was found by Professor Duncan Lorimer in 2007. The signal came across accidentally – when analyzing the results of observations 6 years ago. The source of the radio burst is a point located three degrees from the Small Magellanic Cloud. What did the specialists come across? Nobody could explain.
A curious fact: during a detailed analysis of the data obtained by Professor Lorimer in 2007, it was found that the “rapid radio bursts” discovered by the scientist were nothing more than ordinary artifacts. Interference was caused by violation of the rules of operation of the microwave oven. The early opening of the microwave door and the specific position of the telescope are the causes of these artifacts.
However, it is still unknown what the nature of the other fast radio bursts is? The main assumptions supported by the scientific community are:
Interference of terrestrial instruments or the development of so-called peritones that distort the signal;
The fusion of two neutron stars, the evaporation of a black hole, as well as other exotic events of extragalactic sources;µ
In certain circles a version is expressed that the signal is a consequence of the activity of extraterrestrial civilizations.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Wetenschappers van de Cambridge University hebben zopas bekendgemaakt dat ze een aantal exoplaneten – planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel – hebben ontdekt waarop de omstandigheden zo gunstig zijn dat er aards leven kan ontstaan. Zo staat in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Science Advances te lezen. “Het brengt ons een beetje dichterbij het antwoord of we alleen in het universum zijn”, klinkt het.
UV-licht zou op de recent ontdekte exoplaneten eenzelfde chemische reactie kunnen veroorzaken als bij het ontstaan van onze planeet. De temperaturen zouden gunstig genoeg zijn, waardoor ook meteen de aanwezigheid van vloeibaar water op de exoplaneten tot de mogelijkheden behoort volgens de onderzoekers. “Deze studie stelt ons in staat om de beste plaatsen voor onze zoektocht naar leven te vinden,” zegt dr. Paul Rimmer, hoofd van het onderzoeksteam.
Hetzelfde onderzoeksteam voerde eerder al een reeks experimenten uit om te achterhalen wat er gebeurt als waterstofcyanide en waterstofsulfietionen worden blootgesteld aan UV-licht. Uit de resultaten bleek dat dit proces bouwstenen opleverde om leven te vormen. Zonder UV-licht was dit niet mogelijk.
“Ik onderzocht vervolgens welke lichtdeeltjes er in de lampen zaten”, vertelt dr. Rimmer. “In een volgende stap zal dat licht vergeleken worden met het licht van verschillende sterren. Op dit moment hebben we maar één voorbeeld - de Aarde - en dus is het logisch dat we eerst naar vergelijkbare plaatsen zoeken,” verklaart de wetenschapper.
“De frictie die ontstond en nog zou kunnen ontstaan, waardoor het begin van leven mogelijk is, fascineert ons eindeloos”, zegt Sutherland, een medewerker van het onderzoeksteam. “We weten nog steeds niet precies hoe het leven is ontstaan, hoewel we al veel weten over de gunstige omstandigheden.”
Zoektocht
Bovendien is er volgens de onderzoekers een belangrijk onderscheid tussen wat “noodzakelijk” en “voldoende” is. “Bouwstenen zijn noodzakelijk, maar misschien niet voldoende: het is best mogelijk dat je de bouwstenen mixt en dat er niets zal gebeuren. Maar hoe dan ook, moet je wel zoeken naar de plekken waar de noodzakelijke bouwstenen aanwezig zijn”, klinkt het.
Dat blijkt een aartsmoeilijke opdracht voor wetenschappers. Ons waarneembaar universum telt immers zo’n 700 miljoen triljoen planeten.
A mysterious large object is floating around outside our solar system and researchers aren’t sure exactly what it is – although it could be a rogue planet.
In the first radio-telescope detection of a planetary-mass object beyond our solar system, astronomers have found the strange celestial body has 12.7 times the mass of Jupiter. It doesn’t appear to orbit a parent star, however, and is only 20 light-years away from Earth.
“This object is right at the boundary between a planet and a brown dwarf, or ‘failed star,’ and is giving us some surprises that can potentially help us understand magnetic processes on both stars and planets,” study lead astronomer Melodie Kao said.
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A brown dwarf is an object too large to be a planet, but isn’t big enough to sustain the nuclear fusion of hydrogen in its core that is vital to stars.
The object, which has been named SIMP J01365663+0933473, was first detected in 2016, but was thought to be a brown dwarf. The latest data reveals it’s younger than first thought at a relatively youthful 200 million years old, and its mass is smaller, so it could be classified as a planet. Its temperature is also far cooler than the sun, at 825 degrees Celsius. It also has a strong magnetic field, 200 times the strength of Jupiter.
The researchers were able to pick up on the object’s magnetic activity using a powerful radio astronomy observatory called the Very Large Array, a National Science Foundation facility in New Mexico.
The methods used suggest the researchers may have “a new way of detecting exoplanets, including the elusive rogue ones not orbiting a parent star,” researcher Gregg Hallinan said.
Mysterious gigantic rogue planet spotted lurking outside our solar system
A Gigantic Rogue Planet Wandering Our Galactic Neighbourhood JUST Discovered
Gigantisch mysterieus hemellichaam ontdekt buiten ons zonnestelsel. Onderzoekers weten niet precies wat dit is
Gigantisch mysterieus hemellichaam ontdekt buiten ons zonnestelsel. Onderzoekers weten niet precies wat dit is
Er vliegt een enorm mysterieus hemellichaam rond buiten ons zonnestelsel en wetenschappers weten niet precies wat het is. Mogelijk gaat het om een zware planeet.
Astronomen hebben met behulp van een radiotelescoop ontdekt dat het vreemde hemellichaam ruim 12 keer zoveel massa heeft als Jupiter en niet rond een ster lijkt te draaien.
Het object staat op pakweg 20 lichtjaar van de aarde.
Precies op de grens
“Dit object bevindt zich precies op de grens tussen een planeet en een bruine dwerg, of ‘mislukte ster’,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Melodie Kao.
Een bruine dwerg is een object dat te groot is om een planeet te zijn, maar niet groot genoeg om een ster te kunnen zijn.
Het object, SIMP J01365663+033473 gedoopt, werd in 2016 voor het eerst waargenomen. Toen dacht men dat het een bruine dwerg was.
Poollicht
Uit de nieuwste gegevens blijkt echter dat het hemellichaam jonger is dan gedacht, zo’n 200 miljoen jaar oud, en een kleinere massa heeft. Het zou dus een planeet kunnen zijn.
Het sterke magnetische veld van het hemellichaam produceert een soort poollicht dat radiostraling uitzendt.
De onderzoekers konden het object op deze manier op het spoor komen met behulp van de Very Large Array (VLA), een radiotelescoop in New Mexico.
Archeologen ontdekken ondergrondse stad en piramide in Bolivia. Wat ligt hier verborgen?
Archeologen ontdekken ondergrondse stad en piramide in Bolivia. Wat ligt hier verborgen?
Archeologen hebben in de Boliviaanse provincie Ingavi een ondergrondse stad gevonden die stamt uit de pre-Incatijd. Dat hebben de Boliviaanse autoriteiten bekendgemaakt.
Met behulp van speciale camera’s zijn luchtfoto’s en infraroodbeelden gemaakt. Aan de hand daarvan ontdekten wetenschappers een vesting net buiten de archeologische vindplaats Tiwanaku.
Er werden ook een ondergronds plein en twee platforms gevonden, die deel lijken uit te maken van een piramide.
50 jaar
De ontdekking is gedaan tijdens conserveringswerkzaamheden in het gebied door Japanse archeologen en UNESCO.
Volgens experts kan het tot wel 50 jaar duren voordat bekend is wat er onder het oppervlak verborgen ligt.
Er zullen opgravingen worden verricht in het zuidwesten en noorden om de vondst te bevestigen. Waarschijnlijk was Tiwanaku dus niet slechts een ceremonieel centrum, zoals lange tijd is gedacht.
Mysterie
Tiwanaku en de nabijgelegen piramide Puma Punku zijn met mysterie omgeven.
De gerespecteerde archeoloog Arthur Posnansky zei in 1945 dat Tiwanaku minstens 17.000 jaar oud moet zijn.
Het Tiwanaku-rijk telde waarschijnlijk zo’n miljoen onderdanen en de Inca’s beschouwden zich later als afstammelingen van deze beschaving.
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Arqueólogos descubren ciudadela subterránea junto a centro ceremonial de Tiahuanaco
Arqueólogos descubren ciudadela subterránea junto a centro ceremonial de Tiahuanaco
El Ministerio de Culturas de Bolivia presentó una investigación que permitió conocer la superficie total del área cívico-ceremonial. Así se detectó una plaza y dos plataformas de lo que se considera...
BEWIJS DAT WIJ ONDER CONTROLE STAAN VAN BUITENAARDSEN ( VIDEO )
BEWIJS DAT WIJ ONDER CONTROLE STAAN VAN BUITENAARDSEN ( VIDEO )
Overal om ons heen laten de werkelijke machthebbers weten dat ze er zijn en dat wij als mensheid niets in te brengen hebben.
Maar, wat als die controle over ons mensheid nog een stap verder gaat en entiteiten van buiten onze aarde bepalen wat hier gebeurt?
De manier waarop de wereld onder controle wordt gehouden is door middel van geld. Alles en iedereen op deze planeet zit gevangen in het systeem van geld en bij voorkeur wordt een situatie gecreëerd waarbij de hele wereld schuld heeft.
Het is dan ook niet zo vreemd dat de werkelijke machthebbers ons via hun geld laten weten dat zij degenen zijn die controle hebben en dat wij als slavenvolk helemaal niets hebben in te brengen.
Waar dit heel duidelijk zichtbaar wordt is op de Amerikaanse dollarbiljetten, waar je altijd de beruchte piramide ziet met het alziende oog. Echter, wanneer je kijkt naar het één dollar biljet, dan zie je daar naast de piramide nóg een symbool, wat op het eerste gezicht vrij onschuldig lijkt totdat je het biljet oprolt.
Je ziet zonder enige twijfel de bekende vorm van een alien gezicht met de grote en langgerekte schedel. Daarnaast zie je in het midden van het voorhoofd het bekende Derde Oog, waarschijnlijk een aanwijzing dat dit wordt gebruikt om contact te maken met “de andere wereld”.
Als ze aan de ene kant van het biljet laten zien via het Alziende Oog dat ze de wereld onder controle hebben, dan kun je er vergif op innemen dat het symbool ernaast ook een betekenis heeft.
In de video heeft Rex Bear van Leak Project het onder andere over Karen Hudes en dat wat zij gezegd heeft.
We hebben het afgelopen jaar al vele schokkende onthullingen gehoord van Karen Hudes, advocate en klokkenluider van de Wereldbank.
Nu komt ze wederom met een schokkende bericht. Want, diep verborgen in het Vaticaan bevindt zich een voor ons volkomen onbekende mensensoort.
Het zijn geen buitenaardsen, maar een ander soort mens die al heel lang op deze aarde zijn. Je vindt over de hele aardbol aanwijzingen van hun eerdere beschavingen en hun geschiedenis gaat minimaal terug tot de ijstijd.
Door de geschiedenis heen is een groot deel van deze mensensoort verdwenen, ondermeer doordat het zeewaterniveau gedurende die tijd honderden meters is gestegen. Deze mensen zijn een totaal ander soort dan wij zijn, hebben grote schedels en grote hersenen. Hun DNA is zo compleet anders dan die van ons dat het mengen van de twee rassen volkomen onvruchtbare exemplaren zou opleveren. Karen zegt dat ze dit weet omdat hun DNA onlangs is getest.
Het schijnt niet echt een aardige mensensoort te zijn. Deze Homo Capensis zoals zij ze noemt, proberen de andere soort, wij dus, onder controle te houden door een verdeel en heers tactiek, daarbij gebruikmakend van ons geldsysteem.
Eenzelfde tactiek hebben ze gevolgd gebruikmakend van religie. Georganiseerde godsdiensten waarbij het doel is dat mensen die een ander geloof aanhangen dan anderen elkaar gaan haten waardoor ze elkaar zullen afmaken.
Via het Vaticaan gebruiken ze de mensheid alsof het vee is en dit gebeurt al gedurende onze hele geschiedenis. De interviewer die met haar in gesprek is gegaan hoofdzakelijk om te praten over geldzaken is dan ook behoorlijk van slag door deze onthullingen. Zij verzekert hem dat wat ze vertelt honderd procent de waarheid is. Dit komt uit de mond van een ontwikkelde vrouw die topfunkties heeft bekleed.
Voor diegenen die niet de hele video willen bekijken en beluisteren; het deel waar ze vertelt over de vreemde mensensoort begint rond minuut 23.
Misschien dat er binnenkort meer informatie beschikbaar komt via Karen over deze totaal onbekende mensensoort.
Enkele jaren later (2016) kwam er wederom iemand uit de financiële wereld die opperde dat het weleens buitenaardsen kunnen zijn die de volledige controle over de wereld hebben. Dat was voormalig Wall Street bankier Catherine Austin Fitts.
Voormalig Wall Street bankier en overheidsmedewerker Catherine Austin Fitts is na jaren en jaren onderzoek tot de conclusie gekomen dat het heel goed mogelijk is dat de wereldwijde schuld verschuldigd is aan entiteiten van buiten deze aarde.
Zo zegt ze:
“Is de aarde een open of een gesloten economie? Ik ben naar de business-school geweest, ik heb elf jaar op Wall Street gewerkt en weet je, ik ben mijn leven lang bezig geweest met economie en de hele tijd werd mij voorgehouden dat de aarde een gesloten economisch systeem heeft. Dus, als wij schuld creëren, dan zijn wij dit schuldig aan andere mensen. Als wij aandelen uitgeven, dan zijn andere mensen eigenaar van die aandelen.
Maar, als je kijkt naar al de economische ervaring die ik heb gehad in overheidsdienst, in het zakenleven en bij de bank, dan zal ik je vertellen dat ik, als je mij vraagt om het economische model op aarde te verklaren, het volgende zal zeggen: “De planeet aarde is een onroerend goed investeringsfonds, omdat we ieder jaar een dividend uitkeren en ik weet niet waar het naartoe gaat”.
Catherine weet het antwoord op die vraag ook niet, maar feit is dat er ieder jaar een fiks deel van de wereldproductiviteit in het niets verdwijnt. Het verdwijnt en wordt nergens verantwoord.
Zelfs overheidsinstanties die moeten bijhouden wat er met het geld gebeurt, kunnen deze vraag niet beantwoorden. Het geld verdwijnt eenvoudigweg, de schuld groeit exponentieel en niemand kan verklaren wie de begunstigde is.
Catherine zegt verder: “Ik was in staat om fantastische statistieken boven water te halen over wie de schuld had uitgegeven, maar wat ik ook deed, ik kwam er niet achter wie de eigenaar is van die schuld.
Ik weet dat ze controle hebben. En zij hebben controle door de schuld, want dat is hoe je op onzichtbare wijze controle krijgt over een bedrijf.
Wie is eigenaar van de schuld? Zijn het mensen of is het iets of iemand anders?”
“Sommige mensen zeggen dat goud de valuta is, waardoor wij over de hele planeet kunnen handelen, maar hoe ik ook probeer, ik kom er niet achter hoeveel goud er is op aarde. Jarenlang heb ik geprobeerd om dit uit te zoeken, maar het lukt mij niet.
In 2011 manipuleerde iemand de prijs van goud naar beneden en bracht toen de grootste goudhoeveelheid ooit in de open economie. Er is niemand op onze aarde die een dergelijk astronomisch grote transactie kan verklaren.
Dus, wie is er eigenaar van de schuld van de wereld? Wordt de zogenaamde elite van deze wereld op hun beurt ook bedolven onder schuldenlasten verschuldigd aan.....
Are you one of those people who hates Elon Musk or are you one of his fans? Those groupings seem to vary in size based on whether you judge him on his electric car company, his space company, his immense wealth, his personal life, his politics or his controversial statements about cave rescues. This story involves his philosophy on creating a colony on Mars and his disagreement with NASA on how to make that happen. Should we start a new group?
This week, a study was published in the journal Nature Astronomy which looked at the feasibility of creating an atmosphere on Mars that would allow humans to live there without a need for pressurized suits or breathing devices. That artificial transformation to a heavier atmosphere, called terraforming, might also increase the surface temperature, keep water thawed and allow plants to grow, consuming CO2 and releasing oxygen. This would take living on Mars from a tremendous pain to a pleasant movie plot. Is it possible?
An idea has been bandied about recently that the existing CO2 stored in rocks and the Martian ice caps could be enough to facilitate terraforming the Martian atmosphere. The study points out the problems. Besides the obvious fact that it would have to be done quickly, like over a few year period, it appears from recent data that there’s nowhere near enough CO2 anywhere on or in Mars to create an atmosphere. Goodbye working outside on your potato farm in the Martian sunshine wearing a T-shirt and shorts – hello living in conditions that make Antarctica look balmy.
Not so fast, says Elon. In a tweet, he responded to the study by saying:
“There’s a massive amount of CO2 on Mars adsorbed into soil that’d be released upon heating. With enough energy via artificial or natural (sun) fusion, you can terraform almost any large, rocky body.”
He doesn’t say why his data on soil CO2 is different than NASA’s. Many may remember that his plan for “artificial” fusion to terraform Mars quickly involved dropping a thermonuclear bomb on it. Would the atmosphere be in place and the radiation dissipated by 2024 when he sees his first Mars mission occurring? As always, Elon gives himself an out – and in this case it’s the same one used in the study … these assessments are based on using today’s known technology, not the unknown new ones that might be developed soon.
Do you trust NASA and its scientists with years of study and tons of data from Mars missions … or do you trust Elon Musk and his nuclear terraforming? Whichever you choose, it would be wise to consider that we’re not doing such a great job forming our own terra.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the provisions of the Freedom of Information Acts of a number of nations have led to the declassification of interesting and intriguing documentation on UFOs. The FBI, for example, has an entire section at its website (The Vault) where you can find its once-classified papers on UFOs – and on other mystery-filled topics too, such as ESP and cattle-mutilations (see this link for the list). Sometimes, however, asking the wrong question, when filing a Freedom of Information request, can result in a “no records found” reply. Such a response usually occurs when a person provides the relevant agency with inaccurate, or way too brief, data when filing that request. But, the “no records found” angle also applies to government inquiries too, as we shall now see.
Back in the early-to-mid 1990s, the Government Accountability Office (at the time, called the General Accounting Office) dug deep into the matter of what happened back in Lincoln County, New Mexico in the summer of 1947. I am, of course, talking about the controversial “Roswell Incident.” The GAO was prompted by the request of the late Congressman Steven Schiff(for New Mexico). Working on Schiff’s request, the GAO prepared and released a report that, in part, stated the following:
“Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the 1947 weather balloon crash at Roswell Air Field, New Mexico, focusing on: (1) the requirements for reporting air accidents similar to the Roswell crash; and (2) any government records concerning the Roswell crash. GAO found that: (1) in 1947, Army regulations required that air accident reports be maintained permanently and although none of the military services filed a report on the Roswell incident, there was no requirement in 1947 to prepare a report on the weather balloon crash; (2) although some of the records concerning Roswell activities had been destroyed, there was no information available regarding when or under what authority the records were destroyed; (3) only two government records originating in 1947 have been recovered regarding the Roswell incident; (4) a 1947 Federal Bureau of Investigations record revealed that the military had reported that an object resembling a high-altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector had been recovered near Roswell; and (5) a 1947 Air Force report noted the recovery of a flying disc that was later determined by military officials to be a radar-tracking balloon.”
All of the above shows that the GAO certainly did dig deep into the July 1947 affair that has become so famous. It could be argued, however, that the GAO didn’t find anything substantial because the wrong approach was taken. And, as a result it was a case of “no records found” (or hardly any). I’ll explain what I mean by this. Consider what the GAO said about the CIA’s search for any and all files on matters relative to the “Roswell Incident.” The GAO stated the following:
“In March 1995, the CIA’s Executive Director responded to our letter of inquiry by stating that earlier searches by the CIA for records on unidentified flying objects produced no information pertaining to the Roswell crash. The Executive Director added, however, that it was unclear whether the CIA had ever conducted a search for records specifically relating to Roswell. In the absence of such assurance, the Executive Director instructed CIA personnel to conduct a comprehensive records search for information relating to Roswell. On May 30, 1995, the CIA’s Executive Director informed us that a search against the term ‘Roswell, New Mexico,’ in all CIA databases produced no CIA documents related to the crash.”
Note that the CIA, when going through its databases, searched on the words “Roswell, New Mexico.” Taking into consideration the fact that the 1947 incident itself actually occurred a couple of hours’ drive from the city of Roswell, then the chances are slim that the CIA would have found anything that tied “Roswell, New Mexico” with the ’47 event itself. The fact is that the onlyconnection between the incident and Roswell – the city – is that it was the military personnel from the old Roswell Army Air Field who were dispatched to secure the site and recover the materials found at the site. Other than that, the incident itself actually has no connection to Roswell, whatsoever. For the record, I don’t at all think the CIA lied when it said that it could not find anything on Roswell. What I do think, though, is that a search of something far beyond just “Roswell, New Mexico” might well have uncovered something of significance. Perhaps terms like “Aircraft incident, July 1947,” “Unknown object, Lincoln County,” and so on, might have worked – at least, to a degree.
For the record, the CIA also searched on the term “Project Mogul” – Mogul being the secret balloon-based program that the U.S. Air Force concluded was responsible for what came down on the Foster Ranch. But, if what came down was not a huge Mogul array, then, of course, nothing relative to the crash would be found in CIA databases anyway.
Much the same can be said about my 2010 book, Final Events. One specific part of the book is relevant to this article. As I note in the book itself, one of the interviewees told me that the term “Collins Elite” was specifically the group’s “informal” name. It was an informal name that they used, I was told, when speaking with others who may not have had full clearance on what the CE was doing, which included personnel from the NSA and CIA. And people like me, too, one could suggest.
A good argument can be made that if – as was specifically made clear to me, and as I revealed in the book itself, eight years ago – the group has an “informal” title (the Collins Elite), then logic almost certainly dictates that it also has a “formal” name too – which is probably highly-classified, and which is probably why people have not had success, via FOIA, in finding the group by using the term, “Collins Elite.” For the record, numerous worldwide agencies have both informal and formal names. For example, the NSA is known as “The Fort.” The U.K.’s Secret Intelligence Service is referred to as “Legoland.” Russia’s GRU is “The Aquarium.” “The Company” is the CIA’s nickname. And the list goes on.
As all of the above demonstrates, filing a FOIA request – or even getting an agency like the GAO to pursue the Roswell affair – may not work. Not because of a cover-up, but as a result ofasking the wrong questions or using the wrong terms. Bureaucracy is sometimes the cause of what is so often perceived as conspiracy.
Australia’s most infamous ape-man was reportedly seen in Queensland this week, and the timing of the sighting coincided with another infamously anomalous event. Could the two be related?
On Monday, July 30, Katrina Ayers was driving north of Roma on the Carnarvon Highway, taking her time to avoid hitting kangaroos which happened to be in the road. While cruising at a slow, safe speed, Ayers spotted what she thought was a large rock by the side of the road. As she got closer, she reports, the “rock” stood up, revealing itself to be a large hairy humanoid creature standing over a kangaroo carcass. Ayers estimates the beast stood roughly 152 centimeters (5 feet) tall and described its hair as auburn-colored. Ayers shared the sighting with the Australian Yowie Research group, which posted Ayers’ description of the incident to their Facebook page.
Has Yowie developed a taste for kangaroo meat?
While a single eyewitness’ testimony usually isn’t noteworthy, the timing of the Yowie sighting may add a bit of weirdness to this incident. On the same day as this reported Yowie encounter, numerous eyewitnesses reported a strange object streaking luminously across the Queensland sky leaving a trail of green fire behind it. Some witnesses reported the fireball as a “big bright white and yellow ball with an amazing tail of blue green orange and white assumingly burning gases,” descriptions which would seem to imply a meteor or asteroid burning up in the atmosphere.
Green fireballs are a common subject of UFO reports.
Others, however, described the unidentified aerial phenomenon as a “dark rectangular object” leaving a “jet flame” in its wake. One onlooker even described the object as “like nothing he had seen before” and moving in ways which implied “advanced technology due to its maneuverability.” UCLA astronomer Ian MacLean, meanwhile, assured the Queensland public “with 99.99 per cent certainty” that it was merely an Aquarian or Capricornian meteor shower. However, reports of green fireballs are a common theme in UFO research, and the US military even took an interest in them at the height of the flying saucer era, finally concluding that the phenomena are likely man-made. Could this ‘meteor’ have been something else?
The US Air Force established a research project, code name Project Twinkle, to investigate green fireballs in the 1950s.
The timing of the two incidents is strange. Has Yowie upgraded its methods of transportation? Could the aboriginal ape-man actually be a kangaroo-hungry extraterrestrial stopping by for a mid-summer snack and freaking people out with his odd green spacecraft? Or could one woman’s misidentification of a kangaroo in mourning merely have coincided with a not-too-rare astronomical event?
Listen, it’s easy to laugh at moose. They’re goofy. Big spindly legs and ridiculous antlers looking like busted up satellite dishes stuck to their giant adorable faces, moose are supremely silly looking animals, it’s true. Rocky and Bullwinkle didn’t help either. But despite the laughter you can get simply by looking at a moose face, they’re one of the most dangerous animals in North America. Moose are responsible for more attacks on humans than bears and wolves combined, and when presented with an opportunity, moose will happily stomp any predator dumb enough to try for some moose meat. If I had to make a list of the animals I’d be OK with meeting in a dark alley, there’s a solid chance the a moose would be at the very bottom of that list. That is, unless this new footage out of Quebec turns out to be real.
Just ridiculous.
A video posted on YouTube recently seems to show a very strange, thin, white figure apparently stalking a large moose. Filmed by Audree Frechette, in Quebec’s Gaspé Valley who thought she was just getting some nice shots of a lone moose hanging out by the side of the road, it wasn’t until she reviewed the video that she noticed the strange something that seems to be lurking by the treeline. The strange figure sort of looks like a tall hunched-over humanoid—obvious comparisons can be drawn to Gollum from The Lord of the Rings and myriad other popular monsters—but it moves nothing like a human, appearing to almost dance back and forth too smoothly for comfort. Are there any old legends from this part of the world that fit this description? You bet there is. A classic and absolutely terrifying monster from Algonquin lore: the Wendigo. Take a look at that video and then read this description of a Wendigo from Objibwe teacher and scholar Basil Johnson:
The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Wendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody [….] Unclean and suffering from suppurations of the flesh, the Wendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption.
Yeah, I’ll take death by moose over that thing any day of the week.
I could probably take him.
Perhaps the strangest thing about this video is that, while this whatever-it-is dances like a creep at the treeline, the moose seemingly doesn’t notice or doesn’t care. Both options would be pretty bizarre. The third option is much less bizarre: there’s no strange figure there at all, just a reflection on the windshield that the video was shot through and our old friend pareidolia and the shapes thousands of fictional monsters all stuck in our brains playing tricks on us. Here’s the thing: the “strange figure” moves at exactly the same speed and with the same smoothness as the camera. If you watched that video and you feel like there’s just something a little bit off about it, I think that’s what it is. Although it may indeed have a humanoid shape, it moves like a reflection.
Maybe I just don’t want there to be a supernatural moose stalking monster, much less a real Wendigo. I admit that I’m looking forward to actually enjoying camping trips in the north country and not being wracked with crippling paranoia and fear because of my chosen path in life (although that’s just about unavoidable at this point).
Case closed, no Wendigo, I’m going to forget I ever wrote this.
Last week, To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTSA), Tom DeLonge’s public benefit corporation dedicated to seeking answers to the UFO mystery, announced that it was launching its “flagship” research project.
The Acquisition and Data Analysis of Materials, known as A.D.A.M., focuses on,
“the collection and scientific evaluation of material samples obtained through reliable reports of advanced aerospace vehicles of unknown origin.”
This material often referred to as ‘meta-materials,’ is usually a bizarre collection and amalgamation of alloys. Not found in nature, meta-materials are constructed from multiple elements to form composite metals. The various elements are arranged in patterns, often on the microscopic level, to manipulate electromagnetic waves. They can bend these waves, absorb them, enhance them and block them for a variety of purposes. Technologically, this is an important frontier that has been talked about a lot in physics.
Building an aircraft, for example, out of a specific meta-material which absorbs EM radiation would fundamentally make it invisible on radar, and even, with the right combination of elements, the naked eye. Perhaps you wanted to transmit a signal, like a radio wave. If the antenna used to transmit the signal is made out of this fancy new meta-material, you could fashion it using certain patterns of elements that would significantly enhance the signal and cast it across a great distance.
The A.D.A.M. project is suggesting that anomalous aerial phenomena, UFOs basically, seem to be leaving similar materials behind. Basically, little bits of unknown aerial vehicles are showing up. While stories and accounts of UFO debris fill the narrative, like a crashed flying saucer outside of Roswell, meta-materials seem to be the next big thing in UFO research. While there exists significant disagreement on the whole UFO meta-material thing, the project is being headed up by Dr. Hal Puthoff and EarthTech International.
Hal Puthoff
Dr. Puthoff has a long history in dealing with esoteric stuff, such as parapsychology and UFOs. That being said, he is an established scientist, educated at Stanford University, who focuses on exotic physics. While he has many critics, to any card-carrying member of the UFO community, he is a big name.
I reached out to Dr. Puthoff to ask him about how this whole relationship between EarthTech and To the Stars began. While there is a clear personal connection since he does serve as the Vice President of Science and Technology for To the Stars, it goes a little deeper than that.
He explained,
“Due to the widespread publicity that TTSA has received, individuals claiming possession of materials that might be from advanced aerospace vehicles of unknown origin have come forth and have agreed to provide them to TTSA for analysis.”
He went on to explain that EarthTech’s analytical equipment and its engineers have the requirements which fit this type of research and analysis. He stated,
“TTSA reached out to my organization, EarthTech International, to carry out the analysis on a contract basis, and we have agreed to do so…it is a very straightforward contractual relationship, and the results will be provided to TTSA for their dissemination as they see fit.”
Regardless of the facts, the UFO community has already begun to cry foul. On one side, many critics have suggested that To the Stars is running out of steam and this is just an attempt to keep the engine going a little longer. Others have suggested that this is just one big government conspiracy to collect up UFO meta-materials and hide them away from the public.
On the less conspiratorial side, the UFO community has been pretty divided over To the Stars Academy in general. While some individuals view it as an important step in the study and research of UFOs, others have already deemed it a failure. I personally have written several articles about this organization’s potential cultural impact on UFO discourse.
Looking at the overall history of UFO studies, what some call ‘Ufology,’ no single project or program has ever succeeded in solving the enigma. UFO reports in earlier decades used to involve saucers landing on protruding metallic legs in fields with strange looking men in jumpsuits collecting plant samples, or tall floating robots that blasted bright beams of light at witnesses. Modern-day UFO reports rarely, if ever, contain such tales anymore, at least in the United States. Assuming UFOs are a real phenomenon, it begs a serious question; do we even know what to look for?
Perhaps meta-materials are the modern-day interpretation of the phenomenon? It is not that flying saucers didn’t use to land, and that short jump-suited men didn’t collect plant samples, nor is it that light beam shooting robots weren’t real either. It may just be how the phenomenon manifested to the witnesses during that time. The famous psychologist Carl Jung stated that flying saucers were “a living myth.” Are meta-materials merely our current cultural interpretation of the mythological UFO mystery?
Furthermore, once we have become masters of meta-material technology, will the myths change? Everyone in the 1890’s viewed the mysterious airships in the American Midwest with their massive propellers as amazing technology. The invention of the airplane put an end to those sightings. It will be interesting to see what the UFO narrative and discourse looks like in two decades when meta-materials become more mainstream in everyday gadgets. Will people still be collecting hunks of UFO material in undisclosed desert landscapes in New Mexico, or will it be something new?
Does this mean that To the Stars, A.D.A.M. and Puthoff are engaged in a wild goose chase? No. They, like the rest of the UFO community, are simply working with what they think they know. Similarly, Puthoff’s critics make assumptions based on the data they currently have. If the UFO phenomenon teaches us anything, it is that nothing is static and, more importantly, nothing ought to be taken for granted. In other words, data changes, especially over time. While I have no idea if Puthoff and the A.D.A.M. project will be successful at finding otherworldly meta-materials, I am sure that the phenomenon will do its best to remain as elusive as ever.
I asked Puthoff if TTSA had any strange meta-materials in their possession. He responded,
“Materials with interesting claimed histories have been provided, but technical evaluation of them is yet to be carried out, so it is too early to say.”
As with any breakthrough, time is a major player. This project will either die emptyhanded or, hopefully, shed light on the UFO enigma. Whatever the case, I wish them the best of luck.
I’ll conclude with something UFO researcher Chris Wolford tells me on a weekly basis in regard to the UFO phenomenon, “a tsunami is coming.” People have been saying that for decades so I’m not holding my breath just yet. That being said, I did buy a life jacket on Amazon. You know, just in case.
UFO Moves Over Apartments In Moscow, Russia Causing Residents To Panic, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Moves Over Apartments In Moscow, Russia Causing Residents To Panic, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 1, 2018 Location of sighting: Moscow, Russia Now here is a great video report just in. This UFO cloud moved over an apartment building in Moscow a few days ago. The reason I believe this to be a UFO is; 1. This cloud rotates in a disk pattern. 2. There is an inner circle on the bottom of the UFO. 3. As the UFO moves over the building (watch in full screen mode) the cloud is billowing out or growing more clouds to hid in! Its a tremendous amount of clouds even for a volcano!
Therefore, I have to say this is 100% a UFO. Scott C. Waring News states:
In the footage, a circular cloud can be seen over a tower block. And it looks very similar to a flying saucer, rising higher in the sky. The strange object continues to move over the tower block, leaving the cameraman in stunned silence. This was captured in the Russian capital Moscow – and has sparked furious debate on social media about whether alien life has arrived. “I also spotted some weird-looking clouds in the city centre that day but I thought I imagined it,” one viewer commented. “I wonder what will happen next?!" Another added: "I've been seeing things like that on the skyline for a while now but previously they seemed a little less distinct. So does that actually mean that aliens do exist?" While a third made a chilling prediction.
UFO Disguised As Cloud Disappears in Seconds When Caught On Video, July 31, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Disguised As Cloud Disappears in Seconds When Caught On Video, July 31, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 31, 2018 Location of sighting: California, USA I love this video. The eyewitness caught an actual UFO disguised as a cloud and on video it disappeared right in front of his eyes. This UFO must be equipped with an AI telepathy radar that senses peoples emotions and thoughts, programmed to filter out certain things and react on others. Here the UFO reacted when it was caught. Notice the other clouds just sitting still, not disappearing, staying the same...because they are real unlike this one. Aliens do make mistakes. This video is 100% proof of that. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I saw the cloud and then decided to film it. As I did it completely dissipated.
Water UFO Seen In New Hampshire Lake Baffles Eyewitness, July 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Water UFO Seen In New Hampshire Lake Baffles Eyewitness, July 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 24, 2018
Location of sighting: Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, USA
This is a under water UFO is only about one meter in diameter and has the shape of a disk, which we can make out several times in the video. Water UFOs are very rare to catch, so this sighting is very exciting to me. The craft is small, but the UFO may be controlled by AI or remote controlled from light years away. The size of the object was easy to measure compared to the objects it swam past. In the close up of the disk I see a dome area, transparent so that either passengers or electronics can watch the aquatic life below the surface.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Just as I arrived for a day trip I spotted a strange splash. It was odd because of the motion. It was reminiscent of a water spout, albeit a very small one.
They built supermassive astronomically aligned temples and incredible pyramids that rival in complexity the Pyramids in Egypt. However, by 1000AD, the mysterious disappeared, leaving experts wondering what happened to them.
For centuries, scholars have proposed many theories trying to understand what happened to one of the greatest civilizations of the American continent.
What Happened to the Mayans?
Now, researchers say they’ve solved the mystery behind why the ancient Maya disappeared without a trace.
According to experts, the Maya civilization collapsed because of extreme, and severe droughts.
The Pyramid of Chichen Itza. (Shutterstock)
Based on these measurements, the researchers found that annual precipitation decreased between 41% and 54% relative to today during the period of the Maya civilization’s collapse, with periods of up to 70% rainfall reduction during peak drought conditions, and that relative humidity declined by 2% to 7% relative to today. The results are reported in the journal Science.
By the time the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, jungle vines were flourishing on abandoned massive ancient Pyramid cities built by the Maya.
In the past, scholars have suggested that the ancient Maya may have collapsed due to invasion by foreign powers, war, disease and a collapse in trade. However, scientists from the universities of Cambridge and Florida have found strong evidence that an extended period of drought caused devastating effects on this vast civilization.
To come to their conclusion, researchers studied water samples in Lake Chichancanab where the Maya were based. Experts measured isotopes of water in gypsum, a mineral that forms in lakes during times of drought.
As gypsum is formed, water molecules adhere to its crystalline structure, and this water records the different isotopes that were present in the ancient lake water at the time of its formation.
“The role of climate change in the collapse of Classic Maya civilization is somewhat controversial, partly because previous records are limited to qualitative reconstructions, for example, weather conditions were wetter or drier,” said Nick Evans, a Ph.D. student in Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences and the paper’s first author. “Our study represents a substantial advance as it provides statistically robust estimates of rainfall and humidity levels during the Maya downfall.”
Mysterious Deep Space Signal Intercepted by Astronomers May Have Been Sent By Aliens
Mysterious Deep Space Signal Intercepted by Astronomers May Have Been Sent By Aliens
One Explanation is Aliens. The other one, exploding black holes. The other one… exploding stars, exotic pulsars, magnetars… or maybe we just really don’t know.
A mysterious signal from deep space has been picked up by astronomers operating a brand-new $15 million telescope in Canada, marking one of only two dozen fast radio bursts ever detected.
The signal, commonly referred to as a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) lasted only a few milliseconds.
Astronomers say that this signal is unquestionably unique. The reason? The newly intercepted signal is the first radio emission intercepted from deep space, having a frequency below 700 MHz – the lowest frequency FRB ever recorded.
This led to the conclusion that whatever produced the signal –dubbed FRB 180725A—is very, very powerful.
Seen here is the chart of the short burst of radio waves detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope. Image Credit: Chime Experiment
Fast Radio Bursts aren’t really that common. In fact, the first such signal was spotted in 2007, and in eleven years, only two dozen similar events have been intercepted by experts.
Astronomers aren’t really sure what causes them. Some possible explanations include exploding black holes. However, some experts argue that advanced alien civilization could also be responsible for such signals.
Not long ago, we wrote about a study done by scientists at Harvard Universtiy who say that fast radio bursts, aka FRBs, might be leakage from planet-sized Alien transmitters powering interstellar probes in distant galaxies. “Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven’t identified a possible natural source with any confidence,” said theorist Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking.”
The brand-new FRB was intercepted by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope, in operation less than a year.
The Chime telescope is unique. It was built to be able to spot signals sent out when our universe was between 6 billion and 11 billion years old.
Speaking to Mail Online, Christopher Conselice, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Nottingham said that the newly intercepted FRB could help pave the way for a greater understanding of what causes FRBs.
“We don’t know their origin, they could be caused by a number of things,” he said.
“The fact the lower frequency FRB has been detected provides hope that we can understand more about where they come from and what causes them.”
“They could be caused by exploding stars, supernova, exotic stars like pulsars, magnetars, neutron stars or massive black holes at the center of distant galaxies. It could even be some other physical mechanism that we don’t yet understand.”
200 Years Ago, US President Thomas Jefferson Was Informed About a UFO Sighting
200 Years Ago, US President Thomas Jefferson Was Informed About a UFO Sighting
History: 200 Years Ago, Former US President Thomas Jefferson Was Informed About a UFO Sighting
The unidentified flying object was seen some 200 years ago. Apparently, it “assumed the shape of a turtle and then that of a human skeleton” ascending and descending rapidly, according to mail which was reprinted in 2010 in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series.
UFO alert: Letter to President Jefferson may be earliest recorded visit of ALIENS
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Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809, and he was a man who was informed about one of the first UFO sightings in the history of the United States.
More than 200 years ago, a mysterious UFO was witnessed by people in the United States.
It has now been revealed that a report about the UFO sighting was presented to former US President Thomas Jefferson.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise.
In fact, hundreds if not thousands of years ago, people all over the globe have been witnessing strange, inexplicable things in our skies.
While some of these events were explainable like weather or astronomic phenomena, some sitting s have remained shrouded in mystery.
Now, in the midst of increasing UFO sightings across the globe, and in days where UFO disclosure seems to be near, it has been revealed that 200 years ago, former US president Thomas Jefferson read a report about a UFO signing which occurred in the early days of the United States.
in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series reveals that a tavern keeper in Portsmouth, Virginia, and his friend had informed the former president about an unidentified flying object they saw hovering in the skies.
The UFO which resembled a meteor at first had the ability to ‘shapeshift’ as the UFO attained the shape of a turtle as it hovered above the sky.
“We the subscribers most earnestly solicit, that your honor will give us your opinion on the following extraordinary phenomenon. We saw in the South a Ball of fire full as large as the sun at Meridian which was frequently obscured within the space of ten minutes by a smoke emitted from its own body, but ultimately retained its brilliance, and form during that period, but with apparent agitation,” wrote the eyewitnesses in a letter written to the president, Express.co.uk reports.
This report is considered one of the first UFO reports in the history of the United States.
However, it still remains a mystery whether the former president answered to the witness statement or not.
Interestingly, this was not the first mysterious object that was brought to the attention of Thomas Jefferson.
In 1804, a report mentioning an Unidentified Flying Object was written and submitted by naturalist William Dunbar, and communicated to the American Philosophical Society by Thomas Jefferson, who at the time was the president of the Society, as well as the Vice President of the United States of America.
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A one-page notice appeared in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (Volume 6 Part1–Philadelphia, 1804– p-25)
Description of a singular Phenomenon seen at Baton Rouge, by Wikkiam Dibar, Esq. communicated by Thomas Jefferson, President A.P.S. Natchey, June 30, 1800. Read 16 January 1801.
A PHENOMENON was seen to pass Baton Rouge on the night of the 5th April 1800, of which the following is the best description I have been able to obtain.
It was first seen in the South West, and moved so rapidly, passing over the heads of the spectators, as to disappear in the North East in about a quarter of a minute.
It appeared to be of the size of a large house, 70 or 80 feet long and of a form nearly resembling Fig. 5. in Plate, iv.
It appeared to be about 200 yards above the surface of the earth, wholly luminous, but not emitting sparks; of a color resembling the sun near the horizon in a cold frosty evening, which may be called a crimson red. When passing right over the heads of the spectators, the light on the surface of the earth, was little short of the effect of sun-beams, though at the same time, looking another way, the stars were visible, which appears to be a confirmation of the opinion formed of its moderate elevation. In passing, a considerable degree of heat was felt but no electric sensation. Immediately after it disappeared in the North East, a violent rushing noise was heard, as if the phenomenon was bearing down the forest before it, and in a few seconds, a tremendous crash was heard similar to that of the largest piece of ordnance, causing a very sensible earthquake.
I have been informed, that search has been made in the place where the burning body fell, and that a considerable portion of the surface of the earth was found broken up, and every vegetable body burned or scorched. I have not yet received answers to a number of queries I have sent on, which may perhaps bring to light more particulars.
The recently found treasure trove has been described as priceless by the team of archaeologists that made the discovery.
A stunning discovery has been made in the mountains of Kazakhstan. Researchers have uncovered around 3,000 gold and precious-metal objects in a remote burial mount, hidden deep within the remote Tarbagatai mountains in Kazakhstan, local media reported.
Archaeologists described the treasure trove as ‘priceless’ Image Credit: East-Kazakhstan region/east2west
It is believed that “incalculable” treasure belonged to members of the royalty or the nobility of the Saka people, who dominated Central Asia eight centuries before the birth of Christ. Researchers recovered bell-shaped gold earrings, golden plates, buckles for clothing, chains, and necklaces with precious stones.
But in addition to the fact that the amount of item caught experts by surprise, researchers shave been left awestruck by the precision with which these jewels were manufactured.
The ‘priceless’ treasure features earrings in the shape of bells, gold plates with rivets, plaques, chains, and a necklace with precious stones. Image Credit: East-Kazakhstan region/east2west
The ancient civilization clearly had sophisticated and advanced skills in mining, or extraction, selling and jewelry making, Akhmetov explained.
“We are the heirs of the great people and great technologies,” he said.
Reports suggest that gold necklaces that decorate the clothes were made using sophisticated micro-welding techniques.
This shows great knowledge in the field of metallurgy and indicates an exceptional level for the time in terms of jewelry manufacturing skills.
This points to a highly sophisticated civilization.
According to researchers, the “steppe civilization” of the saka reached an extraordinary level, unlike anything researchers previously thought.
While experts have recovered the massive ancient treasure, they have still not found who it belonged to.
However, archaeologists expect that new excavations will reveal the owners of the treasure shortly.
Professor Zainolla Samashev, in charge of the excavations, said: “A large number of valuable finds in this burial mound let us believe a man and a woman are buried here – the reigning persons or people who belonged to the elite of Saka society.”
British Scientists Claim They Have ‘Solved’ The Mystery Of The Bermuda Triangle
British Scientists Claim They Have ‘Solved’ The Mystery Of The Bermuda Triangle
The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has baffled scientists, and captivated the public, for decades.
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The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Has Been Solved
A team of British scientists from the University of Southampton believes they have solved the mystery of how ships go missing in the Bermuda Triangle. While their theory does not account for how planes seem to disappear in the area also known as the Devil’s Triangle, it may be the first plausible explanation for one half of the mystery. The Bermuda Triangle is a parcel of ocean in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean which stretches 700,000 square km (270,271 square miles) between Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Regarded as one of the most treacherous areas on Earth to travel, the Bermuda Triangle has claimed the lives of over 1,000 people in the past 100 years.
According to Fox News, the answer they have arrived at, while not as mysterious as the “electronic fog” or “methane gas” theories, is within the realm of reality. They believe the mystery of Devil’s Triangle ship disappearances can be chalked up to a phenomena known as rogue waves. A rogue wave is the product of at least two major weather systems converging on one another from opposite directions over open water. The phenomena had been theorized long ago; however, there was never any concrete evidence of their existence until 1997 when one was caught on satellite footage off the coast of South Africa. At that time, it was no longer a tale told by mariners, and it became a reality.
Tom Latimer@Twatimer
I'm watching a doc on t.v. about the Bermuda triangle and it's well disappointing just about science and facts not the weird stuff. They are saying this big ship went missing because of a huge wave. I don't care about that just lie to me.
From the standpoint of a meteorologist, the Bermuda Triangle is the perfect cauldron to create a zone friendly for the convergence of major weather systems, which is what is necessary to create rogue waves. The region experiences storms that sweep through on a regular basis that are formed to its north and south. That alone has the potential to create a rogue wave; however, they may not be large enough to actually sink large vessels and can be chalked up to rough seas associated to the passage of any major system. The real danger lies within the convergence of systems from the north and south converging on a system coming in from Florida. That is when a rogue wave can potentially reach a height of 100 feet or more and be deadly, wreaking complete destruction on a massive ship in the space of two to three minutes.
Simulators have been created to mimic rogue waves, and the ship that was tested first against them was a replica of the USS Cyclops which disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in 1918, claiming 306 lives. For reference, the USS Cyclops was a massive Proteus-class collier that was 542 feet long, with a displacement of 19,360 long tons. When she went down, she was hauling 10,800 long tons of manganese ore, and her loss resulted in the greatest U.S.N. loss of life on a ship that was not the result of combat. In simulators, scale models of the USS Cyclops are usually overcome with water within a few minutes and sink.
Herald Sun✔@theheraldsun
It's one of the world's greatest mysteries.
But scientists now believe they have figured out why 1000 people died in the Bermuda Triangle.
As simulators can’t exactly replicate nature 100 percent accurately, stress points on models are also studied and reveal the possibility that with certain angles of impact against flat-bottom ships, such as the USS Cyclops, it would be possible for a rogue wave to snap the ship in half. Because rogue waves only last for a few minutes, ships can be overtaken prior to getting mayday calls out, and there would be no physical indicators on the surface of the ocean to indicate the anomaly ever took place.
Dr. Simon Boxall, an ocean and earth scientist, concurred that the Bermuda Triangle is the perfect genesis location for rogue waves, as reported by News Australia.
“There are storms to the south and north, which come together. And if there are additional ones from Florida, it can be a potentially deadly formation of rogue waves. They are steep, they are high – we’ve measured waves in excess of 30 metres.”
While the entire scientific community isn’t sold on the theory just yet, it is generally agreed upon that this is the most scientifically plausible reason for Bermuda Triangle ship disappearances put forth so far, as per Accuweather.
10 Pieces Of Evidence To Show Ancient Egyptians Were Guided By Aliens
10 Pieces Of Evidence To Show Ancient Egyptians Were Guided By Aliens
When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas – the idea of eternity.
Walter Cronkite
For a long time now there has been much talk about an advanced alien species being responsible for Ancient Egypt’s incredible structures, as pyramids and temples – a lot of facts have been buried away, never to be seen by the public. However some suggestions about alien life in Ancient Egypt could be evidence-based facts.
1 – Ancient alien artefacts from Egypt in Jerusalem
Exclusive artefacts found in Petrie’s former Jerusalem home may link ancient Egyptians to advanced extra terrestrial civilization
A YouTube video released by the website Paranormal Crucible purports to show ancient Egyptian sculpture artifacts originally found in the “Giza complex,” but reportedly taken away from Petrie’s Jerusalem home by representatives of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum shortly after they were found, according to the website UFO Sightings Daily.
Shepard Ambellas, editor-in-chief of the “alternative news” website Intellihub News, informs thatalien Egyptian artifacts were discovered hidden in a secret room behind the bookcase in Petrie’s house. It was rumoured that Egyptologist had uncovered evidence of extraterrestrial life and possibly history on earth before he died in 1942, and for whatever reason chose to keep his findings a secret. After the Rockefeller Museum had taken possession of the artefacts, alien enthusiasts are baffled they may never be accessible to the public.
However, Ambellas claims that some of the relics may be seen at the Petri Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in Malet Place, Camden, near Gower Street, London.
Exclusive artefacts found in Petrie’s former Jerusalem home may link ancient Egyptians to advanced extra terrestrial civilization. They include two mummified bodies less than four feet in height appear “possibly alien in nature.” The skeletal structure of the mummies has stereotypical alien “elongated heads, large eye sockets, and long spinal arms.”
2 – Who built the pyramids?
Is it possible that Egyptians used superior technology from alien visitors thousands of years ago?
With their precise measurements and alignments with celestial bodies and magnetic north, it has long been argued that our ancestors around 4,600 years ago would have been unable to physically build the ancient Pyramids of Giza.
But, one theory claims to have cracked how they did it – claiming Egyptians used superior technology from alien visitors thousands of years ago.
But added to that, the shocking theory claims they were built much earlier than our history books tell us and that it was actually about 12,500 years ago when there were no civilised human societies on the planet.
Positioning of the three Pyramids of Giza are exactly aligned with the position of the three stars in the belt of Orion, as they were in 10,500 BC.
The Ancient Aliens or Ancient Astronauts conspiracy theory claims that monuments like the great pyramids, or even Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, in the UK, could not have been created using the human technology available at the time.
So from this mystery, the theory takes the giant leap that it must have been advanced alien visitors who actually did it.
These other worldly visitors were then revered as Gods by our ancestors, who then worshiped them from these ancient monuments.
3 – Pharaohs of ancient Egypt were alien hybrids
Left:Tutankhamun / Right:Akhenaten
The latest new genetic studies suggests that a lineage of Egyptian pharaohs were subjected to wilful genetic manipulation by a technologically advanced Alien civilization – this could very well be the truth that this planet needs in confirming that designers and builders of the impressive pyramids had a very strong connection with ET beings that originated elsewhere in the universe, far far away.
It was a gentleman called ‘Stuart Fleischmann’, who is the Assistant Professor of Comparative Genomics at the Swiss University in Cairo and his team who have recently published the results of a long 7-year study that mapped the genomes of 9 ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. If proven correct, their findings could potentially change the world’s history books forever and our understanding of our place in the Universe!
Akhenaten’s wife, Queen Nefertiti, and their children depicted with similar bizarre shape elongated heads
This potentially incredible find started when Fleischmann and his team of scientists subjected the precious samples of ancient DNA to a process called Polymerse Chain Reaction (otherwise known as PCR). In the field of molecular biology this technique is often used to replicate and amplify a single copy of a piece of DNA, which gives researchers a far clearer picture of someone’s genetic fingerprint.
The most exciting thing had happened after this initial test had taken place and Eight out of nine samples had returned with rather interesting but typical results. The ninth sample belonged to Akhenaten, the enigmatic 14th century BC pharaoh and father of Tutankhamun. It was a small fragment of desiccated brain tissue which had been the source of the DNA sample of which the test was then repeated using bone tissue – but still the same results were obtained. But none of these results were coming back completely normal.
4 – Alien coins
Ancient coins prove aliens once lived openly among us centuries ago, claim conspiracists
A number of very rare coins were found by a group of people who worked on the renovation of a house in southern Egypt. One coin seems to depict a spacecraft flying above the ground while another one shows the head of anextra-terrestrial being with an extremely large head with bulging black eyes. These characteristics are commonly associated with aliens.
According to Mysterious earth.netcoins were called unique because other coins have “no images of a strange human figure.”
As other UFO hunters they believe the recent discovery points to a planned return of the alien race to Earth at some time in the future.
Conspiracy theorists suggest these coins may have been a true alien currency, and if yes, is it possible that aliens participate in foreign trades or trades in general?
Mysterious earth.net also notes that one of the coins – which have not been authenticated – has “OPPORTUNUS Adest” carved on the back, Latin for “it’s here in due time”.
Information regarding this finding is still coming out, however no experts have verified the coins are real.
5 – Ancient Egypt illuminated by electricity?
Mysterious carvings on a wall at the Dendera complex in Egypt
The most widely cited evidence that the ancient Egyptians used electricity is a relief beneath the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, Egypt that depicts figures standing around a large light-bulb-like object.
The socket is represented by what appears to be a lotus flower with a stem that runs like a cable along the bottom of the “device.” Inside the “bulb” is a snake-like line winding its way out of the lotus flower “socket.” According to supporters of the hypothesis that this depicts an electrical light, such as Erich Von Däniken who wrote “Chariot of the Gods,” the snake represents the filament of the bulb.
Von Däniken created a working model of the bulb in the laboratory which works, emitting an eerie, purplish light.
He used the same measurements, including two metal beams that look like arms stretched into the big end of the bulb, and a wire connecting those beams with the “socket” at the other end.
But where did the power come from to light the bulb in ancient Egypt?
6 – Mysterious alignment of ancient sites
There have been numerous theories that ancient structures around the globe were specifically positioned by its ancient builder’s thousands of years ago.
The sites: Giza, Siwa, Tassili n’Ajjer, Paratoari, Ollantaytambo, Machupicchu, Nazca, Easter Island, Aneityum Island, Preah Vihear, Sukhothai, Pyay, Khajuraho, Mohenjo Daro, Persepolis, Ur, Petra are shown clockwise from Giza on the equal azimuthal projection.
The projection is centered on the axis point in southeastern Alaska. Distances to any location from the center of an equal azimuthal projection are equally scaled.
Since all of the sites on the great circle alignment are equally distant from the axis point at one quarter of the circumference of the earth, the alignment forms a perfect circle halfway between the center and the outer edge of the projection.
The Great Pyramid is aligned with Machupicchu, the Nazca lines and Easter Island along a straight line around the center of the Earth, within a margin of error of less than one tenth of one degree of latitude.
Other sites of ancient construction that are also within one tenth of one degree of this line include: Perseopolis, the capital city of ancient Persia; Mohenjo Daro, the ancient capital city of the Indus Valley; and the lost city of Petra. The Ancient Sumarian city of Ur and the temples at Angkor Wat are within one degree of latitude of this line.
The alignment of these sites is easily observable on a globe of the Earth with a horizon ring. If you line up any two of these sites on the horizon ring, all of the sites will be right on the horizon ring. 3-D world atlas software programs can also draw this line around the Earth.
7 – Pyramids on Mars?
Few alleged pyramids and other ruins have been found on Mars (Image Source)
One of the most popular discoveries ever made – object of the size of the car which has a great similarity to the tomb complexes in Egypt. Some of the enthusiasts rise a question, was the ancient Egypt colonized by Mars or vice versa?
8 – 2,500-year -old Egyptian hieroglyphs in Australia
These hieroglyphs are evidence that Egyptians got around Australia, either via sailing or via space ships, or both. (Image Source)
The most mysterious and controversial site on the New South Wales Central Coast, known as the ‘Gosford Hieroglyphs’ is directly connected with history of ancient Egypt.
The glyphs site at Kariong features almost 300 engravings on two sandstone walls, which some believe are an example of an early form of Egyptian writing and have drawn widespread interest over the years.
In spite they have long been dismissed as fakes by authorities and academics since their discovery in the 1970s, there are still ongoing attempts to prove the theory they were carved by the ancient Egyptians.
Mohamed Ibrahim and Yousef Abd’el Hakim Awyan (who has studied ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs his entire life) worked with a group of people in order to translate the mysterious engravings. What was the result? Well, not only are the mysterious ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in Australia authentic, the scribes accurately used several ancient hieroglyphs and ‘grammatical’ variations which, crucially, were not even documented in Egyptian hieroglyphic texts until 2012. The specific style of hieroglyphs used also provides a linguistic time-frame that places an Egyptian presence in Australia at least 2,500 years ago, while the translated text is even so detailed as to identify the ancient scribes, by name and occupation.
Many other researchers suggest that these archaic styles contain an early form of hieroglyphics and correlate with archaic Phoenician and Sumerian writing.
9 – Lost ancient Egyptian colony in Grand Canyon
Digital painting of Jakub Kowalczy (Image Source)
Is it possiblethat Egyptian navy had crossed the Pacific or Atlantic and come to Mexico and American Southwest before written history suggests? Could they have left an Egyptian tomb in the Grand Canyon, something similar to those found in the Valley of Kings near Luxor, Egypt?
According to the Phoenix Gazette story, published on April 5, 1909, a necropolis of mummies and artifacts similar to an Egyptian tomb was found in the Grand Canyon. An explorer named G. E. Kinkaid, it was reported, uncovered a series of catacombs complete with statues, swords, vessels, and mummies in 1908 (the exact date of the discovery is not given). The article notes that the mysterious set of caverns was located in an extremely remote part of the Grand Canyon, dangerous and nearly inaccessible. The alleged site is reportedly located 2 miles away from El Tovar Crystal Canyon.
Later on the Smithsonian Institute denied all claims indicating that no record of a so-called Kincaid or Professor Jordan exists in the Smithsonian’s Department of Anthropology Washington D.C. Nobody knows what happens to the artifacts described in the article, may be Professor Jordan had just disappeared with all the records of his discovery.
On January 28, 2006 Associated Press released the story which tells that remains of well-preserved Egyptian ships were found in five cars along the Read Sea. The ships were dated to be about 4,000 years old. According to the artefacts have been recovered the scientists claimed the ancient Egyptians were “excellent ship builders” and that they had a fleet capable of sailing to remote lands.
A relief at the temple of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt, carved ca. 1480 B.C., shows a merchant ship on a trading expedition. Vessel artifacts match this depiction.
Another interesting fact that points towards ancient Egyptians traveling to the Americas or vice-versa are the mummified remains of Lady Henut Taui. The unusual mummy, examined by German scientist Svetla Balabanova, contained traces of cocaine and nicotine. This discovery became groundbreaking because cocaine and tobacco were found in America only before and were not exported until 19th century. This fact allows one to suggest that ancient Egyptians could have traveled to America more than 3,000 years ago.
10 – Extraterrestrial origin of necklace beads
The ancient Egyptians would have seen a meteorite as an offering from the gods and this suggests the jewellery may have been created as gifts for royalty or people of high standing
Research done on this piece of necklace obtained from an excavation in 1911, has confirmed it to be made from space rock! Amazing! Isn’t it!
Here is a summary of the research:
The Researchers associated with the University College London’s Petrie Museum executed detailed analysis of the necklace utilizing gamma rays.
They concluded that the beads which were originally made of iron were fabricated utilizing fragments of meteorites.
The analysis also indicated for the assessment pertaining to the process of formation of beads with the process of smithing and rolling.
The process of smithing and rolling involves hammering the rock many numbers of times so that it can be flattened and rolled to bead shaped tubes.
he most fascinating aspect about the discovery is the fact that the analysis brings you close to the fact that divine characteristics have been associate to be with the meteorite. As in accordance with Joyce Tyldesley, an Egyptologist, University of Manchester, UK-‘The sky was very important to the ancient Egyptians’.
This hypothesis was challenged in the 1980s. The academics were of the notion that the worldwide examples of iron, which was initially thought to be of meteoritic origin, were actually the result of several attempts of smelting.
In accordance with Philip Withers, Professor of Materials Science, The University of Manchester-‘Meteorites have a unique micro structural and chemical fingerprint because they cooled incredibly slowly as they travelled through space’.
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Satellite Photo Shows A Round Object Beneath Water Off Greek Coast
Satellite Photo Shows A Round Object Beneath Water Off Greek Coast
Ufologists online have come into a frenzy after the discovery of a mysterious circular shape on satellite maps of Google. They are speculating that it could be a hidden submersible off the coast of Greece.
Website Disclose.TV, which posts information about aliens and UFOs, got the people’s attention after it published the circular object online. The unidentified submersible object was reportedly viewed online through Google Maps in the Aegean Sea.
The object is approximately 220 feet long using the ruler on Google Earth for the measurement. It is not established whether the UFO has ever been seen for real or just the image as a result of an optical illusion, such as a trick of the light.
Several folks offer their suggestion as to what the satellite imagery is showing. Many of them believe that the mysterious thing is newly-found evidence that we are not alone.
One commentator says that something here doesn’t belong. They describe the find as an impressive catch and would love to hear the official excuses on this one.
A second person states that it is indeed weird as nothing in the area looks remotely like that object.
A more skeptical commenter said that the shadow underwater could be from the old pier.
However, for now, the actual cause of the bizarre shape stays a mystery. Anyone can view the location on Google Maps here.
Space Agency Observes Strange Flashes Of Light On the Moon
Space Agency Observes Strange Flashes Of Light On the Moon
Two great flashes of light were observed erupting on the dark side of the Moon. A sector of conspiracy theorists has suggested these lights could be alien UFOs.
On the nights of July 17 and 18, the Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System (MIDAS) observed the bizarre phenomena.
MIDAS observatories in Spain search the Lunar surface on a daily basis for asteroid and meteor impacts.
According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the flashes were registered almost precisely 24 hours apart, apparently in pursuit of one another.
High-sensitivity CCD cameras capture detailed photographs of the bumpy surface of the moon that show the exact moment of impact.
Both MIDAS and the ESA agree the flashes were very much extraterrestrial in origin.
The force of impact is tremendous, but current estimate suggests that the extraterrestrial objects were no larger than the average walnut.
ESA said that transient flashes such as these are hard to study and challenging to determine the cause.
Three astronomical observatories in Spain work on behalf of the MIDAS project to scan the Moon for the transient flashes. They are equipped with powerful telescopes and CCD cameras to detect and try to identify the various impacts that rock the bright orb.
MIDAS believe that understanding these lunar impacts can help protect the Earth from similar dangers.
Deep inside Brazil, there are tunnels large enough for a person to walk through. They are neatly symmetrical—too neat to have been caused by any known geologic process. And they are lined with claw marks.
These megatunnels are probably the handiwork of giant ground sloths—humongous "paleoburrows" that no longer walk the Earth. But tens of thousands of years after these megafauna did their digging, those tunnels still dot this part of South America. Discover has a great feature up about it.
Claw marks
HEINRICH FRANKS
Up until the 2000s, little was known or written about this bounty of holes. But since he came upon his first one near Novo Hamburgo, Brazilian scientist Heinrich Frank has found more than 1,500 tunnels. Frank has found burrows that measure hundreds of feet long. Scientists have discovered one with branching tunnels that, when you measure the thing in its entirety, comes in at 2,000 feet long. It had to have been dug by many creatures over generations, not by one or two giant sloths.
The big open question is, Why? The tunnels appear to be much larger than any burrowing animal would need to get away from bad weather or hungry predators. As Frank tells Discover, "There's no explanation – not predators, not climate, not humidity. I really don't know."
Next week, astronauts on the International Space Station are getting a brand new room. Called the BEAM, short for Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, the room is launching on top of one of SpaceX's rockets on Friday; it will then be attached to the ISS sometime within the next four months. The BEAM, which is created by private company Bigelow Aerospace, will remain deflated during launch, but once in orbit, it will inflate up to four times its size, providing more overall volume for the interior of the ISS.
The BEAM isn't a permanent addition to the space station, though. It will only stay attached to the ISS for two years, and the astronauts will go inside the habitat very rarely. That's because the main goal of the BEAM is to test out if this expandable habitat technology actually works. A successful mission could be the first step to something bigger: an era when expandable space habitats orbit the Earth, allowing for scientists and tourists to visit these "space hotels."
THE PATH TO BEAM
The concept of expandable spacecraft isn't new. In the 1960s, NASA launched a series of expandable communication probes called the Echo satellites, which looked like big metallic balloons. The satellites inflated in space and turned into mirror-like reflectors that bounced signals from one spot on Earth to another. Since then, NASA and other private companies have toyed with the idea of scaling up expandable spacecraft so that they could house humans in space.
ONCE IN ORBIT, THE BEAM WILL INFLATE UP TO FOUR TIMES ITS SIZE
It wasn't until recently that technology advanced enough to turn expandable habitats into a reality. In 1991, NASA temporarily pursued the idea of an expandable module called the TransHab, which could connect to the ISS. "At that point, material science had matured," Mike Gold, the director of operations and business growth at Bigelow Aerospace, told The Verge. "Basically these were materials that were sufficiently robust to provide superior protection in the space environment, yet could be folded and manipulated." In the mid-1990s, NASA scrapped the idea, but Bigelow ultimately purchased the rights to the TransHab patents and has been working on expandable habitats for over15 years.
Bigelow Aerospace
Now, for the first time, the BEAM will be tested in space. The 3,000-pound module will ride into orbit on SpaceX's Dragon capsule, which is departing on Friday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, along with an additional 1,300 pounds of food, water, and supplies for the station. During transit, the cylindrical BEAM will be about 7 feet (2.16 meters) long and 7.7 feet (2.36 meters) in diameter. Once the Dragon reaches the station, the Canadian robotic arm will remove the module from the capsule and attach it to the Tranquility node of the ISS.
Within four months of the BEAM's attachment, the astronauts will start the habitat's inflation sequence and the BEAM will expand to its maximum capacity: about 13 feet (4.01 meters) long and 10.6 feet (3.23 meters) in diameter. That provides about 565 cubic feet (16 m^3) of volume in which astronauts can move around. However, the ISS crew will only enter the habitat about three to four times a year and for a few hours each visit. During these trips, the astronauts will collect data gathered by the BEAM's five sensors, letting NASA and Bigelow Aerospace know how the module is holding up in the space environment.
THE BENEFITS OF EXPANDABILITY
Bigelow boasts that the BEAM module will add an extra layer of protection for astronauts in space. The company won't say the exact materials that make up the module, but Bigelow claims the habitat's design can substantially reduce the effects of deep space radiation, since it isn't made of metal. When cosmic rays hit metallic space structures, the collisions can produce what is known as "secondary radiation" that further harms astronauts. The BEAM should cut down on that effect, according to Gold. The module’s proprietary material is also designed to protect against space debris, though the company won’t divulge exactly how.
One of the main draws of the BEAM is that it’s relatively lightweight for a space habitat. At 3,000 pounds, it is significantly lighter than the metal Unity module on the ISS, for instance, which is made of aluminum and weighs more than 26,000 pounds. NASA was able to transport Unity and the other large ISS modules into orbit thanks to the Space Shuttle, which had a large cargo bay capable of taking upwards of 50,000 pounds into space. But with the Shuttle now grounded and NASA lacking a heavy-lift vehicle, getting such heavy objects into space isn't an option at the moment. Expandable modules like the BEAM are light enough that they can be launched on orbital rockets like the SpaceX Falcon 9 or ULA's Atlas V rocket, which can't carry as much weight as the Shuttle.
AN ADVANTAGE OF BEAM IS THAT IT REMAINS COMPACT DURING TRANSIT
Another advantage of BEAM is that it remains compact during transit. That design allows Bigelow to get very large objects into space when there is limited room on available rockets. "The fact that you don’t need as big a launch vehicle to launch it means you’re not constrained by the size of the payload," said Jim Muncy, an independent space policy consultant at the Space Frontier Foundation. Because of this, Bigelow can potentially get more overall habitat volume into space using less rocket launches. "If you have to conduct two launches to put up the equivalent volume you can do with just one expandable habitat system, it's saving you the cost of that second launch, which is a dramatic cost savings," said Gold.
Plus, the lighter and smaller a module is, the less it costs to launch that module into orbit. The BEAM itself only cost $17.8 million to build, already making it one of the more affordable modules ever to attach to the ISS. And with reusable rockets bringing down the cost of spaceflight in general, getting an expandable habitat into space becomes even less expensive. "Just as commercial launch vehicles offer more capability per dollar in terms of getting stuff into space, expandable habitats offer a cheaper way to keep people alive in space," said Muncy.
A FUTURE OF SPACE HOTELS?
Bigelow's B330 concept. (Bigelow Aerospace)
Bigelow Aerospace has much more ambitious goals beyond the BEAM: the company plans to build commercial space hotels in the future. Its next big project will be the B330, an inflatable space station that will operate in lower Earth orbit. That habitat will have 12,000 cubic feet (330 cubic meters) of interior space and could be a place for conducting scientific research, as well as a destination for future space tourists or astronauts headed to the Moon or Mars. The B330 could also potentially take the place of the International Space Station, which is currently slated to end operations by 2024. "NASA is quite clear they’re getting out of lower Earth orbit," said Gold. "The B330 system can support that transition, by at first complementing and then succeeding the ISS. It will ensure our presence in lower Earth orbit."
But a few more things need to happen before the B330 and other expandable commercial habitats become places that people can actually visit. First, people will need rides to these stations. Right now, the only way to transport people to the ISS is with the Russian Soyuz rocket. SpaceX and Boeing will begin transporting NASA astronauts to and from the space station in 2017, so it's possible these systems will be able to provide rides to a future commercial habitat like the B330.
IN ORDER FOR THESE HABITATS TO REALLY TAKE OFF, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME KIND OF RETURN ON INVESTMENT
In order for these habitats to really take off, there needs to be some kind of return on investment too. Bigelow could potentially rent out the habitats to scientists conducting research or charge super high fees to wealthy space tourists. "The utility of a module is not just based on total volume," said Muncy. "It’s based on what you can do with it." Bigelow also needs to demonstrate that its habitats can keep occupants safe once they arrive. The BEAM doesn’t have a life support system and is relying on the space station's environmental controls to keep astronauts alive when inside. Bigelow will need to demonstrate its habitats can operate with a working life support system, which the company plans to do with the B330 project.
For now, Bigelow isn't beholden to government regulations when it comes to making and operating its modules. The Federal Aviation Administration is prohibited from regulating commercial activity that happens in space until at least the year 2023, thanks to the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015. "We don’t have the in-space authority to regulate what happens between launch and re-entry, but we do care about it," said George Nield, the associate administrator for commercial space transportation at the FAA. That’s why the agency has a list of recommendations that private companies can follow for keeping people safe in space, and Bigelow has taken this advice into consideration, Nield said.
The FAA may eventually be granted more authority to regulate space operations if commercial space hotels do become a reality. And Nield believes we’ll be seeing more space hotels built over the next few decades. "We're going to see private industry stepping up and picking up some of these opportunities, especially in lower Earth orbit," he said. "There are many people that are willing to have that lifetime experience to see the planet from space."
On Sunday, Robert Bigelow — real estate mogul and founder of the space habitat company Bigelow Aerospace — did an interview with 60 Minutes, in which he touted the strengths of the commercial space industry and how private companies would pave the way for people to live in space. He also said aliens have definitely visited Earth.
Lara Logan: Do you believe in aliens?
Robert Bigelow: I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it.
Lara Logan: Do you also believe that UFOs have come to Earth?
Robert Bigelow: There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions -- I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.
Bigelow told 60 Minutes that he first became interested in aliens after his grandparents had a close encounter with a UFO outside Las Vegas once. “It really sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car,” he said during the interview. “And it took off at a right angle and shot off into the distance.”
Admitting you believe in aliens is one thing, but Bigelow seems to be no less than a true Believer. He told 60 Minutes that he’s also had “close encounters” but wouldn’t divulge any specifics. And apparently, Bigelow owns a company that has been getting referrals from the FAA about reports of UFOs and other weird activity, 60 Minutes confirmed. In fact, his fascination with aliens is the reason there’s an alien illustration on the side of Bigelow Aerospace’s headquarters in Las Vegas.
Skeptical? That’s fine. He doesn’t care about the haters.
Lara Logan: Is it risky for you to say in public that you believe in UFOs and aliens?
Robert Bigelow: I don't give a damn. I don't care.
Lara Logan: You don't worry that some people will say, "Did you hear that guy, he sounds like he's crazy"?
Robert Bigelow: I don't care.
Lara Logan: Why not?
Robert Bigelow: It's not gonna make a difference. It's not gonna change reality of what I know.
Lara Logan: Do you imagine that in our space travels we will encounter other forms of intelligent life?
Robert Bigelow: You don't have to go anywhere.
Lara Logan: You can find it here? Where exactly?
Robert Bigelow: It's just like right under people's noses. Oh my gosh. Wow.
To be fair, if aliens are already living here, I guess it doesn’t really matter if you believe in them or not. They seem to be blending in just fine. Also, Bigelow’s belief doesn’t seem to have detracted much from his success. He told Logan he’s made enough from building long-stay rental apartments to support Bigelow Aerospace, which launched its first inflatable human-rated habitat last year. The module, known as the BEAM, is currently attached to the International Space Station. Meanwhile, Bigelow Aerospace is working toward making an even bigger space station called the B330, which the company wants to send to space as early as 2020. No word yet if aliens are secretly working on the technology
Credible reports of a meteor exploding with 2.1 kiolotons of force above a US Air Force early warning radar at Thule Air Base in Greenland have surfaced.
The Air Force has been silent on the event.
NASA did provide a Tweet with data showing record of an object of unspecified size traveling at 24.4 Kilometers per second (about 54,000 MPH or Mach 74) almost directly over Thule, Greenland.
A curious and credible Tweet from the Director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, Hans Kristensen, on August 1, 2018 at 5:14 PM Washington D.C. time claimed that a, "Meteor explodes with 2.1 kilotons force 43 km above missile early warning radar at Thule Air Base."
The Tweet apparently originated from Twitter user "Rocket Ron", a "Space Explorer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory". The original Tweet read, "A fireball was detected over Greenland on July 25, 2018 by US Government sensors at an altitude of 43.3 km. The energy from the explosion is estimated to be 2.1 kilotons." Rocket Ron's Tweet hit in the afternoon on Jul. 31.
We’re still here, so they correctly concluded it was not a Russian first strike. There are nearly 2,000 nukes on alert, ready to launch.
Rocket Ron @RonBaalke
A fireball was detected over Greenland on July 25, 2018 by US Government sensors at an altitude of 43.3 km. The energy from the explosion is estimated to be 2.1 kilotons.
The incident is fascinating for a long list of reasons, not the least of which is how the Air Force integrates the use of social media reporting (and non-reporting) into their official flow of information. As of this writing, no reporting about any such event appears on the public news website of the 12th Space Warning Squadron based at Thule, the 21st Space Wing, or the Wing's 821st Air Base Group that operates and maintains Thule Air Base in support of missile warning, space surveillance and satellite command and control operations missions.
AN/FPS-132: Upgraded Early Warning radar (UEWR) - provides detection and attack warning of sea-launched ballistic missiles US Air Force
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory did provide a Tweet with a screenshot of data showing record of an object of unspecified size traveling at (!) 24.4 Kilometers per second (about 54,000 MPH or Mach 74) at 76.9 degrees' north latitude, 69.0 degrees' west longitude on July 25, 2018 at 11:55 PM. That latitude and longitude does check out as almost directly over Thule, Greenland.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed the object’s reentry on their database. JPL via Twitter
When you look at NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Program database for objects entering the atmosphere you see that, "The data indicate that small asteroids struck Earth's atmosphere - resulting in what astronomers call a bolide (a fireball, or bright meteor) - on 556 separate occasions in a 20-year period. Almost all asteroids of this size disintegrate in the atmosphere and are usually harmless." That is a rate of one asteroid, or "bolide", every 13 days over the 20-year study according to a 2014 article by Deborah Byrd for Science Wire as published on EarthSky.org.
But there are exceptions.
You may recall the sensational YouTube and social media videos of the very large Chelyabinsk meteor that struck the earth on Feb. 15, 2013. Luckily it entered the earth's atmosphere at a shallow trajectory and largely disintegrated. Had it entered at a more perpendicular angle, it would have struck the earth with significantly greater force. Scientists report that Chelyabinsk was the largest meteor to hit the earth in the modern recording period, over 60-feet (20 meters) in diameter. Over 7,000 buildings were damaged and 1,500 people injured from the incident.
What is perhaps most haunting about the Chelyabinsk Meteor and, perhaps we may learn, this most recent Thule, Greenland incident, is that there was no warning (at least, not publicly). No satellites in orbit detected the Chelyabinsk Meteor, no early warning system knew it was coming according to scientists. Because the radiant or origin of the Chelyabinsk Meteor was out of the sun, it was difficult to detect in advance. It arrived with total surprise.
Northern Russia seems to be a magnet for titanic meteor strikes. The fabled Tunguska Event of 1908 was a meteor that struck in the Kraznoyarsk Krai region of Siberia. It flattened over 770 square miles of Siberian taiga forest but, curiously, seems to have left no crater, suggesting it likely disintegrated entirely about 6 miles above the earth. The massive damage done to the taiga forest was from the shockwave of the object entering the atmosphere prior to disintegration. While this recent Thule, Greenland event is very large at 2.1 kilotons (2,100 tons of TNT) of force for the explosion, the Tunguska Event is estimated to have been as large as 15 megatons (15 million tons of TNT).
It will be interesting to see how (and if) popular news media and the official defense news outlets process this recent Thule, Greenland incident. But while we wait to see how the media responds as the Twitter dust settles from the incident, it's worth at least a minor exhale knowing this is another big object that missed hitting the earth in a different location at a different angle and potentially with a different outcome.
The Maya built one of the greatest civilizations in the Americas, and the story of their demise has fascinated people for centuries. Now, a new study reports that environmental aspects — particularly, drought — were a key aspect of their decline.
Overview of the central plaza of the Mayan city of Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico), an example of Classic Maya architecture.
Image credits: Jan Harenburg.
The first mention of a true Maya civilization hails from millennia ago, in 2000 BC. They reached the peak of their power much later, during the Classic period, which lasted up until the year 900 CE. Most Mayan cities were sprawling architectural displays, featuring dazzling palaces, pyramid-temples, ceremonial ballcourts, and structures aligned for astronomical observation. The Mayans tended to develop haphazardly, showing little concern for what the future could bring — and who could blame them? During their zenith, they controlled the entire Yucatán Peninsula and all of the territory now incorporated into the modern countries of Guatemala and Belize, as well as the western reaches of Honduras and El Salvador.
But their lack of concern was not without consequence after all. During the 9th century, their power started to decline. Their beautiful limestone cities were abandoned and step by step, the Maya civilization withdrew and quickly entered decline. There are mentions of Mayans after the year 1000 CE, but their civilization was almost completely wiped off.
The reasons for their decline are not simple — invasion, war, environmental degradation, and collapsing trade routes all had a role to play. But in the 1990s, an interesting theory emerged: after correlating the Maya decline with environmental data, researchers found a period of extended drought — long and severe enough to affect the stability of the empire built by the Maya.
“The role of climate change in the collapse of Classic Maya civilisation is somewhat controversial, partly because previous records are limited to qualitative reconstructions, for example whether conditions were wetter or drier,” said Nick Evans, a PhD student in Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences and the paper’s first author.
“Our study represents a substantial advance as it provides statistically robust estimates of rainfall and humidity levels during the Maya downfall.”
Evans and colleagues analyzed the different isotopes of water trapped in gypsum — a mineral that can form on the bottom of lakes during periods of severe drought. They found that annual precipitation levels decreased between 41% and 54% during the period of the Maya civilization’s collapse, with periods of peak drought corresponding to a 70% reduction in rainfall.
Gypsum water
In periods of drought, more water tends to evaporate from lakes such as Chichancanab, where this study was carried out. Because the lighter isotopes of water evaporate faster, the remaining water molecules (which also contain other chemicals) become heavier. A higher proportion of heavier isotopes such as oxygen-18 and hydrogen-2 (deuterium), would, therefore, indicate drought conditions. Researchers have mapped the proportion of different isotopes contained within each layer of gypsum, essentially charting the levels of rainfall over the period of the Mayan collapse.
Professor David Hodell, Director of Cambridge’s Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research and the senior author of the current paper, was the first to draw a correlation between the drought and the period of Mayan decline. He praised the gypsum-measuring methodology, saying that it leaves very little room for interpretation.
“This method is highly accurate and is almost like measuring the water itself,” said Evans.
While the circumstances that lead to the decline of the Maya are complex and drought cannot be singled out as the one big culprit yet, it does seem that at the very least, drought was an important aspect of it.
Now, researchers will try to use more localized measurements and build more precise models, to see how the drought would have affected agriculture — most importantly, the Maya’s staple crops, such as maize.
Journal Reference: Nicholas P. Evans, Thomas K. Bauska, Fernando Gázquez-Sánchez, Mark Brenner, Jason H. Curtis, David A. Hodell. Quantification of drought during the collapse of the classic Maya civilization. Science, 2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aas9871
Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth
Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth
This artist's concept depicts a planetary system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist.
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB), found that the chances for life to develop on the surface of a rocky planet like Earth are connected to the type and strength of light given off by its host star.
Their study, published in the journal Science Advances, proposes that stars which give off sufficient ultraviolet (UV) light could kick-start life on their orbiting planets in the same way it likely developed on Earth, where the UV light powers a series of chemical reactions that produce the building blocks of life.
The researchers have identified a range of planets where the UV light from their host star is sufficient to allow these chemical reactions to take place, and that lie within the habitable range where liquid water can exist on the planet's surface.
"This work allows us to narrow down the best places to search for life," said Dr. Paul Rimmer, a postdoctoral researcher with a joint affiliation at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory and the MRC LMB, and the paper's first author. "It brings us just a little bit closer to addressing the question of whether we are alone in the universe."
The new paper is the result of an ongoing collaboration between the Cavendish Laboratory and the MRC LMB, bringing together organic chemistry and exoplanet research. It builds on the work of Professor John Sutherland, a co-author on the current paper, who studies the chemical origin of life on Earth.
In a paper published in 2015, Professor Sutherland's group at the MRC LMB proposed that cyanide, although a deadly poison, was in fact a key ingredient in the primordial soup from which all life on Earth originated.
In this hypothesis, carbon from meteorites that slammed into the young Earth interacted with nitrogen in the atmosphere to form hydrogen cyanide. The hydrogen cyanide rained to the surface, where it interacted with other elements in various ways, powered by the UV light from the sun. The chemicals produced from these interactions generated the building blocks of RNA, the close relative of DNA which most biologists believe was the first molecule of life to carry information.
In the laboratory, Sutherland's group recreated these chemical reactions under UV lamps, and generated the precursors to lipids, amino acids and nucleotides, all of which are essential components of living cells.
"I came across these earlier experiments, and as an astronomer, my first question is always what kind of light are you using, which as chemists they hadn't really thought about," said Rimmer. "I started out measuring the number of photons emitted by their lamps, and then realised that comparing this light to the light of different stars was a straightforward next step."
The two groups performed a series of laboratory experiments to measure how quickly the building blocks of life can be formed from hydrogen cyanide and hydrogen sulphite ions in water when exposed to UV light. They then performed the same experiment in the absence of light.
"There is chemistry that happens in the dark: it's slower than the chemistry that happens in the light, but it's there," said senior author Professor Didier Queloz, also from the Cavendish Laboratory. "We wanted to see how much light it would take for the light chemistry to win out over the dark chemistry."
The same experiment run in the dark with the hydrogen cyanide and the hydrogen sulphite resulted in an inert compound which could not be used to form the building blocks of life, while the experiment performed under the lights did result in the necessary building blocks.
The researchers then compared the light chemistry to the dark chemistry against the UV light of different stars. They plotted the amount of UV light available to planets in orbit around these stars to determine where the chemistry could be activated.
They found that stars around the same temperature as our sun emitted enough light for the building blocks of life to have formed on the surfaces of their planets. Cool stars, on the other hand, do not produce enough light for these building blocks to be formed, except if they have frequent powerful solar flares to jolt the chemistry forward step by step. Planets that both receive enough light to activate the chemistry and could have liquid water on their surfaces reside in what the researchers have called the abiogenesis zone.
Among the known exoplanets which reside in the abiogenesis zone are several planets detected by the Kepler telescope, including Kepler 452b, a planet that has been nicknamed Earth's 'cousin', although it is too far away to probe with current technology. Next-generation telescopes, such as NASA's TESS and James Webb Telescopes, will hopefully be able to identify and potentially characterise many more planets that lie within the abiogenesis zone.
Of course, it is also possible that if there is life on other planets, that it has or will develop in a totally different way than it did on Earth.
"I'm not sure how contingent life is, but given that we only have one example so far, it makes sense to look for places that are most like us," said Rimmer. "There's an important distinction between what is necessary and what is sufficient. The building blocks are necessary, but they may not be sufficient: it's possible you could mix them for billions of years and nothing happens. But you want to at least look at the places where the necessary things exist."
According to recent estimates, there are as many as 700 million trillion terrestrial planets in the observable universe. "Getting some idea of what fraction have been, or might be, primed for life fascinates me," said Sutherland. "Of course, being primed for life is not everything and we still don't know how likely the origin of life is, even given favourable circumstances—if it's really unlikely then we might be alone, but if not, we may have company."
People claim to be healed thanks to the “Bosnian pyramids” in Visoko
People claim to be healed thanks to the “Bosnian pyramids” in Visoko
Among more than 3,000 volunteers from 62 countries who visited Visoko at their own expense in order to “dig the world’s largest mystery”, was Veronika Vranko from Slovakia. She had problems with her lungs that had only 47 % of capacity, and after the recommendation of specialists in lung diseases Peter Hajduk from Prague, she decided to visit Visoko.
She stayed several times in the tunnels of the Bosnian pyramids. Hajduk noted that her lungs are now working at 84 % capacity. She applied immediately and came to volunteer in Visoko on several occasions. Sevim Mujevia from Istanbul had a great issue with a high blood pressure that was 220/135 and there was no remedy for it. She heard about the Bosnian pyramids, went to visit and her pressure became normal – 140/90, as reported by “Dnevni list”.
“There is no doubt that the Bosnian pyramids and tunnels are demonstrating the remains of an unknown highly developed civilization. Staying in the tunnel causes strong positive effects on the emotional and physiological condition of the people. The level of energy activity shows that this is beneficial energy,” as concluded by the Russian Professor Konstantin Korotkov, the world’s leading experts on recording energy of the space and living beings. He spent several days in Visoko and explored the pyramids with the nuclear physicist from Russia Oleg Smirnov.
“This is a great discovery that can be measured with the discovery of tombs in Egypt or the pyramids of Maya’s and Aztec’s,” stated Professor Korotkov.
Many world’s experts, after a number of scientific research, declared Bosnian pyramids as the biggest healing resort in the world.
Studies that were previously conducted show that they are at least 25,000 years old and older than the Egyptian ones, which completely changes the history of civilization. Below them is still mysterious space and the lake with incredibly clear water that does not have any bacteria, algae, fungi, microorganisms, nor mud was discovered as well!
Healing powers in the tunnels of the Bosnian pyramids, how? Dr. Semir Osmanagic says that previous studies by domestic and foreign scientists showed a source of electromagnetic energy at a depth of 2,440 meters.
This summer, according to announcements, pyramids will be visited by tens of thousands of people from all over the world – some of them to see the world wonder and mystery, and others to heal.
Zijn de Bosnische piramides een plek voor genezing? Deze mensen herstelden spontaan na een bezoek
Zijn de Bosnische piramides een plek voor genezing? Deze mensen herstelden spontaan na een bezoek
Er is geen twijfel over mogelijk dat de Bosnische piramides en tunnels overblijfselen zijn van een onbekende, hoogontwikkelde beschaving. Dat heeft de Russische professor Konstantin Korotkov gezegd.
De tunnels zorgen voor zeer krachtige en meetbare effecten op de emotionele en fysiologische gezondheid van mensen, aldus dr. Korotkov.
Samen met de Russische kerngeleerde Oleg Smirnov heeft hij onderzoek gedaan naar de Bosnische piramides.
Op zijn kop
“Dit is een enorme ontdekking die vergeleken kan worden met de ontdekking van tombes in Egypte of de piramides van de Maya’s en de Azteken,” merkte de professor op.
Diverese experts hebben op basis van wetenschappelijk onderzoek geconcludeerd dat de Bosnische piramides ’s werelds grootste plek voor genezing zijn.
Recent onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat ze tenminste 25.000 jaar oud zijn, ouder nog dan de Egyptische piramides. Dit zet de geschiedenis van onze beschaving op zijn kop.
Bron van elektromagnetische energie
Ze bevatten mysterieuze ruimtes en een ondergronds meer met zuiver water zonder bacteriën, algen, schimmels, micro-organismen of modder.
Er zijn in totaal vijf piramides ontdekt. De Zonnepiramide is met 220 meter ’s werelds hoogste piramide.
De helende energie in de tunnels van de Bosnische piramides is volgens wetenschappers afkomstig van een bron van elektromagnetische energie op een diepte van 2440 meter.
Genezen
Veel mensen beweren te zijn genezen als gevolg van deze energie.
Veronika Vranko uit Slowakije had een longaandoening waardoor ze nog maar over 47 procent van haar longcapaciteit beschikte.
Ze besloot op advies van specialisten de tunnels onder de Bosnische piramides te bezoeken. En het werkte: haar longcapaciteit bedraagt inmiddels 84 procent.
Sevim Mujevia uit Istanboel had last van hoge bloeddruk. Ze las over de Bosnische piramides en besloot ze te bezoeken. Haar bloeddruk is nu weer normaal.
It’s gotten to the point where it seems as if the Chinese Communist Party mines dystopian science fiction for ideas. Of course, life reflects art and art reflects life, so it’s likely both are just making use of new technological and social developments for their own benefit. Whatever the case is, ever since Mao Zedong announced the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, China’s governing party has found new innovative ways to keep track of its citizens and more importantly, their thought-crimes.
Aside from the Orwellian Social Credit System the commies recently unveiled, a new report published by the South China Morning Post points out that Chinese surveillance has already taken a turn for the terrifying. It turns out that as far-fetched as it may seem, Chinese military and government agencies are using robotic birds to surveil citizens from the skies. Can any bird be trusted in light of this revelation?
MOVE ALONG, CITIZEN.
Disguising spy drones as birds is pretty ingenious. Do any of us really look that closely at birds flying overhead? The drones can fly high enough that they look like any normal bird, are close to silent, and even realistically flap their wings. The SCMPreports that 30 different agencies have deployed the birdbots in at least five different Chinese provinces.
Yang Wenqing, an associate professor at the School of Aeronautics at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian, worked on the team which developed the dove drone project, code-named “Dove” appropriately enough. Yang says that while the drones are still only being rolled out on a small scale, the ChiComs plan to fill their skies with flocks of the dystopian avian onlookers in the near future:
The scale is still small. We believe the technology has good potential for large-scale use in the future … it has some unique advantages to meet the demand for drones in the military and civilian sectors.
The drones have already been used in China’s restive Xinjiang “autonomous” region to keep tabs on the Uyghur people who aren’t happy that the Chinese Communist Party drew their new borders around them without asking. Great job choosing a symbol of peace as a symbol of unwanted control too, CCP.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, CITIZEN.
While it’s easy to dismiss this as another example of China’s ongoing march deeper into a dystopian sci-fi hellscape with Chinese characteristics™, it has to make you wonder next time you’re out and about: are those birds overhead really just birds? If China is filling their skies with robot spies, it’s only inevitable that other countries already are too. Who knows where else technological spies might be lurking? That creepy always-on home smart speaker you use to tell you the weather? The microphone and camera you carry around in your pocket everywhere you go? Your microwave? Inside your head?
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.
Forget hats. Wrap your whole house in tin foil, throw out all your devices, and go off grid.
Moon size UFO recorded by NASA near Earths sun, July 31, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Moon size UFO recorded by NASA near Earths sun, July 31, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 31, 2018
Location of sighting: Earths sun, SOHO images
Here is a moon size UFO near our sun this week. The UFO has several long arms, which makes me think this is a space station that wanders our solar system. Currently its near our sun because its trying to use some rare particles that the sun produces to power its craft and devices. Found in the SOHO NASA images, this UFO is just one of many per day that visit our sun. Some UFOs are many times bigger than this, yet go unreported, because...how would the public react if they knew that not only were we not alone in our solar system, but UFOs bigger than earth itself commonly passed by our planet? The public would panic, suicide rates would skyrocket, alien religions like Scientology would become powerhouses in the religious sectors, anti alien groups would form and arm themselves. And what effect would this have on financial and judicial systems of the world? There would be chaos! Therefore the governments of the world remain silent.
Ancient Underground City and Pyramid Found near Tiwanaku
Ancient Underground City and Pyramid Found near Tiwanaku
A group of archeologists from Bolivia has found an underground city dating back to pre-Inca times outside the ancient archaeological site of Tiwanaku, in the province of Ingavi, in the department of La Paz, as reported by the Bolivian Ministry of Cultures and Tourism.
“With new data obtained with the help of modern technology, consisting of precision cameras that took pictures from the air and infrared surveys, was found a pre-Hispanic citadel outside the archaeological perimeter. There, we found an underground plaza and up to two platforms of what is considered a pyramid,” wrote in a statement the Bolivian Ministry of Cultures and Tourism.
The wall of a hundred faces at Tiwanaku.
The discovery took place within the framework of the preservation and conservation works of Tiwanaku, carried out in the area with the cooperation of scientists from Japan and UNESCO.
According to experts, the excavation could take up to 50 years to reveal that what is hidden beneath the surface.
Min Culturas Bolivia@CulturasBolivia
Arqueólogos descubren ciudadela subterránea junto a centro ceremonial de Tiahuanaco
Arqueólogos descubren ciudadela subterránea junto a centro ceremonial de Tiahuanaco
El Ministerio de Culturas de Bolivia presentó una investigación que permitió conocer la superficie total del área cívico-ceremonial. Así se detectó una plaza y dos plataformas de lo que se considera...
“Excavation drilling will be carried out in the southwest and north, with the aim of confirming or delegitimizing the data obtained,” said Julio Condori, general director of the Center for Archaeological, Anthropological and Administration Research of Tiwanaku (Ciaat).
The ancient citadel of Tiwanaku, together with Puma Punku, are some of the most mysterious ancient sites in Bolivia. Home to stones and megaliths that defy logic, these two sites are a treasure trove for archeologists.
The Gateway of the Sun from the Tiwanaku civilization in Bolivia.
It is one of the main tourist destinations in Bolivia. Its main attractions are the Temples of Kalasasaya and Puma Punku, the Puerta del Sol, the Pyramid of Akapana and a series of other gigantic monoliths that were erected thousands of years ago by a mysterious people.
It is believed that its builder civilization arose on the shores of Lake Titicaca in the year 1,580 B.C., and disappeared by 1200 AD. In 1945, Arthur Posnansky estimated that Tiwanaku dated to 15,000 BC based on his archaeoastronomical techniques.
It is suspected that climatic effects and pests decimated the population.
According to the experts, one of the oldest cultures in South America, the ancestor of the Aymaras and the Quechuas, called the area their home.
If researchers confirm the new discovery, it would force us to rethink the idea that Tiwanaku was only a ceremonial center and consider it was a massive ancient metropolis, divided by several large complexes.
HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT The Parker Solar Probe, shown in this artist’s illustration, is about to go where no spacecraft has gone before: the sun. To make sure the probe can survive a dip in the solar atmosphere, engineers had to get creative in testing the technology.
APL, NASA GSFC
NASA has a mantra for preparing spacecraft to launch: “Test as you fly.” The idea is to test the entire spacecraft, fully assembled, in the same environment and configuration that it will see in orbit.
But the Parker Solar Probe, set to launch August 11, is no ordinary spacecraft (SN Online: 7/5/2018). And it’s headed to no ordinary environment. Parker will sweep through the sun’s scorching hot atmosphere for humankind’s first close encounter with the star at the center of the solar system.
“Solar Probe is a little bit special,” says space plasma physicist Stuart Bale of the University of California, Berkeley. Getting the whole kit and caboodle into a setting that simulated the sun’s energetic particles, intense light and searing heat “was deemed impossible.” Scientists had to get creative to test the technology that will touch the sun, using everything from huge mirrors to dust tunnels to reams of paper.
Taking the heat
The first order of business was to find materials that can stand the heat. The sun’s atmosphere, or corona, sizzles at millions of degrees Celsius — but it is so diffuse that it doesn’t pose much threat to the spacecraft (SN Online: 8/20/17). Direct sunlight, however, can heat exposed components to around 1370° Celsius. Two of the spacecraft’s scientific instruments, plus parts of its solar panels and its revolutionary heat shield, will be exposed to that searing sunlight at all times.
“Normal things … would melt,” says solar physicist Kelly Korreck of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass.
Korreck works on the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons instrument, known by its acronym SWEAP, which will catch the charged particles of the solar wind with a sensor called a Faraday cup (SN Online: 8/18/17). “It actually sticks around the heat shield and will be able to touch the sun,” Korreck says. “That cup is special.”
FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE Tests of the probe’s revolutionary heat shield in a huge vacuum chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center checked its ability to handle swings between hot and cold temperatures.
ED WHITMAN/JHU-APL, NASA
To build the cup and other instruments that will see the sun directly, engineers settled on three main materials — a niobium alloy called C103 that is used in rocket engines, an alloy of titanium, zirconium and molybdenum called TZM, and tungsten. Some cables carrying power to the SWEAP cup are also lined with sapphire, a good insulator at high temperatures. And the probe’s heat shield is made of two kinds of carbon-based materials.
Figuring out how each of these materials would behave in space was tricky. Engineers couldn't just use an oven to test the metals, which in heat can react with oxygen to rust or corrode. Carbon also can react with oxygen to combust. So the team had to test pieces of the instruments in airless vacuum chambers.
“Getting things hot on Earth is easier than you would think it is,” says Elizabeth Congdon of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., the lead engineer for the heat shield. “Getting things hot on Earth in vacuum is difficult.”
One way the Parker team mimicked the sun’s heat was using actual sunlight. Engineers took material samples to the world’s largest solar furnace, the PROMES facility in Odeillo, France. A series of 63 mirrors built on a hillside redirect sunlight onto an enormous concave mirror on the side of an eight-story building. That mirror then focuses the sunlight into a beam no more than 80 centimeters wide that heats materials to 3000° C inside a small vacuum chamber in a laboratory on stilts.
The beam is so hot, “you can take a two-by-four and swing it through the beam, and it burns right off,” Bale says. “Just a flash of smoke and it’s gone.” Bale leads another of the probe’s experiments called FIELDS that also needed heat testing. FIELDS is comprised of five long antennas, four of which will be exposed to the sun, that will measure electric and magnetic fields in the corona.
The SWEAP team needed an even more realistic simulator, one that would deliver intense sunlight at the angles that Parker will experience. They found an unlikely solution in IMAX film projectors, which emit light in a similar range of wavelengths to the sun.
“It took a completely custom test facility to do it,” says astrophysicist Anthony Case of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, who also works on the SWEAP instrument. He and his colleagues turned four IMAX projectors around so the lamps focused light into a small vacuum chamber, rather than spreading it across a huge screen. That gave the team the right light intensity and angles to test their instrument.
HOT HOT HOT The Parker Solar Probe team used the world’s largest solar furnace, fueled by sunlight reflected by this series of mirrors in the Pyrenees mountains in France, to test the materials used to build the probe.µ
Solar heat isn’t the only threat to the Parker Solar Probe. The region around the sun is also expected to be full of dust, left over from the formation of the planets. Scientists don’t know exactly how much dust to expect, but it’s likely to be moving almost as fast as the spacecraft, about 170 kilometers per second.
That’s a big worry for Parker’s twin telescopes, together called the Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR. One of the telescopes will be facing the direction that Parker is traveling, so it will be heading directly into the dust storm. “It can’t be protected,” says astrophysicist Russell Howard of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
Dust particles hitting the telescope’s lens leave it pocked with little craters. Only 0.6 percent of the lens should be pitted by the end of Parker’s seven-year mission, according to computer models of dust in the inner solar system. But even a few pits can skew the data, so the team wanted to minimize the damage by choosing the right glass.
Howard and colleagues tested three possible materials for the lens in a dust acceleration tunnel at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. The tunnel accelerated charged iron particles, ranging from half a micrometer to 3 micrometers wide, to speeds between half a kilometer per second to 8 kilometers per second — fast enough for the scientists to extrapolate up to the dust speeds Parker might experience.
Sapphire withstood the barrage best, but it was unclear how it would behave as a lens. The team also rejected diamond-coated BK7 glass, commonly used for space telescopes, after the coating separated from the glass and left an extra ring around the impact spot. Regular, uncoated BK7 was the winner.
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The Parker Solar Probe will use four sets of scientific instruments plus innovative self-protective measures to explore the environment near the sun. Take a tour of the spacecraft’s tech.
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Swinging the temperatures
Most of the spacecraft won’t have to worry about the dust or the sun’s extreme heat. Aside from SWEAP and FIELDS, almost everything is tucked behind the all-important heat shield.
That 2.5-meter-wide heat shield is made of carbon foam sandwiched between two carbon sheets. The whole thing is just 11.5 centimeters thick, and is coated on the sun-facing side with white ceramic paint to reflect as much sunlight as possible. Even then, that side could get as hot as 1370° C. But behind it, the bulk of the spacecraft will chill at an average of just 30° C (about 85° Fahrenheit).
“We hide in the shadows,” says solar physicist Eric Christian of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. He’s the deputy principal investigator of the Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun experiment, which will measure solar particles across a wide range of energies. His team was able to build with ordinary materials and skip the rigorous heat testing. “We’re the lucky ones.”
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER To make sure it was ready for flight, engineers tested the Parker Solar Probe, in a nearly fully assembled form, in a vacuum chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center from January to March.
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But Parker won’t always be near the sun. The spacecraft’s orbit will bring it as far from the sun as Venus, where temperatures are around –270° C. At that distance, the spacecraft that will touch the sun needs onboard heaters to keep it at 20° C. So Parker needed to be tested for cold and extreme temperature changes, too.
“We’re not just worried about hot cycles, we’re worried about hot then cold then hot then cold,” says Congdon.
In January 2018, the entire spacecraft was lowered into a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA Goddard for two months of testing. The chamber, a cylinder standing 12 meters tall and 8 meters wide, was cooled to –180° C. A radiator glowing at about 315° C represented the heat coming from the back of the heat shield — but most of that heat never reached the scientific instruments since a titanium truss holds the heat shield at a safe distance from the spacecraft’s main body. The team cycled through hot and cold several times to simulate what Parker will experience.
Another challenge was keeping the probe’s solar panels cool. “You think, obviously, you’re going to the sun, solar power makes the most sense,” Congdon says. “But solar panels don’t like to get hot.” So the panels are threaded with veins that carry water to cool them off. The water absorbs heat from the panels and carries it to radiators that release the heat into space.
The solar panels are also on a shoulder joint, so they can tuck behind the heat shield at Parker’s closest approaches to the sun. Only the last row of cells will see the sun then. “That single row of cells can produce the same amount of power as the full wing can when we’re by the Earth,” says solar physicist Nicola Fox of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the probe’s project scientist.
CHARGE ME UP Engineers used lasers to test the probe’s solar panels, which will provide energy to the craft as it orbits the sun. The test simulated the vigorous vibrations of a launch to make sure that each segment of the solar panels remained electrically connected to the spacecraft.
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Up and away
Before Parker can peer into the sun’s secrets, though, it must survive the trip to space.
The violent shaking during a spacecraft’s launch make it a tense time for scientists, even if they’ve tested all of the parts in an acoustic vibration chamber. Watching SWEAP’s vibration test “made me swear,” Korreck says. “It’s very scary to watch this thing you’ve spent 10 years on flop around as it keeps shaking more and more.”
Her team faced an unusual challenge in making Parker ready to rattle. It could not glue screws in place to prevent them from shaking loose, because epoxies would melt in the sunlight. So the SWEAP team twisted thin niobium wire by hand to tie hundreds of screws together in such a way that, if one comes loose, the others hold it in.
Launch can be a high-pressure time for the spacecraft, too — literally. Engineers initially thought Parker’s launch aboard a powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket, would subject the heat shield to a force 20 times that of Earth’s gravity, although later the team realized the launch force wouldn’t be so severe. To make sure the 72.5-kilogram shield wouldn’t bend or break, the team stacked 1,360 kilograms of paper on top of it.
Once it’s passed the final test of launching and deploying, Parker’s first scientific data should start trickling back to Earth in December. These missives will let scientists take the first step to unlocking the secrets of the sun’s superheated atmosphere and its energetic winds.
“It’s like being a proud parent. I worry that something could happen, but I don’t worry that we didn’t prepare or test her well,” Fox says. “I just hope she writes home every day with beautiful data.”
SETI Researchers Want to End the Alien-Detection Hype
SETI Researchers Want to End the Alien-Detection Hype
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
New exoplanets, like those orbiting TRAPPIST-1, are being discovered with staggering frequency.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Researchers looking for signals from technologically advanced aliens pick up countless strange pings — but so far, nothing has convinced them that a message really came from aliens.
But that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of overblown media headlines about potential alien detections. So a team of researchers pursuing the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has decided to revive a scale meant to ground these detections in reality. They shared their scale, called Rio 2.0, in a new paper that takes aim at SETI researchers and the media for irresponsible coverage of potential detections.
"It's absolutely crucial that when we talk about something so hugely significant as the discovery of intelligent life beyond the Earth, we do it clearly and carefully," lead author Duncan Forgan, a SETI scientist at the University of St Andrews in the U.K., said in a statement from the SETI Institute. "Having Rio 2.0 allows us to rank a signal quickly in a way that the general public can easily understand, and helps us keep their trust in a world filled with fake news." [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens]
The new study builds on a similar effort, called theRio Scale, which was developed in 2000 and was presented at the 51st International Astronautical Congress held in Rio de Janeiro the next year. But since the original scale was developed, SETI scientists have decided that the evaluation needed some updating, particularly given the breakneck pace of online media.
The new version of the scale creates the same output: a score ranging from 0 to 10 meant to convey the importance of a signal detection, with 0 representing a detection of no importance and 10 indicating one of extraordinary importance.
But the new research proposes tweaking the way that score is calculated to try to make it a better representation of the factors that determine a detection's true significance and to make the tool easier for scientists to use to evaluate their own signals and those of their colleagues. That initial score is then meant to be revised as additional data are gathered, the researchers explained.
The co-authors of the new research, who include some of the same people behind the 2001 scale, hope that reviving the scale will help the public and the media evaluate the importance of a signal — sort of like the alien equivalent of the Richter scale, co-author Jill Tarter, a SETI researcher based at the SETI Institute, said in the statement.
"The SETI community is attempting to create a scale that can accompany reports of any claims of the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence and be refined over time as more data become available," Tarter said. "This scale should convey both the significance and credibility of the claimed detection."
The research was described in a paper published July 24 in the International Journal of Astrobiology, and the researchers have set up an online calculatorto produce the scores.
So far, the scientists wrote, the majority of the detections they've run through the calculator have come back with a score of 0, which means it's still much too early to get excited about alien communications.
Today, scientists know that there are millions, perhaps billions of planets in the universe that could sustain life. So, in the long history of everything, why hasn't any of this life made it far enough into space to shake hands (or claws … or tentacles) with humans? It could be that the universe is just too big to traverse.
It could be that the aliens are deliberately ignoring us. It could even be that every growing civilization is irrevocably doomed to destroy itself (something to look forward to, fellow Earthlings).
Or, it could be something much, much weirder. Like what, you ask? Here are nine strange answers that scientists
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1. The aliens are hiding in underground oceans.
If humans hope to converse with ET, we'll need to have a few icebreakers handy. No, seriously — alien life is probably trapped in secret oceans buried deep inside frozen planets.
Subsurface oceans of liquid water slosh beneath multiple moons in our solar system and may be common throughout the Milky Way, astronomers say. NASA physicist Alan Stern thinks clandestine water worlds like these could provide a perfect stage for evolving life, even if inhospitable surface conditions plague those plants. "Impacts and solar flares, and nearby supernovae, and what orbit you're in, and whether you have a magnetosphere, and whether there's a poisonous atmosphere — none of those things matter" for life that's underground, Stern told Space.com.
That's great for the aliens, but it also means we'll never be able to detect them just by glancing at their planets with a telescope. Can we expect them to contact us? Heck, Stern said — these critters live so deep, we can't even expect them to know that there's a sky over their heads.
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2. The aliens are imprisoned on "super-Earths."
No, "super-Earth" is not Captain Planet's dorky cousin. In astronomy, the term refers to a type of planet with a mass up to 10 times greater than Earth's. Star surveys have turned up oodles of these worlds that could have the right conditions for liquid water. This means alien life could conceivably be evolving on super-Earths all over the universe.
Unfortunately, we'll probably never meet these aliens. According to a study published in April, a planet with 10 times Earth's mass would also be subject to 2.4 times Earth's gravity — and overcoming that pull could make rocket launches and space travel near impossible.
"On more-massive planets, spaceflight would be exponentially more expensive," study author Michael Hippke, a researcher affiliated with the Sonneberg Observatory in Germany, previously told Live Science. "Instead, [those aliens] would be to some extent arrested on their home planet."
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3. We're looking in the wrong places (because all aliens are robots).
Humans invented the radio around 1900, built the first computer in 1945 and are now in the business of mass-producing handheld devices capable of making billions of calculations per second. Full-blown artificial intelligence may be right around the corner, and futurist Seth Shostak said that's reason enough to reframe our search for intelligent aliens. Simply put, we should be looking for machines, not little green men.
"Any [alien] society that invents radio, so we can hear them, within a few centuries, they've invented their successors," Shostak said at the Dent:Space conference in San Francisco in 2016. "And I think that's important, because the successors are machines."
A truly advanced alien society may be completely populated by super-intelligent robots, Shostak said, and that should inform our search for aliens. Instead of focusing all our resources on finding other habitable planets, perhaps we should also look to places that would be more attractive to machines — say, places with lots of energy, like the centers of galaxies. "We're looking for analogues of ourselves," Shostak said, "but I don't know that that's the majority of the intelligence in the universe."
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4. We've already found aliens (but are too distracted to realize it).
Thanks to pop culture, the word "alien" probably makes you envision a spooky humanoid with a big, bald head. That's fine for Hollywood — but these preconceived images of E.T. could sabotage our search for alien life, a team of psychologists from Spain wrote earlier this year.
In a small study, the researchers asked 137 people to look at pictures of other planets and scan the images for signs of alien structures. Hidden among several of these images was a tiny man in a gorilla suit. As the participants hunted for what they imagined alien life to look like, only about 30 percent noticed the gorilla man.
In reality, aliens probably won't look anything like apes; they may not even be detectable by light and sound waves, the researchers wrote. So, what does this study show us? Basically, our own imagination and attention span limit our search for extraterrestrialsy. If we don't learn to broaden our frames of reference, we could miss the gorilla staring us in the face.
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5. Humans will kill all the aliens (or already have).
The closer we get to finding aliens, the closer we get to destroying them. That's one likely eventuality, anyway, said theoretical physicist Alexander Berezin.
Here's his thinking: Any civilization capable of exploring beyond its own solar system must be on a path of unrestricted growth and expansion. And as we know on Earth, that expansion often comes at the expense of smaller, in-the-way organisms. Berezin said this me-first mentality probably wouldn't end when alien life is finally encountered — assuming we even notice it.
"What if the first life that reaches interstellar-travel capability necessarily eradicates all competition to fuel its own expansion?" Berezin wrote in a paper posted in March to the preprint journal arXiv.org. "I am not suggesting that a highly developed civilization would consciously wipe out other life-forms. 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." (Whether humans are the ants or the bulldozers in this scenario remains to be seen.)
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6. The aliens triggered climate change (and died).
When a population burns through resources faster than its planet can provide them, catastrophe looms. We know this well enough from the ongoing climate-change crisis here on Earth. So, isn't it possible that an advanced, energy-guzzling alien society might run into the same issues?
According to astrophysicist Adam Frank, it's not only possible but extremely likely. Earlier this year, Frank ran a series of mathematical models to simulate how a hypothetical alien civilization might rise and fall as it increasingly converted its planet's resources into energy. The bad news is that in three out of four scenarios, the society crumbled and most of the population died. Only when the society caught the problem early and immediately switched to sustainable energy did the civilization manage to survive. That means that, if aliens do exist, the odds are pretty high they'll destroy themselves before we ever meet them.
"Across cosmic space and time, you're going to have winners — who managed to see what was going on and figure out a path through it — and losers, who just couldn't get their act together, and their civilization fell by the wayside," Frank said. "The question is, which category do we want to be in?"
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7. The aliens couldn't evolve fast enough (and died).
File another excuse under "the aliens are dead already" category. The universe may be teeming with hospitable planets, but there's no guarantee they'll stay that way long enough for life to evolve. According to a 2016 study from Australia National University, wet, rocky planets like Earth very unstable when they start their careers; if any alien life hopes to evolve and thrive on such a world, it has a very limited window (a few hundred million years) to get the ball rolling.
"Between the early heat pulses, freezing, volatile content variation and runaway [greenhouse gases], maintaining life on an initially wet, rocky planet in the habitable zone may be like trying to ride a wild bull — most life falls off," the study authors wrote. "Life may be rare in the universe not because it is difficult to get started, but because habitable environments are difficult to maintain during the first billion years.
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8. Dark energy is splitting us apart
The universe is expanding. Slowly but surely, galaxies are moving farther apart, with distant stars appearing dimmer to us, all thanks to the pull of a mysterious, invisible substance that scientist call dark energy. Scientists speculate that within a few trillion years, dark energy will stretch the universe so much that Earthlings will no longer be able to see the light of any galaxies beyond our closest cosmic neighbors. That's a scary thought: If we don't explore as much of the universe as possible before then, such investigations may be lost to us forever.
"The stars become not only unobservable, but entirely inaccessible," Dan Hooper, an astrophysicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, wrote in a study earlier this year. That means we're on a serious deadline to find and meet any aliens out there — and to keep a step ahead of dark energy, we'll have to expand our civilization into as many galaxies as we can before they all drift away.
If you left your house today, you saw an alien. The woman delivering mail? Alien. Your next-door neighbor? Nosy alien. Your parents and siblings? Aliens, aliens, aliens.
At least, that's one implication of the fringe astrobiology theory called the "panspermia hypothesis." In a nutshell, the hypothesis says that much of the life we see on Earth today didn't originate here but was "seeded" here millions of years ago by meteors carrying bacteria from other worlds.
Proponents of this theory have variously suggested that octopi, tardigrades and humans were seeded here from other parts of the galaxy — but unfortunately, there's no real evidence to back up any of that. One big counterargument: If bacteria carrying human DNA evolved on another nearby planet, why haven't we found traces of humanity anywhere besides Earth? Even if this hypothesis turns out to be plausible, it still doesn't help us answer Fermi's nagging question … Where is everybody?
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NASA moon landing SHOCK: Secret Apollo 11 tapes recovered after 49-years
NASA moon landing SHOCK: Secret Apollo 11 tapes recovered after 49-years
NASA will celebrate the 49th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing this month and to mark the occasion, hundreds of never-before-heard audio tapes have been dug out from the US space agency's vaults.
NASA made history on July 20, 1969, when it successfully landed two humans on the surface of the moon and returned them back home.
The entire world witnessed the moment astronaut Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon through their TV sets, holding their breaths as he uttered: “One small step for man.”
But researchers at the University of Texas, Dallas (UT Dallas), have now released hundreds of audio clips recorded during the eight-day and three-hour mission.
The tapes which until now have been under lock and key in special climate-controlled vaults reveal the candid conversations held between the Apollo 11 astronauts and Mission Control in Houston.
The Apollo 11 mission blasted off from Earth with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on July 16, 1969, before splashing back down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24.
During this monumental trek to the moon, hundreds of audio conversations were beaming back and forth between the astronauts and NASA over so-called communication loops.
Until now, the recordings of the behind-the-scenes stuff and discussions over technical systems were kept locked away.
But a collaborative effort between NASA and UT Dallas has painstakingly recovered and digitised more than 19,000 hours of audio which are now available to hear online.
Moon landing SHOCK: Secret Apollo 11 tapes have been revealed to the public
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NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two men on the moon (Image: NASA)
Hidden among the audio recordings are gems such as Buzz Aldrin asking Mission Control to turn the Earth around for a better view.
He can be heard saying over the static: “Hey Houston, I thought you could turn the Earth a little bit so we can get a little bit more than just water?”
To which Mission Control replies: “Roger and I don’t think we have much control over that. Looks like you will have to settle for the water.”
Greg Wiseman, the project’s lead audio engineer for NASA Johnson’s Communications and Public Affairs Office, revealed the incredible effort to restore the tapes began in late 2013 before completion in early 2018.
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He said: “It was a such a daunting task, so many challenges, so many problems to solve.”
Houston, I thought you could turn the Earth a little bit
Buzz Aldrin, NASA astronaut
Mr Wiseman said the challenge was only made possible by the many people who cared about preserving the history of the moon landing and finding a way of sharing it with the public.
Each of the audio tapes uploaded online comes with a transcription of the various voices coming through on the intercoms.
One tape recorded around the lunar landing module’s fuel venting phase reads: “Roger, we read you five by five here.
“Yeah he has landed. Tranquility Base Eagle is at Tranquility, over.”
NASA kept track of the moon landing audio recordings
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Another audio clip from the moment of moon landing follows an exchange between Mr Collins and Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
In the clip, Mr Lovell says: “This is Jim, Mike. Backup crew is still standing by. I just wanted to remind you that the most difficult part of your mission is going be after recovery.”
To which Mr Collins relies: “Well, we’re looking forward to all parts of it.”
The videographer, who asked to remain anonymous said: 'It's pure luck that the UFO came into the picture while I was zooming in on the edges.
'I was doing a closeup of the Moon. I typically like to zoom in on the craters and the edges of it.'
The video was shot in the U.S. city of Trenton in New Jersey and posted online.
The video was shot in the U.S. city of Trenton in New Jersey and posted on Youtube but skeptics were quick to justify the bizarre sighting caught on camera
Some posted the metallic object was merely falling ice from a plane, and others suggested a meteor or space debris
But skeptics were quick to justify the bizarre sighting capture on camera.
Some posted the metallic object was merely falling ice from a plane, and others suggested a meteor or space debris.
But the videographer said: 'I think it's the International Space Station (ISS),
The object whizzes across the face of the moon for five seconds and abruptly vanishes
'Based on what I see on Google search, it's the explanation that makes the most sense.'
Travelling at 17,227mph, and at an altitude of between 205 miles and 255 miles, the space station orbits earth 15.5 times a day.
The ISS experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets per day and appears as a slow-moving bright dot from the ground.
What have Egyptian Experts said about Bosnian Pyramids?
What have Egyptian Experts said about Bosnian Pyramids?
It’s almost 10 years since the first visit of a team of leading Egyptian experts to the Bosnian pyramids.
Prof. dr. Nabil Swelim, a triple doctor of archeological science and founder of four pyramids in Egypt, Dr. Ali Barakat, who worked in Egypt’s Public Administration for Underground Wealth, Prof. dr. Mona Aly, the head of the Conservationist Department of the Archeological Faculty of the University of Cairo, and Prof. dr. Hamed El Haweli, an Egyptologist from the University of Cairo, visited the first European pyramids in the summer of 2017.
After a week-long visit to all archeological locations in Visoko, their conclusion is unanimous: “The Bosnian Sun Pyramid is the largest pyramid in the world and the world will know Bosnia as a land of pyramids. The prime minister of the Federation, the prime minister of the Zenica-Doboj Canton and the mayors of Sarajevo and Visoko met with them. The Minister for Culture, who did everything he could to stifle the project of exploring the pyramids, and the members of the Commission for National Memorials, who three times expanded the protective zone around the Bosnian Sun Pyramid and, therefore, made further exploration by the Foundation “Archeological Park: Bosnian Sun Pyramid” impossible, refused to meet the team.”
The head of Egypt’s Supreme Council for Antiquities stopped the international promotion of the Bosnian pyramids. Geologist Ali Barakata was dismissed after his return from BiH and Dr. Swellim was threatened with the loss of his pension if he continued to support the project.
Despite the efforts of domestic and international archeologists and historians, the Bosnian pyramids became the most active archeological location in the world at which each year, several hundred volunteers from across the world work, which many world renown experts visits and tens of thousands of guests from all continents come to visit.
UFOs: I KNOW WHAT I SAW - 2017 Best UFO HD Movie UFOTV®
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The most credible UFO witnesses from around the world tell stories that challenge reality in I KNOW WHAT I SAW, a documentary guaranteed to change the way we see the universe. Director James Fox brings together the testimony of Air Force generals, astronauts, military and commercial pilots, government and FAA officials from seven countries; their accounts reveal the reasons those involved at the highest levels have chosen government secrecy over public disclosure in I KNOW WHAT I SAW here on UFOTV®.
Egyptologen erkennen het bestaan van de Bosnische piramides. Kijk hoe ze vervolgens worden aangepakt door het establishment
Egyptologen erkennen het bestaan van de Bosnische piramides. Kijk hoe ze vervolgens worden aangepakt door het establishment
De Bosnische piramides worden inmiddels al zo’n 10 jaar bezocht door egyptologen. Afgelopen zomer reisden professor Nabil Swelim, geoloog Ali Barakat, professor Mona Aly van de Universiteit van Caïro en professor Hamed El Haweli van de Universiteit van Caïro af naar de Europese piramides.
Een week lang bezochten ze alle locaties in Visoko en hun conclusie luidt als volgt:
“De Bosnische Zonnepiramide is de grootste piramide ter wereld en de wereld zal Bosnië leren kennen als het land van de piramides.”
Dwarsbomen
De minister van Cultuur doet er ondertussen alles aan om het onderzoek naar de piramides te dwarsbomen, schrijft de krant Sarajevo Times.
Zo is de beschermde zone rond de Zonnepiramide uitgebreid, waardoor verder onderzoek onmogelijk is geworden.
De minister weigerde met het team te spreken.
Ontslagen
Ook de Egyptische Hoge Raad voor Oudheden belemmert het onderzoek, aldus de krant.
Dr. Barakat werd na het bezoek ontslagen en dr. Swellim kreeg te horen dat hij zijn pensioen vaarwel kon zeggen als hij het project zou blijven steunen.
De piramides zijn inmiddels bezocht door vele gerenommeerde experts. Ieder jaar trekken ze tienduizenden bezoekers van over de hele wereld en melden zich honderden vrijwilligers aan die willen meehelpen bij opgravingen.
WAAROM WORDT ER INEENS WATER ONTDEKT OP MARS? ( VIDEO )
WAAROM WORDT ER INEENS WATER ONTDEKT OP MARS? ( VIDEO )
Enkele dagen geleden stonden er uitgebreide verhalen in de media over dat wetenschappers ontdekt hebben dat er zich water bevindt op de planeet Mars.
Aangezien water ongeveer synoniem is aan leven, is hiermee alweer een stap gezet naar de volledige bekendmaking van buitenaards leven.
Er lijkt de laatste tijd een soort versnelde programmering van de bevolking plaats te vinden, waarbij ze op allerlei mogelijke manieren vertrouwd worden gemaakt met het concept "leven buiten onze planeet".
Ook worden er met de regelmaat van de klok nu plots nieuwe planeten ontdekt waar leven mogelijk zou kunnen zijn en als klap op de vuurpijl wordt ineens bekendgemaakt dat er daadwerkelijk water is gevonden op Mars.
Of liever gezegd: ónder Mars. Rivieren of watervallen zijn er namelijk niet aan het Marsoppervlak, en een verstild bergmeer of een ruige oceaan zoek je er ook tevergeefs. Het Marswater dat is ontdekt bevindt zich onder het oppervlak. Om precies te zijn: op 1,5 kilometer onder de zuidelijke poolkap van de planeet. Daar ligt een ijzingwekkend koud en aardedonker meer met een lengte van pakweg 20 kilometer.
Op aarde is ‘water’ zo’n beetje synoniem aan ‘leven’. De vondst van het ondergrondse meer zal dan ook ongetwijfeld leiden tot nieuwe speculaties over micro-organismen op Mars. Oké, die zijn nog steeds niet gevonden, maar de ontdekking van een grote, stabiele watermassa vormt in elk geval een belangrijk stukje in de legpuzzel van de speurtocht naar leven op de rode planeet. Mars leek een paar miljard jaar geleden veel meer op de aarde dan nu, met zeeën en oceanen aan het oppervlak – wie weet is er in dat verre geologische verleden ooit leven ontstaan.
Nadat door de jaren heen alle bewijs van leven op Mars dat is opgedoken systematisch door NASA is genegeerd, wordt nu ineens deze schokkende ontdekking "zomaar" bekendgemaakt.
Ongeveer een maand geleden schreven wij een artikel met de titel: “Wordt binnenkort leven op Mars bekendgemaakt?” en dat lijkt nu aardig profetisch in het licht van de zeer recente “ontdekking” van water.
In dat artikel stond onder andere het volgende:
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 organisch leven was aangetroffen op Mars.
Dat al dit soort dingen nu gebeuren is geen toeval. Het hoort allemaal bij de programmering van de bevolking richting de New World Order, de centrale regering van deze planeet.
Om dat te kunnen bewerkstelligen moet de wereldbevolking klaargestoomd worden om dit concept te willen accepteren. Onderdeel van dat acceptatieproces is het creëren van vijanden buiten onze planeet.
Bijkomend voordeel van een buitenaardse vijand is dat er wederom vele miljarden dollars belastinggeld gebruikt kunnen worden om het altijd hongerige militair-industrieel complex te voeden.
Tegelijkertijd kan er worden begonnen met het witwassen van de geheime ruimtevloot, waardoor het zal lijken dat de mensheid opeens geweldige technologische sprongen vooruit gaat maken.
En of deze nieuwe vijand bekend zal worden via het beruchte Project Bluebeam of op een andere manier is op dit moment nog niet duidelijk. Wel is heel duidelijk dat er nu snel stappen worden gezet om de mensheid vertrouwd te maken met het concept buitenaards leven. Een concept dat al veel langer bestaat dan de mensheid op deze aarde.
Nog steeds worden er iedere dag opnieuw ontdekkingen gedaan door amateurspeurders op beelden die zijn vrijgegeven door NASA. En al poetsen ze nog zo snel, de waarheid achterhaalt hen wel, want ze slagen er nooit in om alle sporen helemaal uit te wissen.
The mystery of who brought at least some of the stones to Stonehenge may have been resolved by researchers who have unlocked another mystery … who is buried at Stonehenge? It turns out some of them weren’t from the immediate area – they were from …
Not so fast. Let’s look first at the fine forensic footwork done by researchers from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, the University of Oxford and other universities. They were taking yet another look at the cremains (cremation remains) buried at Stonehenge about 5,000 years ago and first discovered in the 1920s in what are now known as the Aubrey holes. The cremains found there covered with a bluestone were later reburied in one Aubrey hole and eventually re-excavated in 2008. Those cremains contained 25 bone fragments from skulls that were radiocarbon-dated to at least 3180 BCE, centuries before the first stones were erected. Who did they belong to?
Enter Christophe Snoeck, co-author of the study published in Nature Scientific Reports, and budding forensic analyst. He knew that strontium isotopes in bones can reveal where a person lived, but it has long been believed that cremation destroys these isotopes. Hoping to prove otherwise, Snoeck obtained a pig’s foot and shoulder from a local butcher and built a barbecue hog funeral pyre in a college backyard. While the heat, which reached 1000 C (1832 F), destroyed the parts that normally supplied isotopes (like tooth enamel), it crystallized the bone and sealed some usable isotopes inside.
“As a chemical engineer in love with archaeology, this looked like the perfect challenge. Cremation indeed destroys all organic matter including DNA, but the inorganic matter survives. Clearly when it comes to light chemical elements such as carbon and oxygen these are heavily altered, but for heavier elements such as strontium – about seven times heavier than carbon – no alteration was observed. On the contrary, thanks to the high temperatures reached, the structure of the bone is modified, making the bone resistant to post-mortem exchanges with the burial soil.”
Brilliant! The Guardianreports that Snoeck and his team were then allowed to test the cremains and determined that at least ten of the people they belonged to came from … drum roll please … west Wales and surrounding areas over 100 miles away. If you’re into connecting dots, west Wales is the location of the Preseli Hills where Stonehenge’s bluestones were quarried. Could these be the people who dragged them to Wiltshire?
“Finally, the results suggest that at least some ‘non-local’ individuals were cremated away from Stonehenge, and that their cremated remains were brought to the site for burial, perhaps in conjunction with the raising of the bluestones.”
Study co-author Dr. Rick Schulting thinks these were not the stone haulers but very important people brought to Stonehenge for burial.
“Being buried at Stonehenge is the ancient equivalent of being interred in Westminster Cathedral today.”
The researchers are hoping to now conduct similar strontium isotope tests on other Stonehenge cremains. In the meantime, let’s not forget to honor the pigs who provided the bones that made this discovery possible.
My recent article on Mothman and a controversial story that appeared in a 2014 edition of Soldier of Fortune prompted a few comments here at Mysterious Universe. It also prompted one person to message me at Facebook, asking how I felt this impacts on the story of the ultimate “Grinning Man,”Indrid Cold, who – while not directly connected to the Mothman saga – has certainly become a part of the overall puzzle. Well, the fact is that it doesn’t – at least not directly. But, with the matter of Cold having been brought up, I thought I would share with you the strange story of the man himself (if, indeed, he was a man), and from someone who has lived in the area all her life. Last year, paranormal investigator Susan Sheppard very generously prepared for me an extensive paper on Mothman, Indrid Cold, and much more. So, with that all said, I will now hand you over to Susan, to tell the controversial-but fascinating tale of Indrid Cold:
His name was Woodrow Derenberger, but everyone called him “Woody.” It was shortly after 6 p.m. in the evening, when Woody Derenberger was driving home from his job as a sewing machine salesman at J.C. Penny’s in Marietta, Ohio to his farmhouse in Mineral Wells, West Virginia. The ride home was overcast and dreary. It was misting a light rain.
As Derenberger came up on the Intersection of I-77 and Route 47, he thought that a tractor trailer truck was tailgating him without its lights on, which was unnerving, so he swerved to the side of the road and much to his surprise, the truck appeared to take flight and seemed to roll across his panel truck. To his astonishment, what Derenberger thought was a truck was a charcoal colored UFO without any lights on. It touched down and then hovered about 10 inches above the berm of the road. Much to Derenberger’s surprise a hatch opened and a man stepped out looking like “any ordinary man you would see on the street – there was nothing unusual about his appearance.”
Except the man was dressed in dark clothing and had a “beaming smile.” As the man proceeded to walk toward Derenberger’s panel truck the “craft” jetted up to about 40 feet in the air where it floated above the highway. What happened next was unsettling, because as the darkly-dressed man came up toward the vehicle Woody Derenberger heard the words, “Do not be afraid, I mean you no harm, I only want to ask you a few questions.” Derenberger did become afraid because as the man spoke to Woodrow his lips did not move. The man then moved to the opposite of the truck and told Derenberger to roll down his window so they could talk better, which he did. Next what formed in Derenberger’s mind were the words, “Now you can speak, or you can think… it makes no difference, I can understand you either way,” … this is what the dark man said.
Later, when Derenberger was questioned on local live television, he was scrutinized over what seemed a contradiction because if the dark man communicated through a type of mental telepathy, why would Derenberger need to roll down his window to talk? Wouldn’t it be easier just to talk mentally?
Woodrow Derenberger explained it was because Indrid Cold wanted to look directly at him as they spoke and he felt that, really, Cold wasn’t so interested in what was said but more interested in keeping up a communication with him. To Derenberger, that seemed the entire point of it all. Derenberger also noted that when Cold stared into his eyes, it was as if he knew everything about Woodrow Derenberger, and also, if he could only let go of his fear and do the same, he felt he would also know and understand all about Cold. In any event, Cold spoke through the passenger side window the entire time.
The physical description of Cold was commonplace. Derenberger described him as about 35 years of age, having a trim build, was about six feet tall, 185 pounds with dark eyes and dark hair slicked straight back. Cold wore a long dark coat and beneath the coat Woodrow Derenberger was able to glimpse the fabric of his “uniform” that glistened beneath the coat. He also described Cold as having a “tanned complexion.” Throughout the conversation Cold kept a frozen smile and curiously hid his hands beneath his armpits most of the time.
Cold did, however, point at the city lights above the distant hills of Parkersburg and asked Mr. Derenberger, “What do you call that over there?” Derenberger said, “Why, that’s Parkersburg and we call that a city.” Cold responded, “Where I come from we call it a gathering.” Cold later added the curious statement that “I come from a place less powerful than yours.” As the men talked cars passed under the craft which drifted above the road. The occupants were seemingly unaware of the spaceship being there. After all, there were no lights that could be seen. Cold then asked about Parkersburg, “Do people live there or do they work there?”
Parkersburg
Woody Derenberger answered, “Why, yes, people live and work there.” Cold interjected “Do you work, Mr. Derenberger?” (Woodrow told Cold his name as the conversation began)
Derenberger answered, “I am a salesman. That’s what I do. Do you have a job?” Cold answered, “Yes. I am a searcher.”
After that the conversation became mundane. Cold seemed to notice Woodrow Derenberger was scared and commented on it. Mr. Derenberger claimed Cold asked him, “Why are you so frightened? Do not be afraid. We mean you no harm. You will see that we eat and bleed the same as you do,” and then added an emotive note, “We only wish you happiness” which Cold said to the frightened man more than once.
While Mr. Derenberger was being interviewed on live television on WTAP-TV, he attributed this puzzling statement to Indrid Cold, “At the proper time, the authorities will be notified about our meeting and this will be confirmed.” The entire conversation took between five and ten minutes and then Indrid Cold looked inside Woody’s car with his ever-present smile, and said, “Mr. Derenberger, I thank you for talking to me. We will see you again.”
He ended the conversation with “We will see you again” and as soon as he did the spaceship immediately came back down, floated about 10 inches off the road. A hatch opened and a human arm extended pulling Cold up into the craft. The ship then jetted up into the air about seventy-five feet, made a fluttering noise and then shot away at a very high rate of speed. For a few moments, Woodrow Derenberger sat stunned. Finally, he started up his car and drove to his farmhouse in Mineral Wells where his wife met him at the door. By now it was shortly before 7:00 o’clock.
Mrs. Derenberger met her husband at the door. She later said that Woodrow “could not have been any whiter if he had been lying in a coffin.” The stories vary but from Mr. Derenberger’s account his wife is the one who called the West Virginia State police, or at least she dialed the phone. Woodrow Derenberger gave them a brief report of what he claimed to have happened. It is interesting to note that in the initial report, Derenberger called the alien “Cold,” but did not mention “Indrid” until later.
The next day Derenberger attempted to go back to work but was sidetracked when he agreed to a live television interview about his experience on the previous night with a UFO with WTAP-TV the NBC affiliate in Parkersburg, housed in a small building not much bigger than a garage. The interview took place shortly before noon where Woodrow Derenberger was grilled by veteran reporter Glenn Wilson and city Police Chief Ed Plum, as well as other local law enforcement, including the head of the Wood County Airport. Representatives from Wright Patterson were in route to interview Derenberger but whether that came about is not known.
The interview went on for about two and a half hours. The live part of the broadcast was under an hour long and then the television cameras were turned off, and the interview continued off the air for another hour or so. During that time, Derenberger drew a picture of the spacecraft which he described in his thick West Virginia accent as a charcoal grey, with no lights and looking like an “old-fashioned chimney lamp.” (You may want to google this because I am not clear what he intended. I found some interesting images when I did…Parts of the lamps may look like UFOs.)
Probably one of the most curious statements Woodrow Derenberger made about his meeting with Cold was, “And then Cold said to me, we will see you again…” then his voice trails off. Police Chief Ed Plum asked, “Do you really believe you will see him again?” Derenberger then answered, “I think so…I believe I will…I don’t know… because that’s what I am afraid of.”
After that interview, Derenberger’s life transformed drastically and not for the better. He changed jobs, developed marital problems, clung to his church for a while, and then came the strange visits from men dressed in black clothing whom Derenberger suspected to be some kind of hidden government group of spies or maybe even the Mafia. He wasn’t sure, they just spooked him. They would arrive his house, ask Derenberger simple questions, (some had to do with his UFO experience) and then the Men in Black acted in a threatening manner.
But nothing was as incredible as the return of Indrid Cold. At least, this is what Woodrow Derenberger claimed. He said that Cold visited him many times at his farmhouse in Mineral Wells. At one point, Derenberger came up missing for almost six months and said he was “with the aliens.” The local population finally became skeptical. The sewing machine salesman’s tale grew more and more far-fetched. Derenberger even claimed to have been impregnated by the aliens. In 1967, Woodrow Derenberger stated to have visited Indrid Cold’s home planet of Lanulos where its residents walked around wearing no clothing. He said the aliens lived in a galaxy called Ganymede where everything was peaceful and there was no war. People began to snicker.
Still, there were odd flashing lights in the sky almost nightly and the curiosity seekers stalked not only Derenberger’s modest farmhouse, but an area called Bogle Ridge, not far from Mineral Wells where the aliens were claimed to land. The ridicule became too much. Derenberger, with his family, moved from the area and stayed away for decades. He returned to Wood County in the 1980s and died in 1990. Woodrow Derenberger was finally laid to rest at Mount Zion Cemetery in Mineral Wells, West Virginia.
John Keel was not a believer in Woodrow Derenberger’s UFO story, so it’s mysterious why he would make it such a big part of The Mothman Prophecies book. In The Mothman Propheciesmovie the character Gordon Smallwood is based upon Woodrow }, but the Wood County man most often appeared in a suit and not overalls. A few elements to his story make it believable that, initially, something of an extraordinary nature, happened to him. First of all, his account predates the Mothman sightings by 12 days. Derenberger would have had to have been a prophet to know what was about to happen next, making his story even more extraordinary. His family explains that they believe something of an otherworldly nature initially happened but he added to the tale to sell books when he self-published a book called Visitors from Lanulos in 1971.
Satellite Photo Shows A Round Object Beneath Water Off Greek Coast
Satellite Photo Shows A Round Object Beneath Water Off Greek Coast
Ufologists online have come into a frenzy after the discovery of a mysterious circular shape on satellite maps of Google. They are speculating that it could be a hidden submersible off the coast of Greece.
Website Disclose.TV, which posts information about aliens and UFOs, got the people’s attention after it published the circular object online. The unidentified submersible object was reportedly viewed online through Google Maps in the Aegean Sea.
The object is approximately 220 feet long using the ruler on Google Earth for the measurement. It is not established whether the UFO has ever been seen for real or just the image as a result of an optical illusion, such as a trick of the light.
Several folks offer their suggestion as to what the satellite imagery is showing. Many of them believe that the mysterious thing is newly-found evidence that we are not alone.
One commentator says that something here doesn’t belong. They describe the find as an impressive catch and would love to hear the official excuses on this one.
A second person states that it is indeed weird as nothing in the area looks remotely like that object.
A more skeptical commenter said that the shadow underwater could be from the old pier.
However, for now, the actual cause of the bizarre shape stays a mystery. Anyone can view the location on Google Maps here.
Dramatic footage shows a UFO appearing to speed in front of the Moon before vanishing.
A clip taken in Trenton, New Jersey, shows a close-up of the Moon before something resembling a metallic craft enters the frame, briefly passing across the face of the moon.
The mystery object was captured on camera by "pure luck".
The person who filmed it - who asked to remain anonymous - said they were fascinated by the Moon and happened to be filming when it happened.
“It's just something I'm interested in,” they said. “We live on a giant rock ball that is being orbited by another giant rock ball that is just floating there.
The metallic object appears suddenly close to the moon in the clip
(Image: Credit: Pen News)
It is not known what the mystery object is
(Image: Credit: Pen News)
“I was doing a closeup of the Moon. I typically like to zoom in on the craters and the edges of it.
“It’s pure luck that the UFO came into the picture while I was zooming in on the edges.”
UFO buffs offered a series of explanations when the footage, which was filmed in the US city of Trenton, New Jersey, was shared online.
Some suggested the object was falling ice from a plane, a meteor or just space debris, but the videographer has another explanation.
"I think it’s the International Space Station (ISS),” they said.
“Based on what I see on Google search, it's the explanation that makes the most sense.”
The footage was taken in New Jersey by a stunned onlooker(Image: Credit: Pen News)
The ISS completes roughly 15.55 orbits of Earth a day, travelling at an average speed of 17,227mph, and at an altitude of between 205 miles and 255 miles.
It experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets per day, meaning astronauts cover windows during sleep hours in order to give the impression of darkness.
From the ground, it’s typically seen as a slow-moving, bright white dot, taking roughly 10 minutes to pass from one horizon to another.
The video was shot with a Nikon Coolpix P900 camera, using its 83x optical zoom.
Popular conspiracy theory channel 'MrMBB333' has uploaded the video which shows a strange object travelling behind Jupiter. The conspiracy theorist who runs the channel reveals that the footage was captured from Houston by an amateur UFO researcher named Debra.
After analyzing the video, the conspiracy theorist strongly assures that the object spotted is not a bird, and he also ruled out the possibility of this object being an aircraft flying down the skies. The conspiracy theorist speculated that the weird object might be something similar to Oumuamua, the interstellar asteroid which visited our solar system a few months back.
"It is not a bird. It is not an aeroplane. It looks like this object is travelling through the solar system, and it goes behind Jupiter. Definitely not a bird or anything like that. Some sort of long light went behind Jupiter. The object is moving at a high rate of speed. Maybe an asteroid of some sort, I don't have any idea," said the narrator of the video.
The video soon went viral, and most of the audiences who watched the clip argued that the bizarre object spotted might be an alien mothership travelling across the solar system.
A YouTube user named Panda Nuke strongly assured that the object is not an asteroid, and he made it clear that if it was an asteroid, Jupiter's gravity would have likely brought it in.
"It's obviously an alien spacecraft. If it was an asteroid it would have likely got pulled in by Jupiter's gravity," commented Panda Nuke.
"If that was an asteroid it was the size of earth!," commented BMW Peach, a YouTube user.
"First!!! Amazing that it went behind the planet, can you imagine the size that thing would have to have been. I was thinking it looked cigar shaped too," commented Tiger Lily, another YouTuber.
Underground Lake Discovered On Mars Beneath A Mile of Ice: Here Are More Details
Underground Lake Discovered On Mars Beneath A Mile of Ice: Here Are More Details
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
Scientists have been publishing papers, this latest one out of Italy, showing how there is liquid water on Mars, as well as the fact that Mars used to be a very Earth-like planet that might have harboured intelligent life.
Reflect On:
Why does any reputable renowned scientist who comes forward with evidence get vilified by the mainstream? Why are these questions and evidence regarding extraterrestrial life not answered? Why does science and evidence that defy belief get ignored?
We are going to Mars, our journey to Mars is a science led expedition right now, but soon I hope we’ll be sending humans to the red planet to explore and science will lead the way. And today’s announcement of a really fascinating result about current water on Mars is one of the reasons why I feel it’s even more imperative that we send astrobiologists and plantary scientists to Mars to explore the question of, “is there current life on Mars?” – John Grunsfeld, five time space flown astronaut, Associate Administrator, Head of NASA Science Mission Directive (source)
History is written by the victors, and today, information that makes its way into the mainstream is carefully considered before being “put out” there. We are currently seeing this happen with UFO disclosure and other topics that don’t really fit within the framework of accepted knowledge. We see it everywhere in all subjects, especially in science, where the human race tends to hold on to what it thinks it knows while ridiculing a new discovery, only until it takes its place as fact within the mainstream. Quantum physics is a great example that’s definitely challenging the accepted framework of knowledge and academia, especially with its connection to consciousness and non-material science overall, in general.
You can read more about the recent events surrounding UFO disclosure below:
The same goes for planetary sciences, although we think we know a lot about our world and other planets, there is still so much to discover, and still a lot of information that’s changing every single year which forces us to go back and re-write our textbooks, or at least should.
A great example is Mars, and science is now showing that Mars wasn’t always and isn’t the dry, red, arid planet we’ve all been told it is, this theory was amplified recently by a team of Italian scientists, who are telling the world that they have strong evidence of a subsurface lake of liquid water on Mars.
The more we observe Mars, the more information we’re getting that it really is a fascinating planet, from the Curiosity Rover we now know that Mars once was like a planet very much life Earth, with long salty seas, with fresh water lakes, probably with snow-capped peaks and clouds and a water cycle just like we’re studying here on Earth…Something has happened to Mars, it lost its waster– Grunsfeld
Right now, within mainstream planetary science, the debate and speculation of whether there was once life on Mars are huge, and this has sparked the debate once again since, from our level of understanding, we believe that liquid water is an essential ingredient for life. The evidence cited by the Italian study came from an instrument called MARSIS, which sits aboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft in orbit around the Red Planet. MARSIS is a special kind of radar called ground-penetrating radar.
Ground-penetrating radar use radio signals that are capable of penetrating into the ground and then get reflections from the material under the surface,” Says Roberto Orosei, principal investigator on MARSIS and a planetary scientist at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, told NPR.
Many old, as well as several recently published results, have presented very strong evidence yet that there used to be much more water on Mars. In fact, in 2015, NASA held a press conference to announce the major discovery that the planet Mars experienced a massive climate shift in the past, that it actually used to be very Earth-like, covered in oceans and greenery. You can view that entire conference here.
Mars is not the dry, arid planet that we thought of in the past…(and) liquid water has been found on Mars – James Green, NASA director of planetary sciences.
At this conference, scientists also stated that “the possibility of life in the interior of Mars has always been very high. There’s certainly water somewhere in the crust of Mars…It’s very likely, I think, that there is life somewhere in the crust of Mars.”
What Caused The Massive Climate Shift?
What Happened On Mars?
Mars is the planet most like Earth…(and in the past,) Mars was a very different planet, it had an extensive atmosphere, and in fact, it had what we believe was a huge ocean, perhaps as large as two thirds the Northern Hemisphere. And that ocean may have been as much as a mile deep. So Mars indeed three billion years ago had extensive water resources. But something happened. Mars suffered a major climate change and lost its surface water. – James Green, NASA director of planetary sciences. (source)
One of the studies liked above, attempts to chart where Mars lost the most water, which was done by “tracking the water molecule (H2O), and it’s deuterated equivalent HDO.”
Deuterium is ‘heavy hydrogen’, an isotope of our lightest element with an extra neutron in its centre. It exists in our own ocean, where about 0.0156 % of the hydrogen atoms in water are actually their heavier counterpart. The ratio between the amount of hydrogen and deuterium on Earth gives a baseline to compare rations on other terrestrial planets….Using the appropriately na,es Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Keck telescope, the researchers charted the abundance of H20 and HDO over the Mars surface. This then enabled them to map out the deuterium/hydrogen (D/H) ration mapped across the how of Mars.
This is great, but neither study knows exactly what happened on Mars to cause such a dramatic climate shift, what would cause an Earth-like planet to become what Mars has come today. Researchers hypothesize that it could have been a massive climatic shift, but there is no evidence to support that theory.
One physicist has come forth with some actual evidence to support his theory, and that’s Dr. John Brandenburg. He’s well-known for working on space plasma technologies, nuclear fusion and advanced space propulsion. He invented the Microwave Electro-Thermal plasma thruster that uses water propellant for space propulsion. Brandenburg was also the Deputy Manager of the Clementine Mission to the Moon, which was part of a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization (BMDO) and NASA. The mission discovered water at the Moon’s poles in 1994. (Source: page 16 of 18)(source)(source)
According to Brandenburg, and his team of scientists/colleagues who have also published multiple papers with and alongside him concerning the subject,
Analysis of recent Mars isotopic, gamma ray, and imaging data supports the hypothesis that perhaps two immense thermonuclear explosions occurred on Mars in the distant past and these explosions were targeted on sites of previously reported artifacts. Analysis rules out large unstable ‘natural nuclear reactors”, instead, data is consistent with mixed fusion-fission explosions. Imagery at the radioactive centres of the explosions shows no craters, consistent with ‘airbursts.’ Explosions appear correlated as the site of an ancient planetary nuclear massacre, must now be considered.
Brandenburg identified isotopes with a ‘weapons signature’ and showed the nuclear data, he claims it happened on the Northern region of Mars.
The above quote is taken from the abstract of this paper they published, and have presented multiple times.
As with any other scientist, no matter how reputable, credible and accomplished, the instant you put out data and information that goes against the grain or has the ability to basically change people’s worldview paradigm, it’s instantly ridiculed and shut down, no matter how strong the data/evidence is, human belief systems and cognitive dissonance still seem to rule.
That being said, all of this is happening for a reason, and more and more information like this will continue to emerge which has is questioning what we think we know.
I’ve written about Mars, in-depth, multiple times, and it’s a planet with no shortage of mysterious, and perhaps fibs, as we never really seem to be told the truth about anything.
The thing is, if Mars was an Earth-like planet, was there intelligent life on it billions of years ago? The articles linked below will show why I believe, without a doubt, that yes, there were.
Ladies and gentlemen, my government, NASA, which many f us in the United States say stands for Never A Straight Answer, proceeded to erase 40 rolls of the film of the Apollo Program – the flight to the Moon, the flight around the Moon, the landings on the Moon, the walking guys here and there. They erased, for Christs’s sake, 40 rolls of film of those events.
Ladies and gentlemen, my government, NASA, which many of us in the United States say stands for Never A Straight Answer, proceeded to erase 40 rolls of film of the Apollo Program — the flight to the Moon, the flight around the Moon, the landings on the Moon, the walking guys here and there. They erased, for Christ’s sake, 40 rolls of film of those events. Now we’re talking about several thousand individual frames that were taken that the so-called authorities determined that you did not have a right to see. Oh, they were ‘disruptive,’ ‘socially unacceptable,’ ‘politically unacceptable.’ I’ve become furious. I’m a retired Command Sergeant Major. I was never famous for having a lot of patience. – Robert Dean
Underground lake with liquid salt water found on Mars | Al Jazeera English
Declassified FBI Document Suggests “Beings From Other Dimensions” Have Visited Earth
Declassified FBI Document Suggests “Beings From Other Dimensions” Have Visited Earth
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
A declassified FBI document, one of many, contemplates beings from other worlds and dimensions, in a serious fashion.
Reflect On:
Why so many credible research and researchers continue to bring forth evidence and have for decades, showing that we are not alone, and probably never were. Reflect on why so many people are curious about this, and why it's no longer taboo.
There are a number of fascinating documents that have been released by governments, military and intelligence agencies from all over the world, for many years. Recent and continual disclosure of the UFO phenomenon is continuing in the United States, and there seems to be a push from establishment media to cover the UFO issue in a more credible way.
We’ve seen some serious articles written by people of “great distinction” publish a few articles in the New York Times, Washington Post and more.
The fact that the mainstream is pushing this now, and in the way they are, seems to be for a particular agenda. Many contemplate the desire of the global elite to spring a “false flag” alien invasion, it would be the same kind of idea as false flag terrorism, all for the purposes of justifying the growth of the military-industrial complex, and perhaps the intent to have an excuse to justify the weaponization of space. (Which has already happened according to some whistleblowers.)
That being said, there are many well-intentioned people on planet Earth, people who want the truth to come out about what’s really going on. Once you go down the rabbit hole and explore these truths, there really is no going back because what is going on is so vast, so complex, and so compartmentalized that you realize there are multiple facets to this coverup that touches anything from politics to technology to consciousness. This is one of the biggest stories in human history up til now, and it leaves no aspect of humanity untouched.
We Are Not Alone.
We are not alone, and we are slowly being groomed to accept this, and no doubt some more examples will be next to follow.
This particular document from the FBI highlights a truth that not many people know about. Multiple “academicians” have been interested and even hired to investigate various aspects of the UFO phenomena. Be it propulsion systems, the intelligence behind the craft, or something else, this has been demonstrated time and time again by those within the field of academia who openly speak out, or, as shown by various de-classified documents.
The FBI document shows how they were heavily interested in, and received a letter from someone with “several university degrees” and a former “university department head.” The document had to do with the extraterrestrial phenomenon.
Now, before we go any further, it’s important to mention that, as exemplified by this current document, there are multiple examples of this type of communication between intelligence agencies and high-level academia. You can access these declassified documents from the CIA archives in the form of a letter from a CIA task force addressed to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency that details the close relationship that exists between the CIA, the mainstream media and academia, in this heavily sourced article.
Another great example (apart from the FBI document discussed in this article, is a declassified document discovered in the CIA’s electronic reading room titled “A Telephone Conversation With Dr. John A. Wheeler.” Wheeler was a famous quantum physicist, and the agency was recruiting him to look into the “flying saucer problem”, which was how the CIA referred to it at the time. You can access that particular document and read more about it here.
Back to the FBI document, apart from the academic connection, it was also addressed to “certain scientists of distinction,” to “aeronautical and military authorities,” and to “a number of public officials.”
This academic, as referred to in the document, outlines he belief, or information gathered by an unknown means, perhaps for the FBI, almost like an agent moulder from the X-Files perhaps, states that some of these disks carry crews and that others are under remote control. It also states that those who occupy these craft have a peaceful mission and that many of them are human-like but much larger in size.
Furthermore, this mysterious academic mentions that the disks “posses some type of radiant energy” and that “they do not come from any “planet” as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceivable to us.”
This is super fascinating for many reasons, it’s a reminder of the possible ‘magical’ and ‘mythical’ lands spoken out in many ancient texts. Ancient wisdom seems to be returning to the modern world, we can see this big time when it comes to neuroscience and quantum physics. One example of a supposed land that exists, possibly in another dimension but here in the same “location” as planet earth, one that we cannot perceive would be The Legend of Shambhala, or “inner Earth.”
The document also states that,
The bodies of the visitors, and the craft also, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter….They re-enter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without a trace…. The region they come from is NOT the astral plane, but corresponds to the Lakas or Talas. Students of esoteric matters will understand these terms.
Quite interesting to say the least, isn’t it?
Quantum physics is also starting to contemplate and perhaps even prove the existence of these realms. It wasn’t long ago when the US Secretary of Energy made some very interesting comments about doing work in parallel universes.
As far as the UFO/ET Phenomena goes, the global elite will use it like the use everything else, probably to deceive us, but the fact remains apart from that, that the truth really is out there, somewhere. This opens up doors to metaphysical and spiritual realms that still have yet a long way to go to be accepted as real by the masses, but as time goes on and the more we can detect these worlds, the closer we get to usher in the next scientific revolution, which is non-material science.
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Vrijgegeven FBI-document suggereert dat aliens uit andere dimensies de aarde hebben bezocht. Lees het hier
Vrijgegeven FBI-document suggereert dat aliens uit andere dimensies de aarde hebben bezocht. Lees het hier
Steeds meer Amerikanen willen dat hun overheid openheid van zaken geeft over vliegende schotels. Het Witte Huis houdt vol dat het geen informatie over dit onderwerp heeft. Toch hebben de FBI, CIA en NSA verschillende geheime UFO-stukken vrijgegeven, wat erop wijst dat men erg geïnteresseerd is in dit fenomeen.
In het FBI-archief The Vault is een buitengewoon interessant document te vinden. Het document, dat hier(pagina’s 21 en 22) kan worden gevonden, is gericht aan ‘bepaalde vooraanstaande wetenschappers, militaire autoriteiten en een aantal ambtenaren’.
Het gaat om een brief over buitenaardsen en UFO’s die naar de directeur van de FBI in Washington is gestuurd: “Luitenant-kolonel [zwart gemaakt] van G2 (militaire inlichtingen) in San Francisco liet vandaag weten dat hij geen verdere informatie heeft en dat ons kantoor in Seattle beschikt over alle informatie die bij hem bekend is, en de zaak verder afhandelt in Tacoma, Washington.”
Het document bevat een kopie van een brief die is geschreven door ‘een voormalig decaan’ met verschillende ‘universitaire diploma’s’.
Het is ondertussen al weer meer dan een week geleden dat de dag veranderde in nacht in een deel van Siberië en nog steeds is er geen enkele verklaring.
En een onderzoeksteam op Nova Zembla komt tot de verbazingwekkende conclusie dat een compleet meer is verdwenen.
We leven in vreemde tijden en dus zijn er ook vreemde dingen verwachten. Zaken die niet zo gemakkelijk te verklaren zijn en ook vaak nog niet eerder zijn voorgekomen.
Zo zagen we onlangs een bizar verschijnsel in een deel van Siberië, waar het om 11 uur ’s morgens opeens donker werd en waar het pas na 2 uur ’s middags weer licht werd.
Rond elf uur ’s morgens werd het opeens donker in dat gebied, alsof er een soort zonsverduistering gaande was. Die was er niet en normaal gesproken heeft dat gebied rond deze tijd van het jaar ongeveer 24 uur per dag zonlicht. Het duurde tot rond een uur of twee in de middag tot de lucht weer enigszins begon op te klaren.
Je zou zeggen dat ruim anderhalve week na de gebeurtenis er iets meer duidelijkheid zou zijn over wat dit bijzondere fenomeen heeft veroorzaakt, maar niets is minder waar. De verwarring is eigenlijk alleen maar groter geworden omdat er ook van officiële zijde niet echt een verklaring wordt gegeven.
Om een indruk te kijken hoe het er werkelijk uit zag hierna een korte video waarop je goed kunt zien hoe donker het wel niet werd.
Wat het ook was dat de duisternis heeft veroorzaakt, veel mensen waren bang en vooral ouderen, ook omdat nooit iemand zoiets eerder had meegemaakt. Het gebied waar het voorval heeft plaatsgevonden is ook veel groter dan eerder gedacht, want het gaat over een gebied zo groot als heel Italië.
Er deed zich een ander vreemd verschijnsel voor en dat is dat er tientallen dode zwartkoppige zeemeeuwen werden gevonden. Over het exacte aantal is niemand het eens, maar het was een aanzienlijk aantal en niemand weet waarom deze vogels stierven.
Ook de verhalen over wel of geen stof na de gebeurtenissen variëren nogal, waarbij sommigen zeggen dat er niets te zien was, terwijl weer anderen spreken over een stoflaag of een soort olie-achtige substantie op de grond.
Ook omdat het vanuit officiële hoek doodstil blijft, doen er uiteraard de meest wilde verhalen de ronde. Geruchten zoals dat er een ultrageheim wapen wordt getest, het een inslag van een meteoriet is, een raketlancering die mis ging of de duisternis werd veroorzaakt door bosbranden.
Het laatste is niet echt logisch omdat er en geen bosbranden in de buurt waren en geen wind, maar het is natuurlijk wel een gemakkelijk te accepteren reden.
De speculaties werden nog eens extra gevoed doordat een overheidsfunctionaris van het ministerie in Jakoetsk zei dat ze wel een mening/idee hadden, maar geen toestemming om dit met de bevolking te delen. Het Russische Ministerie van Defensie weigerde ieder commentaar.
De dode vogels zullen worden onderzocht op mogelijke doodsoorzaak en verder zouden satellietbeelden misschien uitkomst kunnen bieden, maar deze worden niet beschikbaar gesteld.
Het zal niemand verbazen dat nergens de mogelijkheid wordt geopperd dat dit wel eens veroorzaakt zou kunnen zijn door de staart van de Draak, oftewel de Verwoester.
Een expeditie die deel uitmaakt van een programma The Open Ocean: Archiplelagos of the Arctic, ging op onderzoek uit op dit eiland naar een meer genaam Usacheva.
Echter, toen de expeditie bij het bewuste meer aan kwam, ontdekten ze dat dit compleet was verdwenen. Het enige dat nog restte was een kurkdroge en gescheurde bodem.
We praten hier ook niet over een klein meertje, maar eentje met een lengte van drie kilometer, op enkele kilometers afstand van de zee.
De onderzoekers hebben minimaal anderhalf kilometer gelopen over de droge bodem van het meer, maar veel verder dan het ontdekken van talrijke scheuren in de bodem kwamen ze niet.
Mysterious radio signal sent from an unknown source in deep space is picked up by new £12 million telescope in Canada
Mysterious radio signal sent from an unknown source in deep space is picked up by new £12 million telescope in Canada
The CHIME telescope picked up a low frequency fast radio burst (FRB)
It lasted for only a few milliseconds and was detected by the sensitive machinery
It has been named FRB 180725A and is the first wave to be found below 700MHz
The scientists have yet to discover the source of the radio signal, but theories suggest it could originate from a black hole or advanced alien civilisation
A brief burst of radio sent from an unknown source across the universe has been picked up by the state-of-the-art CHIME telescope in Canada.
The signal, known as a Fast Radio Burst (FRB), lasted only a matter of milliseconds.
Researchers claim the signal is the first radio emission received from across the universe with a frequency below 700 MHz – the lowest frequency FRB ever recorded.
As a result, scientists believe that whatever produced the signal, which has been branded 'FRB 180725A', is likely to be extremely powerful.
Experts are still investigating what causes FRBs, with possible explanations including exploding black holes and advanced extra-terrestrial civilisations.
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The short burst of radio waves detected by the state-of-the-art Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope
The radio emission was first detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope, which has been in operation for less than a year.
The FRB was detected by CHIME's expansive, four 100-meter-long (328ft) U-shaped cylinders on July 25 2018.
CHIME is designed to be able to record signals sent when the universe was between 6 billion and 11 billion years old.
Patrick Boyle, of McGill University, first reported the detection of the FRB with a post on the astronomical publication 'Astronomer's Telegram'.
The post reads: 'During its ongoing commissioning, CHIME/FRM detected FRB 180725A on 2018 July 25 at 17:59:43.115 UTC (18:59:43.15 BST/13:59:43.15 ET).
'The event is clearly detected at frequencies as low as 580 MHz and represents the first detection of an FRB at radio frequencies below 700 MHz.'
According to researchers at CHIME, whatever produced the signal in the depths of space is likely to be extremely powerful.
Whatever the source, it has produced the signal a number of times, scientists say.
Research into FRBS is still in its infancy, with the first signals detected less than a decade ago.
Since then, a mere two dozen FRBs have ever been detected from Earth, meaning there is little prior research for scientists build on.
'Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence,' said Avi Loeb, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics research institute.
'An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking.'
The mystery around these signals stems from the fact that scientists cannot yet pinpoint what is capable of producing such a short and sharp radio wave burst.
Mr Boyle adds: 'Additional FRBs have been found since FRB 180725A and some have flux at frequencies as low as 400 MHz.
'These events have occurred during both the day and night and their arrival times are not correlated with known on-site activities or other known sources of terrestrial RFI (radio frequency interference).'
The telescope that discovered the mystery signal is the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME, pictured) which has been open for less than a year
WHAT ARE FAST RADIO BURSTS?
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.
The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.
This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.
The first FRB was spotted, or rather 'heard' by radio telescopes, back in 2007.
But it was so temporary and seemingly random that it took years for astronomers to agree it wasn't a glitch in one of the telescope's instruments.
CHIME is 'half-pipe' design radio telescope that contains four 100-meter-long (328 foot) U-shaped cylinders, allowing it to detect signals from when the universe was between 6 and 11 billion years old.
'With the CHIME telescope we will measure the expansion history of the universe and we expect to further our understanding of the mysterious dark energy that drives the expansion ever faster,' said Dr Mark Halpern, of the University of British Columbia.
'This is a fundamental part of physics that we don't understand and it's a deep mystery. This is about better understanding how the universe began and what lies ahead.'
WHAT IS THE CHIME TELESCOPE?
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (Chime) contains four 100-meter-long (328 foot) U-shaped cylinders, allowing it to detect signals from when the universe was between 6 and 11 billion years old.
With its U-shaped cylinders made of metal mesh, the experts have compared it to the half-pipes used by snowboarders and skateboarders.
Its unique design, coupled with advanced computing power, will serve as a 'time machine' to peer deep into the history of the universe.
The Chime telescope will collect radio waves with wavelengths between 37 and 75 centimeters.
Most of these signals come from the Milky Way, but, some began their journey billions of years ago.
The telescope will receive a massive amount of data, with a rate equivalent to all the data in the world's mobile network.
And, seven quadrillion computer operations will occur every second.
With its U-shaped cylinders made of metal mesh, experts have compared CHIME (pictured) to the half-pipes used by snowboarders and skateboarders. The radio signal it detected has been named FRB 180725A and is the first to be detected below 700 MHz
The £12.2 million ($16 million) in funding, CHIME sits in the mountains of British Columbia's Okanagan Valley at the NRC's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton.
With its U-shaped cylinders made of metal mesh, it resembles the half-pipes used by snowboarders and skateboarders.
Its unique design, coupled with advanced computing power, will serve as a 'time machine' to peer deep into the history of the universe.
This could help scientists to better understand the history of the universe, mysterious fast radio bursts, and the detection of gravitational waves.
'CHIME's unique design will enable us to tackle one of the most puzzling new areas of astrophysics today – Fast Radio Bursts,' said Dr Victoria Kaspi from McGill University.
'The origin of these bizarre extragalactic events is presently a mystery, with only two dozen reported since their discovery a decade ago.
'CHIME is likely to detect many of these objects every day, providing a massive treasure trove of data that will put Canada at the forefront of this research.'
CHIME will collect radio waves with wavelengths between 37 and 75 centimetres.
This, according to the researchers, is similar to that used by cell phones, and will allow the telescope to pick up on extremely weak radio signals from the universe.
Most of these signals come from the Milky Way, but, some began their journey billions of years ago.
A meteorite discovered in Russia in 2016 has been analyzed and found to contain a mysterious new mineral that is as hard as diamonds. Did some alien lose the engagement ring he planned to give his girlfriend while traveling through an asteroid belt?
The announcement of the discovery was made at the 81st Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society 2018 held last week in Moscow. Researchers from the Ural Federal University, Novosibirsk State University and the Geological Institute at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science revealed that the meteorite was found in Buryatia, a mountainous republic in southern Siberia, by gold hunters. (Photo here.) Did they unknowingly turn over something worth more than gold?
“Uakitite was observed in small troilite-daubreelite (±schreibersite) inclusions (up to 100 µm) in kamacite and in large troilite-daubreelite nodules (up to 1 cm).”
It’s hard to put a value on it, but the researchers did get the honor of giving the mineral a name once they determined it had never been seen before. The actual amount of the new substance “uakitite” was so minute that they had to use electron diffraction (firing electrons at it to observe the resulting interference pattern) to obtain data on its crystal structure. That helped them determine that the mineral was formed in the meteor in space at temperatures exceeding 1000 degrees centigrade. While it has never been formed on Earth, uakitite is said to be elated to carlsbergite CrN and osbornite TiN.
If you could see the tiny grains of uakitite, you would find “it has a yellow and transparent phase with metallic lustre” and “a light gray colour with a pinky tint in reflected light.” The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is used to measure hardness by scratching different minerals against each other and placing them in order with softest being 1 and hardest 10. Talc has a Mose hardness of 1, quartz is 7, topaz is 8 and diamond is 10. Uakitite has a Mohs hardness of 9-10, making it about has hard as diamonds.
The gold hunters who found the uakitite-crusted meteorite missed out on naming the mineral but wouldn’t have gotten much for it at the gem store. For that they were born too soon. Meteors have been found to be loaded with rare minerals, both known and unknown. It’s no wonder some space programs are ignoring planetary and moon exploration in favor of asteroid mining.
Somewhere in the stars, an alien guy is trying to convince his fiancé that the diamond ring he picked up on Earth is better than the uakitite one he lost in space.
Years from now, historians and astronomers may look back at our current time as the beginning of a new era in which humanity finally knows for certain that it is not alone in the universe. Thanks to improvements in our telescopes, astronomers are detecting and identifying more and more unexplained radio signals in deep space. While these have so far all been theorized to have natural origins, it will only take one extraterrestrial radio signal to change human history forever.
Of course, historians and astronomers might also look back and shake their heads in disgust at our vain attempts to find cosmic companionship after they discover that we truly are forever alone here in the black, heartless void of space. Still, new radio signals are being detected every day, lending hope that one will be The One. Just last week, the brand new CHIME radio telescope in Canada (Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) detected an anomalous radio signal the likes of which have never been seen in space. The signal, designated FRB 180725A, represents the first known fast radio burst (FRB) at frequencies below 700 MHz. Will FRB 180725A be the one to change everything?
The CHIME Pathfinder telescope in British Columbia.
Let’s hope so. For now, much more data will need to be collected before any conclusions about this new radio burst could be made. In a press release issued on AstronomersTelegram.org, McGill University’s P.J. Boyle cautions against making any preliminary speculations about this anomalous radio signal, noting that “the data have not been corrected for frequency-dependent beam sensitivity and that “further observations to search for repeated bursts at all wavelengths are encouraged.”
After this new signal was discovered, several other radio bursts were detected at frequencies as low as 400 MHz, and preliminary analysis indicates that they are not the result of terrestrial interference. The exact locations from which these radio bursts originated still unknown, but astronomers are searching for them.
Could a strange deep space radio burst someday become the first evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence?
As additional FRBs are discovered I just have to wonder: what if some these are indeed transmissions from distant civilizations and we simply don’t yet have the tools or the know-how to interpret them? Sure, there are all sorts of scientific explanations for how they could be naturally-occurring, but as the history of science shows, scientific explanations are merely the best guess we have at the moment. Who knows what any of these signals might one day be discovered to be?
Alien Creature Filmed In The Woods of Gaspésie, Canada on August 01, 2018
Alien Creature Filmed In The Woods of Gaspésie, Canada on August 01, 2018
On July 29, 2018 a strange alien creature has been filmed on a roadside in Gaspésie, Québec in Canada.
Audrée Tanguay Fréchette who has filmed the creature says: I was filming a moose on a roadside in Gaspésie, Québec, Canada. Looking at the video I saw this strange shape at the back left. Can someone tell me what it is?
The creature suddenly comes from the left side, then hides behind a tree and observes the moose. It looks like it wants to attack the moose as it steps a little forwards, towards the moose, but then again the creature hides again behind the tree, still observing the moose.
It reminds me the 2010 story of a hunter near Baton Rouge who said he found a freaky photo (image above) on his deer stand camera in the Louisiana woods at night which shows a lot of resemblance to this creature.
The appearance of this kind of beings raises questions whether they originate from secret experiments or not.
UFOs are often seen around storms, hurricanes, tornados and other natural disasters, probably because the electrical static from around their UFO can cause such problems. Here we see a video that recorded sprites, but sprites this big only exist because there is a cloaked vessel within that area. The UFO may be able to hide, but when near static electricity (storm) sprites form and give away the location of the UFO. Scott C. Waring
Filer’s Files #30 -2018 Alien Bases and Scientific Parameters - PART I
Kent, England, UK triangle taken as part of a Selfie photo
Filer’s Files #30 -2018 Alien Bases and Scientific Parameters - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Defense Minister of Canada Aliens Live Among Us, Mysterious ‘Pyramids’ Are Spotted on the Atlantic Ocean Floor, DSP Satellite FastWalkers (UFOs), UFO Parameters, Abductions, Alien Bases on Planets, SR-72. And The 4000 year old Beauty of Loulan of China.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Iceland, Netherlands, Poland, and England in the United Kingdom. God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Defense Minister of Canada Aliens Live Among Us
Former Defence Minister of Canada, Paul Hellyer, claims that the aliens are already working for us, in an interview with the RT, the Russian TV channel. He says it is as true as an aircraft flying over us.
According to Mr. Hellyer, there are about 80 alien species living among us, a fascinating fact, which makes us looking around to spot them in a crowd. Mr. Hellyer sheds some light on the nature of these beings: they can be short grays, the tall whites and the Nordic blondes, Mr. Hellyer says.
There is a rapid increase in the reported sightings of UFO in recent months. In that context, the claim that aliens are visiting our battered planet does not sound strange. When a former Canadian Defense Minister – a former leading figure in the NATO – the news is never short of the ingredients to arouse shock and awe among the ordinary people.
Mr. Hellyer went on to say that aliens are mostly benign and want to help us get out of our miseries. Some are mischievous, though. Mr. Hellyer explains why the aliens do not want to share high technology with us: because, we are destroying our planet with what we already have – pollution and the thermonuclear bombs.
Mr. Hellyer quite boldly claimed that some aliens are already working for the US military in Nevada. Then, in the same breath, he said that recently two female aliens visited a supermarket in Las Vegas incognito as nuns. Mr. Hellyer says the two aliens got away with their stunt since they look like normal unions.
When asked about his own personal experience with the aliens, he described how he and his wife spotted a UFO in the Canadian skies while living in a cottage near Toronto. He said that the same UFO appeared on two successive days for well over 20 minutes, before disappearing at, what he termed as, astonishing speed. Http
Mysterious ‘Pyramids’ Are Spotted on the Atlantic Ocean Floor
Conspiracy theorists claim they have found two or three ancient underwater structures off the coast of the Bahamas.
Scott Waring, who created the UFO Sightings Daily website, is a regular contributor who was using Google Earth to scour the ocean floor for anomalies, when he came across the strange shapes. Speaking in the SecureTeam10 video, Mr. Waring said: ‘I found these two pyramids on the ocean floor near New Providence island, that it is not far from Florida.
‘The lines on the pyramids are easy to make out and are proof that the nearby island was once inhabited by an ancient man or Aztec-like people. ‘Narrator Tyler Glockner agrees with Mr. Waring’s assessment, adding: ‘I have to say these do look like pyramids, obviously ancient pyramids that would have some weathering over the years.
‘One thing about the ocean is that it actually preserves things much better, because you’re not out there in the open air where things can rust and deteriorate.
‘If these are pyramids, they could be much much older than, say, the ruins found on Earth that are barely still there and have nearly crumbled to dust.’
The pair point out that the two pyramids are not the same, with one appearing to be a perfect three sided structure, like the Great Pyramid of Giza. A third ancient underwater pyramids was found off the Atlantic Coast of Florida which few people know exist. Multiple sources of information about the pyramids are available, but for simplicity most of the following information is from Bill Hanson’s book “The Atlantis Triangle.”
Hanson notes that the three pyramids are equally spaced – about 35 miles apart – on the west side of the Gulf Stream. To add to the mystery, three other underwater pyramids have been seen on the east side of the Gulf Stream. Those are 25 to 30 miles apart and located near Walker’s Cay, Great Sale Cay and the Berry Islands of the Bahamas. Typically, the underwater pyramids have been seen after violent storms have temporarily swept away some of the sand covering the ancient structures.
Pilots flying low over the pyramid’s location stated, “All my magnetics had gone to zero. Then a strange hue occurred all around me. At about 600 feet above water in the air that bright crimson hue simply baffled me.”The 240 HP Continental began to be the most crazily running engine I have ever had the experience to feel. It became motionless no matter what I did with the throttle and pumps. It glided and floated smoothly for at least two miles. Then the engine simply started itself. I could not dive because I was already on top of the water. Then I realized that some force was pulling toward a westerly direction. . . After landing and getting inspection of Radio Communication and units, every last unit was blown, shorted out by some high frequency electronic shock, or mysterious high voltage in the air.” Thanks to Scott C. Waring*www.ufosightingsdaily.com Warring
DSP Satellite FastWalkers (UFOs)
The Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite has been detecting FastWalkers (UFOs) entering our atmosphere for decades. The DSP analyzes the temperature, location and trajectory of a hot infrared source could build up both a description of the type of missile as well as its target dramatically reducing the chances of a surprise ICBM attack. The satellite weighed about 2,000 pounds and had a 12-foot long Schmidt infrared telescope with a linear array of 2,048 lead sulfide detectors that detected infrared energy. The satellite rotated six times per minute as the sensor “scanned” the entire face of the Earth. The sensor provided below-the-horizon coverage by spotting the missile’s exhaust plume and carried sensors for detecting nuclear explosions in the atmosphere. The first DSP satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 6, 1970, atop a Titan 3C rocket.
By late June 1973, the four DSP satellites in orbit had detected a total of 1,014 missile launches. They had proven quite successful and had relieved some of the tension that was always present during the Cold War. DSP also presented some surprises to its operators. The satellites began detecting infrared returns within and above the atmosphere that were entering and leaving the atmosphere. Some of these returns were caused by sunlight reflecting off the satellites or meteorites and these events were soon designated “Fast Walkers.“. DSP satellites, which are operated by the Air Force Space Command, detect missile or spacecraft launches and nuclear explosions using sensors that detect the infrared emissions from these intense sources of heat. During Desert Storm, for example, DSP was able to detect the launches of Iraqi Scud missiles and provide timely warnings to civilians and military forces in Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Warrant Officer Joe Stefula reports, “Our DSP satellites track the launch of various missiles using various types of sensors but chiefly with Infrared sensors. In addition to the missiles the sensors also are able to pick up unidentified flying objects that are entering and leaving our atmosphere called FastWalkers.” UFO buffs were able to correlate ground UFO reports with ascending and descending UFOs
Slower anomalous objects are referred to has SlowWalkers. The DSP satellite system once composed of 18 units in deep space orbit picks up several UFO intruders or “FastWalkers” ascending and descending severaltimes a week. AeroJet General engineer and MUFON member Ron Regehr, helped design the satellites. Insiders report there is a great deal of excitement as the UFOs sometimes trigger the early warning system. Often they are referred to as Uncorrelated Targets indicating they are not in the computer data base for all known objects in space.
Editor’s Note – Uncorrelated targets coming into and leaving the atmosphere are picked up several times a week. Correlated targets are various types of space junk tracked and kept in Air Force computers while uncorrelated targets are unknowns. Our Earth is an oasis in space and UFOs likely stop for resupply, relaxation and recreation.
For example, Pine Bush, New York, Mt. Shasta, California, , and Gulf Breeze, Florida in recent years have had a large number of sightings. I know there are also missing persons in the areas of high UFO activity. There are geological anomalies, and unusual helicopter and military activity. I suggest our research specialists and consultants in various fields be tasked to look for anomalies in a particular area. We may find a series of surprising relationships. I believe many scientists would be interested in actively helping us find the answer provided they had viable evidence to examine.
MUFON’s scientific consultants and research specialists will provide a base cadre of scientifically trained personnel, who could be called on for help. We could also invite key Eastern universities to provide support and cooperation with the research. The exact composition of the scientific personnel equipment will need further development. Certainly various engineering, scientific, medical, military and computer expertise would be needed.
SCIENTIFIC PARAMETERS OF UFOs
The phenomena associated with the presence of a UFO can be accounted for within the following scientific parameters as provided by Dr. Jim Mc Campbell:
*The emission of electromagnetic radiation measured isotropically (all directions) of approximately 1 to 1.6 megawatts in a fairly narrow range of the microwave region.
*Wave length of one tenth to one twenty fifth millimeters, and a frequency of sixty to eighty cycles per second. Electromagnetic energy in the range of 300 to 3,000 MHz or higher. *Pulse width of two to forty microseconds.
On top of the craft is a really high magnetic field which is about a million times more powerful than we know how to produce on the Earth. There is also a slow ripple of about ten per second, with about five to ten seconds between ripples. It’s about five to ten seconds per ripple, it’s very slow. That ripple is what causes the spinning of compasses which is reported so often. The radiant energy produces colored halos and plasmas around the UFO. Further research is needed concerning propulsion systems which probably propel by distorting the gravitational field and converting gravity into useable energy. The following equipment will provide the basis for the studies.
SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT
Radar
Scientific equipment is needed to verify the above data and scientifically show that these measurements can be duplicated, wherever a UFO is encountered. Equipment should include radiation measuring devices, video, photographic and digital cameras with star filters (diffraction grating of the 4th order). Some should be equipped with infrared and audio recorders. Additionally, we need magnetometers, magnetoscopes, portable radar equipment, E M spectrum analyzers, pulse analyzers and fluxgate compasses. Communication capability with airfield towers and aircraft should also be provided. The equipment should also include Geiger radiation detection equipment that is directional. Automatic recording devices set up with the equipment would also be needed. Ray Fowler suggested we need both equipment and trained operators. Simple magnetometers can be built and with alarms and recording devices.
SIGNAL EQUIPMENT
Dr. Richard Haines from NASA as suggested that we may be able to signal or beckon the craft. He has recorded 200 instances where this has been accomplished successfully and is presently writing a book on the subject. He is willing to help us in signaling methods that appear to work such as search lights. Various types of signal equipment would be needed.
ABDUCTION PHENOMENA
There is a growing body of evidence that implies that many people around the world believe that they are being abducted. Books such as “Intruders,” by the late Budd Hopkins and “Abductions” by John Mack M.D. present a strong case that abductions by aliens are in fact taking place. Dr. Mack is both a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor of psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital, of the Harvard Medical School. Despite the claims of numerous witnesses and the research by many respected ufologists there is little verifiable evidence that physical abductions are occurring. Because of this lack of scientific proof, there is very little interest in the subject by the news media and science at large. Many people suffer both physical and mental trauma due to the phenomenon. Dr. Mack has publicly stated these people are not mentally ill, but have symptoms similar to person who has recently been raped or undergone severe mental stress. These people need help to resolve their problem. As the Eastern Director of MUFON, I propose that it may be possible to prove that physical abductions are or are not taking place. Once we can prove the phenomenon, whatever the result, will provide help to these people. Our investigation may eventually prove that we are interacting with non-human intelligence, but not necessarily extraterrestrial.
The abductees claim they are taken from their homes on a fairly regular basis and are onboard the UFOs. If someone is tested shortly after returning from a high altitude flight his body can be tested to show probable proof of the flight. I propose that known abductees can be monitored on a regular basis with the technology now available. With the abductees permission we can provide them with an implant or tracking device to determine their location. We may decide to track them during periods when they are most likely to be abducted. Some abductees may be given placeboes rather than true implants to determine their responses. The abductee will not know for certain if they carry a monitoring device. This will help, if the kidnappers can read minds. There is suspicion that the abductees are in fact experiencing some type of out of body phenomenon. The implant can determine if an abductee actually leaves his home. If the abductee is missing and returns we can quite possibly prove that they were involved in aerial flight. Ray Fowler suggested we begin small with voice/noise actuated tape recorder, magnetometer, radar detector in an abductees home. He stated: “Initial tests with the tape recorder and VCR with infra-red film have not produced anything substantial with Betty and Bob Luca except for noises that indicated a break into their trailer and a noise that coincide with an object Betty saw go through the window when it went through the metal blinds.”
Alien Bases on Planets
Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.Recently released swastika type structure on the Moon. taken by the Chinese Satellite. This structure may confirm that the Germans had reached the moon.
Former NASA whistleblower’s shock claim space agency hid PROOF of UFOs orbiting Saturn
A DECORATED former NASA scientist has claimed the US space agency has proof that alien UFOs have been orbiting Saturn for years, but the shocking fact has been withheld from the public.
Dr Norman Bergrun, a distinguished engineer who has worked with NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, said the rings of planet Saturn are a massive meeting place for extraterrestrials.
He claims “alien UFO spaceships” have started “proliferating” at a shocking rate on the planet’s many rings, which are made up of “space crafts and their exhaust fumes” but the world-changing evidence has been covered up at high-level within the US Government.
The former NASA engineer, who has written books on his claims and done numerous interviews, believes the number of UFO crafts in the solar system had reached “critical” levels.
Bizarrely, Dr Bergrun claims the spaceships include living entities, which use the rings as a source of energy, and are multiplying and spreading to other planets such as Uranus and Jupiter.
Dr Bergrun developed “roll stability laws for airplanes, missiles and rockets.”
Telemetry from Voyager 2 on its outward journey through the solar system shows that planet Uranus has a number of rings. One of the published photographic transmissions indicates that the rings are formed mechanistically the same as for Saturn. The ring-makers even lie within the ring at about the same angle as the ones shown for Saturn. Interestingly too, the Uranus moon, Miranda, has a combination of geological land forms found separately on various moons of Saturn.
Unusual terrain forms include square corners, nestled circular grooves, parallel straight-line grooves, and regions evidencing former viscous flow.
Some pictures of Mars suggest visitations by E.M.V.’s The massive power of E.M.V.’s means neither that humans absolutely should forgo space flights, nor that a Mars landing should never be undertaken. However, known presence of E.M.V.’s serves a substantial warning to space travelers at least to stay their distance. Failure to heed this warning could result in catastrophe and emotional unpleasantness much worse than that which resulted from the explosion of space-shuttle Challenger. As precursors to committing humans to remote space, the special jurisdiction claimed by E.M.V.’s should be ascertained. Meanwhile, all nations of the world should unite to meet the challenges and opportunities that these prodigious forces present.
Craters still are being explained by meteor impacts; but unorthodox terrain patterns simply do not fit this time-worn theory! Neither do these patterns fit conventional geological concepts. In contrast, strange surface shapes and contours and recent modification thereof readily are explicable in terms of observed electromagnetic vehicle capabilities. Presence of electromagnetic vehicles (E.M.V.’s) in the outer solar system forces attention on an extraordinary potential hazard of manned space flight not considered heretofore. E.M.V.’s can be expected to pose an extreme hazard to manned space flight in the vicinity of Saturn and Uranus, and probably even as near to Earth as Mars.
In terms of a clear and present danger, man-made nuclear bombs pose more of an immediate large- scale threat to human life. In contrast, an apparent long-term commitment by electromagnetic vehicles to the continuance of the human life chain is comforting. To anticipate, though, a perpetually unmarred status quo in the character of our earthly habitat is really an unreasonable expectation.
Lockheed Martin SR-72 Flies at Mach 6
I briefed the 21st Air Force General staff on Iranian F-4 fighters attempting to attack a UFO in 1976. Their missiles failed to fire at the UFO but the fighters were able land safely.
Only UFOs or rockets are thought able to fly at Mach 10 or 7,612 miles per hour. If the “luminous objects” can fly at Mach 10, it suggests a reliable hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft is in the US inventory. Perhaps the SR-72 is operational?
Aviation Week & Space Technology, Senior Editor Guy Norris lifts the wraps on the SR-72’s cutting-edge design, including a propulsion breakthrough that would allow the aircraft to fly twice as fast as the SR-71 Blackbird — six times the speed of sound — but still take off from and land on a runway like a convention.
The 4000 year old Beauty of Loulan of China
Loulan was discovered in 1980, but it was 3800 years ago that she died in China on the trade route known as the Silk Road. The natural dryness and salty soil preserved her and over two hundred other mummies, who had lived in settlements along the trade route. The mummy has been called the Loulan Beauty because of her amazingly preserved stately facial features that have remained quite beautiful even in death.
The Chinese government has been reluctant to allow full access to the mummies because of their Caucasian identity. The Tarim mummies look more European than Asian and may be descendants of the original inhabitants of the area, possibly alien, and not later arrivals, as Chinese history claims.
Victor Mair, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was instrumental in getting access to these mummies’ genetic samples in 1993. Their findings revealed that the mummies are indeed European but they probably migrated from the Siberian region. Mainstream historians have always had the concept that early people were not world travelers when in fact most evidence points to just the opposite. Loulan’s people are clearly of Caucasian descent and their grave goods suggest that they were probably merchants of textiles.
The settlements along the Silk Road might very well have been meeting points where merchants from the west traded their goods for goods from the east. Pliny the Elder described the traders from this area as tall with flaxen hair and blue eyes. Loulan herself lived to be about 40 to 45. One of the mummies, the Yingpan Man, was six feet six inches tall and wore a red tunic with gold embroidery. He also wore a gold foil burial mask.
She probably died from lung disease and was buried in well-made woven clothing. Some of the mummies are actually wearing plaid patterned loomed cloth. Many of the mummies are tattooed like modern tattooing and one female has crescent moons and ovals tattooed on her face. A male mummy known as the Chrechen Man has sun tattoos on his temples, although the tattoos could represent UFOs. It is known that the ancient people rode horses, used chariots and had at least some medical knowledge.
The Chinese government did allow further testing in 2007 and 2009 and the findings supported the Siberian connection as well as suggesting the mixing of people from Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, Europe and other unknown sources. Thanks to Margaret Moose.
Note:I suggest the unknown sources were extraterrestrial.
Almost 200 pyramids ten thousand years old are found in China near other Caucasian blonds and red heads.
Everything you can imagine we already know how to do, but these technologies are so locked up in black projects it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity
– Ben Rich, Former CEO of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
We are on the trail of a mystery here. And while we may never hope to fathom the plans of the Creator we should be able to
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Filer’s Files #30 -2018 Alien Bases and Scientific Parameters - PART II
Filer’s Files #30 -2018 Alien Bases and Scientific Parameters - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Alabama Light
Sumiton –I was outside looking through my telescope when I noticed it flying around moon on July25, 2018. This isn’t the first time they’ve messed with me I was scared an alone I stopped filming is how I lost site of object.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arizona Light
Cottonwood— My wife first noticed an unusual object through bedroom window late evening on July 24, 2018.
. She woke me to point it out. We both went to the patio with binoculars. We saw a bright twinkling object that did not appear to be a star. Every once in awhile it would flash. Looking at it through the binoculars, it appeared to be rotating rapidly giving off red, green, blue, and white colors. We first noticed these objects in early April but still see them to this day. At the beginning we were quite excited to see them and would go out as soon as it was dark enough to see them. Now we watch them and wonder if we are being observed back. I’m no astronomer by any stretch but have tried to identify them with known stars or star patterns. I did some poor video of them and took a few still photos. As the days went by, the objects appeared to get smaller but are still identifiable. At various times they will disappear from one location only to see like objects to appear somewhere else. At present 4 or 5 of these objects, or similar, have formed a pattern in the NNE sky, again low on the horizon. Periodically as we are observing these lights, other star-like, but different, objects will enter our field of view from various directions, some changing direction, some appearing to pulse, some fading out while others continue until they are out of sight. I am very familiar with conventional aircraft and navigation light patterns. These are not conventional aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Mt Shasta– A white UFO has been seen over Mt. Shasta for several days starting on July 20, 2018. The local Mt Shasta news has been carrying the story. Sometimes it appears longer but always flies at very high levels. It appears to be a small cylinder perhaps observing heavy fires in Mt. Shasta County and the UFO Conference Venus with Love being held in the area.
Florida Lights
I got home from the gym and noticed a strange light.
I have the video of it.
Photo was taken June 23, 2018.
Michigan Light
Rochester Hills— After studying these objects for the last 3 years, that were first seen in March 2015, I am finally getting good pics. Since the 4th of July fireworks season, there have been 6-10 objects visible each night in my area. On this night I saw 5 different objects. This was the last one I saw before going in, it was moving lower in the sky than any object I have ever seen. I estimate this object was 10,000 feet up. It was bright white, at least +2 mag moving faster than a plane; It continued to move north toward me. It followed the line along the top of the roof of my building. When it got to me, suddenly there was a bright flash. It hovered briefly, then it made a sharp 60 degree turn to the NW, dimmed from bright white to a reddish color. It moved from sight below roof to the NW, Photo shows varying surface colors; it is like a square box with a larger “lid” on it. From the bottom, is a rod extending each direction, with a sphere attached to the end of each rod with its own light source It has apparent structure; stops, ascends, descends, hovers. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Montana Orb
Polson – On July 20, 2018, I went outside around 5:30 AM and saw a bright light up in the sky to the Northwest. I went and grabbed my camera and took a few pictures, came back outside about 5 minutes later and took a few more. And then maybe 5 or 10 minutes later I took the last pictures. I could barely see the object by then. The pictures are all zoomed in as far as my camera would go. I couldn’t detect movement with my naked eye for the first pictures, but the last time I came outside to take a few more I noticed the light had moved quite a bit down and to the right. I have 6 more pictures.
Note: A check of astronomical tables showed that no planets or the moon was visible at the time of the sighting. Also the amount of movement noted by the witness in a short period of time would eliminate celestial objects. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
New Jersey Light
Hammonton — Awake at 2 am and spotted bouncing ball of light over my blueberry field. Captured 2 minutes and 40 seconds of video containing a stationary “ball of light” once zoomed in and frame stopped, it appears to be a meteor that “stayed still” cannot wrap our heads around this.
Most amazing and beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. Then stopped recording and it remained stationary until I fell asleep. No sightings of meteor landings in my area this morning. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Cylinder
Caliente — Did not see UFO until looking at the photo afterwards. I took through the car window.
Could be reflection on window, but object does not appear to be so. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Object
Depoe Bay — I was sitting on the patio and noticed unusual cloud and contrail patterns and formations. I went back into the house and took cell phone photo on December 31, 2017. Seven months later my wife and I noticed a black object adjacent to or in one of the contrails. There is also a very strange shaped cloud in the midst of the contrails. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Orbs
Skyway — On July 18, 2018Here’s my report, with two attached sketches. Just a heads up, the website didn’t work on my phone in chrome for some reason using HTC U11 Android operating system and it kept saying forbidden when I tried submitting twice. It was odd.
So last night at 8:45 PM (7-18-2018) I was watching the sunset in Skyway looking Northeast towards Lake Washington and downtown Seattle, but more towards Bellevue I would say. From where I was looking and at first I just saw one orb like flying object kind of gliding in the sky and not making any sound or emitting any vapor. I yelled to my partner to have him come see it, but he was not feeling up to it and was scared to look and then have nightmares or have any weirdness from seeing them. I went back out and I then saw two! Both were the same size gliding at the same speed and moving very gradually in various directions and different angles, but so slowly that you would hardly notice it change its angle. I just watched them slowly glide off over Lake Washington, Renton and Mercer Island area or even closer as I was not sure if they were drones. When I saw two, I didn’t believe it could be a drone. I had felt anxious watching them, as it was so foreign to me, so I went inside and didn’t take a photo or watch too much longer for fear of any freaky stuff occurring. It was very frightening actually although they were so small and seemed like they were almost too small to have a human in them, but possibly they were remote operated or drones. The general shape of them were dome like bubbles slightly oblong and seemed to have more material on top of the craft. There was no visible seam or welding of the top and bottom parts, so they were very unusual and were probably the size of a Volkswagen Bug. I saw no propellers, indication of any propulsion pushing it in any direction. They just glided slowly and very stealth like, as if trying to not draw too much attention. Perhaps they were being operated by someone not too far below on ground perhaps, but I highly doubt it. They seemed to be only a mile away from me in the sky I would say, with one slightly further and higher up than the second one I saw. When I returned to the front yard I realized I was seeing two now and the second one was closer and a bit lower than the other and further back, by about a half a mile from one another, but seemed to be together, gliding in the same direction. The color was most similar to a dull/matte silver/grayish color. They were solid in color and I saw no lights or holes or anything on the surface of the craft besides its shape and smooth movement. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
On July 22, 2018, I was parked at the river and noticed a red cone shaped light moving in the sky then it stopped
I go it on my cell phone had a strange cross a one end it took off at a huge speed in an easterly direction and I lost sight of it.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Object
Parry Sound — Son in law took this pic, would appreciate what your photo analysis experts think, I assure you this is a legit picture , thank you, please contact if you need more info, thank you!
Son in law took this picture on July 16, 2018, would appreciate what your photo analysis experts think, I assure this is a legit picture , thank you, please contact if you need more info, thank you!
Stellarton — Whole driving east on Highway 104 in Nova Scotia, Canada writer noted object flying by and tool picture of same. Object headed in a southerly direction on August 21, 2017 . No entities were seen.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Czech Republic Triangle
– Novy Jicin— I as in my pool and observed stars. In my opinion it was real ufo above the nearby town of Príbor. There was a large thunderstorm and flashes at around 23:00, and suddenly a triangular-shaped object appeared above my house and sailed across the sky toward the southwest. When he was at my level, he did a little maneuver and leaned at a distance of about 20 degrees to me and continued on the flight without noise and lighting.
I was quite impressed when he appeared so close to me completely silent, and I saw the contours and the hemisphere, and I watched in amazement as he disappeared on the horizon. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Object
Luminous object in the shape of a ball changing color. Going from white to orange and pulling a little on the red. With a predominance for the orange color. The object has a vertical path from top to bottom with a very slow descent speed. At first sight the object seems to be stationary but it is not the case. It does not present any flashing light like an aircraft. The object was to the left of Notre Dame de la Garde with a real point of view. Fenced on St Tronc in the 10th arrondissement of Marseille, from a balcony on the last floor of a building. I observed the object with a binocular marine type Bushnell 7 to 50 which incorporates a digital compass. The binocular showed me an angle of 250Â °, so almost full West. Wind west 51 km / h gusting to 68 km Thermohygrometric data confirmed by my weather station Netatmo. Atmospheric pressure: 1007.2 mbar. Object big enough to be seen in the night sky. The object came out of my field of vision when it passed behind the hill of Notre Dame de la Garde. It was 21:41. I have no explanation as to the true nature of this object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Iceland Object
Asbyrgi Visitor Center — We were taking photos in the Asbyrgi Canyon area on June 26, 2018. Nothing was observed in person however there is a prominent unknown flying object in my photo. It is not a bird and does not appear to be an airplane. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Netherlands Triangle
Spaarndam— I was in the middle of a playing field of a Footgolf playground on July 15, 2018 on a beautiful summer afternoon with nice clouds. I took two pictures of the sky and horizon. The time between the two pictures was not more than 2-4 seconds. At the time all of us (8 persons) and other people in the field did not noticed anything. When I was home I looked back at some photo’s of that day and noticed something odd in the second picture of the same event. A triangle shaped object appears out of nowhere. At that time it was silent and for me this is an UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Poland Orbs
Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki— My name’s Lucas and I’m from, , a small town about 30 km (19 miles) from Warsaw.
I’m actually writing to you because on the night of May 9, 2018, I was taking long exposure (30 sec) photos with a friend of mine. Suddenly, on one of the photos a strange object appeared. It wasn’t visible to the naked eye, so without hesitation we took another shot and the object appeared on the photo again. We cleaned the lens. We took another two shots the mysterious object came into sight again but this time it changed its position and angle. Maybe you could analyze them? The sky is busy with planes taking off from the nearby Warsaw – Modlin airport. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK England Triangle
Kent — I was out taking a usual walk down the sandy beach in Folkestone, Kent, UK, august 12, 2014, when all I did was to take a selfie. I noticed something in the background which I cannot explain what it is. People think I’ve edited it somehow but I honestly have not.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Americans were seeing things in the sky during the summer of 1947. A private pilot, Kenneth Arnold, was searching for a missing Marine Corps plane near Mount Rainier, Wash., when he saw nine “extremely shiny” objects “shaped like saucers” flying at 10,000 feet. Around that same time, a rancher in Roswell, N.M., found debris scattered across his land. Soon the Air Force’s 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Field agreed among themselves that the rancher had found a crashed flying saucer—before announcing that the discovery was really a weather balloon. (The Air Force later revealed it was part of a secret program to monitor Soviet nuclear tests.)
The public was confused, curious and a little afraid. At St. Joseph’s Church in Grafton, Wis., something crashed into the lightning rod on the church roof. The Rev. Joseph Brasky went outside and found a warm metal disc, 18 inches in diameter, with “gadgets and some wires.” The mysterious craft looked like a circular saw blade.
It was.
Father Brasky, like many other practical jokers that summer, wanted to have a little fun at the expense of the media. Hoodwinked reporters were subjected to his collection of trinkets, including “bass bottles”—beer bottles outfitted with the head of a fish—and Fish Tales, his self-published book of angling stories. But though many unexplained sightings were proved to be hoaxes, they continued beyond that summer. Something, it seemed, was in the sky.
"Around 8:15 on the first night of the carnival, among the aerialists and rides, his searchlight spotted a 'glowing disc.' And this was not a one-time occurrence."
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In April 1949, the Rev. Gregory Miller, the pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio, wrote to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati with two requests. The parish school needed an expansion. Also, the nuns who taught at the school had been living at nearby Regina High School, but their quarters were “becoming crowded,” and they needed a new residence at the parish. Father Miller had a plan to deal with both challenges: He would hold a festival that August to raise money for the building fund.
The Saints Peter and Paul Jitney Carnival was approved for Aug. 19 through 21. The Sensational Kays and The Three Milos, two famous high-wire acts, were booked. There would be free entertainment—but also “fun for a nickel.” An Army surplus searchlight, owned by the parish, was used to attract crowds. The light was operated by Sgt. Donald R. Berger of the University of Cincinnati’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
Manning a military searchlight in late August was no comfortable task, but Sergeant Berger’s job would become more difficult than he ever imagined. Around 8:15 on the first night of the carnival, among the aerialists and rides, his searchlight spotted a “glowing disc.” And this was not a one-time occurrence. Nine times in the following months, the parish searchlight would illuminate the impossible: a flying saucer. Unlike Father Brasky’s saw blade, the case at Saints Peter and Paul remains unsolved.
Making Sense of Mystery
The early days of flying saucer reports were full of practical jokes—along with serious, confounding sightings from military officers and pilots. Readers, and most reporters in the media, were not sure how to juggle such a contrast. From the start, the problem with flying saucers has been, among other things, a semantic one: If U.F.O. stands for unidentified flying object, then any attempt to categorize a sighting makes it an identified flying object—something else entirely.
Even today, whenever we talk about U.F.O.s, we are engaging in endless conjecture. We are always trying to imagine what they might be. With our eyes to the heavens, squinting at fast-moving discs and sporadic lights, the mind wanders. Yet in the mid-20th century, enough people reported strange objects in the sky that the government took notice. Project Blue Book, the Air Force’s official study of U.F.O.s, compiled over 15,000 sightings between 1947 and 1969. Nearly 700 were labeled unexplained, but another 1,000 were categorized as unknown. While the difference remains debatable, and is likely a result of poor terminology, the conclusion is clear: Although most U.F.O. reports were easily and eventually explained, a small number were scientifically curious and enigmatic.
"U.F.O.s and faith both occupy a surreal space: the porous border region between the prosaic and the profound."
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Scientifically curious and enigmatic, though, does not make for great entertainment. Aliens do. The rest is cultural history. From the rise of the contactee movement (people who claim to have had contact with extraterrestrials) to popular films like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and TV series like “The X-Files,” U.F.O.s have become interchangeable with aliens. If an object courses through the sky, we reason, someone, or something, must be flying it.
These sightings are certainly interesting to U.F.O. buffs, but what do they have to do with the Catholic Church—beyond a few priests who saw strange objects in 1949? U.F.O.s and faith both occupy a surreal space: the porous border region between the prosaic and the profound. Imagine a woman sees a glinting disc in the night sky. She first thinks it is a star, but then watches it bounce and bobble and speed into the distance. She might scratch her head and move on, but if she keeps thinking about that light, she must make a decision based on conjecture. Either she saw something entirely reasonable and typical—a plane, the planet Venus, a spotlight aimed at the sky—or she accepts that she has an unknown experience. And once she accepts the fragility of her perception, she opens the door to even more possibilities.
Thinking about U.F.O.s can be an exercise in theological speculation, a way to consider what might happen if the prosaic instantly became profound. Such speculation is healthy for Catholics, particularly because it can reveal how we might seek to neuter our faith of its mystery. In the same way that we might rush to explain a strange light in the sky, we might seek to explain God in purely rational and realistic terms—a theology of convenience. Because the church has hesitated to offer firm teachings on the existence of aliens, theologians and philosophers have filled that space with wonder. As early as the 14th century, the French priest John Buridan, in a response to Aristotle’s De Caelo (“On the Heavens”), wrote, “It must be realized that while another world than this is not possible naturally, this is possible simply speaking, since we hold from faith that just as God made this world, so he could make another or several worlds.” Father Buridan’s suggestion here is that all things earthly—and cosmically—are possible through God.
Astronomers have had to parry questions about aliens for years. Guy Consolmagno, S.J., the director of the Vatican Observatory, has tried to be firm with U.F.O. enthusiasts, writing on his personal website in 2013, “I do not know of any credible evidence at all that there has ever been contact of any form between extraterrestrial aliens and Earth. Period. I cannot imagine a circumstance where such contact could be kept secret for very long. And I say this, not only as an active astronomer for 40 years, but also as someone who knows lots of people in the SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] community (who would love to have such evidence), and as someone who’s been an officer in the American Astronomical Society and in the International Astronomical Union. If there was something like this going on, we’d all be talking about it. There isn’t, and we aren’t.”
Michael Burke-Gaffney, S.J., a Canadian priest who is an astronomer and professor at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, had an extensive personal interest in U.F.O.s—even covertly investigating them for Canada’s National Research Council and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In 1966, after the noted astronomer and ufologist J. Allen Hynek penned an infamous letter to Science magazine offering seven reasons why U.F.O.s merited scientific study, Father Burke-Gaffney responded with his own letter. He takes a more cautionary tone. Until we identify mysterious “atmospheric phenomena,” he asks, should not scientists strive “(i) to exhort people to have patience, and (ii) to remind them that, up to the present, U.F.O.s have furnished no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, and (iii) to point out that the existence of extraterrestrial little green men is no more firmly established than that of leprechauns?”
There is no official Vatican position on U.F.O.s and aliens, although in 2014 the Vatican Observatory co-hosted a conference on the subject with the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, called “The Search for Life Beyond the Solar System: Exoplanets, Biosignature and Instruments.” The next year, Pope Francis gave an interesting responseto a question about extraterrestrial life: “In every case I think that we should stick to what the scientists tell us, still aware that the Creator is infinitely greater than our knowledge.”
Of Skeptics and Sightings
George Coyne, S.J., was director of the Vatican Observatory from 1978 to 2006, when he retired to focus on teaching. He is known for examining the intersections between faith and science, earning him the respect of religion skeptics like Richard Dawkins and the late Stephen Hawking. Father Coyne told me he is “very skeptical of all U.F.O. sightings of which I am aware.” I asked him if extraterrestrials are worthy of serious theological or scientific inquiry, and he pointed me toward a paper he had written for the anthology Many Worlds: The New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life, and the Theological Implications.
Father Coyne’s essay, “The Evolution of Intelligent Life on Earth and Possibly Elsewhere: Reflections From a Religious Tradition,” offers a route forward. Father Coyne warns we should not study U.F.O.s in the hopes of somehow understanding the mysteries of God.
When we view God as “explanation” for the world, Father Coyne writes, using the “rational processes of science” in a manner not appropriate to their purpose—we ignore Scripture and tradition, which shows “God revealed himself as one who pours out himself in love and not as one who explains things.” Though science and faith intersect, we should not expect science to reveal a proof for faith. Perhaps, Father Coyne writes, we should look to the limitations of science and consider the “very nature of our emergence in an evolving universe and our inability to comprehend it, even with all that we know from cosmology, may be an indication that in the universe God may be communicating much more than information to us.”
“I do not know of any credible evidence at all that there has ever been contact of any form between extraterrestrial aliens and Earth. Period."
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In this conversation, U.F.O.s are too prosaic and tenuous to be of use. As for extraterrestrials, Father Coyne argues that theologians must consider that the idea of life elsewhere in the cosmos “strains [the] anthropocentric revelations of God to his people.” He asks good questions without easy answers: Did God also redeem extraterrestrials from their sin? Did Jesus give up his life for them so that they might also be saved?
Searching
Father Gregory Miller had been at Saints Peter and Paul since 1938. His brother Norbert was a priest at nearby St. Vincent Ferrer Church. A third brother, Cletus, was a longtime priest at a third Cincinnati-area parish, Annunciation Church.
Cletus was with Gregory at Saints Peter and Paul on Oct. 23, 1949. By that date, Sgt. Berger, the searchlight operator, had seen an object similar to the one seen on the night of the August carnival on two subsequent occasions, and he was back at the church with the two priests, as well as Sgt. Leo Davidson of the Norwood Police Department, Robert Linn, the managing editor of The Cincinnati Post, and Leo Hirtl, a columnist for that newspaper. According to Mr. Berger’s observation log (published by Leonard Stringfield, an Ohio U.F.O. researcher), the men saw the flying disc in the sky, and then saw two groups of five triangular objects coming out of the disc.
Mr. Hirtl was skeptical, claiming that they had seen geese that glowed in the light. Father Miller stood by his story, even getting into an argument years later with Mr. Hirtl on the Cincinnati TV station WCPO during a special program on “flying saucers.”
Father Cletus agreed with his brother. He described the smaller objects as shaped “like the apex of Indiana arrowheads.” At the time, Father Cletus was dean of the Institutum Divi Thomae—a unique graduate research institute established by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The research was directed by Dr. George Sperti, previously a director of the Basic Science Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Sperti, a Catholic, later told Cincinnati Magazine in a 1972 interview that one of the goals of the institute was to demonstrate that there is “no conflict between religion and science.”
Under the direction of Dr. Sperti and Father Miller, the institute was responsible for an interesting array of inventions. It developed Preparation H, Aspercreme, a tanning lamp, a meat tenderizer and even a method of freeze-drying orange juice—while working on their central goal of cancer research. U.F.O.s were not in their repertoire.
"The sightings near Cincinnati continued through the winter and into the spring."
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The sightings near Cincinnati continued through the winter and into the spring. One relatively consistent witness was William Winkler, who owned a printing company—but also was a “dabbler in things scientific,” according to The Cincinnati Post. “It’s not a flying saucer. Maybe it’s a base for flying saucers,” he conjectured. Mr. Winkler sent a letter about the sightings directly to General Vandenberg—the Air Force chief of staff—complaining about bungling F.B.I. agents and asking forgiveness for his handwritten letter (“My secretary has gone for the day.”).
At this time, Project Grudge, a precursor of Project Blue Book, had taken an interest in the Norwood sightings and sent a few members of their Office of Special Investigations to the parish. Those agents, along with two professors from the University of Cincinnati—D. A. Wells, from the physics department, and Paul Herget, from the astronomy department—were with Father Gregory Miller at the sighting on Dec. 20. Both scientists were dismissive, telling the Cincinnati Post that it was “an optical illusion” or an “illumination of gas in the atmosphere.” Mr. Herget explained, “We need an explanation to squash people’s fears.”
Mr. Herget might have said too much. The investigator Leonard Stringfield interviewed R. Ed Tepe, then-mayor of Norwood, who was also present at the Dec. 20 sighting. He explained that Mr. Wells was “there with camera and protractors and was in frequent ‘hush-hush’ with the Air Force investigators,” before calculating that the size of the disc “was approximated to be 10,000 feet in diameter.” In context, his comments sound like a cover-up.
“The last word is up to experimental science. There is nothing else to do for the theologians but wait.”
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Mr. Stringfield also claims that Father Miller had film of the object, taken during the sighting on Oct. 23 by Sgt. Davidson. The film was reportedly shown to a closed audience at the studios of WCPO in 1952 but, like so many other elements of the Norwood case, has since vanished.
According to David Clarke in his book How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth, that same year Domenico Grasso, S.J., a Vatican theologian, said the Holy See had debated the existence of alien contact after the flurry of U.F.O. sightings, concluding: “The last word is up to experimental science. There is nothing else to do for the theologians but wait.”
Whatever the Miller brothers saw, it was attracted to that searchlight. That seems like too convenient a metaphor, but how else do we think about the unexplained? Between August 1949 and March 1950, a U.F.O. visited Saints Peter and Paul Church. That is all we know. The moment we identify it, it stops being a mystery.
In the months after the sighting ended, Father Miller was back to writing the archdiocese. A section of the school boilers needed to be replaced. They needed to renovate the pews, choir stalls and church throne. That November he hoped to raise money to resurface the blacktop on the school playgrounds and parking lot by holding a turkey raffle and bazaar. No searchlight was required.
This article also appeared in print, under the headline "Strange Encounters ," in the August 6, 2018 issue.
Did a Russian Made Missile Really Strike a New Israeli F-35 Stealth Fighter?
Did a Russian Made Missile Really Strike a New Israeli F-35 Stealth Fighter?
In any event, what’s most interesting about this story isn’t whether an F-35 was hit by a Russian missile. Like the existence of UFOs, the story may or not be true, but we need more than circumstantial evidence to give it any credence.
The interesting part is that the F-35 has become such a symbol of U.S. technological prowess—or incompetence—that any rumor that an F-35 has been damaged or shot down in combat will draw attention. Russia and its boosters will pounce on any suggestion that an F-35 has been hit, and no doubt the pro- F-35 crowd will counter those suggestions accordingly.
Did a Russian anti-aircraft missile hit one of Israel’s new F-35 stealth fighters?
Pro-Russian media are claiming that an Israeli F-35I was hit and damaged by a Russian-made S-200 surface-to-air missile during an Israeli air strike in Syria earlier this month. Israel says one of its F-35s was damaged—after colliding with a bird.
The story begins on October 16, when Israel announced that its aircraft had struck a Syrian SAM battery near Damascus that had fired two hours earlier on Israeli reconnaissance planes flying over Lebanon. The attack damaged the missile battery, and no Israeli aircraft were hit, according to Israel. Coincidentally or not, the incident happened the same day that Russia’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, arrived in Israel for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
Superpower in the Sky: Why Israel Wants F-35s and Deadly New F-15s
However, Southfront.org , a website that covers the Russian military and its intervention in the Syrian Civil War, suggested a different story. “According to the available information, the Syrian Defense Forces used a S-200 missile against the Israeli warplane,” Southfront claimed.
Southfront could not resist pointing out that a much-vaunted F-35 stealth fighter had been hit by a missile that dates back to the 1960s. “This Soviet-made missile is the most advanced long range anti-aircraft system operated by the Syrian military. Even in this case, it’s old-fashioned in terms of modern warfare.”
However, the evidence cited by Southfront seems rather tenuous. Hours after the Israeli military announced the strike on the Syrian missile battery, Israeli media reported that an Israeli F-35 had been damaged by a bird strike two weeks before (Google translationhere ). The plane reportedly landed safely, but the Israeli Air Force did admit that it wasn’t sure whether the plane will fly again. Israel has taken delivery of only seven F-35Is so far, with a total of fifty on order.
“The incident allegedly took place ‘two weeks ago’ but was publicly reported only on October 16,” Southfront noted. “However, Israeli sources were not able to show a photo of the F-35 warplane after the ‘bird collision.’”
Southfront didn’t explain why the Israeli Air Force would feel a need to release a photo of a damaged stealth aircraft. As U.S. defense website The Drive points out, the F-35 is just entering Israeli service now, and wouldn’t likely be flying missions over Syria just yet unless there was some kind of emergency (and Israel has plenty of F-15s and F-16s to handle those right now). Nor is it optimized for the kind of photographic reconnaissance missions that Israel flies over Lebanon.
As The Drive summed up rather neatly, “Although we cannot rule the possibility out entirely, as Freud would say—sometimes a bird strike is just a bird strike.”
In any event, what’s most interesting about this story isn’t whether an F-35 was hit by a Russian missile. Like the existence of UFOs, the story may or not be true, but we need more than circumstantial evidence to give it any credence.
No, the interesting part is that the F-35 has become such a symbol of U.S. technological prowess—or incompetence—that any rumor that an F-35 has been damaged or shot down in combat will draw attention. Russia and its boosters will pounce on any suggestion that an F-35 has been hit, and no doubt the pro- F-35 crowd will counter those suggestions accordingly.
Already there are reports—again, just reports—that Israeli F-35s have flown combat missions. Given that the U.S. and Israeli air forces are among the most active in the world, sooner or later the F-35 will really, truly see combat. But the rumors are out there now.
This is just the beginning.
Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the National Interest . He can be found on Twitterand Facebook.
Le samedi 28 juillet 2018, dans la soirée, plusieurs habitants de la ville de Belfort ont observé un étrange OVNI dans le ciel. L’un des témoins a réussi à le filmer.
Ce mystérieux objet volant non identifié, de forme rectangulaire, était complètement stationnaire. Il aurait été visible pendant un peu plus d’une demi-heure. En analysant les images prises, on remarque qu’il ne s’agissait visiblement pas d’une montgolfière, d’un cerf-volant, d’un ballon ou encore d’un hélicoptère.
Cet engin noir émettait un halo lumineux de couleur orange. Les lumières de l’OVNI ont changé de couleurs peu avant qu’il ne se volatilise soudainement.
Certains ont imaginé qu’il pourrait s’agir d’un drone sophistiqué ou encore d’un prototype d’avion solaire, comme l’a suggéré l’un des témoins.
Certains internautes ont commenté :
« Il y a, effectivement, une espèce de cerf-volant en statique, depuis déjà longtemps, accroché à un câble, au dessus du secteur des services de l’ APRR et de la gendarmerie de l’autoroute, vers l’échangeur de Bessoncourt.
Ceci-dit, je peux témoigner que les phénomènes inexplicables appelés “OVNI” ne sont pas une légende, ayant été personnellement témoin d’une telle apparition dans les années 70. J’en avais d’ailleurs fait un rapport détaillé au GEIPAN, qui m’a répondu que, malheureusement, il ne pouvait le prendre en compte du fait que cette observation avait été effectuée à l’étranger; car cet organisme officiel n’étudie que les phénomènes observés au dessus du territoire national », explique Arioviste.
Aurélie V. raconte avoir déjà observé ce possible OVNI :
« Ce n’est pas la première fois !
Nous l’avions déjà vu de notre terrasse plusieurs fois en soirée en juillet. Il semblerai qu’il soit relié au sol car on voit des câbles de loin.. »
In space, dust comes from comets and exploding stars. It can form planetary rings, drive global weather patterns and even form the seeds of new planets.
To most of us, dust is something to be cleaned up, washed off or wiped away. But the tiny particles that float about and settle on surfaces play an important role in a variety of processes on Earth and across the solar system. So put away that feather duster for a few moments, as we share with you 10 things to know about dust.
1. Dust doesn’t mean dirty, it means tiny
Not all of what we call “dust” is made of the same stuff. Dust in your home generally consists of things like particles of sand and soil, pollen, dander (dead skin cells), pet hair, furniture fibers and cosmetics. But in space, dust can refer to any sort of fine particles smaller than a grain of sand. Dust is most commonly bits of rock or carbon-rich, soot-like grains, but in the outer solar system, far from the sun’s warmth, it’s also common to find tiny grains of ice as well. Galaxies, including our Milky Way, contain giant clouds of fine dust that are light-yearsacross – the ingredients for future generations of planetary systems like ours.
Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice particles and vapor along the famed “tiger stripes” near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Image via NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.
2. Some are big, some are small (and big ones tend to fall)
Dust grains come in a range of sizes, which affects their properties. Particles can be extremely tiny, from only a few tens of nanometers (mere billionths of a meter) wide, to nearly a millimeter wide. As you might expect, smaller dust grains are more easily lifted and pushed around, be it by winds or magnetic, electrical and gravitational forces. Even the gentle pressure of sunlight is enough to move smaller dust particles in space. Bigger particles tend to be heavier, and they settle out more easily under the influence of gravity.
For example, on Earth, powerful winds can whip up large amounts of dust into the atmosphere. While the smaller grains can be transported over great distances, the heavier particles generally sink back to the ground near their source. On Saturn’s moon Enceladus, jets of icy dust particles spray hundreds of miles up from the surface; the bigger particles are lofted only a few tens of miles (or kilometers) and fall back to the ground, while the finest particles escape the moon’s gravity and go into orbit around Saturn to create the planet’s E ring.
Dust in the spiral galaxy M74 appears red in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Data from Spitzer provided evidence that supernovae – the explosive deaths of massive stars – act as “dust factories,” seeding galaxies with cosmic dust particles. Image viaNASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI.
3. It’s EVERYWHERE
Generally speaking, the space between the planets is pretty empty, but not completely so. Particles cast off by comets and ground-up bits of asteroids are found throughout the solar system. Take any volume of space half a mile (1 kilometer) on a side, and you’d average a few micron-sized particles (grains the thickness of a red blood cell).
Dust in the solar system was a lot more abundant in the past. There was a huge amount of it present as the planets began to coalesce out of the disk of material that formed the sun. In fact, motes of dust gently sticking together were likely some of the earliest seeds of the planet-building process. But where did all that dust come from, originally? Some of it comes from stars like our sun, which blow off their outer layers in their later years. But lots of it also comes from exploding stars, which blast huge amounts of dust and gas into space when they go boom.
This mosaic of images from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft shows Jupiter’s ring system, which was only discovered after spacecraft had flown past the planet and could see the rings backlit by the sun. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University.
4. From a certain point of view
Dust is easier to see from certain viewing angles. Tiny particles scatter light depending on how big their grains are. Larger particles tend to scatter light back in the direction from which it came, while very tiny particles tend to scatter light forward, more or less in the direction it was already going. Because of this property, structures like planetary rings made of the finest dusty particles are best viewed with the sun illuminating them from behind. For example, Jupiter’s rings were only discovered after the Voyager 1 spacecraft passed by the planet, where it could look back and see them backlit by the sun. You can see the same effect looking through a dusty windshield at sunset; when you face toward the sun, the dust becomes much more apparent.
Side-by-side movies show how dust enveloped the red planet in 2018, courtesy of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
5. Dust storms are common on Mars
Local dust storms occur frequently on Mars, and occasionally grow or merge to form regional systems, particularly during the southern spring and summer, when Mars is closest to the sun. On rare occasions, regional storms produce a dust haze that encircles the planet and obscures surface features beneath. A few of these events may become truly global storms, such as one in 1971 that greeted the first spacecraft to orbit Mars, NASA’s Mariner 9. In mid-2018, a global dust storm enshrouded Mars, hiding much of the red planet’s surface from view and threatening the continued operation of NASA’s uber-long-lived Opportunity rover. We’ve also seen global dust storms in 1977, 1982, 1994, 2001 and 2007.
Dust storms will likely present challenges for future astronauts on the red planet. Although the force of the wind on Mars is not as strong as portrayed in an early scene in the movie “The Martian,” dust lofted during storms could affect electronics and health, as well as the availability of solar energy.
Sarharan dust is carried by winds to South America, where it helps fertilize the Amazon. Via NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
6. Dust from the Sahara goes global
Earth’s largest, hottest desert is connected to its largest tropical rain forest by dust. The Sahara Desert is a near-uninterrupted brown band of sand and scrub across the northern third of Africa. The Amazon rain forest is a dense green mass of humid jungle that covers northeast South America. But after strong winds sweep across the Sahara, a dusty cloud rises in the air, stretches between the continents, and ties together the desert and the jungle.
This trans-continental journey of dust is important because of what is in the dust – specifically, the dust picked up from the Bodélé Depression in Chad – an ancient lake bed where minerals composed of dead microorganisms are loaded with phosphorus. Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for plant proteins and growth, which the nutrient-poor Amazon rain forest depends on in order to flourish.
Saturn’s icy rings, backlit by the sun. The outer, bluish looking ring is composed entirely of icy dust particles sprayed into space by the moon Enceladus. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI.
7. Rings and things
The rings of the giant planets contain a variety of different dusty materials. Jupiter’s rings are made of fine rock dust. Saturn’s rings are mostly pure water ice, with a sprinkling of other materials. (Side note about Saturn’s rings: While most of the particles are boulder-sized, there’s also lots of fine dust, and some of the fainter rings are mostly dust with few or no large particles.) Dust in the rings of Uranus and Neptune is made of dark, sooty material, probably rich in carbon.
Over time, dust gets removed from ring systems due to a variety of processes. For example, some of the dust falls into the planet’s atmosphere, while some gets swept up by the planets’ magnetic fields, and other dust settles onto the surfaces of the moons and other ring particles. Larger particles eventually form new moons or get ground down and mixed with incoming material. This means rings can change a lot over time, so understanding how the tiniest ring particles are being moved about has a bearing on the history, origins and future of the rings
Dark moon dust clings to the spacesuit of Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan following an excursion on the lunar surface. Image via NASA.
8. Moon dust is clingy and might make you sick
So, dust is kind of a thing on the moon. When the Apollo astronauts visited the Moon, they found that lunar dust quickly coated their spacesuits and was difficult to remove. It was quite abrasive, causing wear on their spacesuit fabrics, seals and faceplates. It also clogged mechanisms like the joints in spacesuit limbs, and interfered with fasteners like zippers and Velcro. The astronauts also noted that it had a distinctive, pungent odor, not unlike gunpowder, and it was an eye and lung irritant.
Many of these properties apparently can be explained by the fact that lunar dust particles are quite rough and jagged. While dust particles on Earth get tumbled and ground by the wind into smoother shapes, this sort of weathering doesn’t happen so much on the moon. The roughness of moon dust grains makes it very easy for them to cling to surfaces and scratch them up. It also means they’re not the sort of thing you would want to inhale, as their jagged edges could damage delicate tissues in the lung.
Hubble Space Telescope image of comet ISON, taken in 2013. Image via NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).
9. Dust is what makes comets so pretty
Most comets are basically clods of dust, rock and ice. They spend most of their time far from the sun, out in the refrigerated depths of the outer solar system, where they’re peacefully dormant. But when their orbits carry them closer to the sun – that is, roughly inside the orbit of Jupiter – comets wake up. In response to warming temperatures, the ices on and near their surfaces begin to turn into gases, expanding outward and away from the comet, and creating focused jets of material in places. Dust gets carried away by this rapidly expanding gas, creating a fuzzy cloud around the comet’s nucleus called a coma. Some of the dust also is drawn out into a long trail – the comet’s tail.
Dust in our solar system is continually replenished by comets whizzing past the sun and the occasional asteroid collision, and it’s always being moved about, thanks to a variety of factors like the gravity of the planets and even the pressure of sunlight. Some of it even gets ejected from our solar system altogether.
With telescopes, we also observe dusty debris disks around many other stars. As in our own system, the dust in such disks should evolve over time, settling on planetary surfaces or being ejected, and this means the dust must be replenished in those star systems as well. So studying the dust in our planetary environs can tell us about other systems, and vice versa. Grains of dust from other planetary systems also pass through our neighborhood – a few spacecraft have actually captured and analyzed some them – offering us a tangible way to study material from other stars.
Bottom line:Ten facts about dust in space and on earth.
SCIENTISTS have made an incredible discovery about the 4000-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza which could help boost renewable energy in the current day.
Scientists from Russia have discovered that Egypt’s largest pyramid can trap electric and magnetic energy into its chambers to spark higher levels of energy.
Researchers from ITMO University in Russia and the Laser Zentrum Hannover found that the 150-metre structure is capable of creating pockets of higher energy in its inner rooms and at its base, reports The Sun.
Scientists have discovered that the pyramid can trap electric and magnetic energy into its chambers to spark higher levels of energy.
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The research group plans to use the results to design nanoparticles, which will be used to develop sensors and highly efficient solar cells, reports The Journal of Applied Physics.
Dr Andrey Evlyukhin, scientific supervisor and co-ordinator of the study, said: “Egyptian pyramids have always attracted great attention.
“We as scientists were interested in them as well, so we decided to look at the Great Pyramid as a particle dissipating radio waves resonantly.
More than 4000 years after they were built, the Pyramids are still helping us today.
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“Due to the lack of information about the physical properties of the pyramid, we had to use some assumptions.
“For example, we assumed that there are no unknown cavities inside, and the building material with the properties of an ordinary limestone is evenly distributed in and out of the pyramid.
“With these assumptions made, we obtained interesting results that can find important practical applications.”
Scientists also found a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza in 2017.
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Researchers modelled the distribution of electromagnetic fields inside the pyramid while studying the interactions of electrical waves.
Scientists have deduced that the pyramid concentrates this electromagnetic energy in its hidden chambers, which includes rooms containing the remains of Pharoah Khufu and his wife.
There is also a third, unfinished chamber beneath the base of the huge structure.
And the team’s analysis shows that the powerful pyramid concentrates electromagnetic energy in its internal chambers.
These hidden rooms include the chamber holding the mummified body of Pharaoh Khufu — who the iconic monument was built for — and another built for his wife.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt.
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But scientists believe the unusual discovery about the electromagnetic energy in the pyramid are just a coincidence.
They believe it is highly unlikely Ancient Egyptians knew anything about the science behind it and would not have built it in this way deliberately.
The pyramid took 20 years to build using around 100,000 slaves.
Scientists now plan to use the incredible discovery on a much smaller scale, which could create effective solar cells.
The higher energy can be used to develop extremely sensitive solar cells or even tiny sensors.
Récemment, deux mystérieux éclairs lumineux ont éclaté sur le côté obscur de la Lune. Quelle est l’origine de ces lumières non identifiées ? Sont-elles d’origine extraterrestre ?
Ces phénomènes bizarres ont été observés à partir de la Terre par le Système de Détection et d’Analyse des Impacts sur la Lune (« Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System » ou « MIDAS ») les nuits du 17 juillet et du 18 juillet 2018.
Les observatoires MIDAS en Espagne scrutent quotidiennement la surface de la Lune à la recherche d’impacts d’astéroïdes et de météores.
Un communiqué de l’Agence spatiale européenne (ESA) a révélé que des flashs avaient été enregistrés à exactement 24 heures d’intervalle, « comme si l’un était à la recherche » de l’autre.
Des photographies détaillées de la surface cahoteuse de la Lune, capturées par des caméras CCD à haute sensibilité, montrent le moment exact de l’impact.
Mais cette vidéo pourrait-elle être la preuve que les chasseurs d’OVNI ont besoin pour finalement régler le débat sur l’existence ou non de visiteurs extraterrestres sur Terre ?
Il est extrêmement improbable que les photos lunaires aient quelque chose à voir avec les extraterrestres, mais MIDAS et l’ESA sont d’accord pour dire que les flashs étaient d’origine extraterrestre.
L’ESA a déclaré : « Le 17 juillet 2018, un ancien morceau provenant de l’espace a été projeté sur la Lune avec assez d’énergie pour produire un éclair de lumière brillant. »
« Un autre rocher était apparemment à sa poursuite puisqu’un deuxième éclair a illuminé une région différente de la Lune presque exactement 24 heures plus tard. »
Malgré la force de l’impact, les estimations actuelles suggèrent que les impacteurs étrangers n’étaient pas plus gros qu’une noix de taille moyenne.
Les roches spatiales de cette taille, appelées météoroïdes, sont généralement des vestiges d’astéroïdes plus gros et de comètes qui dérivent sans but dans l’espace.
Les météoroïdes clignotants en question provenaient vraisemblablement de la traînée poussiéreuse laissée dans le sillage de la comète lors de la pluie de météores Alpha Capricornides.
Cette pluie de météores commence généralement le 15 juillet et se poursuit jusqu’à la mi-août.
L’agence européenne a déclaré : « Depuis au moins mille ans, les gens ont affirmé être témoins de phénomènes de courte durée présents sur la face de la Lune. »
« Par définition, ces éclairs transitoires sont difficiles à étudier, et déterminer leur cause reste un défi. »
Trois observatoires astronomiques en Espagne scrutent la Lune à la recherche de ces éclairs transitoires pour le compte du projet MIDAS.
Les observatoires utilisent de puissants télescopes et des caméras CCD pour détecter et identifier les différents impacts qui agitent la Lune.
Jose Maria Madiedo, du MIDAS, a déclaré qu’une meilleure compréhension de ces impacts lunaires pourrait aider à mieux protéger la Terre contre des dangers similaires.
L’expert spatial a déclaré : « En étudiant les météoroïdes sur la Lune, nous pouvons déterminer combien de roches l’impactent et à quelle fréquence, et à partir de là, nous pouvons déduire les chances d’impact sur Terre. »
Cette explication scientifique paraît parfaitement plausible. Toutefois, la possibilité d’OVNI ne devrait pas être écartée. Dans ce genre de cas, il est nécessaire de garder l’esprit ouvert.
It’s one thing to send an astronaut to Mars to be an extraterrestrial tourist for a few hours. But if humanity wants to actually colonize our neighboring planets, we’re going to need more than rockets: We’ll need the tools to construct actual buildings.
For the last five years, a lean internal team of engineers at the Kennedy Space Center has taken a different approach to solving big problems–NASA’s literal and metaphorical moonshots. It’s called the Swamp Works lab, and its members experiment and take risks in the hopes of accelerating research and making bigger breakthroughs.
One of the problems Swamp Works has set its sights on? How to build on other planets.
[Image: NASA/Autodesk]
The problem sounds simple: It’s far too expensive to transport heavy, cumbersome building materials to space, and it’s not practical for humans to spend the time and energy on construction in a harsh environment. So Swamp Works’ engineers are designing robots that use local materials–like regolith, a crushed rock that’s plentiful on both the Moon and Mars–to build structures that can withstand extreme environments, micrometeorites, and radiation from the sun.
This week, Swamp Works shared details of how it’s using a combination of regolith and plastic polymer to 3D print its first large-scale construction prototype. But rather than printing a Martian structure, the group printed a Jersey barrier, the type of barricade you probably see on the side of the highway every day. Here on Earth, these barriers need to be able to withstand the impact of a car hurtling into them–which makes them the perfect test case for the atmospheric pressure that extraterrestrial architecture will need to endure.
[Image: NASA/Autodesk]Jersey barriers have an internal structure that looks almost like a honeycomb, making them a challenge to print using Swamp Works’ polymer material, since horizontal shapes tend to fall apart before they can harden into place. To make it work, the lab partnered with engineers from Autodesk’s Advanced Consulting team, which helped refine the manufacturing process so that Swamp Works’ automated 3D-printing robots could replicate the complicated lateral shapes found inside jersey barriers.
If you’re printing a building on another planet, you can’t afford any defects, so Autodesk designed specialized software that could correct the robot’s mistakes as it went, ensuring that the structures it builds will be completely functional and reliable. Swamp Works and NASA estimate that they might be able to put a prototype structure on either Mars or the moon in about five years, with a full-scale launch in about 10 years–assuming they can get the funding.
But figuring out how to construct extraterrestrial architecture is only half the battle. As the lab works on its own prototypes, it’s also soliciting ideas through a three-phase design competition. Just last week, the team announced the five finalists for the third stage of NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, through which teams of engineers proposed designs that could feasibly be 3D printed using local materials.
One concept, called Zopherus, proposes that all the 3D printing occurs inside a rocket sitting on the Martain surface. When it’s completed, the lander picks itself up and moves to another spot before beginning the process all over again. Another proposal, called Marsha, envisions the buildings as vertical cylinders since the shape can be more effectively pressurized with oxygen–plus, it provides the greatest usable floor space. While these are only concepts, all five teams will now design a custom 3D printer that can build a scale prototype of their concept by spring of 2019–and the winner will take home $2 million.
All of this research also has implications on Earth. NASA has already partnered with the U.S. Army to experiment with using polymers from trash combined with local rock to create building material. For Autodesk, refining its software to suit NASA’s specifications has other benefits: The company hopes to use a material made of recycled PET bottles and regolith in industrial construction–and even home construction.
Here on Earth, Swamp Works is using recycled plastic in its prototypes. But on other planets, the plastic may come from other, more efficient sources–like thermoplastic synthesized from carbon on Mars’s surface, or polylactic acid from corn grown in greenhouses on the planet. While we have too much plastic on Earth, NASA will have to harvest its own on Mars.
NASA is ready to go where no spacecraft has gone before. Some space fans may already know that the Parker Solar Probe, which is set to come within 4 million miles of the surface of the sun, was supposed to launch July 31. Now, the Parker Solar Probe is scheduled for liftoff next week, which makes now as good a time as any to learn everything there is to know about this extraordinary spacecraft.
The Parker Solar Probe is supposed to become the first spacecraft to enter the sun’s corona, or its outer atmosphere. NASA is calling it “a mission 60 years in the making,” and the historic journey is one you won’t want to miss.
NASA to launch most daring mission to study the sun
What Is the Parker Solar Probe and When Will It Launch?
The solar probe is a spacecraft that is scheduled to “swoop closer to the Sun’s surface than any spacecraft before.” It has a 4.5-inch-thick (11.43 cm) carbon-composite shield to protect it from the Sun’s extreme heat and will include solar array wings, a high-gain antenna, and other components that NASA added to give the spacecraft the best possible chance of success.
As of Wednesday, August 1, the solar probe has a 45-minute launch window on August 11. However, NASA lists a launch window of August 11 to August 19 on the Parker Solar Probe website. Previously, it was scheduled to launch on July 31, then no earlier than August 4.
However, more time was reportedly needed to accommodatemore software testing of spacecraft systems. Spaceflight Nowalso reported July 20 that NASA said it needed more time to look at the “configuration of a cable clamp on the payload fairing.”
At the very least, launch rehearsals are scheduled for the next week-and-a-half, according to Andrew Driesman, the Parker Solar Probe’s project manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who spoke with Spaceflight Now.
With all these instances of the launch date moving, it’s a good idea to be cautiously optimistic about it happening August 11. It wouldn’t hurt to give NASA a little bit of wiggle room on the exact day coming up in the next few weeks.
What Will the Parker Solar Probe Do?
The Parker Solar Probe will travel almost seven times closer to the sun than any spacecraft that has come before. NASA wants to get close to it to better predict space weather effects on Earth and on all of us fragile Earthlings.
When it moves towards the sun, the Parker Solar Probe will race through space at 430,000 miles per hour, becoming the fastest man-made object in the solar system. It will also provide humanity with the first samplings of a star’s corona ever, NASA reports.
Over the course of a seven-year mission, NASA says, the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft will make 24 orbits of the sun.
The Parker Solar Probe has now cleared final procedures before being moved to the launch pad, NASA reports. The agency is closer than ever before to “touching” the sun, and as long as all goes according to plan, this historic spacecraft will head toward our heavens on August 11.
Elon Musk is not giving up on his dream of transforming Mars into humanity’s second home. The SpaceX CEO has been debating over Twitter this week about whether the red planet has the right resources to support an Earth-like atmosphere. A new study claims there isn’t enough carbon dioxide available to support the plan, but Musk points to evidence that humans could release sufficient gases from the Martian soil using the right technology
The debate started on Monday, when a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy explored two approaches to terraforming Mars. The first is to create an atmosphere sufficient for supporting liquid water on Mars’ surface, meaning humans could freely walk around and breathe the air, while the second involves raising the planet’s atmospheric pressure so humans will only need to use a small breathing apparatus rather than the bulky spacesuits of today. The researchers, Bruce Jakosky of the University of Colorado Boulder and Christopher S. Edwards of Northern Arizona University, found that the planet doesn’t have enough carbon dioxide to support either plan, as Mars only holds enough carbon dioxide to create around 15 millibars of atmospheric pressure. Destroying Martian sedimentary rocks would only release around 12 millibars. For comparison, Earth’s atmosphere reaches 1,000 millibars at sea level.
Musk disputed the findings, which were reported in Discover Magazine.
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Sorry, Elon. There's not enough CO2 to terraform Mars:
There’s a massive amount of CO2 on Mars adsorbed into soil that’d be released upon heating. With enough energy via artificial or natural (sun) fusion, you can terraform almost any large, rocky body.
Musk’s goal is to transform humanity into a “multi-planetary species.” While SpaceX plans to send humans to Mars as soon as 2024, the long-term goal is to set up a permanent Mars base that could eventually span out into a city. His June 2017 article in the journal New Space claimed Mars is a better candidate for colonization than the moon because it has an atmosphere, more natural resources, and a 24.5-hour day compared to the moon’s 28-day day. At the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, last September, Musk showed an artist’s impression of how this city may look.
A Mars city.
This is just the beginning, though. Musk wants to move away from small extraterrestrial bases and instead toward humans as a star-hopping species. In June 2017, he wrote that “there are really two fundamental paths … One path is we stay on Earth forever, and then there will be some eventual extinction event. I do not have an immediate doomsday prophecy, but eventually, history suggests, there will be some doomsday event. The alternative is to become a space-bearing civilization and a multi-planetary species, which I hope you would agree is the right way to go.”
Musk has spoken before about how he could transform Mars into a livable planet. He told TV host Stephen Colbert in September 2015 that humans could fire nuclear weapons at Mars to melt the frozen stores of carbon dioxide, inducing a rapid climate change to benefit humans. Another, suggested the following month, is to create “tiny pulsing suns over the poles [that are] above the planet, not on the planet.” These would “gasify frozen carbon dioxide, thicken the atmosphere and warm up the water and all of that would have a greenhouse effect, a cascading effect, to continue warming up the planet.”
The magazine responded by speaking to Jakosky and Edwards about their research. The pair admitted Musk is right, Mars does contain adsorbed carbon dioxide, but Jakosky could only conceive of two methods for releasing the gases. The first would be to release chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, to induce rapid climate change, while the other would involve using a mirror as big as the day side of Mars to warm it up quickly. Both of these ideas are centuries away, and even then it’s unclear whether Martian rock adsorbs gas as efficiently as Earth rock. While a favorable ecosystem and warm temperatures encourage gas adsorption on Earth, NASA’s Curiosity rover has found few signs of rocks with carbonates.
Musk responded by citing a 1993 paper, written by Robert M. Zubrin of Martin Marietta Astronautics and Christopher P. McKay of the NASA Ames Research Center, which claims that humans could indeed use today’s technology to transform the planet and develop a suitable atmosphere. People would need to use a breathing apparatus, but they could ditch the pressure suits and walk around freely. The paper describes this dramatic project, which would require multi-terawatt power sources, as “a leap in human power over nature as dramatic as that which accompanied the creation of post-Renaissance industrial civilization.”
“There is positive feedback- we warm Mars a few degrees C with CF4. this will cause CO2 to outgas from the soil,” Zubrin wrote in support of Musk on Twitter. “That will warm Mars more, releasing more CO2, resulting in a runaway greenhouse effect. Contrary to Jakowsky, the required CO2 is almost certainly there. If the soil contains one percent adsorbed CO2 by wt, it will contain enough CO2 in the top 200 m to give Mars a 300 mb (5 psi) atmosphere - same pressure as Skylab - or Mt Everest. No need for spacesuits on such a Mars.”
Do you have reason to suspect that the figures in the recent paper for total adsorbed CO2 are wrong? If they are accurate than the CO2 level required to kick in the positive feedback is just about the total CO2 present at all.
Robert Zubrin@robert_zubrin
Yes. the Jakowski paper is nonsense. He identifies 400 mb worth of CO2 reservoirs, and then rounds off the total to 20 mb. Quiz: What is $100 + $150 + $50 +$50 +$25 +$25? Jakowski’s math says the sum is $20. What is your answer? Here is mine.
Zubrin also criticized Jakowsky for claiming in the ‘90s that there was no ice at mid-latitudes on Mars, a claim disputed by scientists as they discover further potential stores of water over the coming years. Zubrin claims that, as with his ice claims, Jakowsky has no data to assert that Mars does not have enough carbon dioxide.
Robert Zubrin@robert_zubrin
@elonmusk@DiscoverMag Jakowski claims 40 mb of CO2 in #Mars soil. But if there is 1% CO2 by wt in soil, there will be 300 mb in the top 200 m. Has Jakowski (or anyone) drilled the Martian regolith to determine its subsurface CO2 content? No. If we don’t go, we won’t know.
As for when this could take place if Musk and Zubrin are correct? Zubrin estimates that it would take around 100 years for heat to penetrate Mars to 40 meters’ depth, and a further 500 years to reach 100 meters’ depth.
Als het klopt wat wetenschappers beweren in het vakblad ‘Doklady Biological Sciences’, zijn deze wormen maar liefst 41.700 jaar oud. Het gaat om twee geslachten, de zogeheten Plectus en de Panagrolaimus, die in de Siberische permafrost verbleven en bijna 42.000 jaar geleden aan een winterslaapje begonnen. Tienduizenden jaren hebben ze in een ijslaag overleefd. Onderzoekers die bodemmonsters verzamelden, vonden de dieren. In het laboratorium werden de wormen in een petrischaaltje tot een temperatuur van 20 graden Celsius opgewarmd. Na enkele weken kwam er beweging in: de rondwormen, allebei vrouwelijk, kropen rond en gingen weer eten. Het zou gaan om ’s wereld oudste levende dieren.
“Rondwormen kunnen heel goed tegen bevriezing”, zegt nematoloog Wim Bert (UGent). “Dat fenomeen is natuurlijk al veel langer bekend. Ik doe het zelf ook voor practicalessen. Vooral de lange duur is hier opvallend. Er wordt nu snel gesproken over het opnieuw tot leven wekken van andere, grotere dieren of het invriezen van mensen, maar op dat vlak heb je weinig aan de rondwormen. De wormen hebben geen hersenen. Die invriezen en weer tot leven brengen, is veel moeilijker en ligt nog ver weg.” (DM)
As you might guess, FRBs are milliseconds-long bursts of radio emissions that come from some unknown source across the universe. They're one of the newer cosmic mysteries around, having been first detected only about a decade ago. Possible explanations include bursts from magnetars, exploding black holes, and yes, highly advanced alien civilizations.
CHIME has been operating for less than a year and is designed to gather data on FRBs and other unanswered questions in astrophysics. The detection of FRB 180725A is very preliminary at this point. It was announced in an online "Astronomer's Telegram" post intended to encourage other astronomers "to search for repeated bursts at all wavelengths."
The announcement also notes that additional FRBs have been found in the past week at frequencies as low as 400 MHz and early indications suggest they aren't coming from known sources on Earth.
It's early days for both the study of FRBs and this FRB in particular. CHIME and other observatories will be keeping an ear to the sky for more clues to help solve the mystery.
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Nieuwe telescoop pikt mysterieus signaal op uit de ruimte. Aliens of iets anders?
Nieuwe telescoop pikt mysterieus signaal op uit de ruimte. Aliens of iets anders?
De nieuwe Canadese radiotelescoop CHIME heeft op 25 juli een mysterieus signaal uit de ruimte opgepikt. Het gaat om een zogeheten snelle radioflits, genaamd FRB 180725A.
Dergelijke radioflitsen zijn afkomstig van een onbekende bron in het universum. De eerste werd ongeveer 10 jaar geleden ontdekt.
Het fenomeen is met mysterie omgeven. Mogelijke verklaringen variëren van magnetars tot exploderende zwarte gaten en hoogontwikkelde buitenaardse beschavingen.
Opgeroepen
De radiotelescoop, die vorig jaar in gebruik werd genomen, is speciaal ontwikkeld om onder meer gegevens over radioflitsen te verzamelen.
De nieuwe radioflits werd aangekondigd in een bericht op The Astronomer’s Telegram, waarin andere astronomen werden opgeroepen om te kijken of het signaal zich herhaalde.
In het bericht werd verder opgemerkt dat snelle radioflitsen in het verleden zijn waargenomen bij frequenties rond 400 MHz en dat er sterke aanwijzingen zijn dat ze niet afkomstig zijn van bronnen op aarde.
Enorm krachtig
Tot dusver is slechts één snelle radioflits ontdekt die zich herhaalt. Onderzoekers zeggen dat de bron van dit signaal enorm krachtig moet zijn.
CHIME en andere radiotelescopen blijven de hemel afspeuren in een poging het mysterie rond dit fenomeen te ontrafelen.
Bak in November 2013, I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe on an old, enduring story that dates back many centuries. My article was titled “The Wild Kids of Woolpit” and it began as follows: “Woolpit is an ancient English village situated between the Suffolk towns of Bury St. Edmunds and Stowmarket. And it’s a village with a very strange storyattached to it. So the tale goes, back in the 12th Century, a young girl and boy, of strangely green-hued skin, appeared in Woolpit one day, claiming to have come from a magical place called St. Martin’s Land. It was, they said, a place which existed in an atmosphere of permanent twilight, and where the people lived underground, on nothing but green beans. While the story has been relegated by many to the realms of mere myth and folklore, it may not be just that. It might, actually, be much more.”
Although there are those who have embraced the theory that the green children may have had supernatural origins – fairies, for example – I personally think there is a much more likely scenario, as I also noted in 2013 article: “The pair may have been suffering from a condition called Hypochromic Anemia, in which the sufferer – as a result of a very poor diet that, in part, affects the color of the red blood-cells – can develop skin of a noticeably green shade. In support of this scenario, Hypochromic Anemia was once known as Chlorosis, a word formulated in the early 1600s by a Montpellier professor of medicine named Jean Varandal. And why did Varandal choose such a name? Simple: It came from the Greek word Chloris, meaning greenish-yellow or pale green.”
Although I don’t personally think that the mystery is one which has supernatural origins, I thought today I would share with you the words of those who have commented on the theory that the Green Kids of Woolpit may have been extraterrestrial in nature. Little Green Men? Well, some might say “Yes.” Dr. Karl Shuker, one of the world’s leading Cryptozoologists, wrote of this ancient affair:
“In his book Mysteries: Solved and Unsolved (1959), [Harold T.] Wilkins boldly proposed that the green children may have entered our world from a parallel version (existing in a separate dimensional plane but directly alongside our own), by accidentally passing through some form of interdimensional ‘window’ bridging the two. Another dramatic proposal is that the green children are extraterrestrials. As long ago as 1651, Robert Burton opined in his tome Anatomy of Melancholy that they may have come from Venus or Mars.”
Tristan Eldritch provides the following: “To a modern reader, the children might suggest stranded extraterrestrials of some kind, and this interpretation of the tale goes back much further than you would imagine.” Eldtritch adds that, “the story found its way into Francis Goodwin’s fancy The Man in the Moone (1638), a work sometimes regarded as the very earliest example of science fiction.”
Melanie Koslovic offers this: “It has also been suggested that the children may have been aliens, or inhabitants of a world beneath the Earth. In 1996 an article was published in the magazine Analog concerning this mystery; astronomer Duncan Lunan hypothesized that the children were accidentally sent to Woolpit from their home planet due to a malfunction in their ‘matter transmitter.’ Lunan thinks that the planet from which the children originated may be trapped in a synchronous orbit around its sun, presenting the conditions for life only in a narrow twilight zone between a fiercely hot surface and a frozen dark side. He believes the children’s green color is a side effect of consuming genetically modified alien plants eaten on their planet.”
As I said, I am firmly in the down-to-earth camp when it comes to the matter of the strange children of Woolpit. It’s unlikely, though, that the matter will ever be resolved to the satisfaction of everyone.
Grote Piramide richt elektromagnetische energie via verborgen kamers op deze plek. Wetenschappers doen verrassende vondst
Grote Piramide richt elektromagnetische energie via verborgen kamers op deze plek. Wetenschappers doen verrassende vondst
Wetenschappers hebben ontdekt dat elektromagnetische energie zich concentreert in de verborgen kamers in en onder de Grote Piramide van Gizeh.
“Egyptische piramides hebben altijd veel aandacht getrokken,” zegt hoofdonderzoeker Andrej Evljoekhin.
“Wij waren er als wetenschappers ook in geïnteresseerd,” zegt hij, toevoegende dat ze besloten de bouwwerken aan een onderzoek te onderwerpen.
Interessant
Onderzoekers van de ITMO University in Sint-Petersburg en het Laser Zentrum Hannover brachten de verdeling van elektromagnetische velden in de Grote Piramide in kaart.
Omdat er weinig betrouwbare informatie is over de eigenschappen van de piramides, moesten ze zich af en toe baseren op aannames.
“We namen bijvoorbeeld aan dat er geen onbekende ruimtes meer in de piramide zijn en dat de bouwmaterialen evenredig verdeeld zijn over de piramide,” zegt dr. Evljoekhin.
“Onze resultaten zijn interessant te noemen,” vervolgt hij.
Onafgemaakte kamer
Uit de analyse van de wetenschappers blijkt dat elektromagnetische energie zich concentreert in de verborgen kamers van de piramide.
Het gaat hierbij om kamers in de piramide en eronder, waar zich nog een onafgemaakte kamer bevindt.
De piramide is zo gebouwd dat de energie via de lege ruimtes naar de ondergrond en die kamer wordt geleid.
Nanodeeltjes
De elektromagnetische energie hoopt zich op in de lege ruimtes, leggen de onderzoekers uit in de studie, die is gepubliceerd in het Journal of Applied Physics.
“De piramide verstrooit als het ware de elektromagnetische golven en richt ze op de ondergrond,” klinkt het.
De manier waarop elektromagnetische energie wordt verdeeld in de piramide, kan ons helpen bij de ontwikkeling van nanodeeltjes, laat Polina Kapitainova van de IMTO University weten.
ASTRONAUT BUZZ ALDRIN ZORGT VOOR TOTALE VERWARRING OVER DE MAAN ( VIDEO )
ASTRONAUT BUZZ ALDRIN ZORGT VOOR TOTALE VERWARRING OVER DE MAAN ( VIDEO )
Het internet gonst weer eens van de verhalen vanwege een opmerking die voormalig astronaut Buzz Aldrin maakte tegen een achtjarig meisje.
Hij zei luid en duidelijk tegen haar dat we nooit naar de maan zijn geweest en nu is men op internet verdeeld in twee kampen.
De maanlandingen en of die nu wel of niet echt zijn gebeurd, is iets dat de gemoederen blijft bezighouden, ook nu weer, nadat een vreemde opname van voormalig astronaut Buzz Aldrin boven water is gekomen.
Aldrin hoorde bij de bemanning van de bekende Apollo 11 missie en was na Neil Armstrong, formeel de tweede mens die in 1969 voet op de maan zette.
Hij leeft nog steeds Buzz Aldrin en baarde enkele jaren geleden ook opzien door plotsklaps op Antarctica te verschijnen, waar hij onverwachts ziek werd en met grote spoed werd afgevoerd, zoals wij in een eerder artikel schreven.
Nu gaan er echter beelden viraal van Buzz Aldrin, opgenomen in 2015, waarin een achtjarig meisje hem vraagt waarom we niet meer terug zijn geweest op de maan.
Het antwoord is nogal verbazingwekkend want geloof het of niet, Aldrin zegt letterlijk dat we niet op de maan zijn geweest.
Kijk en oordeel zelf.
En dan vormen zich onmiddellijk twee kampen. De ene die denkt dat wat Buzz zegt absoluut klopt en dat we dus nooit op de maan zijn geweest en de andere helft die denkt dat Aldrin per ongeluk iets verkeerds zegt.
Iemand die dat laatste denkt is Tyler van Secureteam die in zijn meest recente video zelfs suggereert dat omdat Aldrin behoorlijk op leeftijd is, hij duidelijk moeite heeft om dingen goed te verwoorden en aan het dementeren zou zijn.
Maar, Buzz Aldrin is nog steeds heel scherp en is er zeker niet de man naar om dit soort opmerkingen te maken wanneer hij dat niet zou willen doen. Dus, waarom zegt hij ditdan?
Misschien wel omdat niet alleen de maanlandingen nep waren, maar omdat de complete maan wellicht nep is en niet bestaat.
Voor dat verhaal gaan we terug naar een eerder artikel van november vorig jaar, waar diezelfde Tyler van Secureteam met een video kwam met een verhaal van een Youtube gebruiker van wie het kanaal was afgesloten, onmiddellijk nadat hij een hele vreemde video over de maan had gepubliceerd.
Een video welke is opgenomen met een telescoop door de man die zichzelf Crrow777 noemt en waarop een vreemde golfbeweging is waar te nemen die als het ware over de hele maan trekt.
De Lunar Wave laat iets zien dat eigenlijk niet kan, een soort golfbeweging over het oppervlak van de maan van onder naar boven. Een effect wat je ook wel ziet als de wind over het water blaast. Men noemt dit in het Engels een ripple effect. Hierdoor lijkt het alsof het maanoppervlak niet solide is, maar bijvoorbeeld vloeibaar als water.
Deze opname is zo beroemd geworden dat grote mainstream kranten er over hebben geschreven en na de eerste Lunar wave slaagde Crrow777 er op 9 maart 2014 opnieuw in om deze wave vast te leggen.
Crrow777 is er na jaren van observeren en filmen van de maan door een telescoop van overtuigd dat de maan niet is wat wij denken dat het is. Volgens hem is het niets anders dan een hologram in de lucht en zijn de Lunar waves kleine foutjes in de programmering die dat aantonen.
De meest voor de hand liggende verklaring zou zijn een mankement aan de opname apparatuur, maar na jaren onderzoek wordt dit door Crrow777 uitgesloten, omdat het effect alleen zichtbaar is op het oppervlak van de maan en niet op de totale opname.
Daarnaast is ditzelfde effect op het maanoppervlak inmiddels door zo'n 30 andere mensen ook vastgelegd. Hiermee lijkt een technisch mankement uitgesloten.
Dus, waarom is deze opname kennelijk zodanig gevaarlijk dat er een account met 80.000 abonnees waar eigenlijk alleen maar opnames van de maan op staan, wordt gesloten. Het schijnt nog verder te gaan dan dat, want wanneer mensen nu zoeken op Crrow777 via Youtube of Google worden primair allerlei resultaten getoond die zeggen dat de Lunar wave niet echt is.
Het videokanaal van Crrow777 schijnt inmiddels weer in de lucht te zijn en daarom is het ook mogelijk een tweede video van deze man te bekijken (onderstaand), waarin hij verder voortborduurt op de door hem en ook anderen waargenomen Lunar Wave.
De man heeft intensief contact gehad met verschillende Russische wetenschappers die hem dingen hebben verteld/laten zien, waaruit zou blijken dat hij absoluut op het goede spoor zit met zijn theorie dat de maan een hologram is. Er zijn tevens onderzoeksresultaten vertaald uit het Russisch waaruit dit blijkt, zoals ook aan het einde van de video wordt getoond.
Dat wij als mensheid onder controle staan van bepaalde entiteiten die voor ons een bepaalde illusionaire wereld hebben geschapen, waarin als het ware alles nep is, inclusief de zon en de maan.
Voor velen zal dit een stap te ver zijn, maar het past natuurlijk ook aardig in de theorie die zegt dat God mogelijk niets anders is dan een IT specialist en dat diezelfde God voor ons een matrix heeft geschapen waarbinnen wij leven en het gevoel krijgen dat alles echt is.
Kijk en luister naar wat Crow777 te zeggen heeft , met in het achterhoofd de opmerking van de tweede man die voet op de maan zou hebben gezet gezet en die letterlijk zegt dat we er niet geweest zijn.
One of the coolest stories from last week (September 18, 2012) introduced the world to what many are now calling an underwater crop circle. Of course, these sea floor circles have nothing to do with crops, but they are intricate circles, reminiscent of the elaborate crop circles that sometimes turn up in farmers’ fields. Japanese photographer Yoji Ookata captured the photos below while on a dive near Amami Oshima at the southern tip of Japan. He said the rippling geometric sand patterns are nearly six feet in diameter and almost 80 feet below sea level.
Image Credit: Yoji Ookata
Image Credit: Yoji Ookata
Ookata brought colleagues and a television crew to study the mysterious underwater circles further. They found that the artist was a small puffer fish who, using only his flapping fin, tirelessly worked day and night to carve the circular ridges.
Puffer fish. This fish carved the elaborate deep sea circles by flapping a fin.
Image Credit: Yoji Ookata
The photo above shows the artist: the puffer fish. In Japan, these fish are considered a delicacy, despite the fact they can be poisonous. According to the blog Spoon & Tamago, which I believe is where this story originated, this fish even takes “small shells, cracks them, and lines the inner grooves of his sculpture as if decorating his piece.
Apparently female puffer fish are attracted by the grooves and ridges. They mate and lay eggs in the center of these undersea circles.
Puffer fish at work making a circle. The circles are apparently for mating purposes. Female puffer fish lay their eggs in the centers of them.
Image Credit: Yoji Ookata
Bottom line: In September 2012, a story began circulating about underwater “crop circles,” which are apparently made by puffer fish. Japanese photographer Yoji Ookata discovered them and later brought back a film crew and others to study them. The story appeared in the blog Spoon & Tamago on September 18, 2012.
Ask a kid to name as many three-dimensional geometric shapes as he or she can think of and they’ll probably run out of fingers to count on before they run out of names … even counting two-dimensional mistakes like triangles. Ask them to name the newest 3-D geometric shape, and you’ll likely get a dog-hearing-a-strange-noise stare, followed by a return to texting on the hexahedron in their hand. If they’re the type to talk back and respond with, “Can you?”, the answer is yes … the newest 3-D geometric shape is the scutoid and it can be found in epithelial cells in human skin. Yes, there will be a test.
‘Scutoid’ sounds like a mutant android but it’s actually a shape somewhat like a prism with a five-sided pentagon on one end and a six-sided hexagon on the other. The points are able to join via a triangle adjacent to one edge of the hexagon whose non-adjacent point magically reduces the number of edges from six to five. If you’re lost, here’s a picture.
Scutoids (Image credit: University of Seville)
While this all sounds mathematical, the source of the scutoid discovery is actually biological. According to their study published in Nature Communications, researchers at Seville University in Spain and Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, were studying how skin develops on an embryo and trying to determine how the cells are able to conform to the curve of the embryonic body while remaining tightl;y packed together. While it has always been assumed that the cells were shaped like straight-sided columns or bottles that expand on the non-skin side, a computer model showed a better way … and a new shape. Javier Buceta, associate professor of bioengineering at Lehigh and study co-author, explains:
“During the modeling process, the results we saw were weird. Our model predicted that as the curvature of the tissue increases, columns and bottle-shapes were not the only shapes that cells may developed. To our surprise, the additional shape didn’t even have a name in math! One does not normally have the opportunity to name a new shape.”
One would think that if one were given such an opportunity, one would come up with a better name than ‘scutoid’. Being biologists and scientists, they immediately recognized that the shape resembled a Scutellum — the posterior part of an insect thorax – and the scutoid was christened. Someone a little more clever noticed the shape’s convoluted sides and called it a ‘twisted prim’ which is a better name for it and a great name for a band.
Scutellum – 9
Is this a big deal? Yes, says Buceta.
“We have unlocked nature’s solution to achieving efficient epithelial bending.”
In layman’s terms, using the scutoid shape will make it easier to create artificial skin and organs that better match the looks, performance and efficiency of the real thing, especially on a growing body.
Sorry Dr. Buceta. That all sounds great, but scutoid still sounds like more like something the new female Dr. Who will encounter. Or a trick answer on a geometry test.
Great Pyramid of Giza can focus electromagnetic energy through its hidden chambers
Great Pyramid of Giza can focus electromagnetic energy through its hidden chambers
A team of German and Russian physicists studying the properties of the Great Pyramid, also known as the Khufu Pyramid, have found that it can concentrate electromagnetic energy inside its hidden chambers and focus the electromagnetic waves into the substrate region, according to a study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Applied Physics.
According to Andrei Yevlyukhin, an ITMO University research coordinator in St. Petersburg, the Khufu Pyramid and its "cousins" are often attributed all kinds of "magical" properties, including ability to "concentrate cosmic energy" and other unscientific phenomena.
Scientists surmised that the Great Pyramid, just like many other man-made objects, could act as a resonator focusing and amplifying waves commensurate with the size of the objects themselves.
In this particular case the researchers were examining waves within the 200-600 meter (656-1,968 feet) range - the wavelength many amateur radio stations work on.
Creating a computer model of the Great Pyramid, the scientists bombarded it with radio waves to see how they would interact with the pyramid as a whole and its elements.
As these calculations have shown, the pyramid will indeed interact with the "amateur" radio waves, accumulating their energy inside the King's Chamber redirecting it to the substrate region where the third chamber is located.
Most of all, it will affect the waves with a length of 333 meters (1,092 feet) and 230 meters (754 feet).
According to the authors, the Great Pyramid and its "brethren" can interact even more strongly with other types of waves, but this remains to be verified, reports sputniknews.
Kallavesi is a lake in the Eastern part of Finland, near the city of Kuopio. A local resident Mr. Raimo Blomqvist, 30, was visiting with his parents their summer cottage on an island in Kallavesi. It was a Saturday evening in August, about 19 o´clock, when he suddenly noticed a strange, colourful light ball coming from the sky, under the cloud cover.
The light came nearer and turned out to be an oval glowing object. It was something he had never seen – that is why it was difficult for him to discribe the object. He said that it had “the shape of a fishcock” (“kalakukko”, a local dish with fish and meet baked in bread). There was one difference: as the cross section of a fishcock is a quite regular, symmetric ellipse, one end of the strange object was oddly curved.
While the object was hovering above the shallow water of the island (some meters above water, 10 meters from Mr. Blomqvist) he saw something falling from the object. When it broke the water surface, he heard a sound that resembled hot metal touching cold water.
The UFO started to glow brightly and shot almost straight upwards and disappeared into the clouds. Mr. Blomqvist went to the shallow water and found a piece of stone. It was 3-4 cm long, and you could see 5 layers in it.
11 years later Mr. Blomqvist contacted UFO investigators, told his story and gave the piece of stone found in the water. At that time we had a board member in the FUFORA, engineer Olavi Kiviniemi, who worked in the laboratorium of a steel factory. He organized proper lab investigations of the strange piece, also at labs of universities.
They found out that the piece mostly was of iron, but there were also small amounts of other materials: copper, zink, magnesium, mangan, zirkonium, vanadium, titanium and crom. They also found out that the stone had been in a temperature of 650-800 degrees Celsius for a long time.
Later some investigators have proposed that the UFO piece found in Kallavesi is residue from a traditional iron factory. The piece resembles that kind of metal residue, but is not totally similar.
As many people who have had strong UFO experiences, it appeared that Raimo Blomqvist had parapsychological sensitivity. Later he also said that he had met space beings who looked like normal people.
Seven “air balloons” in Pori 1969
In Pori, a city in southwest Finland, there is an air field used by both civilian and military airplanes. 12.4.1969 there was a training camp of the Air Force of Finland. About 20 pilots were observing, how 7 yellow balls appeared in the sky. They were hovering about 2000 meters above the airfield. They were also seen by radar.
Nowbody knew what those strange objects were. Pilot Tarmo Tukeva was in the air training bombing attacks. He was ordered to go to check out those strange balls. When Tukeva was approaching the balls with his jet Fouga Magister, they started to move out as a formation. They sped away so fast towards the North that the jet had no chance to reach them. It was measured that there was wind blowing 185 km/h, and those objects were flying against it. Very soon the balloons were seen on the radar at the airfield of Vaasa.
No normal explanation was found. Two pilots who saw the strange balloons in the Pori airfield were Jouko Kuronen and Tarmo Tukeva. Jouko Kuronen, later the head of Lappeenranta airport, has talked about the case many times afterwards in public. Tarmo Tukeva described the UFOs that he was catching by jet in the international TV program “Visitors from the Skies” (Juhan af Grann 1992), prized later with an EBE Oscar a the Las Vegas UFO Film Festival. Tukeva died of a heart attack two weeks after telling about the UFO case.
This UFO case is the only one accepted officially by the Finnish Air Force. Tietomaa, the Science Center of Oulu, organized a UFO exhibition and International UFO seminar (with foreign lecturers: Friedman from Canada, Azaza and Popovich from Russia, Volke from Estonia) in co-operation with FUFORA in 1993. The organizers sent a letter concerning the Pori UFO case to the Finnish Air Force. They answered by sending back an official letter (signed by the Information Chief of the Air Force), where they informed that those 7 strange balls seen during the training period of the Air Force were never explained in any normal ways.
FUFORA has tried to co-operate with the Finnish Army, but only in some few cases and with certain persons has it succeeded. Representatives of the Air Force have told our investigators that the Air Force has many UFO cases, but because the strange objects flying in the airspace of Finland represent overwhelming technology, it has been better no to talk about the subject in public.
Rauno Meriö, the former head of the Finnish Air Force, has been very interested in UFOs (translated Bowen´s book “Humanoids”), but has never given comments on UFOs in public.
In the 1970`s we had secret negotiations with Finnish generals to start co-operation in UFO investigation. FUFORA was ready to infrom the army about UFO cases, but when the army didn´t promise to give their information, the negotiations ended.
Humanoid of Imjärvi 1970
The UFO case in Imjärvi, the village near Heinola City (Eastern part of Finland) is maybe the best-known Finnish UFO case abroad. We have had so little international co-operation in UFO investigation (due to the language barrier) that only very few Finnish UFO cases are well-known in other countries.
That winterday in 1970 two men were skiing in the forest, Aarno Heinonen, 36, and Esko Viljo, 38. Both were quite good skiers and participated in local skiing competitions. They took a break in a small open area amidst trees. It was 16.45 o´clock.
Suddenly they saw a fire-coloured, longish object in the sky. The object disappeared and instead of it they saw something like light cloud. After that they heard strange sounds like hum of bees. Then they saw a lightgrey round disc, about 2 meters wide. It was hovering 3-4 meters above the ground. In the bottom there were 3 half balls, in the middle of them a round pipe. Greyish red smoke started to come out of the object. Then a small ball (diameter 15 cm) came out and in touching the ground it changed into a round disc (diameter 1 m). Colourful rays started to spread from this small disc. It changed back into a ball and returned into the bigger object.
The climax of the phenomenon came: both men saw a small creature beside the UFO. The creature was a small man, about 90 cm tall, thin body, curved nose. The uniform was lightgreen with white, long gloves and a cone-shaped cap. He had on the chest a black box with a white button in the middle of it. The box radiated light, which was regularly changing in intensity.
The whole experience lasted only about 15 seconds, then a cloud of smoke covered both the UFO and the humanoid.
The two men stood there, stunned and silent. Then they asked each other: “What was that light?” When comparing the experiences they realized that both of them had seen the same phenomenon. Very soon Aarno Heinonen realized that it was very difficult to move. His limbs were stiff and sore, and it took half an hour to ski home, a distance of only 500 meters.
After coming home the men went to see a doctor. Doctor Kajanoja investigated the men, but didn´t find any normal reasons for the bad feelings of the patients. They seemed to be effects of some kind of radiation. The doctor just gave some sleeping pills and sent them home. The next day, when they went back to the doctor, they were given painkillers.
The pains lasted for months, especially for Aarno Heinonen. He was on sick leave for half a year. Viljo Heino had been further from the UFO and had weaker pains. As in many strong UFO cases Aarno Heinonen became a contactee and he gained parapsychological talents. He has been quite a famous healer in the area.
One of the humanoids that Heinonen met later was “humanoid girl”, who told that Heinonen was his best friend on this planet. However, the girl didn´t want to leave any traces. That is why she took a camera from Heinonen, who had got it from one UFO investigator.
When international UFO books and magazines have described UFO cases around the world, very often they have tried to tell something also from Finland. Lacking new cases they have repeated the Imjärvi case. Unfortunately the story has changed quite a lot from the original form. One UFO magazine described, how the sky of Imjärvi was full of UFOs which tried to attack the poor men, who escaped on snowshoes… A big documentary book about the paranormal (Parker: “Atlas of Supernatural”) presented a good drawing of the Imjärvi case, but informed that the humanoid was 9 meters tall (a mistake of just one point!). This doesn´t give a very truthful or scientific image of international UFO books…
Dish water of Kuusamo 1971
Very few UFO cases have been so largely discussed in public in Finland as the UFO case of Saapunki (in Kuusamo, Northern Finland, near the Russian border) in 1971.
In the years 1969-71 there was the UFO wave of Pudasjärvi-Kuusamo. Typical to the UFO flaps and waves is that they mostly happen in mountain areas. The most southern fells (mountains, on top of which no trees are growing) are in Pudasjärvi and Kuusamo
It was an early wintermorning on 3.1.1971, when Mauno and Martti Talala, a country couple, were drinking morningcoffee in their typical one-family-house in Saapunki. The lake Saapunki was hardly seen through their window. There was quite a fierce snowstorm and you could not see the lights in the windows further than 300 meters.
Suddenly they saw a very bright light which was approaching from the lake.
The light was about 10 meters in diameter. It was moving against the wind. Later the UFO researchers found out that the moving light had been seen by many people living on the lake. It created breaks of electricity in some houses.
When the couple looked out after some seconds, they were terrified: the whole yard was bathed in a bright light. First they thought a fire had started in a yard building. Then they saw that it was a big lightball, so strong that it was difficult to look at the object.
After some seconds the lightball rose up and disappeared. The couple went out and saw some signs in the place, above which the strange object had been hovering. There were some extra materials in the snow and additionally a very odd phenomenon: ice sticks upwards, small ice balls on top. Normally ice sticks can be seen on roofedges, where water has dropped and frozen.
Our local UFO club was just that morning going to Pudasjärvi to establish a new UFO organization. After hearing about the new UFO case we decided, that half of our group would leave for Kuusamo. Later engineer Ahti Karivieri, the leader of Pudasjärvi-Kuusamo investigations, collected exact details and materials of the Saapunki case: interviews (written and taped), photos, drawings, material samples).
The sample was sent to the Geological Research Institute (highest government institute). There was working Dr. Birger Wiik, who had become famous for the moonstone investigations. He was the only person in Finland chosen to research an American moonstone. When newspapers got to know about the Saapunki UFO case and the samples sent to Dr. Wiik, they interviewed him. Without knowing details and without researching the samples he estimated that the materials found in Saapunki were “dishwater”!
Immediately after the interview Dr.Wiik met his friend, who knew more about UFOs. After the meeting Dr. Wiik tried to withdraw his statement, but it was too late. People in Saapunki were quite hurt, because according to them, throwing dishwater to the middle of the home yard wasn´t good manners.
Later Dr. Wiik`s assistant told that the material sample bottle (sent by eng. Karivieri) had been on the windowsill for two weeks. Then Dr. Wiik had given order to throw it out, without investigation.
Fortunately some other samples were sent to other research labs, in Finland and in England. In the samples they found plantcell tissue plus calium, calsium, iron, cloridium and titanium. But there was no koli bacteria, that normal dishwater contains.
Knocking light in Oulu 1976
Seven teen-aged people had a self-made cottage amidst trees in Oulu (Northern part of Finland). They were spending an evening together (12.11.1976) in Rusko, a residential neighborhood. It was dark, only the snow was reflecting some light. At 20 o´clock they saw a strange light far in the sky. Then after being inside for a while, they saw two bright lightballs hovering one meter above the ground, about 20 meters from the cottage. Their sizes were about 1 – 1,5 meters in diameter.
Two boys went out and started to approach the balls. Eero Lammi, a 19- year old man, was walking first, Seppo Moilanen, 15, a couple of meters behind. When Eero was about 10 meters from the balls, Seppo saw, how a lightbeam came from one of the UFOs and went through Eero. He fell down and lost his consciousness.
The youngsters carried Eero to the cottage. After 5 minutes he regained his consciousness. He remembered a flash of light and feeling pain before losing consciousness. When they looked through the window, the UFOs had disappeared. The balls had been hovering for 5-10 minutes. Some red points were found on the skin on Eero´s chest, in the back there was a red area. Afterwards he felt no pain, so he didn´t go to a doctor.
UFO investigators made a proper research, but no normal explanations were found. Other people in the area had also seen strange lights at the same time in the sky. After 5 years Eero Lammi was interviewed in a local newspaper, and he still kept his original story.
On the same day, 21.11.1976, three Spanish soldiers met a strange, 3 meters tall being with phosphor clothes in Talavera la Real, an Air Force Base in Spain. José Trejo, one of the soldiers, was paralyzed temporarily and fell down. The other soldiers came and shot towards the being. They saw a bright flash, and the being disappeared. Afterwards José Trejo experienced some loss of sight and memory; later he had parapsychological experiences.
The Oulu case had some similarities with Travis Walton`s UFO case, which happened in the USA one year before. Walton and his lumberjack colleagues saw a bright UFO hovering above the ground in the forest. After a bright light hit Travis,the other men fled. Travis Walton disappeared for 5 days. Travis remembered that he had been inside a UFO and some strange beings had investigated him. In Oulu Seppo Lammi had no such memories.
Alien seeker ... Jodie Foster as Ellie Arroway in the 1997 movie Contact, based on Carl Sagan’s novel. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
When a team of Russian astronomers reported in 2015 that a telescope in the Caucasus region had intercepted a mysterious signal from a distant star, talk of extraterrestrials was not far behind. As some asked: was this proof aliens were trying to contact us?
The answer came soon enough. Follow-up observations from other telescopes failed to confirm the signal and researchers came to the conclusion that the source of the signal was far closer to home. The chances are it came from a passing plane or a person on a citizens band radio, or was down to a glitch in the telescope’s electronics.
It was not the first time public excitement had been whipped up by signals that turned out to be proof of something far less exciting than an advanced extraterrestrial civilisation. And in expectation that more false signals will come, scientists have now created their own Richter-like scale to explain whether a finding is a damp squib or has truly seismic implications.
The new scale allows scientists to rate interesting signals detected in searches for extraterrestrial intelligence from 0 to 10, where 0 is nothing to get excited about and 10 is equivalent to “an alien space probe orbiting the Earth or an alien shaking your hand,” said Duncan Forgan, who worked on the project, at the University of St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science.
There are many alternative explanations that need to be considered when evaluating a potential extraterrestrial signal. “There could be a problem with your telescope or a radio frequency coming from something on Earth,” Forgan said. “You might think you found an alien but actually you found a taxi rank.”
Known as Rio 2.0, the scale is a proposed upgrade of an existing Rio scale that is already used by the alien-hunting community. It assigns scores to Seti (“search for extraterrestrial intelligence”) signals by taking into account both the potential implications of the signal and the likelihood that it is genuine, rather than down to natural or human-made phenomena.
“We are talking about extraordinary claims here and so you need extraordinary evidence to go with them,” Forgan said. “Ideally this means multiple observations from multiple instruments – as well as from different research teams using the same instruments.”
Under the proposals, scientists could issue their own Rio scale number for any interesting signals they detect, but so could fellow academics who review their work for publication. The rating system is also being made available to the public.
“It is clear from citizen science projects that the general public are able to complete similar classification tasks with relatively low amounts of training,” the scientists write in the International Journal of Astrobiology.
There are an estimated 400bn stars in the Milky Way, and evidence shows that most have planets circling them. But with so many stars being observed, there is a constant risk of technical glitches or spurious signals masquerading as potential alien transmissions.
In one of the most recent false alarms, the periodic dimming of a star led to speculation that an advanced extraterrestrial civilisation had built an “alien megastructure” around their star to harvest all of its energy. Thousands of headlines and closer observations later, the real cause turned out to be dust.
Jill Tarter, a co-founder of the Seti Institute in Mountain View, California, and an author of the paper, said the new scale could be used like the Richter scale, which describes the severity of earthquakes. A signal is scored immediately and then continuously updated as new data arrives. More credibility will be given to discoveries with multiple independent Rio scores.
Tarter, who was the inspiration for the alien-seeking Ellie Arroway in Carl Sagan’s novel Contact and the subsequent movie with Jodie Foster, spotted potential extraterrestrial signals three times in her career, but each time found mundane explanations for them. The group of astronomers behind Rio 2.0 say it could be tested on fictional scenarios such as the one in the film, as well as on historical “false alarms” such as the famous “Wow!” signal.
Andrew Siemion, another co-author, and director at the Seti Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley,added: “We absolutely encourage wide assessment of the Rio scale for any purported discovery, particularly by independent scientists. It is critical in any scientific process to have independent review of methods and interpretation.”
The new Rio Scale has been submitted to the International Academy of Astronautics Permanent Committee on Seti for official ratification.
Astronomers are now certain it is not an alien megastructure orbiting star KIC 8462852. Instead, it is a giant cloud of dust. Illustration: Nasa/JPL-Caltech
As if a divisive Star Wars film wasn’t bad news enough this Christmas, now an analysis by more than 200 astronomers has been published that shows the mysterious dimming of star KIC 8462852 is not being produced by an alien megastructure.
The evidence points most strongly to a giant cloud of dust occasionally obscuring the star. The cloud was most possibly produced by the collision of two comets or the break-up of a single one. Another option is that the star itself is undergoing some sort of internal convulsion that astronomers have never seen before.
KIC 8462852 is approximately 1,500 light years away from the Earth and hit the headlines in October 2015 when data from Nasa’s Kepler space telescope showed that it was dimming by unexplainably large amounts. The star’s light dropped by 20% first and then 15% making it unique. Even a large planet passing in front of the star would have blocked only about 1% of the light.
For an object to block 15-20%, it would have to be approaching half the diameter of the star itself. With this realisation, a few astronomers began whispering that such a signal would be the kind expected from a gigantic extraterrestrial construction orbiting in front of the star – and the idea of the alien megastructure was born.
Tabetha Boyajian, then at Yale University and now at Louisiana State University, led the investigations into the mysterious signals. It was after her that the star was nicknamed Tabby’s star. She said at the time that a constant monitoring programme was needed to watch the star for more dips.
Today’s new analysis is the result of that programme. It was funded by a Kickstarter campaign that attracted support from more than 1,700 people and raised more than $100,000. In partnership with the Las Cumbres Observatory, a privately-funded organisation that operates 21 telescopes at eight sites around the world, the astronomers monitored the star from March 2016 to December 2017.
In that time they recorded four more dips, though none were as dramatic as the originals, reaching only a percent or two. These were named by the Kickstarter supporters as Elsie and Celeste, Skara Brae and Angkor. Significantly for the analysis, the dimming events were captured at multiple wavelengths.
If an alien megastructure had been causing the drop in light, being a solid object, it would block all wavelengths in the same way, at the same time. That’s not what the team saw. Instead, different wavelengths of light dropped by different amounts. This is exactly what you would expect from starlight passing through a tenuous dust cloud.
It happens because dust grains scatter light depending on its wavelength. Blue light, which has short wavelengths, is scattered more easily than red, which has longer wavelengths. This is why our sky is blue; that colour has been scattered out of the sun’s direct light by the molecules in the air.
In the case of Tabby’s star, the new observations show that it dims more at blue wavelengths than red. Thus, its light is passing through a dust cloud, not being blocked by an alien megastructure in orbit around the star (#sadface).
The new analysis of KIC 8462852 showing these results is to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. It reinforces the conclusions reached by Huan Meng, University of Arizona, Tucson, and collaborators in October 2017. They monitored the star at multiple wavelengths using Nasa’s Spitzer and Swift missions, and the Belgian AstroLAB IRIS observatory. These results were published in The Astrophysical Journal.
While it is not aliens this time, the story serves as a valuable reminder that unexpected signals of this kind are definitely the ones to look out for. Something unexplainable in some unexpected observation rather than a deliberate radio message to us is probably the way we are going to spot the presence of extraterrestrials – if they’re out there in the first place, of course.
Mars staat vanavond op dichtste punt in 15 jaar en het is niet enige planeet die je deze zomer goed kan zien met blote oog - HLN.be
Mars staat vanavond op dichtste punt in 15 jaar en het is niet enige planeet die je deze zomer goed kan zien met blote oog - HLN.be
Koen Van De Sype
Bron:Eigen Berichtgeving
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WETENSCHAP & PLANEET 57,6 miljoen kilometer lijkt misschien ver, maar in termen van planeten is dat relatief. Vanavond staat Mars op precies die afstand van de Aarde en dat is het dichtste dat de rode planeet al kwam in 15 jaar. Het betekent meteen ook dat je hem extra goed kan zien. “Wie vanavond niet kan kijken, hoeft niet te treuren, want Mars blijft ook de komende weken goed zichtbaar. Net als een reeks andere planeten”, zegt Marc Van den Broeck van Volkssterrenwacht Urania.
Hoe uitzonderlijk is het dat Mars zo dichtbij staat?
Als je weet dat de minimale afstand tussen de Aarde en Mars 54,6 miljoen kilometer is en de maximale afstand 401 miljoen kilometer: best uitzonderlijk. In 2003 stond Mars nog dichter: op 55,7 miljoen kilometer. Dat was het dichtste in 60.000 jaar. Pas in 2287 zal dat nog eens gebeuren.
Is Mars nu extra groot? “Nee, en zeker niet zo groot als de maan zoals soms beweerd wordt op het internet”, aldus Marc Van den Broeck. “De maan is met haar straal van 1.738 kilometer maar de helft zo groot als Mars, maar omdat ze op amper 384.400 kilometer van de Aarde staat, zal ze er altijd groter uitzien. Mars is met een gemiddelde afstand van 225 miljoen kilometer altijd maar een stip aan de hemel.”
Wanneer moet ik omhoog kijken? “Mars zal vanavond vrij laat opkomen”, aldus Van den Broeck. “Dat zal rond middernacht zijn.”
Waar moet ik precies kijken?
“Ga op een open plek staan en kijk in zuidoostelijke richting vlak boven de horizon”, zegt Van den Broeck. “In de stad is de kans dat je iets ziet - zelfs bij helder weer - beperkt.”
Wat is er te zien?
Een oranjerode stip, die helderder is dan anders. “Je kan de planeet met het blote oog zien. Maar wie een verrekijker heeft, zal het schouwspel nog beter kunnen waarnemen”, aldus Van den Broeck.
Mis je iets als je vanavond niet kan kijken?
Nee, want ook de komende weken is Mars nog te zien. “Deze weken is het verschil in afstand tussen de Aarde en Mars enkele duizenden kilometers, wat op de totale afstand amper een verschil maakt in waarneembaarheid”, klinkt het bij Urania. De volgende keer dat Mars relatief dicht bij de Aarde zal staan, is in oktober 2020. Dan is de planeet 62,1 miljoen kilometer van ons verwijderd.
Wat is er de komende weken nog te zien?
Heel wat, want ook Venus, Jupiter en Saturnus zijn met het blote oog te zien aan de nachtelijke hemel, vlak boven de horizon. Venus is ’s avonds een helder witte stip in het westen. Ze gaat een uur na de zon onder. Jupiter is zichtbaar als een witte stip in het zuidwesten en gaat voor middernacht onder. Saturnus is een geelachtige stip in het zuiden, rechts van Mars.
Zijn de omstandigheden vanavond niet goed door slechte zichtbaarheid of slecht weer en wil je toch niets missen? NASA zet een livestream op vanuit het Griffith-observatorium in Los Angeles en daarop kan je alles volgen.
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Adobe study reveals the phrases people REALLY hate to see in...
NASA chief reveals plan to send humans to the moon 'to STAY'...
Tim Cook set to get $120 MILLION payday as Apple shares...
'The car is still king:' AAA study shows ride-hailing...
: St John's Ship Yard, Palatka FL
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Ex-NASA physics professor claims 'many governments' have...
UFO probe after glowing ball of light streaks across the sky...
British conspiracy theorist who died suddenly at 39 in...
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Out of this world: Spectacular time-lapse photography shows...
Google releases satellite images of Iranian facilities which...
Grieving orca is STILL holding her calf's corpse above the...
We have lift off! NASA finally launches its $1.5bn Parker...
The car powered by AIR! Egyptian students have designed an...
'World's only' woolly mammoth hair hat goes on sale for...
Kim udders his demands! North Korean leader orders workers...
Iran unveils its next generation short-range ballistic...
Never waste money on makeup again: L'Oreal teams up with...
Mary G. Ross: Google Doodle celebrates the first American...
Could we finally treat pessimism? Neuroscientists pinpoint...
‘We need to rethink evolution’: Animal kingdom is OLDER than...
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Bizarre conspiracy theory suggests celebrities including the...
Labour councillor who sits on equality panel shared racist...
The jewel in their crown! De Beers heiress lists...
Saucer-shaped cloud spotted passing over Moscow ¿sparks...
Antidepressants in Britain's water systems are causing...
MoviePass backtracks on plan for 50% price hike just days...
Nasa has created the coldest ever spot in space to prove a...
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Russian and Chinese Haarp facilities could be effecting the weather to sabotage the weather in the United States. Obviously weather warfare is difficult to prove. Haarp facilities may be affecting the weather in the US and Western Europe bringing in extreme heat. This is the hottest weather in years and may be a natural occurrence.
'Like a symphony orchestra turned into light': ISS astronaut...
Amazon is still selling Nazi-branded merchandise, despite...
Mesmerising maps reveal record-breaking temperatures across...
Step inside the tomb of Queen Nefertari: Immersive VR...
The moment a FOUR MILE long iceberg breaks off a Greenland...
Being rich and successful really IS in your DNA: Being dealt...
Overal om ons heen laten de werkelijke machthebbers weten dat ze er zijn en dat wij als mensheid niets in te brengen hebben. 
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All I remember is being on the floor and blood everywhere’:...
Did tragic snowboarder Ellie Soutter kill herself because...
Samsung shows off its 'invisible' QLED smart TV that blends...
Tesla reports the biggest loss in its history after burning...
Amateur treasure hunter, 45, unearths a 1,800-year-old Roman...
Researchers reveal the 'danger points' of the Cascadia fault...
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