Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
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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...
31-10-2018
Inferno planets & the Goldilocks zone: Here are Kepler’s most awesome discoveries (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Inferno planets & the Goldilocks zone: Here are Kepler’s most awesome discoveries (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Undoubtedly, the sheer number of exoplanets and alien worlds uncovered by the space telescope is the statistic that immediately deserves plaudits. But delve deeper and the detail of Kepler’s work is jaw dropping. NASA astrophysics director Paul Hertz says the craft has brought humans one step closer to finding life outside Earth. High praise indeed.
NASA Kepler and K2✔@NASAKepler
With today’s announcement of the retirement of the @NASAKepler space telescope, we’re officially passing the planet-hunting torch to @NASA_TESS, which will search 200,000 of the brightest near the for new worlds! Learn more about the mission: http://nasa.gov/tess
Launched in 2009, Kepler’s mission was actually born in the early 80s as scientists began to turn their attention to finding planets with similar characteristics to home. Here are just some of the cool discoveries made possible due to the intergalactic telescope.
Kepler hot jupiters
Months after launch, Kepler found five extrasolar planets known as hot jupiters. The giant gas infernos became known as Kepler-4b, -5b, -6b, -7b and -8. Temperatures on these celestial objects were found to reach above 2,000 degrees fahrenheit.
The Kepler space observatory gave scientists testing the concept of the Circumstellar Habitable Zone (CHZ) an eye in the sky and more ways to analyse their theory. Sometimes known as the ‘Goldilocks zone’, the habitable zone is the distance between a planet and its nearest star. It’s basically the threshold of temperature that would give water the best possible chance to pool.
NASA Kepler and K2✔@NASAKepler
Memorial Day weekend is almost here ... and the chance to take a virtual trip 492 light years away to Kepler-186f, and Earth-size planet orbiting a small, red star. https://go.nasa.gov/2J3jrqn
Among the planets thought to provide the best possible chances of life are Kepler-62f – which NASA’s telescope found in 2014. The exoplanet orbits a cool red dwarf star about 580 light years away.
Alien megastructure debunk
As well as hunting down places for humans to possibly move to, Kepler also kept an eye on the intricacies of light travelling through space. One of its most intriguing observations was the dimming of a mysterious entity known as Tabby’s Star. Curiously speculated to be an ‘alien megastructure’, Kepler helped uncover the truth: the dimming was caused by clouds of dust.
Earth-sized inferno planet
Kepler’s vast catalogue of findings make it almost impossible to list every one. However, a major milestone for the NASA mission came in 2013 when Kepler found its first earth-sized rocky planet. The exoplanet, named Kepler-78b, is close to 20 percent larger than Earth, with a molten rock surface. With an orbit pattern of just 8.5 hours, the fiery planet speeds around its nearest star.
‘Twin’ solar system
In one of its final acts, the Kepler telescope was able to confirm the location of a planetary system similar to our own. Dubbed the Kepler 90 solar system, NASA’s craft successfully tracked down eight planets in the zone situated approximately 2,544 light years from Earth.
On Sept. 11, NASA began a 45-day "active listening" campaign in an attempt to rouse the solar-powered Opportunity, which went silent on June 10 after a raging dust storm plunged its environs into darkness.
The 45-day deadline passed late last week. But NASA will continue active listening — a strategy that involves both sending commands to Opportunity and listening for any peeps the six-wheeled robot may make — for several more months at least, agency officials announced yesterday (Oct. 29). [Mars Dust Storm 2018: What It Means for Opportunity Rover]
"After a review of the progress of the listening campaign, NASA will continue its current strategy for attempting to make contact with the Opportunity rover for the foreseeable future," NASA officials wrote in a mission update yesterday (Oct. 29).
"Winds could increase in the next few months at Opportunity's location on Mars, resulting in dust being blown off the rover's solar panels," they added. "The agency will reassess the situation in the January 2019 time frame."
The change in strategy comes in the commitment to keep pinging Opportunity. Mission team members and NASA officials had previously said they would continue to listen for any signal from the rover at least through January.
Opportunity landed on Mars in January 2004, a few weeks after its twin, Spirit. Both robots roamed around different parts of the Red Planet, looking for signs of past water activity — and finding lots of such evidence.
Spirit and Opportunity's prime missions were pegged to last just three months, but the duo continued exploring Mars for years. Spirit last communicated with its handlers in 2010 and was declared dead a year later. Opportunity had been going strong, roving along the rim of the 14-mile-wide (22 kilometers) Endeavour Crater, until the dust storm hit this summer.
That storm grew to encircle the entire planet by June 20. But it began dying down about a month later, and the dust had cleared so much by Sept. 11 that mission managers thought Opportunity might be getting enough sunlight to recharge its batteries. So the active listening campaign began.
Opportunity has been through quite an ordeal, enduring bitterly cold Martian nights without a working heater to keep its electronic innards warm. So it's possible that the venerable rover, which has covered more ground on the surface of another world than any other vehicle, has frozen to death or fallen victim to some "fault mode" from which it cannot recover.
But perhaps Opportunity lives still, and is just waiting for a strong, dust-dislodging November wind followed by a wakeup call from home. We shall see.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13 by Grand Central Publishing.
NASA is preparing technology for use on its Mars 2020 rover mission, due to land on the Red Planet in February 2021 — and it's breaking world records along the way.
Landing on Mars is notoriously challenging because of the planet's thin atmosphere, which makes it difficult to slow down a spacecraft enough to land gently on its surface. In order to land their heaviest yet rover on Mars, NASA had to redesign an existing landing-parachute design — the same one that protected the Curiosity rover — with even stronger materials, including the Kevlar traditionally found in bulletproof vests. [NASA's Mars Rover 2020 Mission in Pictures]
This high-definition NASA image shows the final supersonic parachute test for NASA's 2020 Mars rover. NASA tested the parachute during a Sept. 7, 2018 suborbital rocket launch to mimic Mars landing conditions.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The agency conducted its final test of its new parachute in September as part of its Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) project. The results are in and the parachute has been approved for the 2020 launch.
"Like all our prior Mars missions, we only have one parachute and it has to work," John McNamee, project manager of Mars 2020 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said in a statement. "The ASPIRE tests have shown in remarkable detail how our parachute will react when it is first deployed into a supersonic flow high above Mars. And let me tell you, it looks beautiful."
Last month, the 180-pound parachute, plus a camera designed to watch it deploy, was launched on a sounding rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket carried it to about 23 miles (37 kilometers) above Earth's surface, where the atmosphere's density is about as dense as 6 miles (10 km) above Mars' surface, the height at which the Mars 2020 parachute is due to deploy.
During the test, the parachute deployed completely in just four-tenths of a second, the fastest inflation of such a large parachute, according to NASA. That will mark the end of the parachute tests, but not the end of Mars 2020 preparations.
The second stage of the sounding rocket that launched the ASPIRE parachute test separates from the payload on Sept. 7, 2018.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
"We are all about helping 2020 stick its landing 28 months from now," Ian Clark, the test's technical lead from JPL, said in the statement. "I may not get to shoot rockets to the edge of space for a while, but when it comes to Mars — and when it comes to getting there and getting down there safely — there are always exciting challenges to work on around here."
The biggest airplane ever built, which will tote a variety of satellite-launching rockets into the sky, just got a step closer to flight.
Stratolaunch Systems, which was established in 2011 by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, got the giant plane up to 90 mph (145 km/h) during "medium-speed taxi testing" at California's Mojave Air and Space Port earlier this month.
Stratolaunch's dual-fuselage plane features a wingspan of 385 feet (117 meters) — greater than the length of a football field, including the two end zones. The vehicle is designed to haul satellite-carrying rockets up to an altitude of about 35,000 feet (10,700 m), at which point the launchers will drop away and power their payloads up to orbit.
Stratolaunch Systems' airplane, the biggest aircraft ever built, performed a "medium-speed taxi test" at California's Mojave Air and Space Port in October 2018.
Credit: Stratolaunch Systems via Twitter
This air-launch strategy will enable satellites to be lofted relatively cheaply and frequently, and with a great deal of flexibility, company representatives have said.
A variety of different rockets will eventually fly between the two fuselages, if all goes according to plan. For example, Stratolaunch plans to begin using the Pegasus rocket, which debuted in 1990 and has more than 40 flights under its belt, for the company's first operational missions in 2020.
Pegasus can haul about 815 lbs. (370 kilograms) to low-Earth orbit. Stratolaunch is also developing two more powerful rockets, known as the Medium Launch Vehicle (MLV) and the MLV-Heavy, which will be able to loft about 7,500 lbs. (3,400 kg) and 13,200 lbs. (6,000 kg), respectively. The MLV's first flight is targeted for 2022, whereas the MLV-Heavy is still in early development, company representatives said.
Stratolaunch is also working on a fully reusable space plane that could carry satellites or people. This vehicle is in the design-study phase.
Stratolaunch isn't the only company working to launch space missions from the air. Virgin Orbit recently mated its LauncherOne rocket and Cosmic Girl mothership for the first time (on the ground), and Virgin Galactic is performing rocket-fired test flights of its six-passenger SpaceShipTwo suborbital space liner.
SpaceShipTwo launches from the belly of a plane called WhiteKnightTwo.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13 by Grand Central Publishing.
The description on the video reads: “The object was dropping a lot of glowing material while flying. She did know what this object was, but she was sure this was not something man made.
“It did not produce any sound at all. When I analysed the footage I noticed the object ejected a lot of material.”
Many of UFO Today’s followers were convinced the footage was of genuine UFO activity.
YouTuber David Leach wrote: “Excellent viewing. Leaking a lot of material. Near the end it looks like a smaller UFO breaks off and goes upward.”
UFO sighting: ‘Alien spaceship’ shot down over Scotland
(Image: GETTY • YOUTUBE)
Starman 2710 added: “Came through the portal to fast and lost control?”
AKIJPN continued: “Definitely looks like some flying object is flying loosing its control. Amazing.”
However, there does seem to be a more logical explanation for the strange phenomenon.
According to locals who have taken to the social news aggregator site Reddit, the strange sightings are actually caused by people attaching sparklers to kites.
The UFO was actually a kite
(Image: YOUTUBE)
There have apparently been several instances over the last month with residents not too concerned of an alien invasion.
Reddit user Space Pecs said it is “the third time this month” that a kite with sparklers has been launched.
Bory Truro replied: “Didn't have much of a clue at first, but now that you mention it, it does look a lot like someone stuck a sparkler on a kite.”
For nearly 20 years, NASA has been planning and constructing a telescope unlike any ever built before: the James Webb Space Telescope. It will change the way scientists see the most distant galaxies and intensify the hunt for extraterrestrial life; it will answer outstanding questions about the birth and death of stars and planets. It is the future of astronomy—but it’s causing trouble. JWST’s high price and decade of delays could stymie the development of future telescopes, impacting the course of astronomy for the next 30 years.
Billed as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the JWST is a tennis court-sized, general-purpose space telescope with a 6.5-meter (21-foot) mirror that will be sent to a gravitationally stable point nearly a million miles from Earth. It will create incredibly detailed images from the infrared light of objects in space, including nebulae, exoplanets, galaxies, and stars. Looking even further ahead, NASA’s planned successor to JWST, called the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), will observe the sky with resolution similar to Hubble’s but with a far wider field of view. That would allow astronomers to answer some of the fundamental questions about dark energy, a mysterious force that seems to be driving the universe’s accelerating expansion. It would also provide a platform to test state-of-the-art components for its own successor. Four teams of scientists are already working on different concepts for the flagship mission to follow WFIRST, which would launch in the 2030s or 2040s. Three of those concepts would follow up on potentially life-harboring exoplanets spotted by JWST, while the fourth would aim to understand the origins of galaxies and the universe itself. These missions would all be expensive, similar in cost to JWST.
“[Today’s astronomers] are the first humans in history that have a chance to answer the compelling questions about whether there is life beyond Earth,” MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager recently told the Senate.
Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)
Photo: NASA
But as the JWST’s price tag has increased incrementally, from hundreds of millions of dollars to $9.6 billion, some scientists working on its successors are uneasy. Where does the extra money come from to pay for JWST’s budget overruns, and how have these delays affected public perception of these large missions? And if NASA scraps or removes certain parts from WFIRST, that might handicap future space-based efforts to detect signs of life outside the Solar System. While Congress views astronomy research more favorably, President Trump’s 2019 budget request has already suggested scrapping WFIRST.
As of now, the future of these missions and how JWST will impact them is uncertain, Scott Gaudi, Ohio State University professor and member of the WFIRST team, told Gizmodo.
As early as 1989, astronomers had an early concept of JWST as a “Next Generation Space Telescope,” the successor to Hubble. While originally envisioned as having a mirror eight or more meters (26+ feet) in diameter, budget constraints caused scientists to de-scope various goals, resulting in the 6.5-meter (21-foot) telescope concept that would become the James Webb Space Telescope. As plans developed, NASA in 2002 selected an aerospace company called TRW to build the spaceship and mirror with an $825 million budget and a scheduled launch in 2010. Northrop Grumman acquired TRW, and soon took over the telescope’s construction.
NASA’s JWST Clean Room ‘Transporter’ in 2016.Photo: NASA/Chris Gunn
Delays have marred JWST’s entire developmental history. Most recently, an independent review revealed that increase in project scope, the complexity of the telescope, overoptimism, and human errors have plagued its construction. Those human errors include the time when someone at Northrop Grumman used the wrong solvent to clean valves, and the time when loose nuts fell into the telescope during a test, according to the review. But as early as 2005, the launch had been pushed to 2013 and the cost to $4.5 billion due to “funding shortfalls,” “requirement changes,” and other issues. Fabrication began in 2011, but by then the launch was pushed to 2018 and the budget to an estimated $8 billion. Today, the JWST’s estimated cost is up to $9.66 billion, and its projected launch date is some time in 2021.
Then there’s the mere fact that huge advances in astronomy have occurred during the telescope’s development. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine explained in a Congressional hearing this past July that the study of today’s most ubiquitous astronomy topics, like dark energy and exoplanets, was only beginning when the JWST project began. “This isn’t simply mismanagement or cost overruns or delay,” Congressman Don Beyer (D-Virginia) said during the hearing. “The world of science itself is changing in ways that have impacted the project.”Essentially, the price and scope of the project have expanded as scientists have learned more about the universe and encountered more cosmic mysteries.
By 2010, it was already time to plan a successor for JWST. Every decade, committees of scientists survey the state of astrophysics and decide what kind of experiments the entire community would like to see next, including small- and medium-sized missions as well as the flagship missions. For the largest missions, teams of scientists work on multiple concepts, and the Decadal Survey committee uses these concepts to set the field’s priority for NASA.
Even back then, astronomers worried about how JWST’s cost would affect the future of observation. But then NASA received a 2.4-meter (7.8-foot) mirror from National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The mirror was initially designed for use in espionage, but would work nicely in a space telescope. The Decadal Survey moved forward with a telescope called WFIRST—a telescope with Hubble’s resolution but 100 times the viewing area. A telescope like this would help scientists determine the true nature of dark energy, a mysterious force that seems to be speeding up the universe’s expansion and that could determine the universe’s ultimate fate. NASA scrapped other concepts, like the exoplanet-hunting Space Interferometry Mission, in response.
WFIRST “was a Frankenstein creation,” Jessie Christiansen, astrophysicist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech, told Gizmodo. “It was something no one really asked for until they got the mirror donated by the NRO.” But, according to the Decadal Survey, such a telescope would “settle essential questions in both exoplanet and dark energy research, which will advance topics ranging from galaxy evolution to the study of objects within our own galaxy.” WFIRST has expanded in both scope and cost since the 2010 decadal survey.
Primary Mirror Assembly WFIRST
Photo: Harris Corporation / TJT Photography
The telescope’s wide-field surveying instrument would be relatively simple compared to some instruments flown on previous NASA missions, Gaudi told Gizmodo. But WFIRST would also be the first to fly a technology in space that is important for two proposals for the next flagship space telescope: a “coronagraph.” A coronagraph is a device that blocks stars’ bright light, making the dimmer planets orbiting the star visible. If scientists hope to find life around other stars, they’ll need to image the light produced by and reflected by the planet directly. The issue is that the planet may be billions of times dimmer than the star it orbits. Scientists hope to one day spot Earth-like planets using this technology.
And here’s the most important part: Observing the light directly from planets, rather than just observing the periodic dimming produced when the planet passes in front of its star, could tell scientists whether the presence of life has altered the planet’s atmosphere the way it has on Earth. Climate change aside, life fills Earth’s atmosphere with carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane, and other biological building blocks. Therefore, determining whether life exists on other planets requires observing these planet’s atmospheres to see what molecules they contain.
Image: Origins Space Telescope
Preparations for the 2020 Decadal Survey are already underway. Four teams of astronomers are preparing concept studies for WFIRST’s successor, a flagship telescope mission that would launch some time in the late 2030s or early 2040s. As happened in 2010, the survey will determine what astronomy’s most important scientific questions are, and how best to answer them using ambitious, potentially yet-to-be-developed technology. The decadal committee will move forward with a recommendation based on the goals and design of one or multiple concepts. It’s clear that hunting for signs of extraterrestrial life will play an enormous role in the discussion. Two of the concepts incorporate a coronagraphlike WFIRSTs, and three list analyzing exoplanets among their primary goals. All of them would cost billions of dollars.
The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) is the most ambitious of these four missions—and it would be truly enormous, with either an 8- or 15-meter (26- or 49-foot) mirror. It would be a sequel to JWST. Another, the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx), is built from the bottom up with observing exoplanets in mind. Both would rely on a coronagraph and a starshade, an external component that blocks the light of other stars.
HabEx coronagraphImage: NASA
Two other proposed telescopes wouldn’t rely on a coronagraph or a starshade. The Origins Space Telescope (OST) would look for exoplanets around cooler stars in the infrared wavelengths, where the difference in brightness between the star and planet isn’t as great. Its goals also include observing the formation of planets and the growing complexity of stars and galaxies. Finally, there’s Lynx, which is instead focused on high-energy astrophysical mysteries, such as the dawn of black holes and the birth and death of stars. It would be an x-ray telescope using sensitive instruments, and serve as the sequel to the wildly successful Chandra X-ray Telescope.
The National Academy of Sciences has already hinted that it favors a telescope equipped with a coronagraph or some sort of starlight-shading device, like LUVOIR or HabEx, when it comes to hunting for extraterrestrial life. From the recent Exoplanet Science Strategy report:
A coronagraphic or starshade-based direct imaging mission is the only path currently identified to characterize Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of a large sample of nearby Sun-like stars in reflected light... NASA should lead a large strategic direct imaging mission capable of measuring the reflected-light spectra of temperate terrestrial planets orbiting Sun-like stars.
Another more recent report from the National Academies outlining a strategy for the future of astrobiology calls starshades and coronagraphs “essential.”
It’s important to note that there a host of other Earth-based telescopes under development, like the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope. These ground-based telescopes are better for observing planets around cooler, small M-dwarf stars, Aki Roberge, scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center working on LUVOIR, recently told Gizmodo. Space telescopes equipped with starlight-blocking coronagraphs could better observe planets around Sun-like stars. Extraterrestrial life might exist on either, and both are part of a healthy astrobiology strategy.
Image: HabEx starshade (NASA)
The decadal space telescope proposals are already beginning to feel the heat from JWST. On June 1, NASA astrophysics director Paul Hertz emailed the concept teams, imposing a $3 billion to $5 billion cost goal for the studies. According to a press release, “With recent delays and budget constraints surrounding the two major flagship missions, the new direction will better ensure that the next flagship mission be executed on time and within budget.” However, he revised that memo two weeks later, and instead reminded teams that the second phase of their design process was beginning in which they should design a less costly architecture than their first designs. The National Academies has also recommended that these concepts think about cost and schedules. These concept studies are due to NASA by June 2019.
Some, like LUVOIR physicist John O’Meara, worry that the difficulties with JWST will cause members of the astronomy community to give up on large missions such as these in general. It’s a sentiment that some, like former NASA administrator Charles Bolden, have expressed before. “I hope they don’t do that,” said O’Meara.
JWST’s mirrors being tested at the Marshall Space Flight Center’s X-ray and Cryogenic Facility.Photo: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Given
“I’m really concerned about the state of funding,” Laura Lopez, assistant professor at Ohio State University working on the Lynx team, told Gizmodo. “It feels like a precarious situation where we don’t know what will happen next year, let alone in the next 15 years.” Any large missions like these would require sustained funding for more than a decade.
And there are plenty of smaller missions whose futures might be in jeopardy due to the cost and scope of these larger projects, missions of a similar scope as Kepler and TESS.
JWST could impact these future missions directly or based on how it affects WFIRST. This past summer, Congress has held hearings grilling NASA and Northrup Grumman about the JWST’s cost overruns and delays. Northrup Grumman CEO Wes Bush told Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) that the company would not pick up the most recent $800 million cost increase. It’s unclear what will happen next.
Image: Lynx
WFIRST faces clear threats. This past year, President Trump’s proposed budget included scrapping the telescope entirely. Scientists are confident that the more space-friendly Congress won’t let that happen, but Gaudi has heard talk threatening the existence of the coronagraph as well. Should WFIRST lose its coronagraph, scientists will miss an important opportunity to try the light-blocking technology out in space before flying it on the ultimate exoplanet-hunting telescope.
Gizmodo heard several times that flying a coronagraph without testing it on some previous mission could be a very bad idea with far-reaching implications on cost and schedule. “We may save roughly $300 million by de-scoping a coronagraph,” David Spergel, Princeton astrophysicist working on WFIRST’s development, told Gizmodo, “but I suspect in the long run, it could cost a billion in development cost of LUVOIR or HabEx when the time comes to upgrade to a coronagraph capable of detecting Earth-like planets.” Gaudi said that flying a coronagraph on WFIRST would make LUVOIR or HabEx “much more palatable to pretty much everyone.”
Scientists have reminded Congress as to the coronagraph’s importance. “WFIRST’s coronagraph instrument is a technology demonstration,” Seager said recently at a Senate hearing. “It’s critical to do this to buy down more ambitious missions in the future already under study.”
Webb at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Dec. 1, 2017.Photo: NASA/Chris Gunn
For what it’s worth, the astronomers Gizmodo spoke with generally agree that JWST will be well worth the wait. But flagship telescopes are meant to advance significantly upon existing instruments—and improvement requires money. Scrapping or de-scoping WFIRST could further delay humanity’s dream to spot life on other planets, should the Decadal Survey ultimately decide to recommend a coronagraph-based mission. So, too, could fear or budgetary consequences stemming from the JWST delay.
Of course, what happens next with WFIRST is up in the air. Scientists are waiting to see what happens with the reconciliation of upcoming budgets, “and how Congress will respond to the additional delays of JWST,” said Gaudi. Given the country’s chaotic political climate, no one knows what will and won’t get funding in the future. But long-term investments require money—and representatives who are willing to allocate that money to support them.
“I’m just doing my best to provide Congress with as much information as I can so they make the best possible decision,” said Gaudi. “I hope they are ambitious and optimistic about the science.”
Open Minds UFO Radio: Chris is one of the hosts of the Mad Scientist Podcast. He received his Ph.D. 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 societies accept technologies and sciences.
In this episode, we discuss the science necessary to prove whether an extraterrestrial civilization made a particular object. We also discuss scenarios related to the discoverers might handle such a discovery, and how mainstream science may react.
I found this article from 2016 and of course they just say it is mountain erosion.
Eric Rignot, a professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, said:
"This is just a mountain that looks like a pyramid. Pyramid shapes are not impossible — many peaks partially look like pyramids, but they only have one to two faces like that, rarely four."
A decade ago, we thought our solar system was special; today, we know it's no such thing. That revolution is thanks to the work of NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has officially reached the end of its mission.
Since Kepler's launch in 2009, scientists have spotted a total of 2,681 confirmed planets orbiting other suns within the data gathered by the instrument. Another 2,899 potential Kepler planets are still being vetted by scientists.
An artist's depiction of Kepler-22b, one of the 2,681 confirmed exoplanet discoveries made to date in the instrument's data.
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
Bill Borucki, who first dreamed up the Kepler mission and was its principal investigator until his retirement from NASA in 2015, knows many of those thousands of planets as individuals. Take, for example, Kepler-22b, which he calls one of the most interesting planets in the batch. [Gallery: A World of Kepler Planets]
"It's a planet in between the size of the Earth and Neptune, unlike any planet in our solar system; it's a planet that may very well be a water world, a world covered in an ocean, and it's in the habitable zone," Borucki said during a news conference held yesterday (Oct. 30) to mark the end of Kepler's in-space work. "It might very well have an atmosphere on a water planet that could lead to life, so it's an extremely interesting planet. It's one of my favorites."
An artist's depiction of the Kepler-444 solar system, which is made up of small, rocky planets orbiting a relatively old star.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/AMES/Univ. of Birmingham
But he's not just excited about individual worlds — the Kepler mission has identified plenty of solar systems as well, where it has spotted multiple planets orbiting one star. He's excited for what we may one day learn about the Kepler-444 system in particular, he said.
"These are small, rocky planets, and they were formed around a star that's some six and a half billion years older than our star, than our own planetary system," Borucki said. "If life has been developing over six and a half billion years before Earth was formed, there may be some very interesting lifeforms for us to find as we search these early planets."
But while Borucki is fascinated by planets that could potentially host life, he's also struck by the sheer diversity of the more than 600 solar systems Kepler has studied. Take, for example, the existence of hot Jupiters — gas giants tucked so close to their stars that they orbit in a matter of days, completely unlike our own Jupiter strolling around the sun over the course of nearly 12 Earth years.
An artist's depiction of the long-lived Kepler space telescope and some of the planets it discovered during its near-decade in space.
Credit: NASA
Discoveries like these have forced scientists to stop assuming that our solar system is like those all around us, added Padi Boyd, the project scientist for Kepler's successor mission, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
"Kepler kind of just cracked that out of being the typical expectation," Boyd said during the news conference. "Putting our own solar system into that greater context, I think is a really interesting portrait of the galaxy — our solar system is not typical. Maybe no solar system is typical; maybe they're all very different."
That wealth of solar systems has warmed the hearts of the sci-fi fans on the mission as well. For Kepler's project system engineer at NASA Ames, Charlie Sobeck, the mission has turned the type of universe he grew up with while watching "Star Trek" into reality. "I had no trouble believing that there were planets out there of all different kinds, so I had to wonder, why did it affect me so much when Kepler showed that there were lots of planets out there everywhere?" he said during the news conference.
"There's just a big difference between believing and knowing," Sobeck said. "It hit me like a sledgehammer in the chest when Kepler showed us that there really, really are planets out there of all different kinds."
NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope, Passes Planet-Hunting Torch
NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope, Passes Planet-Hunting Torch
This illustration depicts NASA's exoplanet hunter, the Kepler space telescope. The agency announced on Oct. 30, 2018, that Kepler has run out of fuel and is being retired within its current and safe orbit, away from Earth. Kepler leaves a legacy of more than 2,600 exoplanet discoveries.
Credits: NASA/Wendy Stenzel
After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations. NASA has decided to retire the spacecraft within its current, safe orbit, away from Earth. Kepler leaves a legacy of more than 2,600 planet discoveries from outside our solar system, many of which could be promising places for life.
"As NASA's first planet-hunting mission, Kepler has wildly exceeded all our expectations and paved the way for our exploration and search for life in the solar system and beyond," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "Not only did it show us how many planets could be out there, it sparked an entirely new and robust field of research that has taken the science community by storm. Its discoveries have shed a new light on our place in the universe, and illuminated the tantalizing mysteries and possibilities among the stars.”
Kepler has opened our eyes to the diversity of planets that exist in our galaxy. The most recent analysis of Kepler’s discoveries concludes that 20 to 50 percent of the stars visible in the night sky are likely to have small, possibly rocky, planets similar in size to Earth, and located within the habitable zone of their parent stars. That means they’re located at distances from their parent stars where liquid water – a vital ingredient to life as we know it – might pool on the planet surface.
The most common size of planet Kepler found doesn’t exist in our solar system – a world between the size of Earth and Neptune – and we have much to learn about these planets. Kepler also found nature often produces jam-packed planetary systems, in some cases with so many planets orbiting close to their parent stars that our own inner solar system looks sparse by comparison.
"When we started conceiving this mission 35 years ago we didn't know of a single planet outside our solar system," said the Kepler mission's founding principal investigator, William Borucki, now retired from NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. "Now that we know planets are everywhere, Kepler has set us on a new course that's full of promise for future generations to explore our galaxy."
Launched on March 6, 2009, the Kepler space telescope combined cutting-edge techniques in measuring stellar brightness with the largest digital camera outfitted for outer space observations at that time. Originally positioned to stare continuously at 150,000 stars in one star-studded patch of the sky in the constellation Cygnus, Kepler took the first survey of planets in our galaxy and became the agency's first mission to detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of their stars.
"The Kepler mission was based on a very innovative design. It was an extremely clever approach to doing this kind of science," said Leslie Livesay, director for astronomy and physics at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who served as Kepler project manager during mission development. "There were definitely challenges, but Kepler had an extremely talented team of scientists and engineers who overcame them.”
Four years into the mission, after the primary mission objectives had been met, mechanical failures temporarily halted observations. The mission team was able to devise a fix, switching the spacecraft’s field of view roughly every three months. This enabled an extended mission for the spacecraft, dubbed K2, which lasted as long as the first mission and bumped Kepler's count of surveyed stars up to more than 500,000.
The observation of so many stars has allowed scientists to better understand stellar behaviors and properties, which is critical information in studying the planets that orbit them. New research into stars with Kepler data also is furthering other areas of astronomy, such as the history of our Milky Way galaxy and the beginning stages of exploding stars called supernovae that are used to study how fast the universe is expanding. The data from the extended mission were also made available to the public and science community immediately, allowing discoveries to be made at an incredible pace and setting a high bar for other missions. Scientists are expected to spend a decade or more in search of new discoveries in the treasure trove of data Kepler provided.
"We know the spacecraft's retirement isn't the end of Kepler's discoveries," said Jessie Dotson, Kepler's project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. "I'm excited about the diverse discoveries that are yet to come from our data and how future missions will build upon Kepler's results."
Before retiring the spacecraft, scientists pushed Kepler to its full potential, successfully completing multiple observation campaigns and downloading valuable science data even after initial warnings of low fuel. The latest data, from Campaign 19, will complement the data from NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, launched in April. TESS builds on Kepler's foundation with fresh batches of data in its search of planets orbiting some 200,000 of the brightest and nearest stars to the Earth, worlds that can later be explored for signs of life by missions, such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley manages the Kepler and K2 missions for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, managed Kepler mission development. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation in Boulder, Colorado, operates the flight system with support from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
For the Kepler press kit, which includes multimedia, timelines and top science results, visit:
Illustration of hot clumps of gas that orbit the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Credit: ESO/Gravity Consortium/L. Calçada.
Scientists have known for a long time that at the very heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole, about four million times more massive than the Sun. As its name suggests, we can’t image a black hole directly, but cutting-edge telescopes can tease out the infrared light emitted by interstellar gas as it swirls into the black hole. Now, an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics reported evidence of knots of gas that appear to orbit the galactic center. This remarkable observation is the closest look yet at our galactic supermassive black hole and, at the same time, offers new opportunities to test the laws of physics.
The point of no return
To image things in the vicinity of Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, researchers looked to the GRAVITY project. Using a special technique called interferometry, four eight-meter-wide telescopes at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile were combined to produce images that only a hypothetical telescope as large as entire countries could produce. By the same technique, in the future, a ‘planet-sized’ instrument called the Event Horizon Telescope hopes to produce an actual image of a black hole.
The new observations measured the brightness and position of infrared flares in the vicinity of Sagittarius A*. These flares actually trace a tiny circle in the night’s sky, the researchers found, moving clockwise.
Yepun telescope, part of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Very Large Telescope.
Credit: ESO.
These kinds of outbursts had been detected before. However, this was the first time that astronomers precisely measured the flares’ positions and motions before they dissipated. Each flare moved at about 30% light speed in a 45-minute orbit around what we can only suppose is a black hole.
Earlier this year, the same team measured the relativistic distortion of light from a star, S2, during its closest approach to Sagittarius A*.
These hot spots might be produced by shock waves in magnetic fields, much as solar flares erupt from the sun. Due to the immense gravitational forces present in the vicinity of the black hole, space-time itself is twisted into something resembling a lens, which causes these hot spots, circling at 30% the speed of light, to flash beacons of light across the cosmos. And by further studying these flares, researchers hope to tease out the black hole’s spin or rotation.
All of this, of course, assuming Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct, which implies that the orbits of objects around a black hole are determined solely by the black hole’s mass and spin. If not, then the theory might need some refinement to accommodate for any observed inconsistencies.
The video was quickly picked up by popular conspiracy theory YouTube channel Third Phase of the Moon.
The narrator of the video said: “Some people are speculating that this is some kind of UFO in a crash landing situation.
“The object itself seems a little wobbly, in its own way it seems like a tadpole. This thing is unstable, it is not moving on a steady trajectory.
“We see contrails all the time, but with colours like this they stand out like a sore thumb.
UFO SHOCK: Did ‘alien spaceship’ CRASH LAND over Paris? Video sparks wild theories
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“Whatever was captured on camera is unexplained at this moment.”
Kannywhat added: “Before I recorded it, it was rapidly moving around. Strange!”
Many other people who commented on Third Phase of the Moon’s video also claimed to have experienced similar sightings.
Caligirl wrote: “I live in California and have seen a similar UFO.”
The UFO was seen wobbling over Paris
(Image: YOUTUBE)
Dane 69 commented: “I just came home from a flight from Greece, and I did see many jets with this black exhaust, I was also wondering why they are black.”
However, there are no reports of a crashed spaceship in the area others offered more logical explanations.
Even the narrator of Third Phase of the Moon questioned: “Could it be a satellite falling into Earth’s atmosphere and burning up?”
While Oliver Cook claimed: “Its just a very dirty jet. Many Russian planes are like this – they look like they are burning coal.
“Just check out MiG-29s and IL-76's, they often belch out trails like this.”
Is NASA hiding evidence of aliens on Mars? Photo of ‘smoke plume’ sparks conspiracy FRENZY
Is NASA hiding evidence of aliens on Mars? Photo of ‘smoke plume’ sparks conspiracy FRENZY
NASA has been accused of hiding evidence of alien life on Mars after astronomers photographed what appears to be a giant plume of smoke on the Red Planet.
Conspiracy theorists behind the popular YouTube channel Secureteam10 claimed the “smoke plume” is evidence of a potential “cover-up happening here”.
In a video titled Something MAJOR Happened On Mars… Are They Hiding It?, conspiracist Tyler Glockner suggested the smoke could have also come from a detonation.
He said: “What is strange here is that there are two sets of images.
“One by the European Space Agency, which clearly show what appears to be a plume coming out of this volcano.
Aliens on Mars: Conspiracists believe this is a smoke plume on Mars
(Image: ESA)
“Then we have another set of images captured by NASA and one of their probes, taken on the same day, same time and yet we see nothing.
“We see no plume whatsoever – as you guys are seeing here in this 3D model map taken by NASA – no plume whatsoever, and that’s extremely strange.
“It makes you wonder if NASA is already getting ahead of this and editing this plume out or is something weird happening here? We just don’t know yet.”
Many of the video’s viewers were sold on the alien smoke plume theory while others suggested NASA is terraforming the planet for human arrival.
Terry Powell commented: “Perhaps Mars is being terraformed to enable rich and so-called elite to move to Mars when disaster strikes the Earth.”
It makes you wonder if NASA is already getting ahead of this and editing this plume out
Tyler Glockner, Secureteam10
Ryan O’Malley said: “Maybe the secret government is terraforming the planet by sending nukes to melt the ice so it can support the breakaway civilisation.”
And Rob Bowen said: “Governments should stop hiding things from the people that pay for their things.
“We are the investors and they should not be hiding things.”
Aliens on Mars: The white streak was photographed near a dead Martian volcano
(Image: ESA)
Aliens on Mars: The European Space Agency said the plume is a cloud of evaporated ice
(Image: ESA)
However, according to the ESA, the “smoke plume” does not in any way prove to alien or volcanic activity but is instead a giant cloud of evaporated ice water.
The “elongated cloud formation” was snapped hovering near the 12-mile-high (20km) Arsia Mons volcano near the planet’s equator.
The space agency said: “In spite of its location, this atmospheric feature is not linked to volcanic activity but is rather a water ice cloud driven by the influence of the volcano’s leeward slope on the air flow – something that scientists call an orographic or lee cloud – and a regular phenomenon in this region.”
The Martian cloud was snapped on October 10 by the Mars Express mission with the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC).
In June 1984, American Psychology magazine posed a question to its readers: “Do you believe in UFOs?” 50% of respondents said yes. A decade earlier, only 40% of respondents to the same question in a Roper Poll had replied in the affirmative. While it is impossible to accurately account for this apparent 10% increase in belief, it seems reasonable to speculate that Hollywood played a significant role. Spielberg’s iconic UFO movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind had been released to huge acclaim and box-office success in 1977. Inspired by the research of UFOlogists like J. Allen Hynek and fuelled by Spielberg’s own life-long obsession with flying saucers, Close Encounters was the most ufological movie ever made, and it treated its subject matter with respect and gravity. More importantly, and in stark contrast to the majority of Hollywood’s alien-themed output in the past, Spielberg’s film dared to present aliens as creatures of benevolence and wonder—not as invaders, but as saviours. Spielberg struck gold again with the alien saviour concept in 1982 with his blockbusting E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, which rapidly became the most successful film of all time and spawned numerous movies in the same vein throughout the 1980s.
Spielberg’s ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ (1977).
Two months after the June 1984 American Psychologymagazine reader poll revealed that fully half the country believed in UFOs, the closing ceremony of the Olympic games in Los Angeles demonstrated just how deeply UFOs and aliens had become ingrained into the American psyche—and the extent to which they had become inseparable from cinema.
The highlight of the Olympic closing ceremony that year was the staged landing of a giant flying saucer and the subsequent emergence from within of a space alien (friendly, of course) who then officially declared the games closed. In an awesome spectacle clearly inspired by the final scenes of Spielberg’s Close Encounters, the Olympic saucer communicated with the awestruck crowd below through a series of elaborate light shows, the orchestral music swelled to a crescendo, and the UFO descended to rapturous applause. It was a sight both bizarre and magnificent to behold.
Bizarrely, the event has since become the subject of conspiratorial musings in the UFO community. For years, UFO buffs have speculated that the Olympic UFO of 1984 was not a prop suspended by a helicopter, but a real flying saucer—either manmade or alien—owned by the US government and flaunted on the world stage for all to see. This idea can be traced back to Bill Cooper, author of Behold a Pale Horse, which, since its publication in 1991, has become a sort-of bible for conspiracy theorists.
In an undated interview from the early-1990s, Cooper remarks of the Olympic UFO:
“Well, it wasn’t held by a helicopter. There’s no helicopter up there holding this thing. They tell you that, but it’s not true. Can you imagine the liability that they would have if they were carrying this thing suspended on a cable underneath a helicopter over the heads of hundreds-of-thousands of people?”
Cooper then states his belief that “there was no helicopter, there was no cable,” and that the UFO was “operating under its own power.”
In his 1991 book, Cooper contended that the US government had, for decades, been working covertly with alien intelligences and that it had in its possession highly advanced technologies, including flying saucers, both manmade and extraterrestrial. He also believed that the powers that be were planning on exploiting the alien presence by staging a false flag alien invasion in order to usher in martial law and establish a one-world government. Cooper died in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies at his home in Eagar, Arizona in 2001 following charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and endangerment stemming from disputes with local residents. Many in the conspiracy community today are convinced that Cooper’s death was orchestrated by the New World Order because his work was too close to the truth.
In light of his well-established position that the global elite were planning a false flag ET invasion, Cooper’s statements about the Olympic UFO being real led many of his followers to believe that the 1984 Olympic closing ceremony was a test of public reaction to an alien landing, and a rudimentary dry-run for a spectacular and devastating false-flag event that was thought to be in the pipeline.
If you’re one of the people who believe Cooper about the Olympic UFO, prepare to be disappointed (or, perhaps, relieved).
It’s been known for years by anyone who has ever taken a few moments to do some digging (which apparently excludes most UFO conspiracy theorists) that the 1984 Olympic UFO was actually the work of the celebrated Disney ‘Imagineer’ Bob Gurr, who is credited with designing most of the original attractions at Disneyland.
In 2004, Gurr wrote an article for Designer Times, in which he describes in detail the time and effort that went into creating the Olympic UFO spectacle. Gurr remembers vividly the reaction to his finished product on the night of the ceremony as his UFO descended from the sky:
“An audible gasp swept the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum… Was it real? Some of the 92,000 onlookers certainly thought so. Millions of worldwide TV viewers stared in amazement….was this really happening? Or just more of what the entertainment capital of the world does for everyday life.”
Gurr then goes on to answer his own question as he recounts the origins of the project and how it all came together. Originally, the ceremony was to be produced by Disney, but, when the entertainment giant was unable to furnish a budget on time, the reins were handed over to David L. Wolper (producer of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory). Tommy Walker, who had been Director of Entertainment at Disneyland, was enlisted as Director of Ceremonies. It was Walker who suggested that a flying saucer be featured as the highlight of the 1984 ceremony, and it was Walker and Wolper who enlisted the services of Bob Gurr has head designer on the contract, which was won and carried out by Plainview of Hollywood.
Snapshots of the “UFO landing” at the 1984 Olympics closing ceremony.
The task was to create a flying saucer 50 foot in diameter fitted with hundreds of special lights. With only two months to go before the August 12, 1984 show night, the work began. “The wild contraption I envisioned got drawn up and built at a furious pace,” writes Gurr in his article, noting that the saucer had to carry a lot of equipment and also needed to be light enough to be carried by a Bell 314 big-lift Helicopter:
“So I made an outer ring of welded aluminium truss sections all pulled together by cables to a center triangular frame. This was inspired by the extremely light construction of the 1930s Hindenburg Zeppelin. The saucer looked like a slice out of the Hindenburg turned sideways.”
According to Gurr, the center frame of the saucer carried a 90 KVA 208 3 phase gas turbine generator, and, for its spectacular light display, the saucer used three-hundred-and-sixty 600 watt Ray Lites, a Pichel Industries 7K Xenon searchlight, plus “a whole bunch more lighting gizmos totalling 432 items using 238,200 watts… but not all at once!” The wiring alone stretched 1.5 miles. The total ready-to-fly weight was 3,689 pounds.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the 1984 Olympics.
Finally, after just five weeks of work, and only nine days before the show, the Olympic flying saucer was assembled and ready to fly. And fly it did—into the imaginations of the millions who watched it live, including Bill Cooper, and, in turn, numerous online conspiracy theorists who became convinced that the global elite had, that sticky August night in 1984, given us a tangible glimpse of their hidden world. The reality—that a handful of talented and determined individuals had grafted hard and fast to create a Hollywood illusion—is far less exciting than the conspiracy, but impressive nonetheless.
“But wait, what about the alien?” you may ask. The one who made his entrance in the stadium that night and greeted humanity. Shockingly, he too was of this Earth. Inside that alien costume was George Bell, a former basketball player with the Harlem Wizards and Harlem Globetrotters and, at 7 feet 8 inches, the former tallest man in the United States.
So, move on people, nothing to see here. Except, maybe, just maybe, the whole Olympic acclimation theory shouldn’t be thrown out with the rubber alien. The original contract was, of course, intended for Disney, and, ultimately, it was Disney’s chief Imagineer who realised the vision. This provides at least some food for thought in the context of Disney’s long and intriguing history with the UFO subject, which involves at least one instance of the entertainment giant working with officialdom allegedly for purpose of testing public reaction to alien reality. If you don’t already know the full story behind this, get comfy, put on your tinfoil hat, and discover The Inside Story of Disney’s Mythic UFO Documentary and Conference…
What if UFOs are trying to be seen? What if they’re desperate to be noticed? What if they’re alien long-haul truckers stuck here with a broken mothership and the only barrier between them and the their space-homes and space-children is an inability to work a can of WD40? Maybe all they’re after are some reading lessons. They’re flying around up there, going “hey look, look at me! help!” and we’re so thick-headed we shrug and say “I dunno bro, looks like a balloon.” What other reason could there be for some of the stunts these guys pull?
Take the case of this video. It purports to show a group of small UFOs “escorting” a large UFO through the skies over the Hague. If you don’t know, the Hague is the governmental seat of the Netherlands, one of the cities used for UN meetings, and home to the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice (among many other fancy and important institutes of geopolitics). Imagine being so desperate for attention that you and your friends drive to the International Court of Justice—which sounds like an allegory for committing war crimes but, I assure you, it’s just a cheap joke.
Maybe the aliens would get more attention if their ships had a little more style?
If this footage is real then they clearly want our attention, but that’s a dubious claim at best. It’s a stronger case than some UFO videos (like when it’s obviously window glare or the videographer clearly hasn’t accepted that drones exist), but that’s not saying much.
The video shows a group of seemingly black objects flying at matched speed and in what looks like a sort of formation. One of the objects stands out as much larger than the rest, and does appear escorted by the smaller ones. Appeared is the operative word here. Perspective is a heck of a thing, and what we’re likely seeing is an object that’s closer to the camera than the others.
One person in the comments section suggested that it was a group of bats. Bats are normally known for twitchy aerial acrobatics, but some bats can soar. The Hague does have a thriving population of bats, as does the rest of the Netherlands. But whatever the video shows soar smooth, stable and effortless at a high altitude. They don’t really look like bats. Why not birds? The shapes are very dark and the larger one does seem more like a singular shape than it does a bird with wings and a tail but, once again, perspective is a heck of a thing.
This might be falling into that same old thick-headed trap, justifying the alien field trip to the International Court of Justice. After all, it is an unusual looking group of flying objects and, without the credentials or evidence to really make a judgement call here, it could be named a group of unidentified flying objects. It’s a safe bet that the unidentified part would be solved by better video quality.The next time aliens leave a crop circle for us it’ll probably be lined with HD cameras and zoom lenses.
Sprawled out over approximately 350,000 square miles of the African countries of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa is a vast expanse of arid, sandy savanna wilderness known as the Kalahari Desert. The word “Kalahari” comes from the local Tswana word Kgala, meaning “the great thirst”, or Kgalagadi, meaning “a waterless place,” and the Kalahari Desert certainly looks the part, with immense swaths of land that look like something from some inhospitable alien planet, all twisted scrub, gnarled dead trees and contorted rocks, and shifting red sands devoid of any source of water. This is for the most part a forbidding moonscape of a place, and it was long a domain that may as well have been on another world for outsiders, yet in 1885 one of the first Westerners to ever set foot within these badlands ventured out into an uncharted area of the Kalahari Desert and would lay eyes upon a great mystery that still remains unexplained.
The expedition was carried out by a American explorer and entertainer from New York by the name of William Leonard Hunt, who in his native land made a living performing death defying stunts such as tightrope walks over the Niagara Falls, as well as exhibiting African bushmen like a human zoo, and usually went by his alias Guillermo Farini or “The Great Farini.” In February of 1885, he set out from Cape Town South Africa, along with a contingent of fellow adventurers, some native guides, and his son, Lulu. The goal of the trip was not particularly noble, they were not there to map out a new realm of the planet or catalogue its new plants, animals, and people, but rather they were there to get rich by seeking out diamonds, which Farini had heard the region was brimming with. The adventurers penetrated out into an area of the desert never before seen by the outside world, and when they returned they did so with quite the tale to tell.
The Kalahari Desert
Upon his return to civilization, Farini immediately went about compiling a report of his findings, which he presented to the Berlin Geographical Society in 1885 and the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain in 1886, shortly after followed by a book on what he had seen and experienced out in those sun scorched wilds, titled Through the Kalahari Desert. One of the main events of these reports and the book was an account of coming across the ruins of some what looked to have been a once great city out there half-buried in the blood reds sands, and which he estimated to have been thousands of years old. Farini would write of this enigmatic lost city:
We camped at the foot of the mountain – near a rocky ridge, which looked like a Chinese wall after an earthquake – it was the ruins of a huge structure, sometimes sanded in. We carefully inspected the ruins almost a mile long, they were a pile of huge hewn stones, and Here and there, the traces of cement were clearly visible between them … In general, the wall had the shape of a semicircle, inside of which, approximately forty feet apart, were piles of masonry in the shape of an oval or a blunt ellly The height of a foot and a half … As all of them were to some extent sanded, we ordered all our people to dig out the largest of them (and this work clearly did not suit them) and found that the sand had protected the junction from destruction.
Excavations took almost the whole day, which caused a lot of indignation in Jan. He could not understand why it was necessary to dig out the old stones, for him this activity seemed a waste of time … We began to dig up sand in the middle of the semicircle and discovered the footwall of the twentieth wide, lined with large stones. The top layer was composed of oblong stones placed at right angles to the bottom layer. This bridge was crossed by another one, forming as it were a Maltese cross. Apparently, in the center of it was once some altar, a column or a monument, as evidenced by the preserved foundation – dilapidated masonry. My son tried to find some hieroglyphics or inscriptions, but did not find anything. Then he took a few photographs and sketches. Let the people who know better than me judge them by when and by whom this city was built.
In general, the ancient city was described as being quite extensive and immense, and Farini would speculate that some great catastrophe had wiped it and its people out, whoever they may have been. Considering that there was not known to have ever been any great civilization to have ever inhabited that region, and that it seemed to match stories the bushman of the area had long told of lost cities hiding out in the sands, the account grew a great amount of interest at the time, and the allure of some ancient lost people hidden away within the remote Kalahari proved to be romantic and irresistible.
A sketch of the Lost City
Fueled by the reports, the sketches, and the photographic evidence provided by Farini, there have been numerous follow-up expeditions to try and find the Lost City of the Kalahari, and to date there have been about 30 such expeditions launched over the years, none which have managed to find anything quite so spectacular as what Farini described, and some have come back doubtful of the truth of the story. One such prominent expedition was launched in 1964 by a professor named A. J. Clement, who followed what he believed to have been Farini’s original route and came across a very odd rock formation out in the desert that he believed was the very same one Farini had encountered and which could have been mistaken for something manmade, but which he concluded was merely an anomalous natural formation, most likely caused by the erosion of a particular type of igneous rock called dolerite. Indeed, Clement expressed doubt that the region could have ever supported such a legendary city at all, and would say of the Lost City of the Kalahari:
The climatological history of the Kalahari does not appear to have undergone any marked change for several thousand years, and it is obvious that no settlement of the size indicated by Farini could exist without perennial rivers or lakes in the vicinity. And, suitable conditions for the establishment of a city cannot have existed along any of the river courses for tens of thousands of years. Furthermore, if the age of the Lost City is assessed in relation to Zimbabwe and the ancient ruins of Persia, it is impossible to conceive of any in the Kalahari having been built more than 15,000 years ago.
Like all legends, that of the Lost City will be a long time a-dying, and doubtless there will still be some who are disinclined to let the matter rest in spite of all the contrary evidence. And possibly this is just as well, for there is something rather sad about the destruction of a legend.
Clement was right in the sense that there are many who have not let the legend die, and are still convinced the legendary city really does exist, with expeditions continuing all the way up the present and using new technology to help them. One recent search was carried out in 2013 by a crowd-sourced research project using Google Maps, called the Marcahuasi Project, which found anomalies in the desert that could be indicative of walls of the lost city, but it is still unknown if the images are of an ancient city, more recent abandoned irrigation circles for crops formed by the native tribes, or merely a natural formation.
Farini’s expedition in the Kalahari
Even more recently still was an expedition in 2016 by the Travel Channel series Destination Unknown, headed by explorer and host Josh Gates and equipped with state of the art technology such as aerial scans and radar. They managed to find some unusual rock formations that resemble walls and ruins, but again it is unknown if they are artificial or if they were really what Farini wrote of. One of the problems with locating the Lost City is that the area is just so remote and inhospitable, and this coupled with its sheer size makes it a formidable task to try and locate these alleged ancient ruins among the endless sands and desert scrub. Not helping matters is that Farini did not give very detailed descriptions of the actual location, and this is further exacerbated by the fact that the ruins are supposedly half buried. One member of one of the many expeditions that have tried and failed to find the city once lamented:
It’s all very vague. When you see this desert, you will understand that you can wander among the sand dunes for months and not even come close to the places where the lost city is located.
The Lost City of the Kalahari described by Farini has gone on to become a legendary, almost mythical place in the same realm as places like Atlantis, and there have been many theories as to its existence. Some think it is a real place, perhaps a city once built and abandoned by its creators due to a great drought or even that of a thriving lost civilization. Others, like Clement, think it is likely just misidentified natural rock formations. Still others point to Farini’s showman background, and claim that the whole report, the sketches, and even the photographs were likely faked, that it was all a big hoax. Considering that Farini is the only one to have documented the city in any appreciable way, and the vast stretches of harsh terrain involved, if there really is a city out there then it is very possible that it will remain buried and hidden, as it has for thousands of years and just might for thousands more yet to come.
A pair of Australian radio telescopes pointed at the same spot in the sky have revealed new clues on the nature of mysterious signals known as fast radio bursts.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely bright flashes of energy from unknown sources in deep space, and last only about a millisecond.
While the Australian SKA Pathfinder detected several such signals during its search, the Murchison Widefield Array observing the same region did not.
Scientists say the discovery is significant, suggesting fast radio bursts may only come across at higher frequencies.
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A pair of Australian radio telescopes pointed at the same spot in the sky have revealed new clues on the nature of mysterious signals known as fast radio bursts. The ASKAP managed to detect several fast radio bursts during its observation (artist's impression)
The researchers published the findings in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The Curtin University-led Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) searches at lower frequencies than CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), the team notes.
‘When ASKAP sees these extremely bright events and the MWA doesn’t, that tells us something really unexpected is going on; either fast radio burst sources don’t emit at low frequencies, or the signals are blocked on their way to Earth,’ said lead author Dr Marcin Sokolowski.
The two telescopes in the Western Australian desert were pointed at the same area of the sky at the same time.
The ASKAP managed to detect several fast radio bursts during its observation. None of the FRBs, however, were detected at lower frequencies by MWA.
‘Fast radio bursts are unpredictable, so to catch them when both telescopes are looking in the same direction isn’t easy,’ said co-author Dr Ramesh Bhat.
‘It took many months of ASKAP and the MWA co-tracking the same area of sky, ensuring the best overlap of their views possible, to give us the chance at catching some of these enigmatic bursts.
‘The challenge was in making it all happen automatically, but it really paid off.’
While the Australian SKA Pathfinder detected several such signals during its search, the Murchison Widefield Array observing the same region did not
WHAT ARE FAST RADIO BURSTS AND WHY DO WE STUDY THEM?
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.
Scientists searching for fast radio bursts (FRBs) that some believe may be signals sent from aliens may be happening every second. The blue points in this artist's impression of the filamentary structure of galaxies are signals from FRBs
The first FRB was spotted, or rather 'heard' by radio telescopes, back in 2001 but wasn't discovered until 2007 when scientists were analysing archival data.
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.
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics point out that FRBs can be used to study the structure and evolution of the universe whether or not their origin is fully understood.
A large population of faraway FRBs could act as probes of material across gigantic distances.
This intervening material blurs the signal from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the left over radiation from the Big Bang.
A careful study of this intervening material should give an improved understanding of basic cosmic constituents, such as the relative amounts of ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy, which affect how rapidly the universe is expanding.
FRBs can also be used to trace what broke down the 'fog' of hydrogen atoms that pervaded the early universe into free electrons and protons, when temperatures cooled down after the Big Bang.
The latest findings put us another step closer to understanding the nature of fast radio bursts, which have perplexed astronomers since their discovery more than a decade ago.
‘It’s really thrilling to have a clue about the origins of these incredible bursts of energy from outside our galaxy,’ Dr Macquart said.
‘The MWA adds an important piece of the puzzle and it was only made possible with this “technological tango” between the two telescopes.
‘It’s an exciting development because it unites the two teams and it brings home the advantage of having the two telescopes at the same time.
‘Future coordination between the teams will also benefit other areas of astronomy, as complementary views from the two telescopes can provide a more complete picture of a situation.’
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Mystery of fast radio bursts deepens as new study finds they're invisible to many telescopes
Het mysterie van de onzichtbare radioflitsen. Astronomen zien iets totaal onverwachts gebeuren
Het mysterie van de onzichtbare radioflitsen. Astronomen zien iets totaal onverwachts gebeuren
Snelle radioflitsen worden sinds 2007 waargenomen. Over deze mysterieuze flitsen is maar weinig bekend.
Uit onderzoek is nu gebleken dat ze geen straling uitzenden op lage radiofrequenties, waardoor het nog lastiger zal worden om het raadsel te ontrafelen.
Australische astronomen richtten twee sterrenwachten gedurende langere tijd op hetzelfde deel van de hemel in de hoop snelle radioflitsen op te pikken.
Iets totaal onverwachts
De ene sterrenwacht detecteerde een aantal krachtige flitsen, maar de andere nam niets waar.
Het bleek dat snelle radioflitsen geen laagfrequente radiostraling uitzenden of dat die straling op de één of andere manier wordt geabsorbeerd.
“Dit zegt ons dat er iets totaal onverwachts gebeurt; snelle radioflitsen zenden geen straling uit bij lage frequenties of de signalen worden geblokkeerd op weg naar de aarde,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Marcin Sokolowski.
Onvoorspelbaar
“Snelle radioflitsen zijn onvoorspelbaar, dus het is niet makkelijk om ze op te pikken als beide telescopen op hetzelfde gebied gericht staan,” zei coauteur Ramesh Bhat.
Het gaat hier om extreem heldere flitsen afkomstig van een onbekende bron in de diepe ruimte.
Ze duren slechts een fractie van een seconde en stellen astronomen al meer dan een decennium voor een raadsel.
Utah Artifacts Links Lady of Elche As An Anunnaki Queen, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Utah Artifacts Links Lady of Elche As An Anunnaki Queen, Video, UFO Sighting News.
One of the most enigmatic feminine faces of the history of humanity, is without a doubt the one of the Lady of Elche, that dates of the Iberian culture. And although his clothing reflects his high lineage, his identity is unknown. But the enigmas are gradually being cleared and the new hypotheses of the origin of this figure are at least surprising. Does the Lady of Ancient Sumeria come? Or, maybe it was an Anunnaki queen? A medal found in Utah (in 1966 USA), which has a lady engraved identical to that of Elche, (since the Lady of Elche has the same ritual ear-rings and necklaces), would reveal the connection of both relics, despite the vast distances between Elche and Utah.
Also the earmuffs were representative of Atlantis. In Bolivia (Peru) and in the Andes they have always been a trail of Atlantis, which had a capital on Lake Titicaca, a lake that is in the mountains and with Anunnaki remains. There are legends in the area of Venus men who visited the earth and had that type of earmuffs. Very interesting link from the medal to the statue...sounds like the mystery only deepens.
UFO news: Shock claim BLACK TRIANGLE spacecraft recorded over Ohio is ‘proof of aliens'
UFO news: Shock claim BLACK TRIANGLE spacecraft recorded over Ohio is ‘proof of aliens'
A BIZARRE triangular UFO photographed over Perrysville, Ohio, is genuine proof of alien spacecraft entering Earth’s atmosphere, conspiracy theorists have claimed.
He said: “The UFO seems to almost have one, two, three tail-like appendages hanging from it behind it.
“It has three pointy ends – it’s not just two – this doesn’t look like a stealth bomber or a stealth fighter here.
“This is really, really strange and there is a huge divide in between.
“This UFO, whatever it is, is nothing like I’ve ever seen before.”
UFO news: This photo supposedly shows and alien spaceship UFO over Earth
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
Based on his calculations, Mr Waring claimed the UFO could be bigger than a Boeing 747 jet airliner – an aircraft with a wingspan of nearly 200ft (60m).
This UFO, whatever it is, is nothing like I’ve ever seen before
Scott C Waring, UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY
The supposed alien spacecraft was photographed on September 3, 2018, when it passed over a construction site in the US village of Perrysville, Ohio.
Some of Mr Waring’s supporters were stunned by the UFO photographs, claiming it is definitely the real deal.
YouTube user Xavier Perkins said: “Weird UFO. The sightings are increasing worldwide. We are definitely not alone.”
Mr Waring also noticed the black triangle appears to cast a shadow onto the clouds below, seemingly confirming his extraterrestrial theory.
He said: “The UFO is also throwing a shadow onto the cloud below, which is 100 percent amazing, because this means the UFO was freaking huge.
“I’m talking several times bigger than a 747.
“This UFO must have been cloaked because something this big would normally stand out like a sore thumb.
UFO news: Scott Waring claimed the UFO is larger than a Boeing 747
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
“So I say the digital eye caught this because it is more precise of an instrument than our flawed eye which misses out on a lot of the spectrum.”
The person who originally took the UFO photo, noted the black triangle made no jet engine sound or other noise when it passed overhead.
However, this is not the first 'black triangle UFO' to be spotted over the US and is one of many annual sightings.
A declassified UK Ministry of Defence report on so-called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) concluded most sightings can be explained by natural causes or misrepresentation.
UFO news: There is no evidence to suggest triangle spacecrafts are real alien technology
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
The secret document revealed to the public in 2006 reads: “Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere.
“They appear to originate due to more than one set of weather and electrically-charged conditions and are observed so infrequently as to make to unique to the majority observers.
“There seems to be a strong possibility that at least some of the events may be triggered by meteor-reentry, the meteors neither burning up completely nor impacting as meteorites but forming buoyant plasmas.”
Another popular conspiracy theory stipulates black triangle UFOs could be top-secret US Military aircraft, dubbed TR-3B.
Pieces Of A “UFO” Fell From The Sky And Landed In Remote Cambodian Village
Pieces Of A “UFO” Fell From The Sky And Landed In Remote Cambodian Village
Residents of a small, remote Cambodian village were woken up to quite an unusual – and somewhat dangerous – surprise last week when pieces of metal were seen raining from the sky. At the time of publication, officials are still stumped as to what could be the cause, leading some to believe extraterrestrial forces could be behind the incident.
In a statement sent to IFLScience, residents of Preah Vihear Province said they heard a loud sound around 6am local time. They ran outside to find dozens of pieces of aluminum weighing more than 40 kilograms (88 pounds) striking homes and causing damage across a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) radius. Fortunately, nobody was injured.
''I heard a big noise in the morning. I was shocked and thought something bad had happened," said villager Sok Nol. “When I went to look there was one big piece in a field and other smaller pieces around. We thought an airplane had crashed but there was no big engine.”
Residents collected the wreckage and reported it to police, who were unable to identify where it came from. Yin Chamnan, police chief of Preah Vihear, confirmed that rubble had been recovered in the village, continuing that regional police have not been able to pinpoint where the pieces came from. The case will now be handed over to a team of specialists.
Altogether, 17 pieces of aluminum and rubber reportedly fell from the sky. Viral Press
''We have found more than 17 fallen fragments of aluminum and rubber. But, we are continuing the search and are collecting further information from the people at the scene,” he said.
It has some thinking something out-of-this-world could be responsible.
''Now I think that it has come from space and landed in our village. It's confusing because nobody knows what it is,” said Nol.
Chamnan, however, has a different explanation: ''Maybe these fragments are parts of a drone that someone flew. The parts were not relatively big,” he said.
Villages say they awoke to the sounds of metal dropping around 6 a.m. local time on October 25. Viral Press
It's estimated the fragments weighed around 40 kilograms (88 pounds).
Viral Press
The fallen fragments damaged buildings over a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) radius. Fortunately, nobody was injured.
Sightings of potential alien activity have been investigated by Mecca Bingo who have analysed all UFO sightings in the UK since 2007.
According to their data, there have been four sightings in Hull in the April, May, June and July of 2013, but nothing has been reported since.
A witness in Hull at the time said: "Whilst sat in the hot tub on a Saturday night, my husband and I noticed a dark triangle shape craft glide past us that was 100% silent.
"The silence of this aircraft grabbed me most as there were no lights.
"There were lines running down either side of the triangle, and my husband said the end had scallop edges."
Watch: "Alien Autopsy Roswell UFO Crash 1947 Original footagedocumentary
So this Halloween keep an eye out for saucers in the sky, as well as the usual spooky sights.
The Mecca Bingo survey also identified the top five superstitions we believe will bring us luck:
Filer’s Files #43 – 2018 How to Communicate with ET - PART I
Olathe, Kansas Boomerang on Saturday night, October 20th, 2018
Filer’s Files #43 – 2018 How to Communicate with ET - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut Gordon Cooper saw UFOs, Wilbert Smith Tells How to Communicate With Aliens, UFO Spaceship Material Studied by Top Scientists, Weather Engineering, and Hyper Alarming’ Study Shows Massive Insect Loss
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois <Kansas,, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Hungry, Italy, Mexico, England in the United Kingdom and Venezuela..
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
Astronaut Major Gordon Cooper Saw UFOs
One of the original Mercury Astronauts and the last American to fly in space alone. On May 15, 1963 he shot into space in a Mercury capsule for a 22 orbit journey around the world. During the final orbit, Major Gordon Cooper told the tracking station at Muchea (near Perth Australia) that he could see a glowing, greenish object ahead of him quickly approaching his capsule. The UFO was real and solid, because it was picked up by Muchea’s tracking radar. Cooper’s sighting was reported by the National Broadcast Company, which was covering the flight step by step; but when Cooper landed, reporters were told that they would not be allowed to question him about the UFO sighting.
Major Cooper was a firm believer in UFOs. Ten years earlier, in 1951 he had sighted a UFO while piloting an F-86 Sabrejet over Western Germany. They were metallic, saucer-shaped discs at considerable altitude and could out-maneuver all American fighter planes. Major Cooper also testified before the United Nations: “I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets… Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.” “I did have occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.”
And according to a taped interview by J. L. Ferrando, Major Cooper said: “For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means.”
“I was furthermore a witness to an extraordinary phenomenon, here on this planet Earth. It happened a few months ago in Florida. There I saw with my own eyes a defined area of ground being consumed by flames, with four indentions left by a flying object which had descended in the middle of a field. Beings had left the craft (there were other traces to prove this). They seemed to have studied topography, they had collected soil samples and, eventually, they returned to where they had come from, disappearing at enormous speed… I happen to know that authority did just about everything to keep this incident from the press and TV, in fear of a panicky reaction from the public.”read also: “Pioneering astronauts sees UFO“, Area 51 and Gordon Cooper’s confiscated Camera“, and “No Mercury UFO”
Filer’s Files ‘38
Wilbert Smith Tells How to Communicate With Aliens
In 1961 interview with television station CJOH, the former head of the official Canadian Government UFO investigations Wilbur Smith stated, “In 1950 I was attending a rather slow-moving broadcasting conference in Washington D.C. and found that the U.S. government had a highly classified project set up to study flying saucers. He was the Official Director of the Canadian Government’s UFO Investigation in 1950 for many years. He was one of the foremost communications experts of the day and worked as the chief radio engineer for the Canadian government. He was in charge of monitoring 50,000 radio frequencies in Canada, and ran the Top Secret “Radio Ottawa” where spies would radio in to intelligence services.
Have you communicated with aliens?
Smiths answer (A) “Some of the communications have been on a face-to-face basis but I have not been so honored myself. Some of the communications have been by ordinary radio, and I have received a few messages by this means. But by far the majority of the communications are by what we call Tensor Beam transmission, which uses a type of radio with which we are only vaguely familiar. However, the mental images of the person wishing to transmit are picked up electrically amplified and modulated into a tensor beam, which is directed to the person to whom the transmission is addressed, and within whose brain the mental images are recreated. The transmissions are therefore very precise, and independent of language. I have had some experience with these transmissions myself and can say that they are like nothing within the conventional experiences of earth people.”
They appear to be from another planet using flying saucers and the investigation of one saucer that fell in the US indicated it operated on some hitherto unknown magnetic principles. . I am convinced that they are just as real and tangible as most things we deal with in our everyday lives. I made enquires through the Canadian Embassy concerning the saucers: This is the most highly classified subject in the United State, rating higher than the H bomb. Flying saucers exist but their operandi is unknown but consecrated effort is being made by a small group headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush..
Thousands of people have seen them, many under circumstances, which virtually preclude misinterpretation, many of these sightings have been coordinated with radar fixes. Photographs have been taken and physical evidence has been accumulated.
Q: Have you, you actually handled any material believed to be from a flying saucer? A: If by that you mean material substance showing evidence of fabrication through intelligent effort and not originating on this planet, I have.
I extracted this Question posed to Wilbert Smith from your Filer’s Files 38 post. The Tensor Beam article I found on the Internet. Being a “Novice” ham operator, it piqued my interest. This all ties into the stated “fact” that back in 1950, communications took place face-to-face as well as via radio using this Tensor Beam technology, even back then. I thought you might be interested in seeing this blurb. Thanks to Joe Foster
Tensor Beam to Communicate With Aliens
Wilbur Smith’s archive reports, The information leading up to the coil’s construction came from “topside” (aliens), and therefore I feel I have absolutely no property rights to it, and I would be most pleased if data could be published to an extent which would preclude future patentability..
We were told about a system which uses a radio transmitter as an energy source but has a special antenna converter, which radiates doughnut shaped waves, which are not time functions. Following are the construction instructions. One ferrite core, material with the highest permeability and dielectric constant, about 8 inches to a foot long, and about 1 inch in diameter. About 20 feet of plastic insulated #14 electric house wire. Starting at the center of the wire and at one end of the core, wind on the wire as closely as possible, with the first turn under and then over, so that the winding will be exactly symmetrical. It will start at one end of the core and finish at the other end and will resemble a solenoid with a bifilar winding. It is important that the winding be exactly symmetrical.
The size of the coil is not critical, nor is the winding beyond the fact that it must be symmetrical. Of course the combination determines the critical frequencies at which conversion takes place. Even if you use rods as small as 1/8 inch and wind with #36 wire it should work at reasonable medium high frequencies.
When measured on a radio frequency bridge, it shows very peculiar properties. There are certain frequencies at which it is impossible to balance the RF bridge, and that is a direct contradiction to what any electrical engineer will tell you should happen with a coil wound on a ferrite core.
This coil converts ordinary radio frequency energy into a tensor beam. It depends on the particular sample of ferrite and the selection of operating frequency and power. There is definitely an optimum frequency and a minimum power to generate the beam. Your best indication is when you feed a fair amount of power into the unit without it getting the least bit warm. If it does get warm, you are doing something wrong. Incidentally, I am talking in terms of at least 100 watts RF input.
Apparently the hole down the center of the core is necessary for its proper functioning, as is an adequate power input. It will take a kilowatt comfortably, without heating at all, and we know that it will work on 100 watts, but it won’t work for us on 30 watts. It just gets hot on the lower power! I don’t know what the lower cutoff power is.
The main point is to find the frequencies at which it will “convert” ordinary radio energy into tensor energy. At these frequencies it is possible to send a kilowatt or more into the coil without it showing any tendency to get warm. Under these conditions a small but real tensor beam is being generated, and with which an expert operator can accomplish a great deal. I can’t tell you how to find the critical frequencies because each coil and ferrite core have different values, but trial and error will disclose them eventually There are several for each unit.
With regard to the antenna, this gadget isn’t actually an antenna but we call it that. It generates a special type of wave, which is not a hertzian wave. It more closely resembles the waves which follow nerves.
When connected to a transmitter, treat it as any normal antenna for loading and tuning. There will be a few points of magnetic domain resonance which will be loss, but anywhere else the device will generate the required waves. It will not matter whether or not the antenna converter is shielded as the doughnut waves go through anything. The most remarkable property of this system is that the waves can be directed mentally.
I think you might be a bit hasty in dismissing “telepathic” communication with these people from elsewhere, since I know that the system they use does resemble telepathy to some extent, but it actually is electrical, even though they have cut out most of the intervening equipment such as microphones, earphones, vocal cords etc. I have generated this energy in the lab, but I am not smart enough to do anything with it; I only know that it exists, and the boys from topside admit that it is what they use.
The tensor beam I have found to be quite unmanageable. I can generate it OK but can’t make it do much for me. You see, it is identical with the energies associated with the life functions in the human body and accordingly can be incorporated and directed with them, by mental control, by experts! I hope someday to be able to do it, but I am informed that it takes at least 10 years of concentrated training for the experts to learn how to do it.
The principle of this antenna is quite simple. It emanates doughnut shaped waves. Since the energy content is microscopic, the mass equivalent is very low and consequently they can be “budged” easily. In fact, they can be mentally directed quite easily, when once one has mastered the trick.
In construction, the antenna is merely a rod or tube of Ferrite, or Ferro cube, which has a high permeability, high dielectric constant and reasonably low loss at radio frequencies. On it is wound a winding of such type that turn by turn it is completely symmetrical, and progresses from one end to the other.
I have played a bit and found some extraordinary properties, one of which confirms the mathematics that the waves which this converter generates are not like Hertzian waves and do not depend on propagation for their continued existence. Consequently, I would have the idea that they would travel at whatever speed the sender could decree.
Some time ago we tried radio contact with the saucer people on 19,940 kc, but without much luck. Apparently, they could hear us sweeping by their receiver settings, and we could hear a powerful station sweeping erratically across 19,940 but we couldn’t tune it in. They said that it was due to the unstable nature of the earth’s tempic field. If this is the case, then the doughnut waves should be the clear thing for communicating with them. They say that is what they use.
With respect to this time business, I hope that you appreciate the fact that time is actually a field, the operation of which on matter gives us an entropy scale which we call “time”. This field is very much like electric and magnetic fields except that it is at right angles to both. This appreciation is just beginning to seep through to the consciousness of a few bold souls in the field of natural philosophy. http://www.treurniet.ca/Smith/SmithCoil.htm
UFO Spaceship Material Studied by Top Scientists
Paul Harper in the Daily Star writes, The Stars Academy, a group of former Secret Service, US government workers and scientists, claims to have seven samples from a downed flying saucer. “Each sample represents different elements of potential Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and how they operate,” the academy said. Initial studies of the objects under the Adam Research Project have thrown up some incredible results, according to reports. It is said the material was released when the unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) was transferred to the Bigelow Aerospace Company. It is a space technology company that is known for its work on expandable space station modules. They are now working on space habitats for space agencies and corporate clients. They have a long history of working for NASA. Earlier this month the Founder of Bigelow Aerospace, Robert Bigelow, announced that he is planning a real estate empire in outer space. The FAA regularly sends UFO reports to Bigelow Aerospace.
Bigelow Aerospace, founded by entrepreneur and Ufologist Robert Bigelow, 73, worked alongside government workers including Luis Elizondo and it has been reported that materials and alloys from crashed UFOs was being stored at the company’s 50-acre headquarters on the northern edge of Las Vegas.
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.”
Alien Tech Revealed: US Government Insider Explains How UFOs Fly
Paul Harber states,-Pentagon UFO Investigator Luis Elizondo claims, “We may not be alone. He used to run the top-secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which investigated flying saucers. This groundbreaking program, which had a budget of $ 20 million allocated to it annually by the Department of Defence, was run in the Pentagon’s C RING in Washington DC. Former Nevada Senator Harry Reid pushed for its creation in 2007. Stunned US navy pilots observed a “whole fleet” of UFOs that were “going against” a 120 knots wind – in one AATIP case from 2015.
Former Pentagon intelligence official Luis Elizondo has investigated UFO reports and recently spoke at the Cherry Hill, New Jersey MUFON Conference, Advanced sensors revealed the unknown object had no propulsion system and slowed to a near stop before rotating, it is claimed.
Now Elizondo has lifted the lid on what he claims has been learned through the Pentagon program about the seemingly out-of-this-world capabilities of UFOs. He said: “I think we’ve come very close to understanding the physics of how it works, and that’s very exciting.”.
“For the first time, we have a compelling picture that what we are seeing is explained in our current understanding of physics, advanced physics, and quantum mechanics.” US defense department acknowledge UFO rotating against the wind. Incredible footage emerged last year of a sighting involving the battleship USS Nimitz in 2004 in the Pacific off the San Diego coast. Two US navy pilots, Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Jim Slaight, watched in amazement as a cylinder shaped object appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet before hurtling towards the sea and stopping at 20,000 feet.
When they approached for a closer look, the 40 foot long object “accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen”, said Cdr Fravor. And now Elizondo believes that they may have an explanation for how UFOs achieve such extreme speeds.
“We do believe all these observables we’ve been seeing, sudden and extreme acceleration, hypersonic velocities, low observability, trans medium travel, and last but not least, positive lift, anti-gravity – is really the manifestation of a single technology,” Elizondo said. “So it’s not five exotic technologies we’re trying to figure out, it’s one. and we think we know that one too.”
Scientists employed by Bigelow Aerospace including a physicist named Dr Hal Puthoff came to the conclusion that the craft can effectively create their own time-space bubble, which allows them to fly at such incredible speeds. “We believe it has to do with a high amount of energy and the ability to warp space-time, not by a lot, but by a little,” said Elizondo.
Elizondo claims he worked on the highly-sensitive project until October last year until he resigned over excessive secrecy and internal opposition”. He believes the existence of extraterrestrials would be “beyond reasonable doubt” if it was ever discussed in court. Dr Michio Kaku –
Weather Engineering
Mark McCandlish writes, I’ve been following these developments for quite some time in connection with weather engineering programs that have been denied to exist.
The use of Aluminum Oxide nanoparticles are being used in some jet fuels as a combustion enhancement. The evidence for this use is the so-called persistent contrail or in the vernacular, “chemtrail” that has been on the upswing since about year 2000.
Aluminum Oxide nanoparticles, (Al2O3np) were originally proposed in a NASA presentation first published about the same time can be used in cloud seeding operations and can also be used as “weather forcing aerosols” through bombardment or “painting” with microwave emissions that are absorbed by these nanoparticles causing them to heat up and result in massive convective cell action, leading to the production of storm systems and afford the control of conveyance and distribution of precipitation.
In studying this material in the OSHA Material Data Safety Sheet, I extended this investigation to the Journal of Aquatic Toxicology, where I found a paper documenting the harm these nanoparticles render in fresh water aquatic systems. In particular, these materials have a devastating effect on fresh water algae, and have a cascading effect throughout the food chain of organisms that depend on this organism and/or organisms that feed upon this organism.
Here in northern California, a local biologist I know has documented a 90% decline in fresh water aquatic invertebrates. Just a few years ago, the Summer evenings here were populated with clouds of
Note: The Aluminum Oxide nanoparticles may also be causing the heavy rain patterns and flooding occurring in many states.
Hyper Alarming’ Study Shows Massive Insect Loss
Bruce Cornet reports — Insects around the world are in a crisis, according to a growing number of long-term studies showing dramatic declines in invertebrate populations. The problem is more widespread than scientists realized. Huge numbers of bugs have been lost in a pristine national forest in Puerto Rico, the study found, and the forest’s insect-eating animals have gone missing, too.
In 2014, an international team of biologists estimated that, in the past 35 years, the abundance of invertebrates such as beetles and bees had decreased by 45 percent. In Europe, insect numbers are plummeting with a 76 percent decrease in flying insects in the past few decades in Germany..
“Everything is dropping,” Lister said. The most common invertebrates in the rain forest – the moths, the butterflies, the grasshoppers, the spiders and others – are all far less abundant.
“Holy crap,” Wagner said of the 60-fold loss.
Lister and Garcia attribute this crash to climate. In the same 40-year period as the arthropod crash, the average high temperature in the rain forest increased by 4 degrees Fahrenheit. The invertebrates that live there are adapted to a narrow band of temperatures and fare poorly outside them.
The loss of honeybees is crucial as they pollinate, fruits, vegetables, coffee beans, the herbs we use to season our foods, nuts, berries, cotton for clothing, clover and alfalfa which is the main feed for the cattle industry from which we get yogurt, milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, dairy and beef..
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Filer’s Files #43 – 2018 How to Communicate with ET - PART II
Filer’s Files #43 – 2018 How to Communicate with ET - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Albuquerque— I had gone outside on my patio to smoke when I saw this object. The sky was clear when I sat down on my patio chair on December 6, 2016, I looked up saw this object and thought it was not the moon. It seemed to be vibrating so I quickly snapped these photos. The first came out bright so I took another touching my photo screen camera to make it clearer. I then analyzed the photo seeing it is not the moon. I then looked up and it had disappeared at 9:05 PM. I concluded it was strange and didn’t think much of it. Recently, it had came back up in conversation which has my analyzing the situation again.. I’ve done research online and on that date the moon was about 50% full illuminating my full circle photos. , Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arkansas Soil circle
Soldotna— On May 8th we discovered a circle in the back of our yard on the lawn, there were strange puncture holes and it just looked different from the rest of the lawn. Well throughout the summer the circle has remained and the vegetation grows differently within and on the perimeter. I’ve taken pictures throughout the summers. We have also had 2 sightings in the area within the 2 years prior to this. First sighting my spouse was the only one to witness but he did capture a photo. Second sighting we both witnessed it and it actually appeared about where he saw the first sighting but it came straight toward us and actually flew over our heads past our home northwards. It was silent the whole time I believe 3 lights on it, but we couldn’t make out a shape, which is weird, It was 500-1000 feet from the ground. That’s our experience, the circle in the lawn is still there and has been all summer. It’s just strange. That I have pictures of and the first sighting. Photos are May 8, 2018- August 14, 20, October 7, and 13, 2018. October 13 photo some kind of mushrooms are growing around perimeter. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Objects
Claremont — On September 9, 2018, I reported a UFO descending down into a field of view. I was filming MUFON case 95310v and noticed in footage a UFO was moving down faintly before that at 1:00 AM. Then I noticed it was moving up before moving down. In MUFON case 95719, and it nearly crossed paths with the airplane.
I now provide the full footage showing decent (faint) then direction reversal and ascent then direction reversal again and descent (bright) then nearly touches plane.
Illinois Lights
I was driving on my way to my house my brother and my nephew were with me in the car on October 14, 2018. Suddenly we notice these lights in the sky that resemble the ufos we have seen on the TV. We knew it was not manmade that’s why I drove to the side of the road and stared to record.
There were 6 orange orbs in 2 triangle formation but by the time I pull over they start to disappear. I was really surprised by this event since this is the second time I get to witness something like this but is the first time I have video proof.bThanks to MUFON CMS
Kansas Boomerang
‘Olathe — On Saturday night, October 20th, 2018, Granddaughter and I were in the back yard about 10:30 pm. For some reason, I looked into the sky and saw what I thought was a boomerang moving in a straight line faster than low hanging clouds. We stood and watched it move West and made a 75 degree turn to the south in 17 to 20 seconds.
. A couple of minutes later the same shape and color/composition, much higher up flew south in a 12 seconds or less. I looked online and found a picture someone else took that looks just like what I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Disc
Lake Charles — On October 21, 2018. myself and 2 adult relatives(and 3 kids) were driving eastbound on Route 210 when we noticed a dark object in sky.
A family member took 4 photos and was unable to film as he said it doesn’t show up. It remained visible through the entire drive on Route 210. I am glad someone else saw it and filmed it. I am glad the other person made a report…I was considering not to. Case #95795 apparently has also filmed it as well. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Light
Las Vegas— Came home from work saw the moon was out took out my Orion 6/6i and saw that on the back of the moon was a bright light.
In all the years I have been looking at the moon I never saw this. so I took my phone and mounted it to my telescope and starting video live on Facebook. after I review my video I saw it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Diamond
Wayne — We were in the house and heard loud noise October 21, 2018.
. We went outside and observed a red light in the southern sky. We jumped in the car and went to the area. We saw multiple police cars. Some from Wayne and other townships. We stayed there for 10 minutes and it did not move 1 inch. I We left and got back home. We heard shooting noises . They we heard fore works. This was no helicopter. Judge for yourself watch the video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Triangle
Winston-Salem=– I stepped out on the balcony just after 6 am on October 23, 2018,to see 50 feet above me a triangle moving at 15 mph going West with 4 huge tail lights flashing yellow-orange and red, randomly. There was a flashing red light on top as it flew out of sight. Another one was going North but 125 feet higher and directly above me came and moving about 25 mph. I saw still another one heading towards the first going 25 mph heading NorthWest. A forth one was seen one heading South at 350 feet. I called the Winston-Salem Police and gave my account at 6:15 am. At 6:30 am officer called but wouldn’t tell me if the military was in the area. Dogs were freaking out when this happened. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oklahoma Light
Oklahoma City — A friend of mine sent me a 30 second video from his security camera that was apparently triggered by a cat. About 10 seconds into the video, a blob of bright light appears in the lower right hand corner and no noise with a beam of light shining from above. It appears to move around on the ground a bit then appears to raise up into the light beam from above until it disappears from view at the end of the video. Things considered: 1) Helicopter search light but not as wide and dispersed as would be..
2) Drone flying overhead but nature of the light not consistent with a known source. 3) ” The equipment is reported to be in good working order. It’s uncertain whether this is an actual UFO in itself or a projection from something above. Possibly some other reports similar around same time/area will coincide. .Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Orb
Salem — I was attempting to photograph the moon on this night of September 26, 2018.. It wasn’t till a week later on my computer I saw a blue object on the edge of the frame.
After enhancement saw there was actually two objects. Both are for sure not any known aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Orb
Manheim — My co-worker and I observed a silvery-white object high in the sky (over two miles) while we were looking North on October 24, 2018. It appeared to hover then slowly traveled west until it was out of sight after about 15-20 minutes. We were able to get a picture of it with a cell phone camera and upon reviewing the pic discovered a second similar object following behind it. There were no sounds or contrails to indicate it was a plane or other earth-based object. Initial reaction was that it was a drone or helicopter but determined it was too high in sky. We both believe we witnessed something extraterrestrial. The shape of the objects do not look like any known earth-based aircraft. We used a tool on the camera phone to circle the objects. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Disc
Dallas — We were driving across the In-wood bridge at 35 and In-wood and took many pictures back to back while driving at 50 mph across like we always do. We did not see anything until we looked at these pictures taken on September 3, 2018.
. The first time it looked as if it was flying across sky towards the east with a trail behind it and then it stopped and looks as if there was a beam coming out of it. Then a few weeks later, we took pictures again while coming across it again and caught another object just hovering there. It looks like a beam coming out of the bottom of the craft. We are not sure what this is, but when we saw it twice on a completely separate night then we knew something wasn’t right. I have not edited these pictures in anyway, but when I zoomed in, you can clearly see a dome like on this object.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Object
Oso— It was October 24th, at 5 PM, I was outside when I heard a humming noise. I looked up and saw an object above me, a dark colored object in the shape of a crescent, with an elongated tip on the front, the object headed east. So I ran in the house, grabbed my camera, and took a video of it. By the time I took a video of it, it was almost gone, but I did get a little bit of the object about one minute later, it came back in the opposite direction, heading west right over my head again, and it was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Ventricular UFO
On October 16,-2018, at 15:22 the flare aperture of an intense luminary was observed just below the crescent moon to the east” of the city and began a slow shift to the south “for about 30 seconds. The first few seconds of the event were very difficult, since when shooting in Canon Sx photography, it implies first setting the “fastest possible”, the linear focus of the objective in Infinity, for five seconds. The flare appeared that took a Orbital attitude, just below the moon, I managed to take the first picture at 12 Mp, then two more and finally a small fraction of video, where at least I enter the scene (the lenticula luminosa) in another four frames that could be extracted. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Cylinder
Porto Alegre— Photo taken at the airport of Porto Alegre on October 15, 2018 . Photographic appearance was only once. The object was on the horizon to the right and was observed in the form of a large white lentil. It was my wife who took the photo and I had not realized when I saw her, she had detected the anomaly. ‘Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Lights
I received a Sony Cyber-shot 35mm camera for Xmas 2013. On New Year’s Eve 2013. I was spending time with my dog over looking Halifax Harbor, Canadian Naval Base when I saw 3 lights. One was bigger and closer than the other two. I began to take pictures as they came closer. They were getting bigger, closer very quickly. Then they completely stopped for about a minute. There was no noise as they moved directly over my deck and disappeared. I analyzed the photos in my computer. Conclusion: I have ruled out faulty camera; weather; airplanes; light show; military experiment, or hoax and am at a loss to what it was. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hungary Diamond
Lake Balaton — We live in Siófok and on 13 of August 2018. at 23:50 my son and I were lying on the trampoline. My son asked me: What a ….. is that ? and pointed north. In two seconds I realized what he saw… flying very fast and had no sound. It was about 200-300 meters high, rhombus shaped and had orange light. It was like when iron is glowing from heat. It was so big like my nail on my thumb. We saw it only for a few seconds because of a tree in the garden. We did not even try to make a photo. I posted it on FB, my friend’s wife that her husband had seen it. In October 2017. my wife and I saw a small sphere above the neighbor’s house. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Disc
Rome— I was on vacation in Italy, traveling by high-speed train an hour outside Rome to Naples. I snapped some photos of the passing landscape out the window during the course of the trip on June 4, 2018 When I returned home I downloaded the photos to my computer and was showing them to my husband. At one point he said, “What’s that up at the top of the screen? It looks like a UFO.” I
hadn’t even seen the object when I was snapping the photo. It appeared in a sequence of four photos as a stereotypical “flying saucer taken over a period of 12 minutes traveling speed of about 90 mph. That would mean we covered a distance of about 13 miles. “Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Orb
San Pedro Garza Garcia — I was coming back home in the uber. When I get out from the uber I saw this object and it immediately attained my attention.
Photo was taken on September 9, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Triangle and Orbs
Enfield London –I saw a few UFOs in this area myself on October 22, 2018. I was hearing high pitched sounds that made me feel dizzy which is unusual for me, because I’m deaf. Considering the stress it has caused me and my cats with this incident I want to see if anyone else saw this craft and orbs that happened within hours of each other. It was around 7:20 pm, I was at home and I had a strong urge to look out of my window. I saw a low solid black triangle craft with three sets of dull white lights slightly cloaked as if to camouflage itself. I could clearly see the outline of this slate black triangle very faintly. It was huge about the size of a football pitch.
At 8 pm I saw this craft again but 40 minutes had been lost, as the ship glided away towards North London. At 2:35 am on my clock, I saw little sparkles of blue light floating around my living room,. My cats were alert and picked up on something being in my flat. I heard the high pitched noise again when the orbs appeared and was scared. In the morning my head and body felt pain and my wall clock had stopped at 8pm, When I was 6-7 years old and had encounters with beings negative and Positive. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Venezuela Object
Cabimas — I was at the west shore of Maracaibo Lake in in the Civic Center taking some pictures of a pier for loading oil to tanker ships. I noticed the object when I was reviewing the pictures the day after. When I saw the object in the picture, I assumed that it was a fliyng saucer due to the shape and the apparent size. The tower is on the right side of the picture and the object is near the left side of the tower top. I have captured this kind of objects in other occasions: 1.-Location and coordinates of the observer and the reference tower. 2. the picture with the object. CMS
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Since it launched in March 2009, the telescope identified over 2,600 planets outside of our solar system, and found that as much as half of the stars visible from Earth could be surrounded by small, rocky, Earth-like planets.
Running On Fumes
Back in July, it became clear that the Kepler Space Telescope was running low on fuel — NASA has since been planning a replacement to take over the iconic satellite’s ongoing search for exoplanets.
A Legacy
Though Kepler will no longer collect any more data, there’s still plenty of images for NASA and other scientists to examine.
Just like biologists continue to discover new species by examining the samples already found in museum collections, the data already gathered by Kepler could keep astronomers busy for years to come.
A broad team of Australian scientists just equipped the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Australia’s ANU Siding Spring Observatory with a new spectrograph called Veloce, which will help astronomers spot smaller planets orbiting dimmer stars than they could before.
Wobble Head
In order to be warm enough to potentially support life as we know it, these particular rocky planets need to orbit pretty closely to their host stars. That’s because the stars that Veloce was designed to find, called M dwarfs, are dimmer than those that less-sophisticated telescopes can spot and analyze.
Because these planets are so close to their stars, the effects of their gravity on the stars’ path through the cosmos can be spotted as a distinct “velocity wobble.”
Team Work
Veloce has already been used to confirm potential earth-like planets found by other research teams, such as NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite. As TESS spots possible planets, other astronomers race to analyze its data.
Veloce is particularly well-equipped to probe more dimly-lit reaches of space — and find out whether these planets resemble Earth and therefore mightbe able to support some sort of life.
READ MORE: New instrument joins the hunt for Earth-like planets [UNSW Sydney Newsroom]
THE AIR FORCE WANTS YOUR HELP GUARDING SATELLITES FROM SPACE JUNK
THE AIR FORCE WANTS YOUR HELP GUARDING SATELLITES FROM SPACE JUNK
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Space Junk
There’s a whole lot of crap orbiting our planet: hundreds of satellites, an obscene amount of debrisand space garbage, a space station, one natural moon — you get the picture.
Now the U.S. Air Force says it needs to find a better way to keep track of it all, so it just launched a contest looking for new high-tech solutions — especially ones that help protect satellites from space junk.
Any team that offers up a good solution — such as tracking space garbage with virtual reality tech — may get a share of the $100,000 prize.
Hide-And-Seek
Ideas for getting rid of all the junk orbiting the planet have ranged from large nets to death rays.
Contestants don’t necessarily need to find a way to clear out the space crap — the Air Force just wants to know where all of it is so they can safely launch more rockets and satellites without fear of collision.
Archaeologists have discovered a mysterious tunnel and funeral chamber beneath the Pyramid of the Moon near Mexico City which was believed to represent a passageway to the ancient underworld.
The 15-meter-wide (50 ft) chamber, located around 8 meters (26 ft) under the surface is believed to have been used for sacred funerary rituals. An additional tunnel leading to the Plaza of the Moon was also discovered, opening at the southern end.
“These large offering (ritual) complexes are the sacred core of the city of Teotihuacán,” archaeologist Verónica Ortega from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico said in a press release.
“All people considered it the mecca of civilisation, so what is found inside can help unravel the relationships this ancient metropolis had with other regions of Mesoamerica,” Ortega added.
Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the Institute of Geophysics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) discovered the passageways using an imaging technique called electrical resistivity tomography in the summer of 2017, but the findings have only just been announced.
At its peak, the city of Teotihuacan, 40 km northeast of modern-day Mexico City, was once home to 125,000 inhabitants. The population carried out human sacrifices to honor the gods, earn a bountiful harvest and good fortune in war. Further excavations at the site have yet to be announced, but researchers are optimistic they will turn up more exciting discoveries.
“In the excavations carried out in the tunnels under the main body of the pyramid, at the end of the 1980s, archaeologists Ruben Cabrera and Saburo Sugiyama found skeletons with deformed crania... along with various obsidian objects, so there’s a good possibility of making similar finds in this newly discovered tunnel,” Ortega said.
Russia successfully tested key component of revolutionary deep-space "Ion Drive Engine"
Russia successfully tested key component of revolutionary deep-space "Ion Drive Engine"
A key component of Russia’s future nuclear space Ion propulsion system, which is about to revolutionize deep-space exploration of the solar system, has been successfully tested, RIA Novosti reported.
The report reviewed by the news agency states, one of the crucial elements of the system, which is responsible for cooling down the reactor, has been successfully tested in a breakthrough approach.
This video demonstrates how - the most efficient space propulsion system out there - "Ion Engines" work.
Fantastic UFO sighting in Brazil 2018 Supposed UFO footage shows energy in São Paulo. The video would have been recorded by touris }}ts in October 2018 in the interior of São Paulo.
One of the biggest threats to Earth is nuclear war. Another of the biggest existential threats actually comes from our own sun.
A depiction of a coronal mass ejection, with Earth to scale.
Image credits: NASA / Goddard.
As a result of its magnetic poles reversing position, the sun goes through 11-year solar cycles in activity, appearance and other physical phenomena that have been observed for centuries. It is during these seasonal cycles that solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) occur. These CMEs spew massive amounts of X-rays, charged particles, and magnetized plasma across the solar system.
According to research scientist Dean Pesnell of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, we are entering a cyclical period when there are few if any sunspots and subsequent solar flares. However, the Sun’s activity should soon be on the rise again, as long as the Sun does not enter a “grand” minimum solar period.
During such periods, sunspot and solar flare activity diminish for days at a time. The date of the minimum solar period is calculated by taking the average of sunspot activity over 12 months. As a result, identifying the precise date of the minimum solar period usually happens six months after it takes place.
CMEs Can Interfere with Electronic Communication and Navigation Equipment
There are three classifications of CMEs based on the intensity of their emitted x-rays — C-class, M-class and X-class, the highest intensity category. To put this in perspective, one X2 CME on September 6, 2017, caused widespread blackouts and the loss of all electronic communications for up to an hour on the sunlit side of Earth. It also affected navigation equipment for as much as an hour afterward.
This event may not seem significant at first. However, earlier in the final days of October 2003, now known as the “Halloween Events,” there were extreme solar storms and flares so powerful that current detectors were oversaturated. The most powerful CME of that solar storm was classified as an X45. The effects were severe:
Sweden lost all electrical power for over an hour.
Several of NASA’s observation satellites failed temporarily or had to be disabled.
Japan’s ADEOS-II satellite was destroyed.
The U.S. global positioning satellite system was severely interrupted.
An X45 extreme coronal mass ejection has not struck Earth since 1859. During what is known as the Carrington Event, telegraph equipment in the affected area burned up as the result of this CME.
NASA analysts have examined this CME event and estimated that if it occurred today, the damage would be as high as $2 trillion in the first year alone. Full recovery could take between four and 10 years.
An ejection in a different wavelength.
Image credits: NASA.
Monitoring for Solar Flares and CMEs
Currently, most of our solar flare warnings come from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), whose mission was recently extended to this December. However, SOHO was primarily designed to study the sun, not to report on solar flares and CMEs. It does only this as a secondary function.
The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), launched in October 2006, is another NASA solar observation mission. Two nearly identical observatories, STEREO A and STEREO B — one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind — trace the flow of energy and matter from the sun to Earth. This enables stereoscopic imaging of the sun and solar phenomena such as CMEs.
The STEREO mission has revealed the 3D structure of CMEs. Violent eruptions of matter from the sun can disrupt satellites and power grids, and studying these eruptions helps to understand why they happen.
However, in 2015, contact was lost for several months when the STEREO B spacecraft passed behind the sun. Later analysis of the telemetry concluded that the spacecraft was in an uncontrolled spin too rapid to be corrected. On October 11, 2016, recovery attempts ended.
STEREO A still is operational and collecting data from the sun. However, it is not collecting CME data.
CME Warning Equipment Could Be Stationed at Lagrange Points
There are five points between celestial bodies such as the Earth and the sun, called Lagrange (L) points, where the orbital angular momentum and gravitational forces all balance. That allows objects to be parked there indefinitely. Positioning warning spacecraft at some of these five Lagrange points would optimize the time between CME detection and when the CME would reach the Earth.
L1 lies about one million miles from Earth. L1 is currently occupied by the Deep Space Climate Observatory and has an uninterrupted view of the Sun.
L2 also lies a million miles from Earth, but in the opposite direction of the sun. At this point, a spacecraft can get a clear view of deep space. NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) is currently at this spot, measuring the cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang. The James Webb Space Telescope will move into this region later in 2018.
The third Lagrange point, L3, lies behind the sun and opposite Earth’s orbit. For now, science has not found a use for this spot mostly due to cost concerns. The complete configuration is depicted below:
L1, L2, and L3 are all unstable points with precarious equilibrium. Spacecraft must make continual slight adjustments to maintain their positions at these points in space.
L4 and L5, however, are stable, “like a ball in a large bowl,” according to the European Space Agency (ESA). They provide a unique view of streams of charged material heading toward Earth, which allows scientists to better measure the speed of the coronal mass ejections headed toward Earth.
Currently, spacecraft parked at L1 offer only a four- to six-hour warning of a CME. A warning spacecraft parked at L4 or L5 could provide as much as 15 to 17 hours of warning. However, power-grid operators need at least one full day’s warning to prepare for a Carrington-type coronal mass ejection.
The ESA plans to launch a satellite to L5 in 2023 at the cost of almost half a billion dollars.
The bottom line is that within two years, we will have no operational systems in space watching for coronal mass ejections headed for Earth.
CMEs Are Capable of Widespread Damage
The destruction from a massive Carrington-type CME would be widespread, starting with all satellites in Earth orbit. Various GPS satellites would likely be destroyed or disabled for an unknown period of time.
Also, all navigation systems would be adversely affected. Such a CME could easily inject a trillion-watt current into electrical grids, effectively frying them.
We saw a sample of this damage in 1989 when eastern Canada’s power grid was knocked offline. All airborne aircraft would be at risk from radiation and electronic surges. Also, the International Space Station could be at risk depending on its position at the time of impact. Sewage treatment plants, air conditioning units in buildings and homes, gas station pumps, and media transmissions would all be knocked offline for an undetermined amount of time.
A Carrington-type event today would plunge the affected part of the world into a brief dark era, possibly causing public panic. No one has estimated how many people might come down with radiation poisoning or even die from such a CME impact.
As a result, it behooves the U.S. government, NASA and the ESA to reprioritize their near-term programs to ensure that a solar flare detection system is in place and operational at L5 as soon as possible. After all, $500 million dollars is pocket change compared to $2-plus trillion in estimated damage.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has beaten a decades-old record for making the closet approach to the sun by of any man-made spacecraft.
Illustration of NASA”s Parker Solar Probe.
Credit: NASA.
The previous record for the closest solar approach was set by the German-American Helios 2 spacecraft in April 1976. On 29 October 2018, at exactly 1:04 pm EDT (17:04 GMT), Parker moved closer than 42.73 million kilometers (26.55 million miles) from the Sun’s surface.
Parker is set to break other records soon, such as the top heliocentric and geocentric speeds. In 1976, the same Helios 2 set the record for heliocentric speed (relative to the sun) at 246,960 kilometers per hour (153,454 miles per hour). Parker is expected to beat this record on 29 October at about 10:54 pm EDT.
What’s more, the probe — tasked with studying the inner workings of the sun — is expected to reach a staggering top speed of 692,017 km/h (430,000 mph) during its final pass around the sun, shattering any previous record for geocentric speed (relative to Earth). It won’t be until 2025 until this happens, however.
“Parker Solar Probe has been one of our most challenging missions to date,” said Omar Baez, Nasa’a launch director, when the probe first launched in August 2018. “I’m very proud of the team that worked to make this happen.We at Nasa and the Launch Services Program are thrilled to be part of this mission.”
The influence of solar activity on Earth and other worlds is known as space weather, but there are many mysterious aspects of it that are still unknown to scientists. This is what Parker is for.
For its mission, Parker carries a range of instruments that can study the sun both remotely and in situ (directly) — the kind of observations that might unravel some of the sun’s most well-kept secrets.
Of course, NASA has several specific questions it wants Parker to answer. One of them has to do with the mystery of the acceleration of solar wind — the constant ejection of magnetized material from the sun. Somewhere, somehow, this solar wind is accelerated to supersonic speeds.
Parker will fly straight through the corona — the sun’s atmosphere that extends millions of kilometers into outer space. The corona is scorching hot, reaching temperatures in the range of millions of degrees Celsius. However, the sun’s surface has a temperature of only about 6,000 degrees Celsius. This makes no sense at first glance: how is it possible that the surface of the sun is so cold compared to its atmosphere? Well, scientists hope that Parker might come up with an answer to this counter-intuitive conundrum.
During its closest flyby, slated for June 2025, Parker will be only 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from the sun’s surface, where temperatures can reach millions of degrees Celsius. Meanwhile, Parker will complete 24 perihelions, looping between Venus and the Sun.
REUTERSGrafische illustratie van het Kepler Space Observatory.
WETENSCHAPEnkele maanden voor zijn tiende verjaardag is het Kepler Space Observatory dood verklaard. De telescoop werd gelanceerd op 7 maart 2009 en ontdekte sindsdien meer dan 2.600 nieuwe exoplaneten. Kepler kan zichzelf niet langer richten op kosmische objecten of data naar de aarde versturen. Het werk van de legendarische telescoop zit erop.
Het Kepler Space Observatory cirkelde tien jaar lang net zoals de aarde in een baan rond de zon en speurde met zijn telescoop het heelal af op zoek naar andere exoplaneten (planeten die draaien rond andere sterren dan onze zon).
Sinds enkele maanden kampte de satelliet, die zijn verwachte levensduur al ruim overschreden had, met een nijpend brandstoftekort. De voorbije weken werd het steeds moeilijker om de telescoop op sterren te richten en mogelijke exoplaneten te identificeren. Nu komt er helemaal geen reactie meer. Kepler bevindt zich momenteel op zo’n 150 miljoen kilometer van de aarde en zal zich in een stabiele baan om de zon blijven bewegen.
‘Dankzij Kepler en zijn wetenschappelijke missie weten we nu dat planeten in onze Melkweg vaker voorkomen dan sterren’
Paul Hertz, directeur astrofysica bij NASA
Ontdekkingen
Kepler speurde bijna tien jaar lang het heelal af op zoek naar dipjes in de helderheid van sterren: dat kan wijzen op het bestaan van een planeet die eromheen cirkelt. “Het was alsof je probeerde een vlo te detecteren die over de koplamp van een auto kroop terwijl de auto 160 kilometer verderop stond”, zegt NASA-wetenschapper William Boruki, die aan het hoofd stond van het eerste Kepler-wetenschapsteam.
De Keplertelescoop ontdekte meer dan 2.600 planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel en daarnaast nog zo’n 2.900 potentiële kandidaat-exoplaneten, waarvan de data nog verder moet onderzocht worden. Zo onthulde de satelliet het bestaan van rotsachtige planeten ongeveer zo groot als de aarde, waar leven mogelijk zou kunnen zijn. Kepler stootte ook op enkele superaardes: planeten die groter zijn dan de aarde, maar kleiner dan planeet Neptunus. Vorig jaar slaagde de satelliet er zelfs in om een zonnestelsel met acht planeten te identificeren, net zoals het onze.
“Het heeft ons begrip van onze plek in de kosmos compleet veranderd”, zegt Paul Hertz, directeur astrofysica bij NASA. “Voor we Kepler lanceerden, wisten we niet of planeten vaak voorkwamen of zeldzaam waren in onze Melkweg. Maar dankzij Kepler en zijn wetenschappelijke missie weten we nu dat planeten in onze Melkweg vaker voorkomen dan sterren.”
Opvolger
De Keplertelescoop concentreerde zich op sterren die duizenden lichtjaren van ons verwijderd zijn en toonde volgens NASA dat er statistisch gezien minstens één planeet rond elke ster in de Melkweg cirkelt.
In april werd de TESS-ruimtetelescoop gelanceerd: deze opvolger van Kepler concentreert zich op sterren dichter bij huis en identificeerde al enkele mogelijke planeten.
WETENSCHAPExact tachtig jaar geleden deed Orson Welles radioluisteraars geloven dat marsmannetjes op aarde landden. Tal van angstige luisteraars geloofden in het hoorspel en dachten dat het einde nabij was. Achteraf bleek de radio-uitzending deel uit te maken van fictiereeks “The War of the Worlds” waarbij wekelijks zulke uitzendingen werden gedraaid. Zou er vandaag de dag paniek uitbreken?
Op 30 oktober 1938 onderbrak een acteur de radio-uitzending met enkele verontrustende nieuwsberichten. Hij sprak met een dringende toon over “drie explosies” en “lichtflitsen” die afkomstig zouden zijn van marsmannetjes en hun ruimtevaartuig. De acteur voerde ook enkele getuigen op –althans dat leek zo want in feite waren het ook gewoon acteurs- die het drama dat zich afspeelde, omschreven. Daarbij werden termen zoals “UFO’s” en “vreemde wezentjes” in de mond genomen. Een hittestraal zou daarbij al tientallen mensen gedood hebben. Paniek.
Hoewel het programma doorspekt was met theatrale elementen, geloofden veel mensen dat het allemaal echt was. Krantenkoppen verschenen daags nadien en kopten: “Duizenden luisteraars renden weg van hun huizen in New Jersey en New York, velen met handdoeken over het gezicht als bescherming tegen de giftige gassen”. Latere studies suggereren evenwel dat de paniek veel minder groot was dan de nieuwsberichten destijds deden vermoeden.
Ruimtewetenschappers geloofden toen overigens ook al niet in een mogelijke invasie van marsmannetjes. Ze waren zich er van bewust dat de planeet niet in staat is om een beschaving van intelligente buitenaardse wezens te herbergen. “Tegen het einde van de jaren ’30 wisten we dat er weinig zuurstof was. Bovendien vonden we geen vloeibaar water”, aldus Seth Shostak, senior astronoom aan het SETI-instituut (search for extraterrestrial intelligence).
Sterker nog, de gewelddadige aflevering die Welles beschrijft en liet opvoeren tijdens de radio-uitzending, is verreweg het minst waarschijnlijke scenario voor een eerste ontmoeting tussen buitenaards leven en de mens. De wezentjes zouden immers niet alleen bestaan, maar ook op de hoogte zijn van de mens én in het bezit van technisch geavanceerde wapens.
Buitenaardse wezens afluisteren
SETI scant dagelijks het luchtruim op radiosignalen die geproduceerd worden door vormen van intelligent leven. En hoewel er waarschijnlijk veel minder intelligent leven in het universum is dan microbieel leven, zouden intelligente buitenaardse wezens hun aanwezigheid mogelijk over veel grotere afstanden kunnen uitzenden.
“Microben kunnen zuurstof in de atmosfeer maken, maar intelligent leven kan gigantische lasers of radiozenders maken, dus je kan ze, als ze bestaan, misschien wel vanop grotere afstand horen,” aldus Shostak. En natuurlijk vereist het vinden van buitenaardse signalen het eigenlijke bestaan van zo’n buitenaards leven, maar volgens Shostak is het slechts een kwestie van tijd.
KOS
Massahysterie of fascinatie?
Een soortgelijke aankondiging –als toepasselijk mopje voor Halloween- over ongewenst bezoek van buitenaards leven zou volgens Michael Wall, auteur van “Out There” (een wetenschappelijke gids over buitenaards leven), vandaag de dag eerder fascinatie dan angst opwekken. “Met al het nieuws over exoplaneten zijn mensen er klaar voor”, zegt hij.
Een eerste ontmoeting met E.T. zou dus een stuk minder beangstigend zijn dan de aliens die “War of The Worlds” aankondigde. Na de uitzending beweerde Orson Welles dat hij geen idee had dat zijn wezens met tentakels en vuurwapens zo serieus genomen zouden worden. Hij verontschuldigde zich: “Het was een schokkende ervaring om te beseffen dat ik zo’n wijdverspreide terreur had veroorzaakt.”
Joseph Mcmoneagle, one of the most successful Army-trained remote viewers, peered into the past to look into the possible origins of human history. He saw that we were created by intelligent beings in what he called a 'laboratory.'
Reflect On:
Why is the mainstream story of human history still limited to Darwin's Theory of Evolution? Why have so many discoveries, like giants, and life on other planets, been completely concealed and brushed off as a conspiracy theory?
The true origins of human history remain a mystery, but that’s not what mainstream academia would have us believe. Since Darwin, human evolution and ‘the survival of the fittest’ has been pushed on the population as some sort of scientific truth, despite the fact that it remains a theory with multiple loopholes and ‘missing links.’ If you question it, in some circumstances, you are almost considered a nut.
This continues to happen in many different fields of knowledge; when you question beliefs that have been ingrained for so long you get a harsh response, and in some cases, you’re liable to be fined, put in jail or at the very least you receive tremendous amounts of hate and censorship. What we don’t hear about is the fact that there are several hundred scientists, if not several thousand, who have spoken up against the scientific validity of the theory of evolution. I recently wrote an article about more than 500 scientists coming together to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution and explain why it’s not really valid at all.
Our DNA Originated Somewhere Else
Even one of the founding fathers of DNA, Francis Crick, believed that human DNA must have originated from somewhere else in the galaxy, whereby “organisms were deliberately transmitted to earth by intelligent beings on another planet.” You can read more about that here. I also recently wrote about a paper that was publishedby 33 scientists in the Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology Journal suggesting that the flourishing life during the Cambrian era (Cambrian Explosion) originated from the stars.
“With the rapidly increasing number of exoplanets that have been discovered in the habitable zones of long-lived red dwarf stars (Gillon et al., 2016), the prospects for genetic exchanges between life-bearing Earth-like planets cannot be ignored. ”(The study)
There is a great little blurb from Cosmos Magazine, one of the few outlets who is talking about the study.
Serious inquiry into the origins of human history are not encouraged in the mainstream. Yet as we dig a little on what’s being done, there is a lot to find out, with new theories and discoveries that seem to be popping up every single year. Modern day education is hardly keeping up with this, and in fact continues to promulgate old theories and notions that have long been disproven. As a result, nobody beyond ardent self-motivated researchers are learning about new developments or have any knowledge of these viewpoints.
Opening Our Minds
The suppression of the discoveries of giant humanoid skeletons falls directly into this category, though the secrecy that wraps up the Smithsonian is a topic for another article. Suffice it to say that successful cover-ups of information are possible in part due to the phenomenon of ‘cognitive dissonance’, which speaks to the extreme discomfort that a piece of information that disrupts the worldview you grew up with can have on you. Many of us have and do experience this, including myself. In today’s day and age, it’s important to practice overcoming the discomfort to keep an open mind.
Consider entertaining new ideas without necessarily accepting them, just give them a chance to swirl in your mind a bit. With new information constantly emerging at a rapid pace in all fields, an open mind is what serves us best. If we stay closed and refuse to even look at or acknowledge evidence that contradicts what we believe, we will never advance towards actual truth, and simply be caught up in an agnostic state while never really getting to the bottom of the questions that are naturally on our mind.
The StarGate Program
The StarGate program was co-founded by Russell Targ (watch his banned TED talk about ESP here), Hal Puthoff, who is now a member of the ‘To The Stars Academy’ with Tom Delonge, and other notable names who have worked on Deep Black Budget programs within the U.S. government. They are currently spearheading an effort to let the American public know that UFOs are real and that there is sufficient evidence to suggest that, as Louis Elizondo says, “we are not alone, whatever that means.”
The StarGate program investigated parapsychological phenomenon like remote viewing, telepathy, telekinesis, and clairvoyance. The program yielded high statistically significant results and was used multiple times for intelligence gathering purposes. A lot of interesting information came out of the literature that was declassified in 1995 after the program ran for more than two decades.
It was a complete mystery why the program was shut down: remote viewing, for example, which is the ability to describe the physical characteristics at a given location irrespective of distance, was found to be repeatable, even more than findings in the hard sciences, with a success rate of over 80 percent. Remote viewing was how the rings around Jupiter were actually discovered by Ingo Swann before NASA was able to measure them. You can read more about that here.
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.”(source)
The Breadth Of Remote Viewing
There are examples in the literature, from remote viewers looking at classified Russian technology during the cold-war era, locating a lost spy plane in Africa and the prediction of future events. Yes, along with remote viewing comes the ability to view into the past, and view into the future. Obviously, this gets tricky, especially if we look at quantum physics, which works in tandem with parapsychology. In quantum physics, experiments have also shown how what happened in the past can change the future, and what happens in the future can change the past, on a quantum scale. You can read more about that here.
There were multiple people working within the Remote Viewing Program, which was conducted at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in conjunction with multiple intelligence agencies, and one of them was Joseph Mcmoneagle. Many of these people, after decades in the program, continued on with their research and experimentation long after the program was declassified. Joseph was one of the most successful Army-trained remote viewers, and one of the original members of project Stargate. He was actually awarded the Legion of Merit for “producing crucial and vital intelligence unavailable from any other source” to the intelligence community.
The Origins Of Humanity
In 1983, McMoneagle worked with Robert A. Monroe, founder of the Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia, which provided basic out-of-body orientation for many of the military remote viewers. There, he conducted a session seeking to discover the origin of humanity. As the late great author and researcher Jim Marrs points out in his best selling book Our Occulted History points out:
During the 129-minute session, he described a shoreline on what appeared to him to be a primitive Earth. He later estimated a time of about thirty million to fifty million years after the time of the dinosaurs. Cavorting on this shoreline was a large family of protohumans-hairy animals about four feet in height, walking upright and possessing eyes exhibiting a spark of intelligence despite a somewhat smaller cranial capacity. Two things surprised McMoneagle in this session. These creatures appeared to be aware of his psychic presence, and they did not originate at that location.
McMoneagle described his experience in his 1998 book, The Ultimate Time Machine:
This particular species of animal is put…specifically in that barrier place…called the meeting of the land and the sea…I also get the impression that they’re…ah…they were put there. They mysteriously appeared. They are not descended from an earlier species, they were put there (by a) seed ship…no, that’s not right. Keep wanting to say ship, but it’s not a ship. I keep seeing a…myself…I keep seeing…oh, hell, for lack of a better word, let’s call it a laboratory, where they are actually inventing these creatures. They are actually constructing animals from genes. Why would they be doing that? Can we do this yet…here and now? Like cutting up genes and then pasting them back together. You know, sort of like splicing plants…or grafting them, one to another…Interesting, it’s like they are building eggs by injecting stuff into them with a mixture of DNA or gene parts of pieces.
He described these creatures as delicate-looking aquiline-featured humanoids, unclothed, in possession of a prehensile tail and large “doe-like” eyes. They seemed to be using some sort of light that McMoneagle had a hard time describing, but eventually described it as a “grow light.”
Marrs got the impression that it was like someone tending to a garden, and planting seeds, but “there isn’t any concern about the seeds after they are planted…It’s simply like…well…put these seeds here and on to better and bigger business. No concern about backtracking and checking on the condition of the seeds. They can live or die, survive or perish.” The session ended with him moving closer in time and perceiving these beings growing in size and ability, eventually becoming herding humans.
The surveillance of and interference with humanity is documented in the lore of almost all civilizations that have roamed the planet. Although some have called this mere ‘interpretation,’ it reminds me of people referring to the confirmation of spiritual and metaphysical realms as a result of quantum physics. It is simply labelled as an interpretation due to the fact that it upsets so many belief systems and long-held preconceived ideas.
The Takeaway
The story of human history has a lot of holes. From the UFO extraterrestrial phenomena to the discovery of strange skeletal remains, to the rejection of Darwinism all the way to the existence of intelligence ancient civilizations like Atlantis, and others that thrived possibly millions of years ago, we are like, as author Graham Hancock coined, a species with amnesia. But perhaps we are starting to remember. Perhaps our only two explanations are incorrect, or perhaps they’re both correct, combined with other factors. The point is, what we’ve been told is not true, and the recognition of that fact will lead us on the path towards true discovery, and away from the concealment and manipulation of information and truth.
I’m not saying this is how humans are created, perhaps it is just some sort of glimpse into something much bigger that took place billions of years ago?
Is de mens gemaakt in een laboratorium? Officier vertelt wat hij zag tijdens het Stargate Project
Is de mens gemaakt in een laboratorium? Officier vertelt wat hij zag tijdens het Stargate Project
Het Stargate Project werd in 1978 in het leven geroepen door het Amerikaanse leger om onderzoek te doen naar parapsychologische fenomenen zoals remote viewing, telepathie, telekinese en helderziendheid.
Inmiddels zijn veel geheime documenten over het project openbaar gemaakt. Het is onduidelijk waarom het succesvolle project plotseling werd beëindigd.
Het Stanford Research Institute (SRI) en verschillende inlichtingendiensten experimenteerden met remote viewing.
Oorsprong van de mensheid
Eén van de mensen die deelnamen aan deze experimenten was Joseph McMoneagle. Hij was één van de meest succesvolle remote viewers.
Hij werd zelfs opgenomen in het Legioen van Verdienste, een Amerikaanse onderscheiding, omdat hij cruciale inlichtingen had aangeleverd die niet via andere bronnen verkregen konden worden.
Eén van de experimenten had betrekking op de oorsprong van de mensheid.
Laboratorium
Gedurende een 129 minuten durende sessie zag officier McMoneagle naar eigen zeggen een kustlijn van iets wat leek op een primitieve aarde, zo’n 30 tot 50 miljoen na het uitsterven van de dinosaurussen.
Langs de kust zag hij protomensen, harige dieren die rechtop liepen en die ongeveer 1,2 meter lang waren.
Hij kreeg de indruk dat ze daar waren neergezet. “Ze stamden niet af van eerdere soorten, maar waren gemaakt in een laboratorium,” zei hij.
Mensen
“Ik zie een laboratorium waar ze deze dieren maken met behulp van genen,” aldus McMoneagle tijdens de sessie. “Waarom zouden ze dat doen? Kunnen wij dat ook?”
“Het is alsof ze eieren maken door ze te injecteren met een mix van DNA of delen van genen,” klonk het.
Tegen het einde van de sessie zag hij hoe deze wezens steeds groter werden en over meer vermogens beschikten, en uiteindelijk mensen werden.
A triangular UFO that photographs show resembled a flying stingray was seen recently in Ohio near the site of a famous encounter 45 years ago between a UFO and a military helicopter – an encounter the military acknowledged but has never resolved. Have the aliens returned? Why was there no encounter this time? Or is it one of ours?
“It looked just like a sting ray and was all black. I have the original 2 photos of the craft as well as zoomed screen shots which show the craft in very plain view.”
This report comes from the site UFOStalker.com (includes five photos) which covers sightings on MUFON. The witness saw the UFO on September 3rd, 2018, and admitted that he was taking photos of a drill site with his father and neither heard nor saw anything unusual. However, they spotted the UFO in two photos taken no more than two seconds apart. Even under magnification, they admitted being unable to tell if the UFO was ascending or descending, but figured, because of the location of the pointy end, it was heading towards the Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base in the nearby city of Mansfield where the 179th Airlift Wing (179 AW) unit is stationed.
That’s where the story gets interesting. He claims the father showed the photo to “10-15 airmen from the wing” and none would admit to knowing what it is nor were any aware of unusual base activity on September 3rd. However, Perrysville is also the location of another report of a triangular UFO in 2016. Also, the witness claims that the photo becomes “distorted” when it is forwarded via email.
Then there’s the famous incident over Mansfield on October 6, 1973, when an Army Reserve helicopter with four crew members returning to Cleveland “encountered a near midair collision with an unidentified flying object” and filed an official signed report to their superiors. It has become known as the “Coyne/Helicopter” incident because the commander of the chopper was Major Larry Coyne, who retold the story numerous times.
“We were flying along at about 2,500 feet when the crew chief on the helicopter observed a red light on the east horizon. He then informed me that the light was closing on the helicopter — that it was coming at us on a collision course. I looked to the right and observed that the object became bigger and the light became brighter, and I began to descend the helicopter toward the ground, to get out of the collision course path. We were descending and this object was like a missile locked onto the helicopter, only it came at us on a perpendicular angle, to hit us almost broadside. It looked like we were going to collide with it and we braced for impact, and then I heard the crewmen in the back say, ‘Look up!’ and I observed this craft stopped directly in front of us — stopped — it was hovering, right over the helicopter! It was a bright green light. And all of the red night lights that we utilize for night navigation were dissolved in this green light — the whole cabin turned green. It hit all of us directly in the face. We assumed it was a high-performance fighter, but when it stopped directly in front of us, then all four of us realized that was no high-performance aircraft. This craft, from the angle that we saw it, was cigar-shaped. It had no wings, no vertical or horizontal stabilizer, was approximately 60 feet long, 15-20 feet in height.”
So, the Mansfield, Ohio, area has another unexplained UFO incident. While the shapes are dissimilar, the proximity to an air base is not, lending credence to them being secret military aircraft sightings that the military is not interested in revealing, even to its own personnel. Also, the “cigar shape” was a common UFO descriptor in the UFO-crazy 70’s while the “triangle” is popular today, matching the description of the rumored TR-3B. Forty-five years later, the question still remains … is the military becoming more open about UFOs or is it (or some other foreign military) responsible for the sightings?
If you live in the Mansfield area, have your phone ready and keep looking!
History is filled with all manner of mysteries that continue to perplex us well into modern times, and in many ways it almost seems as if there is just as much that we don’t know as that which we do. Among some of the oddities that tend to emerge from the depths of history are various artifacts and objects that defy easy classification and manage to confuse and compel. Such strange items might simply puzzle us, while others threaten to change history as we know it, but all are elusive oddities we struggle to understand. From out of place artifacts that should not exist, to strange objects that defy understanding, to just plain weird discoveries, here is a selection of strange historical oddities that have been found over the years.
Many such strange discoveries take the form of ancient artifacts that have turned up in places where they have no business being. In 1933, an archeological dig headed by archaeologist José García Payón in Mexico’s Toluca Valley, just 43 miles from Mexico City, came across a rather strange find among the many pre and post-Columbian artifacts uncovered at the site. The area was determined to have been a grave site, and as such had many grave offerings left by long forgotten visitors, such as various objects made of gold, copper, turquoise, rock crystal, jet, bone, shell and pottery, all dated to between 1476 and 1510 AD, but there amongst them was found a small terra cotta head that did not fit any of the known designs for the people of that region. Indeed, it was to prove far stranger.
When the head was examined, it was immediately apparent that it was very old, and that it had a distinctive style very similar to artifacts found in ancient Rome, which didn’t seem to make any sense at all, as this was a pre-Columbian grave site in Mexico. Later carbon dating done on the head itself put its origins at somewhere between around the 9th and 13th century AD , making it far older than the site it was found at, and generating theories that it was evidence of some sort of contact between the ancient Romans and the Mesoamericans. For his part, Payón himself sort of swept the strange find under the carpet, not publishing anything on the finding until 1960. In later years what has come to be known as the Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head has been further discussed and analyzed, and in 2001 it was examined by the archeologist Romeo H. Hristov, of the University of New Mexico. Hristov came to the conclusion that it actually dated to the 2nd century AD, and that due to its age and the distinctive hairstyle and beard of the head that it must have been a Roman artifact that had been brought to the region in pre-Columbian times, an assertion that would be shared by Bernard Andreae, a director emeritus of the German Institute of Archaeology in Rome, Italy, who would write:
[the head] is without any doubt Roman, and the lab analysis has confirmed that it is ancient. The stylistic examination tells us more precisely that it is a Roman work from around the II century A.D., and the hairstyle and the shape of the beard present the typical traits of the Severian emperors period [193-235 A.D.], exactly in the ‘fashion’ of the epoch.
The Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head
The origins of the mysterious head and how it would up in Mexico have continued to be discussed and debated, and there have been many other ideas on the matter. For some it was simply an artifact brought over by early European explorers or even Vikings in pre-Columbian times, although how it ended up at the Mexican grave site is unclear. It could have also been brought over at some point by traders from Asia, such as China or India, where it somehow managed to venture out to that site. It could even have somehow drifted to Mexico from some far away Roman shipwreck or could just be a complete hoax that was planted at the site as a prank. For now the mysteries swirl, but one thing for sure is that an ancient Roman terra cotta head is certainly a strange thing to turn up outside of Mexico City.
Almost as strange was a discovery made in 1954, when an amateur archeologist by the name of Guy Mellgren stumbled across something decidedly while exploring in the state of Maine, in the United States. Mellgren had been poking around at the site of what was once a Native American settlement at Naskeag Point on Penobscot Bay in Brooklin, Maine, when he found a treasure trove of old Native artifacts, but as he sifted through his find he came across what appeared to be an ancient silver coin, which seemed jarringly out of place there amongst the Native relics. Unsure of what he had found, Mellgren brought the coin to specialists and things would get even weirder still.
Experts who examined the highly corroded coin at first thought it to be a 12th century British penny, and it was subsequently sorted of filed away with the other relics, but in 1978 the coin was re-examined and found to in fact be a very old Norwegian coin, dating all the way back to the reign of Olaf Kyrre, who was King of Norway between the years of 1067 to 1093 AD. This has been confirmed by other experts and is not really in dispute, but what is less clear is how it ended up in a Native American settlement that dates to 1180 to 1235. Although Norse Vikings from settlements in Greenland are known to have reached areas of Newfoundland long before Columbus arrived on these shores, how would a Viking coin find its way to Maine in pre-Columbian America, far south of where Vikings were ever thought to have ventured? Theories have ranged from that the Vikings did travel south, where they made contact with the Natives of the region, which would rewrite history as we know it, or that Natives from further north traded the coin with other tribes, after which it made its way to Maine being passed along. What makes it all even more baffling is that among the 30,000 artifacts found at the site this one coin is the only thing at all that is of Norse origin. Of course there is also the idea that the coin was a hoax, but in the end the “Goddard Coin,” also called the “Maine Penny” remains a curious unsolved mystery.
The Maine Penny
Other much larger out of place artifacts have been found on occasion, and a good example would be a gigantic, 80-ton boulder found on a hillside at Hidden Mountain, in Los Lunas, New Mexico in 1933. In this year a Frank Hibben, an archaeologist from the University of New Mexico, was led to the monolithic stone by a local guide, who claimed it had first been found in the 1880s. Upon this enormous slab of solid rock was a flattened area upon which was inscribed a passage written in ancient Hebrew, which is odd considering the inscription was estimated as being anywhere between 500 to 2,000 years old, putting it well out of the time frame for ancient Paleo Hebrew to have any business being in North America.
Experts that have examined what has come to be known as the Los Lunas Decalogue Stone believe it may have been used as an ancient Samaritan mezuzah, which were boulders placed at synagogues and other important places and etched with passages from the Decalogue, but this still doesn’t explain why or how it ended up all the way over in New Mexico up to 2,000 years ago. While there has been much talk that it is evidence of pre-Columbian visitation by Semitic explorers, there is also much criticism that it is likely a hoax, either by settlers in the 1800s or perhaps even carried out by Hibben himself to support his own fringe theories on Pre-Clovis migration to North America. Archaeologist Kenneth Feder is among the skeptics, and has flat out denied the authenticity of the stone, saying:
There are no pre-Columbian ancient Hebrew settlements, no sites containing the everyday detritus of a band of ancient Hebrews, nothing that even a cursory knowledge of how the archaeological record forms would demand there would be. From an archaeological standpoint, that’s plainly impossible.
The Los Lunas boulder
However, the stone has still managed to be widely discussed and debated, and it is far from solved. It is hard to study, as its immense size make it unable to be moved to a museum, vandals have destroyed portions of the inscription, and there has never been a consensus on where this mysterious boulder came from or why it holds ancient Hebrew. Is this monstrous boulder with its enigmatic markings evidence of the pre-Columbian presence of Hebrew speaking settlers in the New World, or is it all fake? Who knows?
Some odd historical objects are not necessarily out of place, but still manage to remain confounding and anomalous all the same. In 1929, German theologian Gustav Adolf Deissmann was cataloging items at the vast library of the Topkapı Palace, in Istanbul, Turkey, when he came across an old, dusty bundled up wad of seemingly discarded gazelle skin parchment. It would have seemed like just basically garbage at the time, but when the parchment was unfurled it would prove to hold within it quite an amazing discovery indeed.
There upon the parchment was a portion of an intricate map, unlike anything Deissmann had ever seen, and when it was analyzed by experts it was found to have been made by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis in 1513 AD. Although only a third of the map was intact, the rest missing, it was found that this was not just any ordinary old map, as it seemed to be part of an actual map of the world, and it was shockingly accurate for its time. Here was a map that correctly outlined such far flung lands as Europe, Africa, Caribbean islands, and even South America, islands such as the Azores and Canary Islands, and Japan, as well as uncharted areas such as Nova Scotia, the coast of Antarctica, and the Andes Mountains, at a time when many of these places had not even been discovered yet and all with impressive accuracy that should have been impossible at the time. Indeed, some experts have even said that it simply could not have been done with anything less than satellite imagery, and this is a map drawn up in 1513.
The Piri Reis map
No one could figure out how this could have been done, but there were hints in that the map listed some of its sources, including numerous other Arab and Indian maps, and even mentioning a long lost and nearly mythical map supposedly compiled by Christopher Columbus, which is thought to have been the first map of the world that he is speculated to have made while in the West Indies. This map has never been found, but it is strongly believed that somehow Piri Reis had seen it and used it together with around 20 other maps to craft his own, although none of the source maps mentioned, nor the missing portions of the map, have ever been located. To this day the stunning accuracy of the Piri Reis Map remains a baffling anomaly. How did he get this information? How was he able to map out places not even known to have been discovered at the time? What would the lost portions reveal? We may never know.
Some historical anomalies are rather numerous, yet still manage to baffle as no one is really sure what they are. Throughout many portions of what was once the Roman Empire there have been found over 100 small bronze objects measuring around 2 to 5 inches across and with a unique shape of 12 flat pentagonal faces with holes and knobs upon them. While many examples of these artifacts have been found, and they are most certainly Roman in origin, the problem is no one has the slightest idea of what they were used for. There are no known written records or design plans for them, and these “dodecahedrons” have been speculated as being everything from navigational tools, to zodiac instruments, to astronomy tools, knitting instruments, calendars, candlestick holders or even children’s toys. Your guess is as good as anyone’s, and although there are many of these objects and they seem to have been rather common they will likely nevertheless remain an impenetrable mystery.
A Roman dodecahedron
Not all enigmatic historical objects are so old, and there have been a few such oddities in more recent times as well. In 1968 a building in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States was being renovated when a wall was torn down to reveal hiding behind it a brand new looking World War I era motorcycle with a distinctive design no one had ever seen before. It had a unique engine design not seen in any other motorcycle of the time, an innovative and one-of-a-kind brake system, had specially made parts not found in any other motorcycle then or since, and overall it was far more advanced than anything else of its era. It also still ran smoothly and seemed none the worse for wear after decades hidden away forgotten behind a wall. Most oddly of all, the one-of-a-kind bike had the word “Traub” written upon it, its meaning just as cryptic as anything else about it.
When the first owners of the building were tracked down they were able to shed a bit of light on the mystery, saying that their son had stolen the motorcycle and hidden it behind the wall before leaving to fight overseas during the war, but this did little to explain where it came from in the first place or who built it. The mysterious motorcycle has since become part of the collection of the Wheels Through Time Museum, and to this day there has not been found any other example of this bike and its design, nor any other parts for it, no one knows who made it, and it remains a cipher.
The Traub Motorcycle
Even more recently was an unusual find made in 2014 by rangers at the Great Basin National Park, in Nevada. As they were patrolling a rather remote area of the park they found a tree in the middle of nowhere that had leaning against it a very old looking rifle, just neatly propped up and abandoned out there in the wilderness. It was soon found that the rifle was an antique Model 1873 Winchester rifle that had been manufactured between the years of 1873 and 1919, and which would have been considered a valuable heirloom. It was also in very good condition, and even now no one can figure out why anyone would just leave this old-fashioned antique weapon out there against that tree. Was it left there by some pioneer, gold prospector, or hunter from the 19th century? Was it put out there by a gun collector for reasons we will never know? Was it left behind by a time traveler? Who knows? The gun sits in a museum with no known owner.
Here we have looked at just a sampling of odd and unusual historical objects that have managed to evade understanding either by being out of place, coming out of nowhere, or being just plain weird. It is interesting to think that for as much as we think we like to know about history and for as much progress we have made in chronicling it there can still be these oddities that pop up from time to time to challenge our perceptions and serve as frustrating riddles we may never solve. It certainly seems that history is far from fully illuminated, and hiding out there in the nooks, crannies, and shadows are plenty of anomalies that manage to stay obscured in the mists of time, teasing us from the recesses of past eras.
Here’s one really interesting footage that was filmed over Albufeira in Portugal. This was recorded on 13th August 2017 but it was just published online now,
Witness report:
Two big balls flying by with different speeds
I was walking the dog, and when I looked back to call him, I saw this two big balls flying by. They have different speed. It was really weird… I stopped the video to take a picture. It’s not so good one… I thought immediately it was an UFO, I am near the Faro Airport and know exactly how are the planes and helicopters. When I get home I showed the video to everyone and everyone says it was really very weird. I tried to get some answers online in portuguese, and nobody could explain anything, or others didn’t even respond my emails. Someone gave me this website to report it, but I didn’t do it for a long long time, just because I don’t understand some of this questionary. Recorded with Samsung Galaxy S5
Famous 86-mile UFO Hot Pursuit Still Defies Air Force Explanation
Famous 86-mile UFO Hot Pursuit Still Defies Air Force Explanation
Two Portage County, Ohio sheriff deputies spotted an abandoned vehicle along a road near Ravenna at 5 am on April 17, 1966. Deputy Dale Spaur got out of his car while Wilbur “Barney” Neff remained his.
Deputy Spaur heard a strange humming noise, and when he turned around, he saw a giant unidentified flying object. The UFO reportedly rose from behind the trees and hovered over them as the ground drenched in bright light.
An 86-mile chase then followed at speeds of over 100 mph from Ohio to Pennsylvania that took the deputies and a few more on a harrowing ride.
The bizarre trek ended in Conway, Pennsylvania but for law enforcement officers involved, it would last for the rest of their lives.
The close encounter marks the fourth instalment of The Parajournal, The Times video series by award-winning videographer Gwen Titley.
The dispatcher initially instructed to shoot the object but Sgt. Henry Shoenfelt told Spaur and Neff to stand down, wondering if the two have found a government weather balloon.
Police Chief Gerald Buchert, who was on patrol in nearby Mantua, heard the call of the deputies about lights in the sky. He immediately went home to get his camera. He snapped photos of what he described as two table saucers put together.
As the UFO zipped away toward the east, Spaur and Neff gave chase.
Spaur said that the UFO looked like the head of a flashlight from the ground. He estimated the object to be approximately 40 feet wide and 20 feet tall.
He later would say to reporters that the lines of the object were very distinct and it looked like somebody had control over it as it was not just floating around. It could manoeuvre, he added.
Spaur said the chase slowed down near Rochester as cars got tangled up in a mess of bridges.
When Spaur came out from under the bridge, the UFO came down and waited for them as if it knew these two cars were following.
As Spaur and Neff got too close to the object, it would speed up. The two did not able to follow it as they were now low on gas and their tires were balding. They decided to pull into an Atlantic service station where Conway Patrolman Frank Panzanella met them.
By 6:15 am, Spaur noticed three fighter jets chasing the aircraft. He then alerted the dispatch about it. The officers could pick up chatter on their police radios from the pilots.
The object hovered then shot straight out of sight.
Unfortunately, Buchert’s photos were severely fogged and had processing defects. It proved nothing.
The U.S. government has been keeping an eye on unidentified flying objects. Here’s everything they’ve been keeping from you.
1. The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
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In December 2017, a blockbuster report in The New York Times revealed that the U.S. Department of Defense had been funding a program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), focused on investigating reports of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. The Defense Department told the newspaper that the secret program started in 2007 and had been shut down in 2012, but Luis Elizondo, the military intelligence officer who came forward to say he had been in charge of it, insisted that the investigation efforts had continued after that date without specific funding. Find out 10 other secret U.S. government operations that have also been revealed.
2. Fighter jets catch UFO on video
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Although the revelation that the U.S. government had been studying UFOs was exciting, the two videos that accompanied the article got lots more play—they show 2004 infrared footage of an unexplained object filmed from Navy fighter jets. One of the pilots, David Fravor, described the scene to the Times: “It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen.” He told the paper the encounter left him feeling “pretty weirded out.”
3. Scientists aren’t convinced the footage shows extraterrestrial visitors
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“The only real piece of evidence that was widely available were some short videos showing a peanut-shaped object in front of a Navy jet,” says Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and fellow at the SETI Institute, which is dedicated to exploring the origins of life and intelligence in the universe. James Oberg, a space journalist and historian and a former NASA engineer, is similarly skeptical: “Nobody’s seen the original material and its context,” he says. Oberg also points out that although we think of pilots as particularly reliable witnesses, they are also susceptible to the tendency of the brain to try to make sense of confusing sights by using past experiences to fill in gaps. He explains that fireball swarms caused by satellites re-entering Earth’s atmosphere have been perceived as “a structured object with lights mounted on it” by people of varying education levels watching from both rural and urban areas of many countries. These are the 12 UFO myths scientists wish you would stop believing.
4. AATIP was requested by Congress
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Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was Senate majority leader in 2007, requested funding for the project, which was cosponsored by Alaska Republican Ted Stevens and Hawaii Democrat Daniel K. Inouye. Reid told The New York Times that he’s proud of the program: “I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going.” While it ran, the program collected pilot reports, camera footage, and radar data, and tried to match it all with known aircraft. Luis Elizondo, the official who ran the program, told Wired that they often couldn’t match aircraft they investigated with anything they knew about. Check out these famous people who said they saw UFOs.
5. UFO enthusiasts were ecstatic
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Jan Harzan, the executive director of the Mutual UFO Network, which collects and investigates sightings, told Space.com columnist Leonard David that the publicizing of AATIP data would “make it safe for our scientists and engineers to study this phenomenon without fear of ridicule or retribution, but with funding provided by Congress and private industry.”
6. The Pentagon shut down AATIP in 2012
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Still, Seth Shostak points out that the closure of the program doesn’t exactly make him think that it was finding lots of useful UFO information. “If there were compelling evidence for out-of-this-world craft, I would expect that the AATIP study would have continued, and not been canceled,” he says. “Programs are killed for lack of progress, not in the face of significant progress!” Check out more about the secrets of Area 51.
7. To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science
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Elizondo resigned from his post at the Defense Department around the same time he was speaking to the press about AATIP, and he took a job with a new private organization called To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. The new venture aims to raise money for UFO research, new technology development, and entertainment projects, including documentaries and science-fiction novels. To the Stars released a new video clip in March 2018 that shows Pentagon footage of an object being tracked by a Navy jet over the East Coast three years earlier. This new video isn’t any more convincing to James Oberg, who thinks the releases are part of the To the Stars publicity push. “These selected portions [of military footage] were released by a private group raising money,” he says.
8. AATIP collected metal alloys from unidentified aerial phenomena
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This point in the AATIP exposé included very few details, but The New York Times specified that the company running the Defense Department program (a private contractor) had modified buildings in Las Vegas to properly store the materials for study. A Live Sciencearticle by Rafi Letzter ran this idea past some metallurgists and chemists, who didn’t think there could be any metal alloys (mixtures of elements) that would be difficult to identify. May Nyman, a professor in the Oregon State University Department of Chemistry, told the site that it would be possible to determine if an alloy had come from space by studying it for signs of ionization. (And alloys do come from space—most often in the form of nickel-iron meteorites.) Find out just how many Americans believe in aliens.
9. Project Blue Book
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AATIP isn’t the first U.S. government UFO investigation program—between 1947 and 1969, Project Blue Book collected more than 12,000 reports of UFO sightings. More than 90 percent were explained away (as being weather, known astronomical events, etc.), but 700 didn’t have ready explanations. However, after a research committee headquartered at the University of Colorado examined the unexplained reports and found no evidence of extraterrestrial visitations, Project Blue Book was shuttered.
10. Other countries keep UFO files, too
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The United Kingdom’s Air Ministry (and later Ministry of Defence) collected UFO files between 1959 and 2009, when it too closed down its program. In France, a UFO program started in 1977—known now as GEIPAN, it’s still operating. Residents who see something they can’t explain file official reports, and the agency collects them for researchers and scientists but doesn’t independently investigate them. When GEIPAN put its archives online in 2007, so many people logged on to read them that the website crashed. As of May 2018, more than 2,700 cases had been submitted to the database.
11. China’s new radio dish was built to listen for extraterrestrial signals
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It’s more than 1600 feet in diameter, which is twice the size of the biggest U.S. radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. That means it will be sensitive enough to find celestial objects such as distant galaxies and pulsars, but China’s government also specifically built it in order to search for signals sent from intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe.
12. Project 1794
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In the 1950s, during flying-saucer fever, the U.S. government actually tried to build a disk-shaped aircraft. They were hoping it would go as high as 100,000 feet and fly at around 2,600 miles per hour, and it was meant to take off and land vertically. After spending more than $3 million (that would be more than $26 million today) on the top-secret development program, it didn’t pan out and was scrapped. Next, find out about 12 crazy conspiracy theories that actually turned out to be true.
Still, Seth Shostak points out that the closure of the program doesn’t exactly make him think that it was finding lots of useful UFO information. “If there were compelling evidence for out-of-this-world craft, I would expect that the AATIP study would have continued, and not been canceled,” he says. “Programs are killed for lack of progress, not in the face of significant progress!”
Merrylin Cryptid Museum: Proof for the Existence of Mythical Beings or Elaborate Hoaxes?
Numerous mythical creatures have been created Over the course of human history. Most of them were based on misunderstandings of real animals, plants, or even other human populations. Greek Legends of satyrs and dog-faced barbarians, for example, may have been based on distorted traveler’s accounts of apes and monkeys. Is it possible, however, that some mythical creatures may actually exist more or less as they were described in legend and myth? This is the claim of the Merrylin Cryptid Museum, which contains what it claims to be the bodily remains of a variety of fantastic creatures ranging from dragons to aliens. They could be genuine, but they also resemble specimens that turned out later to be hoaxes.
The creatures in the museum were apparently found in the 1960s in the basement of a mansion owned by Thomas Theodore Merrylin, a crypto-zoologist and an eccentric archaeologist. The specimens were found enclosed in boxes and resembled the withered skeletal remains of various fantastic creatures: mermaids, faeries, gnomes, dragons, vampires, and even some extraterrestrials. In addition to skeletal remains, some of the original tissue such as fur and scales were preserved on the remains.
Not all the specimens are fantastic. There are a few dinosaurs, for example, and some specimens which could just be unusual animals. On the other hand, items like regalia related to Cthulhu and the remains of an ancient pharaoh are less likely to be genuine, since they imply much more improbable things than just the existence of mythical creatures.
Just because the remains of creatures like werewolves have been found doesn’t mean that we can conclude that they exist. There was at least one case where the body of a fantastic creature was found but later turned out to be fake and was created through sewing together corpses of different animals. This example would be the Fiji Mermaid.
The Fiji Mermaid gained a surge of fame when, in the year 1842 in New York City, it was presented by a man claiming to be an English naturalist by the name of Dr. J. Griffin of the “British Lyceum of Natural History.” The tale he told was that he found the mermaid off the coast of the Fiji Islands in the south Pacific. Dr. Griffin was approached by a man named P.T. Barnum. According to the story, P.T. Barnum tried to pressure Dr. Griffin into putting the mermaid on display at his museum by publicizing the existence of the mermaid by giving woodcuts of mermaids to the press and claiming that they were depictions of the mermaids found by Dr. Griffin.
[Top] Fiji Mermaid, in the Folklore section at the Haus der Natur (House of Nature), a natural history collection in Salzburg, Austria. ( CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ) [Bottom] P.T. Barnums Feejee mermaid
After the creature was displayed, it was quickly revealed to be a hoax. It turned out that P.T. Barnum and Dr. Griffin were working together all along to pull off the deception. Dr. Griffin was not even a real naturalist but a conman named Levi Lyman. The Fiji Mermaid was in fact not a mermaid but a creature created by sewing the tail of a fish to the torso of a monkey. This particular act of sewing the tales of fish to the upper bodies of primates was an artform in Japan and the East Indies used to create half-monkey, half-fish figurines for religious purposes. The Fiji Mermaid was probably one of these.
The Fiji Mermaid was most likely made around 1810 by a Japanese fisherman and sold to a British sea captain named Samuel Barret Eades in 1822 by Dutch merchants who had been to the East Indies or Japan. Eades attempted to make a profit from presenting it as a genuine mermaid. But his effort to gain a fortune through this turned out to be unsuccessful. After his death, it was passed to his son who sold it to a showman named Moses Kimball. P.T. Barnum in fact leased the Fiji Mermaid from Moses Kimball to present it as an actual creature discovered by Dr. Griffin.
A depiction of what would later come to be known as the Fiji mermaid, commissioned by Captain Samuel Barrett Eades.
A more recent version of this kind of hoax was done with photography, when during a photoshop contest, human skeletons were superimposed onto paleontological excavation sites involving the excavation of mammoth bones to make it appear as if they were unearthing the bones of giant humans. This was of course done with photography, not sewing together animal corpses, but it shows how easy it is to make a mythical creature look real in the modern world.
Could the specimens at the Merrylin Cryptid Museum be genuine? There are too many to dismiss them all, but there are some issues to consider. The astronomer Carl Sagan once said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The reality of the Ctulhu regalia found at the museum, for example, would imply that H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction was really history disguised as fiction, something he never claimed and something that is not supported by any other evidence.
Some of the creatures also do not follow known biological and physical laws. If these creatures turned out to be real, we would not just have to revise our views of what is mythical, but also our understanding of biology and natural history. This would certainly be the case if the dinosaur specimens were genuine.
Another example of this would be one specimen of a lycanthrope, which supposedly represents the remains of a human in the process of transforming into a lycanthrope. The problem with this being real is that the process described would likely kill anyone who went through it, making it improbable that this is a genuine lycanthrope.
Lycanthrope specimen at the Merrylin Cryptid Museum.
For the moment, we cannot come to conclusions since none of these specimens have been examined by teams of experts. Until then all we can do is guess. From the available data though, the proponents of the reality of these extraordinary creatures will require some extraordinary evidence.
Top Image: ‘The Hexing Box’ at Merrylin Cryptid Museum. Source: Alex CF 2014
A video of the strange anomaly was captured on September 11, and Ms Gilley uploaded it to her YouTube page.
In the video Ms Gilley says: “I bumped up contrast and saturation; I have seen many forms of pixels even square one but never have seen laser beam pixels?
“That's a new one!”
Many people agreed with Ms Gilley, coming up with their own theories about what the lights could be.
Strange laser beams spotted being ‘shot out of Saturn’
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One person asked if the beams were a “message home”.
Others pointed out that the lights may not be coming from Saturn, but rather are being pointed at the massive planet instead.
However, some were unconvinced by the sighting, believing that it is just rendering issues.
A user by the name of MaceMan commented beneath the YouTube video: “The short answer is that it is probably compression artifacting.
Some have claimed Saturn is home to aliens
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“As you said before, it wasn't the ‘original’, and by copying the file over (as well as compression in your video editing software) this effect shows up.”
Some people are convinced that Saturn is a hotspot for alien activity.
One of NASA’s former top engineers previously claimed that there are alien spaceships hiding in Saturn’s rings.
The claim was made by Dr Norman Bergrun, a well respected engineer who held a position at NASA’s Ames Research Centre.
Dr Bergrun said that "living alien UFO spaceships” are using the rings of Saturn as a hiding spot
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Dr Bergrun said that "living alien UFO spaceships” are using the rings of Saturn as a hiding spot and that they are “proliferating” at am alarming rate.
The former NASA employee has previously said that the amount of spaceships has reached “critical” levels, and that authorities should keep an eye on it.
He added that the rings have become so compact with UFOs that they are now starting to gather around the likes of Jupiter and Neptune.
DIERENVoordat het een van de grootste toeristische trekpleisters in Amerika werd, liepen er uiteenlopende wezens door de Grand Canyon. Zo zijn de oudste pootafdrukken afkomstig van een primitief dier dat 310 miljoen jaar geleden op vier poten door de kloof dwaalde. Diagonaal.
De restanten werden onlangs teruggevonden, nadat het gesteente rondom afgebrokkelde. Normaal vervagen zulke voetafdrukken als deze, maar door een gelukkig toeval verhardden de afdrukken van dit dier tot zandsteen, waardoor paleontologen zich over een nieuw vraagstuk kunnen buigen. De sporen zijn immers bijzonder eigenaardig door hun vreemde oriëntatie. Elke pootafdruk is in een hoek van veertig graden ten opzichte van de looprichting in het zand getekend. Daardoor lijkt het wel alsof het dier niet recht vooruit, maar diagonaal ging.
Hoe dan ook gaat het om een bijzondere vondst volgens Stephen Rowland, paleontoloog van de University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Het zijn immers afdrukken van 310 miljoen jaar geleden. Maar de mysterieuze gang van de duinenloper roept toch wat vragen op. Zo hebben paleontologen geen enkel idee over welke diersoort het zou gaan.
Stephen RowlandHet dier liep met een diagonale tred.
Rond die tijd was er in ieder geval voor het eerst sprake van reptielen die op zoogdieren begonnen te lijken. Ze waren niet langer afhankelijk van water voor hun voortplanting en hadden een harde huid die hen beschermde tegen uitdroging.
Schots soortgenootje Eerder zijn er in Schotland al eens soortgelijke pootafdrukken gevonden. Die zouden afkomstig zijn van een soortgelijk, maar geëvolueerd reptiel dat er 229 miljoen jaar geleden leefde. De eigenaar van de afdrukken in de Grand Canyon kan daardoor wel eens de voorloper zijn van een soortgenootje dat later in Schotland voorkwam.
Voor zulke besluiten zullen onderzoekers jammer genoeg op zoek moeten gaan naar meer details. Een skelet en tanden zouden bijvoorbeeld al helpen. Ook over de tred van het dier kan men geen uitspraak doen zonder verdere aanwijzingen. Het dier kon ook gewoon diagonaal zijn gegaan omdat het bergafwaarts liep en zo probeerde om niet uit te schuiven.
WETENSCHAPDe Parker-zonnesonde, in augustus gelanceerd vanop Cape Canaveral in het Amerikaanse Florida, is maandag tot op 42,73 miljoen kilometer van de zon gekomen. Nooit eerder kwam een ruimtevaartuig zo dicht bij het hemellichaam. Dat heeft de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie Nasa gemeld.
Op 12 augustus werd de sonde gelanceerd. Sindsdien is hij op volle snelheid onderweg naar de zon. Parker heeft maandag de zon benaderd tot op 42,73 miljoen kilometer: een record. Het vorige record was in handen van de Duits-Amerikaanse ruimtesonde Helios 2. Die kwam in 1976 tot op 43,43 miljoen kilometer van de zon.
“De sonde werd 78 dagen geleden gelanceerd en we zijn al dichter bij onze ster gekomen dan ooit tevoren”, zegt projectleider Andy Driesman. Intussen zet Parker zijn weg naar de zon verder: in 2024 moet de sonde zich op iets minder dan 7 miljoen kilometer van de zon bevinden.
1.217 graden Celsius
Het ruimtevaartuig kost 1,5 miljard dollar. Die kosten zijn deels te verklaren door het zeer dikke zonneschild: Parker zal te maken krijgen met de bijzonder hoge temperaturen binnen de corona, de atmosfeer rond de zon. Tijdens de missie, die zeven jaar duurt, zal de sonde 24 banen rond de zon afleggen en daar temperaturen tot 1.217 graden Celsius tegenkomen. Op topsnelheid bereikt de sonde snelheden tot 690.000 kilometer/uur.
Belgisch
De missie heeft ook een Belgisch kantje. Zo ontwikkelde het ruimtevaartcentrum van de universiteit van Luik een 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.
APHet ruimtevaartuig kost 1,5 miljard dollar. Die kosten zijn deels te verklaren door het zeer dikke zonneschild: Parker zal te maken krijgen met de bijzonder hoge temperaturen binnen de corona, de atmosfeer rond de zon.
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ENORM OBJECT ONTDEKT OP JUPITER ( VIDEO )
ENORM OBJECT ONTDEKT OP JUPITER ( VIDEO )
Wanneer je op reis gaat in de ruimte vertrekkend vanaf de zon, dan komt er na Mars, de enorme planeet Jupiter.
Een planeet die 1321 keer groter is dan de aarde, met talloze manen en waar veel meer dingen gebeuren dan wij denken.
Er is weer eens iets merkwaardigs verschenen op een door NASA vrijgegeven foto. Het betreft hier een opname van de planeet Jupiter en daar, aan de rand van de planeet, is iets merkwaardigs te ontdekken.
Volgens Scott Waring bestaat er geen enkele twijfel over dat we hier te maken hebben met een door buitenaardsen neergezette constructie op het oppervlak van Jupiter. Je ziet het gebouw als het ware uitsteken boven de wolkenlaag waarmee Jupiter is omringd en Waring zegt dat die bewolking bewust door buitenaardsen is gemaakt om de aanwezige beschavingen aan het oppervlak van de planeet te verbergen.
Wat ze daar volgens hem doen is een soort variatie van het cloaken (verbergen) van hun ruimteschepen door het maken van een wolk. Er kan tijdelijk iets misgegaan zijn, waardoor het cloaking mechanisme even niet goed werkte en dit gebouw zichtbaar werd.
Wanneer je de grootte van het object vergelijkt met de planeet en dan bedenkt dat Jupiter 1321 keer groter is dan de aarde, dan moet ook dit gebouw enorm groot zijn.
Het is niet de eerste keer dat de planeet Jupiter in het nieuws komt dit jaar voor wat betreft buitenaards leven. Dat wil zeggen, niet de planeet zelf, maar wel één van haar vele manen.
Formeel breken wetenschappers zich het hoofd over een maan die hoort bij de enorme planeet Jupiter. Deze maan, Ganymedes, is de grootste in ons zonnestelsel en is tevens iets heel anders dan men ons wil doen geloven.
In het midden van de jaren negentig werd er veel gesproken over een man met de naam Alex Collier. Deze man kwam met heel interessante informatie omtrent ons zonnestelsel en vooral ook buitenaards leven.
Hij verkreeg al deze kennis omdat hij als kind al was ontvoerd door buitenaardsen en dat hij als gevolg daarvan in contact staat met iemand van het sterrenstelsel Andromeda.
Eén van de dingen waar hij over vertelde tijdens zijn presentatie was één van de manen van de planeet Jupiter, Ganymedes genaamd.
Ganymedes is de grootste maan van Jupiter en tevens de grootste maan van ons hele zonnestelsel. Ze is groter dan de planeet Mercurius, maar heeft slechts half zoveel massa als die planeet. Ganymedes is ongeveer anderhalf keer zo groot als de Maan van de Aarde, twee keer zo groot als de dwergplaneet Pluto en heeft drie vierde van de omvang van Mars.[1] Aan de hand van het aantal kraters per vierkante kilometer wordt geschat dat de maan 3,5 tot 3 miljard jaar oud is, wat vergelijkbaar is met onze Maan.
En net zoals er vaak wordt gezegd dat onze maan een kunstmatige satelliet is, zo is dat volgens Collier ook het geval met Ganymedes. Het is een centrale hub voor veel buitenaards verkeer en volgens Collier was er water, zuurstof en een atmosfeer op Ganymedes.
In de tijd was er echter geen manier om te kunnen controleren of dat hetgeen Collier vertelde ook daadwerkelijk klopte.
Maar, sinds die tijd zijn er meer en meer opnames gemaakt door satellieten en ruimtetelescopen van deze bijzondere maan en lijken een aantal zaken de theorie van Collier te ondersteunen.
Eén van die dingen is een soort aurora op Ganymedes, die alleen maar veroorzaakt kan worden door een magnetisch veld, wat er weer op wijst dat Ganymedes inderdaad over water beschikt, heel veel water en zelfs meer dan al onze zeeën en oceanen bij elkaar.
Daarnaast zijn er andere bijzondere ontdekkingen gedaan op Ganymedes zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding. Iets dat lijkt op een enorme donker getinte koepel, waarop zelfs de reflectie van het zonlicht is te zien.
Bovenstaande is wederom afkomstig van de man die de Men in Black op zijn dak heeft, de bekende Tyler van Secureteam en hij denkt dat net zoals met de planeet Venus waar we eerder over schreven, dat Ganymedes veel belangrijker is dan men ons wil doen geloven en dat ook in het geval van deze maan er alles aan wordt gedaan om de aandacht af te leiden.
The search for extraterrestrial life has been a dominant theme of both science fiction and astronomy for decades now. “Are we alone?” remains one of the burning questions of humanity, one that, depressingly, we may never answer. Aliens may be extinct, hiding from us, trapped by their own planets’ immense gravity, or maybe they don’t exist in the first place.
Wouldn’t that be the biggest bummer of all? In order to avoid the horrible realization that we may be the only living things stinking up the cosmos, one Netherlands-based company plans to take matters into their own hands by breeding bona fide extraterrestrials all on their own – extraterrestrial humans, that is.
SpaceLife Origin hails themselves as the world’s first “bio-tech & mission development company,” meaning their interests lie in developing both specialized medical equipment and then sending that equipment to space. According to their website, the company’s ultimate goal is to “make embryo conception in space feasible by 2021 and enable real human birth in space by 2024.”
Like many other tech visionaries, SpaceLife Origin Founder and CEO Kees Mulder says that his company wants to enable humanity to break the chains holding us onto this dying planet and secure a future among the stars:
If humanity wants to become a multi-planetary species, we also need to learn how to reproduce in space. SpaceLife Origin is thrilled to announce its Missions Program to enable sustainable life beyond earth. A world’s first and truly unique critical step in the future of mankind. We believe that any space company, agency or nation with ambitions for colonization of other planets will benefit from partnering with us for the successful execution and completion of their own plans.
SpaceLife Origin has three missions currently in development. The first, Mission Ark, is scheduled to launch in 2020 and will send special capsules into space containing human “Seeds-of-Life” cells to act as an interstellar insurance policy for all of humankind. The second mission, Mission Lotus, will launch a “Space-Embryo-Incubator” in 2021 and see human embryos form in low-Earth orbit before returning to Earth for in-utero fertilization and terrestrial birth.
What would aliens do with they human ‘seeds of life’ if they ever recovered it from one of these probes?
Finally, Mission Cradle is planned for 2024 and will see the world’s first extraterrestrial human born – if all goes according to SpaceLife Origin’s plan. The Mission Cradle mission proposes sending a pregnant woman into space for 24-36 hours to “give birth at 250 miles above Earth, accompanied by a trained, world-class medical team” aboard a space station. No word yet on how they plan to keep an extremely pregnant woman calm and healthy throughout a launch into space – not exactly the most stress-free environment.
While giving in birth in space makes for one heck of a story, a successful extraterrestrial birth would also lend hope to the dream of someday sending colonies of humans on multi-generational voyages to strange and distant new homes out among the stars. Could it happen in our lifetime?
Pterodactyl UFO Over Perrysville, Ohio Throws Shadow On Clouds, Sept 3, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Pterodactyl UFO Over Perrysville, Ohio Throws Shadow On Clouds, Sept 3, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 3, 2018
Location of sighting: Perrysville, Ohio, USA
Source: MUFON #95976
This is a report from MUFON that just came in yesterday. The person was looking at the photos when they got home an noticed a triangular UFO in excellent detail in one photo. The UFO is also throwing a shadow onto the cloud below...which is 100% amazing, because this means that UFO was freaking huge! I'm talking several times bigger than a 747. This UFO must have been cloaked because something that big would normally stand out like a sour thumb. So I say the digital eye caught this because it is more precise of an instrument than our flawed eye which misses out on a lot of the spectrum. The object also resembles a Pterodactyl...a flying dinosaur. Because its throwing a huge shadow on the cloud, that means this was giant in size, ruling out remote control planes, drones, kites, balloons...this one is a true mystery.
ISS astronauts return to Earth amid US-Russia tensions
ISS astronauts return to Earth amid US-Russia tensions
by Dana Rysmukhamedova
In space, US-Russia cooperation has been tight. On Earth, not so much
Two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth on Thursday wrapping up a six-month mission at the International Space Station as tensions between Washington and Moscow threaten a rare area of cooperation.
National flags of Russia and the US.
Image: Reuters
NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos touched down on steppe land southeast of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan at the expected time of 1145 GMT.
The landing came with Russian and US officials investigating the appearance of a mysterious hole in a Russian space craft docked at the orbiting station.
Detected in August, the hole caused an air leak on the ISS but was quickly sealed up.
This week the outspoken chief of the Russian space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, said investigators believed the small hole had been made deliberately and was not a manufacturing defect.
The official, who was placed under US sanctions over the Ukraine crisis in 2014, also bemoaned "problems" in the Russian space agency's cooperation with NASA that he attributed to interference from unnamed American officials.
Last month the Russian daily Kommersant reported that an investigation had probed the possibility that US astronauts deliberately drilled the hole in order to get a sick colleague sent back home—something Russian officials later denied.
Ground personnel carry Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev shortly after returning to Earth from a six month mission
ISS commander Feustel has called the suggestion that the crew was somehow involved "embarrassing" and NASA on Wednesday expressed doubts over the theory that the hole was the result of sabotage.
The US space agency said that ruling out defects "does not necessarily mean the hole was created intentionally or with mal-intent."
ISS astronauts are planning a spacewalk in November to gather more information on the hole.
The ISS is one of the few areas of tight Russia-US cooperation that had until now remained unaffected by the slump in ties, including after Washington's sanctions against Russia over Ukraine and other crises.
Earlier the ISS hosted the usual emotional goodbyes as the returning trio left Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, NASA's Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Roscosmos' Sergey Prokopyev waiting for the next three-person crew's arrival.
The next launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is scheduled for next Thursday.
A search and rescue helicopter hovers over the Soyuz space capsule carrying the International Space Station crew back to Earth after a six-month mission
'Glory days in hot sun'
The crew was all smiles on return to Earth, with Artemyev first out of the descent module and shown tucking into a fruit and vegetable feast that included a giant cantaloupe melon in footage broadcast by Roscosmos.
He also wrote "spasibo" (thank you) and signed his name on the craft in chalk.
Feustel, 53, invoked Hollywood comedy actor Jack Black's character Nacho Libre as he tweeted farewell to life on the space station.
"I have had my 'glory days in the hot sun' and now it's time to come home," he wrote late Wednesday in a tweet that included a photo of the sun taken from the ISS.
While he was on his third mission in space, 47-year-old Artemyev and 54-year-old Arnold had previously only served on one mission each.
The Soyuz MS-08 space capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev descends to Earth over Kazakhstan after a six-month mission
Their journey that began with a blastoff from Baikonur in March was particularly poignant for Arnold, who during his debut mission in 2009 helped build the space station he has now spent 197 days living in.
While aboard the ISS, Arnold, who has a teaching background, gave lessons on space that Sharon Christa McAuliffe—one of seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger accident in 1986—had originally been supposed to teach.
In a NASA video, Arnold revealed that fellow educator McAuliffe's death in an explosion just over a minute after the challenger crew blasted off was one of the things that prompted him to take up teaching.
Since the official claim is that mankind did not learn to extract and manufacture metallic aluminum until around 200 years ago, news of finding aluminum that dates back as early as 250,000 years ago leaves people with a lot of questions.
With this type of discovery, many theories emerge, some feeding challenges of science while others fiercely debate and reject any non-empirical claims.
It must be admitted that it’s intriguing to peek into another possible theory of human life and civilization on our planet than the commonly accepted one.
The aluminium piece looks as if it was a handmade object
(Image: CEN)
Reportedly, the discovery of a sensational object that challenged ideas about aluminum took place in Romania in the town of Aiud, near the banks of the Mures River, during the 1970s. At this time the country was under Communist and the news was not exposed to the public in detail.
At the time, builders who worked on a project on the banks of the aforementioned river excavated three objects, of which one was later thought to be made by a human.
Alum crystals have been used in a wide range of industries since antiquity.
In the 1970s examination, two massive bones of an extinct mammal, which vanished from the face of the Earth 10,000 to 80,000 years ago, were reportedly discovered next to a piece of lightweight metal.
These discoveries were analyzed by Swiss scientists in Lausanne, who concluded that the metal object contained around 90 percent aluminum and was around 250,000 years old.
Mureş River, Arad, Romania. Photo by NorbertArthur CC BY-SA 3.0
The primary claim was quickly dropped as the scientists revised the calculation and said that this metal piece might be anywhere from 400 to 80,000 years old, a possibility that still created problems because aluminum was first produced by humans 200 years ago.
The object when found was noted as 7.8 inches long, 4.9 inches wide, and 2.8 inches thick. The experts who investigated its structure were perplexed by the concavities in the metal, which led them to believe that the object was formerly a part of an unknown mechanical system. The scientists searched for clues about the object’s etymology, use, or significance.
The aluminum puzzle led to speculations that the piece might have been, in fact, part of an unidentified flying object and proof that aliens once visited the Earth. This supposition was supported by those who assert that we Earthlings are not the only advanced life forms in the universe.
It could be 250,000 years old
(Image: CEN)
The discovery has only just been made public after it was found in communist Romania in 1973
(Image: CEN)
George Cohal, the director of the Ufologists Association of Romania, stated: “The substances of which the object is compromised are combined of an obviously unavailable technology on Earth.” On the other hand, according to the Daily Record, Romanian historian Mihai Wittenberger opposed any UFO speculation, claiming that the metal piece was actually part of a WWII aircraft.
Today, the ancient aluminum piece is displayed in the History Museum of Cluj-Napoca, the main city of the Romanian region of Transylvania, with the notation “origin still unknown.”
The National Museum of Transylvanian History.
Photo by CristianChirita CC BY 2.5
The history of the artifact has been the subject of a heated viral debate.
While conspiracy supporters believe the story of an extraterrestrial life bringing it to our planet, others doubt the claims over the discovery and suggest that the scientists should consider revising human capacity to produce aluminium alloys before the official date of the invention.
Some people even discuss possible evidence of advanced human civilizations that might have lived on Earth long before the generally known beginning of civilization.
According to several historians, the following passage, citation unknown, may refer to the creation of an early aluminum artifact:
“Once a certain Roman jeweler was allowed to show the Emperor Tiberius a chalice made of a new metal. The chalice was remarkable for its unusually lightweight, and it shone just as brightly as silver. The goldsmith told the emperor that he made this metal from ordinary clay. He also assured the ruler that the means of obtaining this metal from clay was known only to him and the gods. The emperor was intrigued by the craftsman’s words, and the financial side of the matter did not concern him much. But soon he was struck by the thought that if people master the production of this bright metal from ordinary clay, all the stores of gold and silver in his treasure trove would instantly become worthless. Therefore, instead of the expected reward, the craftsman lost his head.”
L’affaire “Roswell” du Royaume-Uni : Un OVNI repéré dans la forêt de Rendlesham confirme bien la réalité du phénomène
L’affaire “Roswell” du Royaume-Uni : Un OVNI repéré dans la forêt de Rendlesham confirme bien la réalité du phénomène
Les chasseurs d’OVNI sont retournés dans le plus grand foyer extraterrestre du Royaume-Uni et ont découvert que les extraterrestres ciblent encore le site, selon des chercheurs dans le paranormal.
Le 26 décembre 1980, une patrouille autour de la RAF Woodbridge a signalé avoir vu des lumières qui semblaient se poser près de la forêt Rendlesham.
Ils se sont précipités sur le site, pensant qu’il s’agissait peut-être d’un avion humain écrasé, mais ils ont prétendu avoir trouvé un objet métallique rond et brillant avec une lumière colorée qui faisait peur aux animaux dans une ferme voisine.
Aujourd’hui, les enquêteurs paranormaux sont retournés sur les lieux du crime et ont repéré des activités plus étranges dans un endroit surnommé le Roswell du Royaume-Uni.
Au cours des 8 et 9 octobre, un groupe connu sous le nom de Ghostech Paranormal Investigationsa passé du temps dans la forêt de Rendlesham à la recherche d’activités extraterrestres.
À leur grande surprise, ils ont repéré ce qu’ils croyaient être des ovnis et ont même obtenu des images.
Jeff Young, enquêteur principal de Ghostech Paranormal Investigations, a déclaré à express.co.uk que les talkies-walkies ne fonctionnaient plus et que “pas un seul oiseau, écureuil, hibou, pas un seul animal sauvage” n’avait été vu pendant leur enquête, alors que les lumières d’un OVNI étaient visibles de loin.
M. Young a dit : “Le premier soir, nous avons réussi non seulement à voir les lumières par nous-mêmes, mais nous les avons aussi filmées.”
“Nous étions les seules personnes dans la forêt et nous avons dû marcher 5 kilomètres à travers la forêt pour atteindre l’endroit, il n’y a donc pas de routes ou toute autre explication pour ce que nous avions vu.”
“Sachant où nous avions vu les ovnis se déplacer à l’intérieur de l’arbre, la deuxième nuit, nous avons placé nos caméras face à ces zones, mais cette fois-ci j’ai marché un kilomètre vers le côté opposé pour pouvoir observer toute la zone ainsi que mon équipe se trouvant sur le site d’atterrissage afin que nous puissions mieux voir ces objets.”
“Cette fois, nous avons tous vu les ovnis se déplacer à travers l’arbre et nous les avons à nouveau capturés sur pellicule, mais cette fois-ci beaucoup plus clairement qu’auparavant.”
À ce stade, M. Young dit que des hélicoptères Apache planaient au-dessus des enquêteurs, qui semblaient suivre les lumières vives de la forêt.
Il a poursuivi : “Alors que nous observions les ovnis, un hélicoptère Apache Longbow est apparu au-dessus de moi, et il s’est ensuite dirigé vers l’endroit où le reste de mon équipe se trouvait sur le site d’atterrissage, l’hélicoptère nous a encerclés plusieurs fois, puis un autre l’a rejoint et un troisième a suivi.”
L’équipe Ghostech Paranormal Investigations
(Image : GHOSTECH PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS)
“On s’est alors rendu compte qu’ils suivaient aussi ces OVNIs ainsi que nous avec nos caméras.”
L’équipe a alors décidé de quitter la forêt car elle craignait d’être persécutée et de voir leurs preuves confisquées.
Après l’incident initial de la forêt de Rendlesham en 1980, les recrues de l’armée sont retournées sur les lieux le lendemain matin et ont trouvé un certain nombre de traces triangulaires sur le sol.
Un témoin de l’événement, l’officier à la retraite de l’armée de l’air américaine Steve Longero, a déclaré en Décembre 2016 : “Je pense que ce n’était pas quelque chose de ce monde.”
Il a dit de l’objet trouvé dans les bois : “D’après ce dont je me souviens, c’était comme une lueur rougeâtre, verdâtre, elle brillait vraiment comme une lumière rougeâtre.”
“Elle brillait vraiment, comme si quelque chose était vraiment chaud et qu’elle brillait.”
Il a également rappelé comment l’objet a disparu. Il a ajouté : “Au fur et à mesure que les gens se sont approchés de cette chose, elle s’approchait un peu plus de nous, puis elle s’est mise à aller de l’avant, puis vers l’arrière et tout à coup elle a disparu, comme dans Star Trek, c’était comme une vitesse de distorsion et nous étions tous là en mode ‘quoi?'”.
Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid
Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid
The mystery of ’Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed, continues to deepen. A new analysis argues that if it were a comet, it would have broken apart as it passed near the sun.
The interstellar object ’Oumuamua raced through the solar system a year ago. Astronomers continue to argue about what it is made of.
Like a hit-and-run driver who races from the scene of a crash, the interstellar guest known as ’Oumuamua has bolted out of the solar system, leaving confusion in its wake. Early measurements seemed to indicate that it was an asteroid — a dry rock much like those found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Then by this past summer, astronomers largely came around to the conclusion that it was instead a comet — an icy body knocked out of the distant reaches of a far-off planetary system.
Now a new analysis has found inconsistencies in this conclusion, suggesting that ’Oumuamua may not be a comet after all. Whether it’s actually a comet or an asteroid, one thing is clear: ’Oumuamua is not quite like anything seen before.
The object was first spotted a year ago by scientists with the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii. ’Oumuamua (a Hawaiian word meaning “scout”) appeared to be a rocky, elongated asteroid at first, a stubby cosmic cigar.
Other astronomers quickly joined in the hunt, measuring everything they could. (One team even trained radio telescopes on it to check whether it might be transmitting extraterrestrial broadcasts. It was not.) By last December, a team of astronomers published ’Oumuamua’s electromagnetic spectra, which can be used to probe what an object is made of. The researchers found that ices with organic material similar to those seen in comets in our solar system lurked just below ’Oumuamua’s surface; that ice could have survived a long interstellar journey.
They also looked at ’Oumuamua’s rotation. Many asteroids tend to spin around their long axis like an expertly thrown football. ’Oumuamua, by contrast, tumbled like an errant pass by Charlie Brown.
VIDEO: An animation of ’Oumuamua’s journey through the solar system.
ESO
A few months later, another collaboration found that ’Oumuamua wasn’t just being pulled by the sun’s gravity. Instead, it was being slightly accelerated by an unseen force, which they argued could only be attributed to comet “outgassing” acting like a thruster. With this additional information, the case appeared to be closed. “Interstellar asteroid is really a comet,” read the headline of a press release put out by the European Space Agency.
The explanation seemed to fit with what we know about our own solar system. In the distant reaches beyond Neptune, countless comets orbit our sun. Anytime one of these comets gets too close to a planet, it could be ejected out into the galaxy. In contrast, there are far fewer asteroids in the asteroid belt, and they orbit closer to the sun, where they’re harder to knock into interstellar space. “There are more comets, and it’s easier to fling them away from a planetary system,” said Ann-Marie Madigan, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado, Boulder. “For the first interstellar traveler that we see in our solar system, for that to be an asteroid, would be shocking.”
Yet comets have tails. And ’Oumuamua, if it was indeed made out of icy rock and propelled by jets of gas as it passed by the sun, should have displayed a tail that would settle the question of its origin. Yet no tail was ever found.
Now in a new study that is currently under peer review, Roman Rafikov, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge, argues that the same forces that appeared to have accelerated ’Oumuamua — the same forces that should have also produced a tail — would have also affected its spin. In particular, the acceleration would have torqued ’Oumuamua to such a degree that it would have spun apart, breaking up into smaller pieces. If ’Oumuamua were a comet, he argues, it would not have survived.
“There’s very strong and unequivocal evidence on both sides,” said Rafikov. “If it’s an asteroid, then it’s really unusual, with exotic scenarios for its formation.” He proposed such a scenario earlier this year, whereby an ordinary star dies, forming a white dwarf, and in the process rips apart a planet and launches the shards clear across the galaxy. ’Oumuamua is one of those shards. “Basically, it’s a messenger from a dead star,” he said.
In part to help resolve the impasse, researchers have tried to identify the star system where ’Oumuamua originated by combing through the newly released data troves of the Gaia space telescope. Perhaps it came from a binary star system, or a system with a giant planet, either of which could have launched the object into interstellar space.
’Oumuamua’s path through the solar system. Distances of the closest passage between ’Oumuamua and other objects are measured in astronomical units (AU); 1 AU is the distance between Earth and the sun.
But of all the possible candidate star systems, none provided a match. ’Oumuamua’s trajectory was at least two light-years away from all the candidates anyway — too far for them to be its source. And if ’Oumuamua got launched hundreds of millions of years ago, all the local stars will have shifted quite a bit since then. “It’s unlikely you’d ever be able to track it back to a single individual parent system, which is a shame, but it’s just the way things are,” said Alan Jackson, an astronomer at the University of Toronto.
Ultimately the transient nature of the observations has frustrated astronomers’ ability to solve the mystery of our first interstellar guest. “We had only a few weeks, with almost no planning, to make the observations,” said Matthew Knight, an astronomer at the University of Maryland. “Everybody’s trying to wring out every last bit of information they can from what data we were able to collect as a community.” Had ’Oumuamua been spotted earlier, or had Hurricane Maria not taken Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory out of action, astronomers would have more to go on.
One takeaway for a number of astronomers is that space rocks don’t necessarily fit into one of two wholly separate categories. “There’s much more of a gradation between what’s a comet and what’s an asteroid,” said Michele Bannister, an astronomer at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland. “I feel like we’re fighting over an unnecessary binary here.”
And although ’Oumuamua was the first visitor from outside the solar system, astronomers will soon have more to puzzle over. Estimates are that the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, scheduled for “first light” in 2021 in Chile, could find as many as one such object every year for a decade.
“What I hope ’Oumuamua brings home is that planetary systems grow and evolve. They create trillions of little planetesimals throughout the galaxy, and some of those will come and visit us every once and a while,” Bannister said. “Our planetesimals are no doubt visiting other stars.”
Black Knight Satellite (Dark Knight) - de UFO die over ons waakt ( of ons in de gaten houdt?)
Black Knight Satellite (Dark Knight) - de UFO die over ons waakt ( of ons in de gaten houdt?)
De geschiedenis van de Black Knight Satellite, een object dat rond onze planeet cirkelt in een polaire baan, zou niet zo controversieel mogen zijn. De polaire baan is een baan die in de tegenovergestelde richting ligt van degene die onze planeet op natuurlijke wijze roteert. Deze polaire baan wordt gebruikt voor toezicht en noch de Verenigde Staten noch Rusland hadden de technologische mogelijkheid om satellieten in die baan en op die hoogte te brengen toen de Black Knight Satellite (vermoedelijk) in 1954 voor het eerst werd ontdekt.
Momenteel op de NASA-site:
Op 7 september 1958 werd de eerste Black Knight Missile uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk gelanceerd vanuit het AustralischeWoomera en bereikte het een hoogte van meer dan 300 mijl; de tweede Black Knight Satellite wordt beschreven als een Britse satelliet die in 1959 op 12 maart ook in Australië werd gelanceerd en 350 voet hoogte heeft bereikt en een gewicht van 1000 pond had.
Op 28 februari 1959 werd de 1450-pond ARPA Discoverer I-satelliet met succes in een polaire baan gebracht door de USAF Thor-Agena A Booster van de Pacific Missile Range; maar stabilisatieproblemen maakte het moeilijk om de overname te volgen.
Op 20 februari 1962 maakte de Amerikaanse astronaut, John Glenn,met succes een baan rond de aarde in de missie van Friendship 7 en werd zo de eerste Amerikaan in de ruimte. Hij was de vijfde persoon in de ruimte na de voorgaande 4 astronauten uit Rusland., die hem vooraf gingen.
Geen enkele van de rapporten op de NASA-website geeft enige geloofwaardigheid dat deze Black Knight-satelliet verbonden kan worden met één van hun verkenningsactiviteiten in de ruimte, noch van die van Rusland en noch aan die van de Verenigde Staten uit die periode. De Black Knight Satellite weegt duidelijk veel meer dan 1000 pond en is veel groter. De meeste personenauto's wegen meer dan dat. We zijn er bijna 100% zeker van dat in 1958 geen enkel land de technologische mogelijkheid bezat om meer dan een paar honderd pond te lanceren en in een baan om de aarde te brengen en zeker niet in een polaire baan. De geschiedenis vertelt ons dat.
En dan zwijgen we nog van al die ruimteafval die we actueel terugvinden in een baan rond de aarde (meer dan 20.000 stukken). En toch is deze bijzondere satelliet er in geslaagd om niet te worden beschadigd door botsingen met dit rondzwervend ruimte afval, noch beschadigd door andere natuurlijke verschijnselen in de ruimte, zoals meteoren, zonnevlammen, ed.
Grumman Aircraft Corporation zou naar verluidt op 3 september 1960 met behulp van een trackingcamera een foto hebben gemaakt van de Black Knight in een baan rond de aarde. Ik vind wel heel toevallige gelijkenissen met de Grumman F-14 Tomcat en de afbeeldingen van de Black Knight terug gevonden op het internet. De eerste vlucht van de F-14 Tomcat was in 1970 en hij ging met pensioen in 2006.
Grumman F-14 Tomcat tijdens de vlucht
Astronauten aan boord van Space Shuttle Endeavour namen in 1998 naar verluidt satellietfoto's van de Black Knight en deze foto's circuleren nog steeds op het internet met de uitleg dat het hier gaat om ruimtepuin van een vorige missie. Het was een afgebroken brokstuk dat daar bleef rondzwerven.
In 1954 beweerde de UFO-onderzoeker en gepensioneerde commandant van de luchtvaart Donald Keyhoe, in verschillende kranten, dat het object van de US Air Force zelf was. Hij had twee satellieten ontdekt die rond de maan in de buurt van de aarde cirkelden. Later trok hij zijn verklaringen terug in.
Naar aanleiding van deze verklaringen, analyseerde de auteur, Duncan Lunan, de herhaaldelijke radiosignalen die Nikola Tesla tijdens zijn radio-experimenten in 1899 had gehoord, en ook de lange echo's van onbekende oorsprong in 1928 verzameld door de amateur radio-operator, Jorgen Hals, Oslo uit Noorwegen. Hij beweerde dat de signalen kwamen van een buitenaardse sonde die sinds ongeveer 13.000 jaar geleden in een baan rond onze maan draaide. Deze sonde, zei hij, is voortgekomen van een ster uit het zonnestelsel Epsilon Bootis. Lunan trok later zijn verklaring in en beweerde dat hij rekenfouten had gemaakt toen hij de signalen decodeerde.
Afbeelding van 2018
Jij zal deze foto's , in1998 op internet geplaatst, zeker ook al gezien hebben. Ik heb er vaak over nagedacht. De eerste keer dat ik die foto's zag, herinnerde deze mij aan de film Spaceballs. Het lijkt op Harry's vacuümschip, maar het mist wat stukken.
Het idee om zo'n duister en sinister object te benaderen in de geïsoleerde grenzen van de onmetelijkheid van de volledig onbekende ruimte beangstigt me een beetje. Indien dit echt al meer dan 13.000 jaar toertjes draait rond onze planeet, wie heeft dat daar geplaatst? Er kan misschien wel het lichaam van een overleden man of zelfs een vrouw binnen in zitten hebben... Desondanks denk ik nog steeds dat het niets meer is dan een afleiding is voor ons. Zo niet, dan zou er een duidelijke, betere en beknopte verklaring voor zijn.
Ik denk dat regeringen zich voorbereid hebben en ingecalculeerd om mensen te verliezen tijdens ruimtemissies en dat sinds het begin van de bemande ruimtevaart in de jaren 1950. Het is altijd een mogelijkheid geweest. Ik denk dat de NASA van "nature" vele onverklaarbare gebeurtenissen veroorzaakt heeft die wij als ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten beschouwen. Zeker omdat alle regeringen nog steeds geheimen verbergen voor hun burgers.
In 2018 kijken we naar de hemel, net zoals Nostradamus en Galileo, anderen vóór hen deden. Niet in de wereld om ons heen.
En blijft het voor ons geen droom, geen ultiem verlangen om eens andere intelligente wezens uit het heelal te ontmoeten?
The witness was vacationing in Lake Tahoe when he unknowingly filmed this UFO. The UFO passes at an amazing speed from the right to the left of the screen.
Ruimtesonde Hayabusa2 oefent afdaling naar oppervlak van planetoïde Ryugu
Ruimtesonde Hayabusa2 oefent afdaling naar oppervlak van planetoïde Ryugu
Caroline Kraaijvanger
En daar zijn beelden van!
Eigenlijk had ruimtesonde Hayabusa2 deze maand al af moeten dalen naar het oppervlak van Ryugu om aldaar wat monsters te verzamelen. Maar zoals je eerder op Scientias.nl kon lezen, durfde de Japanse ruimtevaartorganisatie (JAXA) zo’n afdaling nog niet aan; Ryugu is namelijk rijkelijk bedekt met voor Hayabusa2 gevaarlijke kiezels. De touchdown is dan ook uitgesteld naar januari 2019. Het geeft JAXA wat meer tijd om de afdaling voor te bereiden én te oefenen. Want zoals we eerder meldden, zouden er in oktober al twee generale repetities plaatsvinden.
Generale repetitie En JAXA heeft woord gehouden. Beide generale repetities zijn achter de rug en goed verlopen. En wat nog mooier is: er zijn beelden van!
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Dropping down…! Sequential images taken during the approach to Ryugu in our second touchdown rehearsal, TD1-R1-A.
Hierboven zie je beelden die tijdens de tweede generale repetitie zijn gemaakt. Ruimtesonde Hayabusa2 naderde het oppervlak van Ryugu tijdens deze generale repetitie tot een afstand van slechts 22,3 meter(!).
Landingsplaatsje Op de beelden die Hayabusa2 tijdens de afdaling maakte, is ook de tot op heden meest veelbelovende landingsplaats op Ryugu te zien. Deze landingsplaats wordt door de Japanners aangeduid als L08-B. Zoals je op de foto hieronder kunt zien, is dit één van de weinige gebieden waarin vrijwel geen grote kiezels te vinden zijn. En dat is belangrijk; JAXA wil voorkomen dat Hayabusa2 tijdens de afdaling en bemonstering per ongeluk een kei raakt en beschadigd raakt. Het liefst had JAXA daarom een 100 meter groot landingsgebied zonder grote kiezels gehad, maar dat is op heel Ryugu niet te vinden. En daarom zullen we het met dit slechts 20 meter brede landingsplaatsje moeten doen.
Een deel van het gebied waarin Hayabusa2 straks monsters moet verzamelen, is op deze foto te zien.
Afbeelding: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST.
De afdaling naar het oppervlak wordt hoe dan ook uitdagend, zo benadrukt JAXA keer op keer. Want hoewel L08-B vrij is van grote kiezels, zijn er in de omgeving wel vrij grote keien te vinden die ontweken moeten worden.
Tijdens de generale repetities heeft JAXA een schat aan informatie verzameld. Een analyse van die informatie moet in januari bijdragen aan een geslaagde touchdown.
Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST
Kepler heeft minder potentieel leefbare exoplaneten ontdekt, dan gedacht
Kepler heeft minder potentieel leefbare exoplaneten ontdekt, dan gedacht
Caroline Kraaijvanger
We dachten 30 planeten in de leefbare zone ontdekt te hebben, maar misschien zijn het er in werkelijkheid maar twee.
Dat blijkt uit een analyse van de Kepler-data, uitgevoerd in het licht van de Gaia-missie.
Gaia en Kepler De Gaia-satelliet werd in 2013 gelanceerd en heeft in de afgelopen jaren onder meer de helderheid en positie van ongeveer 1,7 miljard(!) sterren vastgesteld. En uit dat onderzoek rolt een opmerkelijke conclusie: veel van de sterren die ons reeds bekend waren, blijken – afgaand op de metingen van Gaia – veel helderder en groter te zijn dan we dachten. En dat heeft ook implicaties voor de planeten die ruimtetelescoop Kepler rond deze sterren heeft ontdekt.
Hoe zit dat precies? Kepler ontdekt nieuwe planeten door langdurig naar sterren te turen, in de hoop dat de helderheid van die sterren regelmatig enigszins afneemt. Zo’n afname kan namelijk veroorzaakt worden doordat een planeet voor de ster langs beweegt en tijdelijk een deel van het sterlicht tegenhoudt. Zodra Kepler op deze manier de aanwezigheid van een planeet heeft vastgesteld, willen onderzoekers natuurlijk graag weten hoe groot de planeet is. Dat leiden ze dan weer af uit de afname van de helderheid van de ster. Want als je een idee hebt van hoe helder en groot een ster is, kun je uit de afname van de helderheid ook weer afleiden hoe groot die planeet ongeveer moet zijn om zoveel sterlicht tegen te kunnen houden.
Leefbare zone Kepler heeft op deze manier al duizenden planeten ontdekt. Daar zitten grote jongens tussen – gasreuzen bijvoorbeeld – maar ook kleine, rotsachtige planeten en superaardes. Maar nu blijkt uit de Gaia-data dus dat we de helderheid en omvang van sterren onderschat hebben; sterren zijn in veel gevallen veel helderder en groter dan gedacht. En dat betekent dat veel van de door Kepler ontdekte planeten ook veel groter moeten zijn, om de afnames in helderheid te kunnen verklaren. Het heeft onder meer gevolgen voor die klasse planeten die onderzoekers doorgaans het meest interessant vinden: de kleine, rotsachtige planeten in de leefbare zone van een ster (zie kader).
De leefbare zone is een denkbeeldige zone rond een ster. Planeten die zich in die zone bevinden, ontvangen voldoende warmte van de ster om te voorkomen dat eventueel water op hun oppervlak bevriest. Tegelijkertijd ontvangen ze ook weer niet zoveel warmte dat eventueel water op hun oppervlak verdampt. Kortom: van planeten in deze zone wordt verwacht dat ze vloeibaar water kunnen herbergen.
Tot op heden heeft Kepler zo’n 30 kleine, rotsachtige planeten in de leefbare zone rond een ster ontdekt. Tenminste: dat dachten we. Want afgaand op wat Gaia ons leert, vermoeden onderzoekers nu dat veel van die planeten in werkelijkheid rond grotere en heldere sterren cirkelen – wat gevolgen heeft voor de locatie van de leefbare zone – en zelf ook wat groter zijn dan gedacht. Rekening houdend met wat Gaia tot op heden over de moedersterren van deze potentieel leefbare exoplaneten heeft onthuld, denken onderzoekers dat in werkelijkheid veel minder van deze planeten leefbaar kunnen zijn. In plaats van dertig, zouden ons mogelijk maar tussen de 2 en 12 rotsachtige exoplaneten in een leefbare zone bekend zijn.
Meer onderzoek Maar: onderzoekers houden een beetje een slag om de arm. Want eigenlijk is er nog veel meer data nodig – onder meer over het verband tussen de omvang en samenstelling van een planeet – om harde conclusies te kunnen trekken. “We zijn nog steeds bezig om uit te zoeken hoe groot een rotsachtige planeet kan zijn,” vertelt onderzoeker Jessie Dotson.
De nieuwe bevindingen lijken misschien wat teleurstellend: we hebben minder potentieel leefbare planeten ontdekt dan gedacht. Maar de onderzoekers wijzen erop dat ze er nog steeds van overtuigd zijn dat potentieel leefbare planeten een veelvoorkomend verschijnsel in ons universum zijn.
In de zomer van 1770 scheerde een komeet op een afstand van slechts twee miljoen kilometer langs de aarde. Maar niemand weet waar ‘ie sindsdien gebleven is.
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De Franse astronoom Charles Messier ontdekte de komeet Lexell op 14 juni 1770, in het sterrenbeeld Schutter. Een week later was de komeet met het blote oog te zien. En op 1 juli – toen de komeet het dichtst bij de aarde stond – was deze even helder als Sirius. Zijn coma – de nevelige gaswolk rond de kern van de komeet – was toen aan de hemel vijf maal zo groot als de volle maan. De komeet Lexell was de eerste en enige komeet die ooit zo dicht bij de aarde is waargenomen. En op 3 oktober verdween deze weer uit het zicht. Anno 2018 proberen astronomen nog steeds te achterhalen waar de komeet sindsdien is gebleven.
Radaropnamen van planetoïde 2010 JL33, gemaakt met NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar op 11 en 12 december 2010, toen deze planetoïde op 7 miljoen kilometer langs de aarde scheerde. Het rotsblok draait in 9,4 uur eenmaal om zijn as en zou de kern van komeet Lexell kunnen zijn.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
Kortperiodieke komeet Na het verdwijnen van de komeet vroegen astronomen zich af wat voor baan de komeet had beschreven. Zoals gebruikelijk werd eerst aan een paraboolbaan gedacht, omdat men toen nog geen enkele komeet met een ellipsbaan kende en de komeet zich blijkbaar voor het eerst had vertoond. Maar een paraboolbaan voldeed niet. De Fins-Zweedse wis- en sterrenkundige Anders Johan Lexell vond de oplossing. Hij probeerde andere baanvormen en ontdekt dat alleen een elliptische baan rond de zon met de waarnemingen overeenstemde. Het meest nabije punt (perihelium) van die baan lag volgens zijn berekeningen bij de baan van Venus en het verste punt (aphelium) nabij de baan van Jupiter. De omlooptijd bedroeg 5,6 jaar. De allereerste kortperiodieke komeet was gevonden.
Silhouetportret uit 1784 van Anders Johan Lexell (1740-1784), de Zweeds-Finse wis- en sterrenkundige die aantoonde dat de later naar hem genoemde komeet in een ellipsbaan om de zon draaide.
Afbeelding: Wikipedia.
Jupiter als komeetregelaar Maar ook deze oplossing leidde weer tot vragen. De komeet was in juli 1770 zeer helder geweest, dus waarom zou hij al niet tijdens een eerdere passage zijn waargenomen? Ook op deze vraag vond Lexell het antwoord. De komeet had aanvankelijk in een baan gedraaid die grotendeels buiten de baan van Jupiter lag, te ver om hem vanaf de aarde te kunnen zien. In 1767 leidde een passage op korte afstand van deze reuzenplaneet tot een drastische baanverandering. De komeet kwam toen in een kleinere baan met een omlooptijd van 5,6 jaar die hem drie jaar later dicht langs de aarde bracht en hem dus voor het eerst zichtbaar maakte. De passage langs de zon in maart 1776 bleef ongezien omdat de komeet toen, gezien vanaf de aarde, achter de zon stond. Maar in 1778 kwam Lexell met de waarschuwing dat de komeet zich misschien nooit meer zou vertonen. Doordat zijn omlooptijd de helft was van die van Jupiter, zou de komeet in augustus 1779 – na twee omlopen rond de zon – opnieuw zeer dicht langs Jupiter komen. Door de baanverandering die hiervan het gevolg zou zijn, kwam het perihelium ergens tussen de banen van Mars en Jupiter te liggen, ver weg van de zon zodat de komeet onzichtbaar bleef. Lexell kreeg gelijk, want ondanks naarstig zoeken was er in 1781 en 1782 geen spoor van de komeet te zien. En daarna ook niet, nooit meer. Andere astronomen bevestigden min of meer de bevindingen van Lexell. De komeet – die inmiddels de naam van Lexell had gekregen en niet die van zijn ontdekker – moest als verloren worden beschouwd.
William Robert Brooks (1844-1921), de Amerikaanse astronoom die in 1889 een komeet ontdekte waarvan even werd gedacht dat hij dezelfde was als komeet Lexell. Plaats en datum van de foto zijn onbekend.
Afbeelding: Smith Observatory Library.
Komeet 16P/Brooks onder de loep Toch bleef het lot van komeet Lexell astronomen intrigeren. Op 6 juli 1889 ontdekte de Amerikaanse astronoom William Robert Brooks komeet 1889d, ofwel 16P/Brooks. De komeet bleek in ongeveer zeven jaar rond de zon te draaien en was dus evenals komeet Lexell een lid van de Jupiter-kometenfamilie. De Amerikaanse astronoom Seth Carlo Chandler berekende dat de komeet voorheen in een heel andere baan om de zon had gedraaid, met het perihelium nabij de baan van Jupiter en het aphelium buiten de baan van Saturnus, waardoor de komeet nooit voor ons zichtbaar kon worden. Een zeer dichte nadering tot Jupiter in 1889, tot op een vergelijkbare afstand als komeet Lexell, had die baan echter ingrijpend veranderd en wel zodanig dat hij evenals komeet Lexell in de buurt van de aarde kon komen. Deze baanverandering zou volgens de berekeningen van Chandler hebben plaatsgevonden in dat deel van de baan van Jupiter waar ook komeet Lexell zich in augustus 1779 bevond. En wat het meest opvallende was: enkele belangrijke grootheden van zijn baan leken wel heel sterk op die van komeet Lexell. Dat bracht Chandler tot het ‘overweldigende vermoeden’ dat deze komeet dezelfde was als komeet Lexell. Helaas gooide zijn Amerikaanse collega Charles Lane Poor in 1905 roet in het eten. Zijn berekeningen na twee nieuwe verschijningen toonden aan dat komeet 16P/Brooks hoogstwaarschijnlijk niet dezelfde was als komeet Lexell. Bovendien wees Poor erop dat behalve overeenkomsten in banen ook overeenkomsten in fysische eigenschappen belangrijk zijn en die waren in dit geval niet te bepalen. Komeet Lexell bleef zoek.
De Pools-Russische astronome Elena Ivanova Kazimirchak-Polonskaya (1902-1993) in 1934. Volgens haar zou komeet Lexell nu in zo’n 280 jaar in een baan om de zon kunnen draaien.
Afbeelding: Wikipedia.
Transneptunische baan? In de jaren 1960 begon de Pools-Russische astronome Elena Ivanova Kazimirchak-Polonskaya, van het Instituut voor Theoretische Astronomie in Leningrad, de baanveranderingen van alle bekende kortperiodieke kometen te bestuderen. Elena simuleerde de veranderingen van de komeetbanen gedurende de periode 1660-2060 met een BESM-2, een vroege Sovjetcomputer die nog met vacuümbuizen werkte. Ze bestudeerde de belangrijke rol van de vier reuzenplaneten bij het veranderen van de baan, invangen en wegslingeren van kometen. In het kader van dit onderzoek werden ook de baanveranderingen van de verloren komeet Lexell bestudeerd, waarbij de invloed van alle planeten in rekening werd gebracht. Kazimirchak-Polonskaya vond dat de komeet vóór zijn eerste ontmoeting met Jupiter, in 1767, minstens een eeuw lang in een bijna cirkelvormige baan met een omlooptijd van tien jaar in de buurt van Jupiter om de zon had gedraaid. Na de tweede ontmoeting met Jupiter, in 1779, zou de komeet mogelijk in een elliptische baan op afstanden tussen 5 en 81 astronomische eenheden van de zon zijn gekomen, in een transneptunische baan die tot twee maal zo ver als Pluto reikte en een omlooptijd van 280 jaar had. Maar deze berekende waarden waren heel gevoelig voor zelfs heel kleine fouten in de oorspronkelijke positiemetingen. Het was daardoor ook mogelijk dat komeet Lexell via een hyperbolische baan het zonnestelsel had verlaten.
Grote kans op herontdekking? Amerikaanse astronomen hebben nu opnieuw de lotgevallen van komeet Lexell bestudeerd. Met behulp van geavanceerde computerprogramma’s berekenden Paul Wiegert, Quan-Zhi Ye en Man-To Hui de baan en baanveranderingen van komeet Lexell vanaf het moment dat hij in 1767 voor het eerst rakelings langs Jupiter kwam. Daarbij werd rekening gehouden met de aantrekkingskracht van de zon, het stelsel aarde-maan en de zeven andere planeten. Zij vonden dat er een kans van 98 procent is dat de komeet zich momenteel nog steeds ergens in de omgeving van de banen van Mars of de aarde ophoudt. Het perihelium zou zich in ieder geval een stuk binnen de baan van Jupiter moeten bevinden en misschien zelfs binnen de baan van de aarde. In tegenstelling tot wat voorheen werd gedacht, zou er dus toch nog een (grote) kans zijn dat komeet Lexell zich een keer in onze buurt vertoont. Uitgaande van de schijnbare helderheid van de komeet tijdens zijn verschijning van 1770 berekenden de drie astronomen dat zijn absolute helderheid eertijds vier maal zo groot was als die van komeet Halley. Lexell behoorde daarmee tot de helderste ‘aardscherende’ kometen. De afmetingen van de kern van de komeet zou tussen de 4 en 22 kilometer liggen, waarmee Lexell tevens een van de grootste kometen was die zich in de buurt van de aarde heeft vertoond.
Jupiter met zijn Grote Rode Vlek, gefotografeerd in april 2014 met de Hubble Space Telescope. Deze reuzenplaneet heeft er voor gezorgd dat komeet Lexell zich één keer in de buurt van de aarde vertoonde.
Afbeelding: NASA, ESA, A.Simon.
Lexell als planetoïde? Als komeet Lexell zich inderdaad ergens binnen de baan van Jupiter verschuilt maar inmiddels inactief is geworden, zou hij zich als een dode komeet of een planetoïde kunnen voordoen. Misschien is hij zelfs al gefotografeerd in het kader van programma’s waarmee objecten in de omgeving van de aarde worden opgespoord. Om daar achter te komen hebben Wiegert en collega’s de banen van NEO’s (Near Earth Objects) groter dan één kilometer onder de loep genomen en die teruggerekend naar 1770, het jaar waarin komeet Lexell langs de aarde kwam. Er werd één planetoïde gevonden waarvan de baan in 1770 heel veel leek op die van Lexell. Dat was 2010 JL33, een 1800 meter grote planetoïde die tussen Jupiter en Venus om de zon draait. Maar helaas blijkt die planetoïde toen niet op hetzelfde moment als komeet Lexell langs de aarde te zijn gekomen. Dit verschil kan veroorzaakt zijn door enkele nauwe passages langs Jupiter in de afgelopen tweehonderd jaar. Ander effecten die misschien een rol hebben gespeeld zijn de niet-gravitationele krachten die op de planetoïde kunnen werken. Dat zijn krachten die onder invloed van het zonlicht optreden en weliswaar heel zwak zijn, maar op lange termijn toch een niet te verwaarlozen invloed op de baan hebben. Ook dit effect hebben Wiegert en collega’s bestudeerd en na heel veel uitproberen vinden zij dat zulke krachten het tijdsverschil inderdaad kunnen verkleinen. Helemaal wegwerken lukt echter niet. De astronomen concluderen in hun artikel in het aprilnummer (2018) van de Astronomical Journal dat planetoïde 2010 JL33 en komeet Lexell hetzelfde object zouden kunnen zijn, maar dat de overeenkomst nog ‘verre van overtuigend’ is. Komeet Lexell is dus nog steeds niet teruggevonden, net zomin als de zeventien andere kometen die sinds Lexell spoorloos zijn verdwenen.
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Zo lees je in het novembernummer bijvoorbeeld alles over de spectroscoop, een bijzonder instrument dat niet meer weg te denken is binnen de moderne sterrenkunde. Verder: de ALMA-telescoop opent een nieuw venster naar het heelal, alles over komeet Wirtanen die eind dit jaar met het blote oog aan de hemel te zien zal zijn, en hoe je zandlawines op andere planeten kunt bestuderen in een centrifuge.
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Mars Express heeft een vreemde wolk gespot op de rode planeet.
De onbemande ruimtesonde Mars Express heeft wel een hele mysterieuze pluim gespot op de rode planeet. Zo is de sonde al ruim een maand in de ban van een langgerekte wolk, die rond de 20 kilometer hoge Arsia Mons-vulkaan zweeft.
Vulkaan De locatie doet wellicht vermoeden dat het eigenaardige verschijnsel te maken heeft met vulkanische activiteit. Maar toch zijn de onderzoekers er vrij zeker dat dit niet het geval is; zo hebben wetenschappers nog nooit enige vorm van vulkanische activiteit op Mars ontdekt. Nee, de onderzoekers neigen eerder naar een waterijswolk. Zo is het bekend dat aan weerszijden van de zuidwestelijke flank van de Arsia Mons-vulkaan een seizoensgebonden, terugkerende wolk bestaande uit waterijs ontstaat. Deze is ook eerder waargenomen in 2009, 2012 en 2015. En dit is – helaas – een doodnormaal meteorologisch fenomeen op de rode planeet.
De langgerekte wolkenpluim op de rode planeet.
Afbeelding: ESA
Wolk De foto hierboven is genomen met de Visuele Monitoring Camera (VMC) van de Mars Express. De sonde heeft de wolk de afgelopen weken wel honderden keren afgebeeld. De witte, langwerpige pluim strekt zich uit over zo’n 1500 kilometer ten westen van de Arsia Mons vulkaan, die zich dichtbij de evenaar van de planeet bevindt. Ter vergelijking: de kegelvormige vulkaan heeft een diameter van zo’n 250 kilometer.
Groot De waterijswolk verandert gedurende de Martiaanse dag meerdere keren van uiterlijk. Zo groeit de wolk immens in lengte tijdens de ochtend, aangespoord door een wind die langs de vulkaan raast. Hierdoor loopt de wolkpluim bijna evenwijdig aan de evenaar en bereikt zo’n indrukwekkende grootte, dat deze zelfs voor telescopen op aarde zichtbaar kan zijn.
De vorming van waterijswolken is gevoelig voor de hoeveelheid stof die in de atmosfeer aanwezig is. En aangezien er in juni en juli een enorme stofstorm op de rode planeet woedde, kunnen de beelden belangrijke informatie opleveren over het effect van stof op de ontwikkeling van de wolken, en de variabiliteit ervan gedurende het jaar.
NASA fotografeert een perfect rechthoekige ijsberg
NASA fotografeert een perfect rechthoekige ijsberg
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Moeder Natuur kan een strak lijnenspel blijkbaar ook wel waarderen.
De prachtige foto is gemaakt tijdens NASA’s IceBridge-project. Tijdens dit onderzoeksproject worden de Antarctische en Arctische gebieden elk jaar vanuit de lucht geobserveerd. Door de beelden en metingen naast elkaar te leggen, kunnen we zien hoe de ijskappen, ijsplaten en zee-ijs zich door de jaren heen ontwikkelen.
From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: A tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf. The iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf.
De rechthoekige ijsberg werd gekiekt tussen het zee-ijs dat voor de Larsen C-ijsplaat dobbert. Wellicht doet die ijsberg een belletje rinkelen? De ijsplaat haalde vorig jaar alle kranten, doordat deze een gigantische ijsberg baarde en in één klap 10% van zijn massa kwijtraakte. De scherpe randen van de ijsberg die nu voor de Larsen C-ijsplaat dobbert, wijzen erop dat deze eveneens – maar dan veel recenter – van de ijsplaat is losgekomen.
Afkalven IJsplaten zijn eigenlijk niets anders dan gletsjertongen die op het water drijven. Doordat de achterliggende gletsjer ijs richting zee duwt, zou je verwachten dat zo’n ijsplaat alleen maar groter wordt. De praktijk is echter anders; er ontstaan met name aan de rand van de ijsplaat – waar het ijs dun is – scheuren. En die scheuren monden uiteindelijk uit in het loskomen van ijsbergen. Bij ijsbergen denk je in eerste instantie misschien aan een hoge, onregelmatig gevormde berg ijs. Maar ijsbergen die loskomen van een platte ijsplaat zien er vanzelfsprekend heel anders uit: ze zijn plat. En vaak hebben ze ook redelijk rechte randen, omdat de scheuren die in een ijsplaat ontstaan vaak redelijk recht lopen. Maar de ijsberg die nu voor de Larsen C-ijsplaat is gespot, is – voor zover we dat op deze luchtfoto kunnen zien – wel heel strak afgekalfd.
Zo strak blijft de ijsberg niet; nu deze los is gekomen van de Larsen C-ijsplaat zijn alle randen blootgesteld aan wind en golvend water. Het lijkt dan ook een kwestie van tijd voor het strakke lijnenspel door die nietsontziende eroderende krachten wordt aangetast.
Satellietbeelden van geheimzinnige legerbasis bij Area 51 acht jaar niet bijgewerkt. Wat hebben ze te verbergen?
Satellietbeelden van geheimzinnige legerbasis bij Area 51 acht jaar niet bijgewerkt. Wat hebben ze te verbergen?
Lange tijd was Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, een geheimzinnige legerbasis, te zien op Google Maps, maar de beelden van het gebied werden acht jaar lang niet bijgewerkt.
Twee mensen besloten satellietbeelden van de locatie te kopen omdat ze vermoedden dat er sprake was van censuur.
Ze vroegen Google waarom de beelden al jaren niet zijn bijgewerkt.
Schrijver Brendan Byrne en ingenieur Dhruve Mehrotra vroegen de internetreus ook of zij met de Amerikaanse overheid heeft afgesproken om dit gebied niet meer te laten zien op Google Maps.
Onduidelijk
Volgens een woordvoerder van Google is de basis in Nevada niet gecensureerd, maar ‘was er simpelweg geen interesse in het gebied’.
Het tweetal mocht de beelden voor 1984 dollar leasen van een bedrijf dat Apollo Mapping heet. Ze mogen de satellietbeelden niet openlijk tonen en dus is niet duidelijk wat erop te zien is.
Opvallend is dat Google het gebied nu opeens wel heeft bijgewerkt, met beelden uit 2017.
Kopen
De legerbasis bevindt zich op ruim 100 kilometer van Area 51, een basis die in verband wordt gebracht met UFO-waarnemingen en aliens, en er worden naar verluidt diverse wapens en vliegtuigen getest.
Ook zou het eerste Amerikaanse stealthvliegtuig er zijn ontwikkeld.
Zelfs Google moet geregeld beelden van legerbases kopen van satellietbedrijven, merken Byrne en Mehrotra op.
History is full of various aviation mysteries that have gone unsolved. There are dozens upon dozens of cases of planes shooting up into the skies only to come back with fantastic stories of weirdness, or conversely to never come back at all. From missing flights like that of Amelia Earhart to encounters with UFOs, vanished aircraft over the Bermuda Triangle, and more, the skies have always been a mysterious place to venture into, with numerous unsolved mysteries to be found here among the clouds. One very odd case of an aviation mystery is a flight that supposedly disappeared into nothingness, only to reappear decades later halfway across the world with nothing but riddles and strange clues.
A very odd account was written of in an issue of the Weekly World News magazine on November 14, 1989 by a journalist named Irwin Fisher, and although the name of the magazine should be sending alarm bells ringing, the tale that it told has gone on to be an oft-discussed oddity. The whole story supposedly centers on an airliner, Santiago Flight 513, which was a Lockheed Super Constellation that was carrying 88 passengers and 4 crew members when it embarked on a flight from Aachen, Germany on September 4, 1954 on what was to be a routine flight to Chile. However, this was all to apparently become far from routine, and the plane went on to completely vanish without a trace somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, flying off into nothingness and legend. Despite an intensive search, no wreckage was ever found, and the flight was considered simply lost at sea, with all on board officially considered dead.
That is far from the end of the story, and according to the article decades later, on October 12, 1989, a plane came in out of the blue over Port Alegre, Brazil, where it proceeded to circle the airport several times before coming in for a landing and then simply sitting there on the tarmac. Throughout the whole surreal scene there was apparently no successful communications between air traffic control and the pilots of the mysterious craft, just a wall of quiet, so a team was put together by airport personnel to approach the idling plane that was crouched out there on the runway in total radio silence.
When the team warily approached the dormant aircraft, which sat there almost as if a beast ready to pounce, they pried the doors open, and at that point probably no one there had the slightest idea of the horror show that was awaiting them within that dim vessel. According to the tale, within the cramped confines of that aircraft there was not a single living person on board, but rather the macabre sight of every single passenger and crew member sitting there as skeletons, their empty eye sockets staring off into the abyss of whatever they had seen. Even the pilot, Captain Miguel Victor Cury, was a skeleton, his desiccated fleshless fingers still gripping the controls tight, and leaving everyone to wonder just how the plane had managed to land in the first place. Through this all, the planes perfectly working engines were still idling away, completely ignorant to the fact that 35 years had passed since the doomed aircraft had left its destination.
Upon this grim discovery, the airport officials apparently went about totally covering the whole thing up, and there was quite a bit of debate on what was going on. One researcher named Dr. Celso Atello has said that the case demonstrated a clear case of a portal or wormhole of some sort, saying that Flight 513 had “almost certainly entered a time warp, there is no other explanation.” According to the reports, the only thing the Brazilian government was willing to concede was that the flight had appeared out of nowhere and landed safely, but other than that it has refused to offer any further explanation or speculation. Retired physics professor Roderigo de Manha chimed in on this lack of transparency, complaining that the government had a duty to share what it had learned in the investigation, saying:
The public has a right to know everything about this plane and the government has a duty to tell them. If this plane did enter a time warp and there is evidence to prove it, the entire world should be told. Something like this could change the way we view our world and alter science as we know it. It is crime to keep information like this secret, especially from the relatives of the people who perished on Santiago Airlines Flight 513.
In the meantime, the Brazilian government has refused to offer up any more information of the case, and it has subsequently been left open to discussion and debate. Of course considering the source of this story and its spectacular nature there has been quite a bit of skepticism pointed its way, saying that it is all merely a clever urban legend and hoax, but what if it isn’t? Is there any truth to this tale at all, and if so what was going on here? How could a plane vanish and then reappear decades later, good as new, only to make a perfect landing while all of its occupants were skeletons? While this is most likely a good old-fashioned journalistic yarn, it is certainly curious nevertheless, and it joins the many aviation mysteries that have come before it.
Europa has been thought to have water vapor plumes similar to those on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. But new research shows Europa’s plumes differ significantly from those on Enceladus – or, perhaps – don’t really exist at all.
Artist’s concept of a water vapor plume on Europa. New research shows that, if they do exist, Europa’s plumes aren’t as dynamic as those on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
Does Jupiter’s moon Europa have water vapor plumes? A growing body of evidence in the last few years suggests the answer is yes, but a final confirmation has remained elusive. If the plumes do exist on Europa, they seem to be less active than those on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, where huge geyser-like plumes erupt from the moon’s south pole on a regular basis. Data from the Hubble Space Telescope has strengthened the case for plumes on Europa. But a new finding – presented on October 22, 2018, at the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee – has thrown a wrench into the possibility.
Researchers led by Julie Rathbun of the Planetary Science Institute said they found a lack of the expected heat signatures at locations where Europa’s plumes should originate. In other words … no hot spots.
Jupiter’s moon Europa as captured by the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. Galileo found the 1st evidence that a global ocean of liquid water exists under Europa’s icy crust.
We searched through the available Galileo thermal data at the locations proposed as the sites of potential plumes. Reanalysis of temperature data from the Galileo mission does not show anything special in the locations where plumes have possibly been observed. There are no hotspot signatures at either of the sites.
This is surprising because the Enceladus plumes have a clear thermal signature at their site of origin, so this suggests that either the Europa plumes are very different, or the plumes are only occasional, or that they don’t exist, or that their thermal signature is too small to have been detected by current data.
Composite photos from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Galileo spacecraft, showing a suspected plume erupting on Europa in 2014 and 2016.
Previous observations had suggested a plume originating from an area north of Pwyll Crater on Europa, and reanalysis of Galileo magnetometer and plasma data also supported the existence of a plume source about 600 miles (1,000 km) northeast of the first site.
But if the plume locations on Europa don’t show any heat signatures – as they do on Enceladus – that result suggests that either Europa’s are different from those on Enceladus, or that Europa’s plumes don’t even exist. Rathbun put it simply when she said:
Europa was expected to be active.
Rathbun said there are four possible explanations for the lack of heat signatures on Europa. The plumes may be intermittent. They may be fundamentally different from those on Enceladus and not be associated with anything hot. They may be smaller than expected. Or, they don’t exist; however, other data from Hubble provide strong evidence that they do exist.
Artist’s concept of the global subsurface ocean thought to lie beneath Europa’s icy crust. The plumes on Europa, if they exist, stem from there.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
On Enceladus, the plumes originate from a salty global subsurface ocean, where the water makes its way to the surface through large cracks called “Tiger Stripes” in the outer ice shell near the south pole. Data from the Cassinispacecraft, which orbited Saturn until September of 2017, also showed that there is likely geothermal activity on the ocean floor. That’s intriguing because, on Earth, geothermal vents on the sea floor provide conditions suitable for life.
It’s thought that conditions similar to those on Enceladus probably exist in Europa’s global subsurface ocean as well. But finding out for sure will require a return mission to the vicinity of Jupiter. Europa’s subsurface ocean has given it a powerful allure for space scientists, and a future planetary mission is already bound there. NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission, to be launched in the early-mid 2020s, will be able to study the marine environment in Europa’s ocean better than ever before. It will be able to examine deposits left on the moon’s surface by evaporating ocean water. Some water may simply seep to the surface, but if there are plumes, they could deposit a large amount of minerals on the surface, which Europa Clipper could analyze.
It’s even possible that Europa Clipper could fly directly through the plumes and analyze their composition, much as Cassini did at Enceladus, when that spacecraft discovered complex organic molecules in Enceladus’ plumes.
Geyser-like water vapor plumes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, as seen by the Cassini spacecraft. Analysis by the spacecraft showed they contain water vapor, ice particles, organics and salts.
Whatever the explanation for Europa’s plumes turns out to be, it will provide scientists with valuable insight into how plumes occur on other worlds, including the nitrogen gas ones on Neptune’s moon Triton. Those plumes have nothing to do with water, but are active geysers of extremely cold nitrogen gas – something not seen anywhere else in the solar system.
Bottom line: New research shows that Europa’s plumes may be significantly different from those on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, since they don’t exhibit the same heat signatures. The upcoming Europa Clipper mission should be able to help finally determine what is happening (or not) on Europa.
Star motions in the Small Magellanic Cloud – as revealed by the Gaia space observatory – confirm that this small satellite galaxy of our Milky Way collided in the past with its larger neighbor.
The video above simulates an interaction between the Small Magellanic Cloud and Large Magellanic Cloud, starting 1 billion years ago. It shows a collision about 100 million years ago. And indeed astronomers now think this happened.
Just a few years ago, astronomer Gurtina Besla at University of Arizona used a computer to model what would have happened if, sometime in the past, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds collided. The simulation above comes from her work. She and her team predicted at that time that a direct collision would cause the southeast region of the Small Magellanic Cloud – which astronomers call the Wing – to move toward the Large Magellanic Cloud. On the other hand, if the two galaxies simply passed near each other, the Wing stars should be moving in a perpendicular direction. This past week (October 25, 2018) – thanks to ESA’s Gaia space observatory – Michigan astronomers were able to confirm that what Besla and team predicted is in fact occurring.
The Wing is moving away from the main body of the Small Magellanic. They said this observation provides:
… the first unambiguous evidence that the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds recently collided.
The Magellanic Clouds, visible from Earth’s Southern Hemisphere, are known to be small satellite galaxies of our Milky Way. They’re located not far from each other on the sky’s dome. Star motions in the smaller Cloud provide evidence for the collision, but we didn’t have data on these motions prior to Gaia, whose second data releasewas last April. Astronomers have been mining the Gaia data to learn all sorts of interesting insights about our galaxy and its neighborhood of space, and now here’s another one. Astronomer Sally Oey of University of Michigan, lead author of the study, said:
This is really one of our exciting results. You can actually see that the Wing is its own separate region that’s moving away from the rest of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Oey and colleagues published their results in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Astrophotographer Justin Ng caught the edgewise view into our Milky Way galaxy, the bright star Canopus and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds at sunrise, in September 2013, over East Java’s Mount Bromo. Read more about this image.
A statement from University of Michigan described some of the processes these astronomers used to make their discovery:
Together with an international team, Oey and undergraduate researcher Johnny Dorigo Jones were examining the SMC [Small Magellanic Cloud] for ‘runaway’ stars, or stars that have been ejected from clusters within the SMC. To observe this galaxy they were using a recent data release from Gaia …
Gaia is designed to image stars again and again over a period of several years in order to plot their movement in real time. That way, scientists can measure how stars move across the sky.
Artist’s concept of Gaia in space.
Image via D. DUCROS/ESA.
Oey said:
We’ve been looking at very massive, hot young stars – the hottest, most luminous stars, which are fairly rare. The beauty of the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Large Magellanic Cloud is that they’re their own galaxies, so we’re looking at all of the massive stars in a single galaxy.
Examining stars in a single galaxy helps astronomers in two ways, these researchers said. First, it provides a statistically complete sample of stars in one parent galaxy. Second, this gives the astronomers a uniform distance to all the stars, which helps them measure their individual velocities. Dorigo Jones said:
It’s really interesting that Gaia obtained the proper motions of these stars. These motions contain everything we’re looking at. For example, if we observe someone walking in the cabin of an airplane in flight, the motion we see contains that of the plane, as well as the much slower motion of the person walking.
So we removed the bulk motion of the entire Small Magellanic Cloud in order to learn more about the velocities of individual stars. We’re interested in the velocity of individual stars because we’re trying to understand the physical processes occurring within the cloud.
Oey and Dorigo Jones study runaway stars to determine how they have been ejected from these clusters. In one mechanism, called the binary supernova scenario, one star in a gravitationally bound, binary pair explodes as a supernova, ejecting the other star like a slingshot. This mechanism produces X-ray-emitting binary stars.
Another mechanism is that a gravitationally unstable cluster of stars eventually ejects one or two stars from the group. This is called the dynamical ejection scenario, which produces normal binary stars. The researchers found significant numbers of runaway stars among both X-ray binaries and normal binaries, indicating that both mechanisms are important in ejecting stars from clusters.
In looking at this data, the team also observed that all the stars within the Wing – that southeast part of the SMC – are moving in a similar direction and speed. This demonstrates the SMC and LMC likely had a collision a few hundred million years ago.
The Magellanic Clouds – satellite galaxies of the Milky Way – via ESO/Wikipedia.
Dorigo Jones commented:
We want as much information about these stars as possible to better constrain these ejection mechanisms.
Everyone loves marveling at images of galaxies and nebulae that are incredibly far away. The Small Magellanic Cloud is so close to us, however, that we can see its beauty in the night sky with just our unaided eye. This fact, along with the data from Gaia, allows us to analyze the complex motions of stars within the Small Magellanic Cloud and even determine factors of its evolution.
Bottom line:The motions of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud – as revealed by the Gaia space observatory – show that this small satellite galaxy of our Milky Way collided in the past with its larger neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
From the X Files –“Why Don’t Astronomers See UFOs”
From the X Files –“Why Don’t Astronomers See UFOs”
As a NASA research scientist who worked for four years at NASA Ames Research Center in the Intelligent Systems Division, and now a professor of physics, Kevin Knuth attended the 2002 NASA Contact Conference, which focused on serious speculation about extraterrestrials. During the meeting a concerned participant said loudly in a sinister tone, “You have absolutely no idea what is out there!”
The silence was palpable as the truth of this statement sunk in. Humans are fearful of extraterrestrials visiting Earth. Perhaps fortunately, the distances between the stars are prohibitively vast. At least this is what we novices, who are just learning to travel into space, tell ourselves.
Are we alone? Unfortunately, neither of the answers feel satisfactory. To be alone in this vast universe is a lonely prospect. On the other hand, if we are not alone and there is someone or something more powerful out there, that too is terrifying. And Why don’t astronomers see UFOs asks Knuth, an Associate Professor in the Departments of Physics and Informatics at the University at Albany. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Entropy.
Knuth writes: I have always been interested in UFOs. Of course, there was the excitement that there could be aliens and other living worlds. But more exciting to me was the possibility that interstellar travel was technologically achievable. In 1988, during my second week of graduate school at Montana State University, several students and I were discussing a recent cattle mutilation that was associated with UFOs. A physics professor joined the conversation and told us that he had colleagues working at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana, where they were having problems with UFOs shutting down nuclear missiles.
At the time I thought this professor was talking nonsense. But 20 years later, I was stunned to see a recording of a press conference featuring several former US Air Force personnel, with a couple from Malmstrom AFB, describing similar occurrences in the 1960s. Clearly there must be something to this.
With July 2 being World UFO Day, it was a good time for society to address the unsettling and refreshing fact we may not be alone. I believe we need to face the possibility that some of the strange flying objects that outperform the best aircraft in our inventory and defy explanation may indeed be visitors from afar – and there’s plenty of evidence to support UFO sightings.
The nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi was famous for posing thought provoking questions. In 1950, at Los Alamos National Laboratory after discussing UFOs over lunch, Fermi asked, “Where is everybody?” He estimated there were about 300 billion stars in the galaxy, many of them billions of years older than the sun, with a large percentage of them likely to host habitable planets. Even if intelligent life developed on a very small percentage of these planets, then there should be a number of intelligent civilizations in the galaxy. Depending on the assumptions, one should expect anywhere from tens to tens of thousands of civilizations.
With the rocket-based technologies that we have developed for space travel, it would take between 5 and 50 million years for a civilization like ours to colonize our Milky Way galaxy. Since this should have happened several times already in the history of our galaxy, one should wonder where is the evidence of these civilizations? This discrepancy between the expectation that there should be evidence of alien civilizations or visitations and the presumption that no visitations have been observed has been dubbed the Fermi Paradox.
Carl Sagan correctly summarized the situation by saying that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” The problem is that there has been no single well-documented UFO encounter that would alone qualify as the smoking gun. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that many governments around the world have covered up and classified information about such encounters. But there are enough scraps of evidence that suggest that the problem needs to be open to scientific study.
When it comes to science, the scientific method requires hypotheses to be testable so that inferences can be verified. UFO encounters are neither controllable nor repeatable, which makes their study extremely challenging. But the real problem, in my view, is that the UFO topic is taboo.
While the general public has been fascinated with UFOs for decades, our governments, scientists and media, have essentially declared that of all the UFO sightings are a result of weather phenomenon or human actions. None are actually extraterrestrial spacecraft. And no aliens have visited Earth. Essentially, we are told that the topic is nonsense. UFOs are off-limits to serious scientific study and rational discussion, which unfortunately leaves the topic in the domain of fringe and pseudoscientists, many of whom litter the field with conspiracy theories and wild speculation.
I think UFO skepticism has become something of a religion with an agenda, discounting the possibility of extraterrestrials without scientific evidence, while often providing silly hypotheses describing only one or two aspects of a UFO encounter reinforcing the popular belief that there is a conspiracy. A scientist must consider all of the possible hypotheses that explain all of the data, and since little is known, the extraterrestrial hypothesis cannot yet be ruled out. In the end, the skeptics often do science a disservice by providing a poor example of how science is to be conducted. The fact is that many of these encounters – still a very small percentage of the total – defy conventional explanation.
The media amplifies the skepticism by publishing information about UFOs when it is exciting, but always with a mocking or whimsical tone and reassuring the public that it can’t possibly be true. But there are credible witnesses and encounters.
I am often asked by friends and colleagues, “Why don’t astronomers see UFOs?” The fact is that they do. In 1977, Peter Sturrock, a professor of space science and astrophysics at Stanford University, mailed 2,611 questionnaires about UFO sightings to members of the American Astronomical Society. He received 1,356 responses from which 62 astronomers – 4.6 percent – reported witnessing or recording inexplicable aerial phenomena. This rate is similar to the approximately 5 percent of UFO sightings that are never explained.
As expected, Sturrock found that astronomers who witnessed UFOs were more likely to be night sky observers. Over 80 percent of Sturrock’s respondents were willing to study the UFO phenomenon if there was a way to do so. More than half of them felt that the topic deserves to be studied versus 20 percent who felt that it should not. The survey also revealed that younger scientists were more likely to support the study of UFOs.
UFOs have been observed through telescopes. I know of one telescope sighting by an experienced amateur astronomer in which he observed an object shaped like a guitar pick moving through the telescope’s field of view. Further sightings are documented in the book “Wonders in the Sky,” in which the authors compile numerous observations of unexplained aerial phenomena made by astronomers and published in scientific journals throughout the 1700s and 1800s.
Evidence from government and military officers
Some of the most convincing observations have come from government officials. In 1997, the Chilean government formed the organization Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos, or CEFAA, to study UFOs. Last year, CEFAA released footage of a UFO taken with a helicopter-mounted Wescam infrared camera.
Declassified document describing a sighting of a UFO in December 1977, in Bahia, a state in northern Brazil. Arquivo Nacional Collection
The countries of Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom have been declassifying their UFO files since 2008. The French Committee for In-Depth Studies, or COMETA, was an unofficial UFO study group comprised of high-ranking scientists and military officials that studied UFOs in the late 1990s. They released the COMETA Report, which summarized their findings. They concluded that 5 percent of the encounters were reliable yet inexplicable: The best hypothesis available was that the observed craft were extraterrestrial. They also accused the United States of covering up evidence of UFOs. Iran has been concerned about spherical UFOs observed near nuclear power facilities that they call “CIA drones” which reportedly are about 30 feet in diameter, can achieve speeds up to Mach 10, and can leave the atmosphere. Such speeds are on par with the fastest experimental aircraft, but unthinkable for a sphere without lift surfaces or an obvious propulsion mechanism.
1948 Top Secret USAF UFO extraterrestrial document. United States Air Force
In December 2017, The New York Times broke a story about the classified Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, which was a $22 million program run by the former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo and aimed at studying UFOs. Elizondo resigned from running the program protesting extreme secrecy and the lack of funding and support. Following his resignation Elizondo, along with several others from the defense and intelligence community, were recruited by the To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, which was recently founded by Tom DeLonge to study UFOs and interstellar travel. In conjunction with the launch of the academy, the Pentagon declassified and released three videos of UFO encounters taken with forward looking infrared cameras mounted on F-18 fighter jets. While there is much excitement about such disclosures, I am reminded of a quote from Retired Army Colonel John Alexander: “Disclosure has happened. … I’ve got stacks of generals, including Soviet generals, who’ve come out and said UFOs are real. My point is, how many times do senior officials need to come forward and say that this is real?”
There is a great deal of evidence that a small percentage of these UFO sightings are unidentified structured craft exhibiting flight capabilities beyond any known human technology. While there is no single case for which there exists evidence that would stand up to scientific rigor, there are cases with simultaneous observations by multiple reliable witnesses, along with radar returns and photographic evidence revealing patterns of activity that are compelling.
Declassified information from covert studies is interesting, but not scientifically helpful. This is a topic worthy of open scientific inquiry, until there is a scientific consensus based on evidence rather than prior expectation or belief. If there are indeed extraterrestrial craft visiting Earth, it would greatly benefit us to know about them, their nature and their intent. Moreover, this would present a great opportunity for mankind, promising to expand and advance our knowledge and technology, as well as reshaping our understanding of our place in the universe.
Image credit top of page: IJG JPEG Library
The Daily Galaxy via The Conversation
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Niet alleen is Google een machtige speler op het wereldtoneel en een werktuig in handen van hen de macht hebben, maar ook vervult het nog een bijzondere rol.
Google wordt ook gebruikt om een plek te verhullen die spannender is dan Area51 en waar zich een buitenaards ras verborgen houdt.
Eén van de meest bekende en beruchte basis van de Amerikanen is Nellis AFB (Air Force Base). De basis ligt net ten noordoosten van de stad Las Vegas en staat ook wel bekend als de basis waar zich een buitenaards ras bevindt.
Dat alles is weer heel actueel geworden door een video die is gemaakt door Tyler van Secureteam. Hij heeft deze video gemaakt naar aanleiding van een artikel op Motherboard, waar men had ontdekt dat het meest geheime gebied niet Area51 is, maar een gebied dat onderdeel vormt van Nellis AFB.
The Tonopah Test Range (TTR) is a restricted military installation located about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Tonopah, Nevada. It is part of the northern fringe of the Nellis Range, measuring 625 sq mi (1,620 km2). Tonopah Test Range is located about 70 miles (110 km) northwest of Groom Dry Lake, the home of the Area 51 facility.
Bij Motherboard noemen ze dit gebied: Het gebied waar Google stopte met het maken van kaarten. Jarenlang is dit gebied door Google bewust niet bijgewerkt met satellietbeelden zoals dat wel gebeurt met alle andere gebieden.
Zowel Tyler als ufoloog Scott Waring zijn het erover eens dat men hier iets heel groots probeert te verbergen, waarbij Scott Waring ervan overtuigd is dat dit te maken heeft met het type buitenaardsen dat bekendstaat als The Tall Whites. (Tegenwoordig is het heel racistisch om een buitenaards ras Tall Whites te noemen, maar vroeger voordat politieke correctheid bestond, deed men dat soort dingen).
We schreven in een eerder artikel het volgende over de Nellis AFB en de Tall Whites:
Een van de grotere Amerikaanse luchtmachtbasis is Nellis AFB in de buurt van Las Vegas in de staat Nevada.
Er doen al lange tijd veel verhalen de ronde over dat er buitenaardsen zouden verblijven.
Een bekende en prominente persoonlijkheid die veel weet over buitenaards leven is de voormalig Canadese Minister van Defensie, Paul Hellyer.
1) Er zijn minimaal vier verschillende soorten buitenaardsen die de aarde de afgelopen duizenden jaren hebben bezocht.
2) De soorten hebben waarschijnlijk verschillende agenda’s en dienen niet beschouwd te worden als van hetzelfde ras.
3) Een van die soorten is wat men noemt de Tall Whites. Volgens Hellyer werkt dit type samen met de Verenigde Staten.
4) Er leven op dit moment buitenaardsen op aarde.
Volgens ufoloog Scott C. Waring is de plek waar de Tall Whites wonen een ondergrondse basis op het terrein van Nellis AFB.
In een nieuw artikel zegt Waring dat dit ras helemaal niet zo aardig is. Het is volgens hem een super agressief ras dat zichzelf ver superieur beschouwt ten opzichte van de mensheid. Voor het minste of geringste maken ze je dood en toch doet het Amerikaanse leger zaken met hen vanwege hun kennis en technieken.
Scott raadt iedereen die meer wil weten over de Tall Whites aan om de volgende video te bekijken. Het is een interview met een man die als burger liaison (verbinder) fungeerde tussen dit ras en de Amerikaanse luchtmacht.
Saturn has 62 moons. Of those, 53 have been formally named while nine others are such recent discoveries that they haven’t yet received an official name. Titan, the largest of Saturn’s moons, is more massive than the planet Mercury and has a nitrogen-rich atmosphere similar to Earth’s. Enceladus, another moon, likely has an internal ocean as evidenced by the volcanoes of ice that plume from its surface into space and fall back to the surface as snow. Complex organic molecules have been detected in Enceladus, making it one of the prime candidates for finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system. There may be only nine formally recognized planets in our solar system, but there are 181 moons orbiting those planets, each with their own complexities and unique mysteries.
Saturn’s moon Dione is one of those mysteries. Dione is smaller than Earth’s moon, and exists in orbital resonance with Enceladus, meaning that it completes one orbit of Saturn for every two completed by Enceladus. This orbital resonance is likely the source of the geologic heat found in Enceladus, which reveals itself in the form of Enceladus’s dramatic ice volcanoes. Despite being smaller than Earth’s moon, Dione proves that size isn’t everything in terms of astronomical weirdness. Data from Cassini shows that, along with an orbital relationship, Dione shares other similarities with Enceladus, most notably the presence of an interior ocean., but Dione isn’t simply a twin of Enceladus. According to a new study publishedin journal Geophysical Research Letters, the small moon has a mystery all its own. Streaking across its surface are bright white stripes unlike anything else seen in the solar system, and so far scientists don’t know what they are.
Dione.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Scientists have ruled out geologic causes for the stripes like tectonic activity. Instead, they say that whatever the stripes are made of, they’re likely draped across the surface like snow. What’s strange is how they’re draped. Other bodies in the solar system, including Saturn’s moon Rhea, show bright lines on the surface but none as straight and seemingly intentional as the lines on Dione. The lines are between six and sixty two miles long and three miles wide and perfectly straight. Not only are they perfectly straight, but they run parallel to Dione’s equator, a trait that scientists say is very unusual. They are unbroken, which scientists take to mean that they are a relatively new phenomenon and possibly part of an ongoing phenomenon in the Saturn system.
The authors of the study say that the cause of these mysterious lines is likely due to some off world influence:
We explored different ways of forming linear features on planetary surfaces and favor the draping of exogenic material across a planetary surface by encounters with either Saturn’s rings, co‐orbital moons, or close flyby of comets. This debris may introduce materials into the Dione system that could contribute to creating a more habitable Dione.
One of Cassini’s final images of Dione.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Recently, scientists demonstrated that one of the building blocks of life here on earth was probably formed in space and deposited here on Earth. With a liquid water interior and constant depositing of off-world material on Dione, it seems possible that some strange chemistry could make its way into the underground sea and begin the process of life. Of course, such life would be likely be microscopic and completely outside our ability to study it for many years to come. This does show that, once again, the more we learn about our corner of space, the more mysteries we uncover.
Mercury, the least explored planet of the inner Solar System, is the target of BepiColombo, the ESA/JAXA mission that is going to reveal the secrets of the smallest of the rocky planets.
BepiColombo mission to Mercury is scheduled to launch on 20 October 2018 and to arrive at Mercury on 5 December 2025. The mission is a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). BepiColombo consists of two scientific orbiters: ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). BepiColombo will be launched by an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle (Ariane Flight VA245) from Ariane Launch Complex No. 3 (ELA 3) at Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, on 20 October 2018, at 01:45 UTC (19 October, at 22:45 local time).
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has mysteriously gone dark and scientists are trying to understand what malfunctioned.
NASA's alien-hunting Kepler Space Telescope has suffered another malfunction, with the spacecraft returning to sleep mode just days after it sent information from its latest campaign back to Earth.
"Following a successful return of data from the last observation campaign, the Kepler team commanded the spacecraft into position to begin collecting data for its next campaign," NASA said on its website. "On Friday October 19, during a regularly scheduled spacecraft contact using NASA’s Deep Space Network, the team learned that the spacecraft had transitioned to its no-fuel-use sleep mode. The Kepler team is currently assessing the cause and evaluating possible next steps."
On Oct. 15, NASA was able to download information from it latest observation campaign, Campaign 19, noting it was "monitoring the spacecraft and will provide more information when its status has been fully assessed."
On Aug. 29, Kepler began collecting data for its 19th campaign, though the government space agency said on Sept. 5 it had modified the craft's configuration due to "unusual behavior exhibited by one of the thrusters," adding that it was unsure how much fuel remained. NASA also said that Kepler's pointing performance was degraded.
At the time, NASA said it was continuing to monitor the health and performance of Kepler. Over the years, Kepler has suffered greatly. It has even "survived many potential knock-outs during its nine years in flight, from mechanical failures to being blasted by cosmic rays," NASA noted.
Even though Kepler has endured several setbacks in recent months, it has been an unquestioned success for NASA, having flown in space for nine years, surpassing the initial estimate of just one year. During that time, the $600 million spacecraft has discovered a great number of exoplanets, including Wolf 503b, which is described as "twice the size of Earth" and is 145 light-years away from our planet.
In December 2017, experts harnessed machine learning technology from Google to spot another exoplanet, Kepler-90i. This hot, rocky planet circles Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth.
In total, Kepler has discovered more than 2,650 confirmed planets over its lifespan, according to Space.com.
Kepler is slated to be replaced by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which left Earth on April 18 on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
In September, TESS found its first alien planet, HD 39091, located approximately 59.5 light-years from Earth and has been dubbed an evaporating "Super-Earth."
NASA’s historic 1969 Moon landing was an elaborate hoax prophesied nearly 500 years ago by French mystic Michel de Nostradamus, a conspiracy theorist has claimed.
I can't believe I actually SAW it and They are VERY real
I can't believe I actually SAW it and They are VERY real
On October 27, 2018 MrMB333 witnessed something in the night sky that can best be described as a black boomerang UFO which was bigger than a football field and it made NO sound.
He states that it was simply amazing, just astonishing to know that something like that exists.
Coincidentally his camera has recorded the object, though since it has been recorded in the dark, the images of the object were not clear but MrMB333 has tried to get a clearer picture of the object by adding various filters.
Also, the ISS had a strange light approach it as it flew over New Mexico, which he got on video too.
In the video below, MrMB333 gives a detailed explanation of the event he has observed and filmed.
This is a giant green structure sticking up from Jupiters outer edge. This structure is 100% evidence that aliens currently occupy Jupiters surface and underground areas. The clouds were probably made on purpose to hide the current civilization structures that would normally be visible. This structure is probably hidden from view most the times but its cloaking device was probably malfunctioning from some reason. I am certain that this is not the only structure to be sticking out from under the clouds of Jupiter. We must keep looking for more. Look at the beauty of this green emerald building. Yes, I believe it to be the top of building sticking out. The outer edges cause these structures to become more visible than if we were looking at them at the center of the planet...where they would be invisible to us. Excellent discovery by UFOmaniaof Youtube. Some are claiming this is a UFO, but from my perspective and its lines and position...this appears to be a structure connected to Jupiters surface.
Witnesses are being sought to shed light on one of North Wales greatest mysteries.
A new documentary is in the pipeline investigating the Berwyn Mountains incident in 1974 and investigator Russ Kellett is asking if anybody who was there to come forward.
Dubbed the Welsh Roswell, at about 8.30pm on January 23, in 1974, people reported hearing a huge bang, earth tremors were felt amid claims of a brilliant light in the sky above the mountain range.
Police received reports and arrived in the area and a RAF search and rescue team was scrambled from Anglesey.
In the 44 years since there has been a huge debate as to what exactly happened that night, with TV documentaries made and books written on the subject.
Some researchers have claimed a UFO landed or crashed, with further claims “bodies” were retrieved and taken away by soldiers.
Other theories suggest it was a meteor shower combined with an earthquake – the epicentre of which was at Bala Lake – and the misconception of poachers on the hillside carrying lamps.
A witness who saw an object on the hillside said in a statement: “Saw bright red light, like coal fire red. Large perfect circle. Like a big bonfire. Could see lights above and to the right and white lights moving to bottom. Light changed colour to yellowish white and back again.”
A message in a police log said: “There’s been a large explosion in the area and there is a large fire in the mountainside. I can see the fire where I am.”
Telex message to chief constable Gwynedd constabulary. 22.00pm approx 23/1/74: Saw bright green lights, object with tail – travelling west. Saw about Bangor direction – dropped down.
At approx 10pm on 23/1/74: Saw a circular light in the sky at an estimated height of 1,500 feet. This object exploded and pieces fell to the ground. Mr ...... estimates the pieces would have fallen into the sea between Rhyl and Liverpool.
Russ Kellett believes UFOs were out there that night
Russ who has investigated the incident for years, said: “I have been investigating this for 25 years.
“I have been approached by a company in America to make a documentary, the Americans are fascinated by this.
“If there is anybody who may have witnessed what happened at the time or may have seen military or anything else, could they please get in touch with me.”
Witnesses can contact Russ on 07368 417871.
To have your say on this story, use the comments section below.
UFO: People reported seeing a huge craft and other lights (Pic: GETTY)
People reported seeing a huge craft and other lights, along with military planes and helicopters.
Other accounts include claims of an Apache helicopter landing with its cockpit on fire, weird "snow" and mystery men in white overalls.
The activity in Pentyrch, near Cardiff, on February 26, 2016, was explained by the authorities as an armed forces exercise code-named "Chameleon".
But many claim they saw unidentified lights which did not seem to belong to conventional military aircraft.
The incident echoes the most famous alleged UFO incident ever at a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico, when the US military was claimed to have captured a crashed flying saucer.
Recalling the events in Wales, witness Caz Clarke, said she could "categorically state it was no exercise".
She said: "I will take a lie detector anywhere for anyone. What I witnessed will stay with me for the rest of my life.
"What is more, the military knew they were coming and had a spotter plane in the air for two days waiting for 'the event'. When it came, four planes chased the green object while the spotter plane circled about six red oval objects which formed a pyramid shape.
SPOTTED: Computer generated images of a UFO sighting in Pentyrch (Pic: Media Wales )
"Several red spheres hovered silently above the fields until the helicopters came."
Another witness, Mike Henbury, claims to have seen three red pulsing lights in a triangle descending from the clouds.
Mr Henbury said: "It looked very large indeed. I don't think it touched down totally but about 10 to 12ft from the ground it lit up fully, showing the full outline of it, then it dimmed down."
It was also claimed Apaches flew low across the fields in a pyramid formation.
Members of Swansea UFO Network recently visited the scene of the sighting, guided by Caz Clarke.
Co-founder Emlyn Williams said: "There is a strong electromagnetic residue in the core location to the place the UFOs were spotted. It's physical evidence something unusual happened there."
Google Earth blindspot is ‘HOSTING UFOs’ - whistleblower’s shock global conspiracy claim
Google Earth blindspot is ‘HOSTING UFOs’ - whistleblower’s shock global conspiracy claim
A FORMER Ministry of Defence expert has astonishingly claimed Google conspired with the US government to cover up a “super secret” location deep in the Nevada desert.
Nick Pope, who used to work for the government’s specialist UFO department, has said the discovery the search engine giant did not update images of the Tonopah Test Range for eight years is “murky”.
Using his insider background of how governments want to keep such facilities out of the public’s knowledge, he has speculated the reason behind the blackout was because the American government kept top secret information and crashed UFOs.
The search giant normally updates satellite images of every part of the continental United States every 60 days but no fresh photos of the Nevada facility appear on Google Earth between 2008 and 2016, it has emerged.
This is despite most other military bases in the US being regularly logged.
Mr Pope told the Sun Online that the base is close to the infamous Area 51, which is why he thinks the US government wanted Google’s cameras to ignore the facility.
He said: "Because of its proximity to the infamous Area 51, this has understandably started all sorts of conspiracy theories in the UFO community.
"Could this super-secret location be where the US government hides crashed UFOs?
“Or is it where the next generation of stealth aircraft, drones and hypersonic weapons are developed and tested?
Nick Pope believes Google and the US government blocked satellite images of the site
(Image: Nick Pope)
"Either way the US government is hugely concerned - and understandably so.
"This is all quite murky. Either as a consequence of federal law, or through a 'gentleman's agreement', Google and/or the third party providers from whom they obtain satellite imagery have ensured that the public won't see up-to-date images of the Tonopah Test Range.
"Along with drones flown by hobbyists, the easy availability of high-quality satellite imagery has caused immense problems for the military and the intelligence community.
"It's given people a window on a world that was previously closed to them.
The Tonopah Test range is home to some of the US government’s most secret projects
(Image: UIG via Getty Images)
"Simply put, these technologies make it more difficult for the government to hide things."
"Having worked in the MoD for 21 years I well understand the need for secrecy, and indeed my final posting was to the Directorate of Defence Security.
"While I understand that people are naturally curious about what's going on at Tonopah, the problem with people's 'right to know' is that once information is in the public domain, it's seen by everyone: not just UFO researchers and aviation enthusiasts, but the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, the North Koreans, ISIS and all sorts of other non-state actors who may not have the best of intentions."
The desert army barracks have long been the subject of mystery after it was reported the range has been used for secret government aerospace and weapons testing since the 1950s, including the development of the iconic stealth bombers.
Aerial shot of the airbase in the Nevada desert
(Image: Google)
A spokesperson for Google denied any censorship of the base in a statement.
The company said: “Google Earth didn’t censor this area in Nevada.
"Our satellite imagery is licensed from third party providers which are commercially available and are not the property of Google.
"We update imagery by prioritising areas that are most popular with users while complying with local and federal laws.”
An image released by NASA seems to show a strange green anomaly just past the edge of Jupiter.
The image was quickly picked up on by Youtube conspiracy channel ‘UFOmania - The truth is out there’ who posted a short clip alongside the description: “A NASA image of Jupiter shows a massive unidentified green anomaly just above or on the surface of Jupiter.
Another alien hunting site, UFO Sightings Hotspot also spotted the anomaly, claiming it is irrefutable proof that highly advanced extraterrestrials are visiting the gas giant which is Jupiter.
UFO Sightings Hotspot reads: “A NASA image of Jupiter shows a massive unidentified green anomaly just above or on the surface of Jupiter.
One YouTube user simply commented: “It’s the aurora of Jupiter… idiots.”
Jupiter is a gas giant so any life there, which is unlikely, would be extremely different to ours.
However, this does not mean it would be impossible for aliens to reside in the clouds of Jupiter.
US Scientist Carl Sagan theorised life on Jupiter would take the form of enormous balloon-like lifeforms that float above the hot gasses on Jupiter’s surface.
Spot the 'UFO' (Image: NASA)
He said on his TV show, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, that “vast living balloons could stay buoyant by pumping heavy gasses from their interiors or by keeping their insides warm.”
He added: “They might eat organic molecules in the air or make their own with sunlight. We call these creatures ‘Floaters’.
“We imagine Floaters kilometres across, enormously larger than the greatest whale that ever was – beings the size of cities.”
Renewed US interest could produce some fascinating hearings, but the focus should be on the quality not just the quantity of reported sightings
The terms UFO and ‘flying saucer’ are both wrongly, regarded as being synonymous with ‘extraterrestrial spacecraft’. Photograph: Jim West/Rex/Shutterstock
There’s renewed interest in the UFO phenomenon and it’s coming from an unexpected source: the United States Congress.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is looking into a 2004 incident where US Navy pilots flying with the USS Nimitz strike group encountered, chased and filmed fast-moving unidentified objects. Reliable sources say at least two of the military pilots involved have already been interviewed, and a radar operator was subsequently invited to get in touch.
In parallel, the House Armed Services Committee is taking an interest. Records from April show the committee received a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) briefing on the Pentagon’s UFO project, the cryptically-named AATIP. We know so little about AATIP that there’s even dispute over whether the acronym stands for Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program or Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. The very existence of the project caused a sensation, because until the New York Times broke the story in December 2017, the US government claimed it had not investigated UFOs since the 1960s when sightings were looked at in a study called Project Blue Book.
As noted in the Guardian recently, data from two civilian UFO research organisations show that the number of reported sightings has fallen in recent years. However, there’s no single, global focal point for reports (the Ministry of Defence stopped investigating UFOs in 2009) and statistics will never tell the full story.
It would be better if the phenomenon were assessed and judged not on numbers alone, but by focusing on cases where we have compelling evidence: independently submitted reports from pilots on different flights; visual sightings corroborated by radar; photos and videos regarded as genuinely intriguing by intelligence community imagery analysts. Irrespective of the methodology we use to assess the phenomenon, how can we do so in an even-handed way when the subject has so much pop culture baggage?
A first step in reframing the debate might be changing the language. The term “UFO” has become as obsolete and baggage-laden as the now largely-defunct “flying saucer”. Both are widely, but wrongly, regarded as being synonymous with “extraterrestrial spacecraft”, when self-evidently all the phrase should mean is something in the sky that the observer cannot identify. When the question “do you believe in UFOs?” is misinterpreted as “do you think we’re being visited by aliens?” then we clearly have a problem.
We addressed this in the MoD in the 1990s by replacing “UFO” with “UAP”, for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. It got us increased funding and made a few senior officials take the matter more seriously, because they felt we were looking at a science problem, not a science fiction mystery.
Years later, in 2011, I was one of the briefers at a private gathering in Washington DC, chaired by Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta, who has a longstanding interest in the issue. It was reminiscent of an episode of The X-Files and there was even a former CIA director sitting at the back, playing no part in the discussion, but silently taking notes. I briefed attendees on the MoD’s use of the term “UAP” and the message clearly hit home.
During Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, for which Podesta was the campaign chair, she occasionally discussed UAPs and in one interview on the Jimmy Kimmel show she corrected the host for using the term “UFO”. We have yet to learn what Donald Trump thinks about UAPs, but his enthusiasm for a Space Force has certainly created a few conspiracy theories.
When it comes to UAPs, truth really is stranger than fiction. It turns out that AATIP was largely the brainchild of the then Senate majority leader Harry Reid, and that much of the work was contracted out to Bigelow Aerospace, run by former budget hotel magnate (and believer in extraterrestrial visitation) Robert Bigelow. A 2009 letter from Harry Reid about AATIP reads like science fiction in places.
Now, some of the people formerly involved with the project – including the DIA official who ran it, Luis Elizondo – have joined a Public Benefit Corporation called To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, fronted by Tom DeLonge, the former vocalist/guitarist and founder of pop punk band Blink-182. Their mission statement talks about creating a consortium “to explore exotic science and technologies … that can change the world”.
If current US Congressional interest evolves into formal hearings, either specifically on AATIP, or on UAPs more generally, I hope they can get past debates about terminology, and avoid getting bogged down in statistical analyses. I have made clear my willingness to testify on the basis that my experience with the MoD might be relevant.
Focusing on the quality of reports and not simply the quantity should result in a far more meaningful assessment of the phenomenon. Irrespective of the outcome, these might turn out to be the most fascinating Congressional hearings in history.
•Nick Pope worked at the Ministry of Defence for 21 years. From 1991 to 1994 he was posted to a division where his duties included investigating UAP sightings to determine whether they had any defence significance.
The story of an Ukrainian engineer about how he was abducted by a beautiful alien in 1989
The story of an Ukrainian engineer about how he was abducted by a beautiful alien in 1989
At one time, various newspapers in our country, a reprint of history from the magazine “The World of the Unknown” for 1994. She was told by engineer A. Us from the city of Belaya Tserkov , that in Ukraine. The person has gone through the most unusual adventure in his life and was able to sincerely tell about his impressions and feelings.
The case is credible – many details of the narrative look so unconcerned. There were no intimate relationships here, but the aliens were very similar to people and seem to be endowed with similar emotions and relationships between themselves. Well, how much the Earthman could understand this.
Here is the story …
“In mid-September 1989, I gathered mushrooms near the village of Yablunovka. Having sat down to rest, I began to look through the newspaper, which I took with me from home. Suddenly a shadow of an oval cloud swept past me. I looked up and saw that a parachute descended from me in about a hundred meters on some strange spiral trajectory. Meters in 70 from the ground he began to descend strictly vertically
I am a skeptic and a realist by nature and therefore at first took a UFO for an earthly spacecraft. Moreover, after landing, the curtain of the front door of the apparatus immediately rose and from there came the “cosmonaut”, as it should be, in a spacesuit. Behind him came the robot (as it later turned out).
However, my error was short-lived, and I watched with amazement what was happening. The alien went to me. In his left hand he held a small object, painted in red and silver in color. Approached me, the stranger tilted his head, then touched his chest and unequivocally offered to go to the UFO. His face was ordinary, his skin was bronze, and his slightly curly hair reminded me of a Hindu. So I called him.
At the entrance to the apparatus stood a beautiful lady. It was a woman of indescribable beauty, a real Aphrodite.Her figure was dressed in overalls, on her head a small helmet (like the Old Russian soldiers) with a protruding strip, in the center of which either a diamond or an optical peephole was shining. Dark brown wavy hair fell on his shoulders. Very large dark blue eyes, small slightly upturned nose. On a silver chain on the chest hung a device, like the Hindu.
She stood a little embarrassed and smiled a bright, sunny smile. She folded her arms over her chest and leaned forward, then pointed to the door next to her and disappeared into the UFO. I climbed the “petal” and got into a small shower room. The Hindu instantly divided me to cowards and left, stuffing my clothes into a niche.
Immediately on all sides, foamy liquid poured onto me, a warm wind blew a minute later and the inner door opened.The Indian gave me slippers and a light blue robe, very light.
I did not have time to sit down, as the familiar goddess of beauty appeared. She came close to me, with a captivating smile, reached out her hand-like a woman, palm down – and called: “Geselia.” Then she introduced another stranger with a curly head and a dark blue face (I called him the Negro) and the Hindu.
The ship had fresh ozone air, and from somewhere from above came a muffled familiar music. Geselia was still standing in front of me, as if suggesting to admire her. Through a deep gown of a dressing gown it was evident that on a translucent bathing suit on one breast a lotus flower is drawn, and on the other a rose. The same light pinkish as her body. The face is light, without any trace of makeup.
She was slightly taller than me, about 180 centimeters (the Hindu was about 190, and the Negro was 210-220 centimeters). His voice was juicy and singing, the Hindu was soft and quiet, and Negro had a loud bass.
Having become acquainted, Gezelia with my help began to know the earthly world and my health. I was approached by an anthropoid robot about one and a half meters tall. His rotating eyes (like a chameleon) were embarrassed and even frightened. And when he took my hand, offering to sit in a chair, and the other tried to stick to my forehead some plates the size of a button, then I forcefully knocked him on the pear-shaped head. The robot lowered his hands and froze, and the Negro laughed with a thunderous bass.
The Hindu touched something on the robot, and he again turned his eyes. Then Geselia, collecting the fallen records, nalepila them themselves in several places, including on the chest. In one of the plates was a small cone, it was placed on the left hand. After the “mosquito bite” she was filled with blood. Then the robot approached and took the plates.
Then Geselia spread out my missed newspaper on the table and, with a finger in the name, said something. I read the name aloud. But she pointed a finger at each letter separately. I tried to explain – first in Ukrainian, then in Russian, German, Hungarian … Even in English, which I almost do not know. But the aliens were thrown in short phrases that sounded like no language I knew. Then I finally realized that I was visiting ATOPLANETAN. Real! A chill ran down my spine, but self-control kept me from stupid.
Again light music began to play, and I realized that my stay at a party was ending. I took a pencil and from memory I pictured the Solar system – the Sun and 7 planets. Geselia dorisovala five more. I asked which planet they came from. She drew another system (in my opinion, nine planets) in another galaxy and, placing her sheet next to mine, ran a line from one of those planets to one of ours.
Then I drew a line to the Moon, and from it to the Earth. On the moon, a huge diamond-type ship was depicted, and from it – a dozen lines to the Earth with UFOs of various shapes. Then she placed my watch (“Earth”) around the Sun globe twice and indicated the distance from their planet to ours. Then she carried the watch about a third of the revolution, ran a finger to the moon, took another turn of my watch and pointed to the point of the Earth where they are now.
I understood everything and wanted to ask something else, but her left hand fell into my hand. I lifted her to see the bracelet with some miniature devices or ornaments. Finger felt her quickening pulse, began to count, but Gezelia, apparently, understood everything differently, something loudly said, and all three aliens burst out laughing.
The woman took off her robe and came to me, took me by the head and, unfolding it, pressed her ear to her breast.Her heart clearly repelled our earth rhythm, but not 70, and 90-100 beats per minute. The temperature of her body was, as it seemed to me, a degree 42 degrees.
I moved away from her and stared at the half-naked body. Geselia was and is similar, and unlike the earthly woman.I admired her beauty, and she apparently realized that I was checking whether she was a living or a robot.
The beauty of Gezelia fascinated me. Around her head I noticed a glowing halo. The color of the blue eyes turned to greenish-yellow. She began to approach me, as if burning a fire. And when she touched me with her hand, I got out of the stupor and, pushing it, shouted: “After all, ma-ah!”
Geselia, jumping off like a cat, shouted something in a loud voice – apparently, “get out!”. What insulted her? I do not understand & until now: either the next experiment, or … the word “witch” – maybe in their language it meant some terrible insult. I thought that now I will have a rump.
The door opened, I flew out into the street, and the Hindu immediately returned my clothes. A minute or two later, Gezelia appeared. She tried to smile, but her face was agitated. She showed me to take my watch. I began to explain that I leave them to memory. Then she threw the clock, emphasizing that the friendly relationship was over, and disappeared into the UFO, still nodding to me in good-bye.
The door curtain slammed shut, there was a double click. A little bit of noise was heard from some mechanism, and the UFO began to gain noiseless noise. I climbed 150-170 meters, and I heard another double click. The petals formed in the tube, from which emanated a dark red glow. UFO was now not like a daisy, but a long blue jellyfish or, more precisely, a rocket. At an altitude of 250-300 meters a light blue cloud appeared, and the rocket disappeared.
After half an hour after the flight, I examined the landing site and noticed only the crushed grass and one imprint of the round support about a meter in diameter. I wanted to run to one of the nearest villages and call somewhere, but then the question arose: where? And he wandered to his basket of mushrooms.
I took it and went to the bus. A man approached me on the bus and said: “I saw everything.” I replied: “So what?” He paused, realizing that it was useless to prove all this. A month later I wrote a letter to the newspaper “Rodyanska Ukraine” and “Komsomolskaya Pravda”. I did not give my address – why?
And now I will supplement my description of the UFO. The range of its “petals” was about 15-19 meters. The ovoid apparatus is 8-10 meters high. Its outer diameter is 6-7 meters, and the inner diameter is 3-3.5 meters. Between the external and internal walls are mounted various equipment and, perhaps, there are also rest rooms.
And further. When I asked Gezelia what the cross means on one of the slides, where there were a lot of cars, she drew sketches of our car and KamAZ and immediately crossed them, and next she drew something like a diamond-type car, but without wheels. I did not understand, and then she took off her remote control (?), Pressed the button, and a piece of film came out from the back.
I saw a panoramic image of a part of a city. Houses with rhombic and oval windows in two or four floors, with a lot of towers, holding on themselves something like our radars. In the distance one could see a factory, even further from the pyramid … In the foreground there was a two-storey villa with a “locator”, and next to it – Gezelia with a girl of two or three years in her arms.
Immediately there was a man of two meters height and a boy of 12-15 years. Immediately – a car, but only rhombic and without wheels, as she painted me. A huge tree was growing nearby, a fountain flowed nearby … “
On this impression the eyewitness breaks off: he told everything that he remembered while he was in the alien apparatus.
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You won’t believe what NASA hid from us this year
You won’t believe what NASA hid from us this year
As the federal agency at the forefront of exploring outer space, NASA winds up being the front door for all manner of alien conspiracies. And so every year, to find out what the miscreants at the space agency have been keeping from the good, honest people of America, we like to google the phrase “NASA hiding.”
2016 did not disappoint.
Aliens at the Space Station
Ever popular is the notion that the space agency manipulates the cameras aboard the International Space Station to prevent ufologists from identifying their quarry. This tired notion popped up again during 2016 when NASA cut a live video feed from the station in July.
Youtube user Streetcap1 captured the nefarious NASA activity in a video posted July 9. He noted that, just as a UFO appeared to enter the Earth’s atmosphere on the station feed, “the camera cut off when the UFO seemed to stop.” Suspicious!
NASA cut away from this UFO in an attempt to prevent us from knowing what’s out there.
(Streetcap1/YouTube)
We’re embarrassed to report that this video has been viewed approximately 4 million times, with likes outnumbering dislikes three-to-one. In reality, the station periodically passes out of range of the tracking and data relay Satellites that provide high bandwidth capacity for video, voice, and telemetry from the station to the ground. When this happens the cameras automatically switch to a pre-recorded video or other programming.
What is NASA hiding at the North Pole?
When it wasn’t busy obfuscating alien sightings aboard the International Space Station, NASA also worked in 2016 to cover up the strange world inside the North Pole. “NASA and the world’s governments are trying to… completely hide the fact that there is something at our North and South Poles,” a video by secureteam10 states. “And what they are hiding appears to be a massive entrance, or hole, to the inner Earth.”
Early satellite images clearly show a “giant hole” at the North Pole, right?
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The 13-minute video (2.3 million views) goes on to display a number of old images from early satellites that, in the words of the conspiracy theorists, find NASA “caught red handed attempting to hide” a giant opening at the North Pole. The gist of their argument is that these images support the “Hollow Earth Theory,” which apparently says there is an inner Earth, complete with land and a Sun of its own. Conspiracy theorists assert that explorers have seen the inner Earth first hand when flying over the pole.
The Hollow Earth exposé also showcases video from an ISS flyover of Antarctica, which abruptly ends as an astronaut closes the cupola’s protective shades. Mysterious, isn’t it? What boggles our mind is that the purveyors of this nonsense would rely on old satellite images of the poles when there are many, many great modern ones from satellites, including those in orbit above the poles.
This modern satellite image of the North Pole, alas, shows no giant hole.
When one looks at these images there are, alas, no holes revealing an inner paradise. Were such a polar maw to exist, we also wonder why the US South Pole Station hasn’t yet been swallowed.
Aliens on the Sun
The other major new revelation of what NASA hid in 2016 concerns an Earth-sized UFO near the Sun. According to some ufologists, NASA has deliberately used pixel glitches to hide alien spacecraft spotted in the agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) images. Other eminent UFO scholars argued that the cube-shaped image artifact itself is the alien spacecraft. Maybe even THE BORG.
Why would a giant UFO be lurking near the Sun? Do you really have to ask? “Its [sic] sucking away the suns [sic] Chromosphere (surface) and maybe the next layer of the Photosphere for some kind of energy that it needs for power,” the website UFO Sightings Daily declared. “Natures fuel [sic] for aliens, but it may be taking it to deliver to an alien world in e that plants are themselves aliens? Perhaps all will be revealed in the new year.
Could The Pyramids At Giza Predate Ancient Egyptian Civilization?
Could The Pyramids At Giza Predate Ancient Egyptian Civilization?
The most mysterious ancient civilizations to ever develop on the surface of the planet is without a doubt, the great Ancient Egyptian Civilization.
The more we have ventured into the plentiful Egyptian History, the more have we been left perplexed by the complexity and advanced development of this ancient culture that developed along the Nile River.
The more we search, the more we learn how little we know.
Experts studying Egypt came across what is considered one of the oldest settlements on Earth, dating back to the Neolithic Period.
The discovery shows what Egypt was like before the “First Pharaoh’s.”
Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities explained that the ancient city, thought to be more than 7,000 years old, “offers a unique opportunity to shed light on the prehistoric communities that lived in the Nile Delta before the reign of the first Pharaonic dynasty.”
But that is just one of the many amazing discoveries that have been made so far in Egypt.
The Pyramids
The Pyramids are perhaps the biggest mystery of them all. We don’t really know how they (the pyramids) were built, how the ancients transported massive blocks of stone, hundreds of kilometers across, nor do we know why the pyramids were built.
They did not serve as tombs, as there is plenty of evidence suggesting their purpose was a far greater one.,
Reports indicate that the Pyramids at Giza show evidence of a massive flood, but despite this, Egypt has not really had significant rainfall since a least 5,000 B.C.
Researchers trying to crack the mystery of the pyramids have found silt sediments rising up to fourteen fitt around the base of the Pyramids at Giza.
Furthermore, pieces of seashells, as well as Marine fossils, have been found in this sediment. The strange part is that once carbon dating was performed on the fossils and seashells, it showed experts they were nearly 12,000 years old.
One theory is that these objects were transported by the Nile River, which floods every year. However, the Pyramids are located as much as five miles away from the Nile and are raised on the so-called Giza plateau.
This means that it is very unlikely that marine fossils and seashells discovered at the Pyramids originated from the Nile.
The Sphinx, an even greater mystery
But if we explore the Giza plateau a bit more, we will come across the Sphinx, which curiously also shows clear evidence of water damage.-
One researcher who took particular interest in the Sphinx was Robert Schoch, who identified signs of water erosion at the Sphinx. The presence of water damage on the Sphinx, also backs up the theory that the Sphinx was a massive monument carved more than 10,000 years ago.
Video – What If an Advanced Civilization of Humans Existed Thousands of Years Ago?
Video – What If an Advanced Civilization of Humans Existed Thousands of Years Ago?
Many people wonder if ancient civilizations that were advances existed on Earth many years ago and experts do occasionally discover something that changes what we know about history. But what if 100,000 years ago an ancient advanced civilization had been on Earth? That would change everything. There have been many discoveries that possibly point to advanced civilizations being on Earth many thousands of years ago.
Which leads to the question of what do we know about history really, and what do we know about the human race in the past. Mainstream researchers have suggested that mankind has been on Earth for just a couple thousand years, but recent discoveries suggest otherwise.µ
Ancient Civilization Living In Africa More Than 100,000 Years Ago
There is evidence that suggests that an intelligent civilization may have lived in Africa more than 100,000 years ago. About 150 kilometers to the west of Port Maputo; there are the remains of a metropolis that is around 1500 square kilometers. Researchers suggest that this is an ancient city that may have been just a part of what could have been an even larger community, in total around 10,000 square kilometers, which is thought to have been built between 160,000 and 200,000 years before the birth of Christ.
The geology surrounding it is interesting thanks to a lot of gold mines that can be found within the vicinity. Researchers believe that this is where a missing civilization from the past may have lived and set up gold mining.
The Amazon May Have Been Home To Lost Civilizations
Some believe that there may have been an ancient civilization predating the Inca along with their ancestors in the remote regions of the Amazon.
With deforestations happening rapidly Google Earth has led to the finding of 210 geoglyphs at over 200 different sites in the Amazon in a strip of 250 kilometers by 10 kilometers. Similar to the Nazca lines, the anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and geometric designs have to be seen from the air to be appreciated. But the biggest question remains why?
Many remains of what do seem to be part of an unknown and ancient civilization have been seen lying beneath trees among the Amazon rainforest. Researchers think that 260 long avenues with long irrigation canals and fences, which appear to have been for holding livestock in, have been seen from the air. This discovery was near to the border of Brazil and Bolivia.
The Amazons Lost Pyramids Give Hint Of Prehistoric Civilization
There are many dense and tangled jungles in the Amazon that are home to many mysteries that may help to understand just how ancient lost civilizations may have lived many thousands of years ago. Researchers have the belief that the Pyramids of Paratoari are ridge spurs that are truncated, which take the form of a natural pyramid. However, others think that the structures were made a long time ago by a civilization that hasn’t been acknowledged by mainstream history.
Trips to the region have revealed a lot of evidence about the inheritance of Incas in the region, including petroglyphs, platforms, and roads that were paved. The pyramidal structures had first been identified by satellite photographs from NASA that had been released in 1976. The photographs got numerous researchers to go out into the Manu region of the tropical rain forest in southeast Peru to try to locate the structures and find out if they had been built by a lost civilization.
The Sphinx May Be 800,000 Years
Old One of the most enigmatic and mysterious of all monuments on Earth is the Great Sphinx which is found in Giza, Egypt. The construction is ancient, and it is something that has managed to baffle researchers ever since the monument was discovered. Until recently the Sphinx hadn’t been dated as there were no records ever found or talk in the past about it. Now, however, researchers from the Ukraine have come up with a new theory, which is somewhat provocative. They believe that the Great Sphinx may be around 800,000 years old and this theory is said to have the backing of science.
The two experts say that the starting point is the paradigm shift that was initiated by Schoch and West; this had been intended to do away with the orthodox view of Egyptology when referring to the remote origins of Egyptian civilization, along with physical evidence of there being water erosion at the monuments at Giza.
Complex Lifeforms May Have Existed Long Before Humankind Existed
However, there isn’t much by way of knowledge about the origins of life along with modern civilization. Recently a study was published with experts coming to the conclusion that very different life forms, which were complex, might have once lived on Earth a long time before humankind came into existence. It is said that there had been enough oxygen in the environment to allow complex cells to evolve. Some scientists believe that we aren’t the first complex life that has been on the planet. Another complex lifeform is said to have been in existence. However, they disappeared during the long history of Earth. Then lifeforms that were complex made a reappearance after a short time.
Complex lifeforms may have been on Earth 1.75 billion years ago. But if complex life had existed in the past on Earth, why do people believe that it is unlikely or improbable that advanced civilizations might have flourished?
Even if advanced alien civilizations had been in existence in the Solar System, maybe even on Earth billions of years ago, more than likely any trace or evidence of them would have been long gone, so more than likely no one is going to know for sure.
Have the Kordylewski clouds been confirmed? They were first reported In 1961, 2 clusters of dust, orbiting at about the moon’s distance. They’re faint. Have scientists now detected them?
Diagram showing the Lagrangian points of the Earth–moon system. If they exist, Kordylewski clouds lie in the regions of L4 and L5.
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) said this week (October 25, 2018) that astronomers may now have confirmed the existence of two elusive dust clouds, orbiting Earth much as our moon orbits it, at about the moon’s distance. They are known as Kordylewski clouds, first reported by and named for Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski in 1961. If they exist, Earth’s dust cloud satellites are exceptionally faint, so that their existence is controversial. The RAS is pointing to two new papers about the Kordylewski clouds in its peer-reviewed journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. It said in a statement that a team of Hungarian astronomers and physicists may have confirmed the clouds just where Kordylewski said they would be, in semi-stable points just 250,000 miles (400,000 km) from Earth.
For comparison, the moon’s average distance is 238,900 miles (385,000 km) from Earth.
Artist’s concept of a Kordylewski cloud in the night sky at the time of the observations. The brightness is greatly enhanced; we wouldn’t really see this cloud.
If they exist, the Kordylewski clouds lie at two special points in the Earth-moon system. These points – known as Lagrangian or Lagrange points – are known to be relatively stable, gravitationally. Objects, even dust, drifting near these points would tend to move neither toward the Earth nor toward the moon. They’d tend to stay put, moving ahead of and behind the moon in orbit. The RAS explained:
Two of these so-called Lagrange points, L4 and L5, form an equal-sided triangle with the Earth and moon, and move around the Earth as the moon moves along its orbit.
L4 and L5 are not completely stable, as they are disturbed by the gravitational pull of the sun. Nonetheless they are thought to be locations where interplanetary dust might collect, at least temporarily. Kordylewski observed two nearby clusters of dust at L5 in 1961, with various reports since then, but their extreme faintness makes them difficult to detect and many scientists doubted their existence.
In a paper earlier in 2018, the Hungarian team, led by Gábor Horváth of Eötvös Loránd University, modeled the Kordylewski clouds to assess how they form and how they might be detected. The researchers were interested in their appearance using polarizing filters, similar to those found on some types of sunglasses. The RAS explained:
Scattered or reflected light is always more or less polarized, depending on the angle of scattering or reflection.
AFter they determined what to look for, the researchers then set out to find the dust clouds. They set up a linearly polarizing filter system, attached to a camera lens and CCD detector, at Slíz-Balogh’s private observatory in Hungary (Badacsonytördemic).
Then the scientists took exposures of the purported location of the Kordylewski cloud at the L5 point.
The images they obtained show polarised light reflected from dust, extending well outside the field of view of the camera lens. The RAS said:
The observed pattern matches predictions made by the same group of researchers in an earlier paper and is consistent with the earliest observations of the Kordylewski clouds six decades ago.
Horváth’s group were able to rule out optical artefacts and other effects, meaning that the presence of the dust cloud is confirmed.
Pattern of the angle of polarization of the sky around the L5 Lagrange point of the Earth-moon system. Image acquired August 19, 2017. The position of the L5 point is shown by a white dot. In this picture the central region of the Kordylewski dust cloud is visible (bright red pixels). The straight tilted lines are traces of satellites.
Mosaic pattern of the angle of polarization around the L5 point (white dot) of the Earth-moon system. The five rectangular windows correspond to the fields of view of the imaging polarimetric telescope with which the polarization patterns of the Kordylewski dust cloud were measured.
Judit Slíz-Balogh – who collaborated on this problem with the other scientists and is a lead author on one of the papers – commented:
The Kordylewski clouds are two of the toughest objects to find, and though they are as close to Earth as the moon are largely overlooked by researchers in astronomy. It is intriguing to confirm that our planet has dusty pseudo-satellites in orbit alongside our lunar neighbor.
The RAS said:
Given their stability, the L4 and L5 points are seen as potential sites for orbiting space probes, and as transfer stations for missions exploring the wider solar system. There are also proposals to store pollutants at the two points.
Future research will look at L4 and L5, and the associated Kordylewski clouds, to understand how stable they really are, and whether their dust presents any kind of threat to equipment and future astronauts alike.
Kazimierz Kordylewski proposed the existence of Earth’s dust cloud satellites in 1961, and astronomers have been arguing about them since then. Have they now been confirmed?
Bottom line:Researchers say they have confirmed the existence of the Kordylewski dust clouds, which orbit at the L4 and L5 points in the Earth-moon system. In other words, the dust clouds orbit approximately in the moon’s orbit. They move ahead of and behind the moon in orbit.
The Extraterrestrial Cigar Shaped Craft, Discovered On A South Atlantic Island?
The Extraterrestrial Cigar Shaped Craft, Discovered On A South Atlantic Island?
Google Earth has recently been the center of attention for many UFO Truth seekers after a mysterious object which appears to be some kind of crash-landed alien craft, has been doing the rounds across the internet. You can even see a trail behind it, which appears to show that the potential craft crashed through a nearby mountain – as of yet this has NOT been debunked!
Many leading UFO researchers have been using satellite mapping to zoom in and look at the alleged spaceship, near the 10,000ft tall Mount Paget. You can clearly see like an artificial trail coming from behind the huge crashed looking object. Researchers have also suggested that the length of this object is in the region of 63 meters!!!
The nearby tracks suggest the irregular-shaped object had slid through the snow prior to arriving at the final resting place on the icy island, not far from Antarctica. It has been suggested that this is/was a huge block of ice, which fell off the mountain after an avalanche the day previous to this image being taken – but a 1,000 metres is long way for a huge piece of ice to travel, leaving a perfect trail behind it!
Since it was uploaded onto the internet, the video has been viewed more than 420,000 times, attracting almost 6,000 comments in just a week!
Many people have agreed that this could be an alien spaceship.
A Frank Lucas wrote:
“That definitely looks like something was airborne and definitely crashed into that mountain.”
Meanwhile James Carter said:
“The Georgia island object is definitely not anything we can explain from looking through satellite imagery.”
Another Youtube user, Tom Brown, suggested:
“This could actually be a rocket or the left overs of a rocket. It could also be a missile that was fired for testing purposes.
“It could even be a human-made airplane or aircraft of some sort.
“Governments all around the world do all kinds of testing with air crafts for modern warfare and the perfect place to hide one that didn’t work out would be on a small island that is near a continent no one is allowed to explore.”
South Georgia Island is part of the British Overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
(Picture: Google Earth)
There have also been many others who believe that this could be some kind of rock formation which has broken away from the mountain behind it. Another government funded researcher Dave Petley, pro-vice-chancellor (research and innovation) at the University of Sheffield has stepped forward to claim the object broke off a nearby mountain and slid through the snow. On his blog, he wrote:
‘This is conventional landslide behavior on snow and ice covered surfaces, and we have seen other large isolated boulders travel long distances.’
Although this theory has not been confirmed either – interesting how government figures always confirm that it’s nothing ALIEN!?!?
Whatever this incredible look object it is, one thing is for sure that it needs far more research to be able to confirm exactly what it is. Ideally we need boots on the ground to look at this huge object face to face, although this is not the easiest part of the world to travel to.
Did the ‘mass’ slide down or out of the mountain?
U.I.P Summary
Now THIS is a very interesting story which has recently come about. Of course this object could be a large piece of rock or ice that slid off the nearby mountain (before any self proclaimed UFO debunkers/trolls start abusing us!) HOWEVER just look at the shape of the huge object and the perfect trail it left behind it!
When you watch the video it almost appears as if the object has crashed through the mountain! Of course this could be something out of nothing, but it’s important for us to cover off these stories with you as nothing has yet been confirmed what it is and the elite like to debunk pretty much everything!
We are going to do some more research into this intriguing story.
PLANET EARTH IS home to some spectacular relics from bygone eras, constructions that seem to defy the technological capabilities of their time either because they’re too big, too heavy, or too complex.
As such, some suggest the ancient builders of the Egyptian pyramids, the Nasca lines, and others were following an extraterrestrial instruction manual. Perhaps the hands that crafted these sites weren’t really of this world.
To be sure, it’s fun to think about whether aliens have visited Earth. After all, humans are on the threshold of expanding our reach in space, and places like Mars are in our sight. But the truth is, there’s no evidence suggesting that aliens have ever been here. And invoking a supernatural explanation for some of the most monumental of human achievements means skipping over the fascinating ways in which prehistoric civilizations managed to make some of the largest and most enigmatic constructions on Earth.
1. Sacsayhuamán
The ancient fortress of Sacsayhuamán contrasts with Cusco's modern buildings.
PHOTOGRAPH BY HEIKO MEYER, LAIF/REDUX
Outside the old Inca capital of Cusco, a fortress called Sacsayhuamán rests in the Peruvian Andes. Built from enormous stones that have been chiseled and stacked together like a jigsaw puzzle, some say Sacsayhuamán could be the work of an ancient civilization that had a little help from interstellar friends.
The 1,000-year-old interlocking fortress walls are made of rocks that weigh as much as 360 tons each, and which were carried more than 20 miles before being lifted and fit into place with laser-like precision.
How an ancient culture accomplished such a feat of engineering is a fun little problem to solve; turns out the Inca were as adept at building houses and fortified complexes as they were at watching the sky and keeping calendars. In fact, Sacsayhuamán isn’t the only example of this intricate masonry: Similar walls exist throughout the Inca Empire, including one in Cusco where a 12-angled stone has been carefully wedged into place.
More recently, archaeologists have uncovered traces of the rope-and-lever system the Inca used to transport stones from their quarries to their cities—a system that relied on strength and ingenuity, rather than alien architects.
2. Nasca Lines
A plane glides over an ancient spider geoglyph in the Peruvian desert.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT CLARK, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
On a high and dry plateau some 200 miles southeast of Lima, more than 800 long, straight white lines are etched into the Peruvian desert, seemingly at random. Joining them are 300 geometric shapes and 70 figures of animals, including a spider, monkey, and hummingbird.
The longest of the lines run straight as an arrow for miles. The biggest shapes stretch nearly 1,200 feet across and are best viewed from the air. Scientists suspect the Nasca drawings are as many as two millennia old, and because of their age, size, visibility from above, and mysterious nature, the lines are often cited as one of the best examples of alien handiwork on Earth. Otherwise, how would an ancient culture have been able to make such huge designs in the desert without being able to fly? And why?
Turns out, it’s rather easy to understand the how. Called geoglyphs, these enigmatic designs are made by removing the top, rust-colored layer of rocks and exposing the brighter white sand underneath.
The why is a bit tougher to comprehend. First studied in the early 1900s, the designs were initially suspected to be aligned with constellations or solstices, but more recent work suggests the Nasca lines point to ceremonial or ritual sites related to water and fertility. And in addition to being visible from the air, the shapes can be seen from surrounding foothills.
3. Egyptian Pyramids
The sun sets over the Giza necropolis on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.
PHOTOGRAPH BY EZEQUIEL SCAGNETTI, REDUX
Just outside Cairo, in Giza, the most famous of Egypt’s pyramids rise from the desert. Built more than 4,500 years ago, the Pyramids at Giza are monumental tombs where ancient queens and pharaohs were buried.
But how, exactly, did the Egyptians build these things? The Great Pyramid is made of millions of precisely hewn stones weighing at least two tons each. Even with today’s cranes and other construction equipment, building a pyramid as big as that of Pharaoh Khufu would be a formidable challenge.
And then there’s the astronomical configuration of the pyramids, which is said to align with the stars in Orion’s belt. As well, alien theorists often point to the fact that these three pyramids are in way better shape than others built centuries later (never mind the amount of work that has gone into preserving them over the past several centuries).
So are Egypt’s pyramids artifacts of aliens? Not exactly. It’s true that scientists aren’t quite sure how the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids—and especially how they did it so quickly—but there’s ample evidence that these tombs are the work of thousands of earthly hands.
4. Stonehenge
Bands of pink and purple streak the sky over Stonehenge at dawn.
PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIP KRAMER, GETTY IMAGES
A huge circle of stones, some weighing as much as 50 tons, sits in the English countryside outside Salisbury. Known as Stonehenge, the Neolithic monument inspired Swiss author Erich von Däniken to suggest it was a model of the solar system that also functioned as an alien landing pad—after all, how else could those massive stones have ended up hundreds of miles from their home quarry?
No one knows what, exactly, the meaning of Stonehenge is, but, as with all the other sites in this collection, the explanation is not aliens. Instead, scientists have demonstrated it’s actually possible to build such a thing using technologies that would have been around 5,000 years ago, when the earliest structures at the site were built.
And now, it appears as though the stones are aligned with solstices and eclipses, suggesting the Stonehenge builders were at least keeping an eye on the heavens, even if they didn’t come from above.
5. Teotihuacán
Teotihuacán’s Pyramid of the Sun rises up against the cobalt sky in Mexico City.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT FRIED, ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
Teotihuacán, meaning the "City of the Gods," is a sprawling, ancient city in Mexico that’s best known for its pyramidal temples and astronomical alignments. Built more than 2,000 years ago, Teotihuacán’s age, size, and complexity can make it seem otherworldly, but it’s very much the work of humans.
Scientists suspect that over centuries, a mix of cultures including Maya, Zapotec, and Mixtec built the city that could house more than 100,000 people. With its murals, tools, transportation system, and evidence of advanced agricultural practices, Teotihuacán is often considered much more technologically developed than should have been possible in pre-Aztec Mexico.
By far, the most well known of Teotihuacán’s buildings is the massive Pyramid of the Sun. One of the largest such constructions in the Western Hemisphere, the pyramid’s curious alignment is believed to be based on calendrical cycles.
6. Easter Island
Moai dot the grassy hills of Easter Island, a Chilean territory located in the southeastern Pacific.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOCHEM D. WIJNANDS, GETTY IMAGES
The enigmas surrounding the moai, Easter Island’s fleet of large stone figures, pretty much follow the same narrative as the other sites described here: How in the world did the Rapa Nui make these figures more than 1,000 years ago? And how did the moai end up on Easter Island?
Carved from stone, the nearly 900 human figures are sprinkled along the flanks of the island’s extinct volcanoes. The figures average 13 feet tall and weigh 14 tons and appear to have been chiseled from the soft volcanic tuff found in the Rano Raraku quarry. There, more than 400 statues are still in various states of construction, with some completed figures awaiting transportation to their intended resting place.
The reasons for carving the moai are mysterious, though they were likely sculpted for religious or ritual reasons. It’s also not exactly clear what happened to the stone-crafting Rapa Nui, but a leading theory suggests their civilization succumbed to an environmental disaster of their own making … which is something that probably could have been prevented had ancient aliens bestowed their infinite wisdom upon the culture.
7. The Face on Mars
NASA's Viking 1 orbiter took this photograph of Mars in 1976. Shadows in the rock formation create an illusion of a human face.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA/JPL
If Elon Musk has his way, humans will be capable of visiting the “face on Mars” sometime this century. Spotted by the Viking 1 orbiter in 1976, the so-called face is nearly two miles long and is in a region called Cydonia, which separates the smooth plains of the Martian north from the more cratered terrain in the south. At the time, scientists dismissed the “face” as shadow play, but over the decades it has become a favorite among those who suspect aliens with a penchant for building things have been visiting the solar system.
In 2001, NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor took another good look at the face—using a much higher resolution camera—and saw … no face. Turns out that what had appeared to be a face is just another boring old Martian mesa, kind of like the landforms that litter the U.S. Southwest.
But that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be fun to visit.
Le phénomène a été observé aux quatre coins de l'île ce samedi 27 octobre en début de soirée, aux alentours de 20h10. Plusieurs témoins ont parlé d'une sorte d'étoile filante qui serait passée d'ouest en est dans le ciel réunionnais. À Saint-Joseph, dans les hauts de Saint-Leu, à Saint-André, à Sainte-Marie, de nombreux témoins ont assisté au passage furtif de quelque chose dans le ciel. Les témoins décrivent une lumière jaune, orangée. La plupart d'entre eux a pensé à un météore car il y a environ un mois, un météore a bien traversé le ciel réunionnais. Mais cette fois, au vue de la vitesse, de la trajectoire et des couleurs du phénomène, des questions se posent...
Voici des images du phénomène, il n’a pas été aperçu qu’à La Réunion. À Rodrigues, il semble même plus proche, regardez :
Comme vous l’entendez sur les vidéos, les témoins du passage de cet OVNI (objet volant non identifié) sont assez dubitatifs. "C’est quoi çaaaa ? " L’hypothèse la plus crédible, c’est Actu Météo 974 qui la donne sur sa page Facebook : " L'hypothèse qui, pour l'instant tiendrait la route, serait la rentrée atmosphérique d'un morceau de fusée Falcon 9 lancée il y a environ 1 an. La trajectoire de ce débris spatial le faisait passer au-dessus des Mascareignes ce samedi vers 20h32."
C’est un certain Flavien Schmitt qui aurait mis Actu Météo 974 sur cette piste. Il a donc résolu l’énigme de ce bolide qui a fendu le ciel réunionnais ce samedi 27 octobre.
A mission began its seven-year journey to Mercury, scientists found the smallest known cannibal galaxy and a NASA scientist saw rectangular-shaped icebergs in Antarctica. These are just some of this week's top stories from Space.com.
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL illustration
1. NASA will stop trying to contact silent rover
The Opportunity Mars rover has been silent for 4 months, and NASA will soon end active efforts to contact the robot. Opportunity entered low-power mode following a major Martian dust storm that blocked out the sun and kept the rover from recharging on solar power.
Two researchers detected the smallest known case of a galaxy eating another galaxy. In a new paper published on Oct. 11, the team found two different types of stars within a small nearby galaxy, and this was a sign that it had previously "eaten" a smaller neighbor.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory went into "safe mode" last week because of a glitch. But this week, the space agency announced that Chandra's science operations got going again on Sunday (Oct. 21), after mission team members established a new configuration for the piece of the space telescope that had the glitch.
A picture of a rectangular-shaped iceberg recently went viral. The "tabular iceberg" came about when it and others calved off the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica and NASA scientist Jeremy Harbeck took an image of some such icebergs during an Oct. 16 research flight over the frigid continent.
Scientists are now wondering if the features seen on the surface of Europa by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were signs of water vapor, or not. Recently, researchers looked through existing data to find the heat signals of the hot sources that would support geysers on Jupiter's moon.
Life before green plants may have been purple, so alien life might be the same color. A new research paper argues that early life on Earth could have been purple, so that means if scientists are looking for biosignatures on distant worlds, they perhaps should start looking for signs of lavender life as well.
Mercury is the destination of a joint Japanese-European mission that just launched from French Guiana. On Oct. 19 (Oct. 20 GMT) the BepiColombo mission took off and began its seven-year journey to the planet closest to the sun, and when it arrives it will separate into two spacecraft and circle Mercury for a year.
Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans
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8. Signs of many gargantuan mergers spotted
A new study suggests that supermassive black holes — which can be the mass of millions of stars — probably collide and combine frequently. In 24 of the 33 objects the team studied, a particular signature appeared which is consistent with the existence of black holes tugging at each other.
At a meeting of the U.S. National Space Council on Oct. 23, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said a new crew should launch up to the space station in December despite the Oct. 11 failure of a Russian Soyuz crew capsule during flight. That crew would consist of NASA astronaut Anne McClain, cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and the Canadian Space Agency's David Saint-Jacques.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is currently approaching its subject: asteroid Bennu. To ensure that the spacecraft doesn't crash into the potential dust plumes or tiny moons from Bennu or a neighbor, mission scientists conducted safety scans.
The experimental military base Tonopah Test Range in southwestern Nevada is shown in this 2017 Google Earth view, before a recent update.
Credit: Google Earth
Satellite imagery of an experimental military base that was missing from Google Maps for years is now available … but you'll have to go to New York City to see it.
Engineer Dhruv Mehrotra, a resident at the technology and art nonprofit Eyebeam, and writer Brendan Byrne leased the swatch of satellite imagery from the company Apollo Mapping for $1,984.50, after noticing that Google Maps hadn't updated an area over the Tonopah Test Range in southwestern Nevada for eight years.
The leased imagery can be shown only to people within Mehrotra and Byrne's "company," so the pair hosted an event yesterday (Oct. 25) called "Internal Use Only" to showcase the bird's-eye view of the experimental military installment. Visitors had to sign paperwork declaring themselves temporary employees of Eyebeam in order to legally see the satellite shot. [15 Secretive Places You Can Now See on Google Earth (And 3 You Can't)
Mehrotra and Byrne originally suspected government censorship when they learned that users of Google Maps were seeing 8-year-old imagery when they scrolled over Tonopah. According to a Google spokesperson who contacted Motherboard after Mehrotra and Byrne published their article, there was no censorship involved, but rather uninterest. The company licenses its imagery from third- party providers, and updates based on where users tend to browse.) The company has since updated Maps, and the aerial view of the test zone now dates to October 2017, they wrote on Motherboard. According to the Google Earth blog, most of the country's satellite imagery is updated roughly every three years, with the area in Nevada containing Tonopah Test Range an exception that "seems to have been missed."
The pair's project highlights the quilted nature of Google Maps. Some of the mapping program's imagery is aerial photography, taken from planes or helicopters, Mehrotra and Byrne wrote. Over military bases, where airspace is tightly controlled, Google tends to get imagery from private satellite companies instead.
The Tonopah Test Range is about 70 miles (110 kilometers) from Area 51, another military installment famous for UFO sightings and alien myths. According to Sandia National Laboratories, the range is used to test a variety of weapons and planes. Tonopah, according to Jalopnik, was where the slim-winged F-117, the first "stealth" aircraft in the U.S. military, was developed.
According to data from the National UFO Reporting Center, UFO sightings around the world have reached an all-time high. Statistics show individuals in the US are more likely to witness a UFO
The sci-fi series "The X-Files" popularized the saying "the truth is out there." And in the past 15 years, thousands of UFO sightings across the United States show a lot of people are still looking.
A new list of the top cities in the U.S. that have had UFO sightings from 2001-2015 has been published, with Phoenix topping the list, according to a story in the Syracuse New Times.
The data is pulled from the book "UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015," written by Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa. Published in March 2017, the book compiles "data and analysis for 100,000+ sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by individuals during the first 15 years of the 21st century."
Costa noted that Phoenix may be the most prevalent place in the U.S. for UFO sightings, perhaps due to the Phoenix Lights phenomena two decades ago.
In 1997, there were two events that occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico. Thousands of witnesses say they saw a formation of five lights in a V-shape, producing no sound and a triangular formation of lights. The U.S Air Force claimed the second group of lights were flares dropped from a A-10 Warthog aircraft.
In addition to Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Chicago and Portland round out the top five cities on the list.
Below is the list of 25 most sightings across U.S. cities.
DIEREN Wetenschappers aan boord van E/V Nautilus, een schip dat wordt ingezet voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek, hebben met een op afstand bestuurde onderzeeër beelden gemaakt van een spookachtige octopus met doorzichtige vinnen, die lijken op flapperende oren zoals die van Disneyfiguurtje Dumbo de olifant.
De onderzoekers verkenden de Davidson Seamount, een onderzeese vulkaan op zo’n 130 kilometer voor de kust van Californië, toen dinsdag plots dit mysterieuze zeewezen verscheen, tot verrukking van de onderzoekers die hun enthousiasme hoorbaar niet kunnen onderdrukken.
Volgens Chad King, hoofdwetenschapper van de Nautilus, was het een unieke ervaring om de 60 centimeter lange octopus tegen te komen. “Het is erg bijzonder om er eentje in leven te zien. Zoiets zie je niet elke dag”, zegt hij. “Het is geen zeldzame soort, maar het is zeldzaam om er eentje tegen te komen. De kans is klein, omdat we op een klein plekje in de diepe oceaan zitten.”
Deze octopussen van het geslacht Grimpoteuthis, die omwille van hun bijzondere vinnen ook Dumbo-octopussen worden genoemd, leven in de Atlantische en Stille Oceaan op een diepte van zo’n 3.000 à 4.000 meter, waardoor ze moeilijk te bestuderen zijn. De meerderheid van hun dagen zweven de dieren net boven de zeebodem. Hier jagen ze op prooien als schaal-, schelpdieren en wormen en leggen ze hun eitjes.
Hoewel ze er schattig uitzien, zijn deze octopussen geen doetjes: wanneer ze een prooi te pakken krijgen, vormen ze met hun lichaam een ballon rondom de prooi om haar zo te verorberen.
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Geheime tunnels en kamer ontdekt onder Mexicaanse piramide. Is dit een doorgang naar de onderwereld?
Geheime tunnels en kamer ontdekt onder Mexicaanse piramide. Is dit een doorgang naar de onderwereld?
Onder de Piramide van de Maan in de stad Teotihuacan in Mexico is een nieuwe tunnel gevonden die leidt naar een geheime kamer.
De vondst is gedaan door onderzoekers van het Mexicaanse Nationaal Instituut voor Antropologie en Geschiedenis (INAH).
Projectleider Veronica Ortega zei dat in de tunnel mogelijk begrafenisrituelen hebben plaatsgevonden die verband houden met de onderwereld.
Doorgang
Met behulp van scans hebben de onderzoekers de locatie van de tunnels en de kamer kunnen achterhalen. Nu moeten ze nog zien te ontdekken hoe ze de kamer het beste kunnen bestreden.
Ze denken dat de ‘doorgang naar de onderwereld’ onverklaarbare vervormde schedels en andere vreemde voorwerpen zal bevatten.
De Piramide van de Maan is de op één na grootste piramide in Mexico. De Piramide van de Zon is de grootste.
Maya’s
Gedacht wordt dat Teotihuacan rond 100 voor Christus is gebouwd door de Tolteken.
Ortega lichtte toe dat tijdens eerdere opgravingen skeletten zijn gevonden met vreemd gevormde schedels, net als in het leefgebied van de Maya’s.
Andere ingang
De tunnel bevindt zich op een diepte van acht meter en is gelegen aan de zuidkant van de piramide. Waarschijnlijk is er ook nog een andere ingang aan de oostkant.
Experts zeiden eerder dat de tunnels mogelijk geassocieerd kunnen worden met heilige waterstromen en de onderwereld.
VREEMDE LUCHTEN ZOALS MEN DIE NOG NOOIT ZAG ( VIDEO )
VREEMDE LUCHTEN ZOALS MEN DIE NOG NOOIT ZAG ( VIDEO )
Het komt steeds vaker voor dat mensen vreemde luchten zien en daarbij opmerken dat ze nog nooit zoiets hebben gezien.
Het komt voor in alle delen van de wereld en de kleuren rood en paars beginnen steeds vaker voor te komen.
Alles wat de mainstream media doen is bijzondere kwesties afserveren als niets bijzonders, maar zonder daar een goede verklaring voor te (kunnen) geven.
We hebben gezien hoe ze uit pure noodzaak dan maar nieuwe wolkensoorten verzinnen waar je bij staat, maar feit is dat onze grootouders dergelijke luchten niet zagen.
Naarmate er meer vreemde luchten te zien zijn, zal het moeilijker worden om ook daar weer een geloofwaardige verklaring voor te kunnen vinden.
Bovenstaande zijn slechts enkele voorbeelden van het soort luchten zoals die door mensen worden waargenomen. Niet alleen zijn ze vreemd en onwerkelijk, men krijgt er ook een akelig gevoel bij.
Ze worden vaak omschreven als "scary skies", angstaanjagende luchten.
Het is niet helemaal waar dat dit soort luchten niet eerder zijn voorgekomen, maar dan moeten we wel ver terug in de tijd, tot ver voor het begin van onze jaartelling.
Tenslotte zullen wij allemaal in onze genen ergens de ervaring hebben opgeslagen van een eerdere passage van Nibiru, bijgenaamd de Verwoester. Een gebeurtenis die uitgebreid staat beschreven in de Kolbrin bijbel zoals wij al eerder berichtten:
“De donkere dagen begonnen met het laatste bezoek van de Verwoester en dit werd voorspeld door vreemde tekenen aan de hemel. Alle mensen werden stil en liepen rond met een bleek gelaat.
Angst nam de bevolking in haar grip en vrouwen werden door die angst onvruchtbaar. Ze konden niet zwanger worden en degene die het wel werden verloren hun kind.
De dagen van stilte werden gevolgd door een tijd waarbij trompetgeschal en doordringende hoge tonen werden gehoord in de hemelen en de mensen werden net zo bang als een kudde zonder herder.
De doden waren niet langer heilig en werden in het water gegooid. De pakhuizen waren volgestouwd met graan en niemand verbouwde nog wat. Het vee werd alleen gelaten en zwierf rond en dwaalde naar vreemde weiden. Hun geblaat werd genegeerd en men slachtte het vee van de buurman.
Niemand bezat nog iets. De openbare registers werden heen en weer geschoven en vernietigd. En niemand wist meer wie er slaaf waren en wie meester. De plaag waarde door het land, de rivier was bloedrood en overal was bloed. Zij die dronken van de rivier moesten onmiddellijk overgeven. Het stof beet zich vast in de huid van zowel mens als dier.
Door de gloed van de Verwoester was de aarde gehuld in een roodachtig licht. Het land was platgeslagen en verwoest door enorme hagelstenen die neer beukten op alles wat stond. Ze kwamen naar beneden in hete buien en achter hen aan kwam een soort vreemd gloeiend vuur dat over de aarde liep.
De vis in de rivieren stierf, wormen, insecten en reptielen sprongen omhoog vanuit de aarde. De duisternis van een lange nacht spreidde een zwarte mantel over de aarde waardoor iedere lichtstraal werd gedoofd. Niemand wist wanneer het dag of wanneer het nacht was want de zon wierp geen schaduw".
Dat was toen. Nu zijn de eerste tekenen zoals die in de Kolbrin bijbel worden beschreven voor eenieder duidelijk zichtbaar.
De maker van de onderstaande video noemt de verschijnselen die zich de afgelopen maand voordeden op onze aarde dan ook niet voor niets: Something strange is going on, the end of the earth”. Dat zal het niet worden want ook vorige keren waren er mensen die het hebben overleefd.
Heftig zal het wel zijn, een soort complete “reset” van onze planeet en alles wat er nu op leeft.
The strange night in a Welsh field involving 'huge UFO lights, explosions and military planes'
The strange night in a Welsh field involving 'huge UFO lights, explosions and military planes'
By Robert Dalling / Wales Online Senior Reporter
Wales' 'Roswell' is still fascinating UFO hunters two years later
A cold winter's night in south Wales back on February 26, 2016, was anything but ordinary in one Welsh town, some say.
In a scene worthy of an episode of the X-Files, multiple witnesses reported seeing a huge UFO and other lights - along with military planes, helicopters, a chase, explosions, shaken buildings, damaged trees and wreckage in Pentyrch.
An apache helicopter landing with its cockpit on fire, weird snow, and mystery men in white overalls were other reported sightings.
The activity was explained by the authorities as an Armed Forces exercise known as 'Chameleon', as was reported at the time .
But many still believe it was something out of this world, claiming to have spotted unidentified lights which did not conform to the normal idea of a military aircraft.
It echoes one of the most famous alleged UFO incidents of all time at a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico, when the US military is claimed to have captured a crashed flying saucer. The military has always said it was simply a conventional weather balloon.
'It was no exercise'
Recalling the events of that day more than two years ago, one witness, Caz Clarke said she could "categorically state it was no exercise".
"I will take a lie detector anywhere for anyone but what I witnessed will stay with me for the rest of my life," she said.
"What is more, the military knew they were coming and had a spotter plane in the air for two days waiting for 'the event'.
"When it came, four planes chased the "green" object whilst the spotter plane circled approximately six red oval objects, which formed a pyramid shape. Several red spheres hovered silently above the fields until the helicopters came."
Another witness, Mike Henbury, claims to have seen a red pulsing light, followed by two more to form a triangle descending from the clouds.
Mr Henbury said: "It looked very large indeed. I don't think it touched down totally but about 10 to 12 feet from the ground it lit up fully, showing the full outline of it, then it dimmed down."
A computer generated image of one of the sights allegedly seen on the night
(Image: Michael Hopkins)
The lights glowed different colours, including orange, according to witnesses
(Image: Michael Hopkins)
He added that black, red and green orbs emerged from it "as if they were dancing and moulding into one pulsing from red to green slowly".
Witnesses told the Swansea UFO Network they spotted a red light to the west above, and beyond the line of trees that marked the field's western extremity.
It was followed by other red lights that formed the outer edges of a huge triangle standing upright, tilted to the right, with a convex, rather than straight lower edge.
They said they did not see it 'arrive' but rather it just appeared in front of them, with a suggestion it travelled inter-dimensionally.
A small green-lighted object emerged from the top of the large structure, witnesses claimed, adding that the lights were so bright it was difficult to see their individual shape.
A line drawing by Caz Clarke of what she claims to have witnessed
(Image: Caz Clarke)
Witnesses explained that a the green object emerged from the top of the large one, four military planes arrived, two from the direction of RAF St Athan and two from the direction of Cardiff.
The green object flashed or strobed three times and headed off to the north-west towards Llantrisant and the aircraft chased it, they claimed.
It has also been recalled how the apache helicopters approached low across the fields from the south, in a pyramid formation. They were so low that the witnesses could see the grass being disturbed beneath them.
Swansea UFO Network's Emlyn Williams, Steve Drewson and Mike Maunder who recently paid a visit to Pentyrch.
(Image: Adrian White)
Another image from the recent visit to Pentyrch
(Image: Swansea UFO Network)
The large object then dipped to the right, turning on its axis, witness accounts claimed, adding that it descended below the tree line, but due to the trees having no leaves, the witnesses could see through them, and that as the object was turning on its axis, it was descending into the field to the north of where it had initially appeared.
As the object neared the ground, the bright red lights towards the bottom of the craft became brighter and changed to street-light orange. They gave off so much light that the sides of the craft were illuminated, showing a pyramid shape to it.
They told the UFO Network members that the lowest lights became really bright, almost white/orange, and released several fingers of light arcing down to the ground, like coloured lightning.
The red lights then went out and the large object was no longer visible.
The location of Wales' 'Roswell'
Garth Mountain is marked by the red pin on this Google Maps aerial image
(Image: Google Maps)
Pentyrch lies on the southern slope of Garth Mountain, known locally as 'The Garth'.
The summit is just above the village to the north and is surmounted by a bronze age burial mound, on top of which is a trig-point at 1,007 feet.
Swansea UFO Network recently visited the spot of the sighting, guided by Caz Clarke.
'Something unusual happened there'
The group claimed to have discovered electromagnetic residue which they said was evidence something unnatural occurred.
Swansea UFO Network's Emlyn Williams
(Image: Adrian White)
"We went up to the top of Garth Mountain itself which gave a good view and you can see right across where it took place," Swansea UFO network co-founder Emlyn Williams said.
"We went to the site and there is a strong EM residue in the core location to the place the UFOs were spotted. It's physical evidence something unusual happened there."
Swansea UFO Network said it was always looking for new reports of UFO sightings, and encouraged anyone with information to contact them via their website, http://www.sufon.co.uk
The long, thin, white cloud has been seen extending west of a Martian volcano since September 13. It looks as if it could be volcanic, yet it isn’t. Here’s what’s going on.
A curious elongated cloud, extending west of the Arsia Mons volcano on Mars, seen in a Mars Express image taken October 10, 2018.
The European Space Agency (ESA) said on October 25, 2018, that its Mars Express spacecraft has acquired hundreds of images over a period of weeks of a curious cloud on Mars. ESA has tracked the cloud since September 13, as it hovers in the vicinity of the 12-mile-high (20-km-high) Arsia Mons volcano, close to Mars’ equator.
It looks and sounds as if this cloud could be volcanic, doesn’t it? Yet that would be highly unlikely, since scientists have never detected any form of volcanic activity on Mars; it appears to be a geologically dead world. ESA said the cloud isn’t volcanic. Instead, it’s driven by ordinary meteorological conditions, not unlike those found on Earth. ESA explained:
In spite of its location, this atmospheric feature is not linked to volcanic activity but is rather a water ice cloud driven by the influence of the volcano’s leeward [downwind] slope on the air flow – something that scientists call an orographic or lee cloud – and a regular phenomenon in this region.
The cloud on September 21, 2018, via ESA/Mars Express.
The cloud extends about 900 miles (1,500 km) west of the volcano. As a comparison, the cone-shaped volcano has a diameter of about 155 miles (250 km); you can see a view of the region with labels here.
Mars experienced its northern winter solstice on October 16, bringing winter into Mars’ Northern Hemisphere and summer to its Southern Hemisphere. ESA said:
In the months leading up to this solstice, most cloud activity disappears over big volcanoes like Arsia Mons; its summit is covered with clouds throughout the rest of the Martian year.
However, a seasonally recurrent water ice cloud, like the one shown in this image, is known to form along the southwest flank of this volcano – it was previously observed by Mars Express and other missions in 2009, 2012 and 2015.
The cloud’s appearance varies throughout the Martian day, growing in length during local morning downwind of the volcano, almost parallel to the equator, and reaching such an impressive size that could make it visible even to telescopes on Earth.
The formation of water ice clouds is sensitive to the amount of dust present in the atmosphere. These images, obtained after the major dust storm that engulfed the entire planet in June and July, will provide important information on the effect of dust on the cloud development and on its variability throughout the year.
The cloud on September 17, 2018, via ESA/Mars Express.
Bottom line: ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has acquired hundreds of images of a curious elongated cloud on Mars, on the leeward or downwind side of a volcano.
Photographic plates going back to 1890 are providing new clues as to whether a distant exoplanet has a giant ring system, more than 100 times wider than Saturn’s.
Artist’s concept of how large the rings of exoplanet J1407b would appear in our sky, if they were placed around Saturn. For comparison, notice the crescent moon on the right side of the image.
Image via M. Kenworthy/Leiden University.
Rings around space bodies in our solar system are common. Saturn is perhaps best-known for its majestic ring system. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune all have rings as well. Even an asteroid – 10199 Chariklo – was found, in 2014, to have its own rings. But what about planets in other solar systems? As astronomers have found, giant planets are also common around other stars. It would stand to reason that some of those exoplanets should have rings. Detecting them wouldn’t be easy, since the planets are so far away and only are recently themselves detectable by modern technologies. But this month (October 15, 2018) astronomers said they’re now closer to determining if one particular candidate planet – orbiting the star J1407 – really does have rings, or not.
J1407 is a sunlike star, 460 light-years from Earth, in the direction of our constellation Centaurus. The star is only about 16 million years old, a baby in astronomical terms. In 2007, the star exhibited an odd series of eclipses that researchers said might be caused by a planet with a giant ring system. They labeled the planet J1407b.
If it exists, and if it does have rings, this planet’s ring system would be more than 100 times wider in expanse than Saturn’s.
J1407 hasn’t undergone an eclipse since 2007. Astronomers said this month they’ve now performed a new analysis of hundreds of photographic plates acquired between 1890 and 2007, and that analysis showed no other eclipses, either. Robin Mentel at Leiden University led the new research, which is published in the peer-reviewed journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Does the new work mean J1407b doesn’t exist? Or that it doesn’t have rings? Keep reading …
Old photographic plate from June 28, 1948, showing the star J1407 (circled in green), along with three other reference stars.
Image via R. T. Mentel et al.
The idea that a planet with giant rings might be responsible for the eclipses was first proposed by Matthew Kenworthy and other researchers in 2015. In 2016, their work showed that the rings would need to move against the orbital direction of the planet in order to remain stable.
No more eclipses were found in the plates between 1890 and 2007, but, these astronomers say, that doesn’t mean the planet, or its rings, don’t exist. They said it’s possible they missed an eclipse, since there are gaps in the data. Or maybe – if no eclipse took place – that negative finding helps narrow down the possible planet’s distance from its star and the length of its orbit.
If the planet really is there, Mentel and his colleagues said, the team’s calculation show that the next eclipse of the star should occur in either 2021 or 2024.
Mentel studied 490 photographic plates that had J1407 on them, the oldest being the Harvard DASCH survey from 1890. He compared the brightness of the star with two other equally bright stars close by. If the star J1407 was obscured at some point, it would appear to be fainter than the two nearby stars. As it turned out, Mentel did not detect any eclipses, even after he compared J1407 with a third star that was just as dim as an eclipsing J1407.
Artist’s concept of the possible giant ring system around the planet J1407b.
So how strong is the evidence for a ringed planet orbiting this star? It’s strong, and that’s why astronomers are looking so hard at this. As Kenworthy explained in 2015:
The details that we see in the light curve are incredible. The eclipse lasted several weeks, but you see rapid changes on time scales tens of minutes as a result of fine structures in the rings. The star is too far away to take immediate rings true, but we could based on the rapid brightness variations in the star light make a model of the ring system. If we put the rings around Saturn, we could at night seen from Earth, many times larger than the full moon.
There is probably at least a ground mass of material in the rings present, and more material may be in the satellites that provide the substructure of the ring.
Saturn with its majestic ring system.
Image via NASA.
Kenworthy also noted that there may even be a moon within the rings, after finding evidence for a hole in the ring system:
One obvious explanation is that a moon formed in this place, just as the holes are caused in Saturn’s ring structure by the moons.
If the rings are confirmed, they suggest that ring systems – like giant planets – are common in our Milky Way galaxy, including some systems that would dwarf Saturn’s rings. With astronomers now estimating billions of exoplanets in our galaxy alone, there could be many ringed worlds out there!
Bottom line: Whether J1407 actually has a planet with giant rings still isn’t known for sure, but astronomers are getting closer to an answer. Confirmation may have to wait until 2021 or 2024, when, astronomers calculate, another eclipse of the host star by the ring system might occur.
UFO Expert Says NASA Will Discover Alien Life After About 5 Years
UFO Expert Says NASA Will Discover Alien Life After About 5 Years
A government UFO investigator believes NASA could be less than ten years from discovering extraterrestrial life. He thinks that the space agency is on the right track.
Nick Pope, who formerly a Ministry of Defence UFO report investigator, believes NASA will discover aliens in the next 5 to 10 years.
The UFO expert says NASA will likely find proof of alien microbes or plants within the solar system.
However, the discovery of intelligent alien life could be the crowning glory for the American space agency.
The news comes after a group of 17 scientists urged the US space agency to search for extraterrestrial biosignatures on all of its future missions in space.
However, Mr Pope said that it was only a matter of time before efforts of NASA yield positive results.
He stated that discovering microbial or simple plant/animal life beyond our planet would be amazing, but the real prize would be finding other civilisations out there.
He claimed that NASA put more resources into finding technosignatures than biosignatures. He firmly thinks that it is only a matter of time before scientists find alien life, about five to ten years from now.
While Mr Pope thinks giving much attention to technosignatures is sensible but finding for biosignatures should never stop and should not ignore UFO data.
He also urges the space agency to prepare beforehand for the potential dangers associated with alien life discovery such as alien viruses and harmful bacteria as well as the possibility of hostile civilisations.
A 3,200-year-old ivory tablet, which has been called a “unique artifact,” has been discovered in Turkey and archaeologists believe that it may have originally come from Assyria. The tablet, which has been dated to around 1,200 BC, is 4.3 by 8.1 centimeters (1.6 by 3.1 inches), with a thickness that has been measured at 0.8 cm (0.3 inches).
As the Daily Sabah has reported, the ancient artifact that was found at the Archaeological Site of Arslantepe two years ago has now been thoroughly studied by archaeologists, and Professor Marcelle Frangipane of the Sapienza University of Rome explained, “The ivory tablet is a very important finding, as it was found for the first time here.”
Describing the artwork that decorates the ivory tablet, Professor Frangipane noted that two goat figures and a tree-like plant can be spotted on the artifact and that while it may have originally been made in Turkey, it is very likely to have originated Assyria judging by its design
“There are two goat figures and there is a plant, like a tree, between these figures. There are decorational motives around the tablet. These motives were mostly used by Assyrians in Syria. The tablet may be coming from Assyria, or may have been made here.”
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3,200-year-old ivory tablet found in Turkey’s eastern Malatya province has potential links to ancient Mesopotamian kingdom Assyria, excavation team sayshttp://sabahdai.ly/8sZK1s
3,200-year-old artifact linked to Assyria found in eastern Turkey
An ivory tablet dating back 3,200 years was found in eastern Turkey's Malatya province, giving clues on a potential link between Assyria and the region,...
According to Professor Frangipane, the carvings fashioned on the ivory tablet also bear a strong resemblance to similar artifacts that archeologists have discovered in both Syria and Iraq, and suggested that it may have once been used as a furniture decoration. However, at this time no link has been established between the artifact and these countries, and it may be that the artwork itself was prevalent at this time in different regions and that trade may have also influenced the art on the tablet.
“It might be a decoration of furniture. It is a beautiful work of art and it is important for the history of the mound. It is the same with the motives in Syria, Iraq and Nemrut [in southeastern Adiyaman]; there may be a trade relation between them.”
Excitingly, however, an ivory tablet of this kind has never been discovered in Turkey before, and Professor Frangipane has said that “these kinds of artifacts are found in Syria and Mesopotamia, but it is a unique piece for here.”
Excavations have been ongoing in the Arslantepe region of Turkey since 1961 and have been performed in a partnership between the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry and the Italian Archaeological Expedition of the Sapienza University of Rome. This area was once the birthplace of many great civilizations, including the Hittites, Romans, and Byzantines, so it makes sense that numerous ancient artifacts would be found here.
Now that the 3,200-year-old ivory tablet found in Turkey has been examined, it will be up to archaeologists to determine whether it is, in fact, Assyrian after all.
Video footage shows the bizarre anomaly that was spotted during NASA’s live feed from space.
It shows a strange grey object appearing to float above Earth.
The article appears to be shaped like an aircraft and moving south, though some believe it could be stationary on top of a mountain or the Luobubozhen facility in China.
But the person behind the camera even speculates a figure can be made out inside the UFO.
“I think it is some sort of craft”
Anonymous source
“The craft has 90 degree sharp angles and looks to be intelligently designed," they said.
“I think it is some sort of craft, but cannot work out whether it is on the ground, or flying.
“If it's on the ground its huge.”
According to the person who captured it, who wishes to remain anonymous, the clip shows: “A craft with a doorway and a being inside.”
They said: "At first I thought it was a cloud, but now I'm convinced its much more."
YOUTUBE
BIZARRE: What could it be?
The footage was captured in September 2017, but only shared on October 1 this year.
It was shared on YouTube channel MrMBB333 yesterday and has already racked up more than 55,000 hits.
“No chance that is on the ground – looks like it's in the air,” one viewer claimed.
A research team has documented a volcanic eruption in the western Pacific Ocean that’s deeper below the ocean surface than Mount Rainier’s height above sea level.
Researchers used remotely operated vehicles to explore the deep waters of the Mariana Trench.
A team of researchers has documented a recent volcanic eruption in the western Pacific Ocean about 2.8 miles (4.5 km) below the ocean surface that they describe as the deepest known eruption on Earth – deeper below the ocean surface than Mount Rainier’s height above sea level.
The researchers say the eruption probably happened between 2013-2015 on the Mariana back-arc, a zone of the sea floor with active volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench. The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the earth’s oceans, and the deepest location of the earth itself. It’s located just east of the 14 Mariana Islands near Japan. It was created by ocean-to-ocean subduction, a phenomenon in which a tectonic plate topped by oceanic crust is subducted beneath another plate also topped by oceanic crust.
Bill Chadwick is a marine geologist at Oregon State University and lead author on the study, published October 23, 2018 in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Earth Science. Chadwick said in a statement:
We know that most of the world’s volcanic activity actually takes place in the ocean, but most of it goes undetected and unseen. That is because undersea quakes associated with volcanism are usually small, and most of the instrumentation is far away on land.
Many of these areas are deep and don’t leave any clues on the surface. That makes submarine eruptions very elusive.
The Mariana back-arc eruption was first discovered in December 2015 by cameras aboard an autonomous underwater vehicle. Photos revealed the presence of a pristine dark, glassy lava flow on the seafloor with no sediment cover. Venting of milky hydrothermal vent fluid indicated that the lava flow was still warm, and therefore very young.
Fresh lava from the sea floor.
Image via Oregon State University.
Data indicated that there had been major depth changes in the area between surveys in 2013 and 2015, the researchers said, which is consistent with an eruption. The new lava flows stretched over an area about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long and ranged in thickness between 130-450 feet (40-137 meters).
The scientists returned in April and December of 2016 and used two remotely operated vehicles to explore the site. The new observations showed a rapidly declining hydrothermal system on the lava flows, suggesting the eruption had taken place only months before its discovery the previous year. Chadwick said:
Typically after an eruption, there is heat released and venting for a few years and organisms will colonize the vents, creating a new ecosystem. But after a while, the system cools down and the mobile organisms will leave. There was still some venting, but it had obviously greatly declined.
Bottom line: An undersea volcanic eruption discovered in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench is the deepest known.
Life on...? Why NASA Wants to Send Humans to This Mysterious Planet
Life on...? Why NASA Wants to Send Humans to This Mysterious Planet
SpaceX may be looking to life on Mars, but NASA has different plans in mind.
By Gareth Dorrian and Ian Whittaker, The Conversation
Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps, and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Natural History Museum were soliciting reservations for the first space tourism mission, well before the modern era of Blue Origins, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic. All you had to do was supply your address and tick the box for your preferred destination, which included Venus
Today, Venus is unlikely to be a dream destination for aspiring space tourists. As revealed by numerous missions in the last few decades, rather than being a paradise, the planet is a hellish world of infernal temperatures, a corrosive toxic atmosphere, and crushing pressures at the surface. Despite this, NASA is currently working on a conceptual manned mission to Venus, named the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept — (HAVOC).
But how is such a mission even possible? Temperatures on the planet’s surface (about 460 degrees C) are in fact hotter than Mercury, even though Venus is roughly double the distance from the sun. This is higher than the melting point of many metals including bismuth and lead, which may even fall as “snow” onto the higher mountain peaks. The surface is a barren, rocky landscape consisting of vast plains of basaltic rock dotted with volcanic features, and several continent-scale mountainous regions.
It is also geologically young, having undergone catastrophic resurfacing events. Such extreme events are caused by the build-up of heat below the surface, eventually causing it to melt, release heat, and re-solidify. Certainly a scary prospect for any visitors.
Venus was once an Earth twin.
Hovering in the Atmosphere
Luckily, the idea behind NASA’s new mission is not to land people on the inhospitable surface, but to use the dense atmosphere as a base for exploration. No actual date for a HAVOC type mission has been publicly announced yet. This mission is a long-term plan and will rely on small test missions to be successful first. Such a mission is actually possible, right now, with current technology. The plan is to use airships which can stay aloft in the upper atmosphere for extended periods of time.
As surprising as it may seem, the upper atmosphere of Venus is the most Earth-like location in the solar system. Between altitudes of 50km and 60km, the pressure and temperature can be compared to regions of the Earth’s lower atmosphere. The atmospheric pressure in the Venusian atmosphere at 55km is about half that of the pressure at sea level on Earth. In fact, you would be fine without a pressure suit, as this is roughly equivalent to the air pressure you would encounter at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Nor would you need to insulate yourself, as the temperature here ranges between 20 degrees C and 30 degrees C.
The atmosphere above this altitude is also dense enough to protect astronauts from ionizing radiation from space. The closer proximity of the sun provides an even greater abundance of available solar radiation than on Earth, which can be used to generate power (approximately 1.4 times greater).
The conceptual airship would float around the planet, being blown by the wind. It could, usefully, be filled with a breathable gas mixture such as oxygen and nitrogen, providing buoyancy. This is possible because breathable air is less dense than the Venusian atmosphere and, as result, would be a lifting gas.
The Venusian atmosphere is comprised of 97 percent carbon dioxide, about 3 percent nitrogen, and trace amounts of other gases. It famously contains a sprinkling of sulphuric acid, which forms dense clouds and is a major contributor to its visible brightness when viewed from Earth. In fact, the planet reflects some 75 percent of the light that falls onto it from the sun. This highly reflective cloud layer exists between 45km and 65km, with a haze of sulphuric acid droplets underneath down to about 30km. As such, an airship design would need to be resistant to the corrosive effect of this acid.
Luckily, we already have the technology required to overcome the problem of acidity. Several commercially available materials, including Teflon and a number of plastics, have a high acidic resistance and could be used for the outer envelope of the airship. Considering all these factors, conceivably, you could go for a walk on a platform outside the airship, carrying only your air supply and wearing a chemical hazard suit.
Life on Venus?
The surface of Venus has been mapped from orbit by radar on the US Magellan mission. However, only a few locations on the surface have ever been visited, by the series of Venera missions of Soviet probes in the late 1970s. These probes returned the first — and so far only — images of the Venusian surface. Certainly surface conditions seem utterly inhospitable to any kind of life.
Venus as seen by Magellan.
The upper atmosphere is a different story, however. Certain kinds of extremophile organisms already exist on Earth which could withstand the conditions in the atmosphere at the altitude at which HAVOC would fly. Species such as Acidianus infernus can be found in highly acidic volcanic lakes in Iceland and Italy. Airborne microbes have also been found to exist in Earth’s clouds. None of this proves that life exists in the Venusian atmosphere, but it is a possibility that it could be investigated by a mission like HAVOC.
The current climatic conditions and composition of the atmosphere are the result of a runaway greenhouse effect (an extreme greenhouse effect that cannot be reversed), which transformed the planet from a hospitable Earth-like “twin” world in its early history. While we do not currently expect Earth to undergo a similarly extreme scenario, it does demonstrate that dramatic changes to a planetary climate can happen when certain physical conditions arise.
By testing our current climate models using the extremes seen on Venus, we can more accurately determine how various climate forcing effects can lead to dramatic changes. Venus, therefore, provides us with a means to test the extremes of our current climate modeling, with all the inherent implications for the ecological health of our own planet.
We still know relatively little about Venus despite it being our nearest planetary neighbor. Ultimately, learning how two very similar planets can have such different pasts will help us understand the evolution of the solar system and perhaps even that of other star systems.
Des OVNI filmés dans la province de Overijssel, aux Pays-Bas
Des OVNI filmés dans la province de Overijssel, aux Pays-Bas
Le jeudi 27 septembre 2018 vers 19h30, des OVNI ont été repérés au-dessus de Broekland et de Sint Jansklooster, deux villes situées dans la province de Overijssel, aux Pays-Bas.
Deux témoins sont parvenus à filmer ces objets volants non identifiés. Mais quelle est l’origine de ces engins ?
Les boules de lumière semblaient flotter et s’éteindre lentement. Selon les observateurs, ces objets étaient parfaitement ronds et émettaient des éclairs de lumière très brillants.
Le site Internet ufomeldpunt.nl a publié deux vidéos de ce phénomène. Selon cette organisation, ces lumières ressemblaient plus ou moins à des fusées éclairantes.
Du 17 septembre au 22 octobre, un exercice militaire géant, baptisé Falcon Autumn, a eu lieu dans une grande partie des Pays-Bas. Esther Broekman, conseillère en communications du Commandement des hélicoptères de défense, a annoncé qu’il pourrait s’agir de soi-disantes fusées éclairantes.
« Cette semaine était la première semaine de vol et jeudi soir, nous avons utilisé ce que l’on appelle des fusées éclairantes », a déclaré Esther.« Mais je veux faire un commentaire à ce sujet. Nous en avons lancé dans la région du Veluwe, la question est de savoir si ces fusées pouvaient être vues d’en haut jusqu’à Broekland et St. Jansklooster. Cette lumière devait être très éloignée. »
Cette histoire demeure énigmatique malgré cette explication plausible.
A former military veteran shares his testimony regarding the crash of a large extraterrestrial craft in Peru that occurred approximately a decade ago. There were beings inside of the craft, still alive.
Reflect On:
What does the black budget world know? Reflect on the implications of a completely transparent world, with no secrecy. Information is our birthright.
There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. (source)
Millions of pages of declassified documents, witness testimony from thousands of credible people from all branches of global militaries, intelligence agencies and more, not to mention electrooptical data (radar trackings, videos etc), have ‘outed’ the UFO phenomenon within the mainstream world. The topic is also becoming less taboo within academia; some universities even offer courses related to the study of these mysterious objects. The extraterrestrial hypothesis, which represents one explanation for the UFO phenomenon, has enormous amounts of credibility behind it. According to many–astronauts, military personnel, and high ranking politicians–we are not alone, and never have been.
There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases–perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies–for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to.(Mead)
A recently retired professor and historian, Dr. David M. Jacobs, makes a great point when it comes to these things. He muses that if this is all false, and there are no such things, then “we have found the most important thing ever in the history of neurology, brain function, cognition…” In other words, he is saying that this is real, and many people who have been labelled as “crazy” aren’t so crazy after all. He made these comments in a video embedded in this article I published about him earlier.
With the amount of credibility that comes from previous statements of established people within the military, witness testimony has taken on more importance. There are those out there who refuse to acknowledge witness testimony as anything significant, which at this point is borderline crazy. We have a verified phenomenon here, and a lot of testimony comes from those who have been involved in many of the incidents that have already been established via official documentation.
Examples Of Witness Testimony
This document from the Project Bluebook files is quite extraordinary, but what is more extraordinary is the live testimony given by one of the people mentioned in that document, Navy commander pilot Graham Bethune. You can watch his testimony of this incident here, where he says he learned that a certain object was extraterrestrial from “the boys upstairs.”
When it comes to extraterrestrial incidents, one common theme is the crash retrieval of UFOs. It’s been discussed within UFO lore for decades, and stories from ‘credible’ people tell of multiple downed UFOs. It’s certinly not just limited to the Roswell incident. Dr. David Clarke is an investigative journalist, reader and lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University in England. He was also the curator for The National Archives UFO project from 2008–13, and regularly comments in national and international media on UFOs.
He pointed out some of the latest examples, using documents from the national archives that reveal how the Royal Air Force (RAF) expressed great interest in finding UFOs to help come up with new and innovative ways to combat their enemies. Apparently, they were gathering evidence that other nations had collected this technology. Having been an avid researcher into the field myself for more than a decade, I can say that stories of multiple retrievals and crash retrievals of unknown aerial objects are abundant.
Even though they have been partly censored they can’t conceal the fact the UK military were interested in capturing UFO technology or what they coyly refer to as ‘novel weapon technology’…And the files reveal they were desperate to capture this technology – wherever it came from – before the Russians or the Chinese got hold of it first….Although this was 1997, Russia was still regarded as an undefeated enemy with a weapons programme regarded as a threat to the West.
Here’s a great quote from former Candian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer, which gives us an idea regarding the protocol to deal with these unknown objects:
“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.” (source)
Another classic example would be the CIA keeping tabs on developments in Germany, as explained by this document, which looked into “a German newspaper” that “recently published an interview with George Klein, famous engineer and aircraft expert, describing the experimental construction of ‘flying saucers’ carried out by him from 1941 to 1945.” How did they study these flying saucers? Were they from crashes?
You might be saying to yourself, “a civilization travelling through a sea of stars would not be susceptible to human interference.” I would say that’s incorrect, if you’ve studied anything at all about the black budget, you would know that we ourselves are pretty advanced. Perhaps some civilizations have never experienced such violence and are not prepared? Perhaps the concept of “military” doesn’t exist within some civilizations, or perhaps some civilizations have weaponry that’s on par with ours. Perhaps some of our weaponry is alien technology?
We have, indeed, been contacted — perhaps even visited — by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.”
Victor Marchetti, former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Second Look, Volume 1, No 7, Washington, DC, May, 1979)
Below is a video of Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt, one of hunderds of verified military personnel that have been interviewed by Dr. Steve Greer, the man behind the release of the recent documentary “Unacknowledged.” He tells of a situation regarding a UFO crash retrieval in Peru, with extraterrestrial beings who were telepathically asking him to help them get out of there. Eventually, black ops stepped in, reprimanded him, and did whatever it is they do with these crafts and bodies.
Based on my research and reading of the lore, they are studied for scientific purposes and, in some cases, kept ‘prisoner’ for communication (Interfacing) purposes. But going that deep is simply speculation.
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered”
– Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut.
The Takeaway
There are many rabbit holes you can go down, but the point is, it’s ok to listen to these stories with an open mind, given who these people are, the consistency of their stories and the number of stories that are coming from people with similar backgrounds. The movement is growing and eventually, we will all experience something that will change humanity forever. The implications of this are huge, and it’s great that it’s no longer taboo.
There are huge lessons here, from technology to metaphysical and spiritual implications and more. It’s a lot for humanity to handle, and perhaps that’s why we’re seeing a slow and gradual process of disclosure. Sure, special powerful interest groups may be benefiting from the secrecy, and are possibly looking to capitalize on disclosure as well, but contact goes beyond us. It’s a lesson that can expand our consciousness, and ultimately, the human population is in charge of when we choose to ‘make contact’ in an open way, because right now, it seems everything is so secretive and behind the scenes, when really what we need is full-blown transparency.
A message to those “within”: quit using ‘national security’ to justify secrecy. We need to become an open and connected global community, not one like the New World Order proposes, but one based on the interests of all of humanity and our planet. We can thrive together in cooperation, not competition. We do not need to label or demonize extraterrestrials.
We should not bracket UFOs with angels, archangels, devils and demons. But this is just what we’re doing when we ask whether people believe in UFOs; as if their existence were an article of faith. Do people believe in the sun or the moon, or the changing seasons, or the chairs they’re sitting on? When we want to understand something strange, something previously unknown to anyone, we have to begin with an entirely different set of questions. What is it? How does it work? Are their recurrent regularities? Beginning in this way, with an open mind, people can take a hard look at all the evidence.
One month from today, Mars will welcome a new robotic resident that seeks to probe the planet's innards.
NASA's InSight lander is scheduled to touch down just north of the Martian equator on the afternoon of Nov. 26, bringing a nearly seven-month space trek to an end. InSight launched, along with the two tiny Mars Cube One (MarCO) cubesats, atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on May 5.
One month from today, Mars will welcome a new robotic resident that seeks to probe the planet's innards.
Artist's illustration of NASA's InSight lander at work on the Martian surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The solar-powered spacecraft will barrel into the Martian atmosphere at 14,100 mph (22,700 km/h), then deploy a big parachute to slow its descent. As the lander nears the surface, it will pop free of its back shell and parachute, touching down softly with the aid of 12 descent engines about 6 minutes after getting its first taste of Mars' air.
That touchdown will come on a high-elevation equatorial plain called Elysium Planitia, a mere 370 miles (600 kilometers) from Gale Crater, where NASA's car-size Curiosity rover landed in August 2012.
Elysium Planitia is "as flat and boring a spot as any on Mars," NASA officials wrote in a statement Wednesday (Oct. 24). And that's why the InSight team chose to land there — for safety's sake.
At Elysium, "there's less to crash into, fewer rocks to land on and lots of sunlight to power the spacecraft," NASA officials added. "The fact that InSight doesn't use much power and should have plenty of sunlight at Mars' equator means it can provide lots of data for scientists to study."
InSight won't be investigating surface features, so the "boring" part is no drawback. The lander totes a burrowing heat probe and a suite of superprecise seismometers; observations by both instruments should reveal a great deal about the Red Planet's internal structure and composition, mission team members have said.
In addition, InSight (whose name is short for "Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport") will perform a radio-science experiment using its communications gear. This work will track the tiny wobbles of Mars' rotational axis, revealing details about the size and composition of the planet's core.
The various data gathered by the $850 million InSight mission over its roughly two Earth-years of operation should help scientists better understand how rocky planets form and evolve, NASA officials have said.
NASA's InSight lander will touch down Nov. 26, 2018, on Elysium Planitia, just north of Mars' equator.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
And about the MarCO twins: Those briefcase-size spacecraft are embarked on a demonstration mission, which aims to show that cubesats can indeed explore deep space. Things are going well so far. One of the twins recently beamed home a photo of Mars — the first Red Planet image ever captured by a cubesat.
The MarCO craft will also attempt to beam home to Earth data from InSight during the lander's touchdown attempt on Nov. 26. But this is not a crucial responsibility for the duo; other NASA spacecraft, such as the venerable Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, will do this relay work as well.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13 by Grand Central Publishing.
Saturn's moon Dione as seen by the Cassini mission in 2012.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Scientists studying Saturn's moon Dione spotted weird stripes that they now believe could be caused by material falling onto the moon's surface.
The new research is based on data gathered by NASA's Cassini mission, which ended last fall. In photographs taken by the spacecraft before it was destroyed, a pair of scientists saw long, narrow, bright stripes across the surface of Dione — which looked eerily like similar features already identified on another of Saturn's moons, Rhea.
On Dione, they're weirdly parallel and look fairly young, and they're only found along the middle swath of the moon. "Their orientation, parallel to the equator, and linearity are unlike anything else we've seen in the solar system," co-author Alex Patthoff, a geologist at the Planetary Science Institute, a nonprofit research center, said in a statement released by the institution.
So he and his co-author tried to figure out whether they were caused by some sort of geological activity on Dione itself or by an external phenomenon acting on the little moon. To do so, they ran through a list of possible explanations for the features: Maybe boulders are rolling across the surface and leaving traces of their journey. Maybe the surface is split and the parts are rubbing against each other, like tectonic plates here on Earth. Maybe the streaks are shooting out from the sites of large impacts that shocked the moon.
But the only explanation they tried that actually matched what they saw on Dione's surface was that material is slowly falling onto the moon from Saturn's rings, nearby moons or passing comets.
Those explanations suggest that if scientists can get a better look at the features, they may be able to learn something about how plausible it might be to find life on Dione — or on worlds like it.
The research is described in a paper published Oct. 15 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
WATCH THE SKIES: WHAT WE SHOULD BE ASKING ABOUT U.F.O.S
WATCH THE SKIES: WHAT WE SHOULD BE ASKING ABOUT U.F.O.S
On June 1947 Kenneth Arnold, a business man and civilian pilot from Boise Idaho, was using his private plane to aid in the search for a missing military C-47 cargo plane near Mount Rainier in Washington State, when he sighted nine aircraft of a type he could not identify. Having been a pilot for many years, he became curious and turned to follow the unusual craft. He described them as being chevron shaped, silver in color, and flying in a motion reminiscent of a “saucer being skipped across the water”.
Arnold dutifully reported his encounter, and his story was picked up by the world press. Misquoting Arnold, the press coined the term ‘flying saucer,’ despite the fact that Arnold’s saucer analogy was used to describe the way the objects moved, not their shape. This was the beginning of what is now called UFOlogy: the study of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. The topic of UFOs has been the subject of tremendous ridicule and less than friendly humor. Those people who claim to have seen such objects are often suspected of mental illness, or of outright dishonesty. Yet despite this stigma, people, many of them holding positions of great responsibility, still report encountering such phenomenon. While quantifiable, tangible evidence has not yet been produced, one thing is certain: the UFO phenomenon cannot be explained away in its entirety. While it is certain that the UFO mythos has become a commercialized farce, it is also true that many well credentialed scientists and political leaders have risked considerable damage to their careers and reputations because they investigated, and in some cases, continue to investigate UFOs and related issues. Perhaps the two most prominent examples of this are the late Doctor John Mack and former Congressman Stephen Schiff. Mack, a tenured professor and Doctor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School, investigated the phenomenon of UFO abduction for over a decade, and published several books on the subject before his death in 2004. Doctor Mack concluded that the patients that believed that they had been abducted by UFO occupants were, for the most part, “…sane and well adjusted individuals who had experienced something real”. Schiff, during his term as Congressman from New Mexico, personally petitioned the Defense Department, Central Intelligence Agency, the National Archives, and the General Accounting Office for any and all material relating to UFOs. Schiff also publicly supported groups as Citizens Against UFO Secrecy. (C.A.U.S.) Despite over 40 years of receiving reports, including over twenty years of official government interest in UFOs under three different project names, (Projects Sign, Grudge, and Bluebook) Schiff received only thirty pages of information, much of which was censored. Given the Government’s propensity for record keeping, one would think that there would be hundreds of pages of eyewitness reports alone. These two prominent citizens had everything to lose and nothing gain by investigating UFOs. They did so because they believed that the phenomenon, science fiction and fantasy aside, merited investigation if for no other reason than its sheer scope. Additionally, while the United States government has been less than forthcoming about UFOs, the governments of Belgium and France have been more candid. The French in particular have been transparent in their investigation of UFOs, publishing a ninety page report entitled The 1999 French Report on UFOs and Defense. This report says, in its conclusion, “The physical reality of UFOs, under the control of intelligent beings, is a very reasonable conclusion, although not proven.” Although this report was prepared as private venture, the authors were all former or active members of the French Institute for Advance Studies on National Defense, (the French equivalent of the United States Military’s War Colleges) and was the product of ten years of studying the UFOs incidents in which physical evidence was present, and the eye-witnesses were of the highest credibility. The report was given to French President Jacques Chirac who suggested it be made public. The importance of this report cannot be understated. It concluded that it was scientifically plausible for UFOs to be real, physical objects, and they could be piloted intelligently. The authors of the report are not UFO enthusiast or persons of questionably character they are prominent members of the French scientific and defense apparatus who felt that if there was any validity to even some UFO reports, French national security could be at risk. The understandable reluctance for the average person to believe UFO accounts is continuously reinforced by popular culture, which makes great fun of UFO enthusiasts. However, reports continue to be made despite the ridicule that is sure to follow such reporting, and mountains of UFO photos and video footage continue to accumulate. Is it reasonable to believe that every report and all the photographic evidence taken since 1947 are all either misidentified phenomenon or hoaxes? Is it not more reasonable to assume that at least some of these instances are real phenomenon that are, as yet, unexplained. No one with any credibility can categorically state that UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin. However it is equally incredible that the phenomenon itself is entirely fabricated or imagined. Something is happening in the skies, or possibly with the human psyche, which has yet to be explained. Rather UFOs are purely psychological (but no less real) manifestations, misunderstood atmospheric anomalies, experimental terrestrial aircraft, or an extra-solar spacecraft, the phenomenon exist; it is real, and should be studied seriously. UFO debunkers and skeptics will argue that pressing problems such a global hunger, fatal diseases, and environmental issues are more deserving of precious research dollars than a subject as fanciful as UFOs. They point to the fact that an overwhelming percentage of investgated UFO sightings have been explained as natural phenomenon or misidentified conventional aircraft. These are valid points. However, the UFO question needs to be looked at in a different light. Let us say that all UFO sightings, even the five or ten percent that have not been explained despite intense scientific inquiry, are indeed not extra-terrestrial craft. Let us concede that people are seeing something explainable by natural and scientific laws. Let also concede that the vast majority of people who report UFOs are honest, sane people that actually saw something, or believed sincerely that they did. Since the number of sighting reports number well into the thousands each year, and since even the most hardened skeptic will concede that not all of those thousands who report UFO incidents can be hoaxers, then is it not in our best interest to find out what these people are seeing and why? If it is an as yet unidentified psychological phenomenon occurring in thousands of people (including airline and military pilots, police officers and military personnel, and public officials including Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan) then does it not have to be worthy of study?
In the case of the abduction phenomenon, the alleged abductees (also called by the more politically correct term 'experiencers') report extreme traumatization, and often seek psychological help. If these people have a mental disorder that has yet to be diagnosed correctly, or an unknown variation of an identified disorder, then they cannot receive proper treatment until that disorder is identified. Further, some abductees have been victimized by charlatans claiming to be legitimate therapists, but who have no credentials whatsoever. Many times, these charlatans dabble in hypnotherapy, and mind altering drugs to help abductees ‘remember’ an abduction experience, but actually use those methods to further damage the alleged abductees' mental health. Another, more likely, explanation put forth for UFO sightings is the misidentification of experimental aircraft. However, since many sightings occur over heavily populated areas of the United States (as in Hudson Valley, New York sightings that occurred repeatedly throughout the 1980s) one must ask why secret military vehicles would be tested where thousands of people would be sure to observe them? If experimental vehicles are being tested in populated areas and, as is claimed, local air traffic controllers truly know nothing about such tests, then there must be a great danger to the public due to possible aircraft collisions if nothing else. Also consider that such experimental aircraft are funded by taxpayer dollars. Even acknowledging the need for secrecy in the interest of national security, there still must be some accountability for the fear, confusion, and wasted resources that accompany UFO reports if they are, indeed, caused by experimental aircraft. In summation, even if all supernatural aspects of the UFO question are ignored or dismissed, the question itself still exists, and has direct bearing on the lives of many honest and loyal American citizens. Is it right to belittle these people and marginalize them because they have seen and reported something they cannot explain, or because they have a view of the universe that does not agree with convention? I submit that if we allow them to be marginalized, we cannot help but marginalize ourselves.
How do we know earlier industrial civilizations on Earth didn’t rise and fall long before humans appeared? That’s the question posed in a new scientific thought experiment.
Were others here before us? Photo by James Younger at Vancouver Island, B.C.
It’s a compelling thought experiment. What if there were an industrial civilization on Earth before us? What if, over the course of tens of millions of years, all of the direct evidence for it were ground to dust? Would it be possible to detect evidence of this civilization-infused dust in the geologic record? Astrophysicist Adam Frank of the University of Rochester, and Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, tackle this question in a paper published April 10, 2018, in the peer-reviewedInternational Journal of Astrobiology (view online here).
They call their study the Silurian Hypothesis after a race of intelligent, bipedal reptiles — known as the Silurians — introduced in a 1970 episode of the British science fiction series Doctor Who. Why? It’s because, as Frank explained in an April 2018 article in The Atlantic:
… if we’re going back this far, we’re not talking about human civilizations anymore. Homo sapiens didn’t make their appearance on the planet until just 300,000 years or so ago.
The idea for Frank and Schmidt’s new paper sprang in part from Frank’s studies of global warming from what he called an astrobiological perspective. In other words, he’d been asking whether any industrial civilization that rises on any planet will, through its own activity, trigger its own version of a climate shift. He explained:
We’re used to imagining extinct civilizations in terms of the sunken statues and subterranean ruins. These kinds of artifacts of previous societies are fine if you’re only interested in timescales of a few thousands of years. But once you roll the clock back to tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years, things get more complicated …
Could researchers find clear evidence that an ancient species built a relatively short-lived industrial civilization long before our own? Perhaps, for example, some early mammal rose briefly to civilization building during the Paleocene epoch about 60 million years ago. There are fossils, of course. But the fraction of life that gets fossilized is always minuscule and varies a lot depending on time and habitat. It would be easy, therefore, to miss an industrial civilization that only lasted 100,000 years – which would be 500 times longer than our industrial civilization has made it so far.
As in the well-known Kardashev scale – often invoked in discussions of possible alien civilizations – Frank and Schmidt define a prior earthly civilization by its energy use. A statement from the University of Rochester said:
Human beings are just entering a new geological era that many researchers refer to as the Anthropocene, the period in which human activity strongly influences the climate and environment. In the Anthropocene, fossil fuels have become central to the geological footprint humans will leave behind on Earth. By looking at the Anthropocene’s imprint, Schmidt and Frank … lay out evidence of what might be left behind if industrial civilizations like ours existed millions of years in the past.
Human beings began burning fossil fuels more than 300 years ago, marking the beginnings of industrialization. The researchers note that the emission of fossil fuels into the atmosphere has already changed the carbon cycle in a way that is recorded in carbon isotope records. Other ways human beings might leave behind a geological footprint include:
– Agriculture, through greatly increased erosion and sedimentation rates.
– Plastics, synthetic pollutants, and even things such as steroids, which will be geochemically detectable for millions, and perhaps even billions, of years.
– Nuclear war, if it happened, which would leave behind unusual radioactive isotopes.
In 2016, 28 of 35 members of an Anthropocene working group for the 35th International Geological Congress agreed that a golden spike in Earth’s sediment layers – an event or group of events laid down in the rocks clearly demarcating one geologic epoch from another – comes around the 1950s. That’s when what’s called the great acceleration began on Earth, when our human impacts intensified and began to happen globally, not just locally. Nuclear tests, like the 1946 test at Bikini Atoll, shown here, are examples of human-caused global events whose traces might be found in the rock record.
Ironically, however, the most promising marker of humanity’s presence as an advanced civilization is a by-product of one activity that may threaten it most.
When we burn fossil fuels, we’re releasing carbon back into the atmosphere that was once part of living tissues. This ancient carbon is depleted in one of that element’s three naturally occurring varieties, or isotopes. The more fossil fuels we burn, the more the balance of these carbon isotopes shifts. Atmospheric scientists call this shift the Suess effect, and the change in isotopic ratios of carbon due to fossil-fuel use is easy to see over the last century. Increases in temperature also leave isotopic signals. These shifts should be apparent to any future scientist who chemically analyzes exposed layers of rock from our era.
Frank said that looking at the rise and fall of civilizations in terms of their planetary impacts might also affect how researchers approach future explorations of other planets:
We know early Mars and, perhaps, early Venus were more habitable than they are now, and conceivably we will one day drill through the geological sediments there, too. This helps us think about what we should be looking for.
By asking about civilizations lost in deep time, we’re also asking about the possibility for universal rules guiding the evolution of all biospheres in all their creative potential, including the emergence of civilizations. Even without pickup-driving Paleocenians, we’re only now learning to see how rich that potential might be.
Bottom line: In a new paper published in April 2018 in the International Journal of Astrobiology, Adam Frank at the University of Rochester and Gavin Schmidt at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies ask what signs an ancient pre-human industrial civilization would have left in the geologic record.
WETENSCHAP “Wat als de mensheid niet ontstond uit zuiver aardse organismen, maar ‘besmet’ werd met buitenaards leven door een inslaande meteoriet?” Die vraag stelden drie wetenschappers aan Harvard zich waarna ze druk aan het rekenen sloegen. Hun conclusie : het zou zomaar even kunnen kloppen.
We kennen het verhaal. Van eencellige organismen in het water groeiden we langzaamaan uit tot de fantastische wezens die we vandaag in de spiegel zien. Daar twijfelt niemand aan. Toen Darwin in 1895 met die evolutietheorie op de proppen kwam, was ongeloof echter het enige waar hij bij zijn collega-wetenschappers op kon rekenen. Een revolutionair idee heeft tijd nodig om zich te nestelen.
Dat ondervinden ook Idan Ginsburg, Manasvi Lingam en Abraham Loeb vandaag. Deze drie wetenschappers van de Amerikaanse University of Harvard stelden Darwins basistheorie in vraag en gingen op zoek naar andere verklaringen voor het ontstaan van het leven op aarde.
Die vonden ze miljoenen kilometers boven onze hoofden in de oneindige leegheid van de ruimte. Daar zweven talloze meteorieten rond. Waar ze vandaan komen is niet altijd duidelijk, waar ze heen gaan nog veel minder. Toch is het volgens het drietal mogelijk dat deze rotsblokken een bron kunnen zijn van levende bacteriën. Bij een inslag op een planeet zouden ze zich dus in principe kunnen voortplanten en het evolutieproces in gang zetten.
Microscopisch kleine kans
Deze vorm van intergalactische bevruchting noemt men panspermie. De theorie gaat al langer over de tongen in wetenschappelijke kringen, maar wordt door de meeste wetenschappers echter als sciencefiction afgedaan. De piste vertoont her en der serieuze gaten waar criticasters maar al te graag op wijzen.
Een eerste probleem is ‘tijd’. Meteorieten zweven soms enkele miljoenen jaren door het heelal voor ze zich te pletter storten. De reizende bacteriën moeten dus een erg lange levensverwachting hebben om de trip te overleven. Daarbovenop komt het gevaar van de stralingen. Wat radiatie betreft, is de ruimte één grote microgolfoven. Dat doet de overlevingskansen van de organismen nog verder inkrimpen.
En zelfs mochten ze dat overleven, zijn er nog vele puzzelstukjes die juist moeten vallen. Ze moeten de crash zelf overleven en er moet leven mogelijk zijn op die bewuste planeet. De kans dat al die zaken toevallig perfect uitkomen zijn microscopisch klein.
Met zoveel grote vraagtekens lijkt de kans dat we daadwerkelijk van aliens afstammen erg gering. Toch weet je maar nooit. Wie weet leren kinderen binnen honderd jaar op school over hoe drie onderzoekers de waarheid b:lootlegde, maar niemand hen geloofde. Een revolutionair idee heeft nu eenmaal tijd nog om zich te nestelen.
Massive Sinkhole in China Has Led to The Discovery of a 'World Class' Geological Wonder
MICHELLE STARR
A expedition to explore a giant sinkhole in the forest of Guangxi, China has resulted in the discovery of a tremendous cave hall complex under the ground.
At 6.7 million cubic metres (236 million cubic feet), the cave's volume is of a rare enormity, making it 'world class,' geological experts are reported as saying.
The expedition was a joint venture between China and the UK, led by Zhang Yuanhai of the Institute of Karst Geology of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, and British Caving Association chairman Andy Eavis.
From 4 to 8 October, the 19-member team lowered themselves into the tiankeng - the Chinese name given to this type of unusually large sinkhole - using just a single rope. Once inside, they set about mapping the interior.
"This time we mainly determined its volume and world-class status through three-dimensional scanning."
They discovered that the sinkhole pit is 100 metres (328 ft) wide and nearly 200 metres (656 ft) long, with a maximum depth of 118 metres (387 ft). Towards the southeast end, the slope collapses into a huge cave complex.
It contains corridors, halls, craters, collapsed rocks, stone pillars and a type of formation called cave pearls - small, round stones polished smooth by water and deposited in cave crannies, where they sit undisturbed.
A shaft in the large cave hall was found to connect to an underground river, which feeds into the nearby Panyang River.
The 3D scanning will also let geologists reconstruct how the sinkhole collapsed.
"Three-dimensional scanning found that Hong Kong·Haiting Hall has retained a lot of evidence of the collapse of the crater evolution, especially the traces of rock mechanics produced after the collapse, which are clearly visible, demonstrating the evolutionary characteristics of this tiankeng," Zhang Yuanhai said.
Tiankengs are usually the result of the collapse of an underground cavern, which has slowly been eroded by geological forces, such as water.
For example, the 626 metre (2,054 ft) long Xiaozhai Tiankeng, or Heavenly Pit - the largest sinkhole in the world - formed over the the limestone Difeng cave, which had been carved out by a powerful underground river.
Xiaozhai Tiankeng
(Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)
It's likely that Hong Kong·Haiting Hall was formed in a similar manner.
"These giant caves are natural caves, most of which are caused by collapses and are related to underground rivers," said Zhang Yuanhai.
But he also added, "The formation of all caves is not a one-step process. They basically have a history of more than 2 million years."
Reusachtig zinkgat in China leidt tot ontdekking geologisch wonder van ‘wereldklasse’. Dit troffen experts er aan
Reusachtig zinkgat in China leidt tot ontdekking geologisch wonder van ‘wereldklasse’. Dit troffen experts er aan
Een expeditie naar een groot zinkgat in een Chinees bos heeft geleid tot de ontdekking van een reusachtig ondergronds grottencomplex.
Het gaat om een grottencomplex van ‘wereldklasse’, zo zeggen experts.
Tussen 4 en 8 oktober zakten Britse en Chinese geologen af in de tiankeng, de Chinese benaming voor ongewoon grote zinkgaten.
Grotparels
“De ingang van deze gigantische grot is ontdekt tijdens de Hongkongse expeditie vorig jaar,” zei expeditieleider Zhang Yuanhai van de Chinese Academie van Geologische Wetenschappen.
De onderzoekers ontdekten dat het zinkgat 100 meter breed, bijna 200 meter lang en 118 meter diep is.
Het gigantische grottencomplex bevat gangen, kraters, stenen pilaren en zogeheten grotparels; kleine, ronde stenen die gepolijst zijn door water.
Ondergrondse rivier
Via een schacht blijkt het complex te zijn verbonden met een ondergrondse rivier, die uitmondt in de nabijgelegen rivier Panyang.
Tiankengs worden meestal veroorzaakt door het instorten van een ondergrondse grot die aan erosie blootstaat.
Twee miljoen jaar
“Deze gigantische grotten zijn natuurlijke grotten, waarvan de meeste zijn ontstaan als gevolg van instortingen en gerelateerd zijn aan ondergrondse rivieren,” zei Zhang Yuanhai.
Hij voegde toe dat ze meer dan twee miljoen jaar oud zijn.
It started with ‘Oumuamua, the first known space rock from another galaxy to visit our solar system and get close enough to observe … albeit after it had already swung around the Sun and was on its way back to whence it came. At first it was classified as a comet, C/2017 U1; then, as its oblong shape became apparent, it was speculated by some to be a space ship; when it was found to have no tail, it was reclassified as an asteroid, A/2017U1. The latest theory is that ‘Oumuamua may be a fragment of a planet blown apart by a dying star. While the arguments still rage over ‘Oumuamua, a new space rock has entered the discussion because it’s acting like a comet, an asteroid and a blue ‘something else’.
This strange space rock is 1983 TB, which should immediately tell you that it was discovered in 1983, so it’s not really new. It’s better known as 3200 Phaethon and was discovered by Simon F. Green and John K. Davies using data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), making it the first asteroid discovered using images from a spacecraft. That was just the beginning of the special nature of 3200 Phaethon. It was named after the driver of Helios’ chariot because it gets closer to the sun than any known object – half the distance of Mercury. Its annual visit coincides with the Geminid meteor shower and it was eventually proven to be the cause of it. Those last two points are cometary traits and they caused astronomers to consider a reclassification.
Geminid meteor shower (NASA)
They got an opportunity on December 16, 2017, when Phaethon made its closest approach to Earth since 1974. According to a statement by the University of Arizona, one such astronomer is Teddy Kareta, a graduate student at the university, who presented his findings this week at the 50th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences. Using NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the Tillinghast telescope on Mount Hopkins in Arizona, he first looked at the most noticeably strange charactistic of Phaethon – its blue color. While it was previously thought that this meant Phaethon broke off from the larger blue asteroid Palla, Kareta found that their albedo (reflectivity) is far from matching, with Phaethon actually being only slightly brighter than coal. Kareta also discovered that Phaethon’s dark blue is consistent over its entire surface, meaning that the entire rock is burnt by its close solar pass, possibly because it gets “so hot that metals on the surface turn to goo.”
Then there’s the tail that causes the Geminids shower. Phaethon is definitely not a conventional comet since it’s not a dirty ice ball. It’s also not a conventional asteroid because they don’t have trailing debris, even after turning to goo. Kareta offers his theory.
“If it was cometary at some point in the past, maybe it made the meteor shower the normal way and left behind those comet crumbs … but since then, it’s been cooked through and turned off and it just looks like a rock.”
Asteroid, comet or something else? Kareta says “It’s probably somewhere in the middle,” but we may find out for certain when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches DESTINY+ (Demonstration and Experiment of Space Technology for Interplanetary Voyage, Phaethon Fyby and Dust Science) on a mission to Phaethon in 2022.
In the meantime, the Dirty Ice Ball would be a great name for a winter dance party.
In the 1950s, my dad, Frank Redfern, served with the U.K. Royal Air Force as a radar mechanic. He was involved in a series of UFO incidents that occurred during September 1952. It was at the height of a NATO operation – Exercise Mainbrace – when a number of fast-moving and unidentified targets were tracked flying over the North Sea by radar operators at RAF Neatishead, Norfolk. My dad related this to me when I was a kid and it was a key turning point in my life and ultimately led me on a still-continuing quest to determine the truth that lies behind the UFO puzzle. I made mention of my dad’s experience in my first (1997) book, A Covert Agenda. Since the publication of the book, however, a number of important sources have come forward to corroborate the remarkable events of September 1952 – including Ken Dayman, a radar operator at RAF Langton, Lincolnshire.
“We would do shifts,” Dayman told me, “and I would read out the plots and the girls would then plot them on a big map. Well, over the course of two days in 1952, something strange happened. On the first day, somebody said: ‘Look, there’s something happening on the screen!’ There were about three or four of us watching as something was speeding across the screen; and this was fast, very fast.
“It looked like there were actually two objects and they were approaching from the North Sea and flew across Lincolnshire, Peterborough and then up the country at about 2,000 miles per hour. Well, an officer was called and he made some comment. But then our commanding officer arrived and reminded us not to talk about this as we’d signed the Official Secrets Act. But this happened over a couple of days and the UFOs were tracked by several shifts – not just ours.”
By far the most important source of new and previously-unseen data on the Mainbrace UFO encounters of September 1952, however, was William Maguire, who enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1950: “From the early part of 1950, I did my basic training for a few months, and the rest of the year I did technical training and worked on radar and became an instructor. By 1951 I was operative at RAF Sennen, near Land’s End in Cornwall. I was a junior NCO [Author’s Note: Non-Commissioned Officer], a corporal; but at the time of this incident in 1952, I was a senior aircraftsman; I was on the sports committee and helped edit the station magazine. Most of my five years in the RAF was peace and quiet.’ Maguire’s military career was not all peace and quiet, however.
‘When I read your book [A Covert Agenda], I started to sweat – literally – at the memory of that night. We were like a fire-fighting service. We would be called out to go to different RAF stations when they required an accurate reading of their radar instruments from experienced people. So, I was all over the damned place. Usually, it was made clear to us where we were going. You’d get a travel warrant and there’s a truck waiting and usually it’s got windows you can see out of; but in this case they were closed. Well, we were driven to a location which I believe was very close to RAF Sandwich in Kent and this was night-time. I’d been to Sandwich before, but the actual location was just a field – sort of nowhere.
“I have a feeling that this particular place is not in any book. It was very hush-hush. The machinery looked quite standard – all to do with detection and observation – but what did surprise me as an experienced radar operator was the extent of the machines. They were able to see right across to Eastern Europe and parts of Russia and way over to Sweden, which I hadn’t realized at that time we could do. My memory was that everything was in a complete flap. Normally, in a military situation everything is ordered, regular and set out. But here was a situation that was plainly out of control. Mechanics were flying about all over the place.”
As William Maguire got his bearings and the situation was revealed to him in its stark form, however, the reasons behind the blind panic became staggeringly clear. Some form of huge, unidentified aerial object was being tracked on the radar-scopes high over the English Channel. As Maguire reveals, “The mechanics were being blamed for not calibrating the instruments properly; we were being blamed for not interpreting the readings properly. But the obvious answer staring us in the face, on every single instrument on the base, was the fact that there was sitting up at an unbelievable height, this enormous thing with the equivalent mass of a warship and it just stood there…and stood there…and stood there.” That is, until it split into three pieces and quickly vanished.
Only months after William Maguire’s experience, Denis Plunkett, who was serving at the time with the Royal Air Force at RAF Church Lawford, had occasion to view a high-level Air Ministry memorandum dealing with UFOs that was circulated throughout the entire RAF. The document (titled: Order No. 4: Reports Of Aerial Phenomena) read as follows: “It is undesirable for information about aerial phenomena observed by aircrew and ground service personnel to be communicated to the Press and members of the public before such information has been examined at Air Ministry. The public attach more credence to reports by Royal Air Force personnel than to reports by members of the public, and it is essential that information of this kind should be controlled officially. All service personnel are warned that they are not to communicate to anyone any information about phenomena they have observed except through official channels.”
As Plunkett states, he has never forgotten reading this document. And its warnings to RAF personnel not to discuss the details of their UFO sightings outside of official channels, had a deep effect on him – to the extent that today he heads the longest-running civilian UFO investigations group, the Bristol-based British Flying Saucer Bureau. Although not wholly identical in content and style, the document that Denis Plunkett read at RAF Church Lawford in 1953 was very similar to a document that I located at the National Archives a number of years ago that also centered around RAF-originated UFO reports. The reference to Order No. 4 in the document that Plunkett viewed, however, suggests strongly that a number of such secret guidelines were circulated throughout the Royal Air Force in the early 1950s, and in the wake of the Mainbrace affair.
Our Solar System may have had Two Suns Astronomers Say!
Our Solar System may have had Two Suns Astronomers Say!
According to experts, there is evidence which suggests that all stars in the universe are born in pairs.
For decades, scientists have speculated that our sun has an ‘evil’ twin referred to as NEMESIS a dwarf star responsible for hurling objects from the outer solar system towards our planet.
In fact, NEMESIS may even have been responsible for mass extinctions that have rocked Earth for millions of years.
Astronomers use the term binary system to refer to two stars that are so close together that they orbit around a common center of mass.
This is something quite frequent in the Universe, which has motivated some researchers to question if our Sun could ever be part of one of these systems.
Now a team of researchers from the Universities of Harvard and Berkeley has conducted a study whose results suggest that all stars are born forming binary systems and that ours would not be an exception.
Google Earth REFUSES To Map Nellis AFB Area Where Alien Base Is Located! Oct 2018, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Google Earth REFUSES To Map Nellis AFB Area Where Alien Base Is Located! Oct 2018, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
OMG guys, Tylor over at Secureteam10 made this awesome video and as I was watching he stated something that blew me away! Tylor said that this area that has gone unmapped for 8 years is at Nellis Air Force base at the end of old firing range...POW! That set me off!
You see, Nellis AFB is famous for having an alien base of Tall Whites located behind the old firing range. I believe that a Tall White ship saw the moves of a F-16 as threatening and shot it down. For instance the F-16 could have locked its laser tracking missile system on the UFO...that could be seen as threatening. Tall Whites are said to be hyper aggressive. Tall Whites see themselves as superior to humans and have killed USAF soldiers before for such things as pushing a child Tall White away from your gun, touching a child Tall White at all, or defying any demand they make. Yeah, not the superior species many hoped for, but the US military seems to think there is a great benefit in having them there, probably for military trade of tech and information. Do you want to learn more about the Tall Whites at Nellis? Then watch this interview of a man who was a non military go between for the Tall Whites and the USAF. I will put the video below Tylors video. Scott C. Waring
Standing at the edge of the water in The Battery, with the Statue of Liberty just behind it, is a monument dedicated to the crew of the tugboat Maria 120. According to the plaque on the pedestal of the statue, the six man crew and vessel mysteriously vanished from New York Harbor in July of 1977. Perhaps this story doesn’t ring a bell because that summer is better known in New York City for the two-day city-wide blackout or the terrifying crimes of serial killer David Berkowitz. Or perhaps, it’s because it never happened. This fun and farcical memorial, which depicts a longshoreman crewman gazing up at what can be presumed to be an alien spacecraft as an extraterrestrial figure lays at his feet, is the latest public art piece from Staten Island based sculptor Joe Reginella. Reginella’s previous installations include the Brooklyn Bridge Elephant Stampede monument and a monument to an octopus attack on a ferry in Staten Island harbor.
As in his previous work, for the NYC Tugboat Abduction monument Reginella draws from true New York City history to add credibility to the story. The blackout of July 13th was a very real occurrence that happened during the summer of 1977. Many neighborhoods saw a surge in crime and flaws in the city’s infrastructure and emergency preparedness were brought to light. Reginella frames his fictional story in the context of this real life event. In the story of the Maria 120, crewmen were patrolling the waters between Liberty Island and Battery Park when in the pitch blackness, a bright streak of light shot through the night sky and what appeared to be a private aircraft crashed into the harbor. The crew immediately radioed the Coast Guard a distress signal and informed them that they were going to try to tow the crashed vessel to shore. However, when the Coast Guard boats arrived to help, there was no aircraft, and the tugboat Maria 120, as well as her crew, had vanished.
Photograph by Joe Reginella
The tugboat abduction narrative is further enhanced by supplemental material that includes a website, documentary trailer and even souvenirs that you can buy. Reginella and a team of up to a dozen creatives work together for months to bring these stories to life through various mediums. For this piece, the accompanying documentary follows the son of one of the abducted crewmen as he seeks to uncover the truth of his father’s disappearance. Though in the trailer you see this character perturbed by the commercialization of the tugboat “tragedy”- which has spawned a touristy “Harbor Mystery Cruise” and Statue of Liberty abduction tchotchkes – fans should check out the website’s shop, as proceeds from the themed t-shirts and souvenirs help fund these fantastical projects.
The bronze statue and pedestal, which breaks down into four pieces for mobility, weighs a hefty total of around 300 pounds! What is exciting for Reginella is to see the different ways people react to his statues, whether they believe the story is real or not. While people-watching on a windy Sunday in the Battery, Reginella told Untapped Cities that he loves to see when people “get it,” the moment of head scratching as they realize maybe what they are looking at isn’t what it seems. Regardless of whether the story is true, seeing the sculpture creates a fun moment and story to tell friends about, for those who take the time to stop and observe it. The reactions to this sculpture in particular have been very entertaining for Reginella as a lot of people interact with the it by re-enacting the dramatic pose of the longshoreman figure.
Photograph by Joe Reginella
Photograph by Joe Reginella
For a chance to see the monument for yourself, head down to the Battery on a Saturday or Sunday now through November. The monument is periodically on display across from the East Coast Memorial. Dive deeper into the story of the NYC UFO Tugboat Abduction Monument and purchase themed souvenirs here!
UFO seen flying over New Jersey was actually a drone, police say
UFO seen flying over New Jersey was actually a drone, police say
JULIA JACOBO
It wasn't a UFO -- or bird, or plane -- stalking the skies over northern New Jersey Tuesday night.
The unidentified flying object was actually a police drone being used to search for two suspects who robbed a Home Depot, according to the Township of Union Police Department.
Police received a 911 call around 5:49 p.m. Tuesday and reported that the suspects fled with stolen merchandise after one of them pulled a knife on a store loss prevention employee, the department wrote on Facebook.
The Home Depot employee observed the suspects get into a Lexus and try to flee the scene.
The suspects attempted to allude a marked police car that followed it and abandoned the vehicle after striking the curb twice near the entrance to the Garden State Parkway, according to authorities.
Union Police Sgt. Dan Hanselmann was able to tackle the driver and took him into the custody, but the passenger jumped over a guardrail and headed toward the Kawameeh Swamp, prompting a large-scale search for him, police said.
The man was not found after a search that lasted several hours in the heavily wooded area, police said.
A video posted to Twitter Tuesday around 8 p.m. showed a device with blinking lights hovering over the Garden State Parkway.
People were calling into the News12 New Jersey newsroom to report the possible UFO sighting, the station tweeted.
The driver of the Lexus, identified as 45-year-old Rashon Plant, told Hanselmann that the other suspect was armed with a gun or knife and carjacked him, police said. Investigators determined that the driver was part of the shoplifting plan after reviewing the surveillance video from The Home Depot, police said.
Police found about $2,000 worth of various tools in the truck, police said.
Plant was charged with robbery, eluding police and "various drug charges" for possession of heroin and cocaine, police said.
Investigators are still trying to identify the suspect who got away.
UFO researcher George Simpson (right) and mechanic Mike Hodges, who serviced Fred Valentich’s Cessna 182.
Picture: Jay Town
UFO Mystery: Vanished pilot’s ominous prophecy
by AARON LANGMAID AND HARRISON TIPPET
FORTY years since his baffling disappearance off the coast of Cape Otway, Victorian pilot Fred Valentich's fiancee has revealed an ominous conversation she shared with her boyfriend only a day earlier.
Rhonda Rushton has spoken for the first time about his unsettling final words to her, admitting she has been unable to move on from the tragedy ever since.
Ms Rushton said despite his plans to set a course across Bass Strait, the 20-year-old admitted he was fearful of flying over water.
"I found that a bit strange," she said.
"But it was clear he had some sort of gut feeling."
Despite an extensive air and ground search, no trace of Mr Valentich or his plane were ever found after he took off from Moorabbin airport on October 21, 1978.
But it would be the transcript of his final conversation with an air traffic controller that would confound investigators and spark one of Australia's most enduring aviation mysteries.
Mr Valentich told Melbourne air traffic control he was being followed by a long metallic, unidentified aircraft with four bright lights which at times moved at high speed or orbited above his plane, before reporting his engine was failing.
"It seems to me that he's playing some sort of game," he told air traffic control. "He's flying over me two, three times at a time at speeds I could not identify.
"Melbourne - Delta Sierra Juliet. It's not an aircraft."
Critics claimed Mr Valentich was either disorientated and crashed or may have even faked his disappearance.
But Ms Rushton said they were never theories she or his family were comfortable with.
"Anybody who knew Fred understood just how honest he was," Ms Rushton said.
"He would never make something like that up.
"If that's what he said he saw - that is what he saw."
Fred Valentich.
The disappearance of Fred Valentich has become one of the most enduring aviation mysteries in Australian history - and one of the world's most popular UFO conspiracies.
A P.E.I. man claims he saw a strange object in the night sky near his home in Sturgeon on Sept. 30, 2018. Every year in Canada there are about 1,000 UFO reports, including eight in P.E.I. in 2017. - 123RF Stock Photo
STURGEON, P.E.I. - Jim Bruce stepped out on his deck the last day of September around 11 p.m. just to check how cold it was. As he looked to the sky, he noted there was no moon and he could see the stars perfectly.
Then, something came from the west.
Bruce has seen a lot of satellites in the sky near his home in Sturgeon, but this object was not like any he’d seen before.
“Must be a plane,” he thought.
The object with flashing lights just stopped dead. Then, it shot in a 90-degree angle towards Bruce’s home and stopped once again.
“Then it continued again toward the east, stopped, dropped, sort of moving towards Nova Scotia.”
Next, it flew in a circle and hovered, Bruce said.
“It shot off and disappeared over the horizon faster than any satellite I had ever seen.”
The next day, Bruce was getting some paint at Stewart and Beck’s in Montague and couple of people were talking about what they had seen in the sky.
The same thing. In the same part of the sky, a few weeks ago.
There were eight UFO sightings in P.E.I. last year according to Ufology Research of Manitoba.
Bruce wanted to know what it was he saw, so he began making calls.
He got some numbers for the Royal Canadian Air Force, hoping they could tell him something. No one took him seriously. He called Air Canada, who hung up. Then he called NAV Canada, who also hung up. Finally, the RCMP told him it wasn’t something they dealt with.
So, who do you phone when you think you’ve seen an unidentified flying object?
Since 1989, Ufology Research of Manitoba (UFORM) has been taking reported sightings in Canada and compiles them into an annual Canadian UFO Survey.
Chris Rutkowski manages the Canadian UFO Survey.
Chris Rutkowski, who manages the survey, says sightings are no longer being managed by any military or police groups.
“At one point the RCMP were investigating UFOs on behalf of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). They did it for several decades,” Rutkowski said in a phone interview.
The idea was some of the things seen in the sky could be meteorites, which the research council wanted to follow.
“That program with the NRC finished in the ‘90s and so the RCMP had no commitment to continue,” he said.
Still, Rutkowski is saddened Bruce’s claim was not taken seriously.
“Polls have shown about 10 per cent of all Canadians believe they’ve seen UFOs, which is a fairly significant number when you think about it.”
Every year in Canada there are about 1,000 UFO reports, Rutkowski said. Last year there were eight in P.E.I.
“He (Bruce) is certainly not alone if that is any comfort.”
There are a number of ways to make UFO reports online, and there are Facebook groups specific to regions.
“So, that would be a way to do it in a passive way if you don’t want to attract attention to yourself, or you don’t want to be on the front page of The Guardian tomorrow.”
Rutkowski says between one and three per cent of cases can’t be explained, but most people do get an answer when they ask about what they’ve seen.
“I want people to understand that UFOs can be studied in a scientific way. We can explain most UFO reports.”
APHubble boven de aarde net na de lancering in 1990.
Het is de standaardzin van zowat elke IT-helpdeskmedewerker: “Heb je hem al eens uit- en opnieuw opgezet?” En terecht, zo blijkt nog maar eens. Want de simpele truc doet niet alleen wonderen bij gewone computers en laptops, ook een state of the art-ruimtetelescoop als de Hubble kan er wel bij varen. De NASA kreeg het toestel dat sinds begin deze maand stuk was, deze week opnieuw aan de praat door alle systemen uit te schakelen en opnieuw aan te zetten.
Hubble was op 5 oktober in “veilige modus” gezet nadat een van de drie nog actieve gyroscopen dienst weigerde. De ruimtetelescoop vliegt al sinds 1990 in een baan om de aarde. Gyroscopen zijn cruciale onderdelen om de telescoop te richten en stabiel te houden tijdens het maken van beelden in de ruimte. Voor een optimale werking zijn drie stuks nodig. Het uitvallen van de gyroscoop was verwacht, maar de problemen begonnen toen een back-upsysteem niet opstartte zoals het moest.
De NASA werkt twee weken koortsachtig aan een oplossing, die er deze week dan toch kwam. Volgens de ruimtevaartorganisatie is de telescoop ondertussen zo goed als opnieuw volledig actief nadat ze een actie uitvoerde die te vergelijken valt met het uit- en opnieuw aanzetten van een simpele computer. Op 16 oktober werd er een ‘lopende herstart’ gedaan van de telescoop, waarbij alle systemen gedurende een seconde werden uitgezet. Bedoeling was om alles wat er misliep bij het proberen opstarten van het back-upsysteem te resetten. Twee dagen later lieten de NASA-wetenschappers vanop aarde Hubble een reeks manoeuvres uitvoeren om mogelijke blokkades aan de gyroscoop weg te werken.
De NASA is maar wat blij met het nieuwe leven voor Hubble. Onlangs nog werd met behulp van de telescoop de eerste maan buiten ons zonnestelsel gevonden, en deze week kon hij al opnieuw een prachtig beeld maken van een mysterieuze stof- en gaswolk, ‘de geest van Cassiopeia’ gedoopt, die gekleurd wordt door de ultraviolette straling van een nabijgelegen ster.
Back to science! @NASAHubble is well on its way to normal science operations after a series of spacecraft stability tests commanded by our operations team. After evaluate its performance, the telescope is expected to return to science as usual. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/2R7AlUW
Just in time for Halloween: @NASAHubble captured an eerie figure among the stars, comprised of long, flowing veils of gas and dust. "The Ghost of Cassiopeia" is a nebula glowing with ultraviolet radiation from a nearby star. Look closer - if you dare! https://go.nasa.gov/2CHQGMq
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Korporaal was getuige van UFO-crash in Peru. In deze video beschrijft hij dingen die hij nog nooit van zijn leven had gezien
Korporaal was getuige van UFO-crash in Peru. In deze video beschrijft hij dingen die hij nog nooit van zijn leven had gezien
Korporaal Jonathan Weygandt was gestationeerd in Peru, waar hij opdracht kreeg naar de crashplek van een mysterieus toestel te gaan.
Eenmaal aangekomen zag hij dingen die hij nog nooit van zijn leven had gezien. Hij werd uiteindelijk gearresteerd en een aantal dagen opgesloten.
Weygandt werkte als beveiliger van een radarinstallatie die formeel werd gebruikt om Boliviaanse drugsvliegtuigen te volgen.
Telepathisch contact
Op een nacht kwam er een melding binnen dat in de omgeving een vliegtuig was neergestort. Weygandt ging met een aantal collega’s naar de crashplek.
De korporaal zag als één van de eersten het grote toestel. Het was vast komen te zitten in een ravijn.
Uit het toestel droop siroopachtige vloeistof met een groenpaarse kleur. De motor van het vaartuig bracht een zoemend geluid voort.
Hij zei dat zich in het vaartuig wezens bevonden die telepathisch contact met hem probeerden te leggen. Hij meende één van de wezens om hulp te horen roepen.
Hechtenis
Plotseling kreeg Weygandt opdracht om bij het toestel vandaan te komen.
Medewerkers van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Energie verschenen ten tonele en namen de korporaal in hechtenis.
Mannen in zwarte pakken namen zijn uitrusting in beslag. Hij werd aan boord van een grote helikopter gebracht en afgevoerd.
Vaker
Na een lang verhoor moest Weygandt een formulier ondertekenen waarin stond dat hij verklaarde dat hij niets had gezien.
Hij werd naar eigen zeggen nog dagenlang vastgehouden voordat hij weer terug mocht naar de radarinstallatie.
Weygandt lichtte toe dat onbekende vliegende objecten, die van buiten de atmosfeer leken te komen, vaker in het gebied werden gezien toen hij er gestationeerd was.
DID OUR ANCESTORS KNOW HOW TO OPENA PORTAL TO ANOTHER DIMENSION?
DID OUR ANCESTORS KNOW HOW TO OPEN A PORTAL TO ANOTHER DIMENSION?
There are a number of areas across the world known to be energetic hotspots – from ancient megaliths to Ley Lines, these areas are often alleged to produce hyper-dimensional gateways. While we don’t exactly know how to open a portal to another dimension, there is evidence the phenomenon could exist. And now it seems science may be catching on to the possibility.
Typically, portal areas have some type of electromagnetic significance and are located near large deposits of quartz or other minerals with piezoelectric properties. So, it came as less of a surprise when NASA announced in 2012 that University of Iowa physicist Jack Scudder, found hard evidence of portals created by the interaction between the Earth and Sun’s magnetospheres.
These portals are extremely volatile and unpredictable, opening and closing in the matter of an instant. But Scudder found markers, called x-points or electron diffusion regions, which allowed NASA probes to locate and study them.
Thus, launched the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, or MMS, which mapped how two celestial bodies’ magnetic fields connect, disconnect, and explosively transfer energy, subsequently opening portals.
For now, only electrons have been observed to travel through these portals, generating auroras and the occasional magnetic storm near Earth’s poles. But this discovery could be the key to uncovering the function of some of the legendary portals on Earth that are said to act as gateways to other dimensions.
INTER-DIMENSIONAL PORTALS
The inter-dimensional portal has long been a device of science fiction, but it also finds its place within myriad ancient cultures. According to Freddy Silva, throughout history we’ve slowly lost our connection to the Earth, but in times of antiquity people were able to naturally distinguish energetic fields and hotspots across the land.
Our ancestors identified particular places considered energetically anomalous, and in these areas, one finds either a succession of temples or a temple that has withstood the test of time. Silva points to a number of gothic cathedrals built on grounds originally identified by Pagans as being sacred.
These energetic locales are considered sacrosanct because they represent areas where our inner temple – the mind – is able to access higher states of consciousness, connecting with extra-dimensional entities or invoking out of body experiences. Whether these areas always represented dimensional portals for the mind, or a portal for the physical body is up for debate.
Graham Hancock references the many stories of native shamans traversing planes of consciousness through the use of psychedelic substances such as ayahuasca. Within this ecstatic state shamans report meeting teachers and guides, who provide advice and wisdom for living within the everyday realm of our existence. But Hancock also says he believes it is worth considering that there maybe something otherworldly to these portal areas; something beyond materialist comprehension.
One location seeming to fit this description is Puerta de Hayu Marca in Peru. Situated on a plateau just off the western banks of Lake Titicaca, Puerta de Hayu Marca translates to the Gate of the Gods. Reaching 23 feet in both height and width, Hayu Marca appears to be a doorway to nowhere carved into a rock face in a remote area known as the Valley of the Spirits, or Stone Forest.
Gate of the Gods, Hayu Marca
Legend has it that when Spanish conquistadors came to Peru to loot the Inca’s gold, a priest named Amaru Meru used Hayu Marca as a portal to escape. Meru allegedly placed a golden disk, known as the “Key to the Gods of the Seven Rays,” into a socket in the center of Hayu Marca’s carved door, opening a portal and allowing him to walk through the stone never to be seen again.
Hayu Marca rests on a Ley Line, upon which the famous Gate of the Sun at Tiwanaku also lies in neighboring Bolivia, along with several other important Incan archeological points.
Visitors of Hayu Marca have reported noticeably unusual energy fields there, with some saying they can feel pulsating energy emanating from the rock when placing their hand in its center. Many who have reviewed the ancient site online mention this feeling of elevated or intense energy there.
Lake Titicaca nearby was revered by the Incas and considered to be the birthplace of their civilization. It is also the deepest lake in the world, rumored to contain a lost city and a plethora of treasure looted by the Spanish. In 2000, the lost temple of Atahualpa was discovered deep below the lake, adding to the mysterious nature of this ancient culture.
In more recent lore, a man named Jose Luis Delgado Mamani was said to have rediscovered Hayu Marca in 1996, astonished by what he saw. The gateway of the gods looked familiar to him, as he had seen a similar threshold in his dreams with pink marble. Mamani knew instantly this was the same vision from his reveries.
“When I saw the structure for the first time, I almost passed out. I have dreamed of such a construction repeatedly over the years, but in the dream the path to the door was paved with pink marble, and with pink marble statues lining either side of the path. In the dream, I also saw that the smaller door was open and there was a brilliant blue light coming from what looked like a shimmering tunnel.
Was Mamani contacted by Amaru Meru, the legendary figure who once passed through the stone doorway of Hayu Marca?
MORE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
If you talk to most string theorists they’ll tell you its likely we live in a multi-dimensional universe.In fact, many string theorists believe that beyond our three-dimensional reality (four if you include time), there may actually be 10 or 11 different dimensions, all potentially with their own unique law of physics and chemistry.
Michio Kaku likens this to a fish swimming in water; to the fish, you can swim up, down, left, or right and everything within your body of water is your universe — your reality. But what if a human lifted you up out of the water? All of a sudden you’re in a new dimension, being held by a being breathing without gills and living outside of the water — an entirely new chemistry of living. This being is also moving without fins and walking on solid ground — a new form of physics, different than your own.
And though there are some similarities between these two worlds as far as the laws that govern them, i.e. electromagnetic energy and gravity, there are vast differences. Similarly, there may be multiple dimensions beyond our own, of which we can only observe certain signs – quantum signs that don’t seem to fall into a unified theory of explanation, based on the dimensions we’re capable of observing.
According to the Randall-Sundrum Model, developed by Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum, we might live in a space that contains a warped and gravitationally heavy fifth-dimension known as the gravitybrane or Planckbrane. This theory explains why gravity is the weakest of all the fundamental forces, while also allowing for the possibility that we exist on one of these branes, unable to see reality on the surface of another brane. Unless there was some kind of portal…
Could it be possible that a confluence of electromagnetic events occasionally opens up a portal into one of those other dimensions or onto the surface of another brane? Could this have anything to do with all of the ephemeral paranormal phenomena that are so seemingly ineffable?
Randall plans to test her theory through use of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, but whether it will allow us any insight into the possibility of inter-dimensional travel by way of portal, is up in the air. For now, we’ll just have to continue to study the areas our ancestors marked and unlock the codes they left behind.
For more information on hyper-dimensional portals watch this episode of Ancient Civilizations:
Wisten onze voorouders hoe ze poorten naar andere dimensies moesten openen?
Wisten onze voorouders hoe ze poorten naar andere dimensies moesten openen?
In 2012 maakte de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA bekend dat er verborgen doorgangen of poorten waren gevonden in het aardmagnetisch veld.
Deze poorten zijn extreem onvoorspelbaar en openen en sluiten in een oogwenk, zei natuurkundige Jack Scudder van de Universiteit van Iowa.
Met behulp van sondes is vastgelegd hoe elektronen door deze poorten gaan en vervolgens voor poollicht zorgen op aarde.
Hogere bewustzijnsstaten
Deze ontdekking doet denken aan de legendarische poorten op aarde die naar verluidt leiden naar andere dimensies.
Schrijver en onderzoeker Freddy Silva merkte op dat een aantal gothische kathedralen zijn gebouwd op plekken die voor de heidenen heilig waren.
Op deze plekken zou je hogere bewustzijnsstaten kunnen bereiken en een verbinding kunnen maken met extradimensionale entiteiten.
Schrijver Graham Hancock verwees naar de vele verhalen van sjamanen die door middel van ayahuasca een andere bewustzijnstoestand bereiken.
Poort van de goden
Foto: Yurileveratto Wikimedia Commons
In deze staat kunnen ze naar eigen zeggen leraren en gidsen ontmoeten, die vervolgens advies en wijsheid met hen delen.
In Peru bevindt zich Puerta de Hayu Marca, wat ‘poort van de goden’ betekent. Hayu Marca is zeven meter hoog en breed en lijkt een deur naar niets te zijn die in de rotsen is uitgehouwen.
Volgens een legende ontsnapte een priester genaamd Amaru Meru via Hayu Marca toen de Spaanse conquistadores Peru bereikten.
Veel theoretici geloven dat we in een multidimensionaal universum leven. Zij zeggen dat er geen drie, maar 10 of 11 verschillende dimensies zijn, met allemaal hun eigen natuurkundige wetten.
Vis
Wetenschapper Michio Kaku vergelijkt het met een vis die in het water zwemt. De vis kan omhoog, omlaag, naar links en naar rechts zwemmen en het water is je universum, je realiteit.
Maar wat als een mens je vangt en uit het water trekt? Plotseling bevindt je je in een nieuwe dimensie en wordt je buiten het water vastgehouden door een wezen dat ademhaalt zonder kieuwen.
Dit wezen beweegt zich zonder vinnen voort op een vaste ondergrond, een hele andere realiteit.
Op dezelfde manier zijn er mogelijk meerdere dimensies die wij niet direct kunnen waarnemen, maar wel indirect.
Vijfde dimensie
Volgens natuurkundigen Lisa Randall en Raman Sundrum leven we in een ruimte die in ieder geval nog een vijfde dimensie heeft.
Hun theorie stelt dat de zwaartekracht mogelijk een kracht is op een andere zogeheten braan dan die van ons. Die andere braan zouden we niet kunnen waarnemen tenzij er een soort poort zou zijn.
Is het mogelijk dat we op bepaalde plekken via zo’n poort naar één van die andere dimensies of branen kunnen?
Randall hoopt haar theorie te testen met behulp van de Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Mysterieuze ‘rookpluim’ gespot op Mars. Wat is er allemaal aan de hand?
Mysterieuze ‘rookpluim’ gespot op Mars. Wat is er allemaal aan de hand?
Complottheoretici waren lyrisch nadat in de buurt van een slapende vulkaan op Mars een ‘mysterieuze rookpluim’ was gespot.
Velen claimden dat het bewijs was voor buitenaards leven op de rode planeet en dat we op aarde worden voorgelogen.
Het populaire kanaal SecureTeam10 plaatste er een filmpje van op YouTube, dat inmiddels ruim een half miljoen keer is bekeken.
Schijnheilige leugenaars
“Er was een explosie,” zegt Tyler Glockner in de video. “Ik weet niet of het een vulkaan was of dat er iets ontploft is.”
“Te veel toevalligheden,” reageerde iemand. “Dit kan niet langer worden genegeerd. NASA moet ophouden met politieagentje spelen in de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap.”
“NASA verspreidt onzin en wordt bemenst door schijnheilige leugenaars,” zei een ander. “Er is leven op Mars en eenieder die Mars in de afgelopen 50 jaar heeft bestudeerd, weet dat.”
Wolk
De ‘rookpluim’ werd opgepikt door de Britse tabloids en ook op Reddit werd er druk over gespeculeerd.
Planeetwetenschapper Elliot Sefton-Nash zei echter tegen RT dat er geen geloofwaardig bewijs is voor actief vulkanisme op Mars.
De mysterieuze rookpluim, die op 24 september is vastgelegd door de Mars Express van de ESA, is volgens hem een wolk.
Bekend
“Het is bekend dat zich in de regio wolken vormen,” legde hij uit. “Ze worden geassocieerd met vulkanen omdat hun topografie atmosferische omstandigheden beïnvloedt.”
Hij voegde toe dat in 2015 door de Indiase Mars Orbiter Mission een soortgelijke wolk is gefotografeerd bij Arsia Mons.
Verleden week werden zo'n dertig dode spreeuwen in het Huijgenspark gevonden, vandaag was het weer raak. De teller staat inmiddels op 147 dode vogels. De Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA) gaat op verzoek van de gemeente Den Haag onderzoek doen. De Partij voor de Dieren drong al eerder bij de gemeente aan op verder onderzoek.
Er geldt in het park sinds gisteren een uitlaatverbod voor honden en met roodwit lint zijn delen afgezet. Dode vogels worden snel weggehaald. Raadslid Robert Barker van de Partij voor de Dieren, die gisteren kwam kijken, had het gevoel in een ’crime scene’ te zijn beland. „Dat zoveel vogels op deze plek uit de lucht vallen, moet een oorzaak hebben en die moet worden onderzocht. Mocht er sprake zijn van vergiftiging, dan moet hier hard tegen worden opgetreden.”
De vogels vertonen geen uiterlijke kenmerken en aangezien men geen reden kan vinden en een plotselinge ziekte ook niet echt waarschijnlijk lijkt, is het enige dat men dan nog kan bedenken: vergiftiging.
Om die reden is op de vogels meteen sectie gepleegd. Daaruit kwam geen duidelijke doodsoorzaak naar voren.
Het is natuurlijk niet alleen Den Haag, het is een wereldwijd fenomeen dat nu al jaren in omvang toeneemt en waar wel gezocht wordt naar antwoorden, zoals ook door onze lezers, maar wat vooralsnog toch nog een groot mysterie blijft, zoals we onlangs schreven:
Iets waar in de mainstream media weinig of geen aandacht aan wordt geschonken is het fenomeen van dode dieren dat zich overal op onze planeet voor doet. Het is een verschijnsel dat al een aantal jaren bezig is en er lijkt maar geen einde aan te komen.
Iemand die veel ziet en hoort, niet in het minst dankzij zijn talrijke abonnees, is Tyler van het Youtube kanaal Secureteam.
In de onderstaande video vraagt Tyler zich lichtelijk wanhopig af wat er in 's hemelsnaam aan de hand is met/op onze wereld en dan met name de situatie van de vele dode vogels en ook andere dieren.
Zoals hij zegt zijn er de afgelopen jaren miljarden dieren om het leven gekomen en niemand heeft eigenlijk daarvoor een duidelijke reden kunnen vinden. Of als ze die wel hebben, dan wordt die zeker niet met het publiek gedeeld.
Het blijft een mysterieuze zaak met die vogels die zomaar spontaan dood uit de lucht lijken te vallen en soms met honderden tegelijk op een bepaalde locatie neer komen. Het gebeurt niet in een bepaald gebied, maar eigenlijk over de hele wereld en je hebt zelfs mensen die het dode vogels op het dak horen regenen.
Tyler weet te vertellen dat de vogels getraumatiseerd zijn en dat dit niet komt doordat ze op de grond zijn gevallen, maar wel omdat het lijkt alsof ze tegen een onzichtbare muur zijn gevlogen. Zo vliegen ze rond en zo opeens is daar iets dat ze niet zien en waar ze toch tegenaan klappen.
En keer op keer komen er zogenaamde experts die een onderzoek in zullen stellen met evenveel niet bevredigende antwoorden omtrent de oorzaak van dit alles. Dit is ook weer niet zo vreemd, want ze weten het gewoon niet.
Het fenomeen dode vogels is ook niet beperkt tot een bepaald soort vogel; het zijn werkelijk allemaal totaal verschillende exemplaren.
Om een indruk te krijgen waar we over praten, volgt hierna een lijst met gebeurtenissen betreffende dode dieren van de afgelopen maand. De makers van de lijst zeggen dat deze niet volledig is vanwege tijdgebrek.
5th October 2018 - Hundreds of birds drop dead in Warsaw, Poland. Link
5th October 2018 - Thousands of dead fish and snails found in a lake in Bangalore, India. Link
4th October 2018 - Hundreds of dead fish wash up, due to red tide in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, America. Link
3rd October 2018 - 23 lions have died from 'mysterious illness', causing alarm in Gir Forest National Park, India. Link
3rd October 2018 - Massive fish kill, due to red tide, 'never seen this before' in Mexico Beach, Florida, America. Link
29th September 2018 - 32,000+ birds killed due to avian flu in Guizhou province, China. Link
28th September 2018 - Large die off of various fish in the Cache la Poudre River, Colorado, America. Link
27th September 2018 - Hundreds of crabs washing up dead on Lee County beaches in Florida, America. Link
27th September 2018 - Hundreds of dead fish found in a river in Barco, Portugal. Link
24th September 2018 - 400 cattle dead due to drought and disease in Casitas, Peru. Link
23rd September 2018 - 750,000 fish die in a fish farm in Kolbeinagjogv, Faroe Islands. Link
22nd September 2018 - Tens of Thousands of dead fish wash ashore along a river in Hatay Province, Turkey. Link
21st September 2018 - 43,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Trilistnik, Bulgaria. Link
20th September 2018 - Hundreds of thousands of dead clams wash up on Revere Beach, Massachusetts, America. Link
20th September 2018 - Dozens of birds fall dead from sky, 'a mystery' in Tsawwassen, B.C, Canada. Link
18th September 2018 - 5,500 pigs and 3.4 Million chickens killed by Hurricane Florence in North Carolina, America. Link
17th September 2018 - 350 dead penguins found washed up on beaches in Parana, Brazil. Link
17th September 2018 - 3 dolphins dead after 11 stranded on a beach in Cornwall, England. Link
17th September 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash up due to red tide on Panama City beach, Florida, America. Link
17th September 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash up on a beach in Karachi, Pakistan. Link
14th September 2018 - 26,000 birds killed due to avian flu in California, America. Link
14th September 2018 - Thousands of fish die in a lake in Hanoi, Vietnam. Link
14th September 2018 - 70 dead penguins found washed up on beaches in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Link
13th September 2018 - Hundreds of dead fish wash up on a beach in Texas, America. Link
11th September 2018 - 30,000 birds killed due to bird flu in Tuaran district, Malaysia. Link
10th September 2018 - 33 TONS of dead fish wash up, due to red tide in Pinellas, Florida, America. Link
9th September 2018 - 150 cattle dead from anthrax in 3 villages in Turkey. Link
7th September 2018 - 58 dead whales have now washed up the past 2 months in Ireland and Scotland. Link
4th September 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash up in Provincetown, Mass., America. Link
Tyler heeft nog meer alarmerende berichten over de stand van het wild in de wereld. Zo schijnt het dat over slechts twee jaar tweederde van alle in het wild levende dieren en insecten verdwenen zullen zijn.
Dit zijn meer dan schokkende berichten, want dat betekent dat we letterlijk leven op een stervende planeet.
Iets veroorzaakt dit alles. Is het de mens en de roekeloze manier waarop er met de aarde wordt omgesprongen of is het toch iets anders?
For some reason, the robotics and weapons industries seem to have silently agreed that the world just really needs killer robots walking around blowing stuff up willy-nilly. Perhaps it’s already too late. After all, there are already plenty of aerial drones flying around with large degrees of autonomy, and military engineers the world over are busy putting guns in robots’ hands just to see what happens. While it’s clear killer robots will change warfare forever, it’s still unknown exactly how. Will they increase the amount of human casualties with their superior ability to kill, or will they take human soldiers off the battlefield for good?
Is this the future of warfare?
Who knows. The real losers in any war are always the civilians and innocent bystanders, after all. When those 200-foot robots fall over during battle, they’ve got to crush something. In order to try and mitigate the inevitable dangers of the oncoming killer robots many public figures in the tech industry ave called for outright bans on any killer robots.
It’s safe to say, though, that DARPA, Boston Dynamics, and other research agencies are still hard at work to create our new gun-toting robotic overlords. That’s why one of the creators of the most iconic killer robot of our time is now calling for the creation of a new oath required of the tech industry in an attempt to ensure that killer robots never see the light of day. Is this simply wishful thinking?
Of course it is, foolish humans.
Screenwriter and producer Gale Anne Hurd was recently awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Screamfest horror film festival in Los Angeles. During a Q&A session following the award ceremony, Hurd noted as so many others have that it is the role of artists and other creative types to pose the hard questions and imagine the ‘what-ifs’ about our current society in order to give us pause to think about where we’re headed:
We are cutting edge. We create and think about things that the people who are being paid so much money, the scientists and the physicists, the mathematicians, biotech people aren’t even considering. The more leaps and bounds are made in technology right now, the more fearful we should be that these scenarios may come to pass. Stephen Hawking only came up with the idea that we need to worry about A.I. and robots about two and a half years before he passed away. If he’d only watched The Terminator.
If only. Hurd went on to argue that researchers in robotics and other high-tech fields should be required to take their own version of the Hippocratic Oath, one that just might give a would-be evil genius second thoughts about downloading his brain into a skyscraper-sized, laser-wielding mech:
The one thing that they don’t teach in engineering schools and biotech is ethics and thinking about not only consequences, but unintended consequences. If you go to medical school, there’s the Hippocratic Oath, first do no harm. I think we really need that in all of these new technologies.
Could an anti-killer-robot version of the Hippocratic Oath save us from our inevitable robotic doom? It’s highly doubtful. Oaths can be broken, after all. Was the opening scene of Terminator 2a glimpse into our future? Will humanity’s collective skull be crushed under the cold metal heel of an unstoppable army of Terminator bots?
It’s probably a question of ‘when’ rather than ‘if.’ Don’t be too upset; some catastrophes aren’t worth living through. Just lie down in front of the marching hordes of deathbots, present that nice squishable cranium for stompin’, and think of happier times. It’ll all be over soon.
A huge UFO has been filmed when passing the moon at a high rate of speed.
The videographer living in Perth, Australia was at his home and decided to film the Moon as it was so bright on October 24, 2018.
He noticed the UFO on his mobile as he was filming.
Videographer:her: The UFO was very fast and almost length wise to the moon. It shot straight past it on the right side and then again this time width ways going right over the top of the moon.
The video has been submitted to Mufon and can be viewed here.
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.
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Layers in Martian buttes found in a region called West Arabia:
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A picture of Utopia Planitia, a large plain on Mars:
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A bright speckle of minerals stands out on Galle (not Gale) Crater:
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A small but recent impact crater:
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Blowing sand eats through the rims of older craters:
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Mars in all its two-toned glory:
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Seasonal dunes on Mars nicknamed ‘Buzzel’.
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Ridges cross the Nepenthes Mensae region, which is often referred to as a river delta for the striking pattern:
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The edges of a debris apron, where cliff material eroded away.
Ancient alien lifeforms ‘lived underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years’
Ancient alien lifeforms ‘lived underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years’
Jasper Hamill
Mars may once have teemed with alien life which lived under its surface for hundreds of millions of years.
That’s the suggestion from scientists who say ancient Mars is likely to have had an ‘ample supply of chemical energy’ which would have allowed tiny microorganisms to thrive underground.
‘We showed, based on basic physics and chemistry calculations, that the ancient Martian subsurface likely had enough dissolved hydrogen to power a global subsurface biosphere,’ said Jesse Tarnas, a graduate student at Brown University and lead author of a study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
‘Conditions in this habitable zone would have been similar to places on Earth where underground life exists.’
Scientists say the Red Planet may not always have been a dead, barren world
If life ever did exist on the Red Planet, it is likely to take on a similar form to the tiny ‘subsurface lithotrophic microbial ecosystems’ (SLIME) found on Earth.
The new study shows that a process called radiolysis in which radiation breaks down water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen parts would have created ‘plenty’ of hydrogen beneath the ancient Martian subsurface.
The researchers estimated that hydrogen concentrations in the crust of Mars roughly four billion years ago would have at a similar level to places where microbes live on Earth today.
A view of the bleak surface of Mars taken by Nasa’s Curiosity Rover
They calculated that this buried ‘habitable zone’ was several kilometres thick.
‘People have a conception that a cold early Mars climate is bad for life, but what we show is that there’s actually more chemical energy for life underground in a cold climate,’ Tarnas added.
‘That’s something we think could change people’s perception of the relationship between climate and past life on Mars.’
The Sphinx of Balochistan could be more than just a natural rock formation
The Sphinx of Balochistan could be more than just a natural rock formation
Is the Pakistan Sphinx a relic of an ancient advanced civilization?
JP Robinson, author of two books titled "The Myth of Man", has put forward the possibility of a rock formation in Pakistan as a remnant of a long-gone ancient civilization that may even predate the Egyptian Great Sphinx of Giza.
Shape Too Exact To Be a Coincidence
In the Hingol National Park, Balochistan province, there are many beautiful rock formations that are said to have been naturally formed, such as the Princess of Hope (so-called by actress Angelina Jolie). The statuesque figure appears to have a female form. Rain and winds from the nearby sea are said to be the cause of the lifelike shapes that have emerged over time.
The "Princess of Hope"
However, Robinson believes that a rock formation in the shape of a sphinx is, in fact, a relic of a bygone civilization. Called the Lion of Balochistan, the well-crafted structure bears a strong resemblance to the Egyptian sphinx- even appearing to have a Pharaoh’s headdress. Robinson believes the shape is too exact to be a coincidence. In an article, he wrote for ancient-origins he alludes to his book "The Myth of Man" and particularly to the idea that some more modern technologies may have been in use long ago.
Robinson points out that further evidence that the structure was deliberately carved is seen in what it appears to be resting on- a temple. The rocky formation below the sphinx looks very much like a temple emerging from the mountain. He believes the Lion of Balochistan may be older than the Egyptian versions and that further investigation is needed in order to uncover the truth as to who created it and for what purpose.
A montage created with data from the Voyager mission of Neptune and its moon Triton, which scientists consider a potential ocean world.
Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
As far as we know, all life requires one thing, water, and that's why scientists are fascinated by worlds they know or suspect host giant oceans: These worlds are among the best candidates for finding life beyond Earth.
And in a new report, a team of scientists summarizes what we know about each of these potential "water parks" and our long-term options for furthering that knowledge with progressively more ambitious missions. The report is on behalf of the Roadmaps to Ocean Worlds group of NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group, designed to inform a congressionally mandated research portfolio within the agency.
Other promising candidates are Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Titan, which each check a few boxes already. But even these worlds still pose very real puzzles to scientists, including whether their oceans would be at all habitable.
And there are some enigmatic worlds where scientists aren't even sure yet if water is on tap. When it comes to destinations like Triton, Ceres and Pluto, scientists have only tantalizing hints that they could be wet.
So in addition to collating the evidence to date for each potential ocean world, the team behind the new report also suggested further steps for exploring each of these intriguing worlds. In the most promising cases, that means sketching out what decades' worth of missions could look like. For Enceladus, for example, the report lists five potential mission designs of increasing complexity: plume flyby, plume flyby with sample return, lander, crawler and submarine. (Currently, NASA and other space agencies don't have any concrete plans to return to Enceladus.)
The International Space Station, as photographed by crewmembers aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2010.
Credit: NASA
The International Space Station (ISS) is a multi-nation construction project that is the largest single structure humans ever put into space. Its main construction was completed between 1998 and 2011, although the station continually evolves to include new missions and experiments. It has been continuously occupied since Nov. 2, 2000.
As of January 2018, 230 individuals from 18 countries have visited the International Space Station. Top participating countries include the United States (145 people) and Russia (46 people). Astronaut time and research time on the space station is allocated to space agencies according to how much money or resources (such as modules or robotics) that they contribute. The ISS includes contributions from 15 nations. NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia) and the European Space Agency are the major partners of the space station who contribute most of the funding; the other partners are the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
Current plans call for the space station to be operated through at least 2024, with the partners discussing a possible extension until 2028. Afterwards, plans for the space station are not clearly laid out. It could be deorbited, or recycled for future space stations in orbit.
Crews aboard the ISS are assisted by mission control centers in Houston and Moscow and a payload control center in Huntsville, Ala. Other international mission control centers support the space station from Japan, Canada and Europe. The ISS can also be controlled from mission control centers in Houston or Moscow. [Photos: Space Station's Expedition 32 Mission]
Finding the space station in the sky
The space station flies at an average altitude of 248 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth. It circles the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 17,500 mph (28,000 km/h). In one day, the station travels about the distance it would take to go from Earth to the moon and back.
The space station can rival the brilliant planet Venus in brightness and appears as a bright moving light across the night sky. It can be seen from Earth without the use of a telescope by night sky observers who know when and where to look. You can use our Satellite Tracker page powered by N2YO.com to find out when to see the space station.
Crew composition and activities
The ISS generally holds crews of between three and six people (the full six-person size was possible after 2009, when the station facilities could support it). But crew sizes have varied over the years. After the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003 that grounded flights for several years, crews were as small as two people due to the reduced capacity to launch people into space on the smaller Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The space station has also housed as many as 13 people several times, but only for a few days during crew changeovers or space shuttle visits.
The space shuttle fleet retired in 2011, leaving Soyuz as the only current method to bring people to the ISS. Three astronauts fly to the space station in Soyuz spacecraft and spend about six months there at a time. Sometimes, mission lengths vary a little due to spacecraft scheduling or special events (such as the one-year crew that stayed on the station between 2015 and 2016.) If the crew needs to evacuate the station, they can return to Earth aboard two Russian Soyuz vehicles docked to the ISS.
Starting in 2019 or 2020, the commercial crew vehicles Dragon (by SpaceX) and CST-100 (by Boeing) are expected to increase ISS crew numbers because they can bring up more astronauts at a time than Soyuz. When the U.S. commercial vehicles are available, demand for Soyuz will decrease because NASA will purchase fewer seats for its astronauts from the Russians.
Astronauts spend most of their time on the ISS performing experiments and maintenance, and at least two hours of every day are allocated to exercise and personal care. They also occasionally perform spacewalks, conduct media/school events for outreach, and post updates to social media, as Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, an ISS commander, did in 2013. (However, the first astronaut to tweet from space was Mike Massimino, who did it from a space shuttle in May 2009.)
The ISS is a platform for long-term research for human health, which NASA bills as a key stepping stone to letting humans explore other solar system destinations such as the moon or Mars. Human bodies change in microgravity, including alterations to muscles, bones, the cardiovascular system and the eyes; many scientific investigations are trying to characterize how severe the changes are and whether they can be reversed. (Eye problems in particular are vexing the agency, as their cause is unclear and astronauts are reporting permanent changes to vision after returning to Earth.)
Astronauts also participate in testing out commercial products – such as an espresso machine or 3D printers – or doing biological experiments, such as on rodents or plants, which the astronauts can grow and sometimes eat in space.
Crews are not only responsible for science, but also for maintaining the station. Sometimes, this requires that they venture on spacewalks to perform repairs. From time to time, these repairs can be urgent — such as when a part of the ammonia system fails, which has happened a couple of times. Spacewalk safety procedures were changed after a potentially deadly 2013 incident when astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet filled with water while he was working outside the station. NASA now responds quickly to "water incursion" incidents. It also has added pads to the spacesuits to soak up the liquid, and a tube to provide an alternate breathing location should the helmet fill with water.
NASA is also testing technology that could supplement or replace astronaut spacewalks. One example is Robonaut. A prototype currently on board the station is able to flip switches and do other routine tasks under supervision, and may be modified at some point to work "outside" as well. [Infographic: Meet Robonaut 2, NASA's Space Droid]
Records in space
The ISS has had several notable milestones over the years, when it comes to crews:
Most consecutive days in space by an American: 340 days, which happened when Scott Kelly took part in a one-year mission to the International Space Station in 2015-16 (along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko). The space agencies did a comprehensive suite of experiments on the astronauts, including a "twin study" with Kelly and his Earth-bound former astronaut twin, Mark. NASA has expressed interest in more long-duration missions, although none have yet been announced.
Longest single spaceflight by a woman: 289 days, during American astronaut Peggy Whitson's 2016-17 mission aboard the space station.
Most total time spent in space by a woman: Again, that's Peggy Whitson, who racked up most of her 665 days in space on the ISS.
Most women in space at once: This happened in April 2010 when women from two spaceflight missions met at the ISS. This included Tracy Caldwell Dyson (who flew on a Soyuz spacecraft for a long-duration mission) and NASA astronauts Stephanie Wilson and Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger and Japan's Naoko Yamazaki, who arrived aboard the space shuttle Discovery on its brief STS-131 mission.
Biggest space gathering: 13 people, during NASA's STS-127 shuttle mission aboard Endeavour in 2009. (It's been tied a few times during later missions.)
Longest single spacewalk: 8 hours and 56 minutes during STS-102, for an ISS construction mission in 2001. NASA astronauts Jim Voss and Susan Helms participated.
Longest Russian spacewalk: 8 hours and 13 minutes during Expedition 54, to repair an ISS antenna. Russian astronauts Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov participated.
Structure
The space station, including its large solar arrays, spans the area of a U.S. football field, including the end zones, and weighs 861,804 lbs. (391,000 kilograms), not including visiting vehicles. The complex now has more livable room than a conventional five-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, gym facilities and a 360-degree bay window. Astronauts have also compared the space station's living space to the cabin of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
The International Space Station was taken into space piece-by-piece and gradually built in orbit using spacewalking astronauts and robotics. Most missions used NASA's space shuttle to carry up the heavier pieces, although some individual modules were launched on single-use rockets. The ISS includes modules and connecting nodes that contain living quarters and laboratories, as well as exterior trusses that provide structural support, and solar panels that provide power.
The first module, the Russia Zarya, launched on Nov. 20, 1998, on a Proton rocket. Two weeks later, space shuttle flight STS-88 launched the NASA Unity/Node 1 module. Astronauts performed spacewalks during STS-88 to connect the two parts of the station together; later, other pieces of the station were launched on rockets or in the space shuttle cargo bay. [Rare Photos: Space Shuttle at Space Station].
Some of the other major modules and components include:
The truss, airlocks and solar panels (launched in stages throughout the ISS lifetime; docking adapters were launched in 2017 for new commercial spacecraft)
Zvezda (Russia; launched in 2000)
Destiny Laboratory Module (NASA; launched 2001)
Canadarm2 robotic arm (CSA; launched 2001). It was originally used only for spacewalks and remote-controlled repairs. Today it also is regularly used to berth cargo spacecraft to the space station – spacecraft that can't use the other ports.
Harmony/Node 2 (NASA; launched 2007)
Columbus orbital facility (ESA; launched 2008)
Dextre robotic hand (CSA; launched 2008)
Japanese Experiment Module or Kibo (launched in stages between 2008-09)
Cupola window and Tranquility/Node 3 (launched 2010)
Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module (ESA; launched for permanent residency in 2011, although it was used before that to bring cargo to and from the station)
Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (private module launched in 2016)
Spacecraft for the space station
Besides the space shuttle and Soyuz, the space station has been visited by many other kinds of spacecraft. Uncrewed Progress (Russia) vehicles make regular visits to the station. Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle and Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle used to do visits to the ISS as well, until their programs were retired.
NASA began developing commercial cargo spacecraft to the space station under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, which lasted from 2006 to 2013. Starting in 2012, the first commercial spacecraft, SpaceX's Dragon, made a visit to the space station. Visits continue today with Dragon and Orbital ATK's Antares spacecraft under the first stage of NASA's Commercial Resupply Services program. Dragon, Antares and Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser all have received CRS-2 contracts expected to cover flights between 2019 and 2024.
Additional reporting by Space.com Reference Editor Tim Sharp.
Inspired by the natural world, researchers have designed a microdrone that can pull objects up to 40 times its weight. By anchoring itself to various surfaces using adhesive action inspired by geckos and wasps, the tiny aerial vehicle is able to lift cameras, water bottles, and even pull door handles, while the drone itself is as light as a bar of soap.
FlyCroTugs’ multimodal operation allows them to combine small size, high mobility in cluttered and unstructured environments, and forceful manipulation.
Credit: Science Robotics.
The FlyCroTugs drone was developed by Stanford’s Mark Cutkosky and Dario Floreano at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Other similar drones demonstrated previously could only lift twice their own weight using aerodynamic forces alone. To drastically improve their tiny aerial vehicle’s towing power, the researchers turned to one of the most feared predators in the insect world: the wasp.
When a wasp captures prey too big to transport by flight, it chooses to drag it using different attachment options. Researchers studied the various ways wasps choose to transport prey and computed the ratio of flight-related muscle to total mass that determines whether the predator flies or drags its prey.
“When you’re a small robot, the world is full of large obstacles,” said Matthew Estrada, a graduate student at Stanford and lead author of the new study published inScience Robotics. “Combining the aerodynamic forces of our aerial vehicle along with interaction forces that we generate with the attachment mechanisms resulted in something that was very mobile, very forceful and micro as well.”
When encountering a smooth surface, FlyCroTugs uses gecko-like grippers that create non-sticking intermolecular forces between the adhesive and surface. For rough surfaces, the tiny flying robot sticks its 32 microspines into the small pits of a surface, latching onto it.
Fitting all this hardware inside a robot with only twice the weight of a golf ball was no easy feat, but the team was up to the challenge. What they wound up with was a fast, small, and maneuverable flying robot capable of moving very large loads up to 40 times its own weight.
“People tend to think of drones as machines that fly and observe the world, but flying insects do many other things – such as walking, climbing, grasping, building – and social insects can even cooperate to multiply forces,” said Floreano in a statement. “With this work, we show that small drones capable of anchoring to the environment and collaborating with fellow drones can perform tasks typically assigned to humanoid robots or much larger machines.”
FlyCroTugs represents a paradigm shift away from drones occupying a single niche. Not only does it show that drones are excellent for navigating remote locations, but they can also be used to interact with the physical world. In tests, FlyCroTugs flew atop a crumbling structure from where it hauled up a camera and even opened a door with the help of another drone (see the video).
In the future, the team hopes to develop an autonomous system that enables them to maneuver and coordinate multiple FlyCroTugs at once.
“The tools to create vehicles like this are becoming more accessible,” said Estrada. “I’m excited at the prospect of increasingly incorporating these attachment mechanisms into the designer’s tool belt, enabling robots to take advantage of interaction forces with their environment and put these to useful ends.”
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Ruimtesonde ontdekt kilometers lange, heldere strepen op manen van Saturnus - HLN.be
Ruimtesonde ontdekt kilometers lange, heldere strepen op manen van Saturnus - HLN.be
REUTERSArchiefbeeld van Cassini op de missie bij Saturnus.
WETENSCHAP Twee manen van Saturnus hebben mysterieuze strepen op het oppervlak. Die zijn kaarsrecht, helder, tot honderden kilometers lang en minder dan vijf kilometer breed. Ze lopen parallel aan elkaar en parallel aan de evenaar. De strepen zijn gezien op Dione en Rhea, twee van de meer dan zestig manen van Saturnus.
Ze gaan dwars over heuvels en dalen heen, en zijn misschien nog vers. Het is niet duidelijk waardoor de strepen worden veroorzaakt. Ze zijn gezien op Dione en Rhea, twee van de meer dan zestig manen van Saturnus.
De planeet en zijn manen zijn in de afgelopen jaren onderzocht door de ruimtesonde Cassini. Dione heeft waarschijnlijk een ondergrondse oceaan, bleek uit eerdere metingen. “Zulke lijnen hebben we in het zonnestelsel niet eerder gezien. Als ze veroorzaakt worden door iets van buiten, is dat misschien een manier om nieuw materiaal naar Dione te brengen. En dat kan gevolgen hebben voor de kans dat de ondergrondse oceaan vormen van leven bevat”, zegt een van de onderzoekers.
APBeeld van Saturnus, gemaakt door Cassini.
Cassini
De Cassini was in 1997 gelanceerd. Na zeven jaar vliegen kwam hij aan bij Saturnus en zijn minstens 62 manen. Hij ontdekte daar onder meer oceanen op de Saturnusmaan Enceladus, en zeeën van vloeibaar methaan op de maan Titan. Afgelopen maand bleek nog dat de sonde enorme stofstormen heeft ontdekt op de planeet. Deze waren eerder alleen waargenomen op aarde en Mars.
Uiteindelijk vloog de Cassini de dampkring van Saturnus binnen, waar hij uit elkaar viel. In zijn laatste momenten verrichtte de sonde nog allerlei metingen, op een plek waar de mensheid nog nooit was geweest.
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Wereldberoemde Dode Zee-rollen in Bijbelmuseum blijken nep. Wat klopt er nog meer niet?
Wereldberoemde Dode Zee-rollen in Bijbelmuseum blijken nep. Wat klopt er nog meer niet?
Het Bijbelmuseum in Washington heeft een vijftal fragmenten die afkomstig zijn uit Dode Zee-rollen weggehaald. De rollen blijken nep te zijn.
Het museum baseert zich op onderzoek dat uitgevoerd werd in Duitsland en waaruit blijkt dat de artefacten niet zo oud zijn als beweerd.
“Hoewel we gehoopt hadden dat de tests een ander resultaat zouden opleveren, is het ook een gelegenheid om het publiek duidelijk te maken hoe belangrijk het is om de authenticiteit van zeldzame bijbelfragmenten te verifiëren,” aldus museumcurator Jeffrey Kloha. Hij benadrukte ‘transparant’ te willen zijn.
Eén van de belangrijkste
De Dode Zee-rollen zijn meer dan tweeduizend jaar oud en worden beschouwd als één van de belangrijkste geschreven bronnen over de oude joodse cultuur.
Het gaat in totaal om 900 documenten, die teruggevonden werden rond de jaren 1950 op de Westelijke Jordaanoever aan de Dode Zee.
De ontdekking is één van de belangrijkste archeologische vondsten ooit.
In opspraak
De vijf fragmenten waarvan vermoed wordt dat ze nep zijn, waren sinds vorig jaar in het Bijbelmuseum van Washington te zien.
Maar aan het publiek werd toen al meegedeeld dat de authenticiteit nog niet bevestigd was.
Het museum kwam vorig jaar al eens in opspraak toen de sponsor en miljardair Steve Green beschuldigd werd kunst uit Irak te hebben gesmokkeld.
The artefacts, thought to be part of the historic Dead Sea Scrolls, will no longer be displayed.
Academics tested the fragments and found that the “show characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin and therefore will no longer be displayed at the museum,” the institution said.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are the oldest copies of Bible text ever found, and include passages of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, that range from 1,800 to more than 2,000 years old.
“Though we had hoped the testing would render different results, this is an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of verifying the authenticity of rare biblical artefacts, the elaborate testing process undertaken and our commitment to transparency,” said Jeffrey Kloha, the chief curatorial officer for Museum of the Bible, said in a statement.
“As an educational institution entrusted with cultural heritage, the museum upholds and adheres to all museum and ethical guidelines on collection care, research and display,” Mr Kloha said.
While the cost of the scrolls has not been revealed, the museum is thought to have spent millions of dollars on them. The institution faced questions over the authenticity of the fragments even before the site opened in November 2017.
In April 2017, it sent five fragments to the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und-prüfung (BAM) a German institute for analysing materials, who tested the ink and the papyrus. The Museum of the Bible said that the recently-received report “further raises suspicions about the authenticity of all five fragments.”
The museum said that supported two other research projects on its DSS fragments. Two years ago, Brill, a leading international academic publisher, released the first in a series of planned volumes sponsored by Museum of the Bible. Edited by Emanuel Tov, Kipp Davis and Robert Duke. Mr Davis and some of the contributors raised questions about the authenticity of some of the fragments.
“My research has focused primarily on two aspects of Museum of the Bible’s fragments: scribal quality and technique in the penning of the texts as well as the physical composition and current state of the manuscript media,” said Mr Davis. “My studies to date have managed to confirm upon a preponderance of different streams of evidence the high probability that at least seven fragments in the museum’s Dead Sea Scrolls collection are modern forgeries, but conclusions on the status of the remaining fragments are still forthcoming.”
Today, many of the Dead Sea Scrolls—which total some 100,000 fragments—are housed in the Shrine of the Book, part of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The excavation and selling of fragments is outlawed under a UN convention on cultural property from 1970, which means that private sellers fight over fragments removed before that time.
The founder of the Museum of the Bible, Steve Green, who his business the Hobby Lobby craft chain, faced scrutiny over the purchase of more than 5,500 artefacts from 2010 that originated from Iraq. The chain agreed to pay a $3m fine last year to settle a case with the Department of Justice that claimed the objects were illegally smuggled. The items have since been returned.
Hobby Lobby said that it was new to the world of antiquities when it began acquiring historical items for its Museum of the Bible in 2009 and made mistakes in relying on dealers and shippers who “did not understand the correct way to document and ship” them.
Flying Saucer Spotted on Google Maps – UFO Captured on Street View in Bermuda
Flying Saucer Spotted on Google Maps – UFO Captured on Street View in Bermuda
A saucer-shaped UFO has sparked an online frenzy after it was snapped on Google Maps Street View, which enables users to observe the world from street level.
A social media eagle-eyed user claims to have observed a real flying saucer above the paradise island of Bermuda
The Reddit user, who has since deleted his account, reportedly spotted the unusual hovering object above the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo.
The UFO hunter posted his finding online saying Google Earth reveals concrete evidence of a UFO metal saucer.
The alleged UFO was reportedly snapped above Hamilton Parish, Bermuda, close to the aquarium’s Caribbean Exhibit.
The unidentified flying object seems to be flying over Bermuda’s Harrington Sound body of water.
The shape of the object is very much like a classic flying saucer.
The object in question can be found under Google Maps coordinates 32.323628,-64.738612.
A few of Reddit users say there are quite a few on Google Earth such pretty crazy things.
However, other Redditors were quick to offer more plausible explanations for the appearance of the object. They suggested the UFO was a small bird flying in front of Google’s cameras.
Nog altijd is Zuid Amerika het continent waar eigenlijk aan de lopende band UFO activiteit is waar te nemen.
Niet alleen worden ze daar in de lucht waargenomen en tijdens nieuwsuitzendingen op televisie, maar ook worden er soms plekken ontdekt waar ze landen.
De volgende foto's zijn genomen ergens in Argentinië tijdens een naderende onweersbui. Het is een bekend feit dat UFO's regelmatig opduiken in de buurt van onweerswolken. Volgens UFO onderzoekers gebruiken ze de bliksem voor het snel opladen met energie, maar datgene wat wordt omschreven als onweerswolken, betreft ook dikwijls dimensieportalen.
Het volgende voorval vond eveneens plaats in Argentinië rond dezelfde tijd in de plaats Moquehue aan de voet van het Andes gebergte.
Het is een afgelegen gebied waar normaal gesproken heel weinig mensen komen en zeker rond deze tijd van het jaar omdat de wegen in principe zijn afgesloten en pas in het voorjaar weer open gaan.
Een jongeman genaamd Rodrico reed op zijn motor door het gebied en zag een paar vreemde afdrukken in de restanten van sneeuw. Rodrico was enorm onder de indruk van het geheel en zei dat hij nog nooit zoiets had gezien.
Hij ging terug om zijn familieleden te laten zien wat hij had ontdekt en ook zij waren onder de indruk, mede omdat er nergens voetsporen of andere tekenen van menselijke activiteit te ontdekken was.
Andere bewoners uit het dorp kwamen later met de mededeling dat ze vergelijkbare afdrukken hadden ontdekt ongeveer een kilometer verderop.
We blijven nog even in Argentinië waar tijdens de presentatie van het weer op de zender C5N News, weervrouw Mariela Fernandez een UFO ontdekte op het scherm.
Het is een enorm groot scherm dat voor de weerpresentatie wordt gebruikt en Mariela moet dan ook op haar tenen staan op het object aan te wijzen.
En dit alles gebeurt allemaal in hetzelfde Zuid Amerikaanse land.
In juli 1947 stortte er een buitenaardse UFO neer bij het Amerikaanse plaatsje Roswell in New Mexico en vanaf dat moment begon de grote misleiding van de bevolking.
Nooit werd formeel naar buiten gebracht dat er buitenaardsen waren omgekomen en ook niet dat er één overleefde die tot op de dag van vandaag door de Amerikaanse overheid gevangen wordt gehouden.
Via een lezer ontvingen wij het volgende bericht (dank!):
Ik zag jullie artikel: Hier de volledige documentaire, echt het kijken waard.
Origineel artikel: 19 oktober 2018
Zelfs mensen die helemaal niets van UFO's weten, hebben meestal de naam Roswell wel eens gehoord.
Vanaf dat moment begon eigenlijk de misleiding van de bevolking op grote schaal en werd er alles aan gedaan om de werkelijke gebeurtenissen geheim te houden. Soms komen er stukjes waarheid bovenwater via mainstream kanalen en dat is vaak omdat de betrokkenen nu zo oud zijn dat ze nu wel eindelijk hun mond open durven doen.
Op 8 juli 1947 bracht de krant Roswell Daily Record het nieuws dat een vliegende schotel bij een lokale ranch was neergestort. Gisteren vertelde een CIA-agent tegen de Huffington Post dat er niets onwaar was aan het bericht dat 65 jaar geleden wereldnieuws werd.
'Het was echt geen weerballon, het was precies wat de pers er toen over schreef', zegt Chase Brandon, een voormalig CIA-agent. 'Het voertuig kwam duidelijk niet van deze planeet, het stortte neer en er waren wel degelijk buitenaardse lijken.
Maar het waren niet alleen lijken, er was ook een overlevende.
In dat kader is er nu een artikel verschenen op de website van ufoloog Scott C. Waring, waar deze zegt dat de overlevende alien van de Roswell crash nog steeds leeft.
Scott kan zich heel druk maken over het feit dat de bevolking zich zo gemakkelijk laat misleiden door de autoriteiten en ook nu is dit het geval.
Hij voert nu aan dat echte beelden die ooit op Youtube zijn geplaatst eigenlijk volkomen verdwijnen in de totale chaos die is ontstaan doordat Jan en alleman nepvideo's ging maken om toch maar vooral te proberen geld te verdienen aan de Google advertenties.
Zo schrijft hij onder andere: Omdat er zo idioot veel nep op Youtube staat, moeten we daardoor de echte, originele beelden dan ook maar vergeten? Beelden die zijn gemaakt in een tijd dat er nog geen complete industrie bestond die niets anders doet dan nepvideo's maken.
Het antwoord is uiteraard "nee" en hij komt daarbij met het volgende voorbeeld.
Een video die is gemaakt op 27 april 2000, ver voordat de neppers actief waren op dit gebied. Beelden die zijn gemaakt in een tijd dat mensen zich niet bezighielden met het maken van nep opnames om geld mee te verdienen.
Scott is er honderd procent van overtuigd dat onderstaande beelden echt zijn en dat hier sprake is van een overlevende alien van de Roswell crash. De alien die werd gevonden door Amerikaanse militairen en is meegenomen en tot op de dag van vandaag nog gevangen wordt gehouden.
En dan komt hij met een opmerkelijke stelling en dat is dat de Gray aliens in principe eeuwig leven en dat dit exemplaar misschien wel een paar miljoen jaren oud is.
Verder dat deze alien door het Amerikaanse leger is gekloond en dat er nu talloze identieke aliens voor diezelfde overheid werken in een ondergrondse basis, vijf kilometer onder de laboratoria van Los Alamos.
Dat het nu hoog tijd wordt dat de mensheid de echte beelden weer te zien krijgt en beseft dat wij niet de enige levende wezens in het heelal zijn.
As a follow-up to my chupacabra-themed “Paranormal TV: The Hazards” article, I thought I would answer a question I am often asked. Namely, are people still seeing chupacabras? Well, yes they are. Or, at least, what people assume are chupacabras. Certainly, one of the weirdest of all the relatively new accounts did not surface out of Texas or from Puerto Rico’s El Yunque rain-forest – as most of the accounts certainly did. Rather, the story came from Rukshin, in Ukraine, which is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe. In the summer of 2016, practically the whole population of the area was plunged into a collective state of fear when violent attacks on farm animals began out of the blue and in the dead of night. Frightened locals refused to leave their homes after the sun had set. Who can blame them for that? And, the local police carefully patrolled the area at all times. No wonder: a savage and violent monster was wildly on the loose. By now, you know its infamous name all too well.
As was the case in the tales that came out of Puerto Rico in the mid-1990s onward, chickens, rabbits and goats were drained (allegedly!) of significant amounts of blood. In fact, the highly emotive word “sucked” was used by the press, on what amounted to more than a few occasions. Farmers reported that the animal in their midst was strong enough to tear open metal cages with its huge teeth and powerful, bone-crunching jaws. The creepy culprit remained evasive and elusive for several, tumultuous months. That is, until the creature was swiftly killed by an irate farmer who – having had just about enough of all the mayhem – caught sight of the beast, chased after it, and then finally plunged his pitchfork into its body. The creature was slain. No doubt, the people of Rukshin sighed with relief when the carnage was over.
The local media covered the story – even providing a photo of the dead animal. It looked remarkably like the so-called “Texas chupacabra.” In other words, it was a bizarre-looking, hairless canid that resembled a coyote, but which had a few undeniably strange, physical mutations. That the attacks then came to an abrupt end, strongly suggests the hairless thing was not one of a large pack, but a solitary animal.
Mexico was also a target for the chupacabra in 2016. In fact, and very oddly, at the very same time that Ukraine was under assault. A coincidence? Probably. But, it only served to demonstrate the ever-present weirdness that dominates the saga of the chupacabra. This time, the place was Chihuahua. One particular farmer, in early June, awoke to find ten of his animals – most of them goats – “with head and neck wounds that he believes were caused by the infamous ‘goat sucker’ in a rural community southeast of Delicias,” which is located southeast of Chihuahua City, around 300 miles south of El Paso, Texas. Matters soon, and somewhat inexplicably, came to a quick end. The beast that was responsible for the attacks was never seen, but for the locals, there was only one answer: a chupacabra had been stealthily paying visits of a terrible kind.
One year later, in July 2017, there were dark murmurings of a chupacabra prowling around Riverside, California. One of the witnesses said, with a high degree of justification, that the animal he saw was “the ugliest-looking thing.” Notably, the source added that it was “at least two feet or more longer than the biggest coyote you’ve ever seen. I yelled at it, in a big deep voice, ‘Get out of here!’”
That the mysterious animal was around two-feet longer than the average coyote, suggests there was something very unusual about it. Other locals reported seeing the creature too. One told the media: “That is the strangest-looking animal I’ve ever seen.” No doubt! The witness explained that when she had the distinct misfortune to encounter it, the thing was plucking fruit from one of the trees in her front yard. She expanded: “The ears of a deer, long snout, no hair, tail like a rat, long hindquarters. I thought it might be a sick coyote, a sick wolf. But it had too many different characteristics from any of them.”
A chihuahua, not a chupacabra
Another witness was was quoted as saying: “We’re looking at it dead on. It has a body like a Chihuahua, stretched out, with a large thoracic cavity. And it has huge hind legs. It has a very narrow, rat-like face, with undulations, more like a marsupial.” The eyewitness made a very interesting and thought-provoking statement: “The donkeys that come from central Mexico, they come right through my gate. These guys, I believe, followed them from Central America.” The California Department of Fish and Wildlife were sure that the animal which caused all the fuss and fear was not a chupacabra.
Right now, in late 2018, that’s pretty much where things are at. I have a sneaking suspicion, though, that we have not seen or heard the last of the chupacabra – of Texas or of Puerto Rico. And maybe not even the end of the creature in Ukraine, in Central America, and in Russia, too. Coming to your yard late on a dark and storm-filled night? Don’t bet against it.
I don’t think it is an imaging sensor anomaly caused by a high energy particle hitting the sensor since sunlight reflects on the green anomaly.
Is it just a cosmic phenomenon or could it be something in between biological and technological or something else so out of this world that humans have yet to even fathom it?
Cigar Shaped UFO appears over Mississippi and Ohio on the same day
Cigar Shaped UFO appears over Mississippi and Ohio on the same day
A massive cigar-shaped UFO has been spotted by a witness while carrying out some construction work. He noticed the UFO hovering above the ocean and managed to catch it on video from Beach Front House, Pass Christian, Mississippi.
On the same day, October 22, 2018 at 3.40 PM another witness saw the same UFO on the way home in Ohio and he too was able to film the cigar-shaped UFO.
Research Claims UFOs Are Getting More Difficult To Spot
Hollow Sun Theory, How Aliens Have Been Using The Interior Of Our Sun, Oct 2018, UFO Sighting News.
The Hollow Sun Theory. This is a theory that I created back in 2009 when I noticed UFOs going in and out of Earths sun in SOHO/NASA sun photos. The theory is also based upon a world famous alien encounter that lasted three decades in Rocca Pia, Italy, which gave me the idea of how aliens can and do use the interior of suns. The theory states that aliens send a large craft into the suns center. This device does not need to be huge, however the energy it uses is unknown, but can last forever. This device uses beams of focused power that shoot out in all directions at once...pushing.
Imagine a tractor beam reversed. This actually is done fast with land and dirt for making underground bases so large that they have their own weather systems. Well aliens use this device for any place they want to create a city. Underwater, underground, under the surface of a burning star. When aliens decide to leave forever, all they have to do is push a button and the entire hollow area will close back in. Its that easy...for them and their tech...which is millions and sometimes billions of years ahead of our own. I learned all this was 100% possible from evidence I gathered researching the Rocca Pia, Italy Friendship case. You see, the aliens told witnesses that the base below Rocca Pia was 300x300km long and 150km high. So huge it sometimes rained inside. So creating a base or closing it up was a simple task for them. Just something to think about next time a UFO is reported near our sun in NASA/SOHO photos or when dark spots (exits) are reported in the news. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Witness filmed this stationary cigar shaped ufo on the coast of Gulf of Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Witness filmed this stationary cigar shaped ufo on the coast of Gulf of Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 2018 Location of sighting: Gulf of Mexico This UFO was spotted over the ocean at the Gulf of Mexico last week. The UFO appears long, but I believe we are looking at a disk from its side. This UFO is clearly taking its time as it moves and it looks like the lower part of the UFO is semi cloaked, revealing itself ever few seconds. I don't believe they were aware that they could be seen. I think the aliens on that ship thought their cloak was working fully, but if they had recently come out of the ocean...then the water on the ship would cause a disturbance in any cloaking device for a few minutes until the water has dripped off. Scott C. Waring
“I was actually more interested in capturing the A68 iceberg that we were about to fly over, but I thought this rectangular iceberg was visually interesting and fairly photogenic, so on a lark, I just took a couple photos.”
This time, NASA tried to avoid any conspiracy theories by allowing the photographer of the icebergs, senior support scientist Jeremy Harbeck of Operation IceBridge, to comment on what the crew saw as they flew over the northern Antarctic Peninsula on October 16 while surveying the Larsen A, B and C ice shelves for changes in glaciers that would show the impact of climate change. While these tabular icebergs (they could actually be cubes since only 10 percent of their mass is above water) are rare (two together is extremely rare), they’re not unheard of, says Harbeck.
“I thought it was pretty interesting; I often see icebergs with relatively straight edges, but I’ve not really seen one before with two corners at such right angles like this one had.”
Photo of both bergs
(NASA)
Nor had anyone else, judging by the amount of attention the pictures of the first tabular icebergs received on the Internet. As Harbeck pointed out, the berg he was really interested was A68 in the background. That one broke off of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in July 2017, reducing its size by 12 percent. Its surface area has been compared to one Delaware or two Luxembourgs, depending on which side of the Atlantic one lives, and weighed one trillion ton. It’s still close to that size, but that will change as it moves away, melts down and raises coastal waters around the world as it follows its predicted meandering path to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Of course, big is not as interesting as perfectly rectangular, so the small (possibly a mile across) but boxy bergs get the attention. Since Antarctic scientists rarely get this kind of publicity, Harbeck is undoubtedly looking for more unusual ice as this phase of Operation IceBridge continues through November 18.
Another geometric berg
(NASA)
For those who still refuse to believe NASA, why would aliens spend time cutting ice into geometric shapes? Boredom? Trying out new laser weapons? Video game player busted?
Cigar UFO over Pass Christian, Mississippi 22-Oct-2018
Cigar UFO over Pass Christian, Mississippi 22-Oct-2018
New footage of a cigar-shaped object hovering above Pass Christian, MS. This was taken on 22nd October 2018.
Witness report:
An apache helicopter passed by in low altitude, speed from the west in the Gulf Coast’s airspace. Minutes later, grayish oval-shaped elongated form passed by considerably slowly leaving ominous atmospheric anomalies in its wake. Minutes later, another smaller disc-shaped object passed by leaving atmospheric anomally.
Redditor Taste_the__Rainbow said: “That could easily be a bird.”
Another comment, from user lonchbox, attacked the discovery for asserting it is an extraterrestrial object.
The Reddit user said: “You are more certain it’s a metal saucer than a bird?
“So let me ask. How are you positive regarding that?
Google Maps UFO: Some suggested it could have been a bird flying in front of the camera
(Image: GOOGLE MAPS)
“I think that claim warrants a hell of a lot more expanding and clarifying than claiming it’s a bird, which do tend to fly around in the air, in the tropics.”
The supposed UFO discovery is not the first time people have claimed to have found bizarre and unexplained objects on Google Maps.
Google Maps UFO: The object appears to look like a flying saucer
(Image: GOOGLE MAPS)
However, Dr Richard Waller, an expert at British Keele University, dismissed all claims the object is a UFO.
He said: "It looks to me as though this feature is related to a large avalanche from a nearby mountain.
"Part of a hanging glacier appears to have collapsed, you can see the avalanche debris at the foot of the slope, and this could be a large block of ice that has travelled further as a consequence.
“The track shows that it's sliding over a snow-covered glacier before it comes to a rest."
One of the previous UFO sightings spotted above Whiteshill in Stroud.
A MAN from Stonehouse has described his shock after a UFO flew within 50 foot of him and his dog.
The unidentified flying object was spotted at around 2.30pm in September by the resident who claimed they 'had never seen anything like it in their life'.
This is the second sighting reported to the SNJ in just two weeks, with another spotted hovering above the trees just below Rodborough.
He saw the bizarre flying object approach through a clearing in the wood around Hazlewood, but they did not expect it to get so close to their location.
"The UFO was hovering about 50 foot away from me, but we could not smell fuel or anything, I was shocked that it did not hit our house," they explained.
"It seemed like it was trying to fly below the radar, so it could avoid being scanned - at the time my dog was going mental at it."
As they studied the strange object shaped like a 'huge tube with intricate ship style rivets' they described how it made surreal sci-fi style sounds.
"When I came across it coming through the forest I thought it must be a plane or hot air balloon, but it was clearly not and it was making sci-fi like sounds," added the eyewitness.
"Before it shot off into the clouds at immense speed the engines turned bright white, I've never seen anything like it."
Unfortunately, the resident was in shock after the sighting and said they 'did not think to take a photo' of the UFO.
UFO landing tracks? Alien hunters stunned by discovery in Argentina snow
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
Alien hunters were up in arms when a young man named Rodrigo spotted what looks like a landing print left in the snow in a small village called Moquehue.
Two separate prints were left – one is a swirling shape while the other looks similar to a star on October 15.
What makes UFO investigators believe it was left by an alien spaceship is that the marks are fresh and there are no footprints in the surrounding snow.
Rodrigo told local newspaper LM Neuquén: "Their size and perfection were striking.
After returning to his family, he made them aware where they returned and took photographs of the ‘UFO landing’.
Rodrigo continued: "I was surprised that there were no footprints nearby. This in an area that is rarely visited.
"I believe UFOs exist. Perhaps it was them.”
Two UFO tracks were discovered (Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
Many people in Argentina believe aliens are trying to contact them, it would seem.
A UFO ‘landing pad’ was built in the wilderness of Argentina by a man who claims aliens told him to create the site.
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.
A UFO landing pad was built in the desert of Argentina
(Image: YOUTUBE)
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 asked me telepathically to build the airport.”
Secret 'X-FILES' group in US gov believe in UFOs and want TRUTH exposed - shock claim
Secret 'X-FILES' group in US gov believe in UFOs and want TRUTH exposed - shock claim
A GROUP of leading scientists and officials in the US government believe in UFOs and extraterrestrials and want the truth exposed, according to shock claims.
Nick Pope, who investigated the strange phenomena for the Ministry of Defence, compared the believers to the X-Files series character Fox Mulder.
The famous fictional FBI agent, portrayed by David Duchovny, investigated alleged paranormal mysteries alongside his sceptical colleague doctor Dana Scully, played by Gillian Anderson.
The US government has acknowledged a top-secret project at the Pentagon – called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) – ran for four years officially from 2008.
Mr Pope stars in a new documentary called Aliens at the Pentagon, director by Michael Long, which lifts the lid on the Pentagon secret programme.
And Mr Pope claims it is not long before a full disclosure could reveal everything the US government knows about UFOs.
He said: “I identify what I think can best be described as a 'believer faction' within the US government, a maverick group of scientists and defence officials who genuinely think UFOs might be alien, and who are interested in a wide range of other paranormal phenomena.
“These real-life Fox Mulders were thrilled when the Pentagon got money to look at all this, but the government needed to distance itself from these topics, so a lot of the work was contracted out to Robert Bigelow's company, Bigelow Aerospace.
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PENTAGON: A secret group of X-Files types wants to expose UFO truth – it's claimed
“One reason the government wanted to distance itself from this was because interest in UFOs and the paranormal went against the religious beliefs of some senior Pentagon officials, who regarded such things as demonic.
“Aliens at the Pentagon is aimed at reigniting interest in the story of the Pentagon's UFO project at a critical moment in history.
“The US Congress is demanding to know how the millions of dollars pumped into UFO research were spent and what taxpayers got for their money.
“Washington is abuzz with rumours that formal Congressional hearings are imminent, and we may be closer than ever to getting an answer to the question of what the US government knows about UFOs.”
The influential US Armed Services Committee has been investigating the money spent on the top-secret X-Files project.
It emerged that former Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, who pushed for AATIPs creation in 2007, suggested the US military could harvest technology from UFOs to be more powerful than enemies.
Reid 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".
Dobberen er sponzen in ondergrondse meren op Mars? Misschien wel!
Dobberen er sponzen in ondergrondse meren op Mars? Misschien wel!
Tim Kraaijvanger
Onderzoekers beweren in een nieuw paper in Nature dat simpele levensvormen zelfs vandaag de dag nog kunnen overleven op de rode planeet.
Het gaat hierbij om gepekeld water onder het oppervlak van Mars. In dit gepekelde water is nét genoeg moleculair zuurstof aanwezig om aerobe microben in leven te houden. Aeroben zijn organismen die zuurstof gebruiken. Zelfs simpele dieren – zoals sponzen – zouden in theorie op Mars kunnen overleven.
Op aarde kwamen aeroben en fotosynthese tegelijkertijd op, waardoor de hoeveelheid zuurstof aanzienlijk toenam. Op Mars is zuurstof schaars. Er wordt een klein beetje zuurstof geproduceerd door de afbraak van koolstofdioxide door licht. Voorheen gingen wetenschappers ervan uit dat het te weinig zou zijn om organismen in leven te houden.
Zo zien aardse sponzen eruit. Wist je dat de meeste sponzen slechts een paar millimeter per dag verplaatsen?
Onderzoeker Vlada Stamenković en zijn collega’s hebben nu berekend hoeveel moleculair zuurstof kan worden opgelost in gepekeld water onder verschillende specifieke omstandigheden op Mars. Ze ontdekten dat de hoeveelheid moleculaire zuurstof nabij de polen opvallend hoog is. Sommige bronnen van gepekeld water zouden wel eens genoeg moleculair zuurstof kunnen bevatten om organismen in leven te houden. In het verleden vonden Marsrovers verschillende geoxideerde stenen. De bevindingen van de onderzoekers verklaren mogelijk hoe deze stenen zijn ontstaan.
Op 1,5 kilometer diepte En hoe diep moeten rovers boren om mogelijk leven te vinden? In het paper spreken de onderzoekers over gepekelde wateren met een temperatuur van 205 Kelvin (omgerekend -68 graden Celsius) op een diepte van 1,5 kilometer onder het Martiaanse oppervlak. Dat is dus nog best een uitdaging, maar niet onmogelijk. Enkele jaren geleden hebben de Russen wel eens door 3,5 kilometer diep ijs geboord om in het Vostokmeer te kijken. Wellicht dat we in de verre toekomst ook wel een soort boorplatform op Mars kunnen bouwen. Elon Musk, lees je mee?
Geen bewijs dat er ook daadwerkelijk leven is In de conclusie van het paper benadrukken de onderzoekers dat dit niet betekent dat er leven op Mars is. “We weten niet of er leven op Mars is”, schrijft de auteur. “We hebben ons alleen gefocust op de vraag of Mars leefbaar is. (..) Als er een alternatieve bron van zuurstof aanwezig is op een planeet, dan vergroot dit de kans om leven te vinden op andere planetaire lichamen.”
Geen warmtebronnen te vinden nabij vermeende waterpluimen op maan Europa
Geen warmtebronnen te vinden nabij vermeende waterpluimen op maan Europa
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het roept de vraag op of die waterpluimen dan überhaupt wel bestaan.
Onderzoekers weten al langer dat Saturnus’ maan Enceladus waterpluimen genereert. En op de plek waar die waterpluimen ontstaan, vinden we een duidelijke temperatuurverhoging: een hotspot. Aangenomen wordt dat de maan – die opgebouwd is uit een rotsachtige kern met daarboven een oceaan en daar weer boven een ijskorst – over hydrothermale bronnen beschikt die de ijskorst op sommige plekken dunner maakt en zelfs laat scheuren. Door die scheuren zou waterdamp – afkomstig uit die oceaan – ontsnappen (zie afbeelding hieronder).
Hydrothermale bronnen zouden aan de waterpluimen op Enceladus ten grondslag liggen.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Southwest Research Institute.
Europa De laatste jaren vinden onderzoekers steeds meer aanwijzingen dat Enceladus niet de enige maan in ons zonnestelsel is die over dergelijke geisers beschikt. Ook Europa – een maan van Jupiter – zou waterpluimen genereren. Zo maakte Hubble in 2016 foto’s van Europa waarop mogelijk waterpluimen te zien zijn. En recent dachten onderzoekers ook in oude data – verzameld tijdens de Galileo-missie – aanwijzingen te zien voor de aanwezigheid van waterpluimen.
Niets bijzonders Wetenschappers hebben zich nu nog eens over die vermeende waterpluimen op Europa gebogen en gekeken of er ook op de plek waar deze pluimen zouden ontstaan, sprake is van een temperatuurverhoging. Ze bogen zich daartoe opnieuw over data verzameld tijdens de Galileo-missie (Galileo bestudeerde Jupiter en zijn manen tussen december 1995 tot september 2003). “Een nieuwe analyse van de temperatuurgegevens die tijdens de Galileo-missie werden verzameld, laat niets bijzonders zien op de plekken waar de pluimen mogelijk zijn waargenomen,” vertelt onderzoeker Julie Rathbun. “Dat is verrassend, omdat de Enceladus-pluimen duidelijk gepaard gaan met een verhoogde temperatuur.”
Implicaties Maar wat betekent dat dan precies? “Het suggereert dat de pluimen of Europa óf heel anders zijn óf slechts incidenteel opduiken óf dat ze niet bestaan óf dat de lokale temperatuurverhoging zo klein is dat we die in de huidige data niet opmerken.”
Hoe het precies zit? Daarvoor zouden we Europa eigenlijk van wat dichterbij moeten kunnen bekijken. Gelukkig worden daar plannen voor gesmeed. Zo wil ESA in 2022 de JUpiter ICy moons Explorer(kortweg JUICE) lanceren. Deze zou zeven jaar later bij Jupiter arriveren en specifiek onderzoek gaan doen naar Europa, Callisto en Ganymedes. Ondertussen werkt NASA aan de Europa Clipper: een missie die ergens tussen 2022 en 2025 werkelijkheid moet worden en moet uitzoeken of Europa geschikt is voor leven.
Very Large Telescope maakt prachtige foto van een kosmische piraat
Very Large Telescope maakt prachtige foto van een kosmische piraat
Vivian Lammerse
In dit actieve stervormingsgebied gebeurt van alles.
ESO heeft een bijzondere foto vrijgegeven van het actieve stervormingsgebied NGC 2467. Op de foto is goed de grote, grijzende mond van het doodshoofd te zien, waar dit stervormingsgebied bekend om staat. De foto is gemaakt met het FORS-instrument van de Very Large Telescope.
Het actieve stervormingsgebied NGC 2467. Op deze foto is alleen de gapende mond van de Doodshoofd-met-gekruiste-beenderen-nevel te zien.
Afbeelding: ESO
Schedel Het stervormingsgebied heeft de bijnaam ‘Doodshoofd-met-gekruiste-beenderen-nevel’. En op zich is dat niet zo heel verwonderlijk. De jonge, heldere formatie heeft namelijk veel weg van een menselijke schedel; zo is er – in een uitgezoomde weergave – een dreigend hol gezicht met een gapende mond te zien.
Schip NGC 2467 verschuilt zich in het sterrenbeeld Puppis – ofwel Achtersteven – dat verwijst naar het verhoogde achterste deel van een schip. Samen met de sterrenbeelden Carina (Kiel), Pyxis (Kompas) en Vela (zeilen) maakt Puppis deel uit van een groep die aan de zuidelijke hemel te zien is. Samen vormden zij het voormalige sterrenbeeld Argo Navis (Schip Argo). In zekere zin maakt NGC 2467 dus deel uit van een enorm piratenschip, een gepast onderkomen voor de Doodshoofd-met-gekruiste-beenderen-nevel.
Deze kaart toont de locatie van NGC 2467 in het sterrenbeeld Puppis.
Afbeelding: ESO, IAU and Sky & Telescope
Sterrenhopen Hoewel het lijkt alsof er een open sterrenhoop te zien is, bestaat NGC 2467 eigenlijk uit meerdere nevels. Toevallig lijken deze nevels vanuit de aarde gezien op één lijn te staan, waardoor het de illusie wekt dat het om één sterrenhoop gaat. Daarnaast is NGC 2467 erg actief; zo worden er in de kleurrijke nevel talloze nieuwe sterren geboren als gevolg van een overmaat van waterstofgas.
Hoewel de foto voor astronomen niets nieuws vertelt, levert het ons wel een prachtig plaatje op dat zowel onheilspellend als mooi is. Daarnaast krijgen we een bijzonder inkijkje in de kolkende zuidelijke hemel.
NASA ziet ene na andere ruimtemissie in de problemen komen
NASA ziet ene na andere ruimtemissie in de problemen komen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Na Hubble, Opportunity, Curiosity en Kepler is ook ruimteobservatorium Chandra tijdelijk uit de running.
Het ruimteobservatorium ging eind vorige week opeens in veiligheidsmodus, zo laat NASA in een korte verklaring weten. Onduidelijk is nog waarom.
Veiligheidsmodus Wanneer Chandra in veiligheidsmodus gaat, verandert de oriëntatie van het observatorium, waardoor de zonnepanelen de maximale hoeveelheid zonlicht opvangen. Ook wordt de belangrijkste hardware ontlast. Voor zover we nu weten, is Chandra succesvol in veiligheidsmodus gegaan en functioneren alle systemen zoals men in zo’n situatie zou verwachten.
Gyroscoop Tot zover het goede nieuws. Het slechte nieuws is namelijk dat NASA nog niet weet waarom het observatorium uit de running is gegaan. Mogelijk is het het resultaat van een probleem met een gyroscoop. Vervolgonderzoek moet dat uitwijzen.
Negentien jaar Chandra is in zekere zin al ver over de datum; oorspronkelijk had de missie maar vijf jaar moeten duren. Maar inmiddels is Chandra al negentien jaar actief. Toch verwachtte NASA tot voor kort dat het observatorium zeker nog een aantal jaren mee zou kunnen.
Chandra is niet het enige zorgenkindje van NASA. Al enkele maanden zijn er grote zorgen omtrent Marsrover Opportunity waarvan nog altijd onduidelijk is of deze de heftige stofstorm op Mars heeft overleefd. En ook Marsrover Curiosity is nog herstellende van technische problemen. Ook heeft NASA al enkele maanden de handen vol aan Kepler; de planetenjager loopt op zijn laatste benen en heeft er zo langzamerhand een gewoonte van gemaakt om in slaapstand te gaan. En vorige week werd duidelijk dat ook ruimtetelescoop Hubble met technische mankementen kampt. Eind vorige week was er temidden van al die tegenslagen gelukkig ook een beetje goed nieuws. Zo is het NASA gelukt om Kepler wakker te maken en zover te krijgen dat deze het laatste beetje data dat tijdens de laatste waarneemrun is verzameld, gaat downloaden.
Update (16 oktober) Inmiddels is duidelijk wat er met Chandra aan de hand is: er is inderdaad iets mis met één van de gyroscopen. NASA verwacht in staat te zijn om een andere gyroscoop in te schakelen en het falende exemplaar voorlopig op de reservebank te zetten. Naar verwachting kan Chandra tegen het eind van deze week weer aan de slag.
This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California
This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California
By Rafi Letzter, Live Science Staff Writer
What would you do if you saw this thing in your walnut orchard?
Credit: Kings County Sheriff's Office
A walnut farmer in central California found a strange metal object in his orchard on Oct. 13.
He called the local sheriff's office, according to a KGET report. The sheriffs reached out to Vandenberg Air Force Base, and experts there reportedly said the burnt husk was likely a fuel tank from an Iridium communications satellite. Specifically, it came from Iridium 70, which according to the satellite tracking site n2yo.com fell out of its orbit three days earlier, on Oct. 10.
Iridium 70 was part of a constellation of communications satellites first launched in the late 1990s. This one, according to Astronautix.com, rode a Delta 7920-10C rocket into space on May 17, 1998 along with Iridiums 72, 73, 74 and 75. (Coincidentally, the launch site was Vandenberg Air Force Base.) Of those satellites, only Iridium 73 is still in orbit.
Iridium 70 hung in low-Earth orbit for 20 years, 4 months and 23 days; and for its operational lifetime, it supported satellite phone calls on the global Iridium network. According to KGET, this is the first piece recovered from an Iridium satellite after re-entry. As Live Science has previously reported, it's wildly unlikely that any given de-orbiting object will drop significant debris on land, let alone anywhere where the debris might be recognized.
Though photographs may present the barren landscapes of Antarctica as eerily calm and peaceful, at least when no storms are raging, the largely lifeless continent and the ice shelves surrounding it produce a medley of bizarrely beautiful sounds. As noted by Earther, the frozen region’s ambient sounds include the Rice Crispies-like crackle of melting ice releasing long-trapped air bubbles to the steady groans, screeches, and pops of massive floating ice sheets shifting and breaking apart as they buckle under the weight of fresh snow in the winter or melt during the summer.
The only catch is that you might not be able to hear all the notes in this spectacular natural symphony if you’re listening with human ears, because many occur on timescales or at frequencies that are not compatible with our auditory abilities. But if you have the right equipment to first capture and then remix the acoustic waves, a whole new soundtrack can be revealed. On top of being really cool to listen to, these recordings help scientists better understand the climatological and geologic processes that shape the Antarctic.
In an astounding new example, a team led by Julien Chaput of Colorado State University and the University of Texas, have revealed how the "songs" created by vibrations in the Ross Ice Shelf can be used to continuously monitor the changing conditions within the ice mass' top five meters (16.4 feet).
“Deploying sensitive seismographs across Earth’s largest ice shelf (the Ross Ice Shelf) for 2 years, we discovered that the shelf nearly continuously sings at frequencies of five or more cycles per second, excited by local and regional winds blowing across its snow dune-like topography,” they wrote in their paper, now published inGeophysical Research Letters. “We find that the frequencies and other features of this singing change, both as storms alter the snow dunes and during a (January 2016) warming event that resulted in melting in the ice shelf’s near surface.”
The Texas-sized ice shelf floats on the Southern Ocean, fused to the mainland off western Antarctica. From this position, the shelf – itself composed of glacier ice that spilled out from the interior of the landmass – acts as a buttress to lessen the flow of ice melt that occurs each warm season. Climate change-driven increases in temperatures have already caused other ice shelves to thin and recede, resulting in sea level rise from unblocked glacier drainage. Currently holding back enormous glaciers that would contribute 5 meters (16.4 feet) of sea level rise if introduced into the water, researchers are anxious for ways to measure the integrity of the Ross Ice Shelf.
As part of that endeavor, Chaput and his colleagues had buried 34 extremely sensitive seismographs under the snow on the ice’s surface and analyzed the vibrations recorded between late 2014 and early 2017.
Installation of a seismic station near the northern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, with a solar halo created by fine ice crystals created by spray from the nearby Southern Ocean.
Rick Aster.
Soon into the project, the team realized that the snowy coating on the shelf is, in fact, vibrating nearly constantly from the effects of heating and wind. And, similar to a musical instrument, different tones are created when different forces act upon it.
"It's kind of like you're blowing a flute, constantly, on the ice shelf," Chaput said in a statement. "Either you change the velocity of the snow by heating or cooling it, or you change where you blow on the flute, by adding or destroying dunes," he said. "The response of the ice shelf tells us that we can track extremely sensitive details about it."
Mercury capsule exhibit to preview Cosmosphere satellite location
Mercury capsule exhibit to preview Cosmosphere satellite location
The Mercury spacecraft "Liberty Bell 7," seen here on exhibit at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, will be the early centerpiece of a new exhibit at the museum's satellite location in Overland Park opening in February 2019. µ
(Cosmosphere)
— The historic capsule that carried the second American to fly into space is set to land in the second most populous city in Kansas in early 2019.
"Liberty Bell 7," the Mercury spacecraft that was piloted by NASA astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom on a 1961 suborbital spaceflight, will be the early centerpiece of a new exhibit by Cosmosphere Innovation Space at Bluhawk in Overland Park. The Innovation Space is the planned satellite facility for the Cosmosphere International SciEd Center and Space Museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, which hosts the largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian space artifacts in the world.
Bluhawk is a $750 million, 277-acre mixed-use development that in addition to the Cosmosphere will feature an indoor multi-sport complex, hotel and restaurant and retail marketplace.
"We have an exceptional plan that meets the needs of Cosmosphere, Bluhawk and the public, which is eager to see tremendous exhibits like Liberty Bell 7 as soon as possible," said Jim Remar, president and CEO of the Cosmosphere, in a statement. "Opening a temporary Cosmosphere location in early 2019 is a big win for all parties as we continue forward with the plans for our satellite location."
An artist's concept of Cosmosphere Innovation Space at Bluhawk in Overland Park, Kansas.
(Bluhawk)
Launched on July 21, 1961 on Grissom's 15-minute Mercury-Redstone 4 mission, Liberty Bell 7 sank due to a premature hatch jettison soon after splashing down. It remained on the ocean floor for 38 years until July 1999, when it was recovered by a private expedition organized by Discovery Channel and the Cosmosphere. The museum's SpaceWorks division restored the spacecraft before sending it on a six-year nationwide tour.
Liberty Bell 7 is slated to return from Indiana to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson in mid-December.
The capsule's new temporary exhibition will give visitors to Bluhawk the chance to learn more about space history and the role the Mercury spaceflights played in the United States winning the space race with the former Soviet Union.
"We are very pleased that Overland Park residents and visitors will have an early look at this historic exhibit and others," said Doug Price, president of Price Brothers, the developer of Bluhawk. "This new exhibition is a great venue for the Cosmosphere to test new ideas while we are developing extensive plans for its new satellite location."
The Liberty Bell 7 exhibit at Bluhawk is scheduled to open in February 2019. It will be followed a few months later by an exhibit devoted to Mission Control, featuring consoles restored by the Cosmosphere and used in the filming of the movie "First Man." Other displays are anticipated to rotate on a regular basis.
A conceptual aerial view of the Bluhawk development in Overland Park, Kansas, including Cosmosphere Innovation Space. (Bluhawk)
Cosmosphere Innovation Space is planned as a 60,000 square foot facility located at 159th Street and U.S. Highway 69 in Overland Park. The Bluhawk site is not intended as a substitute for the Hutchinson museum, but will expose more people to the Cosmosphere brand, allow them to experience the SciEd Center's approach to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and see artifacts currently not on display due to space limitations.
Cosmosphere Innovation Space is part of the first phase of Bluhawk, scheduled to break ground in 2019 and open the following year.
La NASA cacherait, aux yeux du monde, l’existence de la vie sur Mars. Récemment, une énorme explosion s’est produite sur la planète rouge, ravivant de nombreuses théories …
La NASA a été au centre de nombreuses théorie du complot au cours de ces derniers mois. En septembre, le Rover Curiosity, de l’agence spatiale américaine, a subi une mystérieuse anomalie qui a provoqué une panne complète de son système.
Quant au rover Mars Opportunity, il est hors ligne depuis des mois après qu'une énorme tempête de poussière ait envahi la planète rouge à la fin du printemps.
Après cette multitude de pannes, toutes plus étranges les unes que les autres, une activité étrange a été photographiée à la surface de la planète rouge.
Une série de clichés semble montrer un panache de fumée provenant peut-être d'un volcan à la surface de la planète rouge. Toutefois, aucun rapport de la NASA n’y fait référence.
Les théoriciens du complot pensent que la vérité est soigneusement dissimulée au monde entier.
Tyler Glockner a utilisé sa chaîne YouTube pour informer ses abonnés de cette nouvelle sensationnelle. Sa vidéo a déjà enregistré plus de 320 000 visites.
«Il y a eu une explosion - je ne sais pas s'il s'agissait d'un volcan ou de quelque chosed’autrequi a explosé», a-t-il déclaré sur sa chaîne baptisée secureteam10.
Les internautes qui suivent cet ufologue semblent être d’accord avec lui.
« Le gouvernement doit commencer à dire la vérité sur ce qui se passevraimentdans l'espace », affirme l’un d’eux.
Un autre a ajouté : « Si cela estvéridique, cela pourrait être énorme - je pensais que Marsn’avait aucune activité volcanique. »
Un troisième s'est écrié : « La NASA n'adéfinitivementplus aucune crédibilité ».
Ces images constituent-elles une preuve que Mars est habitée par une quelconque civilisation ? Ce genre d’hypothèse semble difficile à croire et pourtant ces images ne peuvent que nous faire douter …
Conspiracy theorists went into overdrive after spotting a ‘mysterious plume of smoke’ near a dormant Martian volcano, with many claiming this as proof that alien life exists on the red planet and we’re being lied to here on Earth.
Allegations of a NASA-led cover up spread like wildfire online, with popular conspiracy theory YouTube channel secureteam10 producing an eight-minute long exposé entitled, ‘Something MAJOR Happened On Mars.. Are They Hiding It?’
"There was an explosion – I don't know whether it was a volcano or something detonated," Tyler Glockner of secureteam10 told his audience, during a video which has amassed almost 390,000 views since publication on October 20.
One commenter on the video drew upon his welding experience to lay bare the terraforming operations already underway on Mars, citing craters formed by lightning strikes as evidence of alien technology reshaping the planet’s atmosphere. “Too many coincidences here to ignore any more. NASA needs to stop being the police of the scientific community.”
“NASA is a BS agency, staffed by self-sanctimonious liars. Mars is a living planet, as anyone who has studied Mars for the last 50 years [knows],” another commenter agreed.
This secureteam10 video was then picked up by a British tabloid, which fanned the conspiratorial flames while connecting the disparate dots of NASA’s clever ruse: the Mars Curiosity Rover suffered a mysterious glitch, rendering it offline for months after a huge dust storm in late Spring; the Hubble and Chandra telescopes were recently put in “safe mode” allowing for only basic functionality; and NASA was conspicuously silent about the 2,000km-long plume of smoke stretching across Martian skies. Wake up, sheeple!
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Reddit was also abuzz, though the comments were more climatological than conspiratorial, discussing atmospheric conditions that might lead to such cloud formations. To spoil the fun and settle the debate, RT.com contacted the ESA for an explanation of the contentious images of the red planet.
“No ground or space based observations of Mars or its atmosphere have produced any credible evidence for active volcanism occurring in the present day or recent history,” party-pooper and planetary scientist Elliot Sefton-Nash, who works on several ESA projects including Mars Sample Return, ExoMars and Mars Express, told RT.com.
“Observations made on 24th September by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) aboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show a cloud oriented approximately east-west and around ~2,000km long, as well as the shadow that it cast onto the Martian surface below.”
“Clouds are known to form seasonally in this region, and are associated with the volcanoes because their topography influences atmospheric conditions,” he continues. “This is a well documented phenomenon and several scientific articles exist documenting and explaining the process and highlight the seasonal regularity of the occurrence in this region.”
For comparison, Sefton-Nash highlighted a very similar cloud caused by these topographical forces at Arsia Mons, observed in 2015 (in higher resolution) by the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission.
Right now, the ESA is concentrating on Mercury, which is posing some interesting questions about the formation of our Solar System.
"We have a problem with #Mercury..." because it’s falling out of our overall understanding of the Solar System. We don't understand how such a planet could have formed and evolved, so we not only need to send outstanding instruments there: we send a full laboratory #BepiColombo
Something Big Is Coming! NASA's Planetary Defense Budget Suddenly Increased
Something Big Is Coming! NASA's Planetary Defense Budget Suddenly Increased
Recent developments at NASA have revealed that the proposed budget for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination office (PDCO) has increased by 90 million dollars.
Our current political climate consists of a budget that is stretched to its’ maximum. This fact about the current budget makes this significant increase for the PDCO a strange occurrence. The PDCO is only two years old and oversees finding near-Earth objects such as asteroids that could cause harm to the planet. The PDCO is important because one hit from an asteroid could significantly damage Earth and its’ inhabitants. In years past, NASA has consistently stated that there is no serious threat. This significant increase in the budget brings into question this assumption.
Humanity is unprepared for a catastrophic event
A recent Politico article stated that the Trump administration increased the PDCO budget because humanity is unprepared for a catastrophic event, such as an asteroid impact. The significant increase is, according to the Trump administration, a defensive measure rather than a reaction to an imminent threat.
According to NASA, there are more than 25,000 asteroids near us of 140 meters in size at a minimum. Additionally, there are plenty of other near-Earth objects that could be a threat to our planet. The PDCO has stated that it plans to be prepared in case an object is threatening.
Russia: Asteroid will surely hit Earth sometime in the 2030s
The asteroid Apophis was discovered on June 19, 2004.
NASA has insisted there is no current threat to be worried about. The PDCO states that such an event would, however, be devastating, and that preparation is vital to ward off an attack or to prepare government agencies and the public if such a threat cannot be stopped. For example, the head of the Russian space agency has recently stated that a large asteroid named Apophis will surely hit Earth sometime in the 2030s. The PDCO recognizes this and asserts that now is the time to either stop this asteroid from hitting Earth, or to be prepared when it does.
Does the shutdown of multiple satellite telescopes and earthbound telescopes have anything to do with the sudden increase in budget? Do they want to protect humanity from something we don't know yet? Or is this a normal increase because you want gold-plated toillets?
A planetary nebula isn’t related to planets. It’s an old star, sloughing off its outer layers. Now astronomers have spied 2 ultra-close stars at a planetary nebula’s heart. The pair orbits in only 3 hours!
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the planetary nebula M3-1. Its central star is a binary system – 2 stars orbiting a common center of gravity – extremely close together, moving around each other very fast.
An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkably, the stars could drive a nova explosion, an entirely unexpected event based on our current understanding of binary star evolution. The team, led by David Jones of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Universidad de La Laguna, reporttheir findings in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.
Planetary nebulae are the glowing shells of gas and dust formed from the outer layers of stars like our own sun, which they throw off during the final stages of their evolution. In many cases, interaction with a nearby companion star plays an important role in the ejection of this material and the formation of the elaborate structures seen in the resulting planetary nebulae.
The planetary nebula M3-1 is located in the constellation of Canis Major, at a distance of roughly 14,000 light-years from Earth. M3-1 was a firm candidate to host a binary central star, as its structure with prominent jets and filaments is typical of these binary star interactions.
Using the telescopes of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, Jones’s team looked at M3-1 over a period of several years. In the process they discovered and studied the binary stars in the centre of the nebula. Brent Miszalski, researcher at the Southern African Large Telescope, and co-author of the study, commented:
We knew M3-1 had to host a binary star, so we set about acquiring the observations required to prove this and to relate the properties of the nebula with the evolution of the star or stars that formed it.
The two stars are so close together that they cannot be resolved from the ground, so instead the presence of the second star is inferred from the variation of their observed combined brightness – most obviously by periodic eclipses of one star by the other which produce marked drops in the brightness. Henri Boffin, researcher at the European Southern Observatory in Germany, said:
When we began the observations, it was immediately clear that the system was a binary. We saw that the apparently single star at the center of the nebula was rapidly changing in brightness, and we knew that this must be due to the presence of a companion star.
The team discovered that the central star of the planetary nebula M3-1 has one of the shortest orbital period binary central stars known to date, at just over three hours. The ESO observations also show that the two stars – most likely a white dwarf with a low-mass main sequence companion – are almost touching.
As a result, the pair are likely to undergo a so-called nova eruption, the result of the transfer of material from one star to the other. When this reaches a critical mass, a violent thermonuclear explosion takes place and the system temporarily increases in brightness by up to a million times. Paulina Sowicka, a Ph.D. student at the Nicolas Copernicus Astronomical Center in Poland, said:
After the various observing campaigns in Chile, we had enough data to begin to understand the properties of the two stars – their masses, temperatures and radii. It was a real surprise that the two stars were so close together and so large that they were almost touching one another. A nova explosion could take place in just a few thousand years from now.
Theory suggests that binary stars should be well separated after the formation of a planetary nebula. It should then take a long time before they begin to interact again and events such as novae become possible.
In 2007, astronomers observed a different nova explosion, known as Nova Vul 2007, inside another planetary nebula.
Jones commented:
The 2007 event was particularly difficult to explain. By the time the two stars are close enough for a nova, the material in the planetary nebula should have expanded and dissipated so much that it’s no longer visible.
The new event adds to the conundrum, said Jones:
In the central stars of M3-1, we’ve found another candidate for a similar nova eruption in the relatively near future.
The team now hopes to carry out further study of the nebula and others like it, helping to shed light on the physical processes and origins of novae and supernovae, some of the most spectacular and violent phenomena in the universe.
Bottom line: Astronomers have spied 2 ultra-close stars at the heart of a planetary nebula called M3-1. The two stars are almost touching and orbit each other in only 3 hours!
Open Minds UFO Radio: Nick Pope – Renewed Government Interest in UFOs
Open Minds UFO Radio: Nick Pope – Renewed Government Interest in UFOs
Open Minds UFO Radio: Nick Pope investigated UFOs for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) for several years in the early 1990s. He was skeptical about the phenomenon when he began looking into the matter. However, after having reviewed several credible cases Nick concluded that there was UFOs pose a real mystery, and unidentified vehicles in our airspace could pose a threat to national security. Since he has left the MoD, Nick has authored a book on the UK’s most credible and famous UFO case, Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World’s Best-Documented UFO Incident. He is also a journalist and media commentator.
In this episode, we discuss the renewed interest the U.S. government appears to be showing in the UFO topic since the revelation that the Pentagon has its own UFO research program, that allegedly continues to this day. We discuss the fact that several individuals have addressed congressional subcommittees recently, and what that means to the future of government involvement in UFO research. Nick gives his unique perspective a being one of the few who has worked on a government-sponsored UFO research program. For more about Nick visit: http://nickpope.net/
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UFO Recorded On Video In Clear Daylight Above Mexico City
UFO Recorded On Video In Clear Daylight Above Mexico City
A worker in Mexico observed an unidentified flying object in broad daylight.
The mysterious craft was seen travelling in the sky above Mexico City, and the witness captured the strange aerial activity on video.
As the UFO was moving across the sky, a couple of metres off the ground, it emanated a blurry field that was commonly reported from UFO enthusiasts.
Many viewers of the video believe the latest UFO sighting is substantial evidence of the existence of space aliens visiting Earth and it would have been definitive proof of the existence of extraterrestrials had the camera quality been better.
YouTube user Carlos Sanchez originally captured the video and conspiracy theorists around the internet quickly picked it up.
Some UFO hunters believe it is a genuine sighting of an alien spacecraft.
The dark craft reportedly came right out into the open, and a worker noticed it when they came outside for their break.
Some observers said that the UFO somewhat tilted as it moved, which was what many unidentified flying objects did to control their direction.
Unfortunately, the video looks blurry.
Some UFO enthusiasts think the video would be definitive proof of the existence of space aliens has it been an iPhone 7 or 8 being used.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) is using off-the-shelf machine learning technology from Nvidia and Google to advance its mission of finding other forms of life in the universe.
Using these tools, a newly hired graduate student last fall discovered the richest signal dataset found to date.
“I didn’t believe him, actually, but eventually that was borne out to be true. And in fact the thing that took the longest was actually writing the paper and getting it through peer review,” Berkeley SETI Research Center director Andrew Siemion said.
Siemion spoke with Pandorabots CEO Lauren Kunze today at VB Summit 2018, a two-day conference for company executives held at the Seminary in Mill Valley, California.
The work consists of searching for signals that could come from technology used by an intelligent life form — such as electromagnetic activity or radio or laser signals.
“So fast radio bursts or FRBs are some of the most exciting sources that we know about in astronomy,” Siemion said. “We just discovered them about 10 years ago. We know of about 50 or so sources of them, and one of them is known to repeat — it’s in fact the only one that’s known to repeat. And as far as we know, for the moment it’s the only source that behaves this way. Some have suggested that the actual progenitor of the source might be some kind of technology.”
SETI looks for these signals by placing large telescopes around the world that are capable of producing hundreds of gigabytes of data a second, petabytes of which are stored by the SETI Breakthrough Listening program on an annual basis. Machine learning is then used to scour the data for anomalies.
Last fall, the team detected 21 FRBs over the span of six hours from data generated by the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia. A month later, an algorithm developed by a graduate student found an additional 72 bursts, making it the richest dataset SETI has ever come across.
Commodity hardware helps keep costs down for SETI, a nonprofit organization, and prevent it having to rely on old tools. In radio astronomy, Siemion said, building instrumentation for a telescope is traditionally done by creating something from scratch that takes years to develop and is outdated by the time it’s ready to be used.
“We only have about a dozen full-time employees in the group at Berkeley, and certainly not enough people — or certainly the expertise — to develop a machine learning framework and algorithm and pipeline from the ground up,” he explained.
We are not alone, Siemion said, adding that an approach that uses commodity technology rather than custom solutions is becoming more and more common in astronomy.
“There are all kinds of opportunities to leverage these kinds of algorithms, software tool kits that are being developed, and we’re very interested in continuing to apply these to make additional discoveries. In fact, we probably have many, many more FRBs, and perhaps even some signals from extraterrestrial intelligence, buried in our data that are just waiting to be uncovered,” he concluded.
The Purported Plumes of Jupiter's Moon Europa Are Missing 'Hotspot' Engines
The Purported Plumes of Jupiter's Moon Europa Are Missing 'Hotspot' Engines
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
An artist's illustration of a plume of water vapor spouting from the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
Credit: K. Retherford/SWRI/NASA/ESA
If Jupiter's moon Europa has geysers, the natural engines that power them are well-hidden.
Scientists have re-examined data from NASA's Galileo mission in greater detail in search of regions on Europa warm enough to be linked to plumes of water vapor. If hotspots exist on this moon — which harbors a huge ocean of liquid water beneath its icy shell — they will most likely remain hidden until NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft arrives at Jupiter in the late 2020s or early 2030s, the researchers determined.
In 2016, scientists announced the provisional detection of a faint plume on Europa using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. A second unconfirmed plume was announced the following year. Since then, the moon has remained quiet, and scientists have debated whether the features spotted by the space telescope were actually caused by wafting water vapor. [Possible Water Plumes on Europa: The Discovery in Images]
In an effort to solve the mystery, Julie Rathbun and her colleagues turned to data collected by Galileo when it orbited Jupiter in the 1990s and early 2000s. Rathbun is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. The researchers had searched the moon for heat signals almost a decade ago, before the potential plumes were spotted. Now, they returned to examine the two potential source regions more closely, looking for signs of heat that might indicate geological activity. The results were less than encouraging.
"We didn't see any hotspots at those locations," Rathbun said yesterday (Oct. 22) during a news conference at the American Astronomical Society's annual Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee.
But that doesn't necessarily mean Europa isn't spouting off, added Rathbun.
The case of the missing hotspot
Plumes are common throughout the solar system. Jupiter's moon Io is constantly shooting volcanic material into the air. Saturn's icy moon Enceladus famously blasts water vapor and other material from its subsurface ocean into space via a set of geysers near the south pole. And Earth is rich in geysers, from Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful to Iceland's Great Geysir.
Firing off the gas that makes up these plumes requires an energy source, which usually heats up the ground around the plume source. Enceladus, Io and Earth all have hotspots around their geysers and volcanoes.
But not Europa, as far as we can tell. Rathbun and her colleagues saw no hotspots at either of the purported plume locations described in the Galileo data.
There are four possible reasons for this result, Rathbun said. First, it's possible that the jets don't exist. It's also possible that the hotspots exist but are subtler than could be detected with Galileo or the Earth-based Atacama Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA). Another option is that the plumes are sporadic and just didn't fire off while Galileo was nearby. Finally, Europa's plumes may operate differently from the geysers on other worlds.
Both Europa and Enceladus are icy moons, and each is thought to host a subsurface ocean. So, it's no surprise that the planetary scientists based their Europa search on the geysers confirmed on Enceladus. The geysers from Saturn's moon come from long, narrow "tiger-stripe" fissures with roughly the same area as that probed on Europa, and the expected temperatures are also similar.
It's possible, however, that Europa's plume regions have a different configuration than those of the Saturn satellite.
"I don't think it's a tiger stripe [that produced the plume], but there could be some small source that's there that we're just not detecting," Rathbun said.
Timing is another concern. Galileo explored Jupiter and its moons from 1995 to 2003, more than a decade before Hubble spotted the plumes. If Europa's fountains are sporadic, their hosting sites may not yet have become active while Galileo was looking. Similarly, ALMA peered at the moon several months after Hubble's observations, potentially giving the area time to cool off.
Sunlight further complicates the issue. At the beach, sand and rocks heat up and cool at different rates based on their composition. After the plumes were first spotted, ALMA identified a region near a young crater called Pwyll that seemed warmer than surrounding areas. However, Rathbun said that Galileo showed that the same region is coolerthan its environment on the nightside; ALMA's observations, like all those made from Earth, show only the moon's dayside. Rathbun said that the variations most likely originated from features with different compositions.
"It's much more consistent with different thermal properties than there being a hotspot," she said.
Ideally, the same instrument would compare daytime and nighttime observations to rule out heat from the sun as an explanation for the temperature differences, but unfortunately, Galileo didn't gather daytime images of the puzzling region.
Rathbun said the final possibility is that the plume-generating mechanism on Europa doesn't heat things up the way familiar geyser features do. It's currently unknown what kind of mechanism could do that, but she said the possibility can't be ruled out.
"I am constantly amazed at how many things we find in the outer solar system that don't make any sense," she said.
While there isn't enough data to determine which of the four explanations likely represents reality, Rathbun said that her favorite option is the bizarre answer.
"I'd love it if there's something different going on," she said. "That's always the most fun."
Europa probably won't be able to keep such secrets for much longer. NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is currently scheduled to launch in 2022, will make 45 flybys of Europa at altitudes ranging from 1,700 miles to 16 miles (2,700 kilometers to 25 km).
One of the instruments Clipper will carry is the Europa Thermal Emission Imaging System (E-THEMIS), a heat detector that will take thermal images of the moon at various wavelengths.
"If there is a hotspot somewhere on Europa, then E-THEMIS will see it," Rathbun said.
NASA's Found a Weird, Rectangular Iceberg in Antarctica
NASA's Found a Weird, Rectangular Iceberg in Antarctica
By Rafi Letzter, Live Science Staff Writer
Credit: NASA IceBridge
Look at that iceberg. It's beautiful. Perfectly rectangular. An object of near geometric perfection jutting into a polar sea of the usual squiggly, chaotic randomness of the natural world. It calls to mind the monolith from "2001: A Space Odyssey.
But, unlike the monolith from that very weird movie, this iceberg was not deposited on this world byspace aliens. Instead, as Kelly Brunt, an ice scientist with NASA and at the University of Maryland, explained, it was likely formed by a process that's fairly common along the edges of icebergs.
"So, here's the deal," Brunt told Live Science. "We get two types of icebergs: We get the type that everyone can envision in their head that sank the Titanic, and they look like prisms or triangles at the surface and you know they have a crazy subsurface. And then you have what are called 'tabular icebergs.'" [In Photos: Huge Icebergs Break Off Antarctica]
Tabular icebergs are wide and flat, and long, like sheet cake, Brunt said. They split from the edges of ice shelves — large blocks of ice, connected to land but floating in the water surrounding iced-over places like Antarctica. This one came from the crumbling Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.
From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: A tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf. The iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf.
Tabular icebergs form, she said, through a process that's a bit like a fingernail growing too long and cracking off at the end. They're often rectangular and geometric as a result, she added.
"What makes this one a bit unusual is that it looks almost like a square," Brunt said.
It's difficult to tell the size of the iceberg in this photo, she said, but it's likely more than a mile across. And, as with all icebergs, the part visible above the surface is just the top 10 percent of its mass. The rest, Brunt said, is hidden underwater.
In the case of tabular icebergs, she said, that subsurface mass is usually regular-looking and geometric, similar to what's visible above. This iceberg looks pretty fresh, she said — its sharp corners indicate that wind and waves haven't had much time to break it down.
But despite the berg's large mass, Brunt said, she wouldn't advise going on a walk on its surface.
"It probably wouldn't flip over," she said.
The thing is still much wider than it is deep, after all. But it's small enough to be unstable and crack up at any moment.
So, it's probably best to marvel at the thing from a distance.
Asteroid or Comet? Weird Blue Space Rock 'Phaethon' Gets a Close-Up
Asteroid or Comet? Weird Blue Space Rock 'Phaethon' Gets a Close-Up
By Hanneke Weitering, Space.com Staff Writer
An artist's impression of the blue asteroid 3200 Phaethon
Credit: Heather Roper/University of Arizona
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A bizarre, blue asteroid that acts like a comet and appears to be responsible for the annual Geminid meteor shower made a close flyby of Earth last year, giving astronomers an opportunity to study the object in unprecedented detail. They found that the asteroid is even weirder than they had imagined.
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon is a special space rock with a rare blue color and an extremely eccentric orbit that has the object pass superclose to the sun and then out past the orbit of Mars. One orbit takes about 1.4 Earth years. This kind of orbit is more typical for comets than asteroids.
But while Phaethon acts like a comet, it doesn't look like one. When comets get close to the sun, they form a cloud known as a "coma" and a long tail of dust and gas. Phaethon, however, always looks like a tiny speck floating through space. [The 7 Strangest Asteroids in the Solar System]
On Dec. 16, 2017, the asteroid Phaethon made its closest approach to Earth since 1974, passing within 6.4 million miles (10.3 million kilometers) of our planet. While backyard astronomers pointed their telescopes toward the space rock to catch a glimpse of the historic flyby, astronomers in observatories around the world took the opportunity to learn more about what the object is and where it came from.
Teddy Kareta, a graduate student at the University of Arizona who led an international effort to investigate Phaethon during the flyby, presented his team's findings here at the 50th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences today (Oct. 23). Kareta and his colleagues observed Phaethon's close approach using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the Tillinghast telescope on Mount Hopkins in Arizona.
One of their findings may overturn the current prevailing theory about the origin of Phaethon. Astronomers have long suspected that Phaethon is a fragment of the much larger blue asteroid Pallas. "However, Pallas' albedo [or reflectivity] is about twice what we found for Phaethon's albedo," Kareta said. With an albedo of about 8 percent, Phaethon is slightly brighter than charcoal and only about half as bright as Pallas, Kareta said.
The researchers also found that the surface of Phaethon is equally blue all around, which means that the object has been "evenly scorched" or "cooked" by the sun's heat. Phaethon's blue color indicates that the rock has undergone intense heating, Kareta said. During Phaethon's trips around the sun, it gets heated to temperatures of up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (800 degrees Celsius), which is "so hot that metals on the surface turn to goo," he said.
Creating the Geminid meteor shower
The Geminid meteor shower, which arrives every year in December, is the only meteor shower that appears to have originated from anything other than a comet. Comets are icy bodies containing a mixture of ice, rock, dust and frozen gas. When a comet gets close to the sun, some of this material gets vaporized and small pieces of the comet break loose, leaving behind a trail of comet crumbs in space. When Earth passes through such a trail of debris, we get meteor showers.
Asteroids like Phaethon are rocky objects that don't behave the same way as comets do when they get close to the sun, and astronomers aren't sure how Phaethon could have created the Geminids. Before Phaethon was discovered, in 1983, astronomers had no idea where the Geminids came from. Having observed that Phaethon's orbit matched the trail of debris that causes the annual meteor shower, though, astronomers determined that Phaethon must be the source.
This diagram shows the highly eccentric orbit of 3200 Phaethon.
Credit: NASA JPL
Exactly how Phaethon created that trail of debris remains a mystery, Kareta said. While it is possible that material swept off the asteroid's surface could contribute to the debris, "the amount of dust that gets swept off is nowhere near enough to sustain the Geminids," he said. One possibility is that Phaethon collided with another object in space and the Geminids are the debris from that "catastrophic breakup," he said. "So, in that case, you're essentially seeing dust, which is kind of like blood splatter, to be gruesome, from this really violent event."
Another possibility is that Phaethon is a dormant comet, or a comet that turned into an asteroid over time. "If it was cometary at some point in the past, maybe it made the meteor shower the normal way and left behind those comet crumbs … but since then, it's been cooked through and turned off and it just looks like a rock," Kareta said.
Phaethon may look more like an asteroid than a comet, but it displays qualities of both types of objects. It doesn't have the coma and tail that are characteristic of comets, but it does release "a tiny dust tail when it gets closest to the sun in a process that is thought to be similar to a dry riverbed cracking in the afternoon heat," University of Arizona officials said in a statement. "This kind of activity has only been seen on two objects in the entire solar system — Phaeton and one other, similar object that appears to blur the line traditionally thought to set comets and asteroids apart."
A mission to Phaethon: DESTINY+
Findings from this new research will come in handy for scientists with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which is currently planning a mission to Phaethon. The mission is called DESTINY+ (an abbreviation for Demonstration and Experiment of Space Technology for Interplanetary Voyage, Phaethon Fyby and Dust Science), and it is currently scheduled to launch in 2022.
DESTINY+ will fly by Phaethon and other near-Earth objects to study how dust is ejected from these objects. This should help to explain Phaethon's tiny dust tail. DESTINY+ could help scientists figure out whether Phaethon is an asteroid, a comet or something else. "It's probably somewhere in the middle," Kareta said.
Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her @hannekescience.
Filer’s Files 42 – 2018 The War Over Human’s Soul - PART I
Dundee, Scotland disc in trees on October 15, 2018
Filer’s Files 42 – 2018 The War Over Human’s Soul - PART I
October 22, 2018
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Secrets of the Saucer Scientists, Aerospace Research & Development. Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, A Picture We May Not Wish to Gaze Upon by David Jacobs, PhD, The War Over Human’s Soul, China May Have a Devastating Hypersonic Advantage
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Maine. Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Greece. Netherlands, Spain, and Scotland 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
Secrets of the Saucer Scientists
Photo of Oberth and Von Braun
William F. Hamilton III writes, “In all probability the first saucer scientists were rocket scientists. Without a doubt one of these great men was the pioneering rocket scientist, Professor Hermann Oberth was a writer, scientist, and visionary from Austria-Hungary whose paper.”The Rocket into Interplanetary Space was published in 1923 and served as an inspiration to the rocket designers that followed. Influenced by Verne’s books and ideas, Oberth constructed his first model rocket as a school student at the age of 14. In his youthful experiments, he arrived independently at the concept of the multistage rocket. By 1917, he showed how far his studies had reached by firing a rocket with liquid propellant in a demonstration to Hermann von Stein, the Prussian Minister of War.
Werner von Braun read Oberth’s work in 1925 and joined him in rocket experiments in 1930. Oberth is considered the Father of Rocketry.
In letters to Donald Keyhoe, Oberth mentions his belief that saucers are spaceships manned by superior beings. He says that the marvelous aerodynamics of the saucers is accomplished by generating an artificial gravity field. This is the famous G-field theory. The saucers create their own gravitational fields which enables them to hover motionless above the earth, accelerate at tremendous speeds, or execute violent turns that would cause ordinary aircraft to disintegrate. Even with swift changes of speed and direction, the passengers would feel no effect. It would also explain the silence of UFOs in flight as the artificial G-field would drag the surrounding air along with it. And, because the air is not flowing pass the hull, it would eliminate heating caused by friction.
Statements have been made that saucer behavior defies the laws of physics. It seemed impossible that a manned craft could execute such tremendous accelerations from a hovering position to a high-speed linear velocity or in high-speed acute-angled turns. Inertial forces caused by such accelerations would tear apart an aircraft frame. And, often, the picture came to mind of a human pilot ending up flat as a pancake against the cabin wall. Gerald Heard, in his book, “Is Another World Watching?” hypothesized that the saucers were being flown by insects because only insects could survive those wrenching turns. All of these concerns evaporate when one considers the physics of G-field propulsion.
Aerospace Research & Development.
David Mathes writes, I cannot speak to what you may have seen. Let me talk in general terms about aerospace R&D. When new and improved effects or technologies are developed, the services all take a look at and see how it fits with present inventory. In the case of an airframe or propulsion improvement, one would take that technology and do studies applying the new principles to missions involving scouting, intelligence, gathering, interceptors, fighters and bombers.
One would do trades which include scaling the power, propulsion and airframe in a SWaP-C analysis (Size, Weight, Power and Cost). Scaling tradeoffs would be made in theory, modeling, simulation and experiment to find stable configurations and survivable solutions. Velocity and acceleration numbers would matter. Jolt/jerk (acceleration change) would be calculated as well as higher order derivatives especially for changes in angular momentum which includes pitch, roll and yaw
SU 57 Russian Stealth Fighters
There have been past efforts, notably the Russians (see Jane’s Aircraft in the late 1980s, early 1990s) to use a combination of technologies to extend the performance specifications of aircraft. One notable jet-powered craft was an inflatable saucer design with four ballutes internally. The surface material was not defined but look liked aluminum. The craft appeared to be designed for swift transit over a long range. But the lighter than air components would be usefully useable only to about 10k ft. Even so, the craft could be used in a variety of ways. Fighter versions of B-1 and B-2 are possible. Keep in mind that with less lift, more thrust is required to maintain a velocity. For me, the most interesting engine is the transonic engine. No more violent transition to Mach velocities.
Dream Chase
The U.S is developing a new ‘Shuttle to carry seven astronauts, called Dream Chaser that can pay for itself by carrying astronauts to the International Space Station rather than paying Russia millions for each trip. Best David Mathes
Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings
The “”Westchester Boomerang” was a UFO reported by hundreds of people in New York State and Connecticut between 1983 and 1986 and described by most witnesses as a hovering, immense V-shaped series of flashing lights connected by a dark structure. UFO investigators Imbrogno (Crosswalks Across the Universe) and Pratt write in detail about the “close encounters” of some 900 people who filled out “witness forms.” (Famed UFO author Hynek died in 1986, “as the book was being written,” but the authors maintain that he participated in the investigation and include the transcript of a Hynek interview with a witness.) They note a “feeling” common to the witnesses: “They felt as if the object or whatever intelligence that was behind it was trying to communicate with them in some way.” After a two-year analysis, the authors conclude that there is “no conventional explanation for the Hudson Valley UFO.” The illustrations include photos, drawings and sequential frames from a videotape of the lights.
The sightings of the craft were mostly in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The craft was virtually silent, and measured between 300 to 900 feet across. The craft was seen hovering over busy highways, rivers and lakes. It was often seen over the Hudson River. It was reported by pilots, air traffic controllers, doctors, lawyers, police, fireman, women, and computer operators. The craft appeared to have structural girder and cross beam construction like a truss bridge.
Bruce Cornet reports, Michael Schratt presents one of the most detailed and well-illustrated accounting of the Hudson Valley or Westchester Boomerang I have seen. Perhaps his diagrams and schematics are more imagination than factual. He documents in this video the thousands of sightings which occurred over the Hudson Valley between 1982 and 1989.
The March 24, 1983 sighting was spectacular with hundreds of witnesses from Westchester and Putnum seeing the craft. Police switchboards where jammed with frantic calls from local residents between 8:30 and 1o;30 PM. The TV show sightings ran a special on the sightings. At the intersection of Routes 202 and 35, traffic was halted in a tangled jam as motorists stopped, got out of their cars and looked at the object. Motorists stopped on the Taconic Parkway in groups to observe the hovering object. A slow moving silent V shaped craft with multi-colored lights was flying low just above the treetops. It cruised in a looping pattern over Yorktown, Somers and Carmel for more than an hour.
Rarely has this enormous craft been seen since, yet I have documented a much smaller version, which I call the Manta Ray. His diagrams closely resemble the B-2 Bomber, but his description of its construction from eye witness reports is nothing like the military copy cat. Surprised this video has only received 8,179 views since January 7, 2017. Why so little public interest? It is well worth seeing. Thanks to Bruce Cornet Hudson Valley UFO Sightings Revisted (Michael Schratt Talk Danbury Library)
A Picture We May Not Wish to Gaze Upon by David Jacobs, PhD
The abduction phenomenon is something so strange, so unusual; it is very difficult to gain an understanding of it. When I was a UFO researcher strictly examining the outside shells of anomalous objects in the sky, most people thought the abduction phenomenon was purely and totally psychological. Even though there was, of course, the Barney and Betty Hill case. The Hills were obviously not 1950s-style contactees. One was required to have a lot of evidence to accept the idea that not only were there complex individuals inside the UFOs, but they were kidnapping humans. Furthermore, the Barney and Betty Hill case had embarrassing elements in it, such as a sperm sample taken from Barney, and a needle put in Betty’s navel (which she said was a pregnancy test, although it almost certainly was not). When more abduction cases were reported and researchers began to study them, the Hill case provided a model for understanding what was happening. What happened to the Hills, and to others, seemed to suggest an experimental model; this was a learning situation. Aliens were running tests on humans to understand our physiology and our mental processes. The experimental model fit and there was little reason to doubt it. The model became so strongly accepted it seemed to explain most of the evidence from 1966 to the early 1990s. I fully accepted this model in the first seven years of my abduction research. Then as the evidence mounted, I realized the experimental model was not holding. The evidence did not explain how this could be an experiment when they are doing certain procedures on people repeatedly around the world. For example, how many times does one have to run an experiment to learn that when people see horrible scenes of death and destruction, they experience anxiety?
Rather than an experimentally-based endeavor, the evidence began to conform more to a “program” model. As a program it has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and it is goal-directed. The ultimate objective of this program has eluded both Budd Hopkins and me. We do not know why this phenomenon is happening. But, we have an enormous amount of information about what is happening, how it is happening, what the plans are, and how they have been developing it over the years. It is something I find extremely disquieting. From the beginning, this program had many facets. One was a strong reproductive aspect, and another was a neurological feature. Budd Hopkins had discovered egg harvesting and sperm extraction taking place in sterile-looking environments.
David Jacobs
Oftentimes I found these procedures were accompanied by a strange procedure in which an alien might stare into an abductees’ eyes from a distance of a few inches away or closer. The abductee is unable to avert his or her gaze. They feel something happening inside of their minds. They “see” both static and flashing images. Emotions are generated of one sort or the other. Memories are looked at. A whole world of neurological patterns is happening in their minds while this kind of neural engagement is occurring—which I unfortunately called “Minds can” in my book Secret Life. I have regretted using that term ever since, because it sounds so “science fiction-y” but, in a sense, everything is “science fiction-y” about this phenomenon.
The taking of sperm and ova, the insertion of embryos into the woman, and the extraction of fetuses from her, are also commonly reported aspects of abduction activity. After these types of procedures, a small alien might take an abductee into a room filled with tanks containing a liquid in which
fetuses are suspended—an incubatorium. When a woman is shown these tanks she is led to believe this is a gestation area in which the fetuses are growing and some of them might be hers. Budd Hopkins also first discovered the “baby presentations” in the early 1980s. These entail aliens taking an abductee into another room onboard a UFO and having the abductee hold one or more babies in sequence. Sometimes abductees are required to feed the babies. Thanks to the Journal of Abduction Research http://jar-journal.org/Files/JAR_2007_Q1.pdf
The War Over Men’s Souls
Brett Alen reports that in 30 years of researching the paranormal, I always believed there had to be some correlating unifying theory to both ghosts and UFOs. My research into the paranormal has proven one thing… spirit orbs I once thought were hooey, are very real. They appear to be the manifestation of the human soul after we die; only visible to ultraviolet and infrared non-filtered cameras. To days cameras pick them up because it is much cheaper to manufacture them without such filters. This is why both UFOs (who the ancient s said were “spirit” gods who could take human form-cloaked in the UV and IR) and ghosts can be captured by today’s technology, when not visible to the human eye. The ancient Mesopotamia bible spoke of both spirits and the soul. Nearly every ancient civilization makes reference to the soul; Egypt built a technological civilization around them. They were quite obviously doing something with high voltage; Tesla coils and particle accelerators, to harness and launch the soul. From the Zoroastrians, to Mesopotamia, even the Maya and pre-Columbians, all had this knowledge.
My work with spirit orbs, both in my own haunted study location, and in photos sent to me by friends, shows obvious faces show up in these orbs. I believe even the Mayan calendar round was a spirit orb, as they also knew that night was “the realm of the dead.” But perhaps UFOlogists and NASA/CIA insider John Lear puts it all in perspective when he claims there was a soul capturing and processing machine that the alien’s operate on our moon. In fact NASA’s recent bombing of the Moon may have been to destroy one such structure.
Recent photos captured over my own home, on a lake where some 4000 graves were opened may also vindicate his claims. A bright light on a rectangular UFO was seen with what the ancients referred to as a GATE hanging off the end of the rectangle. I believe the craft was sweeping the area for “lost souls.” If this is not true, why are there so many references to the soul in ancient cultures. In our own Bible there are 457 references to the soul and Christians are promised to go to heaven when the body dies. The soul or the spirit of humans is immortal. However the soul can be lost Mark 8-36 states, “What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?”
“We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against ‘principalities,’ against ‘powers,’ against the ‘rulers of darkness of this world’ , against ‘spiritual wickedness’ in high places” Eph 6-12
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. There are red orb seen all over the world and in Egypt they are often called serpent of the dragon. In the Solomon Islands, dragon orbs can be seen going in and out of the sea where battles are fought. Often in war UFOs and Foo Fighters are everywhere. Why is the human soul so important? It is disturbing, but your own search will surely lead you to the same conclusion.
Extraterrestrials once called Angels are here for one thing, the soul. How many reports come back from abductees saying the aliens seemed to be interested in my soul. It’s as if they separated me from my soul; because they did?. The scary part is I came to this conclusion before over hearing of John Lear or his claim. In the 90s I had a very strange visitor who refused to identify himself, only that we worked with a group that was aware of my work; and if I was deemed worthy, they might release to me the answers. He interviewed me, a journalist and media professional, about my world views on religion, aliens and the paranormal. Since that time, although seeing them since youth, I have seen many more UFOs, and many red orbs. There is a long list of UFOlogists who have come to these same unorthodox conclusions. On Sunday 21st, March 2004, John Lear (who brought the world Bob Lazar, at first scoffed at, but now being validated).Lear has flown all types in all types of aircraft and has 19,000 flying hours. While on the Art Bell Show he delivered some very disturbing information.
Cube on Moon
Lear stated on Coast 2 Coast AM, that a massive cube has been found on the moon, and that this cube is responsible for not only holding human souls here on Earth, but that after you die, the cube pulls your soul to it, and then erases your memory, and reinserts your soul into a new baby to repeat the process over again.
Our moon was brought here from another star system long ago, as part of the experiment. Earth was taken over about 200 thousand years ago, humanity was genetically engineered race, but it is the souls of light that are the real reason for all of this. The souls of light are used as food by the Reptilians. They need a constant supply of emotional food to enable them to do anything. Without a fuel source, negative souls are dead in the water, and are completely powerless. On the Day of Judgment it is the soul (nafs) which will appear before Allah as stated in the Holy Quran:“And every soul comes, with it a driver and a witness” (50:21).
This soul (nafs) will enter into hell or heaven. In short, since soul is the essence of man, everything that is given in this earthly life is given to the soul, and so too will be the rewards and punishment of the Hereafter. “To Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth.” Mankind is an alien controlled experiment. All religions were created by the aliens to give us a set of rules and regulations to live by so that we wouldn’t hurt ourselves. The secret government knows about this experiment but is hiding it from us. This experiment has something to do with the soul. The aliens refer to us as containers. The aliens are busy collecting the souls of the sixty million aborted babies since Roe vs. Wade with Planned Parenthood killing most. There is a cube on the Moon with an antenna. The antenna sends and receives souls.
The two mile high tower on the Moon may house the antenna.
When there is a major disaster like 911 the aliens send down giant soul collectors to recover the souls. From the assignation of Kennedy, from Forestall to the Anunnaki, everything has been orchestrated to keep this information silent, and those who do try to decimate it, usually end up dead. This is either by design or there is a fault with the cube. This cube falls right in line with what I’ve said before. Check it out.
Our Moon was towed here and placed in orbit around the Earth by a very large space machine. There was a time in the recorded history of man when the Earth had no Moon. The Moon has an atmosphere which contains clouds. The Moon does not revolve which proves it is artificial. US astronauts went to the Moon, saw all the alien machinery and structures and were told to keep silent about it by NASA.
John Lear says it is NASA itself that is doing the tampering with signals to the Mars rovers.. NASA knows that Venus is a normal planet just like Earth. Venus has beings that are similar to us. We already have bases on the Moon and Mars but for anyone to go there it is a one way trip. NASA knows there are spaceships in the rings of Saturn. If mankind gets too close to discovering the experiment it will be cancelled and started all over again. A sort of cleansing that happens on Earth every 25,000 years.
John Lear, a retired airline captain logged over 19,000 hours of flight time. He is the son of Lear Jet inventor Bill Lear and flew over 100 different airplane designs. John accumulated 17 aviation world records and claimed to have flown CIA missions in Central and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa between 1966 and 1983.. John met Bob Lazar in 1988; the scientist/physicist who broke the story of Area 51 and the US back-engineering ET craft at S-4 near the infamous Area 51. Lazar and Lear made startling claims of an element 115 that powered alien craft; an element now proven to exist. In March 1989, Lazar took Lear to our government’s Rachel Nevada’s facility where they observed the flight of a flying saucer at the exact time and place Lazar said it would occur. Two weeks later, security forces caught Lear, Lazar and 3 others. The next day, Lazar lost his job over his breach of security. John Lear has lectured and learned incredible information about life in our Solar System; alien structures on the Moon; cities on Mars and even huge ET ships mining the rings of Saturn, and n much more. John Lear passed away in 2009. Thanks to Bret Allen
The Starry Sky-2, which is an experimental design known as a wave rider – for its ability to ride on the shock waves it generates – completed its first test flight on Friday at an undisclosed location in northwest China, the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics said in a statement issued on Monday.
The aircraft was carried into space by a multistage rocket before separating and relying on its own power. During independent flight it conducted extreme turning man oeuvres, maintained velocities above Mach 5.5 (five-and-a-half times the speed of sound) for more than 400 seconds, and achieved a top speed of Mach 6, or 7,344km/h (4,563mph), the statement said.
hypersonic missile test.
Mike Ward: China is getting more dangerous by the minute.
On Friday, astonishing footage was revealed showing strange plumes of light over Beijing skies – a phenomenon created by a secret hypersonic missile test.
Though Chinese officials haven’t confirmed this latest round of testing, the writing is on the wall…
Beijing has already released footage and boasted that its new aircraft could deliver nuclear missiles at such high speeds that they’d be nearly impossible to defend against.
These new weapons can move through the sky at speeds up to 15,300 mph – 20 times faster than the speed of sound – and can strike anywhere on the globe within minutes or even seconds, rendering current nuclear weapons completely useless.
And the Pentagon reported to Congress earlier this year that China has piloted 20 times more hypersonic flight tests than the U.S. Make no mistake: China’s stealthy test marks a disturbing escalation in this arms race. You need to be prepared for this. Thanks to Mike Ward Strategic Tech Investor.
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Filer’s Files 42 – 2018 The War Over Human’s Soul - PART II
Filer’s Files 42 – 2018 The War Over Human’s Soul - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Manahtten Beach — This was bright and reflective. Stationary over the Pacific Ocean flying low west of LAX airport on .
Slowly headed north in a straight line and then disappeared. I took pictures and a witness was there next to me. It was definitely not a drone. This is too far away and still was able to see that this was a UFO..
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Beverly Hills — While I was walking in the open-air Beverly Connection shopping complex, on Octoberr16, 2018, I noticed, to the south, what I initially thought was Venus but I realized it seemed too bright to be Venus. It was round, white, bright, and stationary. It was 6 pm, and the sun was to the west of the object. Then, another object came into view from the west, flying almost directly east. Its position was 5-10 degrees below the first object. It had three white and yellow pulsating lights from high illumination, to low in one second. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Jacksonville— I was outside on my porch doing my nightly sky watching on October 12, 2018, and turned around and there were 30 to 40 white orbs flying in a boomerang formation as they towards the south. I held my hand out and some of the orbs moved out of formation then went back to their spots again. We were a bit startled at first as I was not expecting to see them. They were just above the tree tops. A bit later an all black boomerang shaped object flew over me fast heading north. I saw another one a couple days before the hurricane hit as well. that It was round in shape and reflected light on the edges. Just within the past couple weeks are the first encounters with them so close to me. I feel honored that they are doing this for me as I asked of them.
Key Largo– On October 11, 2018, I work at a sailing resort and take care of the property from 2 a.m. until 7 a.m. as I take care of the docks. I monitor Miami arc and the app. Plane finder to watch what flies overhead. This craft was not on radar. Moved very slow until overhead. I took my photos then it accelerated at amazing speed to the northwest. No sound at all.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maine Object
Bethel–There are several reports across the, Albany, Lovell and Waterford of two military jets chasing a sphere with blue lights. The jets were flying very low and reported to suddenly change directions. The planes were low enough to shake resident’s houses. Earlier on Wednesday two military helicopters landed at our local airport that don’t normally use the airport. The helicopters were in tight formation. Some posts on social media have been removed. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Triangle
Battle Creek — While scanning earth for artifacts after reading about an old crash story I saw this triangle on Octoberr13, 2018. I believed it to be cattle ranch but on further looks believed it may be tourist fake. After realizing after a month of research it can’t be, I became scared. The only American I reached was Kristen Desilva. She then suggested George Knapp. He never responded and next day deserve had blocked me. The object shows water drainage proving it is part of the landscape. Water drains around it and across it. Soil looks to have come from lakebed. Explaining lack of vegetation due to salt content. Three phase power line to site is way too much power for a mini ranch not to mention expensive to install. Object is visible in the very first Google map from us geological survey sight proving it existed pre satellite maps. Shape can be seen in some hikers photos of region proving it isn’t a Google Easter egg. What appear to be two large HVAC units sit on a building. Far too much air handling for a small building. There is even a perfect circular puddle visible on top. Everything points to being the crash site of the ELY sighting. My belief is Area 51 is far away as a slight of hand to prevent expanded searching. The lack of security here is to serve as to not draw attention, or maybe this is just weird large equilateral triangle in sand, who builds a triangular 1069 meter triangle, before it could be seen from above! Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Dark Metallic Square
Medford— Several objects I first thought were birds but then. I observed reflections from object. I was in my bathroom and looked out of my skylight and observed what I thought was a group of birds circling in sky on October 18. 2018.
I am a bird watcher. When I realized they were silver and reflecting light. First a couple then several more joined then they appeared to disappear and reappeared circling faster and faster then they left viability at extremely high rate of speed.
Millville — This is the scariest thing that has ever happened to me when I saw a UFO with orbs of light on the ground on October 13, 2018. I’m reporting it because I want to see if anybody else saw anything in my area. I live in southern New Jersey about halfway between Philadelphia and Atlantic City. This sighing happened at 1145 PM, I went out on my front porch when I start to notice movement across the four way stop about 20 yards in the distance. To me it looked like white looking mist moving across the road in a periodic nature. Also in the woods was metallic banging and movement sounds. Where the woods are across the street is just wilderness for miles until you hit the Delaware Bay.
Right after that happens this white light rises up out of the woods and just sits there for about 3 minutes. It just looked like a ball of light from that distance when it started to move it moved right towards me. This thing moved at a slow steady rate until it’s literally about 500 yards from my face. It was a dark metallic almost plate or square looking object with the lights underneath flashing red upside down double v shaped patterns.
It scared the living hell out of me. It looked unlike any aircraft I’ve ever seen before. There always wasn’t any sound except for a slight electric charge I felt in the air. While it was flying at increasing speed away from me the other phenomenon I experienced first the mist free flowing forms crossing the street. I notice voices what feels like all around me. A lot of orb lights were moving around in the woods and street. The lights were looking. The lights almost looked like people I couldn’t see where holding flashlights while they walked but I just couldn’t see who or why was holding it.
I was focusing on the orbs so when I looked back for the craft it was already gone. That’s when there was this loud scrapping noise of metal on metal which scared me. These really were ufos. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexico Object
Driving into Albuquerque nm on Route 40 we observed a white/blue object in the NE sky on Octoberr15, 2018. I thought it was a star but upon going through the city we could see that it was in the shape of an inverted pyramid,
Driving further east as the sun was setting we noticed that it was reflecting sunlight and was stationary. It changed from a bright white to a light blue then orange as the sun set so it was reflective, We are wondering if there were any other reports that day. Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Carolina Object
Rock Hill— It was really clear, bright and beautiful Saturday afternoon on Octoberr13, 2018. I was sitting outside when I just happened to look up to see this white object heading my direction. I first thought it was a very odd balloon, but then it changed its shape right before it got just about directly over my home. It slowed down, stopped and hovered for a few minutes the first time and then 3 minutes the second time. It started slowly moving towards the back of my home directionally then it stopped again and hovered. A few seconds later a commercial airplane flew by and the object just stayed locked in position. During this time my dog was going bananas barking nonstop. I did have some ringing in my ears and nauseous.. Before it turned and started heading East. Upon reviewing the footage there were 3 different sphere shaped things Thanks to MUFON CMS
Utah Object
Kayenta – On Octoberr15, 2018 I gassed up in Santa Clara and drove Highway 91 west through the Piute Indian Reservation and just before the Summit Highway I saw the UFO. I thought it was a comet at first but it kept the same altitude and speed. I would guess attitude at 7 to 10 thousand feet and about 3 miles south of me, kind paralleled the highway. It was a bright spot with an orange tint, with a single white trail about 8 times length of UFO with space between them. I started taking pictures with cell phone and stopping at the summit I got two pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Lights
Richmond — While at work I occasionally go outside to smoke like I did on Octoberr17, 2018.. It was about a year ago when I first saw the strange object in the sky. I could clearly see there were no wings on it and it wasn’t making any sound at all. Plus, it seemed to be moving too slowly to stay in the sky if it was a plane. It looks like a airplane fuselage moving at the speed of a blimp. I have seen them on 4 or 5 different occasions and it has always been in the evening around 6-7pm. The objects are usually moving west to east except today it was moving south to north. The object appears to be white cigar shaped and the size of a tic-tac. It makes no sound or contrail and moves in a slow straight line. It is visible until it goes behind a building or trees and out of view. A couple of times a second one has appeared shortly after the first has gone out of sight. CNS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Disc
Sydney— I took this picture from my window at a hotel I was staying at in Sydney Australia on September 24, 2018.
I sent it to my partner it wasn’t too much later in the day my partner called and said to zoom in on the image. i then noticed this yellow shape in the clouds as she had told me I noted the planes. Sydney was over cast yesterday.Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada ‘Objects
Spruce Grove— Spotted Saturday at 7:30 pm September 29, 2018, at my buddies just about to get out of the hot tub, he went inside and all of a sudden I noticed these things… they were travelling west to the east. really not sure what these are, They were dead quiet for how many of them there were. They had no visible wings or tail and moved across the sky too quick. The objects were way too big at the altitude they were at (above the clouds) to be a flock of birds. I finally caught them just before they went behind the clouds and you can even see them a bit through the clouds before losing them on my Samsung. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Orb
Paris — First of all I’m not supposed to be driving and filming at the same time but I just wanted to show my wife how beautiful the weather is in Paris on April 21, 2018.
I was driving from the 16th district of Paris France to the 15th and when I passed over the bridge of Garigliano in front of France television I turned the camera in the direction of the Eiffel Tower and I noticed this orb. It was very bright and staying stationary over Paris. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Greece Delta Craft
Athens— Chevron/delta shaped black craft with soft orange glow in places underneath craft. My girlfriend and I were staying in the rooftop apartment in Kos Perdis family resort in Kos town It was 1:30 am on the September 7, 2018, and had made the bed outside so we could sleep under the stars. We had a clear view of the sky. chatting, and said, “Would you come with me if aliens would beam us up?” Five streaks of light above us which were red/orange glow, theses moved very fast. Moving from north to south was very easy to define the front edge of the craft having a triangle/swept wing front and was completely silent, steady and constant in motion. As it was dark we could see a faint orange glow on the underbelly of the craft. Photo is a depiction/ Thanks to MUFON CMS
Netherlands Triangle
Volendam — One evening in 1988 my brother and I were playing outside on September 25. I was on a skateboard while my brother’s bike pulled me forward. I looked up and saw a similar to the Phoenix boomerang ufo flying up only 1 meter above the rooftops. We were less than 20 yards away from it, in astonishment I shouted my brother’s name and said “Look!!!” It was a boomerang shaped UFO,, with lights surrounding its edges that were clearly turned off. The boomerang ufo floated without making any noise in a straight line over the houses to the east over the city. We tried to chase it to no avail, the two of us running back in complete panic back to our parents house while screaming “ufo ufo UFO.” .she said ” Yeah right, and doesn’t believe us.” My father was showing more compassion by saying “Well it could be that they saw something right.” We saw a 10 yard small pitch black boomerang .CMS
Spain Orb
Valencia— The 15th of September of 2018 a blue static orb was seen floating above the Parc Benicalap, in the city of Valencia, Spain.
A blue static orb was seen floating in the sky that was very large.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/Scotland Disc
Dundee – I took 3 pics the middle one caught something weird.
It appears to be some sort of a disc in the trees.
Photos were shot on Octoberr15, 2018.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Onderzoekers ontdekten dat het grootste ijsplateau ter wereld, de Ross-ijsvlakte in Antarctica, een vreemd geluid maakt. De buitenaardse klanken zouden kunnen helpen met hun onderzoek naar de klimaatsverandering.
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Shape Shifting UFO Caught Following Space Station On Live Cam, Oct 24, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Shape Shifting UFO Caught Following Space Station On Live Cam, Oct 24, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 24, 2018 Location of sighting: Earth orbit at space station Source:NASA Live cam I was watching the live cam and noticed this UFO in the far distance. The UFO moved slightly and changed shape from a round appearance to a long cigar shape. Its also odd that a new NASA red screen kept popping up about 6 times during the sighting. I believe the new color indicated an emergency that needs dealt with...a UFO. It may be a new AI system for detecting anomalies flying past. Scott C. Waring
Bilderbergclub heeft zinnen gezet op de kosmos. Wat vertelt deze sinistere groep ons niet over buitenaards leven?
Bilderbergclub heeft zinnen gezet op de kosmos. Wat vertelt deze sinistere groep ons niet over buitenaards leven?
Schrijfster en journaliste Cristina Martin Jimenez heeft zich uitgebreid verdiept in de Bilderbergclub, die volgens haar aanstuurt op een samenleving met één enkele religie, één gemeenschappelijke munt en een wereldregering.
Jimenez heeft ontdekt dat de sinistere club nu haar zinnen op de ruimte heeft gezet.
Haar onderzoek heeft geresulteerd in een revolutionair, uniek en controversieel boek, getiteld ‘Hijos del Cielo’ oftewel kinderen van de hemel.
Ze merkte op dat er allerlei krachten actief waren om de publicatie van haar boek tegen te houden. “Maar ik ben niet bang voor hen,” zei ze in een interview met Epipress.
Een eerder boek van haar was jarenlang niet verkrijgbaar.
Buitenaardse schepen
De Bilderbergclub is vastbesloten om te investeren in de ruimte en de kosmos te verkennen. Zij is er zeker van dat buitenaardse schepen met daarin superieure wezens de aarde hebben bezocht.
Dat terwijl ze ons jarenlang hebben voorgelogen over alles wat er in de lucht gebeurt en mensen die over UFO’s spraken belachelijk hebben gemaakt en in diskrediet hebben gebracht, aldus Jimenez.
Het blijkt dat er altijd een speciale band is geweest tussen de aarde en deze wezens, die sterk, knap en intelligent zijn; heel anders dan het stereotiepe beeld in de samenleving, legde ze uit.
We danken alles aan deze superieure wezens, die ook wel ‘goden’ werden genoemd en die in ruimteschepen ‘feller dan de zon’ neerdaalden vanuit de hemel. Dankzij hen konden we evolueren, zei ze.
Nieuwe wereldoorlog
De Bilderbergers zitten volgens haar ook achter de financiële crisis van 2008. “Zij hebben dit systeem gecreëerd, waarbij van tijd tot tijd economische crises ontstaan.”
Ze zei verder dat de nieuwe wereldoorlog al gaande is. Het is een subtiele en discrete oorlog, die de cultuur aanvalt.
Het is ook een economische en psychologische oorlog die hier en daar nog klassieke oorlogstinten heeft, zoals we in Syrië zien, klonk het.
Bilderberg wil een wereldregering in particuliere handen vestigen door de emoties en gevoelens van mensen te manipuleren in een samenleving die wordt bedwelmd door de grote techbedrijven, die ook van Bilderberg zijn, zei Jimenez.
Rotte fundamenten
Ze voegde toe dat sommigen beginnen in te zien dat deze manipulatie uit de hand is gelopen.
David Rockefeller, de vader van Bilderberg, was al in 1947 van plan om regeringen te vervangen door een privémacht. Ook Paul Warburg had het over een wereldregering.
Het Marshallplan, het omvangrijke ‘hulpplan’ dat na de Tweede Wereldoorlog in werking trad, is volgens de journaliste bedacht door de Amerikaanse elites en de Bilderbergclub om Europa te onderwerpen.
Jimenez zei dat de VN is opgericht om alvast te experimenteren met een soort wereldregering. “De VN is opgebouwd op rotte fundamenten, op het terrein van de Rockefellers,” zei ze.
Pedofiele priesters
In 1957 zag Bilderberg hoeveel invloed je op mensen kunt uitoefenen door middel van religie.
Ze wees erop dat veel machtsgroepen die met Bilderberg verbonden zijn, in de katholieke kerk zijn geïnfiltreerd en dat veel pedofiele priesters leden zijn van deze manipulatieve groepen.
Steeds meer mensen doorzien de plannen van Bilderberg, zei ze. Er is een informatieoorlog gaande en iedereen die tegen de gevestigde orde is wordt genadeloos hard aangevallen.
In de VS is dat Trump en in Europa gaat het om Polen, Hongarije en Italië, waar regeringen rebelleren tegen de oude garde, besloot ze.
Weird Square Iceberg in Antarctica ‘Something hidden in plain sight?’
Weird Square Iceberg inAntarctica ‘Something hidden in plain sight?’
NASA’s project Operation Icebridge, studying climate conditions in Antarctica, captured a weird square iceberg during a flyover of Antarctica.
According to NASA twitter: From yesterday's IceBridge flight: A tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.
The iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf.
Yes NASA that is indeed very weird; it just split from the edges of ice shelves and there it is… a perfect square iceberg.
It looks almost as if the iceberg was sliced with a laser. This square iceberg with its perfect 90 degrees corners just does not fit in the surrounding area if you compare it with other icebergs.
It is known that there are secret bases and underwater bases in Antarctica. Could it be that this weird iceberg is more than just an iceberg, something hidden in plain sight?
A former Air Force sergeant who claimed to have seen top-secret photos of an alien base on the far side of the moon has died in a bicycle crash.
Karl R. Wolfe was killed in the crash on October 10 in Lansing, New York, after he was struck from behind by a tractor trailer traveling southbound on North Triphammer Road near Sharon Drive. He was 74.
Wolfe was rushed to Cayuga Medical Center where he later died from injuries sustained in the crash.
Although the crash is under investigation, no charges have been filed and the Tompkins County Sheriff's office did not release the name of the tractor trailer driver, the Ithaca Journal reported.
Karl R. Wolfe (above) was killed in the crash on October 10 in Lansing, New York
In 2001, Wolfe gained fame when he came forward with claims that he had he had seen photographic evidence of an alien structure on the far side of the moon.
In a video interview, Wolfe said that in the mid-1960s, he had a top secret clearance and worked for Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
Wolfe said his job was working as a electronic technician in photographic surveillance labs, and he spent most of his time working on machines that processed surveillance footage of Vietnam.
One day, Wolfe recalled that his superior told him to report to an NSA facility on the base to help with an issue with equipment used to process imagery from the first lunar orbiter mission.
Wolfe said he reported to the facility, which he described as a large hangar-type building with many foreign citizens in civilian clothes, accompanied by interpreters - a surprising sight to the military man.
The former airman recalled that he was alone in a darkroom with another Airman second class, when the other enlisted man said: 'By the way, we've discovered a base on the back side of the moon.'
The far side of the moon is seen in a 1972 photo taken by Apollo 16. Wolfe said that he saw an alien moon base in photos taken by the first lunar orbiter
Wolf (above) was working as a photo technician for the Air Force when he says he was called in to repair equipment that was used to process images from the first lunar orbiter
'I said, 'Whose? What do you mean?'' Wolfe recalled. He said he was fascinated by the statement but was fearful that someone would walk in on their conversation.
Then, Wolfe said, the Airman showed him a photo mosaic assembled from multiple passes by the lunar orbiter.
'He pulled out one of these mosaics, and showed this base which had geometric shapes - there were towers, there were spherical buildings, there were very tall towers and things that looked somewhat like radar dishes, but they were very large structures,' Wolfe said.
'Every day when I went home I thought, 'I can't wait to hear about this on the news,'' Wolfe said.
After serving in the Air Force, Wolfe attended the University of Buffalo with a dual major in Social and Cultural Anthropology, and Electronics Engineering.
Wolfe went on to become a self-help consultant. He never married, and had no children.
Ever seen one of these? People sometimes report them as UFOs. They’re called hole-punch clouds, and jets make ’em. The connection between hole-punch clouds, jets and snowfall, here.
Patricia Evans spotted this hole-punch cloud in November 2015 from a restaurant parking lot.
You’re probably familiar with contrails, the wispy strands of clouds made by jet exhaust high in the sky. But if you’ve ever seen a hole-punch cloud, sometimes called a fallstreak hole, you’ll be surprised by their strange appearance. They look like strange clearings in an altocumulus cloud layer, often circular patches of clear sky, surrounded by clouds. Sometimes people report them as UFOs. Airplanes create hole-punch clouds – but just how do they do it?
… composed of small water droplets that are below freezing called ‘supercooled water droplets.’ If ice crystals can form in the layer of supercooled droplets, they will grow rapidly and shrink or possibly evaporate the droplets completely.
Studies, including this one by Andrew Heymsfield and collaborators, have shown that aircraft passing through these cloud layers can trigger the formation of the heavier ice crystals, which fall to Earth and then leave the circular void in the blanket of clouds.
They concluded that aircraft propellers and wings cause the formation of those initial ice crystals. There are zones of locally low pressure along the wing and propeller tips which allow the air to expand and cool well below the original temperature of the cloud layer, forming ice crystals.
Rick Trent in Paradise, California, caught this hole punch cloud in November 2016.
Image via Andrew Heymsfield. Used with permission.
Houston, Minnesota.
Photo via Jamie Vix.
Andrew Heymsfield of the National Center for Atmospheric Research spoke with EarthSky some years ago, when his study first appeared. He told us:
This whole idea of jet aircraft making these features has to do with cooling of air over the wings that generates ice.
His team found that – at lower altitudes – jets can punch holes in clouds and make small amounts of rain and snow. As a plane flies through mid-level clouds, it forces air to expand rapidly and cool. Water droplets in the cloud freeze to ice and then turn to snow as they fall. The gap expands to create spectacular holes in the clouds. He said:
We found an exemplary case of hole-punch clouds over Texas. From satellite imagery you could see holes just pocketing the sky, holes and long channels where aircraft had been flying at that level of the cloud for a while.
Heymsfield used a weather forecast model developed at NCAR – and radar images of clouds from NASA’s CloudSat satellite – to explain the physics of how jet aircraft make hole-punch clouds.
Heymsfield’s team found that every measurable commercial jet aircraft, private jet aircraft and also military jets as well as turbo props were producing these holes. He said a hole-punch cloud expands for hours after being created. Major airports, where there’s a lot of aircraft traffic, would be a good place to study cloud holes. He said:
What we decided to do was look at major airports around the world, especially where there’s low cloud cover and cold clouds in the wintertime, and found that the frequency of occurrence suitable for this process to occur is actually reasonably high, on the order of three to five percent. In the winter months, it’s probably two to three times higher, 10 to 15 percent.
Image via Andrew Heymsfield. Used with permission.
He said people who look out their airplane window in flight can see for themselves how the wing changes a cloud.
When an aircraft lands or takes off sometimes – especially in humid, tropical areas – you see a little veil of clouds over the wings of the aircraft. And basically, what’s happening over the wings of the aircraft, there’s cooling. And the cooling produces a cloud.
It’s basically a super-cooled cloud. It’s just like a fog you see at the ground except that its temperature is zero degrees centigrade [32 degrees Fahrenheit]. So in that process of expanding, the air expands over the wing and cools. And that cooling can be as much as 20 degrees centigrade [68 F].
The cooling of air over the wings generates ice, said Heymsfield.
About the Texas incident where satellite imagery showed many hole-punch openings and channels, Heymsfield said:
What we found was that there were about a hundred of these little features. We decided to, first of all, identify their location and see if we could link them to particular aircraft. Then the second thing we did was say, okay, why do these long channels last for the period of time it would take for a satellite to take a snapshot of them? We got high-time-resolution satellite imagery and were able then to track these features, these holes, and watch them develop with time, watch how they developed.
Bottom Line: Scientists have found that, at mid-altitudes, jet aircraft can punch holes in clouds and make small amounts of rain and snow. These are the strange hole-punch clouds that are sometimes reported as UFOs.
NASA Tests Astronaut Survival Systems for Orion Splashdowns
NASA Tests Astronaut Survival Systems for Orion Splashdowns
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
In a previous drill, NASA astronaut Suni Williams tests an Orion crew module escape mechanism at the agency's Johnson Space Center, before the capsule was ready to be tested in open water.
Credit: NASA
NASA and the U.S. Air Force recently tested astronaut survival systems for the first time since the space shuttles stopped flying in 2011.
Those tests were part of the agency's preparations for the first crewed flights of its Orion module, which is designed to carry astronauts out of our immediate neighborhood and toward more exotic destinations like the moonand Mars.
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Orion, @NASAGoddard and the @usairforce tested open water raft and survival equipment performance in challenging weather conditions and dynamic simulated sea states. The search and rescue beacon notification system was exercised for the first time since the Space Shuttle program.
The scenarios focused on systems that would protect astronauts landing in open water under harsh weather conditions. (As usual for spaceflight systems, the agency wants to make sure everything works safely in the most extreme conditions that might be experienced.)
During the tests, NASA and the Air Force studied both the rafting equipment that lets crewmembers leave the capsule and the beacon systems that help rescue personnel track down the astronauts. The latter are leftover from the space shuttles' systems and haven't been checked since the vehicles stopped flying in 2011.
The Orion capsule is designed to fly on the Space Launch System, a powerful rocket that NASA has yet to complete. Crewed flights are scheduled to begin in the early 2020s, leaving the agency plenty of time to ensure all the safety systems can hold up under the harshest possible conditions.
AN ALIEN SATELLITE IS IN RETROGRADE ORBIT AROUND EARTH
AN ALIEN SATELLITE IS IN RETROGRADE ORBIT AROUND EARTH
By: Gaia Staff
There are currently more than 100,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, from space junk, to high tech probes transmitting signals back to Earth. But one of these satellites is thought to be of extraterrestrial origin and has been circling our planet, prior to the launch of Sputnik. This mysterious spacecraft is known as the Black Knight satellite, alleged to be of alien provenance and covered up by NASA for more than 60 years.
While most man-made satellites orbit in prograde, due to the ease and fuel efficiency of using the Earth’s natural gravitational pull, the Black Knight is said to orbit in retrograde, adding to its curious nature. But is it actually an alien satellite monitoring our planet, or simply a thermal space blanket like NASA has claimed photo evidence of it to be?
TESLA AND THE BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE
Recently, a series of fast radio bursts was picked up by Stephen Hawking’s Breakthrough Listen Initiative, which some have speculated could be coming from the technology of an advanced, extraterrestrial species. This wouldn’t be the first time a scientist picked up signals from the cosmos and believed it to be of alien origin. Nearly a century ago, Nikola Tesla claimed to have recorded electrical signals at his laboratory in Colorado Springs that were of intelligent nature.
Tesla had been working on the technology for his Wardenclyffe Tower, when he noticed signals which were not of earthly origin and could be ruled out as being weather-related. He believed the signals were being transmitted from a civilization on Mars, so he developed a device to send signals back out to make contact. Tesla was arguably the most well-versed in radio signal transmission at the time, having pioneered the technology, so it’s hard to imagine he would have been confused by any earthly interference.
No one knows exactly what those signals were, but some believe they may have been a transmission from the Black Knight satellite. Not long after Tesla’s reception, an amateur radio operator in Norway named Jørgen Hals, recorded transmissions called Long Delayed Echoes, or LDEs. Stanford professor, Ron Bracewell, proposed the idea that these echoes were the product of an alien satellite picking up radio signals from Earth and rebroadcasting them back, creating a delay of several seconds. Some speculate that the Black Knight could be this theoretical transmitter, known as a Bracewell probe.
In the early 1970s, a man named Duncan Lunan reinterpreted and examined these LDEs, concluding they were too strong to simply be echoed radio signals from Earth. Lunan said he translated the signals and, to his surprise found a map of Epsilon Boötis, a binary star in the Boötes system. Although Lunan doesn’t like his interpretation of the LDEs associated with the conspiracy surrounding the Black Knight, there are similarities in nature and timeliness.
IS THE BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE REAL?
In 1954, a few news reports claimed the U.S. Air Force had discovered two satellites orbiting the Earth. With the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, not launching for another three years, the discovery was surprising. But the Air Force was not the only government agency to notice the satellites. The Venezuelan Communications Ministry also noticed their presence a few years later while tracking Sputnik. The ministry noted that these satellites were moving from east to west, in retrograde orbit. Aside from the fact that there were only a few artificial satellites in orbit at the time, none would have been in retrograde orbit.
In 1954, Donald Keyhoe claimed found a satellite was found to orbiting Earth. Keyhoe was originally a marine naval aviator who later became the most prominent name in ufology, establishing the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, or NICAP. Keyhoe’s claim was picked up by the San Francisco Examiner and St. Louis Post Dispatch. According to the articles, Keyhoe said that the Secretary of the Air Force, Harold Talbott, was aware of the satellites and had even witnessed a ‘silvery, disc-shaped object’ in the sky. Though, Talbott dismissed these claims.
Another confounding characteristic of the Black Knight was the fact that it was circling the Earth in polar orbit, a feat not accomplished by man-made satellites until 1960. This type of orbit is typically used for mapping, reconnaissance, and tracking, and often it is done in a sun-synchronous orbit so that each time the satellite passes a particular spot, it is the same time of day. The combination of retrograde and polar orbits makes this type of satellite stick out especially in the late 50s/early 60s when satellite technology was in its nascent phases. And it wasn’t just military entities who photographed an unidentified satellite, but also the Smithsonian Observatory at Harvard as well as the Gruman Aircraft Corporation in New York.
But the story of the Black Knight gets even more bizarre with the French Space Commission’s observation of the satellite while Jacques Vallée was on staff. Despite excitement and intrigue by Vallée and his colleagues, a senior member of his team deleted their imaging of the satellite, for reasons unknown. While Vallée said he believed it was out of embarrassment for the commission’s inability to identify the orbiting object, it was becoming increasingly common for agencies around the world to notice the unidentified satellite, without explanation.
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NASA’S BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE EXPLANATION
There are several pictures circulating the internet of what is thought to be the Black Knight. These pictures, according to NASA, are images of a thermal cover dropped during a spacewalk or during some type of extra-vehicular activity on the ISS. During this expedition, one astronaut purportedly finished his mission early and was asked to cover the space station’s trunnion pins with thermal covers. The astronaut was asked to complete this as a free-floating task, despite not having the cover properly attached, inevitably losing track of it as it floated off.
When asked later which pin he lost the cover to, he said he could not remember and that he was too upset with himself to think about it. NASA maintains that the photographs most people point to as evidence of the black knight are images of this thermal cover. There is also a video of the astronauts inside the space station filming and photographing the cover as it floats off.
It is entirely possible that NASA’s claims are true. There are plenty of similarities between the thermal cover and the images believed to be the Black Knight. There aren’t however, sufficient explanations of sightings and documentation of the satellite from the 1950s and 60s by numerous government and scientific agencies.
In 1963, while orbiting Earth, astronaut Gordon Cooper reported seeing a glowing green light ahead of his Mercury 9 module. He reported it to the Australian Space Command, who were able to track it. Oddly enough, when Cooper returned to Earth he was not allowed to talk about the light and it wasp officially reported he had suffered hallucinations from an excess of carbon dioxide in his cabin.
Despite NASA’s attempt to explain what Cooper saw with a more mundane explanation, he continued throughout his life to divulge stories that detailed his experiences with UFOs and other unexplained phenomena. He often spoke of attempted government cover-ups regarding UFOs and unexplained activity, so it could be probable he saw the Black Knight realizing its existence was deliberately being withheld from the public.
One of NASA's twin MarCO spacecraft took this image of Mars on October 2 -- the first time a CubeSat, a kind of low-cost, briefcase-sized spacecraft -- has done so.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's MarCO mission was designed to find out if briefcase-sized spacecraft called CubeSats could survive the journey to deep space. Now, MarCO - which stands for Mars Cube One - has Mars in sight.
One of the twin MarCO CubeSats snapped this image of Mars on Oct. 3 - the first image of the Red Planet ever produced by this class of tiny, low-cost spacecraft. The two CubeSats are officially called MarCO-A and MarCO-B but nicknamed "EVE" and "Wall-E" by their engineering team.
A wide-angle camera on top of MarCO-B produced the image as a test of exposure settings. The MarCO mission, led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, hopes to produce more images as the CubeSats approach Mars ahead of Nov. 26. That's when they'll demonstrate their communications capabilities while NASA's InSight spacecraft attempts to land on the Red Planet. (The InSight mission won't rely on them, however; NASA's Mars orbiters will be relaying the spacecraft's data back to Earth.)
This image was taken from a distance of roughly 8 million miles (12.8 million kilometers) from Mars. The MarCOs are "chasing" Mars, which is a moving target as it orbits the Sun. In order to be in place for InSight's landing, the CubeSats have to travel roughly 53 million miles (85 million kilometers). They have already traveled 248 million miles (399 million kilometers).
MarCO-B's wide-angle camera looks straight out from the deck of the CubeSat. Parts related to the spacecraft's high-gain antenna are visible on either side of the image. Mars appears as a small red dot at the right of the image.
To take the image, the MarCO team had to program the CubeSat to rotate in space so that the deck of its boxy "body" was pointing at Mars. After several test images, they were excited to see that clear, red pinprick.
"We've been waiting six months to get to Mars," said Cody Colley, MarCO's mission manager at JPL. "The cruise phase of the mission is always difficult, so you take all the small wins when they come. Finally seeing the planet is definitely a big win for the team."µ
Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
By Marlowe HOOD Paris (AFP)
Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial life that emerged and flourished on Earth billions of years ago, researchers reported Monday.
In some locations, the amount of oxygen available could even keep alive a primitive, multicellular animal such as a sponge, they reported in the journal Nature Geosciences.
"We discovered that brines" -- water with high concentrations of salt -- "on Mars can contain enough oxygen for microbes to breathe," said lead author Vlada Stamenkovic, a theoretical physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
"This fully revolutionises our understanding of the potential for life on Mars, today and in the past," he told AFP.
Up to now, it had been assumed that the trace amounts of oxygen on Mars were insufficient to sustain even microbial life.
"We never thought that oxygen could play a role for life on Mars due to its rarity in the atmosphere, about 0.14 percent," Stamenkovic said.
By comparison, the life-giving gas makes up 21 percent of the air we breathe.
On Earth, aerobic -- that is, oxygen breathing -- life forms evolved together with photosynthesis, which converts CO2 into O2. The gas played a critical role in the emergence of complex life, notable after the so-called Great Oxygenation Event some 2.35 billion years ago.
But our planet also harbours microbes -- at the bottom of the ocean, in boiling hotsprings -- that subsist in environments deprived of oxygen.
"That's why -- whenever we thought of life on Mars -- we studied the potential for anaerobic life," Stamenkovic.
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The new study began with the discovery by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover of manganese oxides, which are chemical compounds that can only be produced with a lot of oxygen.
Curiosity, along with Mars orbiters, also established the presence of brine deposits, with notable variations in the elements they contained.
A high salt content allows for water to remain liquid -- a necessary condition for oxygen to be dissolved -- at much lower temperatures, making brines a happy place for microbes.
Depending on the region, season and time of day, temperatures on the Red Planet can vary between minus 195 and 20 degrees Celsius (minus 319 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit).
The researchers devised a first model to describe how oxygen dissolves in salty water at temperatures below freezing.
A second model estimated climate changes on Mars over the last 20 million years, and over the next 10 million years.
Taken together, the calculations showed which regions on the Red Planet are most likely to produce brine-based oxygen, data that could help determine the placement of future probes.
"Oxygen concentrations [on Mars] are orders of magnitude" -- several hundred times -- "greater than needed by aerobic, or oxygen-breathing -- microbes," the study concluded.
"Our results do not imply that there is life on Mars," Stamenkovic cautioned. "But they show that the Martian habitability is affected by the potential of dissolved oxygen."µµ
An 'octomite', or a speculative alien produced by natural selection.
Courtesy Helen Cooper/Cambridge University
What would convince you that aliens existed? The question came up recently at a conference on astrobiology, held at Stanford University in California. Several ideas were tossed around – unusual gases in a planet’s atmosphere, strange heat gradients on its surface. But none felt persuasive. Finally, one scientist offered the solution: a photograph. There was some laughter and a murmur of approval from the audience of researchers: yes, a photo of an alien would be convincing evidence, the holy grail of proof that we’re not alone.
But why would a picture be so convincing? What is it that we’d see that would tell us we weren’t just looking at another pile of rocks? An alien on a planet orbiting a distant star would be wildly exotic, perhaps unimaginably so. What, then, would give it away as life? The answer is relevant to our search for extraterrestrials, and what we might expect to find.
Astrobiology – the study of life on other planets – has grown from a fringe sub-discipline of biology, chemistry and astronomy to a leading interdisciplinary field, attracting researchers from top institutions across the globe, and large sums of money from both NASA and private funders. But what exactly is it that astrobiologists are looking for? How will we know when it’s time to pop the Champagne?
One thing that sets life apart from nonlife is its apparent design. Living things, from the simplest bacteria to the great redwoods, have vast numbers of intricate parts working together to make the organism function. Think of your hands, heart, spleen, mitochondria, cilia, neurons, toenails – all collaborating in synchrony to help you navigate, eat, think and survive. The most beautiful natural rock formations lack even a tiny fraction of the myriad parts of a single bacterial cell that coordinate to help it divide and reproduce.
And living things, unlike dirt and wind, appear to be trying to do things – eat, grow, survive, reproduce. If you’ve ever tried to squish a resilient bug, you know that it doesn’t require a complex mind for an organism to appear to want to survive. Or for a squirrel to ‘want’ to jump from one branch to the next. Or for a plant to ‘try’ to reach towards the Sun and soak up nutrients from the soil. Not only do living things have many intricate parts, but all of those parts have the same, common purpose – survival and reproduction. This combination of complex design and apparent purpose, also known as adaptedness, defines life. When we look at that photo of an alien, it’s exactly this adaptedness that would make us go: ‘Aha!’ We would see, clearly, the difference between a disappointing pile of rocks and an exciting alien – design. This is good news, because there’s only one way to get such design: natural selection.
Scene from a desert planet: a panoramic view of the Payson outcrop near the Opportunity rover’s landing site. With its ocean long gone, Mars may yet have liquid reservoirs underground, and spacecraft have seen signs of surface flows. Life, if it ever existed, most likely followed the water.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS/Cornell)
Natural selection occurs whenever you have a collection of things (cells, replicators, birds, an imaginary species we’ll call ‘Glipgloops’) that have three properties: variation, heredity and differential success. For example, some of the Glipgloops we posited have longer eyestalks than others (variation). Long-eyestalked Glipgloops have long-eyestalked babies (inheritance of the variation). And Glipgloops with long eyestalks can see out of their methane holes better and therefore have more babies (differential success linked to that variation). The result is that, over time, Glipgloops evolve to have elongated eyestalks.
This is the process by which the apparent design in nature is generated: in every generation, at every instant, individuals with traits linked to better reproduction are being ‘selected’. As a result, over time, populations consist of individuals who appear designed for the purpose of reproducing. It’s exactly because the selection criterion is always the same that design can develop. Imagine a car that was constructed using a different blueprint at every step – well, you likely wouldn’t end up with a car. It’s natural selection’s unwavering mantra – the contribution of genes to future generations – that allows for design to appear without a designer.
In fact, the selection criterion is so consistent, that an organism cannot be designed for anything other than contributing genes to future generations. This is why we don’t get organisms who sacrifice for the good of their species. In general, organisms are selfish – reproducing yourself at the expense of others is a great way to pass on genes. We do sometimes see sacrifice and cooperation in nature – but only when the benefits of cooperation come back to you, or the sacrifice benefits relatives. Relatives share genes, so a bee can sacrifice for the queen (its mother), if it means she’ll produce 100 more sisters, each carrying half the bee’s genes. The calculus of which traits lead to more genes, and exactly when and how much to sacrifice, is precise and rigid. This is why evolutionary biologists can make mathematical models that correctly predict how many helpers a bird should allow at her nest, and how often wasps should cannibalise their siblings. But this algorithmic rigidity of natural selection also comes in handy for the astrobiologist.
Curiosity’s study of a formation called Whale Rock revealed evidence of flowing water, one of the main clues scientists look for to assess whether a site was once habitable.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Athread should be revealing itself: life is special because of its apparent design. The only way to get design without a designer is natural selection. Therefore, aliens must be the product of natural selection. And natural selection follows certain rules, and can produce only certain kinds of organisms. Thus, astrobiologists can use the theory of natural selection, and the mathematics of evolution, to make predictions about aliens.
Are there exceptions? We can’t get complex life, even something as simple as a bacterium, without natural selection. Even a postorganic, computer-based alien would ultimately be the product of a product of natural selection. But let’s consider a borderline case. Imagine a collection of replicating molecules, like tiny naked genes, on an alien planet. If these replicators made copies of themselves (inheritance), but replicated perfectly every time (no variation or differential success), you wouldn’t get natural selection.
Would this be life? Maybe, but it wouldn’t be very exciting. For one, without variation, the molecules can never change, or become more adapted, or evolve into anything more interesting or complex. Finding bacteria or bears on a distant planet would suggest that the universe might be teeming with life of all shapes and sizes. These replicators wouldn’t suggest anything. Even more problematic, their existence would likely be fleeting – without natural selection, they wouldn’t be able to cope with changes on their planet, and so would disappear before we found them.
The argument from natural selection is robust, even at the boundaries. This frees us up to use the same evolutionary tools we use on Earth to make predictions about life elsewhere.
Previous work in astrobiology has extrapolated from what’s happened on Earth, potentially limiting our vision to certain special features, such as DNA or carbon-based life, that won’t hold on other planets. Natural selection, on the other hand, is universal. It doesn’t depend on DNA (remember, Charles Darwin knew nothing of genes) or carbon chemistry or the presence of water. It’s incredibly simple – it just requires a few ingredients – and it’s the only way to generate life.
A mental image of that prized photo, showing entities apparently designed to fit their surroundings, is beginning to form. We can’t say whether the grainy picture of the alien will have eyes, or limbs, or be green. That’s not the kind of prediction good evolutionary theory can make. But natural selection tells us that its forms, goals and evolutionary pathways are constrained.
One example posed by our team in the sketch above is what we playfully call ‘the octomite’ – a conglomerate of once-separate entities now working together to survive, reproduce and evolve. How would we recognise an alien? It would include a hierarchy of entities, with the interests of each lower level aligned with components in levels above. The photo we envision would show division of labour, with various parts specialising in various tasks in a mutually dependent way.
This work of incorporating evolutionary theory into our astrobiological toolkit is only just beginning. What else can Darwin tell us about aliens? Presumably quite a lot. The photo, if and when it comes, will be something entirely exotic to the naked eye. But to the student of evolutionary biology, it might look surprisingly familiar.
More evidence of water on Mars: Close-up views show features like those left on Earth after water evaporates.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
In 1996, even closer microscopic views inside a Martian meteorite led to claims of fossil life—which today are mostly discounted.
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Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua's Surprise Arrival Still Thrills Scientists One Year Later
Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua's Surprise Arrival Still Thrills Scientists One Year Later
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of 'Oumuamua, the first known interstellar asteroid.
Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO
A year ago, astronomers spotted a strange object barreling through our solar system on a very weird path — the first discovery of an interstellar object, now called 'Oumuamua, which means "messenger from afar" in Hawaiian.
During the abrupt flyby, scientists made frantic observations of the object before it passed out of range of even the most-powerful telescopes. Ever since then, 'Oumuamua has provided scientists a seemingly endless supply of questions, with most answers still very much up in the air.
Astronomers got their first glimpse of 'Oumuamua on Oct. 19, 2017, through the Pan-STARRS1 telescope based in Hawaii, which is fine-tuned to catch temporary phenomena like passing comets. Right away, scientists knew this wasn't your average comet; its path was way too strange. They'd caught sight of the object on its way out of our solar system, so scientists are still trying to figure out where its journey began. ['Oumuamua: The Solar System's 1st Interstellar Visitor Explained in Photos]
'Oumuamua has also endured a bit of an identity crisis during its first year in the scientific literature. At first, astronomers thought it was a comet. Then, they realized there was no cloud of gas and dust enveloping the object, so they reclassified it as an asteroid. But that proved problematic when they realized it was moving faster than an asteroid ought to be, as if getting a little boost of speed from volatile materials evaporating off its surface, like those that form a comet's surrounding cloud.
Another puzzle is the object's strange shape: long and thin, something like six times longer than it is wide. That's unlike most cosmic objects, which are generally lumps. It's also spinning strangely, tumbling end over end like a stick tossed for a cosmic dog. Some of the hypotheses to explain that elongated shape are that 'Oumuamua had a messy run-in with an asteroid or that the incredible gravitational pull of a giant planet stretched the object.
Because they can't gather any more data about 'Oumuamua, scientists have turned their attention to spotting another such interstellar visitor, hoping to find one sooner rather than later. (Researchers have said the objects should be pretty common, and scientists had in fact been waiting for a flyby like 'Oumuamua's for decades.)
But regardless of the mysteries scientists may never be able to solve with the observations they did gather in time, one thing about 'Oumuamua is nearly certain: It's not an alien spaceship broadcasting back to its creators. Yes, they checked.
Salty Martian Water Could Have Enough Oxygen to Support Life
Salty Martian Water Could Have Enough Oxygen to Support Life
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Pockets of salty water just beneath the Martian surface may contain enough oxygen to support life — in some places, even complex multicellular life such as sponges, a new study suggests.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Salty water buried just beneath the Martian surface could have enough dissolved oxygen to support microbes, and perhaps even simple animal life such as sponges in some places, a new study suggests.
This surprising conclusion could help reshape scientists' understanding of the Red Planet's habitability, both past and present, study team members said.
"We live in exciting times," said lead author Vlada Stamenković, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "Especially as there is so much more work still needed to better understand the Martian habitability, I hope this creates excitement in the [scientific] community, in the world, to think of Mars as a potential place for life to exist maybe even today." [The Search for Life on Mars (A Photo Timeline)]
Water underground
Water flowed liberally across Mars' red dirt in the ancient past, as observations by spacecraft such as NASA's Viking orbiters, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Curiosity, Spirit and Opportunity rovers have shown. Indeed, many scientists think the Red Planet even featured oceans billions of years ago.
This surface water disappeared long ago, after Mars lost most of its atmosphere and transitioned to the cold, dry world that we know today. But researchers believe that some wet stuff probably persists underground to this day — in deeply buried aquifers as well as in salty brine pockets, some of which may lie just below the surface.
For example, some scientists think the seasonal Martian dark streaks known as recurring slope lineae are caused by the escape of such brines, which can remain liquid at much lower temperatures than "pure" water because of their salt content.
The dark streaks on some Martian slopes known as recurring slope lineae — imaged here by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — may be caused by salty liquid water, some scientists think. The Red Planet could have pockets of oxygen-rich brines just below its surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Stamenković and his colleagues modeled the oxygen-harboring potential of near-surface brine reservoirs, calculating how much dissolved O2 they could contain at various locales around the Martian globe.
This an interesting astrobiological question. Life as we know it doesn't necessarily need oxygen; the earliest Earth organisms were anaerobic, after all, as is a huge chunk of the planet's modern microbial diversity. But oxygen is such a rich energy source that its availability makes possible many interesting evolutionary pathways, such as the rise of complex plant and animal life. (Nearly all known multicellular species here on Earth breathe oxygen in some fashion.)
The researchers found that Martian brines could hold a lot of oxygen — enough to support aerobic microbial life pretty much everywhere, if the requirements of these hypothetical Mars bugs mirror those of Earth. And the models showed that dissolved-oxygen capacity varies greatly both over time and from place to place, because it depends on temperature and, to a lesser extent, pressure. (The temporal variation is tied to shifts in Mars' obliquity — the tilt of its axis of rotation.)
Colder temperatures promote greater oxygen entry into brines. So, especially frigid pockets near the Martian poles could potentially be oxygen-rich enough to support complex multicellular organisms such as sponges, the researchers determined. Such "aerobic oases" may be common today above 67.5 degrees north latitude and below 72.5 degrees south latitude. [Photos: The Search for Water on Mars]
Astrobiologists therefore shouldn't turn their noses up at extremely cold environments just because relatively warm ones tend to be better for life as we know it here on Earth, Stamenković said.
"Each environment has its own pros and cons," he told Space.com.
Spurring the search
There is some observational evidence to back up the new modeling results, study team members said. For example, the Curiosity rover has spotted manganese oxides during its exploration of Mars' 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater.
It takes a lot of dissolved oxygen to produce these minerals, Stamenković said. Here on Earth, he added, manganese oxides formed only after O2 began persisting in the atmosphere about 2.5 billion years ago — a milestone known as the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE).
"Our model says that [manganese oxide formation] is possible to occur on Mars, because of the briny environment and the low temperatures," Stamenković said.
The GOE was tied to the rise of oxygenic photosynthesis, which produces virtually all of the oxygen in Earth's air today. There's only a small amount of abiotically produced oxygen in Mars' air, but that doesn't mean that none of the stuff can make it into buried brines. For instance, in addition to the trace atmospheric oxygen, radiation emitted by radioactive elements in Martian rocks could split water molecules into their constituent hydrogen and oxygen, Stamenković said.
Indeed, radiolysis and/or other processes may have been important players for nearly all of the Red Planet's history, raising the possibility that Mars life — if it ever arose — has had access to energy-rich oxygen for billions of years. And the same may be true on other worlds with chilly habitable environments, such as the buried-ocean moons Europa and Enceladus (which orbit Jupiter and Saturn, respectively), Stamenković said.
"There are so many abiotic ways of creating small but sufficient amounts of oxygen which then, at the colder temperatures, can be absorbed effectively, and could actually maybe trigger evolution in a different way than we got on the Earth," he said. "This is all hypothetical, but worth exploring."
Both NASA and the European Space Agency (in partnership with Russia) aim to launch life-hunting rovers toward Mars in 2020. But both of those robots will be hunting for signs of past life. The last, and so far only, spacecraft to look for present-day Red Planet organisms on the Martian surface were NASA's twin Viking 1 and Viking 2 landers, which touched down in 1976.
Stamenković would like for that to change, and he said he hopes the new study — which was published online today (Oct. 22) in the journal Nature Geoscience — provides a little momentum in that direction.
"There is still so much about the Martian habitability that we do not understand, and it's long overdue to send another mission that tackles the question of subsurface water and potential extant life on Mars, and looks for these signals," he said.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13 by Grand Central Publishing. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall.
In its current form, Mars isn’t the best place to host life — but some of its subsurface oases may be pretty welcoming, a new study reports.
Credits: NASA.
In order to sustain life, a planet (or any celestial body) must fulfill quite a lot of conditions. You need sufficient gravitational pull, an atmosphere with a specific chemical makeup, a Goldilocks temperature — and that’s just the start of it. All in all, the stars need to align just right to provide the necessary conditions for life to evolve.
Mars definitely fulfills some of those requirements. It’s a rocky planet, lies at a reasonable distance from its star, and shows signs of hosting water. Its atmosphere, however, isn’t conducive to life as we know it. Aside from being very thin (just 6% the density of Earth’s atmosphere on average), it comprises 96% carbon dioxide and only contains traces of free oxygen. Due to the scarcity of oxygen, Mars has been assumed to be incapable of producing environments with sufficiently large concentrations of O2 to support aerobic respiration, researchers write in a new study.
However, there are some places where Mars could, in fact, host life: underground. But the story isn’t that straight-forward.
Here on Earth, oxygen and life go hand in hand. Photosynthesis evolved at least 2.3 billion years ago, and aerobic (or oxygen-breathing) life evolved with it. We haven’t seen any sign of that on Mars, however. Furthermore, life requires liquid water — and with an average surface temperature of -81 degrees Fahrenheit (-63 Celsius), liquid water is a scarce commodity on the red planet. There’s no clear evidence that liquid water exists (or could exist) on Mars’ surface, but there are some hints that liquid water could exist underground, in the form of brine (very salty water).
Water mixed with salt freezes at lower temperatures than freshwater. While pure water will freeze at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 Celsius), salty water will still be liquid at that temperature. But salt also reduces the amount of oxygen that water can store, while low temperatures increase the amount of oxygen. So salt, temperature, and oxygen are trapped in a constant push and tow.
To study this dance, Vlada Stamenković and colleagues calculated how much molecular oxygen could be dissolved in subsurface Martian liquid brines. They found that molecular oxygen concentrations are particularly high in the polar regions, and remarkably, some of them could even contain enough oxygen to support aerobic life.
These findings also fit with surface observations, particularly oxidized rocks observed by rovers exploring Mars’ surface.
“That’s the thing of habitability; we never thought that environment could have that much oxygen,” saysStamenković, a planetary scientist and physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
This completely changes our understanding of the potential for life on current-day Mars, he adds. Of course, it doesn’t mean that there is life on Mars — but the fact that could be is already pretty exciting.
The study has been published in Nature Geoscience.
NASADe rechthoekige ijsplaat: een geheime militaire basis, of een gril van Moeder Natuur?
MILIEUWetenschappers van NASA hebben op de zuidpool een opmerkelijk fenomeen gespot. Tussen een chaotische wirwar van drijvend ijs, zagen ze plots een perfect rechthoekige ijsberg drijven. Een geheime militaire basis, of een gril van Moeder Natuur?
De natuur is vaak rommelig, onregelmatig en asymmetrisch. Rechte vormen en hoeken van 90 graden zijn eerder zeldzaam. Toch is deze plateauvormige ijsberg volkomen natuurlijk. De foto werd gemaakt tijdens NASA’s IceBridge-project. Daarbij worden de poolgebieden jaarlijks vanuit de lucht gefotografeerd en in kaart gebracht om te zien hoe de gigantische ijsplaten en het zee-ijs zich door de jaren heen ontwikkelen.
Dat de ijsplaat zo mooi afgelijnd is, komt niet omdat iemand het ijs heeft zitten snoeien. “Wellicht is ze nog maar recent afgebroken van een groter geheel”, vertelt Kelly Brunt van de universiteit van Maryland. “Onder invloed van de wind en de zee zal het strakke lijnenspel van deze plaat snel minder scherpe vormen aannemen.” De grootte van de plaat is niet gemeten en is alleen op basis van een foto moeilijk in te schatten, maar Brunt vermoedt dat ze minstens 1,6 kilometer breed is.
If it looks like a volcanic eruption and acts like a volcanic eruption, is it a volcanic eruption … even if it’s on Mars, which hasn’t had an eruption at this particular volcano in at least 50 million years and hasn’t had a lava flow anywhere in at least 2 million years? That question is currently being hotly debated by astronomers and conspiracy theorists after many people looking at recent pictures from the European Space Agency’s Mars webcam on board its Mars Express orbiter spotted what looks like a volcanic plume over Arsia Mons, a volcano on the Tharsis bulge near the Martian equator. Is it a volcano or is it something else? Is it being covered up or is it something else?
Let’s start by saying that no one questions that something DID happen on Mars over the Arsia Mons volcano and it WAS photographed by the webcam on the ESA’s Mars Express orbiter. The pictures being referenced appear to be from 9-5-2018 to 10-20-2018. Further investigation by Forbes found that NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey mission also picked up clouds over Arsia Mons in September 2018. Those photos didn’t cause the same controversy in the conspiracy community since the looked more like fog than a volcanic plume.
Photo of plume
(ESA)
Speaking of the conspiracy community, multiplesites picked up the photographs, called it a volcanic eruption and speculated it was being covered up with their evidence being the recent shutdown of the solar observatory in New Mexico, shutdowns of other observatories and the conspiracy theorists’ inherent distrust of NASA. Those shutdowns have been explained (the one in New Mexico was due to a criminal investigation and possible threats) and one wonders why a ‘solar’ observatory would be shut down over a Martian eruption. The answer is point three – they don’t trust NASA.
For those who do trust NASA, at least occasionally, it sent Tanya Harrison, Director of Research for Arizona State University’s Space Technology and Science Initiative and a Science Team Collaborator on the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity, to Twitter to explain the plume.
“It’s not a plume of smoke, but rather water ice clouds condensing out over the summit of the Arsia Mons volcano. We see them quite often over this particular volcano.”
She also showed another view of the Arsia Mons from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in October showing ice clouds and explained further:
“We see these clouds hang out over the summit of Arsia for weeks at a time during this time of year, every year. It’s a combination of its high elevation and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere at this time of year causing the clouds to form.”
Another view of Arsia Mons couds
(NASA)
A report about the plume in Forbes agrees with Harrison, referencing similar plumes in 2015 and a 2005 study in the Journal of Geophysical Research about “persistent water ice clouds on the flanks of Arsia Mons Volcano.” Jacob Richardson, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, gives the accepted volcanic history of Arsia Mons in a 2017 study:
“We estimate that the peak activity for the volcanic field at the summit of Arsia Mons probably occurred approximately 150 million years ago—the late Jurassic period on Earth—and then died out around the same time as Earth’s dinosaurs. It’s possible, though, that the last volcanic vent or two might have been active in the past 50 million years, which is very recent in geological terms.”
And yet … the distrust of all things NASA leads to the current questioning of all things Arsia Mons. Perhaps the real question we should be asking is this: if this truly is the first recorded volcanic eruption on Mars in 50 million years, wouldn’t NASA and the ESA be shouting just as loudly … not to mention fighting over whose discovery it was?
One of the strangest cases in my files comes from a woman who, back in the 1990s, had a series of experiences that left her seriously ill, and which took her several months to fully recover from. Alison, of Texas was seventeen when, in late 1998, she began to feel ill. The first symptom was a rapid loss of weight: around ten pounds in less than a month – which is definitely not a good thing. Given her age at the time, it’s perhaps not unreasonable that Alison’s mother tactfully asked if all was okay with her. When her mother brought up the issue of her weight loss, Alison became noticeably defensive, but denied that she had anorexia or bulimia.
Nothing more was said: Alison continued to have a healthy appetite, despite continuing to steadily lose weight. It was around ten days later, however, that Alison’s mother became deeply worried: early on a Sunday morning Alison screamed for her mother, who quickly came running to her bedroom. To her horror, she saw Alison laying on the bed, her face deathly pale. When her mother tried to help Alison to sit upright, Alison’s eyes rolled into her head and she fainted. Luckily, the pair lived only a few minutes’ from the local hospital and so Alison’s mother got her into the car and raced to the emergency room. In no time, she was being examined.
As Alison – who regained consciousness in the car, but who felt weak and dizzy – rested, a doctor asked her mother about Alison’s general health. She explained that Alison had lost a lot of weight in the last few weeks. Maybe not surprisingly, the doctor too asked questions about anorexia and bulimia. When Alison recovered, the pair left the hospital, with the doctor suggesting to Alison’s mother that she keep a very close eye on her daughter, and – if she had any more fainting spells – to take her to their regular doctor. They were wise words: Alison fell sick on three more occasions, and as her weight began to plummet: a final total of approximately twenty pounds in around six weeks. She was admitted to hospital and watched very carefully.
Tests showed that, physically, Alison was exhibiting all the physical signs associated with early anorexia. But, there was always someone with her when she ate her meals in her hospital room – and at home, too. In fact, she was eating eagerly. On top of that, Alison’s mother sat with her for hours after eating each meal – on the suggestion of one of the doctors, to make sure she didn’t make herself ill, bulimia-style, by vomiting up her meals. Further tests were run but no answers were to be found. At least, not by conventional medicine.
At the height of her illness, when Alison even started to take on a jaundiced look, she confided in her mother that there was something she had not told her – or the doctors. Alison’s mother feared, initially, that her daughter was going to say she had been using and abusing hard drugs. But, no. Alison said that four or five days before she began losing weight, she woke in the dead of night to see a pale-faced woman, attired in a long and black, hooded robe, standing next to the bed. The woman was very tall – around six-foot-three or –four. Her skin was white, and her eyes were staring and bulging. Alison found herself unable to move as the woman closed in on her, looming over the bed as Alison struggled to move. The woman gave a loud, satisfying groan at the very same time that Alison suddenly felt ill and cold. The woman retreated into the darkness of the bedroom and vanished.
Alison put the whole thing to a bad dream – and told her mother that she didn’t think any more about it. That is, until the pale hag returned the next night, and the next night, and…well, you get the picture. Alison’s mother listened, in fear and dread, as her daughter told her how, every night for weeks, the woman appeared in the bedroom. And, all the time, Alison was getting sicker and thinner. Alison even claimed to have seen the woman in her hospital room – as if, said Alison, the Woman in Black knew where she was at all times. Alison confided one other thing in her mother: four or five nights before the woman first appeared, Alison and two of her friends had been playing with an old Ouija-board. Alison’s mother was more terrified than she was angry – after all, she only wanted to get her daughter well, not pass judgment when she was severely ill.
As luck, or fate, would have it, Alison’s mother had a friend, Jennifer, who worked in the field of alternative medicine and who also had deep knowledge of the world of the supernatural. Jennifer agreed to perform a cleansing of not just the family home, but also of Alison herself. Since the pale, supernatural woman only ever appeared at night, Jennifer said it would be a good idea for her to sit in the bedroom while Alison slept – to ensure that if the woman did appear she would be ready to deal with her.
Jennifer arrived the following evening, armed to the teeth with just about everything she needed to ensure that the evil entity in the home would be banished for good. Jennifer’s weapons included sea salt – which is said to have the ability to prevent supernatural creatures from crossing certain thresholds, including doorways to rooms. So, Jennifer scattered more than liberal amounts of sea salt at the front- and back-doors of the home, in front of Alison’s bedroom, and across the window-sill in her room. That was followed by the use of sage. Traditionally, and for centuries, sage has been seen as both a powerful protector and a cleanser. So, Jennifer did what she does best: she performed a lengthy cleansing program that went on for several hours, and ensuring that the smoke reached all corners of the home. Then, it was a case of watching and waiting.
Alison’s mother stayed in the living-room, at the suggestion of Jennifer – who sat by Alison’s bed, ready for just about anything. The black-garbed woman did not put in an appearance, but there were two inexplicable things that did happen that night: Alison’s bedroom was briefly filled with an odor like rotting meat, and, for a few moments, rapid scratching noises were heard on the walls of the bedroom. Alison and Jennifer held hands tightly, and prayed that the hideous thing would leave – and leave now. By all accounts, the rituals worked. The eerie woman was never seen again and over the course of five or six weeks Alison’s health returned to normal. Today, and now in her late thirties, Alison is convinced that whatever the woman was, she was feeding on her, something which led to the weight loss and anorexia-like side-effects and symptoms. To this day, Alison keeps both sea salt and sage in her home – which, today, is in Arizona.
If you’ve seen the movie “Titanic,” you know that icebergs are not ice cubes. Apparently, Netflix isn’t available in Antarctica because a plane operated by NASA to scan the ice photographed a berg that looks more like a tombstone or a sheet cake or a frozen Christmas present … in other words, it’s nothing like a chunk of the Larsen C ice shelf it broke off of. Is it real or are the scientists stationed in Antarctica killing time with picks, chainsaws and tape measures?
The iceberg suspected of sinking the Titanic
“What makes this one a bit unusual is that it looks almost like a square.”
In an interview with LiveScience, Kelly Brunt, an ice scientist with NASA and at the University of Maryland, described the block of ice spotted by a plane belonging to NASA’s Operation IceBridge fleet – a project whose purpose is to measure annual changes in the thickness of Antarctica’s ice and glaciers in order to predict future break-offs and meltings caused by climate change. The planes give a closer and quicker look at these occurrences than the IceSat satellites. Should we be worried that the ice is suddenly breaking off in such neat and precise rectangular cuboid bergs?
“We get two types of icebergs: We get the type that everyone can envision in their head that sank the Titanic, and they look like prisms or triangles at the surface and you know they have a crazy subsurface. And then you have what are called ‘tabular icebergs.'”
Despite the predictable Internet panic when NASA posted photos on its NASA ICE #IceBridge Twitter feed, Kelly assures the masses that this mass is rare but normal. For the non-scientists (much appreciated, Kelly), she likens the cuboid iceberg calving process to a long fingernail that cracks off with a clean, straight edge on at least three sides. Also like a fingernail, the tabular iceberg is much wider than it is thick. This one is a mile across and, while it probably looks like a fun place for Antarctic scientists to blow off frozen steam playing mobile hockey, she warns that it’s unstable and moving away from the Larsen C ice shelf into the Weddell Sea.
Drawing of a NASA IceBridge plane
(NASA)
That explanation sounds believable despite the dubious comments on various websites that it’s was actually caused by aliens, secret experiments or bored scientists. Whatever the case, let’s hope funding continues for cryospheric (ice-related) research projects like NASA ICE and Operation IceBridge. It may not be disaster movie-worthy but it’s critical to predicting how many of us will be underwater in a few years.
Last week, I was on Dave Schrader’s Darkness Radio show. Although the show was on alien abductions, we also touched on the matter of the Black Eyed Children. Dave asked me about some of the stranger and creepier BEC accounts I have in my files – which amount to quite a few. We discussed several such cases, but there’s one which I didn’t touch on, and that is one of the weirdest of all.. It’s the account of a man named Martin, who lives just outside of Tecumseh, Oklahoma. Martin’s encounter with a pair of Black Eyed Children went down in March 2011. Fortunately, I was able to interview Martin personally just a few weeks after his experience. Martin was at home alone when he had just about the worst encounter was possible.
In terms of Martin’s encounter, it occurred two days after he returned home. As a truck-driver, he had been on the road for two weeks and was looking forward to a few days of relaxation and fun. He got neither. On his first night back, Martin planned on watching a bunch of shows he had recorded while he was away on the road. The evening began in completely normal fashion: he made himself a big sandwich, cracked open a cold beer and watched his shows. Normality was about to go out of the window. Around 8:30 p.m., there was that knock on the door, the kind of which so many witnesses to the BEC have now experienced, but surely wished they hadn’t. Martin didn’t even bother looking through the spy-hole: he assumed it was his immediate neighbor, Rex, who would take in any packages from the likes of UPS, Amazon and FedEx that might have been left on Martin’s doorstep while he was away. Sadly for Martin, as he opened the door, he instantly realized it was not Rex.
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. Hardly a fan of the supernatural, Martin had never heard of the BEC phenomenon and could only stand and stare at their curious faces, assuming at first that this was some kind of joke. But, the Black-Eyed Children were certainly not laughing. They stood together, hand in hand, looking at Martin with expressions on their faces that were, paradoxically, lacking in emotion but which also gave off airs of highly charged malevolence.
Echoing Brian Bethel’s encounter back in the 1990s (which largely began the BEC phenomenon and debate) , 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.
The girl repeated: “We need to eat. May we come in?” Martin said that he recalls her words accurately, and he felt that the girl’s use of the term “may we?” (instead of “can we?”) sounded like “how people talked way back.” There is one missing portion from Martin’s story: he cannot recall how the pair got into his house. He recalls inviting them in – “it felt like I said it in a dream” – but, the next thing he remembers is seeing the pair standing in front of him, while he was sat on his living-room couch. The girl said just one word: “eat.”
At that point, Martin suddenly felt deathly ill. It was, he said, as if he “hadn’t eaten in days.” He explained that it was as if he himself was suddenly starving, but it was the children who needed to eat. The pair stared intently at Martin, who found himself getting weaker and weaker. And weaker still. “Crashing” might be a more ideal term to use: Martin found himself barely able to move. Not because he was being prevented from moving, but because physically-speaking he simply did not have the energy to even stand up. It was, Martin said, as if he was himself being eaten alive by the paranormal pair of ghoulish things in his midst.
After a few minutes, both the girl and the boy turned and left, still holding hands. Martin finally managed to crawl to his bedroom, where he lapsed into a deep sleep. He did not wake until well into the following afternoon. For the next three four or days, the overwhelming weakness – made worse by bouts of dizziness and a bad taste in his mouth – kept him in his bed. It was almost a week later before he finally felt fully back to normal. While Martin has no idea as to what the BEC were or are, he believes they were not human and, somehow, had drained him of energy.
UFO Probe Seen Flying Over Wild Pigs In Texas On Animal Cam, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Probe Seen Flying Over Wild Pigs In Texas On Animal Cam, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 1-1-2011, but reported today. Location of sighting: Texas, USA Source: Mufon #95803 Animal cams are awesome at catching fast glimpses into nature, but the fact that they also record in infrared makes it even more special, because the human eye cannot see in infrared without the technology. Here a donut shaped UFO is flying over a pig and the UFO clearly is round with a large hole inside of it. That donut shape does not fit any insect, bat, bird or animal known to man. Therefore it is a UFO. Small UFO probes often are used to come closer to the ground so that the chances of being seen are much smaller. Also they are sent to observe, record and learn about life on Earth...all life, not just us boring humans. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Lights seen over deer feeder shot beams down to the ground at some javelinas feeding.
The strange craft was seen moving over thew sky of Mexico City, and several people captured the sight on video.
As the UFO moves through the air, a few hundred metres off the ground, it emanates a blurry field which is commonly reported from alien enthusiasts.
Many believe this latest sighting is strong evidence of the existence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth and, had the camera quality been better, it “would be definitive proof of the existence of aliens”.
The video was originally captured by a YouTube user known as Carlos Sanchez, but was quickly picked up by conspiracy theorists around the internet.
Prominent UFO hunter Scott C Waring who believes it is a genuine sighting of an alien spaceship.
Mr Waring writes for his blog UFO Sightings Daily: “This dark craft came right out into the open and was seen when a worker came outside for his break.
“The UFO tilted some as it moved, which is what many UFOs do in order to control their direction.
“Just sad he had such a bad camera. Looks like he is using an old phone to record it.
UFO seen in clear daylight over Mexico is PROOF of aliens - shock claim
(Image: GETTY • YOUTUBE)
“Had it been an iPhone 7-8 this video would be definitive proof of the existence of aliens.
“I also notice that there is a blurry field around it, just as thousands of UFO reports also describe.”
Mexico is a hotspot for UFO sightings.
Earlier this year, a video showing a smoking crater next to a motorway lead to speculation it could be a UFO crash site.
The strange craft was seen moving over thew sky of Mexico City
(Image: YOUTUBE)
The huge 26 feet across burning pit was filmed by shocked onlookers as a thick mist rose into the air by the Torreón to Saltillo highway in the state of Coahuila in north east Mexico.
The pit was said to be as deep as it was wide and, according to reports, no evidence has been found as to what caused it.
Online theories have ranged from a crashed spaceship or a meteor falling to Earth.
One YouTube poster said: "Looks like a UFO landed and took off before anyone could see, leaving a crater.”
HERE’S WHAT EXPERTS THINK OF STEPHEN HAWKING’S POSTHUMOUS PREDICTIONS ABOUT AI, GENE HACKING, AND RELIGION
HERE’S WHAT EXPERTS THINK OF STEPHEN HAWKING’S POSTHUMOUS PREDICTIONS ABOUT AI, GENE HACKING, AND RELIGION
Hawking Claims
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking passed away earlier this year, but his final book, “Brief Answers to the Big Questions,” only came out this week.
In it, Hawking makes a number of bold claims about the future of gene editing, artificial intelligence, and even religion. Here’s how experts evaluate his predictions.
Superhuman Overlords
Hawking raised eyebrows when he claimed that powerful people will hack their genes to become smarter, stronger, and longer-lived. Eventually, he writes in his new book, the rest of us will “die out, or become unimportant.”
Many geneticists already see this as inevitable. Some fear that people will use CRISPR to edit their genes before the technology is deemed safe, so they advocate new laws to protect non-augmented humans.
“We’re probably going to need new international oversight structures, so that we don’t realize these dystopian ‘Brave New World’ examples,” said George Daley, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, at the International Summit on Human Genome Editing in 2015.
Killer AI
During his lifetime, Hawking was vocal about his fear of powerful AI. He reiterates his reservations in this book, writing that ignoring the threat of super-powerful AI could be humanity’s “worst mistake ever.” It could destroy us with weapons “we cannot even understand,” he wrote.
But others play it down. “[There’s] no reason right now to be worried about self-conscious AI algorithms that set their own goals and go crazy,” Stanford machine learning lecturer Richard Socher told Fortune. And a poll of AI researchers found that most believe it will take at least 25 years to create an AI superintelligence — so at least we have a little time to prepare.
No Gods, No Masters
Hawking also came out swinging at religion in the book. “Belief in the afterlife is just wishful thinking,” he writes, adding that there’s “no possibility” of God.
Many scientists certainly agree with Hawking on this claim, though not all. A 2015 survey found that many researchers around the world are religious, but in most countries, scientists are by and large less religious than non-scientists.
The Next Battleground: What Do We Really Know About What Adversaries Do in Space?
The Next Battleground: What Do We Really Know About What Adversaries Do in Space?
By Sandra Erwin, SpaceNews Staff Writer
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As the Pentagon moves to stand up a U.S. Space Command and Congress debates whether it makes sense to create a Space Force, a central focus is to defend satellites from orbital weapons that would seek to damage or destroy U.S. assets in space.
Washington policymakers are gripped by the prospect of enemies shooting missiles or lasers at U.S. systems. But that is only a small piece of the puzzle, says Jeffrey Gossel, senior intelligence engineer at the Space and Missile Analysis Group of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center. [Trump's Space Force Plan Revealed by VP Mike Pence]
More attention should be paid to the larger space infrastructure that Russia and China are putting on orbit, Gossel argues. Many space systems are not weapons but still provide powerful capabilities for watching what the United States is doing and developing strategies to counter U.S. advantages.
"[A]s we think about space as a warfighting domain, it's not those weapons that are as important as what our enemies have on orbit," Gossel says during a recent Mitchell Institute event on Capitol Hill. His office is part of the intelligence community but supports the Defense Department. He anticipates that the future U.S. Space Command will be his largest customer.
"The sexy thing in Washington for years has been those offensive capabilities that our adversaries are building." Jeffrey Gossel, Space and Missile Analysis Group
His point is that if a military conflict extended into outer space, it's imperative the United States knows in precise detail the type of satellites and sensors that other countries have on orbit because those would be potential targets for the U.S. military.
'Know Everything About the Satellite'
The weapons "aren't the things that we are going to have to shoot down," Gossel says. "When we start to do military operations in space, the intelligence community has to spend more time looking at what enemies have on orbit in a forensic way, to understand everything about that satellite — the materials, the power source, every intricate little detail of the spacecraft, we need to know." [The Most Dangerous Space Weapons Concepts Ever]
"If we wanted to put a cyber effect, shoot a laser, you only want to cause a specific effect and you don't want anyone to know you did it, you need to know a lot about that satellite and sensors. From an intelligence perspective we have to concentrate more on those things, not on the guns they're shooting."
The U.S. government also should have a deeper understanding of what intelligence foreign powers are getting from space that they provide their military operators, such as signals intelligence, optical and radar imagery, Gossel says. "That's what's important. We want to keep them from having that data."
Gossel cautions that he was only speaking generically about space threats as the specifics are classified.
'What Can They See and Hear?'
"The order of battle for space is greatly increasing, it has tremendously increased over the last decade," he explains. Order of battle is military-speak for how many weapons platforms adversaries have at their disposal. What this means in space is that enemies might have co-orbital weapons to destroy satellites but of greater concern is their deployment of satellites that collect intelligence.
"We need to know what they can see and what they can hear," Gossel asserts.
Space was militarized decades ago but it wasn't until China tested a weapon that shot down its own satellite in 2007 that Gossel saw any reaction in D.C. That event began the conversation about the national security ramifications of other countries moving to challenge the United States is space. The Pentagon since then has increased spending on space systems and technologies to defend U.S. satellites. But Washington's focus on the use of weapons in space misses the larger picture. "We need to shift our thinking to what our adversaries have on orbit. Understanding that might be what we should spend our money on."
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Rocket Lab selects Wallops Flight Facility for US launch site
Rocket Lab selects Wallops Flight Facility for US launch site
by Staff Writers Wallops Island VA (SPX)
File image of Rocket Lab's current launch facility in New Zealand.
US orbital launch provider Rocket Lab has today confirmed it will build its first US launch pad for the Electron rocket at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, USA. The site will be Rocket Lab's second dedicated launch complex and builds on Rocket Lab's existing ability to launch up to 120 times annually from the world's only private launch site, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, in New Zealand.
Launch Complex 2 will be capable of supporting monthly orbital launches and is designed to serve US government and commercial missions. The site brings Rocket Lab's global launch availability across two launch complexes to more than 130 missions per year. The option to select from two launch sites adds an extra layer of flexibility for small satellite customers, offering an unmatched ability to rapidly deploy space-based assets with confidence and precision from a preferred location.
"Accessing space should be simple, seamless and tailored to our customers' missions - from idea to orbit. Launching from a second pad builds on Rocket Lab's ability to offer the small satellite industry unmatched schedule and launch location flexibility," said Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck.
"Having proven the Electron vehicle with a successful orbital launch this year, we're thrilled to expand on our ability to provide rapid, reliable and affordable access to orbit for small satellites.
"We've worked closely with the experienced and welcoming teams from Virginia Space and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops to design a pad and processes that will enable an agile and streamlined approach to small satellite launch on US soil," he added.
Rocket Lab will work with Virginia Space to construct dedicated pad infrastructure at the site, tailored to the Electron launch vehicle. In addition to the pad, Rocket Lab will develop a Launch Vehicle Integration and Assembly Facility in the Wallops Research Park to support the simultaneous integration of up to four Electron vehicles.
The facility will also contain a control room with connectivity to LC-2, as well as dedicated customer facilities. This new facility, combined with the purpose-built gantry located at LC-2, will provide significant and dedicated vehicle processing capability and flexibility to meet Rocket Lab's high launch cadence.
Through construction and day-to-day operations, Rocket Lab expects to create around 30 jobs immediately to directly support Launch Complex 2, with this number predicted to increase to approximately 100 as launch frequency increases. The development of Launch Complex 2 will also see Rocket Lab continue to expand Electron rocket production at the company's headquarters in Huntington Beach, California, to supply complete launch vehicles for government and commercial customers.
"We are honored to be Rocket Lab's selection for Launch Complex 2," stated Dale Nash, CEO and Executive Director of Virginia Space. "There is an incredible synergy between Virginia Space and Rocket Lab and we are proud to support their missions launching from U.S. soil. We'd like to thank Rocket Lab for their confidence in our team. Virginia Space and MARS employees are standing ready to do everything we can to ensure successful, safe and timely launch missions for Rocket Lab just as we do for every customer of the Spaceport."
Bill Wrobel, director of NASA Wallops, said, "Wallops has more than 70 years of experience successfully supporting missions using suborbital as well as small and medium-class orbital launch vehicles. We look forward, along with our partner Virginia Space and its Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, to supporting Rocket Lab's Electron missions and expanding commercial launch operations from Wallops."
Four spaceports were shortlisted to become Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2, including Cape Canaveral, Wallops Flight Facility, Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska and Vandenberg Air Force Base. Wallops Flight Facility made the final cut thanks to high flight frequency available from the site, as well as rapid construction timelines that will see Rocket Lab target the first Electron launch from US soil Q3 2019.
Rocket Lab continues to assess additional launch sites in the US and internationally to provide additional launch flexibility for small satellite customers. The company also maintains agreements with Cape Canaveral in Florida and Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska to conduct launches from existing pads as required.
It started with a long-ago conversation with astronomer Carl Sagan, which awoke an abiding interest in UFOs and the possibility of extraterrestrial life in Robert Zemeckis. That led in part to 1997’s “Contact,” which Zemeckis helmed, and, now, “Project Blue Book,” which he’s executive producing for A+E Studios.
The show bears more than a passing resemblance to “The X-Files,” from the tagline (“Over 12,000 UFO sightings. 1 government cover-up”) to the menacing presence of a shadowy figure in a hat and coat. Based on a real-life government operation called Project Blue Book, the series centers on the investigation by the U.S. Air Force into UFO sightings in the 1950s and ’60s. It stars Aidan Gillen as J. Allen Hynek, an astrophysics professor recruited to help with the investigation, and Michael Malarkey as the Air Force captain assigned to debunk the stories.
The first of 10 hourlong episodes of “Project Blue Book,” which bows this winter, was screened for press and other guests Tuesday at Mipcom.
The drama’s period detail is evident in the ’50s interiors and cars, a Flash Gordon comic book, a reference to the not-so-long-ago panic caused by Orson Welles’ radio adaptation of “The War of the Worlds.” Inevitably, however, those involved insist on the show’s timeliness in today’s troubled, Trumpian, truth-challenged times.
“Project Blue Book was the original fake news,” said showrunner Sean Jablonski, calling it a government program created to discredit people’s sincere accounts of unexplained phenomena and to “give them alternative facts.”
“We didn’t just settle for case-of-the-week stories, but layered in the facts of a government cover-up that exposes the origin of fake news,” Zemeckis wrote in an e-mail read out at the screening. “Unfortunately, that feels as relevant today as it did back then.”
It’s clear that “Project Blue Book” is being shepherded by true believers, folks who have faith not just in the show but in the existence of life beyond Earth. Jablonski is in no doubt of that, recounting a solo trip he took to the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, in Peru, in the belief that aliens built it.
On stage with Jablonski in Cannes, Gillen (“The Wire”), Malarkey (The Vampire Diaries”) and Laura Mennell (“The Man in the High Castle”), who plays Hynek’s wife, Mimi, also professed themselves open to the possibility of extraterrestrial life. “I have no reason to be a non-believer,” Malarkey said, in a Q&A conducted by series executive producer Barry Jossen, the head of A+E Studios.
“When you look at what we know about our vast universe, it’s impossible not to hope for the existence of worlds (and life) beyond our own,” Zemeckis wrote in his e-mail.
The cast also includes Ksenia Solo (“Orphan Black”) as a woman who befriends Mimi Hynek and is quickly revealed to be not all she seems, and Neal McDonough (“Minority Report”) and Michael Harney (“Orange Is the New Black”) as a pair of cabalistic air force generals. Whether little green men appear in “Blue Book” remains to be seen. The show was created and written by David O’Leary.
“The series is based in fact,” Jablonski said. “When you scratch the surface, the conspiracy and truth of what actually happened give you a lot of story to tell.”
Renewed US interest could produce some fascinating hearings, but the focus should be on the quality not just the quantity of reported sightings
The terms UFO and ‘flying saucer’ are both wrongly, regarded as being synonymous with ‘extraterrestrial spacecraft’. Photograph: Jim West/Rex/Shutterstock
There’s renewed interest in the UFO phenomenon and it’s coming from an unexpected source: the United States Congress.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is looking into a 2004 incident where US Navy pilots flying with the USS Nimitz strike group encountered, chased and filmed fast-moving unidentified objects. Reliable sources say at least two of the military pilots involved have already been interviewed, and a radar operator was subsequently invited to get in touch.
In parallel, the House Armed Services Committee is taking an interest. Records from April show the committee received a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) briefing on the Pentagon’s UFO project, the cryptically-named AATIP. We know so little about AATIP that there’s even dispute over whether the acronym stands for Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program or Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. The very existence of the project caused a sensation, because until the New York Times broke the story in December 2017, the US government claimed it had not investigated UFOs since the 1960s when sightings were looked at in a study called Project Blue Book.
As noted in the Guardian recently, data from two civilian UFO research organisations show that the number of reported sightings has fallen in recent years. However, there’s no single, global focal point for reports (the Ministry of Defence stopped investigating UFOs in 2009) and statistics will never tell the full story.
It would be better if the phenomenon were assessed and judged not on numbers alone, but by focusing on cases where we have compelling evidence: independently submitted reports from pilots on different flights; visual sightings corroborated by radar; photos and videos regarded as genuinely intriguing by intelligence community imagery analysts. Irrespective of the methodology we use to assess the phenomenon, how can we do so in an even-handed way when the subject has so much pop culture baggage?
A first step in reframing the debate might be changing the language. The term “UFO” has become as obsolete and baggage-laden as the now largely-defunct “flying saucer”. Both are widely, but wrongly, regarded as being synonymous with “extraterrestrial spacecraft”, when self-evidently all the phrase should mean is something in the sky that the observer cannot identify. When the question “do you believe in UFOs?” is misinterpreted as “do you think we’re being visited by aliens?” then we clearly have a problem.
We addressed this in the MoD in the 1990s by replacing “UFO” with “UAP”, for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. It got us increased funding and made a few senior officials take the matter more seriously, because they felt we were looking at a science problem, not a science fiction mystery.
Years later, in 2011, I was one of the briefers at a private gathering in Washington DC, chaired by Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta, who has a longstanding interest in the issue. It was reminiscent of an episode of The X-Files and there was even a former CIA director sitting at the back, playing no part in the discussion, but silently taking notes. I briefed attendees on the MoD’s use of the term “UAP” and the message clearly hit home.
During Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, for which Podesta was the campaign chair, she occasionally discussed UAPs and in one interview on the Jimmy Kimmel show she corrected the host for using the term “UFO”. We have yet to learn what Donald Trump thinks about UAPs, but his enthusiasm for a Space Force has certainly created a few conspiracy theories.
When it comes to UAPs, truth really is stranger than fiction. It turns out that AATIP was largely the brainchild of the then Senate majority leader Harry Reid, and that much of the work was contracted out to Bigelow Aerospace, run by former budget hotel magnate (and believer in extraterrestrial visitation) Robert Bigelow. A 2009 letter from Harry Reid about AATIP reads like science fiction in places.
Now, some of the people formerly involved with the project – including the DIA official who ran it, Luis Elizondo – have joined a Public Benefit Corporation called To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, fronted by Tom DeLonge, the former vocalist/guitarist and founder of pop punk band Blink-182. Their mission statement talks about creating a consortium “to explore exotic science and technologies … that can change the world”.
If current US Congressional interest evolves into formal hearings, either specifically on AATIP, or on UAPs more generally, I hope they can get past debates about terminology, and avoid getting bogged down in statistical analyses. I have made clear my willingness to testify on the basis that my experience with the MoD might be relevant.
Focusing on the quality of reports and not simply the quantity should result in a far more meaningful assessment of the phenomenon. Irrespective of the outcome, these might turn out to be the most fascinating Congressional hearings in history.
•Nick Pope worked at the Ministry of Defence for 21 years. From 1991 to 1994 he was posted to a division where his duties included investigating UAP sightings to determine whether they had any defence significance.
Why We Might Miss Extraterrestrial Life Even If It's Staring Us in the Face
Why We Might Miss Extraterrestrial Life Even If It's Staring Us in the Face
By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor
See anything unusual in this aerial image?
Credit: Modified photo of an original NASA picture
What do you get when you combine a classic psychology experiment with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence?
A gorilla on Mars.
OK, that one's not going to kill on the comedy circuit. Here's what's going on: Researchers from the University of Cádiz in Spain found that most people who were asked to look for signs of human-made structures on alien terrain completely missed a little, waving gorilla figure inserted into one of the images.
"We think [of] ETI as another form of humans, but much more advanced," study leader Gabriel G. De la Torre, a neuropsychologist at the University of Cádiz, told Live Science in an email. "We try to understand the world as [if] it was done to fit our beliefs, framework and senses. [In] reality, [it] could be much more different."
The limits of imagination
The limits of human imagination do likely constrain the search for extraterrestrial life, said Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, which uses radio and optical observations to hunt for brainy extraterrestrials. But that observation is "not exactly a call to action," he said.
Inside the Occator crater of the dwarf planet Ceres appears a strange structure that looks like a square inside a triangle.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
"I do get emails that say, 'Oh, well, you guys are just not being broad-minded enough," Shostak said. "That's a pretty easy thing to say, but it doesn't advance the search much."
In the new paper, De la Torre and his co-author, Manuel Garcia at the University of Cádiz, argued that extraterrestrials may not communicate using radio or light waves — the main mediums humans are using to search for signals from "little green men." Aliens might instead communicate through dark matter, the researchers wrote. That's the mysterious form of matter that should exist in order to provide enough gravitational force to keep galaxies from flying part, but which is not directly observable, because it doesn't interact with the electromagnetic spectrum. Aliens might even be dark matter, the researchers wrote. [7 Huge Misconceptions about Aliens]
In that sense, humans might be so focused on searching for aliens using the kind of technology familiar to us that we miss the communications all around us, the researchers wrote. To demonstrate human inattention, the researchers conducted an experiment inspired by a famous psychology protocol from 1999. In the original experiment, researchers asked participants to do a task (say, counting the number of passes in a pickup basketball game) while watching a scene in which the investigators had inserted something truly ridiculous (say, a guy in a gorilla suit strolling right through the middle of the game). The researchers found that hardly anyone noticed the gorilla.
The cosmic gorilla
To update these findings for the SETI age, the researchers asked 137 participants to scan aerial photos of interplanetary imagery and search for structures that appeared unnatural, built by humans (or aliens). In one image, the researchers inserted a small photo of a person in a gorilla suit waving.
Only 45 out of 137, or 32.8 percent, of the participants noticed the gorilla. The researchers also asked the participants to take some surveys to reveal whether they had a more intuitive cognitive style or a more analytical cognitive style. It might seem that the intuitive types would be less likely to scan the scene carefully, thus missing the gorilla, but that was the opposite of what the researchers found.
"Those with a more intuitive cognitive style detected the gorilla more compared with the more rational/analytical style," De la Torre said. It might be that the rational types were more focused on the task at hand, making them blind to unexpected phenomena like the gorilla.
Thus, De la Torre said, the current search for E.T. may be limited by humanity's preconceived notions.
Shostak agreed to some extent. If you'd been able to ask a trilobite 500 million years ago who it expected to run the Earth in another few hundred million years, it might have dreamed up a "really souped-up trilobite," Shostak said. The organism probably wouldn't have foreseen a couple of mass extinctions and the upheaval of all forms of life on Earth. Humans likely face that same sort of problem in imagining life on other planets, Shostak said.
On the other hand, Shostak said, SETI researchers have given the matter some thought. There are arguments, he said, that humans are actually a pretty good example of what an intelligent life-form might need to get by — opposable thumbs, stereovision — and thus looking for aliens who look like us isn't a bad strategy. There are also arguments that the most likely type of extraterrestrial intelligence won't be biological at all, but will be artificially intelligent machines created by biological, but less bright, creators, Shostak said.
The idea of dark matter as an alien being seems less likely, he said, given that intelligence requires some level of complexity. Dark matter is currently hypothesized to consist of some undescribed theoretical particle, possibly WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles. A bunch of particles "isn't going to give you anything that's organized enough to get you intelligence," Shostak said.
For De la Torre, the lesson of the "cosmic gorilla" is that SETI researchers need to consult with psychologists and neuroscientists.
"Currently, all psychological work in this area has been majorly dedicated to look[ing] into the impact of contact [with aliens] in our society," he said, but psychology has more to offer. "If we want to find other intelligences, multidisciplinary work is needed, and psychologists are the experts for intelligence matters."
Extraterrestrial life may use purple pigments to harvest energy.
Credit: iStock/Getty Images Plus
Alien life might be purple.
That's the conclusion of a new research paper that suggests that the first life on Earth might have had a lavender hue. In the International Journal of Astrobiology, microbiologist Shiladitya DasSarma of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and postdoctoral researcher Edward Schwieterman at the University of California, Riverside, argue that before green plants started harnessing the power of the sun for energy, tiny purple organisms figured out a way to do the same.
Alien life could be thriving in the same way, DasSarma said.
"Astronomers have discovered thousands of new extrasolar planets recently and are developing the capacity to see surface biosignatures" in the light reflected from these planets, he told Live Science. There are already ways to detect green life from space, he said, but scientists might need to start looking for purple, too. [7 Wild Theories on the Origin of Life]
Purple Earth
The idea that the early Earth was purple is not new, DasSarma and his colleagues advanced the theory in 2007. The thinking goes like this: Plants and photosynthesizing algae use chlorophyll to absorb energy from the sun, but they don't absorb green light. That's odd, because green light is energy-rich. Perhaps, DasSarma and his colleagues reasoned, something else was already using that part of the spectrum when chlorophyll photosynthesizers evolved.
That "something else" would be simple organisms that captured solar energy with a molecule called retinal. Retinal pigments absorb green light best. They're not as efficient as chlorophylls in capturing solar energy, but they are simpler, the researchers wrote in their new paper published Oct. 11.
Retinal light-harvesting is still widespread today among bacteria and the single-celled organisms called Archaea. These purple organisms have been discovered everywhere from the oceans to the Antarctic Dry Valley to the surfaces of leaves, Schwieterman told Live Science. Retinal pigments are also found in the visual system of more complex animals. The appearance of the pigments across many living organisms hints that they may have evolved very early on, in ancestors common to many branches of the tree of life, the researchers wrote. There is even some evidence that modern purple-pigmented salt-loving organisms called halophiles might be related to some of the earliest life on Earth, which thrived around methane vents in the ocean, Schwieterman said.
Purple aliens
Regardless of whether the first life on Earth was purple, it's clear that lavender life suits some organisms just fine, Schwieterman and DasSarma argue in their new paper. That means that alien life could be using the same strategy. And if alien life is using retinal pigments to capture energy, astrobiologists will find them only by looking for particular light signatures, they wrote.
Chlorophyll, Schwieterman said, absorbs mostly red and blue light. But the spectrum reflected from a plant-covered planet displays what astrobiologists call a "vegetation red edge." This "red edge" is a sudden change in the reflection of light at the near-infrared part of the spectrum, where plants suddenly stop absorbing red wavelengths and start reflecting them away.
Retinal-based photosynthesizers, on the other hand, have a "green edge," Schwieterman said. They absorb light up to the green portion of the spectrum, and then start reflecting longer wavelengths away.
Astrobiologists have long been intrigued by the possibility of detecting extraterrestrial life by detecting the "red edge," Schwieterman said, but they may need to consider searching for the "green edge," too.
"If these organisms were present in sufficient densities on an exoplanet, those reflection properties would be imprinted on that planet's reflected light spectrum," he said.
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Argentijnse nieuwsuitzending onderbroken door aliens? Dit object verscheen plotseling in beeld
Argentijnse nieuwsuitzending onderbroken door aliens? Dit object verscheen plotseling in beeld
Een nieuwsuitzending op de Argentijnse tv werd afgelopen week onderbroken toen plotseling een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object in beeld verscheen.
Tijdens het programma Mananas Argentinas op zender C5N was de skyline van Buenos Aires te zien op een enorm scherm.
Zilveren bol
Terwijl presentatrice Mariela Fernandez praatte over het weer en de smog in de lucht, doemde opeens een UFO op.
Het leek te gaan om een zilveren bol, die van rechts naar links door het beeld bewoog en uiteindelijk uit beeld verdween.
Onder de indruk
Fernandez was zichtbaar onder de indruk van het object, dat hoger en hoger klom. Ze riep uit dat het geen vliegtuig was, terwijl haar collega Diego Angeli suggereerde dat het een UFO was.
De laatste tijd worden vaker UFO’s gezien tijdens nieuwsuitzendingen. Eerder werden tijdens uitzendingen in Oregon, Milwaukee en Buffalo onverklaarbare dingen gezien in de lucht.
Prince would love this news. A new study claims that the first life on Earth may have been (get ready, Oprah!) the color purple and the same science behind this indicates that alien life forms, if they exist, could be a matching hue. Sorry all you greys, tall whites and green Reptilian fans! Might this be linked to the mysterious purple skies recently in Ohio and Florida?
Microbiologist Shiladitya DasSarma of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and postdoctoral researcher Edward Schwieterman at the University of California, Riverside, are the authors of the study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology with the self-explanatory title: “Early evolution of purple retinal pigments on Earth and implications for exoplanet biosignatures.” Their “Purple Earth” hypothesis is based on the proposition that the purple-pigmented molecule called retinal may have enabled early life forms to create energy from sunlight before they went green with chlorophyll and photosynthesis.
The key to the Purple Earth hypothesis is the Great Oxygenation Event which designates the planet’s atmospheric switch 2.4 billion years ago from carbon dioxide and methane to primarily oxygen. Prior to this, DasSarma and Schwieterman speculate that retinal, a purplish molecule that is simpler than chlorophyll, was the primary energy enabler, then retinal and chlorophyll existed together before chlorophyll and photosynthesis generated enough oxygen to convert the entire atmosphere over to one more suitable for green plants. If we could travel back to that time, we’d see that the plants were purple because retinal molecules absorb green and yellow light and emit a mix of blue and red light that appears purple.
If the Purple Earth hypothesis is true, then it could happen on other planets that may be similar to Earth. To find them, the study says that astronomers need to start looking for planets with a “green edge” — since retinal reflects green infrared light – rather the “red edge” they currently seek because chlorophyll molecules reflect infrared red light. That would mean that any alien life utilizing retinal would be purple, including human-sized life forms. Can we deal with real Smurfs?
An example of a purple sky?
Did aliens have anything to do with the purple sky seen last week in northern Ohio and in Florida after Hurricane Michael? Videos of both show definite purple sky that’s more than just purple rain. Fortunately, local meteorologists calmed panicky skywatchers by explaining that there was nothing alien about it – the purple sky was the result of a phenomenon called scattering. A red sunset hits the blue sky and scatters the shorter blue wavelengths, creating purple – a color we should see every night but don’t because of the way our eyes adjust to different minor wavelengths.
Will our purple alien friends have the same problem? What color will they see us? Let’s hope it’s not the same as their favorite food.
A new French film about alien abduction (among other things) was screened last week at the BFI London Film Festival. Directed by a man simply known as Quarxx, the film, All the Gods In the Sky, has yet to secure a distribution deal, but, when it does, audiences should be prepare to be disturbed. Apparently, it was inspired by a photograph of a boy who lay next to his dead sister for three weeks.
The official synopsis is as follows:
“30-year-old factory worker Simon lives a solitary existence on a decrepit farm in the remote French countryside. Devoting his time to caring for his sister Estelle, who was left severely disabled when a childhood game went horribly wrong, Simon is plagued by guilt and depression. But he sees a way out, looking to otherworldly forces as a means of liberating both himself and his sister from the corporeal prisons in which they are confined.”
Pretty vague. So where do aliens come into all of this?
In her review for SciFi Now, Katherine McLaughlin notes that the film’s protagonist, Simon (Jean-Luc Couchard), is “convinced he was abducted by aliens who are still trying to contact him.” These aliens are, we can infer, “all the gods in the sky,” of the title and are regarded by Simon as a force of potential salvation for he and his disabled sister who wish to be freed from the heavy shackles of their Earthly existence.
McLaughlin describes the film as “Genuinely bleak and upsetting in places [and] intent on both shocking audiences and inspiring awe.” Melanie Gaydos, in the role of Simon’s sister, Estelle, delivers a “superb and committed” debut film performance, writes McLaughlin in her review, and adds that first-time director Quarxx “ups the disorientation levels and adds wonder to all the melancholy, unpleasantness and despair with remarkable, otherworldly imagery.”
Ultimately, however, the weighty themes are spread a little too thin for McLaughlin’s tastes, as she concludes of the film:
“Touching upon trauma, the pressures of caring for someone, disability, poverty and stolen childhoods [and, yes, alien abduction] in an ambitious and imaginative way Quarxx occasionally reaches a bit too far. Some of the narrative threads feel a little undercooked and unnecessary even if they are affecting and visually intriguing.”
As previously stated, All the Gods In the Sky is yet to secure a distribution deal, but it seems likely that it will be available on some platform or another sometime in 2019. In the meantime, if you’re intrigued at the notion of UFOlogical themes being incorporated into an arthouse film, you should check out the brilliant Under the Skin, which I count among my favorite UFO movies.
Whenever we think we’ve got a good grasp on how things work out in space something comes along and tells us otherwise. In this case it’s our models of how planets and star systems form. Astronomers in Chile recently discovered four enormous gas giants in a star system that should be far too young to have formed these massive planets.
CI Tau is a baby. It’s only two million years old and still surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, the swirling mass of dust that will eventually form into planets as gravity and time continue to work their weird magic on the system. The strange thing is that in this protoplanetary disk are conspicuous gaps, and in those gaps are already-formed massive gas giants. Scientists have no idea how they got there.
Protoplanetary disk.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech
One of the planets, the closest to CI Tau was already known to astronomers. This monster of a planet—known as CI Tau b— is about 10 times the size of Jupiter and orbits CI Tau once every nine days. When astronomers discovered CI Tau b, it was the first so-called “hot Jupiter” ever discovered around such a young star. Hot Jupiters are gas giants that orbit their star at very close distances and very high speeds. CI Tau b is closer to its sun than Mercury is to ours. Hot Jupiters already seem to defy assumptions about how solar systems form, and finding one around such a young star was even stranger. The other hot Jupiters found belonged to star systems hundreds of times older than CI Tau b. Now it turns out that this anomaly of a planet has three other neighbors that are even more surprising and strange.
What a hot Jupiter might look like.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MIT/Principia College
The discovery of the three new planets was detailed in a new paper published in TheAstrophysical Journal Letters. The next planet out from CI Tau b is about the size of Jupiter, and orbits CI Tau at a distance of 13 AU (Astronomical Units, one AU is the distance from Earth to the sun, about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers). Further out are the two most mysterious planets in the system. These are both about the size of Saturnand they orbit at distances of 39 and 100 AU. Yet another thing that makes this system so strange is that the outermost planet is 1000 times further away that the innermost planet, a variance in distance that is hardly ever seen in star systems. At such extreme distances it’s supposed to take a very long time for Saturn-sized planets to form. According to Professor Cathie Clark, lead author of the paper:
“Saturn mass planets are supposed to form by first accumulating a solid core and then pulling in a layer of gas on top, but these processes are supposed to be very slow at large distances from the star. Most models will struggle to make planets of this mass at this distance.”
More observations of these bizarre planets will be required to even being to make sense of how they formed. Regardless of what we find,it will likely further challenge our assumptions of how planets are formed. Especially if we find an alien planet manufacturing factory hiding in the protoplanetary disk. Likely? No, not at all. But it would be pretty cool.
On Saturday, a young man found two distinctive drawings in the snow, but found no human footprints. At around 20:00 hours on Saturday, a youth from Moquehue (Neuquén) went out on his motorcycle to ride through a seldom-transited area along Route 117 and found strange drawings in the snow. "Their size and perfection were striking," said Rodrigo in a conversation with LM Neuquén regarding the spots. "I'd never seen anything like them." The young man said that after seeing the drawings, he alerted his family and they returned to the site to take photographs and inspect the designs. "I was surprised that there were no footprints nearby. This in an area that is rarely visited," he added. The ground marks were found on Route 11 heading toward Norquinco in an area that remains closed in winter and only recently reopened in the spring. Patches of snow often remain and that is where the marks were seen. Other local residents said that drawings similar in their size and perfection were found a kilometer distant from the site. "I believe UFOs exist. Perhaps it was them," Rodrigo concluded.
Steve Andrews Close UFO Encounter & Alien Abduction Incident in 1978
Steve Andrews Close UFO Encounter & Alien Abduction Incident in 1978
In 1978 Steve Andrews claims that he witnessed a close UFO encounter in Cardiff (Wales), and had been abducted and taken on board a spaceship by aliens. He was hypnotically regressed by Dave Coggins to recall his experience. Steve Andrews is also known as “The Bard of Ely”, was born in Canton, Cardiff in 1953 and lived in Ely for 25 years, a suburb on the outskirts of Cardiff in South Wales. He is a singer-songwriter, writer and journalist with a strong interest in botany and conservation. Andrews is known for having a brightly coloured beard and being a Welsh icon.
In an age of wild claims churned out by politicians, media and advertisers, perhaps people don’t care as much any more.
This month, the two major online sites for reporting UFOs – the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network – both documented steep drops in worldwide sightings. The declines started around 2014, when reports were at a peak. They have since reduced drastically to 55% of that year’s combined total, many UFO interest groups have folded, and numerous previously classified government documents have been disclosed.
Do these declines reveal that UFO interest is becoming a blip on the human cultural radar? Perhaps UFO and alien lore is seeming more like a reflection of human culture, tied to the space age, motivated by conquering new existential frontiers.
It might not be a coincidence that the term UFO (unidentified flying object) and some of the phenomena that surrounds it – abductions and impossible technologies – are relatively recent. Before the 1940s, reports of sightings of objects in the sky were extremely rare. Centuries of recorded history give no clear indication of any such activity. Then, at the predawn of the space-age, around the time of the Roswell conspiracy, UFO culture was born, giving rise to everything from Space Invaders to The X-Files.
Possible answers as to why sightings are decreasing are varied. A key factor, however, may be that more people simply don’t care any more. As we are accustomed to being inundated with wild claims churned out by politicians, media and advertisers, the next report of a UFO is no more believed than the long-range weather forecast.
Before home video, photographs were the staple of UFO evidence. Video evidence, during the height of the 1990s UFO mania, was regarded by many as even more substantial. Amateur footage of glowing objects in the sky, as mysterious as they seemed real, made the cut for appearing on television – they were meant to be taken seriously and they fed an audience hungry for amazement, helped by a healthy dose of conspiracy theorising. According to the cultural historian Stuart Walton, “Belief in UFOs is definitely in a state of decline, along with much else that could be classed as paranormal. Part of the reason is that the technology for providing documentary evidence of such matters is now widely available to everybody with a smartphone, and such purported evidence as there is on YouTube looks extremely threadbare.”
He adds: “It isn’t so much that belief can exist without proof; it’s that it must emphatically avoid proof to remain belief. We are in the process, paradoxically, of proving a negative hypothesis with UFOs: there never was any such thing.” Indeed, indisputable evidence of intelligent life coming to Earth could be the greatest news of all time. Yet, after thousands of anecdotal, photo, and video reports have accrued over decades, what are we to conclude? With the greatest balance of scepticism and “wanting to believe”, all that can confidently be asserted is that some objects, appearing in the sky on film or video, seem unidentifiable.
Furthermore, government disclosure of its own video footage isn’t helping to maintain belief. Joseph Baker, sociology professor at Tennessee State University, says: “It’s actually better for UFOs when ufologists can claim that ‘the powers that be know everything and are hiding it from us’ rather than seeing that the government appears to have basically the same info about UFOs as the public: namely grainy, inconclusive visual evidence.” Perhaps though, the declines in reported sightings may signify only an end to current trends in ufology. After all, from the 1940s aliens were originally characterised as saviours who could help humans transcend the cold-war paranoia of nuclear annihilation; especially marked at the time, after two world wars. But after events like Watergate and the Vietnam war fuelled distrust in government, UFOs came to be viewed more as a possible threat, and some came to believe their existence was verified in secret military documents.
Sharon Hill, a researcher on the paranormal and pseudoscience, says: “The ideas about UFOs and aliens continue to evolve as we project our social and cultural ideas on them. Since we have no single easy explanation for all these claims regarding the decline in sightings, the future vision of ufology seems rather open-ended. I don’t think it’s dead, just changing.” Sharon Hill, a researcher on the paranormal and pseudoscience, says: “The ideas about UFOs and aliens continue to evolve as we project our social and cultural ideas on them. Since we have no single easy explanation for all these claims regarding the decline in sightings, the future vision of ufology seems rather open-ended. I don’t think it’s dead, just changing.”
The science of proving an object was created by an extraterrestrial civilization
The science of proving an object was created by an extraterrestrial civilization
1. Introduction
In the recent world of fringe science, there has been an explosion of interest in so-called meta-materials allegedly “recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.” Although this announcement has created a great deal of excitement, there has been very little context to these claims. The public, therefore, has no real baseline by which to critique or even understand the claims or methods being employed to confirm the potentially anomalous nature of the material. For example, how can a member of the public understand whether or not the testing methods suggested by a variety of individuals are sufficient? And how will the evidence such testing provides be understood and analyzed by the scientific community, and how best can that be expressed to the general public? In this report our group will give this context, helping the public to construct informed opinions on these testing methods, results, and the very nature of the tests performed.
As a first pass on this analysis, we must understand what questions are being asked. In other words, let’s suppose we were given a piece of material that was believed to have come from another, potentially alien civilization. The challenge presented to our scientific team is to prove whether or not this material really did, or at least most likely must have, come from some non-Earth intelligence. How would we begin to develop a plan to test if the evidence supported this hypothesis? This question can be broken down into a number of significant portions. Firstly, we would want to identify if the material has come from outer space by comparing it to similar materials or samples we find on Earth. Does it show significant enough differences to cause us to believe it did not come from our planet? Second, is there evidence that the material has been engineered or designed in some way? Does it show properties or applications that we wouldn’t expect to occur naturally, or is it engineered or composed in a way to give it specific properties? And third, does it show advanced techniques or knowledge with which we are unfamiliar. Are there super-heavy elements which we have yet to discover here on Earth, does it show crystal structures or solid phases that have not yet been documented by the materials science community, does it show composition and engineering which is beyond the scope of science today? If these three questions are answered in the affirmative and supported by evidence this would be enough to support the hypothesis. This would show that this material is not only from outer space but from a civilization that had engineered it for a specific purpose. Each question answered in the affirmative would be a tremendous milestone for the person who found the material, but not enough to support the extraordinary claim of alien engineering on its own. For instance, if the material were found to be from outer space with evidence of unknown properties it may be a meteorite or other piece of space debris, but not necessarily from another civilization. At the same time, if the material showed evidence of engineering and was also found to have unknown properties it could be from an experimental aircraft or another device that is currently unknown to the public and scientific community. One possibility we cannot ignore here is that our current science may not be able to understand or determine the properties or applications for which a given material has been engineered. This may give a false negative to our question 3 above and lead us to unfairly characterize some samples as not passing the high threshold we have set. Ultimately if a material has been engineered, it is almost implied that there would be a reasoning behind this engineering, some application for which it would be used. Therefore, I would anticipate that although we may not currently understand its application that does not imply that an application was not in mind when the material was initially designed. This suggests that for cases where engineering is suspected as well as a non-Earth point of origin careful consideration must be given to potential applications we do not expect, as well as a variety of tests that may not be obvious to the engineer or scientist.
Materials science is a broad field with applications across the breadth of scientific, engineering, and medical studies. It deals primarily with the analysis and study of solid materials, both in their bulk form (for example the properties of a gallon of sand) and at the level of individual particles (a single grain of sand). This science deals with both crystalline materials, those with repeating patterns of atomic arrangement into what are known as crystalline phases (one of the most well-known examples of a crystalline solid is diamond, although crystals do not need to be gem-like, for example, salt), and amorphous solids, those without repeating atomic arrangements (one of which is aluminosilicate glass materials such as those used for dishware or windows in homes). Other materials which are well known to the reader are metallic solids such as Iron (a bulk collection of iron atoms held together by shared electrons) and steel (an alloy of iron with other metals, creating a solid mixture of components into a roughly homogeneous material). These materials are all, more or less, simplistic in their composition and manufacturing processes. For the majority of our time as a civilization, we have either mined them from the Earth for our direct use, or performed slight modifications such as melting, remixing, and re-casting to make them more useful. It is potentially true that other civilizations, having obtained the ability to make their way to our distant corner of the universe, will have also had their bronze or iron ages far in the past, and come to roughly the same conclusions as our metallurgists, scientists, and engineers when it comes to how to shape and utilize these materials at the bulk scale (assuming of course that these beings are physical things at all, something that is out of the scope of this discussion). In recent years, materials engineering has focused on the creation of novel materials for directed applications. In particular, this has focused on the creation of materials with nanoscale properties, those which become apparent at the bulk scale but are due to properties of the material at the scale of 1 x 10-9 meters long. Of particular interest to the study of potentially engineered materials, the behavior of nanoengineered solids is such that they would not, in general, be possible in nature as far as we understand it. These may include the creation of composite materials (e.g. solid particles covered in polymer molecules, layers of unlike oxides and metallic compounds with polymer or soft matter layers, designed or engineering crystal or polymer phases, and others), the creation of non-standard geometries (asymmetrical crystal growth or properties, designed crystal defects at regular positions, pillaring or other mixed porosity structuring), or the creation of materials that are post-synthetically functional (in other words materials that can be reversibly altered through the application of heat, chemical impulse, electromagnetic field, or some other energy/force). Probing structures of this sort is a complicated process, but one which has a tremendous amount of literature background available for the interested scientist or engineer. The pathway is apparent to those with the wherewithal to follow it; however, the jargon and specifics may be confusing and difficult to the interested public. In general, however, there are a number of properties that would be of immediate interest to a material scientist faced with the three hypotheses we have posited above. 2. Atomic and Isotopic Make-Up The first piece of useful information is what the material is composed of. This question in the first place helps to narrow down our later searches significantly, provides information to hint at the origin point of the material, and may even help us answer if the material has been engineered or not; as has been gone over consistently in the popular articles on this subject one of these tests would include something like EDS (Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy) or XRF (X-ray Fluorescence). In both of these tests, a material sample is bombarded with X-Rays in a test chamber, causing the atoms within the sample to become excited. These excited atoms eventually relax back to their initial ground state, by releasing photons which are then collected by a detector within the test chamber. The released photons are dependent on the atomic number of the elements within the sample, and in some testing methods, the oxidation state of the atoms within the material can be determined as well. These tests provide information on the elements within the sample, as well as a rough estimate of the chemical makeup of the bulk solid. In the unlikely case that the material contains an unknown element, it is these sorts of tests that would show the scientist that further testing should likely be performed. These tests may also suggest the presence of elements we don’t expect to find normally on the surface of the Earth, or even percentages of elements that are uncommonly found. For example, there are elements which are not naturally occurring but instead result from our nuclear weapons testing. Elements of this sort such as Strontium and Cesium would not be anticipated in high percentages in a normal sample of material, although again this would only suggest that the material is not from a standard source and not that it is extraterrestrial in origin.
Another type of information which has been held up as the holy grail of material testing in pop science is isotopic testing and ratio analysis. Isotopes of a given element are defined by their atomic number (the number of protons in their nucleus, which gives the element it’s identity and placement on the periodic table) and their mass (the number of protons and neutrons, each defined as one atomic mass unit, within the nucleus). The relative abundance of an isotope of an element on the surface of the Earth is, very roughly, averaged to give the atomic mass listed on the periodic table for that element. Isotopes vary due to their stability (with radioactive isotopes decaying and therefore becoming less abundant with time), and therefore the relative ratio of isotopes within a given sample would normally be expected to fit within the range of other samples found on the Earth. However, the variation of isotopes across the Earth’s surface can vary significantly, with radioactive testing and other geological or historical factors potentially playing a part. Therefore, it is important to be nuanced and careful in the analysis of these tests, a fact that has not been fully appreciated to date by those claiming to have extraordinary samples. At best isotopic testing would tell us that material is outside of the range of terrestrial samples we usually find, warranting further study by other means. It may also tell us if the sample is from before or after the Earth or even our solar system formed, or what local chemical or geological make up may have looked like over the lifetime of the sample. However, isotopic testing alone is not sufficient to answer the question of whether or not a sample has been engineered or left behind by some advanced civilization. Isotopic testing is generally performed utilizing magnetic mass spectrometry techniques such as Isotope-Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) or Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICPMS). In these tests, the material sample is first atomized, either by grinding or very fast heating and dispersion in a carrier solution, which also causes them to take on a net positive or negative charge and thereby become ions. These ions are then carried with the carrier gas or plasma through a magnetic field towards an ion detector. The magnetic field is set up in such a way that ions will be separated from one another based on their mass to charge ratio, a value which is specific to ions of isotopes of a given element. Essentially, isotopes which are heavier will flow more slowly with the carrier gas, and those with higher charges will be more attracted to the magnetic field. This allows us to obtain a readout of the mass to charge ratio of the atoms within a sample, which when compared to a standard set of samples can then be used to determine the isotopes within the sample as well as their relative abundance based on the number of hits the detector reads. The results of these tests can be extremely accurate, down to parts per million of a sample if given the correct calibrations and analysis methods being employed.
3. Crystallography and Surface Characterization
If an advanced civilization has engineered a material for a specific purpose, one of the avenues to discover the trademarks of this engineering may be in the specifics of the solid components that make up the material. This includes the surface characteristics of the individual solid components (for example are they patterned or etched, do they show evidence of atomic deposition or other surface treatments for growth or sealing, are the surfaces polished or show a lack of imperfections), the porous structure of the support (is the surface area very high, are their complex porous channels that appear to have some separation or adsorption potential, are the pores engineered to include secondary chemical sites for chemisorption or catalysis of some sort), the crystal structure or phase of the components (is it a crystal structure that currently exists on Earth, is it a single crystal compound, does it show multiple materials combined together in a way which is unexpected), and the bulk properties of the solid (how does it respond to temperature, pressure, shear stresses, radiation, etc). The range of possible properties that can be probed in this case is vast; however, there are a few tests which I would consider to be absolutely necessary for a true analysis of any potentially engineered solid. These include X-Ray Diffraction, Pore/Surface analysis via adsorption isotherm, Raman or FTIR Spectroscopy, Electron Microscopy, and Thermogravimetric Analysis/Differential Scanning Calorimetry. These cover the broad gamut of materials characterization, giving a view of the materials properties as they currently exist, and would hint at potential other applications or methods of engineering should they exist. X-Ray Diffraction consists of the analysis of how an X-Ray beam is diffracted off of a materials crystal lattice. You can imagine a crystal structure like a regularly repeating pattern of atoms, each placed in a fixed position to one another in 3-dimensional space. During X-Ray diffraction, the crystal lattice is bombarded with photons, which are being shot as a beam at a given angle. Photons will interact and collide with atoms within the crystal lattice if they come into contact and be diffracted off of the solids lattice. In X-Ray Diffraction the photons that are diffracted are collected at each given angle and analyzed to determine information about the geometry of the crystal structure, how well defined the crystal is, and even in some cases how much stress or strain the material is under. For our analysis, the first important characterization is if the material is a crystal structure or not. If it is a crystal, is it a sort of crystal structure that we would find in the scientific literature, or is it something novel to materials science? From the hints that we have received so far by those in possession of these materials, we may expect that the solid is layered, or lamellar. These layered solids possess diffraction patterns at the lowest X-Ray angles, between 0.1 and 5 degrees 2 theta (2 thetas being the measured angle of the X-Ray beam). This corresponds to very large spaces between repeating planes, with most layered materials in the open literature showing d spacings of between 10 and 40 Angstroms. This would be a quick and easy test to run and would immediately tell us if the structure is layered in any way which would make it outside of the scope of naturally occurring lamellar structures such as clays or layered hydroxides. Spectroscopy occurs similarly, probing the structure with photons of a given energy and observing the excitation of the material surface to tell us something about the chemical bonds likely present on the material. Raman spectroscopy is generally utilized in this field for metallic structures, although the information obtained in this way is generally limited. The true use of these spectroscopic techniques from a materials science perspective is in the ability to see if there are secondary chemical functionalities present on the material’s surface. For example, we may expect that catalysis or separation applications on some other planet would require the same careful control of chemical binding sites as we use on Earth for our catalysis and separations applications. This would be clear by the presence of secondary chemical species not often found on the surface of solid materials. Sensors on a material surface, coatings for different applications, and other potential surface species adsorbed onto the material being studied (such as debris from entry into the upper atmosphere, chemical species from the atmosphere of where ever this material has been, and other surface alterations) would also potentially be observable from such an analysis. This in tandem with isotherm analysis for porosity and surface area information would also be extremely useful. Materials with very high surface areas may show potential as catalysts or adsorbents and would show at least that the material was likely created and not naturally occurring (surface areas as high as 3000 m2/g have been achieved on Earth, although only for synthetic materials). Electron Microscopy via Scanning Electron Microscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy would give information as to the solids bulk surface properties, although outside of that the information gleaned from such analysis is likely to be limited. Of particular interest would be whether the surface is patterned or altered in some way. For example, on Earth we are currently studying the effect of rough surface patterning on anti-bacterial or microbial properties of surfaces, as well as what effect surface etching or patterning can have on the ability to repel or absorb water. We may expect that other intelligences would also find these properties useful to tune and would utilize them to provide beneficial properties to their materials. There may also be other surface patterning alterations which provide additional benefits, for example, radar cloaking or resistance to heat or radiation. On top of that if the material has been fabricated at the micron or bulk scales, then these microscopic techniques would tell that story, providing direct evidence of engineering. Thermal analysis may also provide some benefit, although this would again be limited. TGA and DSC work by heating the material slowly over time and observing what changes are made to the temperature of the material or the weight of the material. This may provide information on organic content, the ability of the material to withstand increased temperatures or heat fluxes, and how the solid behaves under the extreme heat of entry into the atmosphere from space.
4. Current State of Materials Study and Conclusion
As far as can be gleaned from the information available to the general public, it appears that efforts to date concerning the analysis of solids potentially occurring from some unknown civilization have focused on the first class of studies, those concerning the elements making up the material and their isotopes. However, as has been suggested by this work that is only a small portion of the entire picture needed before any definitive conclusions can be made. There are other, more specific tests that would need to be run to determine the potential applications of any material, how it was potentially fabricated, and where it may have come from. However, as any first-year materials science student can tell you, these are the basic analytical techniques which would be utilized for a serious investigation. Of particular concern to the interested public should be any study that purports to give evidence without reporting clearly and in detail their methods, potential sources of error, the accuracy of their measurements, and other information required to replicate their results. Without these pieces of information, it is impossible to verify any claims regarding a material’s properties, let alone more extraordinary claims regarding potential engineering by a non-Earth civilization. It is the authors hope that this report has been informative to the general public, and it is our sincere hope that this work may be of some use to those interested in these subjects who are not sure what to make of extraordinary claims of materials with special properties or exotic origin points.
How Paul Allen Saved the American Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
How Paul Allen Saved the American Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Microsoft co-founder single-handedly revolutionized the American search for extraterrestrial intelligence at a time when no public institutions wanted to touch it.
On Monday evening, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 65. At the time of his death, Allen was the 47th richest person in the world, with a net worth of $26 billion. For the last few decades of his life, Allen used his wealth for a staggering variety of business and philanthropic interests. In addition to owning the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers, Allen founded a brain science institute, an AI institute, and Stratolaunch Systems, which was exploring private spaceflight.
Yet one of the research areas where Allen made the biggest impact was also the one he spoke about the least: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Indeed, Allen almost single-handedly rescued American SETI by donating over $30 million to scientists scanning the cosmos for intelligent radio signals.
SETI’s early years in the United States was mostly defined by intermittent searches bankrolled with public funds, such as the National Science Foundation-funded program at Ohio State University which discovered the Wow! signal, or university endowments, such as Harvard’s Project Sentinel. By the early 90s, however, many of the early SETI programs had ended. The best hope for detecting extraterrestrial intelligence seemed to be NASA’s first foray into SETI, the Microwave Observing Program, which began observations in 1992.
Less than a year after the start of NASA’s SETI program, it was killed by members of Congress who didn’t want to waste money on the “great Martian chase.” The SETI Institute, a nonprofit founded in 1984 by the radio astronomer Jill Tarter, wasn’t going to let SETI die at the hands of a few cynical congressmen, but it also realized that the only hope for the future was privately funded searches.
Fortunately, one of the earliest SETI Institute supporters was Barney Oliver, who founded and directed Hewlett Packard laboratories. So in 1993 Oliver called Bill Hewlett and David Packard of Hewlett Packard, Intel founder Gordon Moore, and Paul Allen to ask for their support.
“It probably only took Barney a few hours on the phone to get each of them to commit $1 million every year for the next five years,” Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, told me on the phone. “I’m not sure any of them were particularly interested in SETI, but they were interested in whatever Barney thought was a good idea.”
This $20 million commitment bankrolled Project Phoenix, a SETI program that ran from 1995 to 1998. Over the course of three years, Project Phoenix rented time on the Parkes radio telescope in Australia and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to scan for signals from 800 stars within 200-light years of Earth.
"There’s no doubt that Paul saved American SETI."
Project Phoenix was better than nothing, but SETI astronomers realized that if the search had any chance of success, it would need its own dedicated SETI radio telescope. Or better yet, an entire array of small telescopes, which together produce a wide view of the sky and can target hundreds of stars at a time. This was the topic of a series of meetings organized by the SETI Institute between 1998 and 2000 that were meant to plot the next two decades of SETI research.
Led by Tarter, the meetings attendees cobbled together a telescope array design that consisted of 350 20-foot radio telescopes. There was just one question: Who would foot the $25-million bill? Knowing that Allen helped revive SETI with Project Phoenix a few years earlier, Tarter reached out to him and asked if he could summon a monetary life raft once again. By 2000, Allen had committed $25 million out of his own pocket to building a telescope array in northern California, the first facility specifically built for SETI in the US.
“We were very excited at the institute,” Shostak said. “Prior to the telescope array, we had to piggyback on other equipment. That’s like being a doctor and everytime you need to do research you need to borrow someone else’s microscope. There’s no doubt that Paul saved American SETI.”
The cost of building a 350-telescope array ended up being far more expensive than anyone at the SETI Institute had anticipated, however. By the time the Allen Telescope Array came online in 2007, only 42 telescopes had been built and Allen’s donation had largely been consumed.
Aerial view of the Allen Telescope Array.
Image: Seth Shostak/SETI Institute
Shostak told me he was there for the dedication ceremony where Allen “pushed the button” to turn the system on. He said he briefly had a chance to speak with Allen about what fueled his interest in SETI. According to Shostak, Allen told him that it was because he was interested in finding new ways to use technology.
“I thought it was just a talking point, but Allen’s whole career backs that up,” Shostak said. “The array was in line with that philosophy.”
Over the past ten years, the Allen Telescope Array has had as many successes as setbacks. It has analyzed 200 million signals from thousands of stars, studied unusual high-energy radio emissions, and even scanned the “spliff-shaped” Oumuamua asteroid for signs of intelligent life. The radio telescope experienced a major setback in 2011, however, when it had to shutdown due to lack of funding. It was brought back online the following year with a donation from Qualcomm’s cofounder Franklin Antonio.
Shostak said Allen never returned to the SETI Institute or the radio telescope that bears his name in the decade leading up to his death. Despite this, however, Allen never lost interest in the project or the prospect of communicating with extraterrestrials.
“The scientists are optimistic because they think that if they have better instruments that look deeper or on more frequencies, there should be civilizations out there broadcasting,” Allen said in an interview with Discover Magazine shortly after the array began observations. “I think everybody would admit it’s a long shot, but if that long shot comes in…”
Where to Land on the Red Planet? That's the Choice for Mars 2020 Rover Team.
Where to Land on the Red Planet? That's the Choice for Mars 2020 Rover Team.
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
An artist's depiction of the Mars 2020 rover at work on the Red Planet.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's next Mars spacecraft will soon know its landing site, as scientists meet to debate the relative merits of four final contenders. The mission will investigate whether the Red Planet ever hosted life.
That meeting, taking place in California, gathers hundreds of people to make a final community recommendation to NASA for the Mars 2020 rover missionlanding site.
"The Mars 2020 landing site could set the stage for Mars exploration for the next decade," Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, said in a statement. "I'm looking forward to the spirited debate and critical input from the science and engineering community. Whichever landing site is ultimately chosen, it may hold the very first batch of Mars soil that humans touch."[NASA's Mars Rover 2020 Mission in Pictures]
The four landing sites now under consideration for NASA's 2020 Mars rover.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
That's because Mars 2020 is designed to be the first part of a hoped-for sample-return mission, although the homeward leg is not yet on the agency's formal docket. But among Mars 2020's other tasks will be gathering and packaging up dirt samples that a future mission can bring home, so scientists could study Martian soil in terrestrial laboratories for the first time.
But the Mars 2020 rover can travel only so far, so scientists need to pick a landing site that optimizes the mission. Not only should the site avoid adding danger to the already-hazardous process of landing on Mars, but it should also allow access to a range of scientifically intriguing sites.
Scientists have already narrowed the site down to just four options: Columbia Hills, Jezero Crater, Northeast Syrtis and Midway. At this week's three-day workshop, scientific advocates of each candidate location will explain the appeal of the site. At the event's end, the group will send a final recommendation to NASA.
The agency plans to announce a final decision before the end of the year, according to the statement. That's plenty of time for the Mars 2020 team to finalize plans for the mission, which is scheduled to land on our neighboring planet in February of 2021.
The Frozen Earth Conspiracy (“I promise it is good read”)
The Frozen Earth Conspiracy (“I promise it is good read”)
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The Frozen Earth Conspiracy
by ALLOUMDL
Now, as you saw from the title of this document and the picture below it, NASA and the American government have been lying to everyone about the real size of our planet and what they found buried in Antarctica. You have always thought there were all these conspiracies, but in reality there is only this one, and all these other phenomena were simply the means employed by NASA and the American government to hide the truth. I’m going to go trough several popular conspiracies in the hope you realize how you allowed yourself to be fooled. In reality, you didn’t do anything wrong, you have just been brainwashed from a very young age. I’m certain you had a planetary globe in your class room in primary school.
So the first two conspiracies I’m going to address are The Hollow Earth and The Flat Earth theories. Now, I’m not going to explain them or even debunked, but simply let you know that at their very core lies the exploits of this man.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd
This is Admiral Richard E. Byrd, which counts among is many deeds, several flights over Antarctica to map it. He was also involved in expeditions to the North Pole, so this is definitely a man I recommend you look into. Admiral Byrd is reported to have found land masses beyond Antarctica during these reconnaissance flights. Both Flat Earth and Hollow Earth supporters saw this as positive evidence that validated their respective theories. However, what they failed to realize was that their conception of our planet’s size was wrong. Admiral Byrd’s final reconnaissance flight took place in 1956 as part of Operation Deep Freeze. And the outcome was the same as before. There is no end to Antarctica. 3 years later the Antarctic treaty was signed and so began the biggest cover up in human history.
I don’t want to go to deep into the Antarctic Treaty, but I recommend you look into articles 4, 6, 7 and 10. The deception is hiding in plain sight in some very clever wording. But basically, Antarctica is locked away from exploration, even if you have signed the treaty. And now lets look at photographic evidence that destroys everything you just read.
Oh wait, there is none. The picture you see here is a composite from many others taken by satellite. In fact there are no pictures whatsoever from Antarctica taken from space. ZERO. And the reason is because Antarctica is not the continent you’ve been lead to believe. But remember that there was no way to fully map the entire extension of Antarctica and the planes used for reconnaissance would either run out of fuel or have their engines freeze. The only way to do it was to go up, and in 1958 NASA was created to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earths atmosphere, and for other purposes. Once again, clever wording to hide their true intentions. And thus the space race was born with the public goal of going into space and eventually putting a man on the Moon, but with the secret objective of getting up there and seeing how big our planet really is. And boy, does it look different from up there.
I know this isn’t the best picture ever presented as evidence, but what I what you to take from it is the actual size of both Antarctica and the North Pole, since that is how big they really are. They look very different from anything you have ever seen before, right? Our planet is not the little blue marble we’ve been lead to believe. And why don’t I address the ridiculousness of creating a Space Program that had the secret goal of mapping our planet. Why couldn’t they do it from down here? Well, the best way to map any surface is to view it from above, pure and simple. Not to mention the freezing temperatures that no airplane engine could sustain for too long. And the men doing this attempts were at the mercy of Frostbite. But let me give you a practical example. Think of the scientists that discovered the wreckage of the Titanic. They sailed to the area where they suspected the Titanic went down in a research vessel. Once there, they mapped the area from the surface and only when finding a possible resting place did they go down in submersibles.
The picture below was taken by explorers looking for flight MH370. You map it from above and if you find something of interest you investigate. There are satellites in orbit that were designed specifically to detect structures buried beneath the ice. It would be unfeasible to start excavating randomly in the hopes of finding something.
So NASA set out to do the same thing with our planet, and used the space race as a cover up. I’m going to address the Moon landing a little bit. It didn’t happen. There, I addressed it. You have heard about the moon landing hoax and conspiracies before so it’s pointless for me to try and bring any more evidence, but what you didn’t know was why they went to the trouble of faking it. Well, for one, they had to hide the fact they were using the budget for something else, and also, when we were watching a recording of the moon landing, the astronauts were actually being the first humans to fully see the extent of our planet. Now, have you ever seen the actual press conference of the astronauts when they returned to Earth?
Boy, do they look happy or what? You are seeing a group of men being forced to lie to an entire nation about an extraordinary achievement that actually never happened. And yes, the remaining moon landings were all staged. But these recorded broadcasts could not go on forever. So enter the cold war, and the fear of the communist treat, and then the Vietnam war, then Korean war, etc. There is allot for the public to occupy their minds with. But the space flights never stopped. Now, I want you to admire the picture below. It was taken by John Glenn in 1962. Look at the quality of this image. Beautiful. It has that 60’s look. But more importantly, It is one of the very few pictures that has not been manipulated in any way.
Now, can you please find me a picture of our entire planet that is not a composite or cgi? I know, there isn’t one. We take pictures of everything. People climb Mount Everest to take a selfie up there, and yet after almost 70 years of the first space flight there are no pictures of Earth that aren’t either cgi or composite. NASA always gives us the excuse that the planet is to big. Well, they are actually telling the truth there. The planet is massive. Look at a different take of the picture on the cover.
Everything you have ever seen about how our planet looks like from space is a lie. Documentaries, movies, tv shows, the news logos of the Earth spinning, etc is a way of making sure you keep on believing this lie. And NASA kindly provides the 3D models to make sure they are ”accurate”.
But lets go to the North Pole for a little bit and I believe a picture is worth a thousand words.
As you see, the reason you have also never seen an actual picture of the North Pole from space is that in addition to the size, you will also find a massive crater there, like the one on the picture to the left. This is where the asteroid that threw our planet of its axis collided.
And a crater like this will lead to lots of questions, namely, how can the North Pole be this massive and the dimensions of the planet as we know it be the same? Well, they aren’t. So what could be so interesting about Antarctica that NASA decided to keep the real size of our planet a secret? It’s very easy. I want you to think about Chernobyl.
After the reactor meltdown, they evacuated the town, but you could say everything froze in time. There are still cars parked, pots and pans on stoves and fridges filled with food. In Antarctica the very same thing happened with the added bonus that everything is completely frozen, or preserved in ice. Night Eternal over Antarctica.
We are talking about the people that lived here before us, along with their technology and their everyday life. I’m sure you’ve read about the reports of people working on far more advanced technology that the one we currently have at our disposal, like the UFO that several sources say is being stored in Area 51. Well, these artifacts were salvaged from deep beneath the ice, and it is one of the reasons that NASA wants everyone to remain ignorant about this. Can you imagine if another nation salvaged something and got it to work before the American government? That could be seen as a threat to their world dominance. But there is something else that is extremely more important, and that is their actual knowledge. Think of it like this. You are diagnosed with a terminal illness, with less than a year to live. Some people might go on a spending binge, but not you. You have responsibilities, a family that you’ll leave behind, a mortgage, etc, so you’re gonna use the time you have left to make arrangements to ensure their survival. They are your future, even tough you won’t be here to see it develop.
Funnily enough, we ourselves prepare for this scenario today. There are many seed banks like the one on the left all over the world. They are meant to protect us in the future in case a virus or bacteria destroy our current crops irreparably. There are also other places where our knowledge is stored, schematics, blue prints, etc. And of course these places are all in remote areas, either built deep into the ground or into a mountain to protect them from whatever catastrophe we might face. So, knowing that Earth was going to be hit by an asteroid in what now is the North Pole, where would the safest place be? As far away as possible from the impact zone, and seeing that our planet is more or less a sphere, the safest place would be the exact opposite Pole, or Antarctica.
So there you will find these ancient repositories of knowledge that they left for us to learn. But no, the American government believes this would only create more threats, so you live in ignorance of their existence. Now that you know about this, don’t you want to go there and learn everything you can about the people that lived here before? Just imagine what awaits for us there. And I’m gonna trow in a little bonus. Our own seed banks are guarded by state of the art surveillance systems, so you could not get close to them without someone being alerted to your presence. Now, some of you have heard and even reported about these strange energy beams that from time to time are detected going into space and have their origin in Antarctica. Guess what? Perimeter breached. Sound the alarm. So now you know what these occurrences are.
Another conspiracy that ties into this cover up is global warming, and the reason for that is very simple. Antarctica is completely covered in ice, so any increase in the planet’s temperature is welcomed by NASA. That means the ice gets easier to excavate without them directing additional funds to that effect. Imagine excavating tons of metric ice, only to find them restored in no time. But there is another consequence of hiding the size of our planet. All the weather models are incorrect, since they do not account for the actual size of Antarctica and the amount of cold air coming from there. It doesn’t sound so crazy when you realize we keep having these massive tropical storms all the time.
But it goes a little deeper.
Every year, numerous forest fires decimate hundreds and hundreds of acres of land. But what does this have to do with global warming?
Well, how many of you had one of these fires close to your residence or even in your state? These fires attack every year and firefighters always seem to be out of their league when dealing with them. The media refers to it as wildfire season, so you get used to it. But it is ridiculous. Would you get used to a killing spree season, or would you be up in arms for the inadequacy of the government in dealing with a problem that seems to occur every year? This is by no means a critique of the men and women that give their lives to protect us and our homes, but its like they are not being provided with adequate equipment on purpose. There seems to be a lack of coordination whose sole purpose is to let these fires burn and release carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. And no one ever seems to find a point of origin or a culprit. I wonder if a satellite could be used to concentrate the sun, kinda like when we were kids and used the lens of a Looking Glass to burn a piece of paper.
But we are on the brink of not needing fossil fuels to power our cars. I mean, electric cars have come along way and eventually carbon emissions will decrease. Are you sure? The only company that really invested in an electric future is Tesla, but lately, it feels like someone is interested in seeing the company go down the drain. And no, I not going to address that carthat was shot into space.
But a conspiracy this big could not have been kept secret since this beginning. I mean hiding a planet from it owns inhabitants? Surely someone in power would have wanted the worldto know about this. And you are right. There was one man, one president that understood the power this discovery could have in uniting all of us. And that man was President John F Kennedy, who was killed by agents of his own government because he wanted to share with the American people and the rest of the world what NASA found about our planet when they went into space. But there were those that believed it was to soon to release information without a proper assessment and that whatever secrets lied frozen beneath the ice might be exploited by a foreign power and engulf the world in yet another war. After all, it had only been a mere 17 years since World War II ended, and these agents were not going to risk that happening because one man had faith in humanity. While writing this segment, I realized that it has also been 17 years since the attacks of September 11th horrified us. Is the world a different place today than it was 17 years ago? Do you feel it is safer? Are we more united as a species, or is the divide between nations even greater? I’ll let you decide. But what about the next president, and the one after that, and so on? Well, after eliminating the threat to national security that was President Kennedy, the decision was made to keep this information classified even from the man that was elected by the American people to best serve them. At least during his first term. Can you imagine what a president without a filter and that tweets every thing that comes to is mind might do with this information, if he finds himself elected a second time?
What about Mars? Any advanced civilization that lived on earth thousands of years ago, would have certainly tried to colonize Mars, or maybe even escape doomsday by fleeing there, but we have all seen pictures of Mars and there are no structures there. It is one big red desert, right? Well, yes and no.
Look at the picture on the right. Would you say that our planet is one big desert, or do you understand you are seeing selected pictures of Mars with the sole purpose of hiding the truth from you? The Sahara desert extends for hundreds and hundreds of miles in any direction without any water and little vegetation, but you wouldn’t say our planet is only made of sand.
I’m rather sure you have heard about Planet X or Nibiru. It is supposedly a secret giant planet than NASA is hiding from us that is located in the solar system and will eventually collide with Earth. Well, this conspiracy is not without a sense of irony, because like you already know, this giant planet that NASA has been hiding is our own.
S/orry, did you just say that space tourism is coming our way? Well, it isn’t. You’re just meant to think it is. We’ve been hearing about space hotels and cheap space flights for years, but save for a few millionaires that went to space, no one else is going anytime soon.
Shall we ask Sir Richard Branson how many millions he invested in a dream he’ll never be allowed to achieve. And it’s very easy to understand why. First thing you’ll want to do is go around the world. How long before someone realizes the planet looks nothing like what we grew up seeing? Down here it is easy to control air space. You can scramble a jet to investigate an intrusion in no time. But up there? Wouldn’t work. So you are going to stay on the ground. But don’t worry. Eventually VR will be here to make space look so good you won’t even think about experiencing it for real.
And now we are going to go into how this is been done in a practical way. To be able to mask the real size of our planet, distances had to be altered, and to do that satellites and super computers are being used. But just saying that sounds like something you would hear coming from someone wearing a tin foil hat. Look at this supercomputer distribution chart. Once you remove China, the US has more than twice the supercomputers of all the other countries combined.
And now, look at the evolution of satellites in orbit.
In case you’re thinking that the majority of these satellites are for communication purposes, you should know that 95% of all communication is done trough underwater cables, not only for speed, but also for reliability. So all these satellites are remapping and then sending back these false distances to GPS devices all over the world. Funny how Russia has their own system, GLONASS, which was made a top government priority by President Putin and China has their BeiDou system.
But what about the more that 10.000 planes that fly at any given time? This is where it gets interesting. You see the two main aircraft manufacturers are Boeing and Airbus and both of these companies are deeply involved in space exploration and are basically working with NASA.
And it goes without saying that every airline pilot would have trained whatever route they will fly in a simulator first, so the deception becomes reality when they board a real cockpit. Remember, pilots are basically there to take off and land the plane. And at the end of the day they are human like you and me. I bet you use the GPS in your car all the time, even when you’re visiting a place you’ve before and know perfectly well how get there. And now, let me address one of aviation’s biggest mysteries and why it still remains so. Flight MH370 and why you’re are not being allowed to find it.
We’ve been told that the pilot wanted to create one of aviation’s biggest mysteries, and this theory is backed up by evidence the FBI uncovered when analyzing the pilot’s personal computer.
Funnily enough, this supposed route he practiced bared no fruit in finding the plane. You see, the problem with that lies in the fact that the only mystery a pilot is “allowed” to create is the why, much like the German Wings co-pilot that crashed the plane he was flying. The where and the what were out of his control, but the why remains a mystery.
Now, there has never been a civilian aircraft that crashed and was not found, so the idea that the pilot was able to somehow mastermind a mystery this big is ridiculous. No, the reason you are not allowed to know where the plane crashed is because once you do, you’ll eventually realize the plane could have never flown there with the fuel it carried. But now you know that aircraft manufacturers are in on the cover up. Any passenger aircraft can cover a much larger distance that the one reported by the manufacturer in the plane’s specs. So where could the plane have crashed? We’ve been told that the plane is somewhere in the Indian Ocean, and yet, after years of searches nothing as been uncovered.
And why? Well these things take time. Recently wreckage of a WWII bomber was discovered, so who knows if it is going to take us another 70 years to find the airplane. Will anyone even care by then?
Well, it won’t take that long because I’m going to tell you where you need to look.
Do you know what a garbage patch is? They are these massive islands of garbage that float around the Pacific Ocean. Yes, the Pacific Ocean. MH370 crashed in the Pacific Ocean. Now, look for the one that was closest to MH370’s route the night it disappeared and you will find the plane there. That is why no debris was found, it is being masked by all the garbage floating around it. I’m pretty sure ships are told to avoid these garbage patches as to not incur damage to their hull and engines. But more importantly, when you do find the plane, you’ll realize there is no way it could have flown there, unless distances are being manipulated and you’ve been lied to your entire life.It is funny how the American government always uses a tragedy to cover up their wrong doings.
Originally, when I decided to write this, I was going to finish here, but I’m going to address the recent closure of the Solar Observatory in New Mexico and why it happened. Lets just say it’s big. As you know, the FBI closed off and evacuated the area surrounding the Observatory without a single explanation to workers, residents and even local authorities.
There were also other observatories closed in foreign countries like Chile, Spain and Australia that completely contradict the official version that was provided by the FBI. The first reported cause for the closure was an espionage act conducted by Chinese spies. This served as an escape goat motive until a proper cover story could be cooked up. But it was a very good strategy to use the espionage angle for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it goes into the general fear of national secrets falling into foreign hands, and why not use the Chinese when everyday there is a report about a hacking attempt. And secondly, no foreign nation will ever confirm or deny an espionage act. If you deny something once and keep mum the next time, you are by omission confirming it. But obviously this was never seriously considered. They were just cooking a better cover story. So officially, the observatory was closed and the surrounding area evacuated because a janitor at the observatory was using the WiFi to download child porn. Now, we can all agree that child pornography is despicable, and that is exactly why it was used as a cover story. But lets dig trough some of the comments from official sources in the hopes you too can see trough the ridiculousness of it:
– The chief observer repeatedly found a laptop “plugged in and running” in offices that were either empty or weren’t often used. He described the laptop’s contents as “not good”. So this unidentified janitor left his laptop unattended and completely unprotected in an empty office several times, while child porn was being downloaded. The person that found this laptop didn’t think to apprehend the computer there and then and put an end to this. And I’m alittle confused. Did he use is own laptop or did he use a computer that belonged to the Observatory?
– The next day, the chief observer allegedly saw the janitor leaving the office where the laptop had been taken by the FBI. But the FBI came and closed the Observatory immediately. There wasn’t a next day after the FBI came.
– The janitor allegedly continued to “feverishly” search the observatory and bring up concerns about security, saying “it was only a matter of time before the facility ‘got hit.’ ” He also said a serial killer might murder someone at the observatory, documents said. But the FBI came and closed the Observatory immediately. There wasn’t a next day after the FBI came(I know I repeated the exact same phrase).
– While the janitor was named in court documents, he has not been charged. News outlets are not identifying him.
I really hope some poor actual janitor did not have is life destroyed in some ridiculous cover up. But the most important part to take from this last statement is that no one has been charged. And you know why? So when you call the observatory or even the FBI they can give you a very nice “we cannot comment on an open investigation”. How many of you wanted to further investigate this matter and were told to let it go? If you are a journalist, call the Observatory or the FBI to see what they say, and then watch your superior tell you to drop this NOW. Maybe if you follow this you’ll end up discovering that janitors in those other observatories were also involved(I should be making these cover stories). By the way, the Solar Observatory in New Mexico is state of the art compared to the other ones. Think of a top of the line professional photographic camera versus your very good phone camera. So what really happened? Well, you are about to be told about something that you have never considered, and that is how an advanced civilization would travel trough space. Let me start by saying you have been looking in the wrong place.
As always I’m going to give one of my “grounded” examples to make it easier to explain. Look at this picture. This is a power socket. Its main purpose is to provide power so you can connect your appliances and power them (like the printer I hope you used to print this). If you’re in a room, there are probably a few in the walls. Do you know how they work?
Lets have a look at another picture. So basically they are connected in sequence, but you can use any of them in any order you want independently.
But you can use them for more than just powering appliances. With one of the adapters you see on the left you can now send and receive data and have internet in that attic where the WiFi signal doesn’t reach. And this adapter did all this trough the same power line it used to power itself. Now I want you to go back and look at the that schematic again but this time imagine that one of the sockets is our sun, the next one is the sun of Alpha Centauri and so on. This next picture exemplifies my point.
All stars are connected by an invisible thread. You see, as cool as jumping to hyperspace or going to warp speed sounds, traveling across millions of miles of empty space would be a waste of time and resources. And any scientist will tell you that we only have interest in visiting solar systems with an active star, where life could be sustained. The consensus is that we would need to fold space or travel trough a wormhole and that would require a tremendous amount of power. So how about using the sun as a power source and just navigating trough it?
We know that a dying star creates a black hole, that in theory takes you to another part of the universe, but why wait for a bridge to collapse to cross it? And yes, I know that the sun is extremely hot and any object that got to close would be vaporized instantly. I’ll just say that there is a reason why UFOs are always shaped like a saucer. The universe always provides a way for its inhabitants to travel, much like hundreds of years ago, sailors used wind and ocean currents to circumnavigate the globe. An advanced civilization would use this amazing network to move back and forth at tremendous speeds. And yes, it does sound like an intelligent design behind all this. And now you know why the observatory was closed. Because it recorded an arrival. The one that is going to change everything. And since we just went into how you would travel trough the Cosmos, I’m gonna go into the final conspiracy, and you could say I left the big one for last. I’m gonna talk to you about what happened in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico and you are going to realize that everything you just read started with what happened there. But more importantly than that, I’m gonna tell you why it happened and why there. I have never seen anyone associate these two events together, or at least live to do so.
In 1945 the USA tested the first atomic bomb in New Mexico, on what is now the White Sands Missile Range. Any scientist will tell you that a nuclear explosion has a very specific energy signature and it is something that does not happen naturally. In fact there are satellites that are programmed to detect nuclear explosions by monitoring for these energy signatures. So someone came to our planet to investigate this occurrence. But then they crashed and it was covered up as a weather balloon malfunction. Remember that this UFO was destroyed in the crash, so the one in Area 51 came from Antarctica. I know that usually when talking about aliens and UFOs is the moment where one loses its credibility, so perhaps another one of my comparison scenarios might help.
You live peacefully in your community and one day in the horizon you see smoke. You think to yourself that the smoke is most likely a sign of another civilization that you did not know existed and that they might be in trouble. So you go there to investigate and help if needed. When you get there, you discovered horrified that those people were testing fire as a weapon and that they used it to savagely burn down a couple of villages, incinerating men, women and children (that is Hiroshima and Nagasaki in case you didn’t get it). Unfortunately, you end up crashing and get captured. Throughout the years, other people from your community attempt to reach out to the ruling nations of this other civilization but are always met with hostility. The people from over there that report seeing your crafts and interacting with members of your community are always ridiculed, either by politicians, the media or pretty much everyone in general. No one will investigate these occurrences out of fear of being ridiculed and having their credibility destroyed. You watch from afar as the people of those nations are being more oppressed everyday and the ruling powers getting greedier by the day. You know that the day they find their way back to where you live they will fabricate whatever evidence they need to justify a conflict with you. But you also know that some of the people that live there are good and with proper guidance will be a tremendous addition to the already vast alliance of tribes you belong to.
You’ve already tried reaching out to the rulers and were turned away multiple times, so how do you make contact in a way that is clear and that everyone can see you? But more importantly, and this is the question you should be asking yourself, who do they make contact with? With the Americans that have been hiding the truth about our planet and the existence of other life out there all along for profit and greed? The Russians or the Chinese that also knew about it, but did nothing? What about the British, who all of a sudden discovered a new “love” for everything foreign? What about leaders of the European Union, that is starting to look more and more like a dictatorship? What about a different kind of ruling power like the Vatican? Will they usurp the truth as the word of a higher power, that only they control and lead us into another dark ages? And finally, what about you? Yes, you that are reading this? Are you ready to have entrusted to you knowledge and wisdom that can change mankind for the better, or will you keep it to yourself because it is your time to live a good life? You see, once you actually ask this question there isn’t really a clear cut answer. Maybe they should just leave us alone so we can simply destroy the planet and the ecosystem. After all, it is our planet, right? But what about all the other species that live in harmony and balance with the ecosystem? You know, the ones we are hunting to extinction. Should these other species just go gently into the night and never be seen or heard again? As you see, if you really want to delve into this question is not really that simply. But do you really want to know how contact is going to be made?
There you go.
I know, these pictures are circulating online as alien fleet around the sun, but now you know they were not around the sun, they came out of the sun because that this is how you travel around the galaxy. NASA and the American government know this, and they have started preparing for the mass panic that will no doubt come with the news that we are not alone in the universe. I expect an announcement to come any day now. You even have the new Presidential Alert system that was designed for this very occurrence, and not for the fires, earthquakes or tropical storms that have been happening for years now. But I want you to know that the day you look up and think the world is coming to an end you don’t have to be afraid. And for you that just traveled trough an ocean of stars to come see us I only want to say SBAECSEDMA.
LES PRÉSENTATEURS SONT ABASOURDIS DE VOIR UN OVNI À GRANDE VITESSE LORS D'UN PROGRAMME D'INFORMATIONS ARGENTIN.
LES PRÉSENTATEURS SONT ABASOURDIS DE VOIR UN OVNI À GRANDE VITESSE LORS D'UN PROGRAMME D'INFORMATIONS ARGENTIN.
L'une des questions les plus débattues dans notre société est de savoir s'il y a de la vie sur d'autres planètes. Et est-ce une série d'observations inexpliquées d'OVNIS qui ont conduit beaucoup à croire que des extraterrestres ont toujours existé parmi nous. Cependant, les sceptiques tentent continuellement d'expliquer ces phénomènes, tandis que les témoins ne peuvent être plus certains de ce qu'ils ont vu.
La vérité est que, lorsque les observations ne sont observées que par une seule personne, elles sont généralement discréditées. Quand il y a plusieurs témoins, alors les choses changent. Et lorsque des milliers, voire des millions de personnes sont témoins de l'impossible et que l'on voit également à la télévision en direct, la controverse commence. L'une de ces observations controversées a eu lieu le 20 janvier 2013, lorsque la chaîne de télévision américaine Fox News lors de la retransmission en direct du Washington Monument, est sortie de nulle part d'un objet mystère illuminé. Il y a ceux qui ont dit qu'il s'agissait d'un hélicoptère, car il s'est déroulé la nuit précédant la deuxième investiture du président Obama. Cependant, il n'avait pas la forme d'un hélicoptère, donc pour certains, c'était la preuve qu'un OVNI apparaissait à travers un portail dimensionnel sur la capitale américaine.
Et encore une fois, un objet mystérieux est apparu lors de la diffusion en direct du journal. Cette fois en Argentine.
OVNI à Buenos Aires.
Ils viennent de publier une curieuse vidéo montrant un objet volant non identifier (OVNI) apparaissant au cours d'un programme d'informations argentin. Dans la vidéo, vous pouvez voir les présentateurs de la chaîne d'information 5 News parler du smog qu'il y a à propos de Buenos Aires. Mais à un moment donné, la présentatrice de l'époque, Mariela Fernández, signale la présence d'un étrange objet métallique dans les cieux.
"Un OVNI, un objet volant non identifier ", s'exclame Mariela. "Qu'est-ce que c'est, qu'est-ce que c'est ? Parce que ce n'est pas un avion… et que ça va très vite. "
À partir de ce moment, le présentateur Diego Angeli essaie de trouver une explication logique et rationnelle à l'observation, expliquant même qu'un OVNI n'est pas synonyme d'un engin extraterrestre. Mais après quelques secondes, Angeli a complètement changé son discours et a reconnu que pour lui, sans aucun doute, il s'agissait d'un vaisseau extraterrestre.
En outre, il offre une explication détaillée de la raison pour laquelle il s'agissait d'un objet provenant d'autres mondes, comme s'il s'agissait d'un expert du domaine. Le présentateur argentin a expliqué que la propriété de l'embarcation extraterrestre est l'accélération, le fait de ne pas avoir de force peut accélérer à grande vitesse sans changement d'inertie, en plus de pouvoir se téléporter entre différentes dimensions.
"Pour moi, c'était un vaisseau spatial extraterrestre", dit Angeli. "Evidemment, oui."
La vidéo de l'OVNI au cours du programme informatif est rapidement devenue un phénomène viral et pour beaucoup de gens, il était clair que la vie extraterrestre était une réalité. Certains théoriciens du complot ont même prétendu que les gouvernements du monde entier et des agences spatiales telles que la NASA cachaient des secrets liés à la vie extraterrestre, afin que la population ne provoque pas le chaos parmi la population. Bien que le câble aussi la possibilité que c'est un avion secret.
Il y avait aussi ceux qui ont comparé cette observation à celle qui s'est produite lors de la retransmission en direct des informations de la chaîne de télévision américaine KOIN cette année, lorsque deux mystérieuses boules de lumière sont apparues dans le ciel derrière les présentateurs de nouvelles, pour disparaître ensuite dans une Direction différente à travers le ciel nocturne. Mais pour les sceptiques, l'OVNI de l'actualité argentine est simplement une sorte de ballon qui, en raison de la force du vent, se déplace à grande vitesse.
Selon vous, quel est l'objet mystérieux de Buenos Aires ?
Ancient Aliens In And On Stone From Around The world
Ancient Aliens In And On Stone From Around The world
Ancient Aliens are definitely in and on stones around the world. Humans have been using Alien technology to create stone walls and defenses, buildings and structures as there's many examples everywhere in the ancient world.
Below is a proposed Ancient Astronaut depicted in stone. It definitely looks like he or she is well on it's way to becoming an Ancient Astronaut.
With either Alien like symbols, artwork or depictions of Alien beings (what we would call Aliens in the modern day) it must be that these were created from living beings as they looked because they are so similar looking and plentiful. There's many examples of Alien artifacts - like for instance the huge stone works at Cusco in Peru. The walls may have been actually liquefied and then solidified in to place. We actually have a post ready to go on this specific theory so when we do, come back and check this out also on this website? The ancient historic cultures of the early world (not everywhere) but in some specific places on the planet must have had a significant and specific Alien purpose because we find very, very similar like stone carvings of Alien beings, large scale and small scale carvings all the time.
Megaliths in Cusco, Peru. Some believe that we are at our most advanced as a civilization, but if you research the precision needed to construct some ancient structures you'll discover that we have actually lost a lot of knowledge through the years. How did people move these huge rocks without the kind of technology we have today? Slave labor is not a valid answer. And even very personal stone works of which are depictions of either "favorite friends" like an Alien/human friendship trinket as a memory keepsake type souvenir -or we what would recognize it as a photograph even a selfie in today's world.
That's a universal remembrance keepsake and souvenir. We do this to mark an occasion or we do this type of thing as in "remembrance of" or to look back on something or someone but in later times and to think of that specific moment. that's what I think some of these are?
Also we have this same image capturing process in marking events, occasions and to commemorate also to revere and to worship. We even have a form of taking a likeness of something - which has meaning or a meaning to someone specific, thing or place or represents a specific event(s) and carving it in stone is what they did like the way we do today.
The Pyramid of Kukulkan in Chichen Itza is also called "El Castillo". It is one of the most impressive buildings in the ancient world. Was this ancient Pyramid (seen all over the world) constructed but using advanced Alien technology, then was it used to worship the Sky Gods or Aliens and even sacrifice humans for the Gods and to the Gods? We might never know, but we might discover something that gives us the definitive answer.
Ancient stone carvings came in all shapes and sizes but as it was carved in stone it was designed like that to make it last as long as possible so it can either teach people/Aliens alike, salute or just give a nod to so something or someone which had either a profound effect on the peoples or on something, someone or somewhere which had a significant impact and even an intricate design in something and was part of the beginning of something huge.
Like for instance Aliens coming down from the heavens above and making themselves known to the humans? That would definitely fit the Pyramids purpose and it certainly fits in with the myths and legends which surround these amazing places. Below is an image that is widely accepted by alternative researchers and Ufologists as an Ancient Astronaut wall painting by our ancient ancestors. Is this actual evidence or is this just an ancient scribbling of an overactive mind? I think this could be an ancient equivalent of a photograph.
That's what I think these ancient artifacts are, Alien related carvings? We see this process everywhere, even on the Moon, Mars and other places we've sent things or where we've been to places in the universe and left stuff!
NASA Releases 4K Video Of The Moon Ending The Moon Landing Conspiracy
NASA Releases 4K Video Of The Moon Ending The Moon Landing Conspiracy
NASA has just released a 4K video tour of Earth’s moon and the footage will make your jaw drop. Even though Earth’s moon can be viewed in unprecedented detail from Earth, NASA has recently released a video filmed in 4k showing off the surface of the moon in unprecedented close-up detail, and the video will definitely take your breath away.
How can we describe the video footage? Well, it’s stunning. It’s mesmerizing. It’s Fresh. It offers an entirely new way of exploring the surface of the moon, and you can see all of the most important and prominent features of the Earth’s satellite in the stunning video footage.
The footage dubbed as “virtual tour of the moon” in breathtaking 4K has been collected by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft over a span of nine years.
“The tour visits a number of interesting sites chosen to illustrate a variety of lunar terrain features,” Ernie Wright of NASA’s Space Visualization Studio explained in a blog post. “Some are on the near side and are familiar to both professional and amateur observers on Earth, while others can only be seen clearly from space.”
Wright explains that this recently published video is, in fact, an updated version of another one released 7 years ago, in 2011. Despite the fact that the camera path may be the same, the data that has been gathered in 7 years has made it possible for NASA to create a far more incredible and detailed presentation of the moon.
The recently released 4k video displays a number of the moon’s features, combining colors that highlight important or noteworthy data to make sure you not only enjoy the view but learn something new. One of the most interesting parts of the video is when we have the chance to fly over the Tycho Crater, a lunar formation said to be around 100 million years old.
The most interesting part occurs when you think you’ve seen the best part.
The video zooms in unprecedently, focusing on Tycho Crater’s mesmerizing central peak which features an enigmatic 100-meter-wide bolder at the summit, “the origins of which are still a mystery,” the video’s narrator says, adding to the suspense.
In addition to the Tycho crater, you can also fly above the Apollo 17 landing site at the Taurus-Littrow Valley, which as explained in the video, is deeper than the Grand Canyon on Earth. So, the end of the Moon landing conspiracy…right? I wonder, does that make the Taurus-Littrow Valley the ‘Grander Canyon’?
Anyway, while exploring the Apollo 17 landing site, the video offers a few overlays that show us the path NASA astronauts took as they spent three days on the surface of the moon in 1972. You can appreciate the bottom half of the mission’s lunar lander and rover vehicle, items that have remained untouched and undisturbed for the last 46 years.
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4619 .
When the Martians first land on Earth in the 1996 sci-fi comedy Mars Attacks!, for a moment it appears all will be fine. “We come in peace,” says their leader, as the music swells and a dove soars overhead. Seconds later the Martian pulls out a laser gun and opens fire on a crowd of human onlookers. Yet another blockbuster alien invasion has begun.
That’s Hollywood, of course. But the melodrama underscores one of humanity’s most widely held fears: that if and when we do encounter extraterrestrial beings, they will wreak all kinds of havoc, much as they do in the movies.
Or will they? For his new book, Aliens: The World’s LeadScientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, quantum physicist Jim Al-Khalili asked a series of experts to explore how humans might actually make contact with aliens. The possibility is not as far-fetched as it once seemed: since NASA launched its Kepler mission in 2009, researchers have discovered thousands of new planets and “revolutionized our concept of how many habitable worlds could exist,” writes astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol in one of the book’s essays.
But while Hollywood suggests we should expect to battle their inhabitants, science tells a different story. Here, five popular alien myths that Aliensdebunks.
MYTH NO. 1: Aliens would eat us
Movies like The Blob and Critters imagine aliens harvesting humans for food, an unpleasant prospect. But it doesn’t track with the science of nutrition, writes astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell. In order for aliens to get nourishment from eating us, their bodies would have to be capable of processing our molecules (like amino acids and sugars). And that requires having a similar biochemistry–a long shot for a species that hails from a different world.
MYTH NO. 2: Aliens would breed with us
Both of this summer’s extraterrestrial blockbusters, Alien: Covenant and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, involve human-alien hybrids. But given that we can’t even reproduce with our nearest evolutionary relative, the chimpanzee, it’s “overwhelmingly improbable” we could do so with aliens, according to Dartnell.
MYTH NO. 3: Aliens would look like us
Human evolution depended on so many unique and unpredictable factors, it’s near impossible that an extraterrestrial species would have human-like features, like the aliens in The Day the Earth Stood Still and Star Trek. It’s far likelier, writes neuroscientist Anil Seth, that they’d be as different as the octopus, “our very own terrestrial alien,” which has a high level of intelligence, a decentralized nervous system and an alternative style of consciousness.
MYTH NO. 4: Aliens would be “living” creatures
Even restrained films like Arrival get this one wrong, according to some scientists. Should aliens contact us, cosmologist Martin Rees believes we will hear not from fellow organic creatures, but from the robots they produced, who can, in theory, live forever.
MYTH NO. 5: Aliens would steal our water and metal
The aliens in Independence Day famously arrive to strip Earth of its resources. But again, that logic doesn’t add up, writes Dartnell. Most of our metal is in the Earth’s core, not its crust; asteroids would be far better targets for mining. And icy moons, like Jupiter’s Europa, would be easier places to stock up on water. They’re uninhabited, and they don’t have Earth’s strong gravitational pull.
So if aliens aren’t interested in harvesting our lands or our bodies, why would they make contact? Dartnell suspects a purer motive: curiosity. “If aliens did come to Earth,” he writes, it would probably be “as researchers: biologists, anthropologists, linguists, keen to understand the peculiar workings of life on Earth, to meet humanity and learn of our art, music, culture, languages, philosophies and religions.”
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Something is happening above the moon (Raw footage) on October 21, 2018 A professional photographer using his Nicon camera with a 3000mm lens recorded on October 18, 2018 the moon as well as unusual activity above and near the moon. The video shows a
Something is happening above the moon (Raw footage)
A professional photographer using his Nicon camera with a 3000mm lens recorded on October 18, 2018 the moon as well as unusual activity above and near the moon.
The video shows a UFO next to the moon. then a second circular UFO becomes visible.
Next a third UFO approaches and flies upwards until it disappears behind the moon.
In the meantime till the end of the video the first UFO remains in the same position.
The footage below is the raw version of the moon event and submitted to Mufon.
Noodweerbenelux/Felix VanderleenenEen 'pilotengat', vanmiddag gespot boven het Vlaams-Brabantse Halle.
WEERNIEUWSBoven de Vlaams-Brabantse stad Halle is vanmiddag een opmerkelijk natuurfenomeen gespot. Het gaat om een ’fallstreak hole’, of een zogenaamd pilotengat.
Volgens Noodweerbenelux gaat het om een vrij zeldzaam verschijnsel, waarbij een rond of elliptisch gat ontstaat in de wolken. Het fenomeen ontstaat onder meer wanneer een vliegtuig door de wolken vliegt. “Deze wolken bestaan uit onderkoelde waterdruppeltjes”, klinkt het. “Wat wil zeggen dat die druppeltjes niet zijn bevroren, maar wel een temperatuur onder het vriespunt hebben. Wanneer in een laag bevriezing optreedt, worden ijskristallen gevormd die vervolgens omlaag vallen. Zo lijkt het of er als het ware een hap uit de wolken is verdwenen.”
In the recent world of fringe science, there has been an explosion of interest in so-called meta-materials allegedly “recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.” Although this announcement has created a great deal of excitement, there has been very little context to these claims. The public, therefore, has no real baseline by which to critique or even understand the claims or methods being employed to confirm the potentially anomalous nature of the material. For example, how can a member of the public understand whether or not the testing methods suggested by a variety of individuals are sufficient? And how will the evidence such testing provides be understood and analyzed by the scientific community, and how best can that be expressed to the general public? In this report our group will give this context, helping the public to construct informed opinions on these testing methods, results, and the very nature of the tests performed.
As a first pass on this analysis, we must understand what questions are being asked. In other words, let’s suppose we were given a piece of material that was believed to have come from another, potentially alien civilization. The challenge presented to our scientific team is to prove whether or not this material really did, or at least most likely must have, come from some non-Earth intelligence. How would we begin to develop a plan to test if the evidence supported this hypothesis? This question can be broken down into a number of significant portions. Firstly, we would want to identify if the material has come from outer space by comparing it to similar materials or samples we find on Earth. Does it show significant enough differences to cause us to believe it did not come from our planet? Second, is there evidence that the material has been engineered or designed in some way? Does it show properties or applications that we wouldn’t expect to occur naturally, or is it engineered or composed in a way to give it specific properties? And third, does it show advanced techniques or knowledge with which we are unfamiliar. Are there super-heavy elements which we have yet to discover here on Earth, does it show crystal structures or solid phases that have not yet been documented by the materials science community, does it show composition and engineering which is beyond the scope of science today?
This artist’s concept depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone — a range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the planet’s surface.
(Image Credit: NASA)
If these three questions are answered in the affirmative and supported by evidence this would be enough to support the hypothesis. This would show that this material is not only from outer space but from a civilization that had engineered it for a specific purpose. Each question answered in the affirmative would be a tremendous milestone for the person who found the material, but not enough to support the extraordinary claim of alien engineering on its own. For instance, if the material were found to be from outer space with evidence of unknown properties it may be a meteorite or other piece of space debris, but not necessarily from another civilization. At the same time, if the material showed evidence of engineering and was also found to have unknown properties it could be from an experimental aircraft or another device that is currently unknown to the public and scientific community. One possibility we cannot ignore here is that our current science may not be able to understand or determine the properties or applications for which a given material has been engineered. This may give a false negative to our question 3 above and lead us to unfairly characterize some samples as not passing the high threshold we have set. Ultimately if a material has been engineered, it is almost implied that there would be a reasoning behind this engineering, some application for which it would be used. Therefore, I would anticipate that although we may not currently understand its application that does not imply that an application was not in mind when the material was initially designed. This suggests that for cases where engineering is suspected as well as a non-Earth point of origin careful consideration must be given to potential applications we do not expect, as well as a variety of tests that may not be obvious to the engineer or scientist.
Materials science is a broad field with applications across the breadth of scientific, engineering, and medical studies. It deals primarily with the analysis and study of solid materials, both in their bulk form (for example the properties of a gallon of sand) and at the level of individual particles (a single grain of sand). This science deals with both crystalline materials, those with repeating patterns of atomic arrangement into what are known as crystalline phases (one of the most well-known examples of a crystalline solid is diamond, although crystals do not need to be gem-like, for example, salt), and amorphous solids, those without repeating atomic arrangements (one of which is aluminosilicate glass materials such as those used for dishware or windows in homes). Other materials which are well known to the reader are metallic solids such as Iron (a bulk collection of iron atoms held together by shared electrons) and steel (an alloy of iron with other metals, creating a solid mixture of components into a roughly homogeneous material). These materials are all, more or less, simplistic in their composition and manufacturing processes. For the majority of our time as a civilization, we have either mined them from the Earth for our direct use, or performed slight modifications such as melting, remixing, and re-casting to make them more useful. It is potentially true that other civilizations, having obtained the ability to make their way to our distant corner of the universe, will have also had their bronze or iron ages far in the past, and come to roughly the same conclusions as our metallurgists, scientists, and engineers when it comes to how to shape and utilize these materials at the bulk scale (assuming of course that these beings are physical things at all, something that is out of the scope of this discussion).
In recent years, materials engineering has focused on the creation of novel materials for directed applications. In particular, this has focused on the creation of materials with nanoscale properties, those which become apparent at the bulk scale but are due to properties of the material at the scale of 1 x 10-9 meters long. Of particular interest to the study of potentially engineered materials, the behavior of nanoengineered solids is such that they would not, in general, be possible in nature as far as we understand it. These may include the creation of composite materials (e.g. solid particles covered in polymer molecules, layers of unlike oxides and metallic compounds with polymer or soft matter layers, designed or engineering crystal or polymer phases, and others), the creation of non-standard geometries (asymmetrical crystal growth or properties, designed crystal defects at regular positions, pillaring or other mixed porosity structuring), or the creation of materials that are post-synthetically functional (in other words materials that can be reversibly altered through the application of heat, chemical impulse, electromagnetic field, or some other energy/force). Probing structures of this sort is a complicated process, but one which has a tremendous amount of literature background available for the interested scientist or engineer. The pathway is apparent to those with the wherewithal to follow it; however, the jargon and specifics may be confusing and difficult to the interested public. In general, however, there are a number of properties that would be of immediate interest to a material scientist faced with the three hypotheses we have posited above.
2. Atomic and Isotopic Make-Up
The first piece of useful information is what the material is composed of. This question in the first place helps to narrow down our later searches significantly, provides information to hint at the origin point of the material, and may even help us answer if the material has been engineered or not; as has been gone over consistently in the popular articles on this subject one of these tests would include something like EDS (Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy) or XRF (X-ray Fluorescence). In both of these tests, a material sample is bombarded with X-Rays in a test chamber, causing the atoms within the sample to become excited. These excited atoms eventually relax back to their initial ground state, by releasing photons which are then collected by a detector within the test chamber. The released photons are dependent on the atomic number of the elements within the sample, and in some testing methods, the oxidation state of the atoms within the material can be determined as well. These tests provide information on the elements within the sample, as well as a rough estimate of the chemical makeup of the bulk solid. In the unlikely case that the material contains an unknown element, it is these sorts of tests that would show the scientist that further testing should likely be performed. These tests may also suggest the presence of elements we don’t expect to find normally on the surface of the Earth, or even percentages of elements that are uncommonly found. For example, there are elements which are not naturally occurring but instead result from our nuclear weapons testing. Elements of this sort such as Strontium and Cesium would not be anticipated in high percentages in a normal sample of material, although again this would only suggest that the material is not from a standard source and not that it is extraterrestrial in origin.
Another type of information which has been held up as the holy grail of material testing in pop science is isotopic testing and ratio analysis. Isotopes of a given element are defined by their atomic number (the number of protons in their nucleus, which gives the element it’s identity and placement on the periodic table) and their mass (the number of protons and neutrons, each defined as one atomic mass unit, within the nucleus). The relative abundance of an isotope of an element on the surface of the Earth is, very roughly, averaged to give the atomic mass listed on the periodic table for that element. Isotopes vary due to their stability (with radioactive isotopes decaying and therefore becoming less abundant with time), and therefore the relative ratio of isotopes within a given sample would normally be expected to fit within the range of other samples found on the Earth. However, the variation of isotopes across the Earth’s surface can vary significantly, with radioactive testing and other geological or historical factors potentially playing a part. Therefore, it is important to be nuanced and careful in the analysis of these tests, a fact that has not been fully appreciated to date by those claiming to have extraordinary samples. At best isotopic testing would tell us that material is outside of the range of terrestrial samples we usually find, warranting further study by other means. It may also tell us if the sample is from before or after the Earth or even our solar system formed, or what local chemical or geological make up may have looked like over the lifetime of the sample. However, isotopic testing alone is not sufficient to answer the question of whether or not a sample has been engineered or left behind by some advanced civilization.
Isotopic testing is generally performed utilizing magnetic mass spectrometry techniques such as Isotope-Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) or Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICPMS). In these tests, the material sample is first atomized, either by grinding or very fast heating and dispersion in a carrier solution, which also causes them to take on a net positive or negative charge and thereby become ions. These ions are then carried with the carrier gas or plasma through a magnetic field towards an ion detector. The magnetic field is set up in such a way that ions will be separated from one another based on their mass to charge ratio, a value which is specific to ions of isotopes of a given element. Essentially, isotopes which are heavier will flow more slowly with the carrier gas, and those with higher charges will be more attracted to the magnetic field. This allows us to obtain a readout of the mass to charge ratio of the atoms within a sample, which when compared to a standard set of samples can then be used to determine the isotopes within the sample as well as their relative abundance based on the number of hits the detector reads. The results of these tests can be extremely accurate, down to parts per million of a sample if given the correct calibrations and analysis methods being employed.
Mass Spectrometry Machine at the University of Toronto
(Image Credit: Flickr/Nayuki)
3. Crystallography and Surface Characterization
If an advanced civilization has engineered a material for a specific purpose, one of the avenues to discover the trademarks of this engineering may be in the specifics of the solid components that make up the material. This includes the surface characteristics of the individual solid components (for example are they patterned or etched, do they show evidence of atomic deposition or other surface treatments for growth or sealing, are the surfaces polished or show a lack of imperfections), the porous structure of the support (is the surface area very high, are their complex porous channels that appear to have some separation or adsorption potential, are the pores engineered to include secondary chemical sites for chemisorption or catalysis of some sort), the crystal structure or phase of the components (is it a crystal structure that currently exists on Earth, is it a single crystal compound, does it show multiple materials combined together in a way which is unexpected), and the bulk properties of the solid (how does it respond to temperature, pressure, shear stresses, radiation, etc). The range of possible properties that can be probed in this case is vast; however, there are a few tests which I would consider to be absolutely necessary for a true analysis of any potentially engineered solid. These include X-Ray Diffraction, Pore/Surface analysis via adsorption isotherm, Raman or FTIR Spectroscopy, Electron Microscopy, and Thermogravimetric Analysis/Differential Scanning Calorimetry. These cover the broad gamut of materials characterization, giving a view of the materials properties as they currently exist, and would hint at potential other applications or methods of engineering should they exist.
X-Ray Diffraction consists of the analysis of how an X-Ray beam is diffracted off of a materials crystal lattice. You can imagine a crystal structure like a regularly repeating pattern of atoms, each placed in a fixed position to one another in 3-dimensional space. During X-Ray diffraction, the crystal lattice is bombarded with photons, which are being shot as a beam at a given angle. Photons will interact and collide with atoms within the crystal lattice if they come into contact and be diffracted off of the solids lattice. In X-Ray Diffraction the photons that are diffracted are collected at each given angle and analyzed to determine information about the geometry of the crystal structure, how well defined the crystal is, and even in some cases how much stress or strain the material is under. For our analysis, the first important characterization is if the material is a crystal structure or not. If it is a crystal, is it a sort of crystal structure that we would find in the scientific literature, or is it something novel to materials science? From the hints that we have received so far by those in possession of these materials, we may expect that the solid is layered, or lamellar. These layered solids possess diffraction patterns at the lowest X-Ray angles, between 0.1 and 5 degrees 2 theta (2 thetas being the measured angle of the X-Ray beam). This corresponds to very large spaces between repeating planes, with most layered materials in the open literature showing d spacings of between 10 and 40 Angstroms. This would be a quick and easy test to run and would immediately tell us if the structure is layered in any way which would make it outside of the scope of naturally occurring lamellar structures such as clays or layered hydroxides.
X Ray diffraction patterns at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.
(Image Credit: Flickr/Duncan Hull
Spectroscopy occurs similarly, probing the structure with photons of a given energy and observing the excitation of the material surface to tell us something about the chemical bonds likely present on the material. Raman spectroscopy is generally utilized in this field for metallic structures, although the information obtained in this way is generally limited. The true use of these spectroscopic techniques from a materials science perspective is in the ability to see if there are secondary chemical functionalities present on the material’s surface. For example, we may expect that catalysis or separation applications on some other planet would require the same careful control of chemical binding sites as we use on Earth for our catalysis and separations applications. This would be clear by the presence of secondary chemical species not often found on the surface of solid materials. Sensors on a material surface, coatings for different applications, and other potential surface species adsorbed onto the material being studied (such as debris from entry into the upper atmosphere, chemical species from the atmosphere of where ever this material has been, and other surface alterations) would also potentially be observable from such an analysis. This in tandem with isotherm analysis for porosity and surface area information would also be extremely useful. Materials with very high surface areas may show potential as catalysts or adsorbents and would show at least that the material was likely created and not naturally occurring (surface areas as high as 3000 m2/g have been achieved on Earth, although only for synthetic materials).
Electron Microscopy via Scanning Electron Microscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy would give information as to the solids bulk surface properties, although outside of that the information gleaned from such analysis is likely to be limited. Of particular interest would be whether the surface is patterned or altered in some way. For example, on Earth we are currently studying the effect of rough surface patterning on anti-bacterial or microbial properties of surfaces, as well as what effect surface etching or patterning can have on the ability to repel or absorb water. We may expect that other intelligences would also find these properties useful to tune and would utilize them to provide beneficial properties to their materials. There may also be other surface patterning alterations which provide additional benefits, for example, radar cloaking or resistance to heat or radiation. On top of that if the material has been fabricated at the micron or bulk scales, then these microscopic techniques would tell that story, providing direct evidence of engineering. Thermal analysis may also provide some benefit, although this would again be limited. TGA and DSC work by heating the material slowly over time and observing what changes are made to the temperature of the material or the weight of the material. This may provide information on organic content, the ability of the material to withstand increased temperatures or heat fluxes, and how the solid behaves under the extreme heat of entry into the atmosphere from space.
4. Current State of Materials Study and Conclusion
As far as can be gleaned from the information available to the general public, it appears that efforts to date concerning the analysis of solids potentially occurring from some unknown civilization have focused on the first class of studies, those concerning the elements making up the material and their isotopes. However, as has been suggested by this work that is only a small portion of the entire picture needed before any definitive conclusions can be made. There are other, more specific tests that would need to be run to determine the potential applications of any material, how it was potentially fabricated, and where it may have come from. However, as any first-year materials science student can tell you, these are the basic analytical techniques which would be utilized for a serious investigation. Of particular concern to the interested public should be any study that purports to give evidence without reporting clearly and in detail their methods, potential sources of error, the accuracy of their measurements, and other information required to replicate their results. Without these pieces of information, it is impossible to verify any claims regarding a material’s properties, let alone more extraordinary claims regarding potential engineering by a non-Earth civilization. It is the authors hope that this report has been informative to the general public, and it is our sincere hope that this work may be of some use to those interested in these subjects who are not sure what to make of extraordinary claims of materials with special properties or exotic origin points.
Prepared by Christopher F. Cogswell, Ph.D. in association with the Scientific Association for the Investigation of Unexplained Phenomena.
UFO researchers and UFO and Close Encounters of the Third Kind enthusiasts gathered in Hulett, Wyoming for the Devils Tower UFO Rendezvous recently. Held near the iconic natural phenomenon made famous from the Steven Spielberg movie, lectures discussed UFO research and the latest UFO news.
OpenMinds.tv interviewed several of the speakers on their thoughts regarding the recent revelation that the Pentagon had a secret UFO program that began in 2007. According to insiders, the program still exists.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Micah Hanks is a writer, podcaster, and researcher whose interests cover a variety of subjects. His areas of focus include history, science, philosophy, current events, cultural studies, technology, unexplained phenomena, and ways the future of humankind may be influenced by science and innovation in the coming decades.
In 2012, his book The UFO Singularity explored themes that incorporated futurism and technology–both speculatively, and at times skeptically–into an analysis of UFO phenomena. Micah hosts The Gralien Report podcast which has seriously covered the UFO phenomenon for many years. In this interview, we discuss the cultural significance of the UFO phenomenon and how it has changed the culture and how it may influence the future.
How Close Are We to Kubrick's AI-Controlled Vision of the Future?
How Close Are We to Kubrick's AI-Controlled Vision of the Future?
By Mindy Weisberger, Live Science Senior Writer
A murderous computer named HAL in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968).
Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
Movie audiences first heard these calmly intoned and ominous words in 1968, spoken by a spaceship's intelligent computer in the science-fiction masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey." With that one phrase, the computer named HAL 9000 confirmed that it could think for itself, and that it was prepared to terminate the astronauts who were planning to deactivate it.
We might be a lot closer than we think, with machines as smart — and as potentially threatening — as HAL lurking "in plain sight on Earth," according to an essay published yesterday (Oct. 17) in the journal Science Robotics.
Essay author Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M University, knows artificial intelligence well; she was a pioneering leader in the development of disaster-response robots, and she serves as director of Texas A&M's Humanitarian Robotics and AI Laboratory, according to a faculty biography.
Kubrick's portrait of HAL represented a rare glimpse of what were then very young fields: AI and robotics, showcasing three disciplines that were critical for developing artificial intelligence: "natural language understanding, computer vision and reasoning," Murphy wrote in the essay.
HAL learned from observing its environment, watching and analyzing the words, facial expressions and movements of the human astronauts on the spaceship. It was responsible for performing rote functions such as maintaining the spaceship, but as a "thinking" computer, HAL also was capable of responding conversationally to the astronauts, Murphy explained.
However, when the mission goes awry and the astronauts decide to shut HAL down, the AI discovers their plot by lip-reading. HAL arrives at a new conclusion that wasn't part of its original programming, deciding to save itself by systematically killing off the people onboard.
The prospect of AI doing more harm than good may not be that farfetched. Experts suggest that weaponized AI could play a big part in future global conflicts, and the late physicist Stephen Hawking suggested that humanity might soon find AI to be the biggest threat to our survival.
"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," Hawking told the BBC in 2014.
During a pivotal scene in "2001," HAL strands astronaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) outside the spaceship, cutting off his demands for re-entry with an emotionless, "This conversation can serve no purpose anymore." But the conversation about AI today is far from over; humanity's growing dependence on computers for a range of everyday uses demonstrates that AI has already established a firm foothold in our homes and in our lives.
What that could mean for humanity over the next 50 years, however, remains to be seen.
Why Haven't We Found Aliens? Because We're Just Not Looking Hard Enough.
Why Haven't We Found Aliens? Because We're Just Not Looking Hard Enough.
By Adam Mann, Live Science Contributor
The Very Large Array in New Mexico is searching for out-of-this-world signals from extraterrestrial intelligence. But it still only covers a vanishingly tiny slice of the search space where alien signals could hide.
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Editor's Note: This story was corrected at 5:20 p.m. E.D.T.
Where are all the aliens? For decades, humans have searched for artificial signals, yet the skies above remain silent. But new research suggests that researchers' investigations have so far not been particularly exhaustive; if the total possible search space were equivalent to the all the water in Earth's oceans, we have examined only a hot tub's worth of volume.
"It is often said that we have been looking for 40 years or so, but we still haven't found any signs of extraterrestrial civilization," said Shubham Kanodia, an astronomy graduate student at Penn State University and co-author of the new paper in the preprint journal arXiv, which has been submitted to The Astronomical Journal. "We wanted to see how much have we looked and how much more do we need to look."
Researchers see radio telescopes as an obvious instrument to use for such investigations, because radio waves travel easily through interstellar dust and, in certain parts of the radio spectrum, background interference is minimized. "It is the 'cosmic quiet zone' where we can best listen for a faint whisper across the interstellar expanse," as an article on the SETI Institute's website puts it.
But how much of the skies have researchers scoured for such radio signals? Along with his colleagues, Kanodia created a rigorous mathematical framework to analyze past SETI searches. The researchers looked at eight separate parameters, including the amount of sky a telescope searched, the sensitivity of the searching observatory and the power of a potential signal. They concluded that, of the total possible search space in which a signal could have hid, previous SETI searches have examined roughly 5.8 times 10 raised to the minus 18, or about a quintillionth, of the available space, which is itself merely a miniscule part of the huge range of potential bandwidths that scientists could search through.
The findings support those who argue that "the Great Silence" is merely an artifact of our limited investigations. "Bright and obvious radio beacons might be quite common in the sky, but we would not know it yet, because our search completeness to date is so low," the authors wrote in the paper.
There is much more room to expand these examinations, said Kanodia, as SETI searches now go beyond radio wavelengths. Newer studies target signals in the optical bands as well, because intelligent aliens might flash powerful optical laser pulses into the universe, either as signals or as a method to drive interstellar spaceships powered by solar sails, Kanodia said. He and his colleagues hope to also eventually quantify the amount of optical SETI that has been done to date, he said.
However, even if we searched both optical and radio wavelengths thoroughly, that would likely represent only a small sliver of the potential search space. In the course of their history, extraterrestrials might have come across many phenomena that humans have not, some of which might be useful for generating signals, Kanodia said. "In all probability, there is still a lot of physics that we have not yet deciphered or understood," he said. "If you were trying to communicate with a caveman with a walkie-talkie, you would not receive any reply."
The results are heartening, said Jill Tarter, an astronomer and former director of the Center for SETI Research, who has done similar calculations in the past. Her results suggested that total SETI searches were akin to looking at a drinking glass's worth of seawater and concluding that there were no fish in the ocean. "I was glad to see that I was in the right ballpark," she said. "It's a very big ocean, and so far, we haven't been able to investigate very much of it."
Editor's Note: This story was updated to note that the study looked at eight parameters, including how much of the sky a telescope searched, not the number of star systems searched.
One of the most perplexing of all the UFO shapes is the Changing UFOs category. For a few years now I’ve heard many UFO enthusiasts complain that the Changing category is useless since it really doesn’t define anything, or that the observers are flawed in some way. I must admit that the previous reports of Changing or Morphing UFOs left me with the impression that these were flawed observations.
Then I listened to the radio talk show Coast to Coast AM, as investigative journalist George Knapp was interviewing Jacques Vallee, one of the deans of Ufology. Vallée made a point about Changing UFOs that seem to morph in an effort to confound observers, their cameras and other scientific equipment that the researchers might be using.
A strong case has been made that many UFOs seem to be under intelligent control vs. some random natural phenomena like ball lighting. Another idea is that these unidentified craft might be “living ships with Artificial Intelligence (AI) Consciousness.” The idea is that these living ships detect the thoughts of people on the ground trying to observe them.
I decided to see what the statistical numbers indicate. First, let me preface two important points:
Many people have a knee-jerk habit of just seeking out the big UFO numbers. My advice is to not be seduced by big numbers; sometimes the prize is hiding in plain sight but with smaller numbers.
Many have a preconceived notion of what a UFO should be like. Remember that although our eyes sense things, seeing really happens in the brain where the interpretation occurs. Any culture with usable telepathy or AI with telepathic functionality could in theory project “what it wants” into your thought process. Now that is the ultimate stealth technology!
Here’s some intriguing data on the “Frequency of Sighting Profile.” For comparison, I selected the most common UFO shape reported: a simple “light” in the sky. The blue line sighting profile from 2001 to 2017 is roughly consistent with most other UFO shapes. There was a slight rise from 2001 through 2007. There is a spike in 2008, which was caused by a documentary about UFOs that was on the Discovery Channel. MUFON was featured in that Discovery show as a national UFO reporting service and thereafter the MUFON data loosely tracked year to year similar to NUFOC. In 2011 through 2015 there is a sharp rise and fall and in 2016 and 2017 have fallen off sharply.
Now look at the red line which represents the Changing UFOs. Note that that the Light shape has sharply changing and huge sighting numbers between the high hundreds through the tens of thousands. The Changing UFO has numbers more or less in the dirt by comparison; with an even string of reports totaling less than 2,100 sighting reports over 17 years.
If we examine the Changing UFO with a finer resolution we can see that it also has a rolling cyclic nature; with an average of about 123 sighting reports per year.
I was surprised where these Changing UFO reports were coming from. California, as you might expect, had 340. Yet it was the next four states that were telling, with a range from 130 to 103: Florida, 130; Washington, 104; Arizona, 103; and Texas, 103. I expected to see a steeper drop in those sighting numbers. Thereafter, the sighting numbers for the Changing UFO dropped very gradually across the various states, which is a very atypical sighting pattern.
I took a peek at U.S. counties for this Changing UFO. Since the overall national sighting numbers for the Changing UFO were barely 2,100, I didn’t expect every county in the country to have a sighting. Using a Forensic Cluster process that I’ve developed I discovered the following with regard to Changing UFO reports.
Only 594 counties of more than 3,000 counties nationally, reported a Changing UFO from 2001 to 2017. Only 319 counties reported more than two. Only 31 counties reported more than 10. Interestingly, only four counties reported more than 25. Clark County, Nevada, reported 26. Orange County, California, reported 41. Maricopa County, Arizona, reported 60 and Los Angeles County, California, reported 79.
I would never have dreamed that from such tiny sighting numbers that such an interesting mystery would reveal itself.
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Illustration of CI Tau, which is surrounded by a planetary disc and has four gas giants orbiting around it.
Credit: University of Cambridge.
Astronomers have discovered a peculiar solar system some 500 light-years away from Earth that may force them to rethink how planets form. The star in question is only two million years old — a mere ‘toddler’ by astronomical standards — but despite its very young age, it’s orbited by four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets.
A crowded baby star
Since the first confirmation of an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star in 1995, and with only a few narrow slices of our Milky Way galaxy surveyed so far, astronomers have confirmed 2,327 exoplanets, with a further 2,244 awaiting confirmation.
A recent statistical estimate places, on average, at least one planet around every star in the galaxy. However, only 1% of the stars astronomers have surveyed so far host a hot Jupiter — a class of gas giant exoplanets that are inferred to be physically similar to Jupiter but that have a very short orbital period.
Most of the hot Jupiters currently identified orbit stars that are at least hundreds of millions of years old. This is why CI Tau, the young star recently studied by researchers at the University of Cambridge, is so interesting. What’s more, it has not one but four gas giants orbiting it.
The astronomers used Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to identify the exoplanets. CI Tau is surrounded by a huge disc of dust and ice, known as a protoplanetary disc, which will seed planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in its system. ALMA’s instruments were able to find distinct gaps in the disc which theoretical modeling showed would correspond to gas giant planets orbiting the star.
According to the new study published theAstrophysical Journal Letters, the four planets differ greatly in their orbit. The closest planet to CI Tau, a juvenile hot Jupiter, is within the equivalent orbit of Mercury.
The farthest orbits are at a distance three times greater than that of Neptune from the Sun. The two outer planets are about the mass of Saturn, while the two inner planets are around one and 10 times the mass of Jupiter respectively. Given that the outermost planet is more than a thousand times further from the star than the innermost one, the system has also set a new record for the most extreme range of orbits observed so far.
Scientists are not sure what to make of this anomalous system. Hot Jupiters have always puzzled astronomers because they are often thought to orbit too close to their parent stars to have formed in situ — instead, they might be captured rogue planets. But considering the age of CI Tau, the findings suggest that hot Jupiters could form within close proximity of a star.
“It is currently impossible to say whether the extreme planetary architecture seen in CI Tau is common in hot Jupiter systems because the way that these sibling planets were detected—through their effect on the protoplanetary disc – would not work in older systems which no longer have a protoplanetary disc,” said Professor Cathie Clarke from Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy, the study’s first author.
In the future, the team of researchers plans on studying CI Tau at multiple wavelengths to learn more about the disc and its planets. For instance, they would like to see whether the outer planets played a role in driving their innermost sibling into such an ultra-close orbit. How the two outer planets formed in the first place is also a mystery.
“Planet formation models tend to focus on being able to make the types of planets that have been observed already, so new discoveries don’t necessarily fit the models,” said Clarke. “Saturn mass planets are supposed to form by first accumulating a solid core and then pulling in a layer of gas on top, but these processes are supposed to be very slow at large distances from the star. Most models will struggle to make planets of this mass at this distance.”
According To Steven Greer, Trump’s Administration Has Been Briefed About UFOs
According To Steven Greer, Trump’s Administration Has Been Briefed About UFOs
What do presidents know about UFOs? Well, if you’re an avid researcher of the topic, you’ve probably realized by now that presidents don’t really have a “need to know” about these things.
The “military-industrial complex” that Eisenhower spoke of, which has become as uncontrollably powerful as he feared, has completely taken over operations that not even the president knows about. Many from within political realms who’ve held esteemed positions have spoken out about this fact.
Take Paul Hellyer for example, a former Canadian Defense Minister, who gave a lecture at the University of Toronto in 2008 where he said it is “ironic that the U.S. would begin a devastating war, allegedly in search of weapons of mass destruction when the most worrisome developments in this field are occurring in your own backyard.”
He was referring to black budget special access programs, which receive no oversight from Congress. This means that not even the government knows about the developments happening in this area, all for “national security” purposes.
“It is ironic that the U.S. should be fighting monstrously expensive wars allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects which both congress and the commander in chief know nothing about.”
To The Stars Academy
It’s almost 2019, and the topic of UFOs has exploded into the mainstream, especially with former rock superstar Tom Delonge gathering defense intelligence officials, world-renowned scientists and more to relay this information to the public via the ‘To The Stars Academy.’ They’ve already released multiple videos of UFOs, and have publicly stated that there are programs within the government that study this phenomenon.
They have Luis Elizondo, a former director of a government ‘aerospace threat identification’ program. This was all disclosed via establishment mouthpieces like the New York Times and the Washington Post.
They’ve also admitted to recovering materials from these ‘unidentified’ objects. You can read the latest updates about what’s going on with that and mainstream UFO disclosure, in general, below.
Black Budget Projects
The black budget is something we easily get information about, and for those who try to bring out information it is difficult to investigate. One example is the efforts of journalists Dana Priest and William Arkin of the Washington Post in 2010.
Their investigation lasted approximately two years and concluded that America’s classified world has “become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, and how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.” You can read more about that HERE.
Here is one of many statements from people who have been “in the know” so to speak. There are thousands of verified quotes on this subject, and we now have the electro-optical data and evidence to back up all of this witness testimony.
“We have, indeed, been contacted – perhaps even visited – by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.” (Second Look, Volume 1, No 7, Washington, DC, May, 1979)
What are the intentions of the cabal when it comes to UFO disclosure? We’ve been lied to about so many things by them, that it’s become hard to believe anything we hear from mainstream mouthpieces.
Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama, who I believe are establishment puppets, have brought up the subject, acknowledged it, but have refused to share any information on it. They did so in cryptic, often comedic ways on popular television, on the Jimmy Kimmel show. It’s hard to know what to make of their comments, or even their overall knowledge about this.
Has Donald Trump been briefed? Yes he has, according to Dr. Steven Greer.
Greer is the founder of The Disclosure Project, an initiative that has brought forth hundreds of military/ defense/ political personnel from all over the world, with verified credentials, to publicly share their testimony about their experiences with UFOs and extraterrestrials. He also released a film last year, called “Unacknowledged.”
It was one of the most popular, if not the most popular film on Itunes & Netflix in 2017. It’s highly recommended if you are new to this subject and don’t already know much about it.
Greer has amassed great credibility for his claims. For example, many years ago he claimed to have had meetings at the Pentagon with some very high-ranking people.
After this, Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell admitted that he also attended these meetings with Greer. What came out of these meetings is that not many people knew the details of this topic, nor wanted to discuss it.
He’s been able to develop relationships with individuals he has interviewed from various branches and ranks of the military as well as within the intelligence and defence communities.
In my opinion, Podesta, Clinton, Obama and Bush are all cabal puppets. Therefore, anything they say about terrorism, national security, or UFOs, is probably lathered up with some ‘disinformation’ soap.
Without this point, if we completely disregard it, there is still more than enough evidence to show that they are simply following the will of their masters. But that’s a topic for another article, back to UFOs!
Greer says he has briefed people close to Trump about the UFO / extraterrestrial issue in this interview. He has also claimed to have briefed past presidents, like Obama and Clinton, and provides those documents on his website, Sirius Disclosure. It seems credible, especially when his claim to have had high-level meetings within the Pentagon was verified by Dr. Edgar Mitchell.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has so far not answered any questions that have been asked about UFOs.
Will There Ever Be A Full Mainstream UFO Disclosure?
Given the fact that this topic seems to be controlled by a small group of very powerful people who gets to decide what humanity can and can’t know, I’d say that as long as this group maintains power, the reality of UFOs and extraterrestrial beings will be hidden from humanity in official channels. A censorship plan has also been spoken about for years by those within.
Roscoe Hiellenkoetter, the first director of the CIA, for example, pointed out decades ago in the New York Times that, “through an official campaign of secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” He went on to state that they are operating under intelligent control.
That being said, there is a serious effort by multiple nations, and perhaps those within this power structure as well, to reveal these truths to humanity. This is evident by all of the whistle-blowers with verified credentials who have shared their experiences, as well as the release of evidence in the form of radar trackings and electro-optical data.
There is a serious push for mainstream disclosure, this can’t be denied and is quite evident by the article linked earlier. Establishment mouthpieces are slowly disclosing this reality.
In 1979 Spanish General Carlos Cavero told the world the following:
“Everything in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon an international exchange of data.” (via Richard Dolan, “UFOs & The National Security State”)
Why Any Disclosure At All?
Why would the New York Times, CNN and the rest of them share any of this truth? Can we believe what they say?
Perhaps not everything they say is false, but for years we’ve seen major geopolitical issues completely twisted by the mainstream media, and evidence of ‘perception manipulation’ that is fostered by their close relationship with US intelligence agencies.
There is also the testimony of multiple award-winning mainstream media journalists who emphasize how mainstream media outlets are paid by governments, corporations and intelligence agencies to present a specific narrative.
Is the establishment trying to lay the foundation for a ‘war against aliens’ like they made a ‘war against drugs’ and a ‘war terror?’ Or are we seeing the white hats within these groups push for the disclosure of information?
All this remains to be seen, but we must understand why this topic would be extremely difficult to disclose and to be honest, it’s probably a mix of both.
For one, you have the energy question. These crafts are clearly not using petroleum. Have we harvested technology from these crafts? If released, what would that mean for the oil industry and our economy? Who would benefit, who would lose?
What about the historical questions, the scientific questions? What about our laws of science and what we understand about ourselves and perhaps human origin? What about the idea that there are intelligent extraterrestrials surveying, visiting, and interacting with people here on Earth!
Tremendous Implications
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the disclosure of this information leaves no area of humanity untouched.
As you can imagine, it has tremendous implications and it’s something that would change the world forever. I am sure the existence of extraterrestrials and the fact that we’ve been visited and are being visited, is not even the tip of the iceberg when it comes to discovery.
Most important will be the impact on consciousness, the deeper investigation into metaphysical realities, and the validation of non-material science. One can expect that disclosure will impact our understanding of who we are and why we are here, and perhaps there is some sort of spiritual lesson to be reaped from the realization that we are not the only ones.
Humanity is just now waking up, and ready to take the steps necessary to move out of infancy. Understand “them” will help us to understand ourselves. We are all connected in some strange form, and the future is exciting.
It’s a topic that, most importantly, we DON’T have to be afraid of or react to with fear, despite the fact that that this type of reaction seems to have been programmed into us. We need to deprogram ourselvesfrom what Hollywood has presented us with, and start to examine the actual evidence and what’s really going on here.
I don’t believe you have to be afraid to discuss or talk about this topic with your peers and your family anymore. It’s no longer taboo, and the more we speak up, speak out, and generate discussion, the closer we get to finding out what’s really going on. It’s definitely an exciting time to be alive.
NASA wants to send humans to Venus – here’s why that’s a brilliant idea
There are plans to cause HAVOC on Venus.
NASA wants to send humans to Venus – here’s why that’s a brilliant idea
Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Natural History Museum were soliciting reservations for the first space tourism mission, well before the modern era of Blue Origins, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. All you had to do was supply your address and tick the box for your preferred destination, which included Venus.
Today, Venus is unlikely to be a dream destination for aspiring space tourists. As revealed by numerous missions in the last few decades, rather than being a paradise, the planet is a hellish world of infernal temperatures, a corrosive toxic atmosphere and crushing pressures at the surface. Despite this, NASA is currently working on a conceptual manned mission to Venus, named the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept – (HAVOC).
But how is such a mission even possible? Temperatures on the planet’s surface (about 460°C) are in fact hotter than Mercury, even though Venus is roughly double the distance from the sun. This is higher than the melting point of many metals including bismuth and lead, which may even fall as “snow” onto the higher mountain peaks. The surface is a barren rocky landscape consisting of vast plains of basaltic rock dotted with volcanic features, and several continent-scale mountainous regions.
Venus was once an Earth twin.NASA / JPL
It is also geologically young, having undergone catastrophic resurfacing events. Such extreme events are caused by the build up of heat below the surface, eventually causing it to melt, release heat and re-solidify. Certainly a scary prospect for any visitors.
Hovering in the atmosphere
Luckily, the idea behind NASA’s new mission is not to land people on the inhospitable surface, but to use the dense atmosphere as a base for exploration. No actual date for a HAVOC type mission has been publicly announced yet. This mission is a long term plan and will rely on small test missions to be successful first. Such a mission is actually possible, right now, with current technology. The plan is to use airships which can stay aloft in the upper atmosphere for extended periods of time.
As surprising as it may seem, the upper atmosphere of Venus is the most Earth-like location in the solar system. Between altitudes of 50km and 60km, the pressure and temperature can be compared to regions of the Earth’s lower atmosphere. The atmospheric pressure in the Venusian atmosphere at 55km is about half that of the pressure at sea level on Earth. In fact you would be fine without a pressure suit, as this is roughly equivalent to the air pressure you would encounter at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Nor would you need to insulate yourself as the temperature here ranges between 20°C and 30°C.
The atmosphere above this altitude is also dense enough to protect astronauts from ionising radiation from space. The closer proximity of the sun provides an even greater abundance of available solar radiation than on Earth, which can be used to generate power (approximately 1.4 times greater).
The conceptual airship would float around the planet, being blown by the wind. It could, usefully, be filled with a breathable gas mixture such as oxygen and nitrogen, providing buoyancy. This is possible because breathable air is less dense than the Venusian atmosphere and, as result, would be a lifting gas.
The Venusian atmosphere is comprised of 97% carbon dioxide, about 3% nitrogen and trace amounts of other gases. It famously contains a sprinkling of sulphuric acid which forms dense clouds and is a major contributor to its visible brightness when viewed from Earth. In fact the planet reflects some 75% of the light that falls onto it from the sun. This highly reflective cloud layer exists between 45km and 65km, with a haze of sulphuric acid droplets underneath down to about 30km. As such, an airship design would need to be resistant to the corrosive effect of this acid.
Luckily we already have the technology required to overcome the problem of acidity. Several commercially available materials, including teflon and a number of plastics, have a high acidic resistance and could be used for the outer envelope of the airship. Considering all these factors, conceivably you could go for a walk on a platform outside the airship, carrying only your air supply and wearing a chemical hazard suit.
Life on Venus?
The surface of Venus has been mapped from orbit by radar on the US Magellan mission. However, only a few locations on the surface have ever been visited, by the series of Venera missions of Soviet probes in the late 1970s. These probes returned the first – and so far only – images of the Venusian surface. Certainly surface conditions seem utterly inhospitable to any kind of life.
Venus as seen by Magellan.NASA
The upper atmosphere is a different story however. Certain kinds of extremophile organisms already exist on Earth which could withstand the conditions in the atmosphere at the altitude at which HAVOC would fly. Species such as Acidianus infernus can be found in highly acidic volcanic lakes in Iceland and Italy. Airborne microbes have also been found to exist in Earth’s clouds. None of this proves that life exists in the Venusian atmosphere, but it is a possibility that could be investigated by a mission like HAVOC.
The current climatic conditions and composition of the atmosphere are the result of a runaway greenhouse effect (an extreme greenhouse effectthat cannot be reversed), which transformed the planet from a hospitable Earth-like “twin” world in its early history. While we do not currently expect Earth to undergo a similarly extreme scenario, it does demonstrate that dramatic changes to a planetary climate can happen when certain physical conditions arise.
By testing our current climate models using the extremes seen on Venus we can more accurately determine how various climate forcing effects can lead to dramatic changes. Venus therefore provides us with a means to test the extremes of our current climate modelling, with all the inherent implications for the ecological health of our own planet.
We still know relatively little about Venus, despite it being our nearest planetary neighbour. Ultimately, learning how two very similar planets can have such different pasts will help us understand the evolution of the solar system and perhaps even that of other star systems.
Mysterious Signals at the Center of Our Galaxy May Be an Optical Illusion
Mysterious Signals at the Center of Our Galaxy May Be an Optical Illusion
By Yasemin Saplakoglu, Staff Writer
Credit: Shutterstock
The universe might be tricking us with its optical illusions.
Last spring, researchers discovered high abundances of three elements in a group of red giants (dying stars in the last stage of their evolution) less than 3 light-years away from the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The high levels of these elements — scandium, vanadium and yttrium — puzzled astronomers, who tried to explain the phenomenon with various theories. One theory suggested that the abnormally high levels of the elements resulted from the descent of old stars into the black hole, while another posited that the elements were debris from the collision of neutron stars, according to a statement.
The latest of such explanations was recently proposed by an international group of astronomers and atomic physicists. They argue that those elements didn't actually exist at the high concentrations observed. Rather, the elements were probably an illusion all along, the researchers reported in a new study published yesterday (Oct. 10) in the Astrophysical Journal.
Scientists originally detected these elements by recording "spectral lines" with a spectrometer. With this method, scientists look at the amount of light an object absorbs or emits. Because different elements will emit or absorb light in a slightly different way (called their spectral lines), scientists can use the information to figure out what an object is made of. Scandium will interact with light differently than, say, vanadium would, for example. [Our Milky Way Galaxy: A Traveler's Guide (Infographic)]
The scientists who conducted the new research found similar lines of scandium in red giants in our own solar neighborhood. However, the authors found that if the red giant were below a certain temperature, those spectral lines increased in strength. But this didn't mean that there was more scandium, vanadium or yttrium in the star, they said.
As for why temperature would affect the measurements, the researchers suggested that electrons that make up the atoms of these elements behave differently at lower temperatures than at higher ones, according to the statement. So, the lower temperatures of red giants — which are much, much lower than that of our sun — could have given off this illusion of spectral lines, according to the statement.
The researchers suggest that the high abundance of these elements is not a unique phenomenon in these red giant stars near the black hole, but that it's an illusion in the measurements. The formation of these strong lines currently "escapes accurate theoretical modeling," they wrote in the study.
They concluded that those spectral lines shouldn't be used as a measurement of these elements, "until we better understand how these lines are formed," they wrote in the study. The researchers are doing just that, continuing to measure spectral lines from various stars in the Milky Way to better understand what they're made of.
I enjoy watching scifi movies as much as anyone does, but having an analytic mind I can’t help but to dissect them some. One of the questions that these movies always bring up for me is how would real aliens talk? In movies it seems like the entire Universe knows how to speak English. I realize that they do this to keep us form having to read subtitles for the entire movie, but they could manage to make it a little more realistic by giving some of the species really heavy, really strange accents. Usually the only character in the movie with a thick accent is the one that is all the way from Scotland, not the one that is from across the Universe. I could pick on the unrealistic portrayal of aliens in scifi movies all day but I won’t. What I do want to do is to talk about how aliens really would talk if we ever where to meet one.
One of our Favorite Aliens
Telepathy:
The one way of communication between aliens that you will see in scifi movies that I think is probably the most accurate is telepathy. Telepathy is the ability where alien beings can talk to each other by using only their thoughts. While I can’t even imagine trying to understand how telepathy would work, it definitely makes sense when it comes to wanting to know how an advanced species of aliens would communicate. I think it is safe to assume that the theory of evolution is probably one of the scientific standards that stays constant throughout the entire Universe. If you follow the natural progression of intelligence and the ability to transfer ideas form one being to another, telepathy would be the best answer of how communication would evolve. The amount of time it would take advanced species to evolve would greatly be decreased by the addition of gene manipulation. Humans are already learning how to manipulate genes, which is probably going to change our species in ways that we can’t even imagine, so many alien species have surely had this technology for thousands of years. I am sure that if they didn’t naturally evolve to the point of being telepathic then they would create the ability themselves for their own species. The feeling of having their thoughts invaded is also a very common experience I hear from people that have been abducted by aliens. The abductees often report that the aliens they encountered talked to them, and the other aliens, without making a sound.After a long enough period of time evolution would step into this process again by eliminating the need for vocal cords. It is impossible to know if some aliens enjoy the art of vocal singing or not. If they do then their vocal cords would probably stay but if not then the body would eliminate them after they were not used for a long enough period of time.
Aliens Could Be Everywhere
Aliens Use Telepathy as Mind Control
The scary part about aliens having the ability to use telepathy is that they could also be using their minds to control our thoughts. Theoretically, that would mean that aliens could mask their appearance to humans. That means that they could be standing right in front of you yet you either don’t see them or they appear to be something else. Using this technique aliens could be all around us and we would never even know!
Aliens Would Be Way Smarter Then Humans
Us humans can’t even comprehend what the minds of such advanced beings could do. We like to think that we are smart but that’s because we compare ourselves to other animals on Earth. Chances are that there are humanoids somewhere in the Universe that have millions of years of advancements on us. We would be like ants to them.
Evolution Changes the Way Aliens Look
This would probably make the aliens heads grow in size while their necks would get thinner. This is often how aliens have been described to me by people that have seen them. For the reasons we have discussed and many more, I believe that the number one way advanced alien species will communicate with each other is telepathy. Of course I do realize that this form of communication would make a really boring movie which is why I try not to dwell on the flaw while I am enjoying the latest scifi movie. I also think that there would still be a need among advanced alien species to use written communication because there may be some limits to their ability to communicate using telepathy; distance probably being one. I would think that aliens would also use some form of written language to record history and label things such as space ship controls. Whether they would still have ears to hear other things around them is another interesting thing to think about. As for how they decide to communicate with us only time will tell.
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THE ROBOT COMPANY BOSTON DYNAMICS HAS LEARNED TO DANCE TO UPTOWN FUNK BY BRUNO MARS
THE ROBOT COMPANY BOSTON DYNAMICS HAS LEARNED TO DANCE TO UPTOWN FUNK
BYBRUNO MARS
The American company that has developed a robotics Boston Dynamics is known for its developments.
Especially impressed users of the Network video in which the robot dog Boston Dynamics opens the door, even resisting someone who is trying to hold him.
A well-mannered four-legged machine SpotMini has already proved that she can easily open the door and enter it, even though man armed with a hockey stick, stopping her.
Now the robot dog Boston Dynamics has learned to dance to the song Uptown Funk by American musician Mark Ronson, recorded with the singer Bruno Mars.
One user commented that to dance like robots to be after the victory over humanity.
The other resents the fact that huge funds were invested in robotic ATV to get him to dance funk and shake your ass on the screen.
Anotherviewer writes that the dance community in 2594 year. The other confirms that it’s tin man dances better cuts of meat.
Another user claims that the company Boston Dynamics was bought by the Japanese, and that the robot repeats the wonderful mechanics of living beings, but he has no “brain” and all it shows is the result of the operator’s work behind the scenes. As an example, he cites the Japanese robot ASIMO.
And “brains”, the AI is much more important than chassis with high-quality gyroscope and a powerful processor, repeating all commands. But users doubt that the robot has the AI of a sufficient scale to dance on their own.
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'Roswell, New Mexico' Series Has a Fresh Take on Themes in the Original Alien Drama
'Roswell, New Mexico' Series Has a Fresh Take on Themes in the Original Alien Drama
By Doris Elin Salazar, Space.com Contributor
NEW YORK — A "Roswell" series reboot will crash-land on The CW in 2019, and its creators attended last weekend's New York Comic Con to describe the modern themes that can be gleaned from this new interpretation.
"Roswell, New Mexico" doesn't air on The CW network until next year, but fans of the original WB show "Roswell" got an exclusive look at the reboot's first episode on Oct. 6.
The premiere episode is full of desert scenery, anecdotes about the famous Roswell Crash and a new interpretation of an iconic scene from the pilot of the original series. But there's also something deeper to the storyline this time around that makes it more relevant and compelling than before. [The CW Aims to Refresh 'Roswell' Teen Alien Drama]
By discussing aliens, "we're talking about people who feel othered," writer and show developer Carina Adly MacKenzie said during the Saturday morning panel that followed the premiere.
"I wanted to make sure there was a reason to reboot it," MacKenzie said. "The original show is available on Hulu, and it's really great, and there wasn't a reason to sort of update it unless we made it really current," she said. "One of the important things I wanted to do was return Liz Parker back to Liz Ortecho," the character's name from the source-material books.
The "Roswell High" books by Melinda Metz inspired the original television adaptation, which first aired in 1999. The story centers on three extraterrestrials and their human friends, who are uncovering their pasts and avoiding detection from the government agencies who seek to detain them. The lead character is a young human woman by the name of Liz, and, as the creators discussed during the reboot's panel, her last name was changed back to the way it was in the book series for an important reason.
In the books, Liz is of Mexican descent, but the original television series removed that aspect of the character. With this new incarnation and return to the initial source material, MacKenzie wanted to "talk about what it really feels like for actual human beings to exist in a small town in a border state in 2018."
Liz Ortecho and her family are human, and so the plot delivers an extra dimension of complexity by casting the aliens — Max Evans, Isabel Evans and Michael Guerin — as white.
And as for the inspiration behind all this lore: The conspiracy theory about the little green men crashing into the New Mexico desert began over 70 years ago, in 1947. Roswell is the place where Sheriff George Wilcox received items, including strips of rubber and fabric, from W.W. "Mac" Brazel, a rancher who gathered the strange material he found across the desert. What Brazel actually found were pieces of a highly classified, high-altitude balloon that the U.S. government launched into the ionosphere as part of Project Mogul.
"Roswell, New Mexico" explores how potential extraterrestrials onboard the mythical flying object would face real-world fears as young adults, and bond with humans who also face the sharp end of xenophobia.
Source: lmneuquen.com and Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía
Argentina: Strange Ground Effects Caused by UFOs?
On Saturday, a young man found two distinctive drawings in the snow, but found no human footprints.
At around 20:00 hours on Saturday, a youth from Moquehue (Neuquén) went out on his motorcycle to ride through a seldom-transited area along Route 117 and found strange drawings in the snow.
"Their size and perfection were striking," said Rodrigo in a conversation with LM Neuquén regarding the spots. "I'd never seen anything like them."
The young man said that after seeing the drawings, he alerted his family and they returned to the site to take photographs and inspect the designs. "I was surprised that there were no footprints nearby. This in an area that is rarely visited," he added.
The ground marks were found on Route 11 heading toward Norquinco in an area that remains closed in winter and only recently reopened in the spring. Patches of snow often remain and that is where the marks were seen.
Other local residents said that drawings similar in their size and perfection were found a kilometer distant from the site.
"I believe UFOs exist. Perhaps it was them," Rodrigo concluded.
Note:Luis Burgos from FAO has noticed a similarity between this phenomenon and drew comparisons with another classic case: "The famous and controversial Delphos Case in Kansas, USA, 1971. It snowed afterward and the UFO mark was highlighted."
[Translation (c) 2018 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Luis Burgos, FAO]
Mysterious Leptoquarks Could Bind Both Types of Matter. That Is, If They Exist
Mysterious Leptoquarks Could Bind Both Types of Matter. That Is, If They Exist
By Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer
Credit: CERN
Physicists are hunting for an elusive particle that swings both ways, and if they find it, it could explain several bizarre results found at atom smashers around the world.
In modern physics, matter is divided at its most basic level into two types of particle: On the one hand are quarks, which most often bind together to form protons and neutrons, which in turn make up the nuclei of atoms. On the other hand are leptons. These include everything else with mass — from common electrons to the more exotic muons and taus, to faint, nearly undetectable neutrinos. Under normal circumstances, these particles mainly stick to their own kind; quarks primarily interact with other quarks, and leptons with other leptons.
But physicists suspect there are more particles out there. A lot more. And one of those proposed classes of particles is called the leptoquark. If they exist, leptoquarks would bridge the gap between leptons and quarks, coupling with both sorts of particle. No one's ever found direct evidence for the existence of leptoquarks, but researchers have reason to suspect they're out there. In September, experimentalists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) published the results of several experiments in the preprint journal arXiv designed to either prove or disprove their existence. [The Coolest Little Particles in Nature]
"Leptoquarks have become one of the most tantalizing ideas for extending our calculations, as they make it possible to explain several observed anomalies," Roman Kogler, a physicist at the LHC, said in a statement.
Just what are those anomalies? Past experiments at the LHC, Fermilab, and elsewhere have turned up strange results, with more "events" where particles were created than the dominant physics theories predicted. Leptoquarks, which would break down into showers of other particles soon after their creation, might explain those extra events.
To hunt the leptoquark, researchers at the LHC sift through huge volumes of data. The LHC smashes together protons at extremely high energies, and the hope isthat over time patterns will emerge in the data from those collisions that would show that leptoquarks occasionally, briefly appear in that creative blaze.
So far, newly released papers have only ruled out certain kinds of leptoquarks, showing that leptoquarks that would bind leptons to quarks at particular energy levels — haven't yet emerged. But there are still wide ranges of energy to explore.
Yiming Zhong, a physicist at Boston University and co-lead author of an October 2017 theoretical paper published in The Journal of High Energy Physics titled The Leptoquark Hunter's Guide, said that while it's exciting to see LHC researchers hunting leptoquarks, he thinks their vision of the multicoupling particle is too narrow.
Particle physicists divide matter particles not just into leptons and quarks but also into categories they call "generations." The up and down quarks, as well as the electron and electron neutrino, are "first-generation" quarks and leptons. The second generation includes charm and strange quarks, as well as muons and muon neutrinos. And top quarks, bottom quarks, taus and tau neutrinos make up the third generation, according to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which operates the LHC. First-generation particles are lighter and more stable, whereas the second and third generations are more massive and shorter-lived.
The leptoquark searches published by the LHC all assume that the leptoquarks follow generational rules that govern the known particles. A third-generation leptoquark might couple with a tau and a bottom quark. A second-generation one might couple with a muon and a strange quark. And so on.
But Zhong told Live Science that any complete leptoquark hunt has to assume "multigeneration leptoquarks" could be out there, swinging wildly perhaps from first-generation electrons to third-generation bottom quarks. He said he'd heard rumors that researchers out there are ready to begin such a search, but that none of the papers yet released from the LHC reflect that openness to possibility.
In the meantime, leptoquarks might be out there, coupling briefly with whatever particles they choose before disappearing in a flash. Or they might not. For now, the leptoquark hunt is still on.
WAAROM DOET DE NASA DIT ALS ER GEEN GEVAAR DREIGT?
WAAROM DOET DE NASA DIT ALS ER GEEN GEVAAR DREIGT?
NASA is een meester in het geruststellen van de mensheid, want als we hen moeten geloven is de kans dat de aarde ooit geraakt zal worden door een asteroïde te verwaarlozen.
En toch wordt de begroting voor hun Planetary Defense Coordination Office verdrievoudigd, wat nogal onlogisch is als er helemaal geen gevaar bestaat.
Alhoewel er niets is om ons zorgen over te maken volgens NASA, gaat men daar toch de begroting voor het opsporen en eventueel onschadelijk maken van asteroïden verdrievoudigen.
We hebben het dan over het enkele jaren geleden opgerichte Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), waarvan de begroting van 60 miljoen dollar door de overheid wordt verhoogd naar 150 miljoen dollar.
Dus, hoe kan het dat het publiek aan alle kanten wordt gerustgesteld, maar dat er toch veel meer geld wordt uitgegeven aan deze niet bestaande dreiging?
Formeel wordt het een beetje als volgt verwoord: De regering van Trump heeft voorgesteld om de begroting van het Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) van NASA te verdrievoudigen, van 60 naar 150 miljoen, vanwege toenemende zorgen dat de bevolking totaal niet is voorbereid op het hoogst onwaarschijnlijk en ook ondenkbare scenario dat een asteroïde zal inslaan met rampzalige gevolgen.
Het klinkt allemaal niet erg logisch, behalve als je weet dat er een serieuze dreiging is en je wilt niet dat de bevolking dit te weten komt.
Volgens NASA zwerven er zo’n 25.000 asteroïden in onze regio met een doorsnede van minimaal 140 meter. Als je alle ruimteobjecten telt die in de buurt van de aarde door de ruimte zweven (NEO Near Earth Objects), dan spreek je al snel over een miljoen exemplaren die een mogelijke bedreiging zouden kunnen vormen.
Het doel van de Planetary Defense Coordination Office is om een lange termijn strategie te ontwikkelen voor het tijdig opsporen van deze objecten en waar mogelijk deze te vernietigen of te zorgen dat ze op een andere koers terechtkomen als ze een direct gevaar dreigen te worden. Lukt dit allemaal niet dan wordt het Office geacht instanties zoals FEMA tijdig te informeren over waar en wanneer er een inslag te verwachten is.
Volgens het hoofd van het PDCO, voormalig luchtmachtofficier Lindley Johnson, zou zelfs een inslag van een asteroïde met een doorsnede van 100 meter nabij een dichtbevolkt gebied zoals een grote stad, een ramp veroorzaken die ongekend is in onze geschiedenis.
Volgens het hoofd van de Russische evenknie van NASA, Anatoly Perminov, zal er in de komende jaren dertig een ongeveer 300 meter grote asteroïde, Apophis, de aarde raken. Ook wij schreven hier al over en iets verder in dit artikel quoten en verwijzen we ernaar.
NASA is ook uiteraard de instantie die na eerdere paniek in 2004 nu zegt dat het allemaal wel wat mee zal vallen met Apophis.
Omdat de inslagkans nu op nihil wordt geschat, zijn de mogelijke effecten van een inslag grotendeels oninteressant geworden. Gedurende enige dagen in december 2004, toen de inslagkans op 2,4 procent werd geschat, waren er echter veel internetdiscussies over de mogelijke inslageffecten.
NASA schatte oorspronkelijk de energie die bij de inslag van Apophis zou vrijkomen op het equivalent van 1480 megaton TNT. Dat is 114.000 keer de energie van de atoombomLittle Boy, die door de Verenigde Staten bij de aanval op Hiroshimagebruikt is.
Echter, de dag dat één van de ons bekende asteroïden op aarde zal knallen, is al bekend.
In oktober 2013 wordt er in de wereldmedia melding gemaakt van het feit dat er een nieuwe asteroïde is ontdekt en dat de kans groot is dat deze in 2032 de aarde zal raken.
Het volgende is onder andere wat wij schreven in 2013:
Natuurlijk weet je dat wanneer iets dergelijks gebeurt NASA onmiddellijk zal ingrijpen en verklaren dat al die astronomen die dat hadden berekend het fout hadden en dat zij hebben gecalculeerd dat deze asteroïde niet of nauwelijks een gevaar zal opleveren.
Normaal gesproken is het dan een beetje einde verhaal, want NASA is voor de meeste mensen net de bijbel of de koran, wat zei zeggen, is waar.
Echter, er is nog een naar onze mening overtuigend argument om aan te nemen dat deze asteroïde wellicht de aarde wel degelijk zal raken in 2032.
En dat argument is afkomstig van een weblog dat in 2005 werd geschreven door een man die zei dat hij uit de toekomst kwam en op aarde was met een bepaalde missie en dat hij vanaf dat moment gerekend over enkele weken weer zou vertrekken naar waar hij vandaan kwam.
Al enkele jaren lang schrijven wij over een tijdreiziger uit het jaar 2063 die naar onze aarde is gekomen in het jaar 2005 op een speciale missie.
Die missie duurde niet zo gek lang en tijdens zijn verblijf in onze tijd schreef deze tijdreiziger onder de naam Scott op een blog waar hij diverse dingen onthulde betreffende onze toekomst.
Mijn codenaam is Qronos1 en mijn werkelijke naam is Scott. De eenheid waartoe ik behoor bestaat uit vier mensen die hier nu in deze tijd zijn. Wij zijn hier op een geheime missie. Er zijn in deze periode ook andere tijdreizigers en ongetwijfeld zullen er meer volgen in de toekomst. De wereld die ik ongeveer een jaar geleden verliet is anders en toch hetzelfde. De vooruitgang in tijdreizen heeft het mogelijk gemaakt dat we nu precies daar naartoe reizen waar we willen.
Er worden op dat blog berichten geplaatst in de periode van 10 september 2005 tot en met 21 september 2005. Daarna stopt het.
Het eerste wat men dan al snel roept is: “Ja, maar dat blog is net gemaakt en ze hebben de data veranderd om het oud te doen lijken”. Dit is echter niet het geval. Want al in de jaren 2006, 2007 etc. werd er op diverse fora al over dit blog gediscussieerd. Voor een voorbeeld van een forum uit 2007 klik hier. Als er dus in die jaren al over werd geschreven, mogen we aannemen dat het blog daadwerkelijk in 2005 is geschreven.
Als Scott geen tijdreiziger was dan wist hij toch heel nauwkeurig te voorspellen wat er de komende jaren zou gaan gebeuren.
Zo voorspelde hij dat 2007 een heel slecht jaar zou worden, dat er in 2009 in de VS een president zou worden geïnstalleerd die niet van Amerikaanse oorsprong was en dat er in 2010 een grote olieramp zou plaatsvinden in de Golf van Mexico.
Echter, iets dat hij ook voorspelt, is het volgende:
“Yes WW3 took allot from us and the asteroid that hit the earth in 2032 also did some bad things, but we have come out off all that ok”.
Het blog waarop dit geschreven is, stamt daadwerkelijk uit 2005, ver voordat asteroïde 2013 TV135 door astronomen werd ontdekt. Astronomen die hiervan schrikken en bekendmaken dat er een kans is dat deze asteroïde de aarde kan raken in 2032, hetzelfde jaar dat dit in 2005 door Scott de tijdreiziger wordt voorspeld.
In dit geval hopen we dat NASA een keer gelijk heeft, maar gezien de vele leugens die ze in de loop der jaren hebben rondgestrooid, houden we het er vooralsnog op dat onze tijdreiziger volkomen gelijk heeft.
In juli 1947 stortte er een buitenaardse UFO neer bij het Amerikaanse plaatsje Roswell in New Mexico en vanaf dat moment begon de grote misleiding van de bevolking.
Nooit werd formeel naar buiten gebracht dat er buitenaardsen waren omgekomen en ook niet dat er één overleefde die tot op de dag van vandaag door de Amerikaanse overheid gevangen wordt gehouden.
Zelfs mensen die helemaal niets van UFO's weten, hebben meestal de naam Roswell wel eens gehoord.
Vanaf dat moment begon eigenlijk de misleiding van de bevolking op grote schaal en werd er alles aan gedaan om de werkelijke gebeurtenissen geheim te houden. Soms komen er stukjes waarheid bovenwater via mainstream kanalen en dat is vaak omdat de betrokkenen nu zo oud zijn dat ze nu wel eindelijk hun mond open durven doen.
Op 8 juli 1947 bracht de krant Roswell Daily Record het nieuws dat een vliegende schotel bij een lokale ranch was neergestort. Gisteren vertelde een CIA-agent tegen de Huffington Post dat er niets onwaar was aan het bericht dat 65 jaar geleden wereldnieuws werd.
'Het was echt geen weerballon, het was precies wat de pers er toen over schreef', zegt Chase Brandon, een voormalig CIA-agent. 'Het voertuig kwam duidelijk niet van deze planeet, het stortte neer en er waren wel degelijk buitenaardse lijken.
Maar het waren niet alleen lijken, er was ook een overlevende.
In dat kader is er nu een artikel verschenen op de website van ufoloog Scott C. Waring, waar deze zegt dat de overlevende alien van de Roswell crash nog steeds leeft.
Scott kan zich heel druk maken over het feit dat de bevolking zich zo gemakkelijk laat misleiden door de autoriteiten en ook nu is dit het geval.
Hij voert nu aan dat echte beelden die ooit op Youtube zijn geplaatst eigenlijk volkomen verdwijnen in de totale chaos die is ontstaan doordat Jan en alleman nepvideo's ging maken om toch maar vooral te proberen geld te verdienen aan de Google advertenties.
Zo schrijft hij onder andere: Omdat er zo idioot veel nep op Youtube staat, moeten we daardoor de echte, originele beelden dan ook maar vergeten? Beelden die zijn gemaakt in een tijd dat er nog geen complete industrie bestond die niets anders doet dan nepvideo's maken.
Het antwoord is uiteraard "nee" en hij komt daarbij met het volgende voorbeeld.
Een video die is gemaakt op 27 april 2000, ver voordat de neppers actief waren op dit gebied. Beelden die zijn gemaakt in een tijd dat mensen zich niet bezighielden met het maken van nep opnames om geld mee te verdienen.
Scott is er honderd procent van overtuigd dat onderstaande beelden echt zijn en dat hier sprake is van een overlevende alien van de Roswell crash. De alien die werd gevonden door Amerikaanse militairen en is meegenomen en tot op de dag van vandaag nog gevangen wordt gehouden.
En dan komt hij met een opmerkelijke stelling en dat is dat de Gray aliens in principe eeuwig leven en dat dit exemplaar misschien wel een paar miljoen jaren oud is.
Verder dat deze alien door het Amerikaanse leger is gekloond en dat er nu talloze identieke aliens voor diezelfde overheid werken in een ondergrondse basis, vijf kilometer onder de laboratoria van Los Alamos.
Dat het nu hoog tijd wordt dat de mensheid de echte beelden weer te zien krijgt en beseft dat wij niet de enige levende wezens in het heelal zijn.
Strange Hole In Earth Sun Appears, Is It Hollow With A Planet Or Planets Within? Oct 20, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Strange Hole In Earth Sun Appears, Is It Hollow With A Planet Or Planets Within? Oct 20, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 19, 2018
Location of sighting: Earths Sun
Source: NASA SOHO EIT195 camera filter
There is a huge hole building up at the northern polar region of Earths sun right now. As you see its about 400X the diameter of Earth. I do often suspect that our own sun might be hollow and that at the center of our sun, there may be a large planet full of intelligent alien species harnessing the suns energy. This dark opening may be them about to move something big through...maybe even the planet itself. I call it the Hollow Sun Theory. And it makes a lot of sense. Instead of of Dysons sphere built around the sun, the sun is instead squeezed until hollow using energy fields, which aliens then place their planet or planets, space stations and such within. Eternal eternal energy.
Fleet Of UFOs Filmed Accompanying Larger Craft Above Southern Holland
Fleet Of UFOs Filmed Accompanying Larger Craft Above Southern Holland
This is one of those video where you just wished there was more but this what we have. In this video we can see multiple dark objects seemingly escorting one larger craft leaving the witness stunned.....
Exposing the Secret History of Giants and the Underground Hyperborean Gallery in Romania
Exposing the Secret History of Giants and the Underground Hyperborean Gallery in Romania
With Rosia Montana being a mining area, a number of interesting discoveries have been unearthed there over the years – one of the most interesting being a skeleton of a 10 meter (32.8 feet) tall giant which was found in 1976.
About 5,500 years ago, an underground gallery was constructed in the region by the Agathyrsi. In February 2012, a group of geologists followed the gold vein in the same place. They kept digging until they ended up at the base of the gallery. To their utter surprise, they found a gravestone which was definitely not made of common rock. The geologists took a sample, and the laboratory results revealed that the components of the tombstone included 55% 50 karat gold dust, 15% granite dust and 30% wolfram. Also, the analysis revealed that the composite rock had been made using a type of technology unknown today.
The Hyperborean Gallery
Known by the name of “The Hyperborean Gallery” or “Gallery 13”, the place of this amazing discovery is located beneath Cornea village. A number of other discoveries were made at the site in 1976. However, in the name of “security” the anthropological and archaeological discoveries were deemed too unusual and shocking for the time, so the gallery was permanently sealed.
The gravestone was not the only unusual item found inside the gallery. On it, archaeologists found a 10 meter (32.8 ft.) tall skeleton of a giant. Apparently, the giant had been buried there after his death, with his legs gathered on one side. Lacking the proper equipment necessary to analyze such a find, the skeleton was sent to Moscow. Unfortunately, nothing has been reported about the giant ever since.
The discovery of a skeleton that measures 10 meters or 32.8 Feet.
As for the tombstone, a new series of research was planned to analyze it in 2012. The relic was dug up once again and measurements showed that it was six meters (19.7 feet) wide, twelve meters (39.4 feet) long and three meters (9.8 feet) tall. It weighed almost 1700 tons and contained somewhere around 900 tons of solid gold. To make a comparison, such a quantity of gold would have required over twenty years of mining work to gather. The last thing known about the gravestone is that it had been cut up into 80 smaller pieces in order to make its transportation possible. As for its destination, it is not known where it lies today.
One of the archaeologists working in Gallery 13 took a set of photos with the gravestone and sent them to a paleolinguist. The latter noticed emerald green bas-relief writing covering the entire surface of the artifact. The text had been written in three parallel rows which started in the upper left. From there, the writing descended diagonally, similar to a serpent, and formed a spiral around a wolf head. Finally, the script ended in the lower right corner. The paleolinguist speculated that the unknown writing could be Pelasgian and that the discovery with its markings and writing clearly possessed great cultural and historical value. Nevertheless, the gravestone was cut and melted. The state obtained a share of 19 pieces, 31%, as stipulated in the local gold exploitation contract.
During the excavation, the lifting of the gravestone also revealed the entrance to a pit. The four meter (13.1 feet) diameter pit had a descending spiral stairway and a milky violet light radiated from the inside. A closer inspection of the stairs made it clear that they looked as if cut into the walls of the pit by a laser and, as for the violet light, nobody could determine its source.
Curious to find the source of the light and to see what was inside, the paleolinguist descended into the pit, but nobody else proved brave enough to join him. The night passed and the man never returned from the pit.
Ultimately, the army sealed the entry to the pit, as well as the entire Gallery 13, with cement. Those present never talked about the discoveries again - as they had been made to sign confidentiality agreements, therefore what lies beyond the staircase of the pit remains a mystery.
Romanian Giant Legends
Depending on the region of Romania where the legends come from, there are different names for giants. In the Boziorul area, giants are known as “tartars” (“tartari”), for example. A number of unusually tall skeletons have been uncovered at Scaieni, in Buzaului Mountains. For instance, when locals tried to plant apple trees on a hill, they accidentally discovered humanoid skeletons of over 2.4 meters (8.2 feet) tall along with pottery fragments.
Knowing the local legends, people from the area immediately thought about the tartars. One of these legends even claims that the mountain formation known as the “Pillars of Tainita” (“Stalpii Tainitei”) had actually been built by these giants of old. In the past, the giants were also credited for building two large underground halls somewhere beneath the mountain.
The strange formation which can be seen up on Tainita Mountain resembles a set of stone chairs. As they are found at high altitude and in a highly inaccessible area, locals claim that tartars built the chairs to sit on when they wanted to gather for council.
Another legend from Hateg Country (“Tara Hategului”), tells the tale of two giantesses who built two cities: one in Deva and the other on the peak of the Severed Mountain (“Muntele Retezat”) respectively. Upon the end of the construction, when the giantess from Deva beheld her rival’s city and saw it had turned out more beautiful, she became envious. In a moment of rage, she threw a plough towards the mountain citadel - destroying it and severing the top of the mountain at the same time. In this way, the mountain earned its name, being known ever since as the Severed Mountain.
The Retezat Mountains seen from atop one of them (Vârfu Mare, "The Big Peak").
In regions such as Teleorman, Giurgiu, and southern Muntenia, giants are known as “jidovs” (“jidovi”). A local legend speaks about a hero going by the name of Novac who fought a jidov. Once the giant was defeated, he ran away to save his life, but in his flight he left a mark on the ground. The area has been called “Brazda lui Novac” ever since. In the region there are also other formations called “maguri” by locals who believe that these have been built by giants.
A number of archaeological discoveries have been made in Giurgiu. For example, it was found that in Argedava, King Burebista had his first city (before he unified the Dacian tribes of the area). Yet, an even more interesting discovery was made between the years 1940 and 1950. In this period, archaeologists unearthed 80 humanoid skeletons which appeared to be giants. The huge skeletons measured about four to five meters (13-16 feet) in height.
Giant skeletons have been unearthed in other parts of the country as well. As one example, in October 1989, 20 giant skeletons were found in Pantelimon – Lebada.
A sculpture of a giant’s leg in Corbii din Piatra, Romania.
Other such discoveries have been unearthed at Polovragi, at Cetateni, beneath Negru Voda Monastery, and in the Bucegi Mountains - where the existence of a network of underground tunnels surprised workers.
Thus, skeletons of giants have been discovered in many places around Romania. To get straight to the point, giants have been discovered in: Scaieni in Buzau County, Mariuta in Calarasi County, Persani Mountains, Polovragi, Piatra Craiului, Tara Hategului, Cetateni beneath Negru Voda Monastery, and in many other places.
In Maramures, the Fortress of Oncesti (“Cetatea de la Oncesti”) was believed to be the home of the giants. At Argedava, giants with a height of over five meters (16 feet) have been discovered in 80 graves. Although most are suddenly “lost” after being discovered, the secret Romanian giants continue to be unearthed.
A new study has sent ripples throughout the seismological world — a team of researchers from the Australian National University have found a new way to confirm that the Earth’s core is solid.
A simplified schematic of the Earth’s structure.
If you think about it, the very fact that we know so much about the Earth’s interior is stunning. The deepest hole we’ve dug is “only” around 12 km deep, whereas the radius of our planet is 6378 km — so how could we know so much about the Earth’s structure?
Seismic waves
Scientists use many bits and pieces of information to study this structure, but the most important clues come from seismic waves. Whenever an earthquake takes place, it sends out pressure waves in all directions — much like the acoustic waves we use to speak and hear sounds. These waves propagate through the subsurface, reflecting and refracting as they move from one environment to the other. Eventually, they reach the surface, where they are picked up by seismographs — devices that measure the movement of the earth.
Using seismographs, researchers can infer a surprisingly large amount of information. For instance, by measuring the arrival time of seismic waves at different seismograph stations, the position of the earthquakes’ epicentres can be triangulated — this is how we know where earthquakes happen.
But that’s just the start of it.
A typical seismogram.
More than just data about the earthquake itself, we can derive data about the rocks through which the seismic wave has traveled. For instance, generally speaking, there are three types of seismic waves:
P or Primary waves, which are longitudinal waves (these are the fastest and the first to arrive);
S or Secondary waves, which are shear waves; and
Surface waves, which are slower than both P and S waves, but have larger amplitude and more complex movements.
A simple simulation of an S wave structure.
P waves travel through any type of medium, whereas S waves only move through solid environments — not liquid. This was a huge indication that the Earth’s outer core is a liquid, as S waves don’t appear to pass through it. It’s not a liquid in a conventional sense (think of it more like viscous, molten lava, or thick honey), but it’s definitely not a solid.
A depiction of different seismic waves propagating through the Earth.
This also revealed that the inner core is solid, as S waves appear to be able to pass through it. However, the small size of the inner core makes detecting shear waves very difficult, and this theory could still use additional verification. This is where the new study comes in.
A J wave is nothing more than an S wave that passes through the inner core — seismologists love giving different names to waves depending on where they pass through, but don’t let it confuse you, it’s still a shear, S wave.
J waves are rather elusive because they have small amplitudes, and the Earth’s inner core has a relatively small volume, which means that many seismic waves simply go around it. The small, feeble amplitude is so problematic that detecting J-waves has sometimes been referred to as the “Holy Grail” of global seismology.
However, Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić and PhD Scholar Than-Son Phạm believe they’ve found a new way to identify J waves. What they did is pretty creative: instead of looking directly at the wave as it comes, they simply ignore it for the most part and look at the wave signal hours after the largest rumbles have passed. By studying the similarities between these signals at two receivers after a major earthquake, they’re able to observe a correlation of patterns, and this correlation is the key to the J-wave identification. A similar approach was used by other scientists to study the thickness of Antarctic ice.
“Using a global network of stations, we take every single receiver pair and every single large earthquake – that’s many combinations – and we measure the similarity between the seismograms,” lead author Hrvoje Tkalčić explained.
“That’s called cross correlation, or the measure of similarity. From those similarities we construct a global correlogram – a sort of fingerprint of the Earth.”
“We’re throwing away the first three hours of the seismogram and what we’re looking at is between three and 10 hours after a large earthquake happens. We want to get rid of the big signals,” Dr. Tkalčic added.
Using this approach, they confirmed that the inner core seems indeed solid, though it seems to exhibit some differences from current models. In fact, it’s a bit like two very familiar materials: gold and platinum.
“We found the inner core is indeed solid, but we also found that it’s softer than previously thought,” Associate Professor Tkalčić said.
“It turns out – if our results are correct – the inner core shares some similar elastic properties with gold and platinum. The inner core is like a time capsule, if we understand it we’ll understand how the planet was formed, and how it evolves.”
We should still wait for additional observations to confirm this study but, for now, it seems like the information about the nature of the inner core is becoming more and more solid.
Lots of rumours about the moon right now, any are claiming the moon got hit and YouTube is deleting all videos and banning users over any footage.
What does the community know and think? Wild rumours and not much proof yet.
I don't know if you guys have noticed but there has been a lot of predictive programming that says "something big is coming". I've heard it mentioned on the radio, I've seen stuff on TV (which I rarely watch) I've seen stuff in print, social media, every media outlet you can think of has made the statement that something big is coming.
Update: As of now, YouTube did not provide any official reason for the "outage".
WETENSCHAPTijd voor een bijzondere ruimtemissie naar de planeet Mercurius: een Europese satelliet zal in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag -om 3.45 uur Belgische tijd- gelanceerd worden vanuit Frans-Guyana. Tegelijkertijd reist een Japanse satelliet mee, samen zullen ze de planeet onderzoeken.
Mercurius is de eerste en de kleinste planeet van ons zonnestelsel. Vanwege de nabijheid van de zon is het heel moeilijk om er te komen. De satellieten vliegen na vertrek één keer langs de aarde, twee keer langs Venus en zes keer langs Mercurius. Pas in 2026 komen ze in een baan rond de planeet.
De omweg moet voorkomen dat de zon de satellieten meesleurt en opslokt. Door de zon is er heel weinig bekend over Mercurius. Wat tot nu toe ontdekt is, roept veel vragen op bij wetenschappers.
Tien rondjes per dag De Europese satelliet heet MPO. Hij zal tien rondjes per dag rond Mercurius draaien, en dat minstens één jaar lang. De missie moet onder meer duidelijk maken waaruit het oppervlak van de planeet bestaat. Bovendien zal de zwaartekracht gemeten worden, en dat kan dan weer iets zeggen over het binnenste van de planeet.
De Japanse sonde Mio moet kijken naar de omgeving van Mercurius, waaronder de zogeheten zonnewind. Dat is een stroom geladen deeltjes van de zon, die de planeet continu bombardeert.
Zo dicht bij de zon is het extreem warm, ongeveer 450 graden Celsius. Dat is in principe ‘dodelijk’ voor satellieten. De Europese sonde is daarom voorzien van een ‘koeldeken’ die in het Nederlandse Noordwijk getest is. Die zorgt ervoor dat het binnen tussen de min 40 en plus 20 graden blijft. “Knus genoeg voor onze instrumenten”, aldus onderzoeker Johannes Benkhoff.
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WAS EZEKIEL DESCRIBING EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS IN THE BIBLE?
WAS EZEKIEL DESCRIBING EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS IN THE BIBLE?
Of the many accounts in the Bible of strange happenings and otherworldly occurrences, the story of Ezekiel is one of the more fascinating, especially when looked at through the lens of modern technology. When biblical texts are interpreted through this perspective in general, an interesting picture emerges of the possibility that our ancient ancestors were actually visited by an advanced race, rather than gods. This idea, known as the ancient astronaut theory, sees Ezekiel’s “vision” of the Merkabah, or wheeled chariot, as more likely to be a spaceship or space shuttle used by an advanced species to reach out to humans.
Erich von Däniken is one of the biggest proponents of this theory, providing a very compelling argument for an alternative interpretation of the Book of Ezekiel. So, compelling that his theory even reversed the entire thesis of a NASA scientist’s book aimed at disproving his claim.
ERICH VON DÄNIKEN’S CHARIOTS OF THE GODS
In the 1970s, Erich von Däniken was invited to a secret speech at NASA where he met Josef F. Blumrich. The two spoke about von Däniken’s ancient astronaut theory from his book, Chariots of the Gods, notably the idea that Ezekiel’s vision was that of a space shuttle, rather than a divine chariot. This conversation led Blumrich on a mission to disprove von Däniken’s seemingly absurd theory, so he did some research of his own and started writing a book. However, the evidence was overwhelming and Blumrich had an epiphany. Ezekiel was undoubtedly describing an advanced spacecraft. Blumrich even used Ezekiel’s description of the craft to patent his own version of an omnidirectional wheel.
THE ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORY
Ezekiel is a key figure in Judaism and is also prominent in other Abrahamic biblical texts. Ezekiel was brought to Babylon in the first captivity of Israel and is described as a prophet. One of the interesting characteristics of The Book of Ezekiel as a biblical text is that it is written using the pronoun, I, clearly showing it being written by Ezekiel himself as a first-person account, unlike many biblical texts written in the third person. This seems to lend a little more credit and personality to the story as it is told shortly after its occurrence.
Ezekiel describes seeing a wheeled chariot descend toward him from the sky, piloted by beings with the “likeness of a man.” While many biblical versions of the story describe this being on the chariot as God, von Däniken points out that the original Hebrew version never mentions God, this word was added later.
Ezekiel’s description of the wheeled chariot landing sounds much like that of the landing of a spacecraft. The windstorm, flash of lightning, and brilliant lights are reminiscent of a spacecraft coming down for a landing and kicking up dirt in a spectacle never before seen by someone of such a primitive era. Ezekiel even describes the fire powering the chariot as appearing as ‘glowing metal.’
“4I 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,5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human,6 but each of them had four faces and four wings.7 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze.8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings,9 and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.”
– Ezekiel 1
There is clearly some discrepancy between this description and much of the way Ezekiel’s vision is portrayed in biblical artwork. Pictures often leave out the details involving the fire, omnidirectional wheels, and the vaulted crystal encasing over the heads of the human-like creatures.
“15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.17 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.18 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around… 22 Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault, sparkling like crystal, and awesome.”
– Ezekiel 1
These creatures with the ‘likeness of man,’ then take Ezekiel with them in their craft, bringing him to a ‘temple’ on top of the highest mountain. During his flight there, Ezekiel mentions feeling the hand of God on him, which could be interpreted as the force of gravity, or g-forces, felt when lifting off. He is taken to these beings’ ‘temple,’ which is likely a staging area or city where they reside.
CORROBORATING EVIDENCE
Throughout an array of biblical stories, the Ark of the Covenant presents itself as an artifact of interest for von Däniken’s theory. But it’s mention in the Kebra Nagast, an account of Christianity in Ethiopia under King Solomon, is where he sees the most relevancy. In this account, he says that it was known that King Solomon had flying machines that weren’t mentioned in the Bible as well as possession of the highly coveted Ark. These texts note that people were afraid of the Ark, as it often killed those who were in close contact with it. Was this because it was radioactive or electrically charged? Was the Ark of the Covenant a plutonium reactor?
Erich Von Däniken says he believes there are other bible verses that fit into his ancient astronaut theory, including some that hint at similar ‘temples’ or landing areas for spacecraft, much like the one Ezekiel was brought to. One such temple known as, Chavin de Huantar can be found in Peru, sitting thousands of feet high on a mountain from a culture of which little is known. The temple is decorated with winged figures and sculpted heads that appear to be wearing helmets. Von Däniken says he believes these to be of similar origin to those described by Ezekiel in the Bible. Is this actual evidence of ancient astronauts or an imaginative theory?
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Beschreef profeet Ezechiël buitenaardse bezoekers in de Bijbel? Dit zijn de aanwijzingen
Beschreef profeet Ezechiël buitenaardse bezoekers in de Bijbel? Dit zijn de aanwijzingen
In de jaren zeventig werd schrijver Erich von Däniken uitgenodigd voor een geheime NASA-bijeenkomst, waar hij Josef F. Blumrich ontmoette.
De twee spraken over het boek ‘Waren de goden kosmonauten?’ en dan met name het deel waarin wordt gesteld dat de wielen uit de Bijbel die profeet Ezechiël zag, in werkelijkheid spaceshuttles waren.
Blumrich vond dit zo’n absurde theorie dat hij besloot het werk van Von Däniken te ontkrachten.
Overweldigend
Hij ging op onderzoek uit en begon aan een boek te werken. Het bewijs was echter zo overweldigend dat Blumrich helemaal bijdraaide. Zijn boek kreeg uiteindelijk de titel ‘The Spaceships of Ezekiel’ (de ruimteschepen van Ezechiël).
Ezechiël zegt een wiel te zien dat neerdaalt uit de hemel, bestuurd door wezens die op mensen lijken.
Hoewel deze wezens vaak ‘goden’ worden genoemd, wees Von Däniken erop dat in de oorspronkelijke Hebreeuwse versie nooit het woord God wordt genoemd. Dit woord is later pas toegevoegd.
Ezechiël lijkt het landen en opstijgen van een ruimteschip te beschrijven:
Opnieuw keek ik naar de wezens, en ik zag bij elk van de vier een wiel op de grond staan, aan de voorkant. De wielen glansden alsof ze gemaakt waren van turkoois en ze hadden alle vier dezelfde vorm: ze leken op een wiel midden in een ander wiel. Hun velgen waren angstwekkend hoog, en elk van de vier velgen was afgezet met ogen. Als de wezens zich bewogen, gingen de wielen mee, en als de wezens opstegen van de aarde, stegen ook de wielen op. Als de wezens zich bewogen, bewogen ook de wielen, en als ze stilstonden, stonden ook de wielen stil. Als ze van de aarde opstegen, stegen ook de wielen op; een en dezelfde geest leidde immers de wezens en de wielen.
– Ezechiël 1
De wezens die ‘op mensen leken’ namen Ezechiël mee in hun schip en brachten hem naar een ‘tempel’ bovenop de hoogste berg.
Helmen
Deze ‘tempels’ zijn mogelijk landingsplaatsen geweest voor ruimteschepen, aldus Von Däniken. Eén zo’n tempel, Chavin de Huantar, kan worden gevonden in Peru.
Deze tempel bevindt zich op duizenden meters hoogte op een berg en is achtergelaten door een cultuur waar maar weinig over bekend is.
De tempel is voorzien van gevleugelde figuren die helmen lijken te dragen.
If there’s something strange in (or over) your neighborhood … who ya gonna call? If it looks like a UFO or a part from one, don’t call 9-1-1 or MUFON – call SpaceX. Numerous recent reports of mysterious lights in the sky and weird objects washing up on beaches are being positively identified as either SpaceX launches or SpaceX pieces. Hello, Elon? Yes, I’ll hold.
They‘re happening so often that the mystery should have worn off, but it seems people, especially Californians, are still being fooled by bright lights with colorful and ever-expanding trails. Two such “UFO” sightings that received a lot of attention occurred in October and December of 2017 in the sky over Los Angeles and southern California. Both were quickly identified as SpaceX launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base north of LA. For non-believers (and there seemed to be plenty of them), experts were accessed by SpaceX and the media to explain rocket contrails and the “twilight phenomena.”
The trailing plumes (a great name for a band) or condensation trails are caused by exhaust made up of water vapor, smoke and miscellaneous particles of burnt rocket fuel. The water vapor freezes at the tropopause boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere and the ice crystals and minute particles give the contrail its visibility. The bright colors come courtesy of the setting sun (in California) or the rising sun on Florida launches. Because of the altitude of the rocket, the sun can be below the horizon and still illuminate the trail.
What about the bright lights that make it look like a UFO mothership sending off landing parties? That’s SpaceX successfully landing the first stage of the rockets. Here’s the real question – is SpaceX launching at twilight just to mess with us? Hello, Elon? Yes, I’ll hold.
Some of those first stages are landing but others are not, which means they’re ending up, along with the second stages and miscellaneous other parts, in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. With Falcon 9 rockets being launched 63 times over the past 8 years, that’s a lot of space litter. Which brings us to North Carolina and other east coastal states where people are mistaking giant pieces of unidentifiable metal found on beaches for parts of alien spaceships. The latest was discovered this past Tuesday along the Outer Banks in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The object measured 10 feet by 6 feet and was heavy enough to require a front-end loader to remove it. SpaceX quickly claimed it as its own and probably took it to where it put another rocket piece from the nosecone found in October. What about that giant foam object that washed up on a South Carolina beach in October? SpaceX was mum on that one and its source appears to still be a mystery.
As movies like First Man remind us, rocket launches were once big events announced loudly by NASA and covered extensively by the media. While a non-military government agency may have an obligation to notify the public of launches certainly has an obligation to clean up its mess, does a private launch company? The answer should be “yes,” especially if the owners want us to buy their electric cars or order stuff from their online store. (Hello, Jeff? Yes, I’ll hold.)
So, it’s fun but unfair to just blame SpaceX. With these launches being mistaken for UFOs and even causing small “panics”; with space junk washing up on beaches and causing similar concerns; and the recent abort of a manned launch, perhaps it’s time to go back to treating these launches as a big deal and alerting the public beforehand.
Hello, somebody? Yes, I’ll hold. Could you play another song by The Trailing Plumes?
Flying saucers have been part of our cultural landscape for over 70 years. For most of this time, they have teetered precariously on the fringes of acceptable debate, widely considered to be the stuff of fantasy and paranoia.
But it may be that attitudes are gradually beginning to shift. In December 2017, the US government broke its decades of silence on the UFO issue through its proxy acknowledgement of a Pentagon UFO project called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The conclusions of the project, which ran from 2008 to 2012 at a cost of $22 million (and which continues quietly to this day), were that “aircraft” of apparently unearthly origin are routinely penetrating America’s airspace.
These aircraft, according the former head of the Pentagon project, Louis Elizondo, exhibit flight characteristics that defy the laws of our known physics. They do not belong to the United States of America, nor, apparently, to any other nation on Earth. Moreover, it also emerged that the Pentagon has recovered metal alloys from UFOs which are currently being stored and studied under lock and key by billionaire defense contractor Robert Bigelow.
Since then, a number of videos have surfaced of UFOs being tracked and pursued by military aircraft in cases investigated by the Pentagon’s AATIP program. The military officers involved in these cases were later interviewed on primetime news shows and treated by their hosts on Fox, CNN and others with the utmost respect. Could it be that the corporate media are fast recognising as legitimate a subject that for so long has served as little more than tabloid fodder? If so, we must ask ourselves a question: is it still considered kooky to believe in UFOs?
As someone who has carved himself a semi-career in the weird world of “UFOlogy,” I would of course argue that it has neverreally been kooky to believe in UFOs. Indeed, I would argue that “belief” in UFOs has never really been required. Unidentified Flying Objects, whatever they truly represent, exist. This much is clear. They are real, and governments around the world have known this for many decades.
UFOs and national security around the world
The US government’s interest in UFOs dates back to the summer of 1947 when America’s national security apparatus was besieged by hundreds of reports from concerned citizens and military personnel of what appeared to be metallic disc-shaped objects traversing the nation’s skies, sometimes in formation and often at impossible speeds. On 24 June 1947, a private aviator and businessman, Kenneth Arnold, reported seeing a chain of nine unusual objects over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. He described the objects’ movement as being “like a saucer if you skip it across the water,” inspiring the press to dub the mystery objects “flying saucers.” Many hundreds of saucer sightings were reported worldwide in the months to follow.
In 1948 the US Air Force produced its top secret and highly controversial “Estimate of the Situation,” an official report concluding flying saucers to be “interplanetary” in origin. Other factions within the Air Force, however, favoured the more palatable idea that the saucers were the product of technological innovations in the Soviet Union. Either way, secrecy regarding the issue was of paramount importance as the question of whether the objects were physically real had already been affirmatively answered in the minds of America’s military leaders. In a once secret letter to Air Force Headquarters dated 23 September 1947, General Nathan Twining, head of Air Materiel Command (AMC), stated that flying saucers were “real and not visionary or fictitious,” that they had “metallic or light reflecting surface[s],” were “circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top,” and were sometimes sighted in “well-kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects.” In a previously top secret Canadian government document dating from 1950, Wilbert Smith, head of the Canadian government’s UFO research project, noted of UFOs that “The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States government, rating higher even than the H-bomb.”
Today, numerous governments worldwide maintain dedicated and costly UFO study projects, collating and often investigating what collectively amount to thousands of UFO sighting reports made annually to authorities. In South America alone, the governments of Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Chile, and Brazil, either operate UFO investigations units or actively collect UFO sighting reports through their militaries. Other governments, including those of France, New Zealand, Denmark, Canada, and Russia, have, in recent years, released to the public thousands of pages of previously classified UFO files.
The UK government has engaged with its citizenry through a process which has seen the release of thousands of previously classified UFO files through the National Archives. According to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), UFOs (or UAPs—Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) “certainly exist,” but are “still barely understood.” In a formerly secret 400-page assessment of the UFO phenomenon released in 2006 under the Freedom of Information Act, the UK Defence Intelligence Staff acknowledged that:
“The phenomena occur on a daily, world-wide basis. That UAP exist is indisputable. Credited with the ability to hover, land, take-off, accelerate to exceptional velocities, and vanish, they can reportedly alter their direction of flight suddenly and clearly can exhibit aerodynamic characteristics well beyond those of any known aircraft or missile—either manned or unmanned.”
The report also notes that “attempts by other nations to intercept the unexplained objects, which can clearly change position faster than an aircraft, have reportedly already caused fatalities,” and warns that, with the increasing density of UAP reports in the UK air defence region, “a small possibility may exist… of a head-on encounter with a UAP.”
There appears, then, to be a broad consensus among the governments cited above: UFOs are objectively real, albeit currently not fully understood by science. They are worthy, at best, of focused study, and, at the very least, of sustained monitoring in the interests of aviation safety and national security.
It seems that UFOs, regardless of their precise nature and origin, are objectively real. Moreover, it would seem that at least some UFOs are the product of non-terrestrial intelligences and that various governments, or military and intelligence groups within them, are well aware of this fact. Let us address this preceding sentence in two parts. First, why should we indulge the notion that some UFOs may be otherworldly in nature?
We are not alone
In 2015, NASA Chief Scientist, Ellen Stofan, announced her conviction that signs of primitive alien life will be discovered within just ten years from now. “We know where to look. We know how to look,” she said while speaking at a panel discussion broadcast on Nasa TV. “In most cases we have the technology and we’re on a path to implementing it. And so I think we’re definitely on the road.”
Stofan was discussing the discovery of rudimentary alien lifeforms. However, renowned theoretical physicist Professor Mickio Kaku has gone considerably further with his suggestion that alien life may already be visiting us and that some UFOs could indeed be extraterrestrial spacecraft. According to Kaku, considering the age of the universe (13.82 billion years), many, if not most extraterrestrial civilizations will be technologically thousands or even millions of years more advanced than our own (ours is so young it barely registers on the cosmic timeline). If such civilizations exist, certain physicists, including Kaku, consider it likely that they will have developed hyperspatial technologies that enable their spacecraft to circumvent the light speed barrier, thereby opening the gates for interstellar travel.
The popular assumption in the UFO community is that true UFOs are extraterrestrial vehicles—an assumption undoubtedly reinforced by Hollywood, which prefers a simplistic approach. However, while the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) is appealing on many levels, some have argued that it fails to account for all aspects of UFO phenomena as reported by witnesses. Certainly, it has been my own experience that the closer one looks at UFOs, the harder it becomes to reconcile the phenomenon solely with visits from outer space. Indeed, in a puzzling amount of cases, the phenomenon seems to tailor its manifestations to the expectations of the individual perceiver based on spiritual or ideological values. Extraterrestrial intelligences may play some role in all of this, but it would be a mistake to consider ETs as a definitive solution to the UFO riddle.
Still, the ETH has considerable merit on the face of it. Extraterrestrial life in primitive forms almost certainly exists. If it exists, then the laws of evolution dictate that extraterrestrial intelligences far in advance of our own probably exist. As has been stated very recently by military personnel linked to the Pentagon’s UFO study program, structured craft exhibiting performance characteristics well beyond Earth’s most advanced technologies definitely exist, and have been quietly studied for years. It therefore seems not unreasonable to suggest that at least some UFOs may be of non-human origin, despite historical assertions to the contrary.
As for my suggestion that various governments—or military and intelligence groups within them—are quietly aware of the possible non-human nature of UFOs, this is a logic based not on Hollywood movies or TV shows such as Men In Black or The X-Files, but on tens-of-thousands of pages of declassified government documentation which, collectively, paints a surprisingly clear (though certainly not explicit) picture of a decidedly unearthly phenomenon that for over six decades has held, vice-like, the attention of the powers that be, not only in the United States, but around the world.
The real X-Files: UFOs and officialdom
On 31 January 1949, the FBI issued a memo on UFOs entitled “Protection of Vital Installations.” The classified document was sent to the Army’s G-2, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The memo reveals that a meeting between these authorities had recently taken place concerning UFOs, and states that “the matter of ‘Unidentified Aircraft’ or ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,’ otherwise known as ‘Flying Discs,’ ‘Flying Saucers,’ and ‘Balls of Fire,’ is considered top secret by intelligence officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.” The FBI document catalogues a list of incursions by unknown objects into restricted airspace surrounding the Atomic Energy Commission’s highly sensitive research installation at Los Alamos, New Mexico, throughout December 1948 and into early 1949.
The memo goes on to explain that “the unidentified phenomena travel at the rate of speed estimated at a minimum of three miles per second and a maximum of twelve miles per second, or a mean calculated speed of seven and one-half miles per second, or 27,000 miles per hour.” Needless to say, such speeds are well beyond the capacity of any terrestrial aircraft of the 21st Century, never mind the 20th. Even more eye-popping are the memo’s statements that “on two separate occasions a definite vertical change in path was indicated,” and that the appearance of the object was “round in a point of light with a definite area to the light’s source.” Some of the lights were “a diamond shape,” while others were “elongated.”
It should be noted that this memo came at a time when the US government was insisting to the public that flying saucers were of no defence significance and that all UFOs could be explained away either as conventional aircraft, hallucinations, misidentifications of natural phenomena, or outright hoaxes. And yet, as the document makes clear, behind the scenes, the phenomenon was deemed to be of extreme defence significance and considered “top secret.”
Almost four years later, on 2 December 1952, another jaw-dropping UFO-related document was produced, not by the FBI, but the by CIA. In a secret memo to CIA Director, General Walter Bedell Smith, the Agency’s Director of Scientific Intelligence, H. Marshall Chadwell, wrote of UFOs:
“At this time, the reports of incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention…. Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and travelling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles.”
In other words, in the absence of other satisfactory explanations, these objects were, in all likelihood, intelligently controlled craft not belonging to the United States government, nor presumably, to any other terrestrial power. Reading between the lines, it seems that Chadwell was seriously considering the possibility that these objects were of non-terrestrial origin, but he knew better than to state so explicitly in official documentation. Such discussions are better held in a quiet office, face-to-face.
To this day, despite the Pentagon’s proxy acknowledgement of its shadowy UFO study program (AATIP), the United States government remains reluctant to officially acknowledge the underlying exotic nature of UFOs (official acknowledgement opens an enormous can of worms). Other governments, however, have been relatively vocal about the phenomenon and are becoming more so with each passing year.
South American officials in particular have been especially forthright regarding military encounters with UFOs. Speaking on the direct authority of the President of Equador, Rafael Correa, Colonel Wilson Salgado of the Ecuadorian Air Force stated in an interview for the 2010 documentary UFOs in South America: Disclosure Has Begun:
The information we have available—not just our information, but also that coming from abroad, in particular the United States—makes me confident that we are dealing with… Unidentified Flying Objects. In real terms, these are extraterrestrial objects, and I’m sure of it. We share the universe with other beings.
In February 2012, Colonel Ariel Sanchez, head of the Uruguayan Air Force’s Commission for the Reception and Investigation of UFO Reports (known as “Cridovni”), told American journalist Billy Cox of the Sarasota Herald Tribune, “I believe that Uruguay, as well as Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and of course, Brazil, all have declassified only the smallest part of their files.” Sanchez said that the UFO information thus far released by these governments is but “the tip of a huge iceberg.”
Some of the most remarkable statements from military officers on UFOs have come from France, a country in which these phenomena been actively investigated at an official level since 1977. In 1999, the Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence—a military think tank—prepared a ninety-page report detailing the results of an independent study on UFOs. The white paper, now commonly referred to as The COMETA Report,was compiled by a group of thirteen retired top-tier generals, admirals, and government scientists (including the former head of the French Tactical Air Force, General Bernard Norlain, and the former head of CNES [the French equivalent of NASA]), Andre Lebeau. The report documented the existence of unidentified flying objects and their implications for national security. Copies were received by President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. The report concluded that, for a small percentage of UFO sightings, the extraterrestrial hypothesis was valid. It stated that some UFOs represent “completely unknown flying machines with exceptional performances that are guided by natural or artificial intelligence” and noted that, although the extraterrestrial hypothesis “has not been categorically proven… strong presumptions exist in its favour.” The report then goes on to consider in detail the likely consequences of open extraterrestrial contact for politics, science, and religion.
Concerning the US government’s historical UFO research, the COMETA report states:
“It is clear that the Pentagon has had, and probably still has, the greatest interest in concealing, as best it can, all of this research, which may, over time, cause the United States to hold a position of great supremacy over terrestrial adversaries, while giving it a considerable response capacity against a possible threat coming from space. Within this context, it is impossible for them to divulge the sources of this research and the goals pursued, because that could immediately point any possible rivals down the most beneficial avenues. Cover-ups and disinformation (both active as well as passive) still remain, under this hypothesis, an absolute necessity. Thus it would appear natural in the minds of U.S. military leaders, secrecy must be maintained as long as possible.”
In addition to the reams of official documents and scholarly white papers hinting at a non-terrestrial origin for UFOs, there are also many retired, and in some cases serving, government, military, and intelligence officials who have testified publicly to their own knowledge of UFOs and/or the intelligences behind them, and to the extreme secrecy surrounding these issues. Notable among these individuals are former CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter; former Special Assistant to Deputy CIA Director Richard Helms, Victor Marchetti; Senator Barry Goldwater; Gemini astronaut Col. Gordon Cooper; former UK Chief of Defence Staff and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill Norton; billionaire financier Lawrence Rockefeller; Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell; former Governor of Arizona Fife Symington; and Japanese Defense Minister Shigiru Ishiba.
And all of this is to say nothing of the literally millions of individuals from all walks of life and from every corner of the globe who, over the past seven decades, have reported seeing not only structured craft unlike anything known to have been built by man, but also—and crucially—non-human entities in the vicinity of, and inside said craft.
So, what are we to make of all this? It may very well be that our reality is drastically stranger than we have been led to believe, and that certain organisations—or certain individuals within them—are only too aware of this. The UFO phenomenon—whatever it is—shows no signs of disappearing anytime soon. In fact, mainstream media platforms are now more willing than ever to cover the UFO subject without the once-obligatory references to The X-Files and throwaway jibes about little green men and anal probes. If UFOs ever do shape up to be an ongoing hard news story, a topic of legitimate debate, will this change the social status of the UFO believer? Or, indeed, will “belief” finally be removed from the UFO question altogether?
Black UFO Over Mexico City Caught During Day Strolling Past, Oct 15, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Black UFO Over Mexico City Caught During Day Strolling Past, Oct 15, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 15, 2018 Location of sighting: Mexico City, Mexico This dark craft came right out into the open and was seen when a worker came outside for his break. The UFO tilted some as it moved, which is what many UFOs do in order to control their direction. Just sad he had such a bad camera. Looks like he is using an old phone to record it. Had it been an iPhone 7-8 this video would be definitive proof of the existence of aliens. I also notice that there is a blurry field around it...just as thousands of UFO reports also describe. Scott C. Waring
A video of a UFO was caught on camera moving in the night sky above the Darling Downs.
YouTube username UFOwatcher uploaded the video to video sharing site. The footage shows a bright image flying through the sky, hundred kilometres west of Brisbane.
The camera was directed to the west, focusing at Southern Cross and Venus as what can be seen on the video.
Then a large bright object can be observed making an appearance from the bottom of the screen, reportedly travelling at a distance of between 10 and 20 km.
There are claims on the YouTube channel that the same object was spotted two days before.
Was the object in question the alien spacecraft or just an issued satellite of the government? Watch the video, and you will be the judge.
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A video of a UFO was caught on camera moving in the night sky above the Darling Downs.
YouTube username UFOwatcher uploaded the video to video sharing site. The footage shows a bright image flying through the sky, hundred kilometres west of Brisbane.
The camera was directed to the west, focusing at Southern Cross and Venus as what can be seen on the video.
Then a large bright object can be observed making an appearance from the bottom of the screen, reportedly travelling at a distance of between 10 and 20 km.
There are claims on the YouTube channel that the same object was spotted two days before.
Was the object in question the alien spacecraft or just an issued satellite of the government? Watch the video, and you will be the judge.
A baffled resident has submitted a video of what they call a UFO over Butterow, near Rodborough.
An unidentified flying object has been observed moving over the Stroud skyline. A resident spotted the strange activity and caught it on video.
A Stroud resident, who happened to be awake, saw the UFO at 3 am on one September morning.
They said the strange shape hovered above the trees, just below Rodborough.
According to the witness, they felt excitement but at the same time scared.
The witness, who chose to stay anonymous, claimed that it was not the first time they saw an unexplained object in the middle of the night.
The night owl said that they had seen a similar thing around the area before and such object had become a familiar sight to them. They further claimed that they even once saw five all at once.
I have been following Secureteam for a while now and they have this new video on a group of UFOs taking down a satellite, have a look and let me know what you think? Thanks
In 2020, China plans to send an artificial moon into space to replace street lighting. It is an earth satellite that will reflect sunlight and be about nine times brighter than the moon.
As the authors of the project, including the Institute of Space Microelectronics, claim, it will be possible to regulate the illumination zone on the Earth's surface - the light field will vary between 10 and 80 kilometers.
In 1993, the Russian 65-foot-diameter satellite, called Znamya, briefly lit the Earth like a giant orbiting night light.
According to experts, neither humans nor animals perceive artificial moonlight as a disturbance because it will be similar to dusk.
The main challenges in creating an artificial moon are the cost of the project and the technical problems of launching mirrors into orbit and assembling them in the midst of space debris.
YouTube "outage"... was it to quarantine and erase a video of something hitting the moon?
YouTube "outage"... was it to quarantine and erase a video of something hitting the moon?
Lots of rumours about the moon right now, any are claiming the moon got hit and YouTube is deleting all videos and banning users over any footage.
What does the community know and think? Wild rumours and not much proof yet.
I don't know if you guys have noticed but there has been a lot of predictive programming that says "something big is coming". I've heard it mentioned on the radio, I've seen stuff on TV (which I rarely watch) I've seen stuff in print, social media, every media outlet you can think of has made the statement that something big is coming.
Update: As of now, YouTube did not provide any official reason for the "outage".
NASA is again being encouraged to expand its search for alien life – not just intelligent life – all forms of life, including microbes.
Astrobiology is the scientific study of study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. A new report from the National Academies recommends strategies to help NASA expand its search for life elsewhere.
Image via NASA.
Late last month, I reported on how the U.S. Congress wants NASA to focus more on searching for alien technosignatures in space. In other words, Congress is encouraging NASA to look for signals from advanced civilizations elsewhere in our galaxy. On October 10, 2018, another congressionally mandated report – this time from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Washington, D.C. – urged a related search. The report asked NASA to ramp up its research on alien biosignatures, which are signatures of life in all its various forms, including microbes. It urged NASA to incorporate the science of astrobiology – the study of life in the universe – more fully into all stages of future exploratory missions to the planets of our solar system.
Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. It is an inherently interdisciplinary field that encompasses astronomy, biology, geology, heliophysics, and planetary science, including complementary laboratory activities and field studies conducted in a wide range of terrestrial environments. Combining inherent scientific interest and public appeal, the search for life in the solar system and beyond provides a scientific rationale for many current and future activities carried out by the National Aeronautics and Science Administration (NASA) and other national and international agencies and organizations.
Requested by NASA, this study offers a science strategy for astrobiology that outlines key scientific questions, identifies the most promising research in the field, and indicates the extent to which the mission priorities in existing decadal surveys address the search for life’s origin, evolution, distribution, and future in the universe. This report makes recommendations for advancing the research, obtaining the measurements, and realizing NASA’s goal to search for signs of life in the universe.
Could this be a subsurface, liquid-water lake on Mars? The bright horizontal feature in this radar image represents Mars’ icy surface. The south polar layered deposits – layers of ice and dust – are seen to a depth of about a mile (1.5 km). Below is a base layer that in some areas is even brighter than the surface reflections, highlighted in blue. Analysis of the reflected signals suggests liquid water. Subsurface regions like this should be a high priority in the search for life, according to the new report.
The National Academies will appoint an ad hoc committee to initiate a study of the state of astrobiology as it relates to the search for life in the solar system and exoplanetary systems. The primary objectives of the study will:
– Outline key scientific questions and technology challenges in astrobiology, particularly as they pertain to the search for life in the solar system and extrasolar planetary systems;
– Identify the most promising key research goals in the field of the search for signs of life in which progress is likely in the next 20 years;
– Discuss which of the key goals could be addressed by U.S. and international space missions and ground telescopes in operation or in development;
– Discuss how to expand partnerships (interagency, international and public/private) in furthering the study of life’s origin, evolution, distribution, and future in the universe;
– Make recommendations for advancing the research, obtaining the measurements, and realizing NASA’s goal to search for signs of life in the universe.
So what exactly is this report recommending? The National Academies said it wants NASA to expand on how it searches for evidence of life on other planets and moons. Future searches would include both past and present life, by using a more sophisticated catalog and framework to enhance NASA’s ability to detect – and this is significant – both life that might be similar to terrestrial life, and life that may be quite different from life as we know it on Earth.
Until now, NASA has focused on looking for evidence of life that is similar to earthly life, primarily microorganisms that use carbon, nitrogen and water. This led to the follow the water mantra that NASA has used, in particular for its exploration of Mars.
That approach makes sense to some degree, since on Earth, all life we know of requires water.
The new report from the National Academies recommends looking for alien life in two ways – both as we know it (on Earth) and as we don’t.
Image via Chart: S. Seager & W. Bains Sci. Adv. 1, e1500047 (2015)/Cone: Ref. 5.
More recently, however, scientists have been considering the possibilities of more exotic forms of life, such as organisms based on methane instead of water. In this view, places like Saturn’s moon Titan – with its liquid methane/ethane lakes and seas – might be more habitable than previously supposed. The report recommends that NASA search for so-called agnostic biosignatures – in other words, for signs of life that aren’t tied to a particular metabolism or molecular blueprint, or other characteristics of life as we currently know it.
The report also recommends a comprehensive framework be established to aid in distinguishing between biosignatures and abiotic (non-living) phenomena, and also to improve understanding of the potential for biosignatures to be preserved (or not) over long planetary time-scales. It suggests the need for in-situ detection of energy-starved or otherwise sparsely distributed life such as chemolithotrophic or rock-eating life. This includes looking for evidence of life below the surface of a planet or moon; the subsurface is now thought to be the best place to look for such evidence on Mars, for example, especially after the discovery of a subsurface lake below the south pole.
This same strategy could, of course, also be applied to moons such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which have subsurface oceans.
The recommendations also extend beyond our own solar system, saying that NASA should also use technologies in near-term direct imaging missions that can suppress the light from stars in order to image exoplanets. For more about this, read my earlier article here at EarthSky: Report calls for direct images of Earth-like exoplanets. These suggestions form a part of the National Academies’ Exoplanet Science Strategy.
Saturn’s moon Titan is another intriguing place to search for “life as we don’t know it.” Could organisms of some kind exist in its subsurface ocean or in the liquid methane/ethane lakes and seas on its surface?
The report also highlights the need for specialized measurements, equipment and analysis required to take full advantage of space missions, including some that exist outside of traditional space science fields, as well as the need for interdisciplinary, non-traditional cooperation and collaboration with organizations outside of NASA.
As also noted, NASA missions have so far mostly been based on geological interests rather than astrobiological. This again has been particularly true with Mars – the Viking missions in the late 1970s to early 1980s were the last ones to focus specifically on looking for evidence of life – the results of which are still hotly debated to this day. Since then, the priority has been to search for evidence of past habitability. Not even past life, rather just the conditions that might have made life possible millions or billions of years ago.
The report stresses that an interdisciplinary approach to astrobiology is necessary toproduce a more complete picture of life on Earth as well as other planets. That approach should integrate the physical, chemical, biological, geologic, planetary and astrophysical sciences into the study of astrobiology to show how the relationship between life and its environment changes – producing a new, more dynamic view of habitability overall. NASA should continue to actively seek new mechanisms to reduce the barriers to these potential collaborations, the report says.
The last time that NASA looked directly for life on Mars, or any other planet or moon, was with the Viking mission in the late 1970s to early 1980s.
Image via NASA/JPL.
An online event called An Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe was livestreamed on October 10, 2018, but you can still watch it again here. A prepublication version of the written report is also available here.
Bottom line: NASA needs to expand its search for signs of extraterrestrial life, according to a new congressionally-mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Previous search strategies have mostly been narrowly focused, usually not looking for evidence of life at all. Hopefully these recommendations will bring us closer to discovering the first evidence of alien biology elsewhere in the solar system or beyond.
X-37B Military Space Plane Wings Past 400 Days on Latest Mystery Mission
X-37B Military Space Plane Wings Past 400 Days on Latest Mystery Mission
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Artist's illustration of the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane carrying out its mysterious duties in Earth orbit.
Credit: Boeing
The latest mystery mission of the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space planehas now passed the 400-day mark .
This mission — known as Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-5) — was rocketed into Earth orbit on Sept. 7, 2017, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Each X-37B/OTV 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 at that point to 2,085 days.
What's up?
Most X-37B payloads and activities are classified. The only OTV-5 payload revealed to date by Air Force officials is the Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader, or ASETS-II.
Developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), this cargo is testing experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipes for long-duration stints in the space environment. According to AFRL, the three primary science objectives are to measure the initial on-orbit thermal performance, to gauge long-duration thermal performance and to assess any lifetime degradation.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane on Sept. 7, 2017.
Credit: SpaceX
Landing site
When the space plane will land is unknown. The last X-37B mission, OTV-4, touched down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 7, 2017 — a first for the program. All prior missions had ended with a tarmac touchdown at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The next X-37B mission,B OTV-6, may lift off in 2019 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V (501) rocket. Launch would be from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex-41.
Reusable vehicles
The Air Force's X-37B "fleet" consists of two known reusable vehicles, both of which were built by Boeing at several locations in Southern California, including Huntington Beach, Seal Beach and El Segundo.
The program transitioned to the U.S. Air Force in 2004 after earlier funded research efforts by Boeing, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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 space plane has a payload bay measuring 7 feet by 4 feet (2.1 by 1.2 m), which can be outfitted with a robotic arm. The X-37B has a launch weight of 11,000 lbs. (4,990 kilograms) and is powered on orbit by gallium-arsenide solar cells with lithium-ion batteries.
On-orbit duties
The missions of the X-37B space planes are carried out under the auspices of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, and mission control for OTV flights is handled by the 3rd Space Experimentation Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. This squadron oversees operations of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle.
This Schriever Air Force Base unit is billed as the Air Force Space Command's premier organization for space-based demonstrations, pathfinders and experiment testing. It gathers information on objects high above Earth and carries out other intelligence-gathering duties.
And that may be a signal as to what the robotic craft is doing — both looking down at Earth and upward.
Repeating ground tracks
Ted Molczan, a Toronto-based satellite analyst, told Inside Outer Space that OTV-5's orbit at the start of August was about 197 miles (317 kilometers) high, inclined 54.5 degrees to the equator. Its ground track repeated nearly every five days, after 78 revolutions.
"Maneuvers on August 18 and 21 raised its orbit by 45 miles (74 kilometers) which caused its ground track to exactly repeat every three days, after 46 revolutions. It was still in that orbit when last observed, on September 8, by Alberto Rango, from Rome, Italy," Molczan said.
"Repeating ground tracks are very common," he added, "especially for spacecraft that observe the Earth. I do not know why OTV has repeating ground tracks."
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+.
Evidence of a big, unseen world in the extreme outer solar system continues to mount. Take the recent discovery of the distant dwarf planet 2015 TG387, known as "The Goblin." This world's highly elliptical orbit appears to have been sculpted by the gravity of a sizable planet way out there in the dark depths — as have the orbits of more than a dozen other faraway objects, researchers say.
"Planet Nine really remains the only viable explanation for all of the stuff that we observe," said Konstantin Batygin, a theoretical astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. [The Evidence for 'Planet Nine' in Our Solar System (Gallery)]
Starting the hunt
Batygin is a major player in the hunt for Planet Nine, which really kicked off in 2014.
That year, astronomers Chad Trujillo and Scott Sheppard proposed the existence of a large "perturber" far beyond Neptune. Such a planet, the scientists said, couldo explain weird features in the orbits of the dwarf planets Sedna and 2012 VP113, as well as a few other distant objects.
In January of 2016, Batygin and fellow Caltech researcher Mike Brown marshalled more evidence for this hypothetical world, which the duo dubbed "Planet Nine." Batygin and Brown also took a stab at characterizing the planet, estimating that it's perhaps 10 times more massive than Earth and orbits about 600 astronomical units (AU) from the sun on average. (One AU is the Earth-sun distance, about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
Further detections of distant objects with oddball orbits followed. Astronomers have now spotted 14 bodies that bear the imprint of a perturber's tug, Batygin said.
That imprint is primarily a pronounced clustering. Basically, the elongated portions of the objects' highly elliptical orbits point in the same direction, in a way predicted by the Planet Nine models.
The chances of such a configuration developing by chance alone are less than 0.1 percent, Batygin said. And other possible explanations fall short, he added.
For example, some researchers have proposed that the clustering resulted from the combined tugs of many small objects in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune's orbit. But a "self-modulating" Kuiper Belt would look very different from the actual belt that we see, Batygin said. And, he added, a recent study suggests that the entire Kuiper Belt (sans Planet Nine) harbors no more than 2 percent of the mass of Earth — not nearly enough to shape the bodies' orbits in the observed manner.
He pegged the probability of the world's existence at "over 90 percent." Sheppard, who's based at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., is similarly bullish.
"We think it's more likely than not," Sheppard told Space.com. "For me, personally, it's probably at the 80 [percent] to 90 percent level."
Where is Planet Nine hiding?
Batygin and Brown have systematically searched for Planet Nine over the past few years, as have Trujillo and Sheppard (who refer to the hypothetical world as "Planet X"). Both teams have been using Japan's 26-foot (8 meters) Subaru Telescope, which sits atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Other research groups around the world have joined the hunt as well. Still, it's not all that surprising that the putative planet remains undiscovered, Sheppard said.
"Where we think the planet is — hundreds of AU away, if not 1,000 AU — something even as big as Neptune would be fainter than most telescopes could see," Sheppard said.
"And most of our surveys to date do not go that faint, do not go that deep. We've covered very little of the sky to the depth that's needed to be covered to find something this faint," he added. "You can hide a very big thing in the outer solar system very easily."
Indeed, the search has so far covered just 20 percent to 25 percent of "premium sky," the regions where Planet Nine is most likely to be, both Sheppard and Batygin said.
It's tough to make predictions about when Planet Nine will finally be spotted, because astronomers don't know the object's mass, brightness or precise orbit — or even that it exists at all. But Batygin said he suspects that Subaru is capable of seeing the planet. (Subaru combines good resolution with a wide field of view. That latter quality is key. Some instruments, such as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, are probably sharp-eyed enough to spot Planet Nine but have such narrow fields of view that employing them in the hunt would be impractical.)
If Planet Nine is too faint for Subaru, then Batygin, Sheppard and other hunters likely won't despair. Help will soon yarrive in the form of powerful new instruments, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which is scheduled to come online in the Chilean Andes in the early 2020s.
"If we don't find it in the next five or so years," Batygin said, LSST "is definitely going to deliver the final word on Planet Nine."
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13 by Grand Central Publishing. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall.
Drones: they’re small, they’re kinda cute, and they’re really cool. But these little fliers can also be very dangerous, especially to air traffic.
Image credits University of Dayton Research Institute.
New research from the University of Dayton (UoD) Research Institute shows that these buzzing motes of technology pose a real threat to larger aircraft, with a direct impact able to cause severe structural damage to an aircraft’s frame.
Winging it
Given that planes are pretty big vehicles and civilian drones tend not to be that way, it’s easy to assume that the former would suffer only minor damage in the case of a collision. However, a new video released by researchers from the University of Dayton shows that this is far from the truth.
The team traditionally studies a similar hazard: that of mid-flight bird-airplane collisions. While such events aren’t too dangerous for planes, they can cause significant difficulties for pilots and some damage to the vehicle. Some of the most dangerous outcomes of a bird-plane collision include broken windows (and subsequent injuries to the crew), and engine damage. The team’s results are forwarded to the aircraft design industry, which uses the data to bird-proof their planes.
Given their background, the team wondered what the outcome of a drone-plane impact would be. In collaboration with researchers at the Sinclair College National UAS Training and Certification Center, they set up an experiment to find out. The test roughly followed the same layout as bird-impact tests: the team set up a target — the wing of a single-engine Mooney M20 — on a fixed mount, shot a drone at it at speeds similar to that of a flying aircraft, and filmed the whole thing. In effect, this simulates a plane hitting a drone during flight.
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The footage shows that a drone can cause significant damage to an airplane, should they collide at full speed. Rather than breaking apart, bounding off, or glancing off (like birds tend to do), the drone acted like a cannonball — it tore through the vehicle’s fuselage, causing extensive internal damage. Most worryingly, it chewed right through the wing’s main spar, a key structural unit that carries the plane’s weight (i.e. it’s the part that keeps the wing from breaking off). Damage to the spar has a very high chance of making the plane incapable of flight.
Drone collisions cause greater and more severe damage to planes than birds of comparative size due to their solid motors, batteries, and other parts, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported in a study last year. These parts are much stiffer than the flesh of birds (which is mostly water), so they don’t disintegrate, and most often penetrate a vehicle’s skin. That study also says the FAA gets more than 250 sightings a month of drones posing potential risks to planes, most often near airports.
The UoD team says we need to do more extensive testing — using different sizes of drones and aircraft models — to fully understand the risks involved in such collisions. Furthermore, they point to a collision between a civilian quadcopter drone and a military helicopter that occurred last year, saying that it’s nearly certain we’ll see more such events in the future. The helicopter in that collision suffered severe damage to its rotor, but was able to make it back to base, crew unharmed.
The FAA called on drone manufacturers to develop and incorporate technology to detect and avoid planes. Judging from the UoD video, that’s a good first step. Pilots definitely shouldn’t rely on sheer luck, or current planes, to save them in a drone impact — both are flimsy defenses.
Het ware doel van de piramides. Vergeet alles wat je dacht te weten
Het ware doel van de piramides. Vergeet alles wat je dacht te weten
Bijna alles wat we denken te weten over de piramides is onjuist: het doel, de leeftijd, de bouwers en locaties. Dat zei dr. Sam Osmanagic tijdens zijn BOLDtalks-lezing in Dubai eind vorige maand.
Osmanagic claimt in Bosnië en Herzegovina in de buurt van de plaats Visoko de grootste door mensen gemaakte piramides op aarde te hebben gevonden.
Sinds de ontdekking in april 2005 zijn meer dan 3000 vrijwilligers uit 62 landen bezig geweest opgravingen te verrichten in het gebied.
Complexe energiemachines
Volgens dr. Osmanagic zijn piramides niet alleen gebouwd in Egypte en Mexico, maar over de hele wereld.
Piramides zijn geen graftombes voor de farao’s, maar complexe energiemachines, aldus de amateurarcheoloog.
De oudste piramides, die in Bosnië en Indonesië, zijn ruim 30.000 jaar geleden gebouwd en dit verandert de tijdlijn voor hoogontwikkelde beschavingen, stelt hij.
De energie van piramides werd gebruikt voor interstellaire communicatie, claimt Osmanagic.
Genezing
Daarnaast ondersteunden energievelden in de piramide volgens hem genezing en de moleculaire structuur van water en voedsel. Ook zou de energie mentale vermogens versterken.
Sam Osmanagic is directeur van het centrum voor archeologie aan de American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Hij heeft 16 boeken geschreven over piramides over de hele wereld en oude beschavingen, die in 17 talen zijn vertaald.
Twee beroemde UFO-klokkenluiders sterven kort na elkaar. Dit had één van hen te vertellen over bouwwerken op de maan
Twee beroemde UFO-klokkenluiders sterven kort na elkaar. Dit had één van hen te vertellen over bouwwerken op de maan
Een beroemde UFO-klokkenluider die claimde dat hij foto’s van de NASA heeft gezien met daarop ‘buitenaardse bouwwerken’ op de maan, is om het leven gekomen bij een fietsongeluk.
Voormalig sergeant Karl Wolfe (74) fietste in Lansing in New York toen hij werd geschept door een vrachtwagencombinatie.
Hij werd met spoed overgebracht naar een nabijgelegen ziekenhuis, waar hij later aan zijn verwondingen overleed.
Niet aangeklaagd
De politie heeft een onderzoek ingesteld naar zijn dood, maar de chauffeur is niet aangeklaagd.
Wolfe werd in 2001 bekend toen hij claimde dat de NASA bewijs van ‘kunstmatige structuren’ op de achterkant van de maan verdoezelt.
Sergeant Wolfe had toegang tot topgeheime informatie en was gestationeerd op Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
Basis
In 1965 werd hij overgeplaatst naar het Lunar Orbiter Project van de NASA. Hij moest onder meer fotoapparatuur repareren.
Een collega zei tegen hem dat de NASA ‘een basis op de achterkant van de maan had gevonden’.
Hij liet Wolfe onder meer foto’s van torens, koepels en paddenstoelvormige bouwwerken op het maanoppervlak zien.
Vermoord
Sommigen speculeren dat Wolfe is vermoord. “Hoe weet je dat een UFO-insider de waarheid spreekt? Hij sterft onverwachts,” schreef Charlie Collins.
Enkele dagen eerder, op 11 oktober, overleed ook de gepensioneerde sergeant-majoor Robert Dean (89).
Dean werkte in de jaren zestig voor de NAVO op het SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) in Frankrijk.
Bezocht
Daar kreeg hij naar eigen zeggen een document onder ogen met foto’s van dode aliens en gecrashte UFO’s.
In het document werd gesteld dat de aarde wordt bezocht door meerdere buitenaardse rassen.
This past week, the field of ufology lost two of its well-known members – UFO investigator Robert Dean and whistleblower Karl Wolfe.
Robert Dean is best known for revealing that, while a member of the U.S. military stationed at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in the 1960s, he was able to read a document entitled “UFO Assessment: An Evaluation of a Possible Threat” because his security clearance allowed him access to documents labeled “Cosmic Top Secret.” While Dean could not obtain a copy, he remembered the contents of the papers and revealed them to the public after retiring from a 28-year career in the Army. Those contents, according to Dean, included detailed information on UFO sightings, ET encounters and alien autopsies. Dean claimed the research was approved by NATO and exposed (at least internally) that Earth was inhabited by four alien species that looked like humans and were secretly interacting with us.
Dean spoke often both within the ufology community and to the general public about what he saw in “The Assessment” and, while he was unable to offer proof, lived long enough to see the US government finally admit it has investigated UFOs and release videos of encounters. Robert Dean was 89.
Former US Air Force Sergeant Karl Wolfe, 74, was cycling in Lansing, New York, when he was hit by a tractor trailer.
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Karl Wolfe was another former military officer (Air Force sergeant) who also claimed to have a special security clearance in the 1960s while working in the Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. In 2001 at the now-famous Disclosure Project event held at the National Press Club in Washington DC and organized by ufologist Steven Greer, Wolfe revealed that, while working as a technician processing photographic surveillance from the war in Vietnam, he was sent to a building filled, to his surprise and suspicion, with non-English-speaking civilians and interpreters. In a darkroom used for processing photos from the first lunar orbiter mission in 1966, another technician allegedly showed him pictures of structures on the far side of the moon. He descried it in his testimony:
“He pulled out one of these mosaics, and showed this base which had geometric shapes – there were towers, there were spherical buildings, there were very tall towers and things that looked somewhat like radar dishes, but they were very large structures.”
While he had no evidence, Wolfe spoke about his experience at subsequent ufology events. He died this week in a tragic traffic accident that is still under investigation. Karl Wolfe was 74.
As expected, some are trying to link the accident to Wolfe’s revelations about }alleged secret moon base and others to the coincidental passing of two UFO whistleblowers with a week of each other. The circumstances of each man’s passing seem to suggest otherwise, but actual information about such a connection is as likely to be disclosed as is evidence of what both men claimed they saw and told to anyone who would listen.
That, of course, is the opening line from the first “Star Trek” series. No one (outside of China, as we will soon see) would watch if the line was, “Space, the next street light.” Yet that’s exactly what the Chinese space program is saying. In 2020, it plans to launch a satellite with a reflective coating that it claims will be capable of beaming sunlight at night on a 50 square mile area that apparently hasn’t yet heard of street lights. Or Las Vegas. Or what animals and humans do when they can’t sleep. What could possibly go wrong?
“The satellite light will be like a twilight glow.”
Kang Weimin – the director of the Institute of Optics at the Harbin Institute of Technology’s School of Aerospace – gave that very non-technical description after the announcement by Wu Chunfeng — chairman of Chengdu Aerospace Science and Technology Microelectronics System Research Institute Co. – that Chengdu, a city 0f 14 million residents in southwestern China, will soon get a second moon “eight times brighter than the Moon” (please update your definition of “twilight” to ‘reflect’ this). At a technology conference in Chengdu, he told the audience that the beam from this satellite will be bright enough to entirely replace street lights.” (Better update “twilight” again.) Why? Chengdu Business Daily gives one answer:
“According to reports, in the civilian sector, the project can replace night street lighting, saving a lot of infrastructure electricity consumption. In view of the 50 square kilometers of Chengdu, providing radiation, for example, can save electricity costs of about 1.2 billion yuan ($173 million USD) per year.”
People’s Daily reports that Chengdu officials also expressed that the artificial moon would increase tourism (see Las Vegas and New York City) while Asia Times points out that the light can be directed to specific locations such as construction sites or disaster areas.
What could possibly go wrong? Ask the people who live in far northern or southern areas with summers filled with midnight suns. Or ask their psychologists who say perpetual sunlight affects internal clocks, creates a feeling of perpetual jet lag and contributes to insomnia and all of its associated serious problems (see Insomnia). The artificial moon will certainly upset astronomers who will be able to see it as its light blocks their view, and it will affect businesses that depend on night darkness. (Note to self: sell stock in nightlight company.)
Then there’s the animals. Kang Weimin says the all-night “twilight” won’t affect them, but that’s not the case in midnight sun areas, which report the animals are out hunting longer, birds are chirping and crowing at all hours, bears are cranky from not hibernating and those all-important nighttime insect-eating bats are eating less often. And those are just the obvious signs.
What could possibly go wrong? Plenty. Enough to offset the profits of a billionaire space entrepreneur, his rich business friends and money-hungry government officials? What do you think?
Hollywood’s alien movies have been drawing inspiration from UFO stories since the dawn of the modern UFO era over seventy years ago, but only a handful have been based directly on real-life UFO incidents. Here are 5 of the best…
Left: the real Betty and Barney Hill. Right: the Hills as portrayed onscreen by Estelle Parsons and James Earl Jones.
1. The UFO Incident (1975)
One of the first cases of alien abduction on record — and arguably the most famous — is that of Betty and Barney Hill, a middle-aged couple who encountered a UFO on the night of 19 September 1961 while driving late at night in New Hampshire. The couple claimed to have witnessed a disc-shaped craft low above the road directly ahead of them. Barney even described seeing a number of humanoid figures staring back at him through its windows. Little else was recalled consciously. The rest of their account would surface later through dramatic hypnosis sessions with respected Boston psychiatrist Dr. Benjamin Simon, who published a popular book about the incident in 1966.
In 1975, the Hill abduction story became even more famous when it was adapted for television as a feature-length movie starring Estelle Parsons and James Earl Jones as Betty and Barney. With a teleplay based directly on Dr. Simon’s taped hypnosis sessions with the couple, The UFO Incident was remarkably faithful to the Hill’s actual account of capture by grey-skinned saucer occupants in September of 1961.
Another film, the little-known Italian production Eyes Behind the Stars, had touched on the theme of abduction three years prior in 1972, but The UFO Incident was the first direct treatment of a real-life case and the first to bring together many of the now-common themes and motifs of abduction experiences, including medical examination, missing time, and hypnosis. The movie’s aliens, although smallish with large eyes and bald heads, are of normal proportions, and are quite different to Greys as they would later be realized onscreen in Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind as decidedly smaller, more spindly beings with significantly larger heads and larger, blacker eyes.
The UFO Incident remains one of Hollywood’s best treatments of a true life abduction experience. It works first and foremost as a powerful human drama, propelled by the obvious commitment of Parsons and Jones in excellent central performances as the Hills. Despite its fantastical subject matter, the film remains sober throughout.
2. Communion (1989)
Whitley Strieber’s 1987 book about his claimed encounters with non-human entities was an instant bestseller, and, to date, has sold more than two million copies worldwide. The 1989 movie adaptation starred Christopher Walken in a compellingly manic performance as Strieber, and Lindsay Crouse as his late wife, Anne.
Both book and movie are primarily focused on an experience which occurred 26 December 1985, when Strieber believes he was abducted from his cabin in upstate New York while on a short break with his family and some close friends. Strieber had almost no conscious recollection of what had happened to him, but in the months that followed he began to suffer an untraceable emotional and psychological toll.
In the movie, we follow Strieber as he reluctantly agrees to be hypnotically regressed by psychiatrist Janet Duffey (played by Frances Sternhagen). It is through these sessions that the bizarre events of that night come back to confront him – events involving small, spindly, beings with oversized oval heads and large hypnotic black eyes.
Communion was the first Hollywood entertainment product to engage thoughtfully with the more surreal aspects of the abduction phenomenon. With a screenplay penned by Strieber himself, the movie captures the tonal essence of his book, if not its deeply layered psychological and metaphysical complexity. It’s a flawed film, but it dares to show abduction for the baffling, hallucinatory, deeply troubling, intellectually challenging, and spiritually transformative phenomenon it is reported to be. This is a film, which, for the most part, is rooted firmly in our own mundane world. The thought of non-human intelligences breaking through into this reality from a strange realm is psychologically jarring, both for Strieber and for the viewer.
Despite its flaws, Communion remains a deeply creepy movie. It’s an important one too, not only for its ambition, but for further popularizing the image of the now iconic Grey alien—an image which first came to prominence on the cover of Strieber’s own bestselling book and would later feature on the movie’s VHS cover, staring hypnotically into the eyes of millions of freaked-out customers in video rental stores worldwide.
3. Intruders (1992)
1987 saw the publication of Budd Hopkins’ Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods. The book investigated the claims of a number of alleged alien abductees, but was more specifically concerned with the case of Debbie Jordan-Kauble (known in the book as “Kathie Davis”). Jordan-Kauble described having been abducted from her parents’ home in June of 1983 and being taken aboard an egg-shaped craft which had landed outside. She claimed to have been impregnated by her alien captors, who later removed the fetus and eventually introduced her to her human-alien hybrid child.
Hopkins’ Intruders book would later be very loosely adapted for television by screenwriter Tracy Tormé—son of legendary jazz singer and musician Mel Tormé. The 1992 mini-series (later broadcast back-to-back as a movie) was concerned less with the Jordan-Kauble story and more with the broader abduction phenomenon as it was then understood by the leading researchers in the field, namely Hopkins and Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, both of whom served as consultants on the production.
Intruders was broadcast by CBS through 17–19 May 1992 and was generally well received by critics. It remains significant for its thoughtful and sympathetic treatment of the abduction phenomenon, and for grounding itself convincingly in a normal world occasionally intruded upon by a profound and sometimes terrifying non-human intelligence. It explored many themes and motifs common to abduction accounts, including intrusive examinations, alien impregnation, hybrid children, screen memories, and hypnotic regression. Tormé is convinced that his show had considerable cultural impact, bringing a previously obscure UFOlogical facet to the masses. He told me of Intruders: “I really believe this project was part of the process of people becoming aware of how these things [abductions] allegedly work.”
4. Fire in the Sky (1993)
In 1975, Travis Walton, a logger from Snowflake, Arizona, famously 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. They sped back into town that night to inform bemused authorities of how a UFO had zapped Travis in front of their very eyes. Assuming he was dead, the terrified loggers had left their colleague where he lay, the saucer looming above his lifeless body.
A swirling storm of confusion, anger, and allegations was soon to descend on the sleepy town of Snowflake. The loggers, having reported to police that their friend had been taken by a UFO, immediately were considered suspects in Walton’s disappearance and possible murder. After no less than five days, Walton returned. He was found in a telephone box some three miles outside of Snowflake, huddled and shivering. As he was taken back into town he began babbling about strange creatures with large eyes. He assumed he’d been gone just a couple of hours and was stunned into prolonged silence when he was told almost a week had passed.
Featuring solid performances from D.B. Sweeney as Travis, and Robert Patrick as logging-crew-leader Mike Rogers, the Fire in the Sky movie was a reasonably faithful accounting of the Walton experience—that is until its final act, which notoriously pummeled the meat of Walton’s encounter out of all recognition. The human-looking beings described by Travis and their walkabout with him in a spaceport were nowhere to be seen in the movie. Walton’s skittish Grays were replaced with frightful goblin-like beings who literally drag the logger like a sack of spuds through their pestilent, rotting spaceship—all dank tunnels and dripping embryonic sacks—before gluing him to a table with a suffocating membrane and subjecting him to graphic torture with a thick needle to the eyeball.
The movie divided opinion upon its release. It made back its budget, but little more. The legendary Roger Ebert praised the film’s final sequence for its believably, writing: “The scenes inside the craft are really very good. They convincingly depict a reality I haven’t seen in the movies before, and for once I did believe that I was seeing something truly alien, and not just a set decorator’s daydreams.” However, Ebert was left deflated as the credits rolled, adding: “The movie ends on an inconclusive and frustrating note.”
5. Roswell (1994)
This 1994 TV movie was the first in-depth Hollywood treatment of the infamous Roswell Incident of July 1947, in which an alien spacecraft and bodies are alleged to have crashed in the New Mexico desert and been recovered by the US military. For writer/producer Paul Davids, the purpose of his movie was not just to entertain, but to educate—to bring what many regard as the ultimate UFO cover-up to wider public attention as a powerful and comprehensible narrative.
Roswell was also one of the first movies to feature a direct reference to Area 51. The secret base shows up fleetingly in a sequence in which a mysterious government insider (played by Martin Sheen) describes to Roswell whistle-blower Jesse Marcel (Kyle MacLachlan) the events that unfolded in the months and years following the saucer crash.
In a 2014 interview, I asked Davids if the word “Roswell” would be so culturally resonant today had he not so memorably contextualized it in his 1994 movie. “Not as much,” he replied, although he acknowledged that The X-Files, which premiered a year before his movie, also played a major role. “But The X-Files wasn’t just about Roswell,” he stressed, “it was all over the place dealing with a lot of different things. Roswell was just a little part of it.”
Today, Davids considers the Roswell Incident to be a “national institution… massively ingrained into the public consciousness, as much as any other story from the history of our country.” It is hard to argue with that statement, and it is harder still to underestimate the seminal role Davids’ movie played in that ingraining process.
After the recent passing of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, there was much coverage of the billionaire’s many notable accomplishments and activities – inventor, investor, philanthropist, private rocket builder, shipwreck hunter, brain researcher and owner of sports teams, yachts and an island. However, one major achievement that didn’t get much press was his early and substantial financial contributions to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). That’s right – the other half of the IBM side of the personal computer revolution was also a key member of the SETI revolution … and the evidence starts with the Allen Telescope Array, located in the Cascade Mountains in California.
“The chance that we are going to pick up the phone and an alien is going to be on the other end is small, but it is certainly worth—on a modest scale, for me—seeing if we can enable some of that research.”
Paul Allen
In a 2007 interview with Discover magazine, Paul Allen describes how his interest in space and extraterrestrials began with the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. However, a little thing called software got in the way of that interest and Allen didn’t give it much thought until he had had made some of his billions and one day received a call from a fellow computer industry pioneer. According to Motherboard, Allen, along with Hewlett-Packard founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard and Intel founder Gordon Moore, received a call from Hewlett Packard laboratories founder Barney Oliver asking each to invest $5 million in Project Phoenix, which scanned for signals from 800 stars within 200-light years of Earth.
Allen Telescope Array
When Project Phoenix ended, astronomers interested in SETI designed a large array of radio telescopes and convinced Allen to contribute the $25 million (he later invested $5 million more) needed to build what became the Allen Telescope Array – the first array in the U.S. built specifically for SETI. While it has received 200 million signals from thousands of stars and recently scanned the Oumuamua intergalactic space rock, a definitive ET message hasn’t been identified yet. Despite that, Allen never lost his excitement for the search.
“That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.”
While Paul Allen had many other successes, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence wasn’t one of them. However, his quest lives on in the Allen Telescope Array. While we wait for a message, perhaps Allen has finally received it.
A couple of common aspects in discussions about a Planet X or Planet Nine or Nibiru are that it’s a danger to Earth and it’s coming back. A new study suggests that while a giant ninth planet may have once existed in the solar system, it’s not coming back and it may actually have been good to Earth. Why? Because it saved our planet from Jupiter’s gravitational power by making that giant planet use it instead to fling this Planet X out of the solar system and turn it into a rogue wandering the galaxy aimlessly. Is it true? Should we feel guilty?
“We shouldn’t fall into the trap of looking at the outer solar system and thinking it was always like that.”
In Dynamical Evolution of the Early Solar System, a study published in the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysicsand reviewed recently by Knowable Magazine, David Nesvorný of the Department of Space Studies at Southwest Research Institute in Colorado describes how computer simulations of how the solar system was formed seem to always end up with Uranus or Neptune getting flung out of the array by Jupiter’s massive gravitational force. There’s a pretty big hole – two of them, actually – in those simulations. Some astronomers added a planet that disappeared 4 billion years ago to the simulations – a change that led them to create our current solar system but pointed to no evidence left behind of the one-time existence of such a planet.
Except for the orbit of Jupiter. The simulations indicate that at one time Jupiter was farther away from the sun and closer to Saturn. The combined gravitational pulls of the two ice giants could have been a threat to the inner planets, including Earth. However, during a million-year dynamical instability in the early life of the solar system, something happened to move Jupiter away from Saturn, reducing the danger to the inner planets … something that looked like it was caused by the blowback from Jupiter flinging a huge planet out of the system. That fixes the simulations, except for the fact that an exiting giant would have had some visible effect on the Kuiper belt of space rocks outside of Neptune.
Kuiper belt in relation to the ice giants
Nesvorný thinks he found the hole in the Kuiper belt. The belt is generally in sync with Neptune’s orbit … except for an area called the ‘kernel’ which has a different orbit and may even have a different composition of space rocks. The simulations show that as Neptune moved into its final orbit, it suffered a bump that could have created a gravitational push that created the kernel. And – you guessed it – that bump could have been caused by the force of the gravitational effort needed by Jupiter to knock out Planet X.
“You end up with something like the kernel. It’s circumstantial evidence … but it’s not conclusive.”
Nesvorný admits that while this addition of an exiting Planet X makes the simulations work, he needs more proof. One piece of evidence he proposes is the fact that astronomers are constantly finding Jupiter-sized rogue planets floating between the stars and most were likely deported by similar cataclysmic events in their own solar systems. And it’s not just a few … some estimates put the number in the billions. That means that while we may never again see the Planet X that saved us from Jupiter, there’s a good chance we’ll be visited by a different rogue. Nesvorný has this warning that it may only be a matter of time:
“I bet there will be many. It’s surprising how organized the solar system has remained.”
Which planet will save Earth and the inner planets the next time … or is it our turn?
Another high-speed Fastwalker reveals itself above Syktyfkar, Russia
Another high-speed Fastwalker reveals itself above Syktyfkar, Russia
“Fastwalkers” it is such an interesting phenomenon because we simply do not know what it is, apart from the fact that it is almost impossible to film these mysterious objects.
Therefore it is remarkable that within one week a second Fastwalker has been filmed by a drone.
This week a drone owner captured a Fastwalker above Clymer, New York, see our article “High-speed Fastwalker caught by Drone” and now a drone owner using a Phantom 4pro 4K captured an extremely high-speed flying object above Syktyfkar, Russia.
Normally due to its enormous speed we only see a streak of light but this time the video gives a clear picture of the possible energy source of the Fastwalker too, see above image.
Alien captured 69 years ago by US Military is still a prisoner today, forced to work for them, Oct 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Alien captured 69 years ago by US Military is still a prisoner today, forced to work for them, Oct 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
What happens when real footage is leaked into the private sector and goes unnoticed for years, but then loads of fakes begin uploading to Youtube for Adsense cash...do we continue to ignore the real videos, and label them as fake to give us a clear conscious? Oh, hell no! This is real raw footage from years back. This video was uploaded more than 9 years ago at a time when I was #5 in Taiwan top ten list on Youtube, back when fakes were not a thing, three years before PewDiePie existed on Youtube, a time when people didn't upload fakes for cash...yet. This is real footage of an alien, probably the grey from the Roswell, New Mexico crash when all but one alien were killed. The last one curled up, injured scared and found by US Army soldiers. Sure that was back in 1947, however Greys live forever if they are in their own environment. It looks like this is that same one from the crash. Waiting its time out, waiting...because time for it is minute compared to time for us. It may be thousands or millions of years old, so whats a few decades as a prisoner of the US military until it finds a way to escape. Oh, by the way, Los Alamos labs took DNA samples from it, and cloned a whole troop of those greys to do work for the military in an underground base 5km below Los Alamos Labs. Its time to remember the truth, watch the video below. Scott C. Waring
Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Natural History Museum were soliciting reservations for the first space tourism mission, well before the modern era of Blue Origins, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. All you had to do was supply your address and tick the box for your preferred destination, which included Venus.
Today, Venus is unlikely to be a dream destination for aspiring space tourists. As revealed by numerous missions in the last few decades, rather than being a paradise, the planet is a hellish world of infernal temperatures, a corrosive toxic atmosphere and crushing pressures at the surface. Despite this, NASA is currently working on a conceptual manned mission to Venus, named the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept – (HAVOC).
But how is such a mission even possible? Temperatures on the planet's surface (about 460°C) are in fact hotter than Mercury, even though Venus is roughly double the distance from the sun. This is higher than the melting point of many metals including bismuth and lead, which may even fall as "snow" onto the higher mountain peaks. The surface is a barren rocky landscape consisting of vast plains of basaltic rock dotted with volcanic features, and several continent-scale mountainous regions.
It is also geologically young, having undergone catastrophic resurfacing events. Such extreme events are caused by the build up of heat below the surface, eventually causing it to melt, release heat and re-solidify. Certainly a scary prospect for any visitors.
Hovering in the atmosphere
Luckily, the idea behind NASA's new mission is not to land people on the inhospitable surface, but to use the dense atmosphere as a base for exploration. No actual date for a HAVOC type mission has been publicly announced yet. This mission is a long term plan and will rely on small test missions to be successful first. Such a mission is actually possible, right now, with current technology. The plan is to use airships which can stay aloft in the upper atmosphere for extended periods of time.
Venus was once an Earth twin.
Credit: NASA / JPL
As surprising as it may seem, the upper atmosphere of Venus is the most Earth-like location in the solar system. Between altitudes of 50km and 60km, the pressure and temperature can be compared to regions of the Earth's lower atmosphere. The atmospheric pressure in the Venusian atmosphere at 55km is about half that of the pressure at sea level on Earth. In fact you would be fine without a pressure suit, as this is roughly equivalent to the air pressure you would encounter at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Nor would you need to insulate yourself as the temperature here ranges between 20°C and 30°C.
The atmosphere above this altitude is also dense enough to protect astronauts from ionising radiation from space. The closer proximity of the sun provides an even greater abundance of available solar radiation than on Earth, which can be used to generate power (approximately 1.4 times greater).
The conceptual airship would float around the planet, being blown by the wind. It could, usefully, be filled with a breathable gas mixture such as oxygen and nitrogen, providing buoyancy. This is possible because breathable air is less dense than the Venusian atmosphere and, as result, would be a lifting gas.
The Venusian atmosphere is comprised of 97% carbon dioxide, about 3% nitrogen and trace amounts of other gases. It famously contains a sprinkling of sulphuric acid which forms dense clouds and is a major contributor to its visible brightness when viewed from Earth. In fact the planet reflects some 75% of the light that falls onto it from the sun. This highly reflective cloud layer exists between 45km and 65km, with a haze of sulphuric acid droplets underneath down to about 30km. As such, an airship design would need to be resistant to the corrosive effect of this acid.
Luckily we already have the technology required to overcome the problem of acidity. Several commercially available materials, including teflon and a number of plastics, have a high acidic resistance and could be used for the outer envelope of the airship. Considering all these factors, conceivably you could go for a walk on a platform outside the airship, carrying only your air supply and wearing a chemical hazard suit.
Venus as seen by Magellan. Credit: NASA
Life on Venus?
The surface of Venus has been mapped from orbit by radar on the US Magellan mission. However, only a few locations on the surface have ever been visited, by the series of Venera missions of Soviet probes in the late 1970s. These probes returned the first – and so far only – images of the Venusian surface. Certainly surface conditions seem utterly inhospitable to any kind of life.
The upper atmosphere is a different story however. Certain kinds of extremophile organisms already exist on Earth which could withstand the conditions in the atmosphere at the altitude at which HAVOC would fly. Species such as Acidianus infernus can be found in highly acidic volcanic lakes in Iceland and Italy. Airborne microbes have also been found to exist in Earth's clouds. None of this proves that life exists in the Venusian atmosphere, but it is a possibility that could be investigated by a mission like HAVOC.
The current climatic conditions and composition of the atmosphere are the result of a runaway greenhouse effect (an extreme greenhouse effect that cannot be reversed), which transformed the planet from a hospitable Earth-like "twin" world in its early history. While we do not currently expect Earth to undergo a similarly extreme scenario, it does demonstrate that dramatic changes to a planetary climate can happen when certain physical conditions arise.
By testing our current climate models using the extremes seen on Venus we can more accurately determine how various climate forcing effects can lead to dramatic changes. Venus therefore provides us with a means to test the extremes of our current climate modelling, with all the inherent implications for the ecological health of our own planet.
We still know relatively little about Venus, despite it being our nearest planetary neighbour. Ultimately, learning how two very similar planets can have such different pasts will help us understand the evolution of the solar system and perhaps even that of other star systems.
It’s Official – We Now Know That “UFOs” or “UAP” Are Real – So Are They Extraterrestrial or Not?
It’s Official – We Now Know That “UFOs” or “UAP” Are Real – So Are They Extraterrestrial or Not?
It’s almost 2018, and the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) or Unidentified Ariel Phenomenon (UAP, a term that seems to be the new “official wording” from government personnel) is now a verified fact within the mainstream. Just as certain as we are of several different concepts that come from repeatable hard science, or information about other phenomena in other subject areas dealing with observation, we (humanity) are just as certain about UFOs.
When Ex Canadian Defence minister Paul Hellyer said that “UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying overhead,” he wasn’t joking. Documents, along with live testimony from dozens, if not hundreds of people from within “high level” government and intelligence groups have also been speaking about the topic quite publicly.
There are literally too many examples to name, from four star generals, to directors of military contractors like Lockheed Martin, directors of intelligence agencies, heads of major military committee’s, like NATO, and much more.
The latest examples would be Steve Justice, a recently retired 30 year director of Lockheed Skunkworks (aerospace), and now on as a director at To The Stars, who recently stated:
“This is a concept for an international point-to-point transportation craft that will erase the current travel limits of distance and time. It mimics the capabilities observed in unidentified aerial phenomenon by employing a drive system that alters space-time metric. We have glimpses of how the physics of this works, but we need to harvest technologies from the Science Division to “realize” the capability.”
– Steve Justice, Aerospace Division Director
By making this statement, he is relaying that there are unidentified craft that are using these capabilities to travel what we would consider to be vast distances.
One of his predecessors, Ben Rich (2nd director of Lockheed Shunkworks) also made some very interesting comments. You can read more about that, and access those comments here.
Robert Bigelow, the Founder of Bigelow aerospace recently went public stating that he knows for a fact that “ET” is here. You can see that interview and read more about it here.
Sure, witness testimony is not enough to draw a conclusion, but given their positions and long records of “credibility,” it’s almost ridiculous to ignore. If it were one or two people there would be reasons to doubt, but when there are multiple hundreds, we know something is up, especially when their encounters with “UFOs” has already been verified by their employer, the government, and by official previously classified documents.
Since many do not consider witness testimony credible, no matter who it comes from, it’s always important to mention the documents, the evidence of radar trackings and more.
Obviously, this is a topic that still challenges many people, rubs them the wrong way and conflicts with long held belief systems. This has been a pattern with many subjects and new discoveries throughout human history, things change slowly over time, but with our rapid technological development, which is still increasing at an exponential rate (don’t forget the black budget world), we don’t seem to be that far off. In fact, we already seem to be there.
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do it.”
Remember, UFO doesn’t exactly 100 percent equate to extraterrestrial, however, it’s one of many possibilities and probabilities that has its own evidence to make that assertion.
The documents that have been released by several governments, intelligence agencies and cases via The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) indicate objects and encounters (mostly military encounters) with objects travelling at unattainable speeds, and performing maneuvers that no known aircraft of ours can, in some cases defying our own understanding of physics.
“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4. ” (source)
We even have publications in peer-reviewed journals being put out about extraterrestrial hypothesis exists. Here is one example, here is another. Here’sanother interesting one from 1994 talking about physical evidence related to the phenomenon, which we now have more of today.
Below is a great little talk from Jacques Vallee talking about how can start learning from all of these encounters. He’s a computer scientist and astronomer who has done work for NASA, and more. He’s most table for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars and for his work at SRI International on the network information centre for ARPANET.
Government Deception
This would be an appropriate time to state that, obviously, our governments have deceived us on so many levels, it’s more than likely that as more information continues to make its way into the public domain, there will be good reasons to have a heightened sense scepticism when they speak about UFOs and/or extraterrestrials, as with anything else.
The mainstream world is full of twisted agendas and attempts to alter our perception for truth and profit, or other agenda’s that are not really in the people’s best interest, but rather the ‘1 percent’s’ best interest. The global war against drugs, or terrorism are perfect examples. Especially with the fact that ‘false flag’ terrorism has become more transparent.
To get a clear picture of this topic, which is almost impossible to do the deeper you get into it, one must do independent research rather than rely on the same media which has tight ties to corporate and government interests, under the guise of “national security.”
This is not to say that there are not good people, with pure intentions, just doing their job within these arenas. It’s a complicated topic, but when discussing it one must always keep the Deep State in the back of their mind, as it controls the entire geo-political perceptive, in most cases.
There are efforts being made to alert the public, Tom Delonge’s To The Stars effort is one of them, but this is a very compartmentalized topic. He is getting information from those from within the intelligence world, but who are they getting their information from and is it correct? Is it truthful? Or is there some sort of spin on it, for whatever reason? And do those who are relaying this information even realize that there could be as spin?
Are there really legitimate reasons for the cover-up after so many years? Was it justified? I believe humanity is meant to live in transparency, and we and can handle this type of information, and we were meant to receive it. Acknowledging certain truths about the nature of reality is an important step in our human evolution, as it provides opportunities for us to move beyond paradigms of the past, and move forward to where we are supposed to go, and perhaps that is to the stars.
The corporate and financial take-over of our democratic system has contributed to the secrecy, no doubt. This topic has huge technological and intellectual implications that could completely transform our planet and help create new ways of doing things here. And, as with everything else, those who are making billions and trillions off of the old way of doing things might also have a say.
What type of propulsion systems are these craft using?
Sure, we know UFOs are real, but mainstream media (as well as government) have a long history of taking real events and using them for their advantage, and usually do so by twisting our perception what’s really going on.
With this topic, as with every other, we simply can’t rely on government and official intelligence people all the time, with complete credibility. It’s important to remember that there is a lot of disinformation that has infiltrated this field, and one must always use their discernment.
Are They Extraterrestrial?
The existence of UFOs is verified, in several different ways, but extraterrestrial intelligence is still a different story. There are multiple factors that lead to the extraterrestrial hypothesis. As mentioned above, before UFOs were officially “verified,” there was good reason to believe in their existence, and now it’s official. In the same way, there is now evidence to believe that some of these sophisticated craft are in fact extraterrestrial.
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source)
– Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
Many people, like Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, have come forth expressing the same thing, and have flat out said that they have knowledge of extraterrestrial intelligence as it related to the UFO phenomenon.
Here’s an FBI document discussing extraterrestrial bodies and craft (page 21 & 22) ,here’s an article with an interesting CIA document linked in it referring to extraterrestrial bodies and a military encounter. There are several examples one can locate within the literature, which are both benevolent and malevolent in nature.
Below is an interesting discussion featuring Richard Dolan, one of the worlds foremost authorities on the topic. He goes in a little deeper about the extraterrestrial hypothesis. If you want to learn more about the topic, he’s a great place to start.
“It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries.”
– Herman Oberth, founding father of modern rocketry (source)
Chilean Air Force Receives A Radar Return of A UFO Equal To The Size of Ten or More Aircraft Carriers
Chilean Air Force Receives A Radar Return of A UFO Equal To The Size of Ten or More Aircraft Carriers
UFOs are perhaps the most searched subject on internet search engines at the moment and if they’re not, they’re close to the top. Interest in the subject matter continues to grow, and the Deep State community has certainly recognized it. Years and years of petitioning from the citizenry and UFO disclosure advocacy groups, on top of other international governments acknowledging the phenomenon, not to mention hundreds of high-ranking people from numerous ranks within military agencies, academia and intelligence agencies have all come forth sharing their knowledge and experiences.
Recently, it seems to have reached a critical boiling point, where a majority of the populace is aware of the fact that something strange seems to be happening in the inside, and outside of our atmosphere and has been for a long time. Perhaps this is why the US government recently decided to end what seems to be, as the first CIA Director Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter alluded to, and official campaign of secrecy?
“Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” (source)
Because the idea has been ridiculed by the global elite, through movies and mainstream news, it brainwashes mass amounts of people to do the same. This is done with several different topics, and it creates a culture where anyone who raises their voice, is instantaneously vilified by whomever they tell. But things are changing.
The Pentagon recently disclosed this info as well, by approving the release of video footage shot by US military pilots of three different UFOs. All three objects, one the size of two air-craft carries, defied our current known laws of physics and aerodynamics. The videos came from a Pentagon program which located, and video taped unidentified aerial objects to determine if there is a ‘threat’ associated with them.
The head of that Program, who recently retired from the Pentagon, Louis Elizondo, shared the fact that this is actual data, electro-optical data and radar returns. He also emphasized how this type of thing is quite common, and how he believes there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that “we may not be alone, whatever that means.” He did so on national mainstream television.
UFO encounters with the military is nothing new, there are millions of pages of declassified documents from various governments and agencies showing so.
People like Louis, and others at the To The Stars initiative of which he is apart of, don’t really speak out until they are given the green light. One thing is for certain, the US government has now disclosed the existence of UFOs, and many researchers within the field, including myself, are very cautious of the direction the government wants to take this information.
You can read more about that, and check out some of the footage in the articles linked below:
I only say that because we’ve been lied to and manipulated so much so that it’s almost hard to believe anything that comes from a government agency, unfortunately.
I elaborate on the idea of a ‘false flag’ alien invasion in the article linked below, if you’re interested in that discussion and where it’s coming from:
This topic is so big and vast that it truly leaves no aspect of humanity untouched. There are facts about this subject that would still blow your mind and we’ve covered many of them. If you want to go through our articles we’ve published on the UFO/Extraterrestrial topic for the past 9 years, you can visit the Exopolitics section of our website, HERE.
Whether it be a former Chairman of the Royal Navy telling us that “there is a serious possibility that we are being visited, and have been visited by people from outer space,” a former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Barry Goldwater telling us that “I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified,” or an Apollo 14 astronaut saying that“there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered,” we have no shortage of high-ranking insiders attesting to the reality of this phenomenon.
General Carlos Cavero told the world in 1979, “everything” has been “in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world.” On a global scale, “the nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon” and there is “an international exchange of data.” (source)
So, what type of data have they been analyzing? Here’s a quote from December 16th 1978, issued by the Chilean Air Force with regards to a UFO encounter, similar to what the Pentagon released. Again, keep in mind, this is something that’s happened thousands of times over the past few decades, and perhaps thousands of times every single year?
“Two pilots on a training mission, each flying a F5 fighter aircraft, tracked the object on their airborne radar. It gave a return equal to ten or more aircraft carriers-except this object was in the air, not floating on the water. Each pilot assumed his radar equipment was faulty, until he learned that the other pilot was also getting the same return. Not only this, but ground radar from a nearby airport also picked up the object and confirmed its huge size. The pilots also saw the object with their own eyes. One pilot later said that at a distance of twenty miles, it looked “like a plantain banana swathed in smoke.” The pilots were frightened, having no missiles or weapons. As they approached the massive object, which had been motionless all this while, it took off at an unimaginable speed. All at once, it vanished from the three radar screens.” (1)(2)
The very next morning the Chilean Air Force scrambled some F5 fighter jets to intercept another very large UFO. The pilots described this one as very bright, and very large. The Chilean Air Force has officially acknowledged these events, but could not explain what had occurred.
To see some more examples of UFO/military encounters, you can refer to this article:
Since we’re talking about Chile, here’s a CIA document from decades ago that also cites another incident.
It states as follows:
“ANTARCTIC FLYING SAUCERS” – A group of red, green, and yellow flying saucers has been seen flying over Deception Island for two hours by Argentine, Chilean and British bases (military) in Antarctica. The flying saucers were also seen flying in formation over the South Orkney islands in quick circles.”
The Implications?
As mentioned earlier, this topic really leaves no aspect of humanity untouched. Within the lore, if you take some of these objects to indeed be extraterrestrial, there is a consistency among many in the field that many of these beings are here to help humanity to make a transition, and help us.
For example, Colonel Ross Dedrickson, a high-ranking officer in the Air Force who held special positions at various points in his career dealing with nuclear weapons, the atomic energy commission, and nuclear weapons storage facilities provided video testimony prior to his passing, revealing that extraterrestrials have been around for a long time, and that they do not approve of our nuclear activities. He also revealed that extraterrestrials have shut down nuclear weapons in flight as well as our attempts to detonate and experiment with them, and he’s not the only one to do so. You can watch that interview here.
For example, Colonel Ross Dedrickson, another high-ranking officer in the Air Force who held special positions at various points in his career dealing with nuclear weapons, the atomic energy commission, and nuclear weapons storage facilities provided video testimony prior to his passing, revealing that extraterrestrials have been around for a long time and that they do not approve of our nuclear activities. He also revealed that extraterrestrials have shut down nuclear weapons in flight as well as our attempts to detonate and experiment with them and he’s not the only one to do so. You can watch that interview here.
Spiritual implications are also referred to quite often, I could go on and on, but I won’t, I’ll let you listen to a recent podcast I did with CE founder, Joe Martino, and Richard Lawrence. He is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. He has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997), who founded the Society, as mentioned above.
There is also the other side, a malevolent side to this whole phenomena which is important to explore as well. But when it comes to an “alien invasion,” the evidence suggests that extraterrestrials have been around for a long time, if that were the case, it probably would have happened. But that’s just my opinion.
(1) Huneeus, J, Antonio, “A Chilean Overview,” MUFON UFO Journal, 6/86; Huneeus, J. Antonio, “A Historical Survey of UFO Cases in Chilie,” MUFON 1987 International Symposium Proceedings (MUFON, 1987.)
(2) Department of Defense JCS Message Center, Subject: B6/BAF Has a Close Encounter of the First Kind. Date: 20 May 86. Subject: Numerous Unidentified Objects Were Cited in the Skies over Brazil. But BAF Fighters Were Unable to Intercept Them. Berliner, Don, The UFO Briefing Document,p. 121-127. Huneeus, J. Antonio, “UFO Alert in Brazil,” MUFON UFO Journal, 11/86. Andrus, Walt, “UFOs Over Brazil,” MUFON UFO Journal, 9/86. Smith, Dr Willy, “The Brazillian Incident,” International UFO Reporter, 7-8/86. Smith, Dr. Willy, “More on Brazilian OVNIs,” MUFON UFO Journal, 9/86.
Aerospace Insider on Aliens: ‘We Don’t Have To Go Anywhere To Find Them, They’re Already Here’
Aerospace Insider on Aliens: ‘We Don’t Have To Go Anywhere To Find Them, They’re Already Here’
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
Robert Bigelow, founder of the Bigelow Aerospace Corporation lets the world know that he has knowledge that we are not alone, and that we are currently being visited by intelligent extraterrestrials.
Reflect On:
Bigelow is just one person, but he is joined by hundreds of others with impressive credentials. These people have been telling the world that we are not alone for years, in a very serious manner. Why do you think this is considered a 'conspiracy?'
“We have, indeed, been contacted – perhaps even visited – by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.”
– Victor Marchetti, former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Second Look, Volume 1, No 7, Washington, DC, May 1979)
If you’re paying attention to what’s happening in the world, it’s OK if you feel like Alice in Wonderland. For years humanity has become comfortable with their enslavement, prior to today, a large portion of the population was content with the human experience, simply entering into the system, trying to put food on the table and chase higher ‘material’ status, among other things, without ever questioning what is really happening. All of us have been engulfed in our own lives when the world is calling for us to be concerned about others.
Today, it’s a different story. There’s a massive shift in consciousness that’s occurring, and part of that shift is questioning the human experience and the systems we’ve chosen to surround ourselves with. Revelations are now coming forth in all areas that surround every aspect of human life; health and finance, to education, politics, entertainment etc… It’s quite clear that our world is not what we’ve all been presented with, and that there are aspects of reality that we should really start paying attention to if we want to grow, move forward, and break out of the cycle we currently find ourselves in. We can’t change our world if we continue to do the same things over and over again without questioning what’s happening, and why it’s happening. There are people in all fields coming forth to ‘blow the whistle,’ and witness testimony is backed up by credible evidence, which gives these whistle-blowers confidence to come forward and say what they say. Edward Snowden is one of many great examples, prior to him, mass surveillance was considered another ‘conspiracy theory.’
One big revelation hitting the mainstream right now is the fact that we are not alone, and that intelligent extraterrestrial life-forms have been visiting our planet for a long time, and still do. As unbelievable as this may sound, it comes from the highest ranking military personnel, academicians, intelligence agents, politicians, and private contractors from within the military industrial complex. There are hundreds of these people who keep telling the world that we are being visited and that governments around the world have had evidence that some of these ‘UFOs’ are indeed extraterrestrial.
“Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off.” – Dr. John E. Mack, a Harvard University psychologist and Pulitzer prize winner (source)
The Credibility of These Sources
The sources are the most credible in the world, the only issue is, the topic. No matter how much evidence for a given phenomenon, and no matter how obvious its reality, if it goes against the human mind and what we are willing to accept, it is usually ignored or greeted with ridicule. We see the same thing with science, which has largely become dogma, the downright denial of parapsychology (telepathy, healing at a distance, etc) when it has more statistically significant results than the science used to approve most of our drugs (source). It’s called cognitive dissonance… We believe what we choose to believe, and humanity is currently in the process of shedding some belief systems in order to accept new realities that once did not fit the frame, and thus were ignored and ridiculed.
One of the latest ‘whistle-blowers’ to speak openly about their knowledge about extraterrestrial visitation is Robert Bigelow, founder of the Bigelow Aerospace Corporation. Bigelow has done work for multiple international space agencies and is currently in agreements with multiple nations to build space habitats and space stations.
Before we get to his comments, it’s important to let the reader know what type of circles Bigelow is currently ‘in’ with regards to space and the extraterrestrial/UFO question in general. Bigelow’s comments were made approximately a year ago now, but not a lot of information was given as to the type of connections this person has, if it isn’t already obvious as being one of the leading aerospace contractors in the world…
Towards the end of last year, an article titled “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O Program” put to rest the question of whether or not UFOs are real. CEO Tom Delonge, along with several other people, including a recently retired director of Lockheed Aerospace, Steve Justice, a Department of Defense Scientist, Hal Puthoff, a senior intelligence officer from the CIA, Jim Semivan, a Director of National Intelligence, Louis Elizondo, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush Administrations, Christopher Mellon, and many more are all releasing official video footage and electro-optical data (radar trackings, returns) and letting the world know that these things (UFOs) are real.
I go into more detail regarding the latest updates in an article I published previously:
Multiple people from within this new initiative have expressed that they believe there is an extraterrestrial intelligence behind the operation of some of this craft.
This movement brought to light the Pentagon’s UFO program (AATIP) for aerial threats, one program out of what could be many, according to Hal Puthoff. You can view the entire team and their credentials here.
The main hub for all of this recent and future ‘official mainstream’ UFO disclosure is the To The Stars Academy, it’s the organization that’s releasing all of this information.
Where does Bigelow come in? Well, as the New York Times article points out:
The shadowy program – parts of it remain classified – began in 2007, and initially it was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader at the time and who has long had an interest in space phenomena. Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s, Robert Bigelow, who is currently working with NASA to produce expandable craft for humans to use in space.
Bigelow is part of the team at To The Stars Academy, and here’s what he had to say about extraterrestrials,
“I am absolutely convinced, that’s all there is to it. There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence.”
He also stated that we “don’t have to go anywhere” to find extraterrestrial life, that we can find it here on Earth, implying that they’re already here, walking among us, and based on my research, are already working with multiple governments.
How many races are we talking about? Perhaps hundreds, maybe even thousands of races have been catalogued by our governments worldwide.
For decades, as General Carlos Cavero told the world in 1979, “everythinghas been in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world.”On a global scale, “the nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon”and there is “an international exchange of data.”(Via Richard Donal’s UFOs for the 21st Century Mind)
A couple of years ago, longtime Bigelow Aerospace executive Mike Gold, who’s now director of Washington operations for Space Systems Loral, was asked about how Bigelow Aerospace’s’ involvement with UFOs.
He gave an intriguing answer, with some interesting expressions on his face. He mentions how he finds the subjects matter “very interesting,” and also mentions a congressional hearing where scientists emphasized that the universe is teeming with life. He goes on to state that he “cannot comment” on what Bigelow Aerospace does with UFO reports, but glad that “somebody is taking the reports because these are important issues that deserves serious attention.” (source)
Clearly, we now know that this is the case!
“An extraterrestrial influence is investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are monitoring it very cautiously.”
— 2008 Presidential Candidate, Mike Gravel (source)(source)
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The US Government Just Admitted To Recovering Materials From UFOs – Here Are The Latest Updates
The US Government Just Admitted To Recovering Materials From UFOs – Here Are The Latest Updates
“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.”
The quote above comes from Paul Hellyer, former Canadian defence minister. (source)
First off, the fact that the official disclosure of Unidentified Flying Objects has happened is huge, and those who are avid researchers of the phenomenon saw this one coming. For years, we’ve experienced, as I’ve said many times before, an “official campaign of ridicule and secrecy” (Ex-CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter) of the phenomenon. The establishment, in many ways, was responsible for the foolish articles that would constantly appear in mainstream media publications, absolutely ridiculing a topic that was and is actually quite real.
Today, we’ve seen a complete 180 degree switch. UFOs are no longer ridiculed by the mainstream, which should raise a serious eyebrows because very seldom does mainstream media share any sort of truth, especially when we’re talking about projects that rank among the most secretive in the world.
You can read more about Black Budget programs, here.
Unfortunately, most of our media is controlled by a very small group of people, and declassified documents alongside whistle-blower testimony has made this very clear. Intelligence agencies have close relationships with “every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation, this has helped us turn some ‘intelligence failure’ stories into ‘intelligence success’ stories.’ and has contributed to the accuracy of countless others.” This comes straight from a CIA document. Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, Sharyl Attkisson, Amber Lyon and many others have also provided many examples of what it’s like to work inside a media organization that’s dominated by government/corporate/deep state interests. You can read more about them and what they had to say, here.
This is exactly why mainstream UFO disclosure is questionable, and there appears to be multiple things happening here. One is the fact that the phenomenon was so obvious for anybody who looked into it, from a research perspective. There was and has been more than ample evidence to show that the UFOs were and are real, that there are “objects in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can deploy.” (Lord Admiral Hill Norton, Former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee)
The statement below fromVictor Marchetti, former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, doesn’t seem to hold so true anymore, at least the last part.
“We have, indeed, been contacted — perhaps even visited — by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.” (Second Look, Volume 1, No 7, Washington, DC, May, 1979)
If you want to get into the extraterrestrial hypothesis, you can read the article linked below:
One of the biggest mouthpieces for “the establishment,” The New York Times, admitted something that the establishment, or facets of it, have been concealing for years; UFOs are real.
The Times broke the story about a secret Pentagon program, but any UFO researcher knows these programs are more in-depth, expensive, and expansive than anything that’s described here.
According to the Times,
“In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.
Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.
For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.
The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.”(source)
One interesting thing to note here, is the sharing of information and truth in order to lie. For example, the MK Ultra program, a CIA based mind-control program is a great example. This is because the evidence became so obvious that the U.S. government had no choice but to disclose the reality of it. Although they clearly did not share all, the public thought they did. The program had been declassified and thus, all of the questions and inquiries into the program stopped because apparently, the government released everything there is to know.
This is what we could be seeing with the UFO program. Prior to this disclosure, dozens of other governments had already done so themselves, and the field is loaded with a ton of credible witness testimony as well as various documents released via The Freedom of Information Act.
Now that the Pentagon has admitted to this program, does that mean the existence of UFOs has been disclosed, and that’s all there is to it? Are we seeing a clever way of releasing information, in order to conceal more important information, or is this really a slow disclosure initiative by the U.S. government? And if it is, why are they doing it?
“Why is the mainstream covering this story the way they are? I have been saying for years that the mainstream media, the establishment media, will never cover the UFO subject in a serious way, that is, until they would be absolutely pushed to the wall and then do something…So the question is, what is going on here?…If they’re the voice of the establishment (mainstream media), then why have the establishment elected to put this story out? “
The quote above comes from historian Richard Dolan, he’s one of the most prominent thinkers of our time. He’s also one of the world’s leading researchers on the topic of UFO’s.
Richard goes on to explain, in the lecture linked below, that this is simply a tidbit of truth that’s been made to look like the complete truth. It brings up a number of key things that have been ignored by mainstream media regarding the recent UFO disclosure, which is being addressed through the To The Stars Academy.
“The best way to keep a secret is you pretend to share it, you give some information out, some genuine information, which they did, there were some significant revelations here, significant admissions, and much that was not followed up…”
– Dolan
He then outlines what’s missing here.
This is such an important point, that there has been no follow up regarding the alleged possession of the materials that have been recovered from this object.
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. . . . We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time. I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.”
The head of this program was Luis Elizondo, a career intelligence officer, his experience includes working in the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and the National Counterintelligence Executive, he also spent time as the Director of National Intelligence. Furthermore, he’s also managed the security for several sensitive projects for the U.S. government as the Director for the National Programs Special Management Staff.
For the last 10 years of his career, Elizondo “ran a sensitive aerospace threat identification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies.” Where he learned that the the phenomenon is indeed real.
He is big on the fact that there is enough evidence to suggest that “we’re not alone,” and he’s also mentioned that materials from these objects have indeed been collected and studied. This is huge.
This was mentioned in the New York Times article above, that materials have indeed been recovered from the craft, but Elizondo gave an exclusive interview to the organizers of the UFO Congress, the world’s biggest UFO conference, and took place in Phoenix, Arizona, which painted a different story….
Alejandro Rojas, host of the UFO Congress said Mr. Elizondo had told him more about the metal during the exclusive interviews that were screened at the event. Mr Rojas said: “I can tell you it is not an alloy like the New York Times claims.”
“One of the authors of the Times report, Ralph Blumenthal, had this to say on MSNBC about the alloys: “They have, as we reported in the paper, some material from these objects that is being studied so that scientists can find what accounts for their amazing properties, this technology of these objects, whatever they are.” When asked what the materials were, Blumenthal responded,“They don’t know. They’re studying it, but it’s some kind of compound that they don’t recognize.””
According to Rojas: “I shared at our conference that Elizondo has told me it is a ‘meta-material’ with strange isotopic values indicating it is not from Earth.”
This is quite significant, we’ve been given the narrative that it’s not really known where these objects are, and figures like Neil deGrasse Tyson went on national television trying to ridicule the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
“I’m not aware of any effort within the established media to follow up on this (pieces of the UFOs) and to find out…where this comes from…I mean nothing…So, it’s five months later, and we’re clearly not dealing with a serious effort by the mainstream media, for that reason alone…I have had information now, from a very good source, that, what they’ve recovered aren’t metal alloys, that they’re being described as meta-materials…a very different thing….The individual that I spoke with, about where did that phrase metal alloy come, did it come Luis Elizondo I was told no it did not come from him.”” – Richard Dolan
The New York times article also mentions that these materials were shipped off to Bigelow aerospace for examination, which is interesting because in a recent interview with 60 minutes, Robert Bigelow, founder of the Bigelow Aerospace corporation, stated that he is aware of an intelligent extraterrestrial presence visiting the planet.
This means that it came from one of the authors of the New York Times Article, an editor, or an intelligence agency.
Dolan refers to this aspect of the article as, “intentionally deceptive.”
Another interesting thing is that Elizondo has mentioned multiple times that these encounters have occurred hundreds of times and there have been extremely phenomenal encounters that never really seemed to grab the attention of his higher ups, which is also odd. A lot of these encounters have been documented, well before this disclosure.
There is a lot to discuss about this topic, and what’s going on here. The talk below is interesting to say the least and if you’ve made it this far, I recommend you give the whole thing a listen.
This topic is very significant, especially from a consciousness perspective. It leaves no aspect of humanity untouched, and we just completed a very interesting podcast with Richard Lawrence, Secretary of The Aetherius Society in Europe, discussing these implications. You can listen to that HERE.
Declassified CIA Documents Show Agency’s Control Over Mainstream Media & Academia
Declassified CIA Documents Show Agency’s Control Over Mainstream Media & Academia
A declassified document from the CIA archives in the form of a letter from a CIA task force addressed to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency details the close relationship that exists between the CIA and mainstream media and academia.
The document states that the CIA task force “now has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation,” and that “this has helped us turn some ‘intelligence failure’ stories into ‘intelligence success” stories,’ and has contributed to the accuracy of countless others.” Furthermore, it explains how the agency has “persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold, or even scrap stories that could have adversely affected national security interests or jeopardized sources and methods.”
Although it is a document outlining their desire to become more open and transparent, the deception outlined by various whistleblowers (example) requires us to read between the lines and recognize that the relationships shared between intelligence agencies and our sources of information are not always warranted and pose inherent conflicts of interest.
Herein lies the problem: What is “national security,” and who determines that definition? JFK bravely told the world that the “dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweigh[] the dangers which are cited to justify it.” He also said that“there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.”
“National security” is now an umbrella term used to justify concealing information, but who makes these decisions? You can read more about our world of secrecy and the Black Budget here.
Not only are countless documents classified every single year in North America, but false information and “fake news” are routinely dispersed, mainly by mainstream media outlets — a reality that is clearly conveyed in this document and has been expressed by multiple mainstream media journalists themselves. And as with the NSA surveillance program that was exposed by Edward Snowden, it’s a global problem.
Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, a prominent German journalist and editor for more than two decades,is one example. He blew the whistle on public television, stating that he was forced to publish the works of intelligence agencies under his own name and that noncompliance with these orders would result in him losing his job. (source)
Sharyl Attkisson and Amber Lyon, both well-known mainstream media reporters and journalists, have also exposed funded movements by political, corporate, and other special interests, and have revealed that they are routinely paid by the U.S. government as well as foreign governments to selectively report and distort information on certain events. (source)(source)
Let’s not forget about Operation Mockingbird, a CIA-based initiative to control mainstream media.
The document not only outlines the CIA’s role in media, but also the entire entertainment industry in general, lending further weight to revelations offered by celebrities like Jim Carrey. He appeared as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live, saying that, “For years now, talk show hosts, people on television, people in sitcoms have been, hired by the government to throw you off the tracks, to distract you, to make you laugh and stuff like that, make you happy and docile so you don’t know what’s really going on.”
While some question whether he was merely joking, the facts still remain. Another celebrity, who was clearly serious, is Roseanne Barr, who referenced the CIA’s MK Ultra mind control program — a previously classified research program through the CIA’s scientific intelligence division that tested behavioural modification and perception manipulation on human beings.
What we seem to have here is an attempt to manipulate public perception of global events through mainstream media and news publications. But what’s perhaps most interesting is the fact that a lot of people are now waking up and seeing through many of these lies and manipulation tactics. Instead of just blindly believing what we hear on television, more people are starting to think critically, do independent research, and examine a wide array of sources and information.
So many opportunities have emerged within the past few years allowing others to see this more clearly. One was the recent “fake news” epidemic, where evidence surfaced exposing information that threatened the global elite. Wikileaks is perhaps one of the greatest examples. For mainstream media to basically label everything else as “fake news” was quite ironic, given that it seems the majority of people consider mainstream media themselves to be the real “fake news,” and this is now even more evident given the information presented above in this article.
The documents also touch upon the fact that they are constantly in touch with the entertainment industry, giving advice on scenes and direction, as well as how things happened in certain situations. Personally, I feel the industry is largely used to push propaganda, like patriotism. Patriotism is pumped into the population to support a large military in the name of “national security.” We are being fooled, wars are not waged for defence, but for offence and to push forth political agendas.
So you see, there are multiple reasons for these CIA connections to various industries.
Academia
From a young age we’re taught that getting an education is the key to living a good life. Getting a decent job, making good money, even finding the right partner — all depend on following a certain path. Yet many concepts and topics are, as previously illustrated, kept from public viewing, and this includes plenty of important science.
The U.S. intelligence community investigated parapsychology (ESP, remote viewing, telepathy, etc.) for more than two decades, for instance. Russell Targ, a physicist who has spent several decades working in a U.S. government program exploring these concepts, recently shared his experience doing so in a TED talk that is now approaching 1 million views.
Another great example of Black Budget science comes from Ben Rich, the second director of Lockheed Skunkworks, who worked there from 1975-1991. He’s been called the Father of Stealth, having overseen the development of the first stealth fighter, the F-117 Nighthawk. Before his death, 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.”
To read more about those comments and examine the sources, you can refer to thisarticle that goes into more detail about it.
Information like this, including testimony from hundreds of others, suggests that the “classified world” is much more advanced than our mainstream one.
This particular document states that the agency exposes administrators of academic institutions to the agency on a regular basis.
Obviously, as with any other job, the CIA would be looking for what they consider to be qualified individuals. But the document does outline its close relationship with academia in general.
This is because certain developments and information that stem from academia could threaten national security and therefore must be kept out of the curriculum, and the public domain.
Take, for example, documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that reveal how the U.S. government has been using a secret system to withhold the approval of some applications.
This 50-page document was obtained by Kilpatrick Towsend & Stockton, LLP, who commonly represent major tech companies that include Apple, Google, and Twitter (to name a few). You can view that entire document here. (source)
The program delaying patent applications is called the Sensitive Application Warning System (SWAS). Usually when an application is submitted for a patent approval, it requires a couple of examiners who work with the Patent Office to go through their process of approval. This process usually takes one to two years, but applications that are filed in SAWS must be approved from several people, and can be delayed for a number of years.
One great example (out of many) of delayed patent applications comes from Dr. Gerald F. Ross, who filed a patent application for a new invention he had devised to defeat the jamming of electromagnetic transmissions at specified frequencies. It was not until June 17, 2014 (almost 37 years later) that this patent was granted. (source)
It’s important to note (as reported by the Federation of American Scientists — see annotated bibliography) that there were over 5,000 inventions that were under secrecy orders at the end of fiscal year 2014, which marked the highest number of secrecy orders in effect since 1994. (source)
Steven Aftergood from the Federation of American Scientists reports:
The 1971 list indicates that patents for solar photovoltaic generators were subject to review and possible restriction if the photovoltaics were more than 20% efficient. Energy conversion systems were likewise subject to review and possible restriction if they offered conversion efficiencies “in excess of 70-80%.” (source)
This is all thanks to an act many people are unaware of. It’s called the “Invention Secrecy Act,” and it was written in 1951. Under this act, patent applications on new inventions can be subject to secrecy orders, which can restrict their publication if government agencies believe that their disclosure would be harmful to national security. (source)(source)
Final Thoughts
So, as you see, science and academia in the mainstream world can only go so far. We continue to rely on government institutions to define truth and reality for us, to outline the limits of what is possible. In many instances, these places to which we go to “learn” are actually diminishing, not supporting, our creativity and critical thinking skills. That’s not to say that there aren’t good aspects of the experience, but overall, we are not accessing our full potential.
When information is hidden from us as well as manipulated at the same time, it’s only going to spark more curiosity among the people. And that’s one aspect of the current shift in consciousness that’s happening on our planet. We’re beginning to see the human experience in a different light, and starting to recognize that the time for change is really here. What are we going to do about it?
“Het oog in de hemel”: ken jij dit bijzondere verschijnsel al? - HLN.be
“Het oog in de hemel”: ken jij dit bijzondere verschijnsel al? - HLN.be
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WEERNIEUWS Fraaie foto op de Instagrampagina van Marnix Peeters: het oog in de hemel, luidt de omschrijving van de Vlaamse schrijver. Maar eigenlijk is het een iriserende wolk, of in de volksmond ‘regenboogwolk’ genoemd. Deze ochtend was het natuurfenomeen te zien in grote delen van Oost-Vlaanderen en Vlaams-Brabant.
Het spektakel wordt veroorzaakt door zonlicht dat door het ijsgedeelte van de wolk schijnt, verklaart meteoroloog Michiel Severin. “Een wolk bestaat voor het merendeel uit water en de bovenkant uit ijskristallen. Als het licht daarop schijnt, wordt het gebroken. In België zien we bijvoorbeeld een regenboog als de zon de regendruppels raakt. De ijskristallen zorgen in dit geval voor een extreem effect. Om zo’n foto te maken, moet je het geluk hebben op de juiste plaats te staan. Het is soms in onze contreien te zien, maar dan stelt het weinig voor.”
Drie jaar geleden deed een veel extremere variant zich voor in Costa Rica. Nietsvermoedende inwoners stonden toen verbouwereerd aan de grond genageld. Er heerste grote verbazing en hier en daar zelfs lichte paniek.
Het kleurenspektakel deed zich immers voor op 15 september, net de dag waarop de Costa Ricanen hun onafhankelijkheid vieren. Herinnert u zich nog ‘Independence Day’ met Will Smith? Een mens zou voor minder denken dat het einde der tijden aangebroken is...
WETENSCHAPAstronomen hebben de grootste, meest uitgebreide verzameling van melkwegstelsels ooit waargenomen. Het “protosupercluster” kreeg de naam Hyperion, naar een titaan uit de Griekse mythologie.
De massa van Hyperion is een miljoen miljard keer groter dan de zon en is zo veel lichtjaren van ons verwijderd dat we het cluster vanaf de aarde zien zoals het er miljarden jaren geleden uitzag.
“Hyperion is zoals 5.000 keer de Melkweg”, zegt astronoom Steffen Miefke, operationeel bestuurder van de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht (ESO). De ESO beheert de Very Large Telescope (VLT): een erg geavanceerd astronomisch observatorium in de Atacamawoestijn in Chili. Het is de VLT die Hyperion ontdekte dankzij het gebruik van de VIMOS (Visible Multi Object Spectrograph): die doet dienst als een “tijdmachine” die toont hoe het universum eruit zag toen het amper een derde van de huidige leeftijd had.”
Adolescent cluster
In astronomische termen is Hyperion een adolescent: aangezien het cluster zo ver van de aarde is verwijderd, zien wetenschappers het stelsel zoals het twee miljard jaar na de Big Bang werd gecreëerd. Die oerknal vormde 13,8 miljard jaar geleden de aanleiding voor het ontstaan van het universum.
“Dit zijn sterrenstelsels die zich heel ver weg bevinden, bijna aan het begin van het universum, en ons de kans bieden om beter te begrijpen hoe het universum zich ontwikkelde van de Big Bang tot op heden”, aldus Miefke. “Hyperion is een zesde van de leeftijd van het universum. Het is alsof we naar de adolescentie van een 80-jarige mens kunnen kijken”.
De Melkweg, waartoe ook ons zonnestelsel behoort, is ongeveer 13,6 miljard jaar oud.
Zwaartekracht
Brian Lemaux, een astronoom van de universiteit van Californië die betrokken was bij de studie, wijst erop dat sterrenstelsels met de tijd een steeds hogere dichtheid krijgen, aangezien de zwaartekracht miljarden jaren lang op hen inwerkt. “Superclusters dicht bij de aarde lijken een veel meer geconcentreerde verdeling van de massa te hebben met duidelijke structurele kenmerken”, aldus Lemaux. “Maar in Hyperion is de massa veel uniformer verdeeld in een reeks van verbonden vlekken die gevormd worden door de losse verbinding van sterrenstelsels.”
RVDe plasticvanger werd vandaag getrakteerd op een magische regenboog.
MILIEUDe plasticvanger Ocean Cleanup is aangekomen op zijn werkplek en klaar om aan het werk te gaan. De veegarm moet midden op de Grote Oceaan plastic opvangen dat aan het oppervlak dobbert.
The Ocean Cleanup✔@TheOceanCleanup
Installation successfully completed. Thank you to the offshore crew for your work. We are ready to start the cleanup.
Het 60 meter lange gevaarte is ontwikkeld door de nu 24-jarige Nederlander Boyan Slat. Hij bedacht het systeem zes jaar geleden op zijn middelbare school in Delft. Het idee: een honderden meters lange ‘arm’ drijft over de zeespiegel, voortgeduwd door de golven, de stroming en de wind. Een scherm reikt een paar meter onder water. Als een C-vormige bezem neemt hij het afval mee.
De ‘zeebezem’ vertrok een maand geleden uit San Francisco. Na meerdere tests op open zee besloot The Ocean Cleanup dat hij klaar was voor het echte werk, zo’n 2.000 kilometer van het Amerikaanse vasteland.
De Great Pacific Garbage Patch, de nieuwe werkplek van de vanger, is een drijvende vuilnisbelt tussen Californië en Hawaï, die drie keer zo groot is als Frankrijk. Er dobberen naar schatting 1.800 miljard stukken afval, die bij elkaar zo’n 80 miljoen kilo wegen. Er zijn nog vier grote afvalhopen op de oceanen. Die bestaan bij elkaar uit nog eens 80 miljoen kilo puin en plastic.
De drijvende afvalverzamelaar is vandaag met succes geïnstalleerd en begonnen aan de grootschalige opruimactie.
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De Ocean Cleanup voerde de afgelopen weken tests uit voor de kust van Californië.
Stephen Hawking will no doubt be remembered alongside Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and other great minds who changed the course of modern science forever. Aside from his indelible contributions to astrophysics and cosmology, Hawking was also a believer in the “many worlds” interpretation of quantum mechanics which posits that there are infinite realities and universes and that every possibility which did not come to be in our own universe has happened in at least one other universe.
To warn us of potential disastrous possibilities in whatever hellish reality or universe we’ve found ourselves in, Hawking left a few prescient warnings in his posthumous last book being published this week, Brief Answers to the Big Questions. The book contains a collection of answers to some of humanity’s most burning questions as me move forward into an uncertain but certainly weird future.
Among the many warnings Hawking leaves in the book is one against the creation of genetically modified superhumans. Hawking writes than in the very near future, techniques like CRISPR/Cas9 will enable us to “discover how to modify both intelligence and instincts such as aggression.” While Hawking notes that laws will initially be passed to ban such genetic tampering, it’s only a matter of time before a new race of Homo superior appears and all hell breaks loose for us normies:
Once such superhumans appear, there are going to be significant political problems with the unimproved humans, who won’t be able to compete Presumably, they will die out, or become unimportant. Instead, there will be a race of self-designing beings who are improving themselves at an ever-increasing rate.
Hawking says we’re entering a new phase of human history which he dubs “self-designed evolution,” one in which we’re able to change the course of our own genetic future. Of course, we have no idea what the outcome will be, but who cares? Let’s start cutting and pasting a few genes and see what happens, am I right?
You gotta break a few DNA eggs to make a superhuman omelette.
Aside from cautioning us against superhumans, Hawking also lays out a comprehensive warning about the oncoming rise of artificial intelligence and states simply that while “we are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is that there is no God.”
Hawking’s warnings aren’t exactly groundbreaking; these same fears have been mulled over for decades, after all. Given that he was one of the world’s brightest minds, though, should give us pause to consider if this truly is the direction in humanity should travel. Is a future filled with genetic superhumans and all-powerful AI inevitable?
How do you know when your close encounter of the third, fourth or fifth kind is good enough to be a close encounter of the famous kind? How about when the city where it happened sets up a UFO trail so others can walk the path where you were dragged by your feet into a spaceship and later unceremoniously dumped, scratched and bruised, back on the ground where you had to crawl back to your truck, which would no longer start, forcing you to stumble back to your house? Sure, a movie about your experience with Sean Connery playing you would have been nicer, as would the trail being dedicated while you were still alive, but the wheels of UFO and ET encounter acceptance move slowly. The good news is, Scotland now has its first UFO trail and it honors Bob Taylor and his Dechmont Woods Encounter.
“The Dechmont Woods encounter is Scotland’s most famous alleged UFO incident, and has featured in a number of books and TV programmes. The information board will help visitors to Dechmont Law find the exact location of the encounter, as well as give details of Mr. Taylor’s report of the incident.”
For those who can’t wait to read the board themselves, The Scotsman interviewed Tom Conn, executive councillor for the environment, about the new trail and retold the story. On November 9, 1979, forestry worker Bob Taylor claimed to have parked his truck near Dechmont Law (Decky Hill) in West Lothian and was walking his dog in the woods when he saw a flying dome about 6.4 meters (21 feet) in diameter with small propellers hovering over a clearing. Smaller domes about the size of “sea mines” allegedly grabbed him and dragged him to the dome, where he smelled something like burning brakes before passing out. The ships were gone when he came to 20 minutes later and had to walk back to his house. His wife later confirmed he was muddy and his clothes were ripped, while a doctor she called confirmed the scratches and bruises. The local police took his story and examined the site of the alleged encounter, finding “ladder-shaped marks” and small circular holes in the ground, but decided this was a simple case of assault.
Propellers on a UFO? Was it a drone from the future?
Of course, you don’t get your own UFO trail for a human assault. While other investigators found evidence that the holes could have been made by the local water company, and psychologists attributed his scratches and torn clothing to an epileptic fit, Taylor, a respected member of the town, stuck to his story until he died in 2007 and convinced many people over the years that he had been abducted by aliens.
“The Dechmont Woods UFO site is the only site in Scotland that officially recognises an event of this nature and whatever UFOs may be, there is no denying that this case stands head and shoulders above anything that has been seen in Scotland.”
“I was 22 years of age and I stood at the site two days later and saw all the ground traces myself. I’ll never forget it.”
You’re right … the trail and explanatory board will probably help his book sales, not to mention souvenirs. Tom Conn agrees.
“Dechmont Law is already very popular with local residents, especially runners and walkers, and we hope this board will help more people discover and enjoy the picturesque area.”
Do I hear a Dechmont Woods UFO Trail 5K in the works?
The biggest UFO story of the last year has been without a doubt the disclosure of the Pentagon’s now-defunct Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program and several pieces of allegedly declassified footage which appear to show U.S. military craft being stalked by unidentified and advanced aircraft. Among that footage was a video depicting an unbelievably fast and agile “Tic Tac” shaped UFO playing a two-week game of cat and mouse with the U.S.S. Nimitz supercarrier off the coast of California in 2004. The unidentified objects were able to easily outmaneuver the Navy’s F-18s and displayed flight and cloaking capabilities far beyond anything the U.S. armed forces possess.
Might U.S. air superiority be challenged by technology operated by unknown non-state actors?
The true nature of that object has not yet been determined – at least publicly. Was it an extraterrestrial observer? An incredibly advanced drone flown by a rival superpower? Or perhaps some sort of natural phenomenon which played tricks with the Navy’s instruments and cameras?
Who knows. A heavily redacted report of that incident was made public by that pop punk rocker guy’s weird UFO research thing and can be read here. To add to the mystery surrounding that incident, the air intercept controller serving aboard the USS Princeton during the Tic-Tac UFO encounter recently made comments in an interview which seem to suggest that the sighting had strange effects on his psyche similar to other documented UFO sightings, giving him psychic abilities and apocalyptic visions.
A still from the incident.
In an interview with Mike Damante, former air intercept controller Kevin Day recounts that the high strangeness he experienced during those encounters left him “struggling to make sense of what had happened.” For years after the incident, Day has experienced apocalyptic dreams of the world ending, dreams so vivid that they have given him anxiety attacks:
The dreams I began to have in 2008 can be loosely described as eschatological; world-wide disasters, comets causing tsunamis, epic floods, earthquakes, plane crashes, (and) end of the world scenarios. I remembered the ‘nightmares’ the next day and those dream-memories would trigger acute anxiety, which I experience daily even now many years later.
Day adds that since he left the Navy, he believes he has been stalked by unknown individuals or groups:
I do know that somebody has been watching me for years now… like the spooks told me ‘Kevin, the government spent millions training you and now they are spending millions watching you’ … they want to know what I’m going to do.
The interview takes a strange turn from there, with Day adding that he believes that high-frequency radiation from the Tic Tac sighting gave him a “strange psychic ability” which gives him the ability to control reality with his thoughts:
As it also turns out, the spooks already knew everything about me and what I had been going through before they met me. They even acknowledged the strange physic ability that I seem to have – which is, I seem to be able to manifest things and situations, hence their stated fears. What I think about has a weird way of becoming reality. It has happened now too many times to be just coincidence. In fact, I now manifest things on purpose. I also seem to have been advantaged with what I now know is called ‘downloaded information’.
Similar reported cases of post-effects following UFO sightings and close encounters are fairly common, and some contactees claim they were intentionally given special abilities or knowledge by visitors from other dimensions, galaxies, or what have you.
Let’s not even get into the probes.
While I tend to remain skeptical about claims made without concrete proof, one thing is clear: encountering such an unexplained and otherworldly phenomenon like the Tic-Tac would have a profound impact on anyone. Could there be something to Day’s claims?
A person from Battle Mountain, Nevada was scanning earth for artifacts after reading about an old crash story when he saw an unnatural looking triangle in the Nevada desert.
Below his statement which he has submitted to Mufon case 95617.
I believed it to be cattle ranch but on further looks believed it may be tourist fake.
After realizing after a month of research it can’t be, I became scared.
The only American I reached was Kristen Desilva ( He probably refers to Desilva who works as a content producer at Fox5-Vegas). She then suggested George Knapp. He never responded and next day Desilva had blocked me.
The object shows water drainage proving it is proud of the landscape. Water drains around it and across it. Soil looks to have come from lakebed. Explaining lack of vegetation due to salt content.
Three phase power line to site is way too much power for a mini ranch not to mention expensive to install.
Object is visible in the very first Google map from us geological survey sight proving it existed pre satellite maps.
What appear to be two large HVAC units sit on a building. Far too much air handling for a small building. There is even a perfect circular puddle visible on top. A perfect circular depression should not be there.
Everything points to being the crash site of the ELY sighting.
I think my communications are being blocked.
My belief is Area 51 is far away as a slight of hand to prevent expanded searching.
The lack of security here is to serve as to not draw attention, or maybe this is just a weird large equilateral triangle in sand, but it has no fence around it and who builds a triangular 1069 meter triangle, before it could be seen from above!
All attempts to pass this on have failed.
Coordinates Triangle: 40°20'41"N 117°20'48"W
The ELY sighting:
He says that everything points to being the crash site of the ELY sighting.
Nearly six decades ago, it is claimed a UFO crashed near ELY. That's nearly the whole story. You'll find a date: August 14, 1952 and 16 bodies recovered.
The microfilm on the Ely Times from August of 1952 in three different libraries with the same result but the issue from August 15th, when any such event would have been reported, is missing.
The distance between ELY and the supposed crash site is just 250 km.
Looking at the huge triangle it looks like an old footprint left behind from the actual crashed UFO.
The fact that he got no answer from George Knap as well as Kristen Desilva blocked his account is very suspicious like they not want to be involved in a cover-up case.
Could it be that the man has found the original crash site?
V-shaped UFO caught on camera over Key Largo, Florida 11-Oct-2018
V-shaped UFO caught on camera over Key Largo, Florida 11-Oct-2018
Check out this amazing photo of a huge V-shaped object that was flying over Key Largo, Florida. Witness said “that moved very slowly until overhead but amazingly it was not on the radar”.
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Check out this amazing photo of a huge V-shaped object that was flying over Key Largo, Florida. Witness said “that moved very slowly until overhead but amazingly it was not on the radar”.
Fast UFOs flying over Maywood, Illinois 14-Oct-2018
Fast UFOs flying over Maywood, Illinois 14-Oct-2018
Fast bright lights were caught on tape over Maywood, Illinois on 14th October 2018.
Witness report:
The light was above the clouds. It was not a nearby business light. It was not an airplane.
I was walking home and noticed a light in the sky making a circular movement. I crossed the street to see if it was a light coming from a nearby business, but it was not. It was just one light above the clouds/mist so I could not get a clear view of the object. The object was going in a circular motion over and over while slowly moving north. It seemed to be making a circular motion over a (not sure how to describe) worm hole? If you watch the video on the dark you can possibly see what I mean. The object was not the same as a regular airplane. It was just one light the same as an orb going in the same circular motion. Please see videos.
This bright unidentified flying object was seen and recorded over Canadian city of Surrey back in 2016, but the footage was just released recently.
Witness report:
Watched object travelling opposite way of wind direction,quite windy also noticed 2 other objects traveling at high speed
I was watching my daughters soccer game and at half time I was watching a airplane go over head when I noticed the object so I pointed it out to my girlfriend and asked her what she thought it was,she had no idea so I started recording it on my phone , the wind was blowing quite fast and I knew it was not a balloon because it was traveling into the wind didnt think much of it till a few days ago when I was showing the video to another person when he noticed another object traveling very fast through the field lights and when I showed that to my girlfriend she noticed another one going extremely fast at the top of the screen near the beginning of the video have no idea what these are but everyone was quite interested eventually I lost the object in the distance
Stunned onlookers across China captured a mysterious UFO on film. Residents of Beijing, Shanxi province and Inner Mongolia went to Chinese social media to share their sightings on October 11.
Photos and videos of the interesting spiral effect have been shared across Weibo, a popular Chinese social media platform.
Many speculated that ETs had phoned home. Some said that aliens were testing the ability of people to know their activity. Others were convinced that the UFO was sent to closely monitor the Soyuz mission carrying Roscosmos and NASA astronauts to the ISS.
Several people commented online that the sighting was absolute proof aliens were active in China. In recent times, the country has become a hotspot for UFO sightings.
However, Chinese media were quick to dismiss the captivating images as nothing more than trails of high-altitude aircraft.
Contrails, chemtrails or secret spacecraft testing, no one can confirm for sure, but the visuals of this UFO sighting are one of the nicest.
Popular UFO expert Scott Waring first encountered the “alien cube” on October 2, when he saw a bright spot of light escape the Sun.
He discovered the object in a photo of the Sun, snapped by NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
Mr Waring interpreted this “mystery” object as an example of advanced alien technology, roughly the same size of the Earth.
The pixelated object pulled from NASA’s photos appears to be square in shape, with a long wispy trail of smoke or gas behind it and a white-to-yellow glow around it.
Mr Waring said: “The UFO is huge since the Sun is 109 times the diameter of the Earth.
“This UFO is an exact match in size and yet it shot away so fast that it was not captured on any other photos.”
The UFO hunter now believes he has caught the alien cube on its return trip to the Sun, documenting it on Tuesday, October 16.
Mr Waring said: “This is magnificent. This thing this cube – look at the shape of it, look at it – it is perfect.”
UFO hunter Scott Waring thinks this NASA photo is evidence of alien spacecraft
(Image: SCOTT WARING YOUTUBE)
NASA’s SOHO Science Archive, where Mr Waring found the alien cube, is a downloadable program which lets anyone trawl through NASA’s archive of Sun photos.
The archives contain a mix of real-time data and solar telemetry with images and movies of the Sun.
Mr Waring said of his latest finding: “Do you see that? It left the Sun before, carrying fragments with it.
“It’s carrying fragments back. It’s carrying parts of the Sun back – look at it.”
The NASA photograph has since sparked interest online with people commenting on its authenticity.
The UFO is huge since the Sun is 109 times the diameter of the Earth
Scott Waring, UFO hunter
Thomas Mundt, who saw the supposed alien spacecraft on Mr Waring’s YouTube channel, praised the UFO hunter for his discovery.
He wrote: “Excellent find again Scott. It's when you provide proof like this Scott, then this is why they closed down the observatories.
“There are many many more UFOs out there. Thanks for sharing.”
The alleged UFO is roughly the same size as the planer Earth
(Image: SCOTT WARING YOUTUBE)
Another person, Cassie Henderson, simply said: “That is nuts.”
But what are the odds of a spacecraft being able to withstand the immense heat radiating from the burning heart of our solar system?
According to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the surface temperature of the Sun burns at a scorching 5,600 Celsius (10,000 Fahrenheit).
Deeper towards the Sun’s core and the temperatures spike up to 15 million Celsius (27 million Fahrenheit).
Mr Waring thinks the UFO is a giant cube dipping in and out of the Sun
(Image: SCOTT WARING YOUTUBE)
It is hard to imagine any sort of spacecraft could survive near these conditions, let alone dive into the Sun.
The closest a human spacecraft will ever get to the Sun is the NASA Parker Solar Probe, which will approach as close as 9.86 solar radii from the centre of the star.
At its closest, the NASA probe will fly about 3.8 million miles from the Sun and will have to withstand heats of around 1,377 Celsius (2,500 Fahrenheit).
In order to survive these incredibly deadly conditions, the probe is armed with a 4.5-inch-thick carbon-composite heat shield.
The photographer, who works at a sailing resort and take care of the property from 2 a.m. until 7 a.m. monitors, by using the app. Plane finder, to watch what flies overhead.
On October 11, 2018 at a certain moment the photographer noticed an enormous V-shaped craft that moved very slowly until overhead but amazingly it was not on the radar.
The photographer took a photo of the craft which did not make any sound at all and each wing was the length of a football field.
Then it accelerated at an amazing speed to the North West and disappeared, Mufon case 95585.
Filer’s Files #41 – 2018 Aliens have Base on Moon - PART I
Golden, Colorado Rod on September 29, 2018.
Filer’s Files #41 – 2018 Aliens have Base on Moon - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Former Defense Minister of Canada Claims Extraterrestrials are on Earth, Astronaut Neil Armstrong Says Aliens Have Base on Moon and Warned Us Off, Fairchild Disc-type Aircraft, Project Silver Bug W as a Plan for the US to Build UFOs, Underground Earth Bases, UFO Sightings in Ancient Contacts in the Americas, and India Found Ancient Drawings with Aliens.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, +Florida, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over, Belize, Canada Space, Croatia. Denmark, Finland, Iraq, Italy, and Montenegro 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
Former Defense Minister of Canada Claims Extraterrestrials are on Earth
Paul Hellyer was Canadian minister of Defense in 1960s, ruling over the country’s armed forces during the time of the Cold War – and when he retired he publicly stated that we are not alone in the universe, and some guests from outer space actually live here, on planet Earth. Follow@SophieCo_RT338’Sophie Shevardnadze:Our guest today is the Honorable Paul Hellyer, former minister of Defense of Canada, and he believes that life forms from space are present on Earth. It’s great to have you on our show. Why do you say that UFOs are as real as airplanes flying over our heads?
Paul Hellyer states: “Because I know that they are here. As a matter of fact, they’ve been visiting our planet for thousands of years and one of the cases that would interest you most if you give me two or three minutes to answer is that during the Cold War, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying southwest from Russia across Europe, and Supreme Allied Command was very concerned and about ready to press the “Panic” button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole.
They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for 3 years and they decided that, with absolute certainty, four species – at least – had been visiting this planet for thousands of years. We have a long history of UFOs and of course there has been a lot more activity in the last few decades, since we invented the atomic bomb and they are very concerned about that and the fact that we might use it again, and because the Cosmos is a unity and it affects not just us but other people in the Cosmos, they are very much afraid that we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again, and this would be very bad for us and for them as well.”
Astronaut Neil Armstrong Says Aliens Have Base on Moon and Warned Us Off
Neil Armstrong
According to the NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the Aliens have a base on the Moon and told us in no uncertain terms to get off and stay off the Moon. According to un-confirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after that historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. I remember hearing one of the astronauts refer to a “light” in or on a crater during the television transmission, followed by a request from mission control for further information. Nothing more was heard. According to a former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA’s broadcasting outlets picked up the following exchange:
Apollo11: These “Babies” are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there, Lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They’re on the Moon watching us!
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Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin claims he saw UFOs and structures on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969.
According to a Dr. Vladimir Azhazha: “Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. But this message was never heard by the public – because NASA censored it.”
According to a Dr. Aleksandr Kasantsev, Buzz Aldrin took color movie film of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming them after he and Armstrong went outside. Armstrong confirmed that the story was true but refused to go into further detail, beyond admitting that the CIA was behind the cover-up.
The case for U.S. built flying wing disc aircraft (aka flying saucers) begins with an unprecedented true account by Mr. Jack D. Pickett (retired WWII combat veteran and publisher). During the 1960’s, and on into 1976, Jack Pickett and his business associate Harold Baker published for the Air Force certain club-calendar-events for NCO and Officer’s Club facilities for several military bases in Florida. It was 1967 when the Adjutant General’s Office at MacDill AFB (Tampa Florida) proposed a front cover, and two-and-a-half page article within. The subject was Vintage, Historical or Experimental aircraft.
Just prior to publication the article was pulled by the Air Force. Jack explained his story on my Atlantic City TV show and developed his story with Michael H. Schratt who made this Illustration.
Another researcher reports I have been approached by an anonymous source who is attempting to sell me a poster-size picture of a Fairchild disc-type aircraft. Asking price: $300.00. He has said, “I got the picture from my grandfather who is a former employee of Fairchild Industries out of Hagerstown, Maryland”. He was in charge of all dealings with the military/government and had access to a lot of top secret stuff. The STRATOS being one particular aircraft he oversaw. He did a lot of traveling for the company. He will not speak much on the picture accept for the fact it is authentic and a craft that was built by Fairchild. He also said the picture is of a model of the aircraft before production that is “20×16” that is from the 1960’s. An aircraft that was called the STRATOS was built by Fairchild Industries. The picture is black and white with a crease right down the center of it, it is posterboard material. The craft is a disc with a small bubble type thing on the middle of it. There is one fin sticking up on what I presume is on the back, this is like nothing I have ever seen before accept in movies. This is proof that someone in 1960’s had this craft likely built by Fairchild Industries. Jack Pickett described a similar aircraft as shown above.
Project Silver Bug Was a Plan for the US to Build UFOs
Jack Picket the editor of military news magazines helped me obtain a 30 page FOIA release on Project Silver Bug that showed the Air Force was developing a disc shaped aircraft in 1955. He had personally seen four of the craft at Mac Dill Air Force Base in the disposal area in 1966, and was asked to release a story concerning these classified aircraft. Later, just prior to publication the article was cut, because a disc was seen flying low over Miami. Jack had personally seen four of the disc shaped aircraft in the disposal area that ranged in size from 25 feet to 125 feet in diameter. The four aircraft were saucers shaped with vertical stabilizers (tails) with AF Experimental written on the craft. He was told there were numerous similar craft flying, but they were unstable and frequently crashed.
This “saucer” designed aircraft was believed to use two to four J58 engines that were also the propulsion system for the SR-71. The SR-71 could fly faster than Mach 3 and was designed in secrecy by a team headed by Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson, director of Lockheed’s Advanced Development Projects office better known as the ‘Skunk Works’. The existence of the aircraft was not officially revealed until February 29, 1964. Skunk Work’s engineer Ben Rich is quoted as saying, “Some UFOs are ours and some are theirs.”
Project Silver Bug was the research and development project to field jet propelled flying saucers beginning in 1955, that would be dispersed to underground bases to avoid Soviet attack. The disks were capable of vertical takeoffs and landings, and would be capable of Mach 3.48 — faster than the SR-71 Blackbird. In the Project Silver Bug Report, dated Feb. 15, 1955, and declassified on March 29, 1995, he claimed the disk interceptor aircraft would be capable of vertical takeoff and landing; a maximum level speed of 2,300 mph with afterburners; a ceiling of 80,600 feet; and a climb rate of 1.76 minutes to 36,090 feet. The Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation developed the J58 engines that in July 1976, powered an SR-71 to a world altitude record of 85,069 ft. and another to a world speed record of 2,193 mph.
The Report on Project Silver Bug was issued by the Air Technical Intelligence Center along with the Wright Air Development Center at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. The Silver Bug report noted that a pair of ongoing U.S. projects involving the building of flying saucers had already occurred. The book “The Super Spies”, by Andrew Tully, 1969, claimed these discs were being used as “Saucers with Ears,” that is, for communications intercept missions.
The Silver Bug disc would be capable of vertical takeoff and landing; and performance greater than the SR-71. This performance was far in advance of any aircraft then and is roughly equivalent to the current F- 15 fighter.
The 1955 issue of Look Magazine state that, ”New air defense problems were setting up requirements for aircraft performance which would apparently be best met by a saucer aircraft. Runways would not be needed and bases could go underground with tunnels and takeoff shafts set in the ground, complete with maintenance bays, fuel, and crew quarters. Those underground bases, the article said, would be bombproof shelters for a saucer squadron. The shafts would be sealed after takeoff for camouflage and protection.”It is rather obvious that our technology has greatly improved since the late 1950s, and that faster and higher flying aircraft are available to the Air Force. Modern aircraft should exceed 5000 mph and 100,000 feet altitudes. Thanks to FOIA.
ALIEN UFO BASES’
Erich A. Aggen, Jr., in his article ‘TOP SECRET: (SEARCH Magazine, Summer 1991 issue), presented the following revelations concerning the UFO-Subterranean connection:
“…A great deal of UFO research has also led to the conclusion that various…species of aliens have set up secret underground bases in the United States and other countries. It is logical to assume that such bases have also been established elsewhere in the solar system. If such bases exist, where would we find them? Existing information allows us to make a few educated guesses.
Underground Earth Bases
The dark, cavernous world beneath our feet is the source of many baffling mysteries. Clandestine UFO bases may be hidden deep within the earth in natural and/or artificial caverns. As a former member of the National Speleological Society (NSS), I am well aware of the vast extent of cave systems within the United States. In my own native state of Missouri, for example, there are over 2,500 known caves and dozens of new ones being discovered every year. Many of these caves are intricately linked together by numerous passageways and interconnecting chambers.
“One particular species of blind white (albino) cave fish, the TYPHLICHTHYS, has been found in many widely separated cave systems over several states. It has been found in caves that make a great arc through Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and UNDER the Mississippi River extending into Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma! a vast section of the Central and Southern United States must lie above one immense cavern system!
“Many caves possess rooms hundreds of feet in length, width, and height. In most cases, these huge natural caverns can only be reached and explored with the utmost skill and perseverance. There are only a few thousand NSS members in the United States and only a few hundred of this number are active spelunkers. With so few spelunkers spread over such a large area, only a very small fraction of the tens of thousands of known caves in this country have been carefully mapped and explored. Thousands of other caves remain undiscovered and unexplored.
“Extensive evidence indicates that caves in the United States may be connected with caves in other parts of the world. In Mexico, the cave known as ‘Sotano de las Golondrinas’, (or) basement of the swallows, in the Municipio de Aquismo, S.L.P., reaches a depth of 1100 feet (334 meters). The cave is actually a giant ‘sinkhole’ or ‘hole’ in the ground with a nearly circular opening at the top, hundreds of feet in diameter. It is impossible to climb down the sides of Golondrinas because the walls of the opening are too smooth and “belled-out”. To reach the bottom of the cave, a special rope over 1100 feet long must be secured at the top of the opening and dropped into the sinkhole. Explorers must then descend into the yawning hole one at a time using special cave repelling gear and climbing techniques. At the bottom of Sotano de las Golondrinas are numerous ‘leads’ or openings to a multiplicity of different crevices, passages, crawlways, and rooms which have never been mapped or investigated.
“The entrance to Golondrinas is located in one of the most primitive and uncivilized areas of Mexico and local inhabitants are afraid to approach the cave because they believe it is full of ‘evil spirits’ which lure people to their deaths. They tell stories of people mysteriously disappearing never to be heard from again while passing near the cave entrance. These stories may be based more on fact than fiction: they are similar in some respects to UFO abduction reports. Because of its huge size, remote location, and unique geological structure, Golondrinas would be an ideal UFO base. Naturally camouflaged caves in other parts of the world may serve as excellent natural bases, way stations, and ‘depots’ for UFOs.
“An underground nuclear test called the ‘Schooner Experiment’ conducted in December, 1968, substantiates the theory that caves in North and South America are intimately linked. In this test, a 35- kiloton nuclear bomb was exploded under the desert of Nevada. Five days after the test, the radiation level rose from 10 to 20 times in Canada, 1000 miles away from the Nevada test site! The only way the radioactive dust could have traveled that far is through an interconnected system of caves extending all the way from Nevada to Canada!”
UFO Sightings in Ancient Contacts in the Americas
Itzamna
The Maya had memories of several white gods, or culture heroes. The first being Itzamna who came across the ocean from the east. He was a teacher. Later twenty men arrived, the chief of whom was called Colcolcan. They all wore flowing robes and sandal shoes. Each had a long beard and their heads were bare. Kulkulcan, as he was also known, instructed the people in the arts.
A tribe immediately to the west of the Maya were visited by another white man, called Votan and he taught the people how to cultivate maize and cotton and invented hieroglyphic signs. It is likely that the great white culture-hero of the Mexicans, Quetzalcoatl — the feathered serpent — could have been Greek or Sumerian or even from the stars.
Mexican Teotihuacan Pyramids
Stone and rock carvings plus examples of pottery all point to the inescapable fact that the ancient inhabitants of the Americas were acquainted with almost every race in the world prior to 300 BC. Evidence from North, Central and South America of Old World inscriptions, common words and customs, architectural styles and artifacts link the two. A hoard of Roman coins has been discovered in Venezuela, and a Roman pottery head was found in Mexico, and dated for stylistic reasons to the second century A.D. In Maine a Roman coin has recently surfaced, while a botanist claims to have identified two of the plants depicted on a Roman fresco in Pompeii as an American fruit, the pineapple, and an American vegetable, a species of squash.
From the depths of the Well of Sacrifice at Chichen Itza, scuba divers have recovered a wood and wax doll, bearing the Roman script. Elsewhere a stone sarcophagus was unearthed at Palenque by excavators who liken it in the style of the Phoenicians.
In 1966, a certain Manfred Metcalf claims to have picked up an inscribed stone in Georgia, now known as the Metcalf Stone. It bears text very similar in nature to Cretan Linear A and B writing and is regarded by Cyrus Gordon in Manuscripts, 1969, Vol. XXI, No. 3, as probably an inventory.
A coin found in 1957 by a small boy in a field near Phenix City, Alabama, was identified later as coming from Syracuse, on the island of Sicily, and dating from 490 B.C. In 1976 an ancient coin was found in the town of Heavener, Oklahoma. It was identified later as being a bronze Tetradrachm, originally with a silver wash, now missing. It was struck in Antioch, Syria, 63 A.D., and according to Dr. Barry Fell, “The profile is of Nero, with the Greek inscription on the obverse saying ‘Nero Caesar Augustus’.”
In 1936, Dr Charles Elvers excavated a stone pendant or amulet in Gallo Canyon, New Mexico. It was pear-shaped, about three inches long with a hole at the top. On one side is the crowned figure of a man holding a crooked or serpent-like staff in his right hand, and seemingly climbing a slope while looking over his right shoulder. On the other side of the pendant is an inscription composed of an elephant head, a triangle, cross and circle, plus two six-pointed stars. These symbols or glyphs were commonly used in the archaic Sumerian linear scripts.
As if to confirm its authenticity, there is a stela preserved in the Louvre, Paris, commemorating a conquest of the near-east ruler Naram-Sin. The stone carving depicts him standing on a mountain slope, holding a staff in his right hand while wearing a headdress and looking to his right.
Early this century, a Brazilian rubber-tapper called Bernardo da Silva Ramos was working in the Amazon jungle when he noted that on many of the rocks there could be found ancient scripts carved deep into the stone. Intrigued, he spent the later part of his life copying and recording these inscriptions. He found that the greater part of them resembled, often in detail, the ancient writings of the Old World and compiled a catalog of nearly 2000 such scripts.
Other jungle graffiti has indeed been linked to that already recorded as belonging to the Semitic, Indus, Phoenician, Punic, Brahmi and other peoples. The Parahyba inscription, also discovered in Brazil, was later translated from the Phoenician over 25 years ago and here is what this remarkable record has to say:
The famous Gate of the Sun leading into the city of Titicaca has an ancient god from space carved on it. Further evidence in South America suggests strongly that a Sumerian colony established itself around Titicaca, in what is now known as Bolivia, perhaps as long ago as 4000 years. According to legend the first Inca, Manko-Kapak, appeared in Lake Titicaca and tradition held that the Incas were red or brown-haired. A characteristic alien to American Indians but many mummies discovered there confirm this fact.
Huge blocks of stone found at Tiahuanaco were once held together by copper and even gold rivets. This was a method of building-construction almost identical to that used in Assyria and Eritrea thousands of years ago. The colony even used solid stone wheels, just like the ones in use by the Sumerians themselves, and were thought to have transported the huge stone blocks in this manner.
The tribe living around Lake Titicaca are called the Uru and elders retain memories of people of their tribe being scarified under the foundations when Tiahuanaco was built. The name immediately suggests Ut, which again is linked to the Sumerian civilization.
The Incas carried out mummification and, like the Sumerians, placed a metal disc in the mouth of a corpse. The disc was an indication the aliens arrived in discs and would carry the souls of the dead to paradise. They also built pyramids and obelisks, while using cups, plates, spoons and goblets much like those in the Old World. Likewise, both the Sumerians and the Incas held the rainbow as sacred and each carried their notables around in litters. While at a temple in Chavin, Peru, an ingenious system of air conduits still carries fresh air to every room in the building and a remarkably similar system has been discovered in the Cretan palace at Knosses.
Ancient Phoenician ship using both oars and sail
Professor Marcel F Homet, an archaeologist and scholar from Algeria, once visited the Amazon region to view its antiquities and made many amazing discoveries. From inscriptions found on the painted rock, the Pedra Pintada, professor Homet recorded symbols well-known in the Old World, such as the swastika, the double axe, the spiral and also the sun symbol. He also indicates that Cretan ceramics were discovered on the Marajo island, at the mouth of the Amazon and further reported he found an Indian tribe called Syriana, which in Semitic simply means ‘Our Syrians’.
Many archaeologists continue to dispute the authenticity of such evidence gathered from North and South America. Thousands of artifacts have been recovered over centuries from hundreds of locations, and from many countries of the New World. The real and exciting history of the Americas must be told and this undoubtedly means rewriting the history books.
India Found Ancient Drawings With Aliens
Many Indian Temples have what look like UFOs on the top
In India ancient pictures with a detailed images of the cosmos, the aliens and their technology have been found in ancient Indian temples.
Across the Earth, archaeologists and historians find thousands of testimonies about a possible contact from extraterrestrial civilizations with the ancient people. This and the legend of the demigods from the sky, and the various rock paintings of the unusual people, pictures of alien ships, strange statues, as well as the unexplored parts from large machines. According to alternative scientific theories, 10 000 year old paintings and archaeological artifacts can prove that the ancient ancestors of mankind actively communicated with aliens.
For example, one of the most ancient and advanced civilizations is India. In the temples in Chrome were found drawings that resemble more a fantastic film and literally show the horrific details about the cosmos and life in it. Local Indian authorities after the discovery of petroglyphs with aliens immediately turned to the Us Space Agency NASA for help. Local archaeologist George Bhagat said that the nature of the petroglyphs is not known to him. Found in India artifacts show that ancient people could visit an alien civilization. In addition, the drawings were done in natural colors.
It is interesting that the author portrayed not just aliens, but also space. It turns out that NASA is not just studying the drawings of the aliens, but also confirm the existence of the Anunnaki with Nibiru, in the case of the authenticity found in India images.
The fact that there is a theory that aliens from the mysterious planet actively lived, ruled and developed people. According to Sumerian mythology, the aliens were demigods, Anunnaki from Nibiru. They were able to build the ancient Egyptian pyramids, the English Stonehenge, to teach the Australian aborigines “fabulous art”, the ancient Greeks, the Sumerians wisdom and so on.
However, the opponents of this theory argue that the ancient people drew and believed in dragons and trolls, but that doesn’t mean that they once existed.
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Filer’s Files #41 – 2018 Aliens have Base on Moon - PART II
Filer’s Files #41 – 2018 Aliens have Base on Moon - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Alaska Object
Sutton— I was picking berries with my mom on September 13, 2018, on a beautiful day that I decided to take some landscape photos. I did not notice the object until a friend pointed it out weeks later. This town of Sutton is on the edge of the Alaskan wilderness. The object was beyond the Matanuska River.
Because I took 2 pictures of a very large frame within a minute of each other there was no way for a plane to come into the middle of my fame. My parents who live in Sutton have been noticing a “woo woo” sound over the town as of the last couple of weeks. I took a video but when I listened to the video I could not hear the sound. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arizona Light
Surprise– Originally it looked like a bright star among other stars, planes, and helicopters on Octoberr7, 2018. . However, it stayed brighter than the stars after the helicopters and planes left. We looked at it through binoculars because we were curious and found that it was a cluster of bright lights. It moved up and down, back and forth, wiggled, split into two orb shapes then back to one. It moved slightly higher and westward over the course of an hour and disappeared after an hour. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Mill Valley — I was out on my deck and looked toward the horizon and was taking pictures of Oakland in the distance because it was such a clear night on Octoberr7, 2018. I thought it was a UFO. Bright ball of light, hovering with a beam shooting out, then slowly, then quickly moved south and disappeared. I thought it was pretty cool. It was a little after 8 pm Pacific Thanks to MUFON CMS
Baldwin Park— I was a non believer / questionable now I have no idea after seeing the sky light on Octoberr7, 2018.
Belflower — I was outside waiting for taxi on Octoberr7, 2018. Suddenly I heard a subtle thud and looked over my shoulder and saw two objects: One was triangle with four lights under it. It was being attacked by a large dull silver metallic object that was firing a white colored laser at the ship. Then two little orbs that were hidden in the middle of the colorful mist were facing the injured ship. A larger orb went a bit higher and further away but visible on camera. The ship that was injured stayed in our view with the two little orbs hovering with the ship finally after a 30 minute standoff between the UFOs. The large black injured ship kept its light on orbs and slowly hovered away South into distance cut its lights off or disappeared into distance. This film October 7 2018 showed two types of triangles lights around the sides like head lights.
I was terrified I thought they were going to crash until the cameras flashings from witnesses cameras started flashing that got the orbs attention so it stop attacking the other. I could only feel a vibration of sort. It was absolutely amazing, and scary. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Rods
Golden — Was on date and took photos of the view and out of 5 photos taken one photo had an object in it. The photos were taken on September 29, 2018. Note: Rods are thought to be some type of flying animal. .
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Pensacola — I saw the UFO and took the attached photo. Later six Navy planes flew in the general direction of the sighting and stayed in the area for nearly 15 minutes The object was hovering over water on September 23, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Disc
Salsbury — While I was fishing on the Nanticoke River in Vienna Maryland on July 13, 2018,
I took this picture to show my friends where I was fishing at. I never hear or saw anything until I looked at the picture that I sent.
The object is over my head behind me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Lights
Alborn— Three adjacent lights seen in nighttime photograph
Is this just an aircraft? No Sound. I did not notice it until I saw the photo. Photo analysis please. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Rocket
Reno — A strange spotlight appeared in the sky suddenly. It was surrounded by a large half moon of multicolored gases on October 7, 2018 at7:25 PM PDT. The object hovered for 40 seconds before it began to ascend. The light shining down morphed into 6 symmetrical lights shining all around it’s epicenter. Then it began to descend quickly and it’s 6 lights changed into 3 lights on the top only. It suddenly turned black and disappeared.
Note: The witness saw the flight of a Falcon 9 rocket launched by SpaceX. News release of the launch follows: A SpaceX reusable Falcon 9 rocket was successfully relanded yesterday evening, after illuminating the skies above California. The rocket took off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Los Angeles, at 7:21 PM local time (3:21 AM UK time), Bloomberg reports. The main booster stage then returned and touch back down at the launch site eight minutes later. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
New York Probe
Utica — We didn’t see the green rod fly past the camera until we watched the video. It was witnessed by two on October 6, 2018.
Three UFOs and Green Rod at 00:27 were unnoticed and recorded from inside their car near Proctor Park, in Utica! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Carmel— I am a paranormal investigator. This was this was the second event reported by the homeowner.
In this instance the homeowner was out to dinner when alerted by a surveillance camera of activity at the front door. The house and property was vacant at the time. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Light
Chardon — My daughter and I were driving to the store and noticed a descending light in the sky ahead of us. I said, “Is that a plane crashing? “We couldn’t figure out what the orange like light was. I pulled over and we saw a black piece come off. I thought maybe an explosion was next and we stopped the car to look. Then the light moved and a trail seemed to follow. But then it hovered and began to move again, stop, and then a trail. We were bewildered. We lost it in the trees. We were both very confused for quite a while we kept looking for another half an hour. The black piece that came off was also very confusing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oklahoma Object
Hitchcock— I was at my Moms taking a photo of my Moms flooded pasture on October 10, 2018. I did not see the object when I took the photo and noticed it afterwards and was quite shocked. My husband also was shocked at the object appearing in the photo, and thought it may possibly be a U F O. I was a bit excited and scared at the same time. Seems silly, because I’ve never been much of a believer and said I would have to see it for myself to believe it. This may be the proof I need! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Object
I was taking a picture of the volcanic mountains of Oregon on October 11, 2018, When I was checking out my photos I noticed this odd object in the photo. I never noticed it with my naked eye.
Note: This object appears to have been physically placed in the photo. Notice brighter area around object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Rectangle
Mesquite — At about 4pm, on October 7, 2018 my wife and I were traveling south on I75. I looked southeast and observed a large rectangle in the sky below the clouds. The object was larger than a piper cub airplane. It had a dark spot near the leading edge and stayed at the same height and orientation. It traveled at a fast airplane speed in a north east direction. I took pictures of the object as we traveled. The sighting lasted for ten minutes. I am a 31 year Army veteran and security officer. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Belize Disc
Tourists describe an encounter on April 1, 2018 of a UFO spotted near a cave in Belize;
An unidentified flying object (UFO) was spotted g at the Actun Loch Tunich (“Mother of All Caves”), that is located inside the Cave Branch property.
A group of travelers who were at the scene described the UFO about “40 feet long, with no wings, and with a dome on top.”
“ I have never seen anything like this in my life. We were approaching the cave and saw this mysterious object just hanging close to the sink hole and then it moved rapidly unlike any other thing I have ever seen in the air,” Steven Williams of Colorado, USA said.
The Black Hole Drop is a unique climbing adventure where participants get lowered down through the floor of a cave that sits high above the nearby jungle canopy. One of the tourist who was with the group was able to record about thirty seconds of video footage of the object that seemed to look a lot like Hollywood’s version of a spacecraft from another world. The man posted the video clip on his Facebook account and it has since garnered over 1 million views. There have been many claims by scholars that the ancient Maya were contacted by extraterrestrials thousands of years ago and numerous speculations abound that the Maya people didn’t have the knowledge or tools to create the massive cities and temples that are found in Belize. Ian Anderson’s Caves Branch Jungle Lodge! https://www.cavesbranch.com/ belize-adventure-travel-blog/ufo-spotted-near-a-cave-in-belize-tourists-descri
Canada Space Object
Ufo close to International Space Station (iss) on October 12, 2018.
A cylinder shape unidentified object is photographed near the ISS.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Croatia Objects
Zadar — That evening they lay down on the beach at 22:30 and saw an unknown object. Our 4 children saw an unknown object at the distance of 5 miles and it was hovering over a treetop for 3 minutes. Object had an intensive fluorescent green pulse light on top of the object. It fluttered in the night sky at the speed of the meteor. After that my daughter came home earlier than normal with fear and very upset. She could not explain what she saw. I talked with all four children with each child alone. They all explained what they saw and drew very similar sketches of a cone shaped object. The dimensions of the object are 40-50cm in width and 60-80 cm in height. The object is dark with part fluorescent green near the top. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Denmark Object
On the flight from Denmark to Greece I saw a fast moving spot in the clear sky. I took a picture of the object. It moved so fast and then disappeared after a few seconds. The photo was taken on September 9, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Finland Lights
Turku— I was shooting long exposure shots of the city on October 5, 2015. I was just walking back home when my attention was caught by a bright white yellowish light. I first thought it was an airplane as it moved smoothly through the sky. It did not blink or have any sound, yet it was moving so fast that it had to be quite low. I started to follow it and watched straight up and saw at least 6 similar lights. About 4 of them were brighter and seemed moving faster and lower with slightly curving flight paths, two others were dimmer and moved through the sky from north to south totally in unison with parallel flight paths and in a straight line. They appeared to be much further away than the other brighter lights.
I have never seen UFOs before and this was a totally new experience for me. I started to shake from excitement and quickly set up my tripod and Sony a7. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Iraq Triangle
1.Iraq mid northern area. Sunset. 2. It stood out due to movement 3.Why is that cloud moving against the wind. 4. Moved in straight line. Looked like a cloud unless viewed through NVGs. Inside looked like triangle projecting a beam cloud. 5. Shocked dozens and was unexplainable. 6. Passed over hills on July 1, 2007. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Object
Bergeggi — I was on the beach of the Straights of the Sea Tower in Bergeggi and I was sunbathing when I noticed to the west, on the sea a small light that sped passing from west to east on the horizon, and flying just above the sea. The trajectory was straight, very precise and parallel to the sea on September 15, 2018. It flew too fast for a plane but it was very small. There were other people on the beach by the sea, but everyone seemed distracted. The event lasted around 20 seconds. It appeared from the promontory Capo Noli and darted towards Genoa. I spoke to a friend who told me about her and her husband and their two sightings of UFOs! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Montenegro Lights
Podgorica— As astronomer amateur, I was filming sky in Montenegro, Europe, on 27th April 2018. During filming of sunset with time laps over mobile phone camera and stationary kit for filming, I directly saw two objects SW of my filming spot. I saw on the screen two objects hovering on the phone.. I also saw these objects on the mobile phone. I saw through telescope (Sky watcher 90/900) in that but couldn’t spot them. These objects were not on the Stellarium either. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Object
Strabane — If you zoom in on the object in sky you will see that it almost looks like an orb. At first I thought it was a helicopter.
I did not see or hear anything at the time photo was taken , but what do you think?
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Award-winning investigative journalist George Knapp was a recent guest on Open Minds UFO Radio. His interview was so full of important unreleased information that we are providing a transcript of the interview here. Visit this page to listen to the interview.
Alejandro Rojas: I am here with George Knapp. Thank you so much for joining us.
George Knapp: Always good to talk to you, Alejandro Rojas and it was great to see you in our little secret soiree in Las Vegas last weekend; you’re a traveling guy.
Rojas: I am. I am all over the place, but when Jeremy let me know that you all were going to be screening the film, there was no way I was going to miss that, and especially to see you all who were there which was a lot of fun.
Knapp: Well, it was an interesting crowd. You’ll have to admit there was some interesting faces in the mix.
Rojas: Yeah, definitely. Some of the names we can’t share, but that makes it even more fun and intriguing for the audience, I think.
Knapp: That’s okay, you can say it. Oh, there is one you can’t say, but we’ll get at that, we’ll get at that.
Rojas: Yeah, yeah, we’ll talk about that. I guess to begin with is the fact that really this documentary was the format you wanted to share information about the ranch with in the first place.
Knapp: That’s true. I mean, I started shooting video at the ranch late ’90’s, of course, I’de learned about the ranch around the time the rest of the world did in 1996. There were a couple of newspaper articles that came out about the weird happenings of the property; mostly focused on UFO activity and of course the Uintah Basin already had a reputation well-earned of, has been a UFO hotspot for as long as people have lived there. So, when Bob Bigelow and his team went to the ranch, bought the place, set up shop, installed detection equipment and cameras and the team of scientists this on the property, I got to learn little bits and pieces about what was going on under the condition that I not talk about it until they gave the okay to go forward. In 1999, I finally got my first visit to the property, and then, started going back periodically with photographers. Matt Adams has been my most frequent collaborator on the property, and we were shooting video for what I hope would one day be a documentary project, maybe more than one. After a couple of years of making this business though, Bob Bigelow was concerned, he sort of changed his mind about the direction I was taking. He was concerned that if we came out with the film, the place might be overrun by UFO enthusiasts and other kinds of paranormal researchers. And in fact, it turned out he was right.
So, I put the documentary on hold, at least plans of any kind of distribution, but I continued to visit the property over the years, a couple of times a year, at least once a year, and would always bring a photographer and record what I could. And when we couldn’t go on the ranch itself which in particular during the vast of period which we’ll talk about, I would interview other people in the basin, talk to the witnesses, I got to know some of the Utes and some of the long-time residents, and continued to collect information. And I didn’t know if it would ever come out. I really didn’t if it would ever bear fruit because once Bob Bigelow gave me the okay, Colm and I to come up with a book, there was no turning back. I mean, we did our best, we used different names for the rancher family because NIDS had made that promise to him. We didn’t identify the location, we didn’t use any photos, but of course, people figured it out and started blocking to the property anyway; and it caused a lot of problems.
I think, Mr. Bigelow regretted ever allowing the book to go forward. In fact, I know he did. And again, I still made the promise to him that I wouldn’t go forward with the footage, and so, I didn’t. There were tiny, little bits of it that I used in public presentations a couple of times, but that was it; little tiny slivers. And then, when the property was sold in 2016, it occurred to me, maybe I don’t want to cause problems for the owner, but maybe there’s a chance that I could go forward with this and the new owner said yes, and Jeremy Corbell had been bugging me about it, I see you Skinwalker stuff. And so, that’s how it came together.
Rojas: When it came to the book, the book was a pretty big hit. I mean, it sold well, it got the word about Skinwalker out there. Were you all, including Bigelow, maybe not expecting the book to be as popular as it was?
Knapp: No. I thought it would be pretty popular because it carved a new niche in the field. There was no place quite like it and certainly has never been a study quite like that. I mean, it is the most intensively studied paranormal hotspot ever. You never had seen a scientist on the ground, boots on the ground doing that kind of research. Now, I know there are a lot of criticisms of the study and justifiably so, but there is no template for it; there is no sort of a guide book to follow for something like this because there just aren’t any places like it. Hessdalen is a long-standing study, but it’s mostly looking at lights in the sky, not the kinds of things that the NIDS team had to deal with.
So, I think that Mr. Bigelow probably regrets ever allowing it to go forward, but I knew it would be a hit. And a hit is a relative term because that book, although it’s sold well compared to other paranormal books, it never really pierced the veil into the larger public. And that’s we’re hoping to do with the film, is to attract a larger audience beyond the UFO paranormal field to even if it seems sort of rudimentary to bring people along step by step on how the story unfolded. We want to try to appeal to a much broader audience.
Rojas: I wonder, it sounds like you really sympathize with Bob Bigelow’s concerns with people coming to their ranch. However, you’re a journalist and I’m sure that you’re also, you have this compulsion to share information. So, how did you feel about it? You probably understood his concern that between the time of course you wanted to share information.
Knapp: Well, first and foremost, I made a promise to him. I know there are other journalists who operate differently, but look, this was a long-term study; there was no hurry, there was no reason to sprint. Of course, I wanted to tell the story and I would bug him and bug Colm about it periodically since I started learning what was going on there, and saying, “Look, we need to tell the world about this.” Eventually, Bob came to the conclusion himself and I think at the urging of Colm that after a period where this activity went underground, the Skinwalker, whatever you want to call it, this intelligence that’s there, it didn’t want to be hunted, and it made its intentions very clear in very dramatic ways. And it took his ball and wanted to go home, and when that happened, my arguments that maybe the world should know about it became more persuasive.
And Bob Bigelow figured, “Look, if I let you tell some of the story, maybe people will come forward with other hotspots that we could go study.” So, I wrote a series of newspaper articles in 2003 which means I kept my word for those seven years, didn’t say anything to anyone about Skinwalker. And I did a couple of newspaper articles and bam! they went all over the world. And after that, it became a little easier the cat was out of the bag. It became easier to convince Bob to let us do the book; again, without any photos and specific information about the location and without really identifying the Ranch family either.
And so, the book came out. And of course, he was right. I mean, as soon as the book came out, the place was overrun. I mean, not just the locals who would go out there in Friday night and take their girlfriend and have a little scare fest, or the UFO hunters who would really get obnoxious and go up to the property in the middle of the night, flash bulbs into the windows of the house, or the vandals who would rip off the fence post and steal things, or others who would go out there and have beer parties or whatever really caused some problems.
I remember being with Bob and having a conversation about that and I said, “Look, I’ll volunteer. I’ll go there, I’ll camp out, I’ll chase people away, I’ll be a security.” And he said, “No. We’ll do something else.” So, we flew on his jet, we took his chief of security and went out there on a particular weekend. And he had a bunch of equipment on me and I was in this camo gear and had like a million candle-powered spotlight and I was stationed at the front gate, and his security guy was positioned at the back gate, and we were chasing people off. And I wasn’t there 10 minutes at the front gate when the first truck full of people came up, and I thought they saw me sitting in the bushes in this lawn chair, but they have noticed me, so I jumped up and they were coasting down the road, they turned off their lights, and turned off the engine, just coasted right up to the gate. I jumped out with this million candle-powered spotlight and turned it on and man you could hear them shriek, they fire up this truck and peel it backwards down the road. And I figured by the time that story gets told online, it will be a nine foot tall bigfoot with a laser beam attacking me off the back.
Rojas: Right. It will be Gort, like the big alien.
Knapp: Yeah.
Rojas: That’s really funny.
Knapp: But after that, Bob could see he had a problem, so that was when he started to have round-the-clock security and he had teams from Bigelow Aerospace who would rotate in and out for 10-day shifts. And a lot of those guys, if not most of those guys had their own dramatic experiences, and some of them, as tough as they are, ex-cops, ex-commando, ex-military police, those kind of people, they wouldn’t go back.
Rojas: And one of the reason I’m curious about this is because I kind of put myself into his shoes. If I was in that situation, would I feel guilty. I wonder if you did at all? Now, personally, I feel like getting the information out is so important that it would justify it in my mind. Did you have a tinge of guilt?
Knapp: A little bit, but I’ll have to admit that something even worse is that I got a little quite curious thrill out of being able to know stuff that nobody else knew.
Rojas: Oh, yeah.
Knapp: And of course, you’ve had, I’m sure you’ve had this mental conversation with yourself Alejandro, what if somebody came to you and said, “We’ll let you in, but you can’t tell anybody.” That’s a tough decision to make. Now, I didn’t have that kind of agreement. My agreement was I couldn’t tell anybody until they gave the green light. These were people that I have known for a long time that I trusted and I wanted them to trust me, and I wanted to get around with other people who can trust people. I’m in an information business. I want people in that particular field and others who work on those topics and in sensitive positions to feel they can trust me; and it’s worked out pretty well. I mean, it worked out pretty well.
Rojas: Yeah. I mean, I am the same, and I think that is why I get in a lot of things, because I’m, of course, very careful about sharing information when they ask me not to, but I think you’ll find this interesting, is that the only time I’ve been in this situation was with MUFON with the Bigelow Project because they asked us to sign non-disclosures and at that time I was representing MUFON on PR, so I said no, I said it’s better, I feel for myself, if I don’t know because then if you don’t tell me what I’m not supposed to share, I won’t accidentally share it, if somebody’s asking questions, and little did I know, this was during the time that Bigelow was working with the government doing investigations.
Knapp: Yeah. I know how you feel. I mean, as journalists, we have to sort of figure out whether we’re crossing a line. I never felt I crossed the line because the promise I had made, I kept and I never revealed information. I knew someday I’d be able to record it and I wasn’t in a hurry because this was a long-term study, a long term project. And because they didn’t have any conclusions, there was no impending timeline, a critical point at which we needed to go forward with something. And Bigelow kept his word. When he finally gave me the green light, I was allowed to report it all. There was no restriction that I couldn’t report anything about NIDS. Now, there were–it becomes more complicated a little bit later, but I’m sure we’re going to get into that.
Rojas: Yes, we will. Before we get into that though, another fun story that you told us the other day was how you were used as bait; that you didn’t have your own experiences, but you were in the situation where you possibly could have, so I was wondering if you could share that story.
Knapp: That would have been 1991, I think. So, it was the first time I went to the ranch with a photographer to start shooting on the documentary. And so, I’ve been hearing about the property for over six years at that point, about the kinds of experiences that it happened both to the rancher family and to the NIDS personnel who’ve been on the ranch for a long time by that point, and there were some spooky stuff. The UFOs, wow, I’de love to see a UFO, orbs that they were talkingabout, yup, would love to see those, I’m not really crazy about seeing a cattle mutilated in front of me. There was a story about a giant cloud, a dark cloud that sort of step over the mind of businesses, but we can get into that a little bit later; that was kind of spooky. The 8-ft tall, 9-ft tall creature that crawls out of the worm-hole looking tunnel; that was kind of spooky. And then, in the middle homestead, which is where most of the really weirdest and most disturbing stuff happen, there had been a visitors to the property when the rancher family, the Gormans I’ll call them, had still been there before NIDS was there.
And he was, said he was drawn to the property, big Grizzly Adams type dude, drawn to the property, didn’t know what it was, he wanted to meditate and the rancher let him out into the pasture. He and his son said, “Alright, fine. You can spend a couple of minutes, we’ll take out in the middle homestead.” And they went off to the side and kind of kept an eye on the guy chuckling to themselves. And he was there in the field for a couple of minutes, his head to the sky, his eyes closed, his arms lifted up, and his palms on the skies as well. And they hear that cowbell off in the distance and the rancher realizes, “Hey, you know what, I don’t have any cowbells on my cows.”
And then, they see this thing moving through the trees, it’s like a predator, like in the movie Predator; a camouflage opaque sort of a critter, large, moving through the trees, it comes out of the trees, it goes right at this Grizzly Adams dude, the rancher was just about to warn him that something was happening and this creature gets right up to the guy and roars, and it’s a roar like a lion roar, you can hear it a mile away. This guy just about crapped his pants, he jumps backwards, falls on the ground, this thing, whatever it was in camo mode goes back into the trees and disappears. And the rancher comes rushing over and the guy was petrified, the rancher had to pry himself off this guy. They let him off at the front gate and he left screaming, yelling, “This is Satan, it’s the devil, it’s evil.” And they kind of laughed about it because they didn’t know what that creature was. Well, that is the spot where they stopped me to be used as bait.
So, we’re out there the first night that I spent on the property and we tried to do all the things that had historically attracted the attention of whatever it is. The arrival of strangers would be one thing that would do it. We made ourselves, our presence known in multiple ways. We built a fire out in the middle homestead, and did interviews, and made a bunch of noise, made our presence obvious. And then, we dug in the ground. We got an earthmover and dug in the ground just to move things around because that had been the most effective way to get the attention of whatever is there, at least, during the time that NIDS was there.
So, we did all that stuff, and then, Colm says, “I got an idea. Let’s put you on a chair in the middle homestead and we’ll leave you there and see what happens.” So, they hooked up like a couple of microphone, and a Geiger counter, and a couple of other things, put me on this little white plastic chair in the middle homestead where the predator thing had come out where the black cloud had come out, and they left me there and went a couple of 100 yards away with the cameras and the telephoto lenses to watch to see if something came to get me. And I told that story in the film. I was trying to be brave and everything, but I couldn’t quite get it out of my head. There were some bad stuff that had happened out there and I don’t mind seeing UFOs and couple of other things, but I really didn’t want to run into predator and have it roar like that. But nothing came to get me other than mosquitoes.
A lot of people haven’t been so lucky, I think it is an interactive quality, we can get into this later if you want, but whatever it is that’s there, it kind of sizes you up. The people who’ve had the worst experiences are those who’ve had a cavalier attitude or defiant attitude or confrontational. The people who bring guns, for example, and are going to take this on, I’m not afraid of anything, like commando, a gung-ho kind of attitude; those are the ones who’ve had really, really had some bad experiences that extend beyond the ranch. So, yeah, I was bait, I didn’t like it, and I don’t really want to do it again.
Rojas: That’s interesting what you said just there, about how the attitude has–it may have an effect. What was your attitude, I guess, what was your mindset as you went through this? Do you think you’ve, maybe, had more of a respect for what happens at this place?
Knapp: Absolutely. I mean, Colm had prepared me. He had told me that he always makes mental preparations when he’s going to the ranch. He would always do it even though when he was going there all the time, is that he sort of girds his loins in a mental sense, but it is a respectful attitude; we’re hear to learn kind of a thing, you show us what you’ve got if you want to show it to us, but I’m not going to push the idea. Now, the result for me has been I’ve never seen anything. I mean, I never see anything dramatic anyway. I’ve seen some lights on one of the trips that Jeremy and Matt Adams, and I made in the middle homestead that we couldn’t really explain. They weren’t natural source that we know of and not electronic in any way, it’s not gear that was there. And there’s some other tiny, little things that have happened during my business, but nothing anywhere close to the kinds of things that we described in the book.
So, I don’t know why that is. It frustrated me greatly because I don’t know of anyone else, who’s gone as many times as I have who has not seen something for, who has not have experience, but I hope that I have conveyed to whatever it is that I am respectful and maybe it’ll show me, at some point, when I’m worthy. but I’m kind of glad that some of the things that have happened to other people have not happened to me. And yeah, the people who have gone in with a bad attitude are the ones who’ve had the worst experiences.
Rojas: Yeah. I do want to get into it, because like you said, we’re all interested in this field, and want to experience something or see that what we’re looking into is a real phenomena. So, like you said, some of this is kind of scary and I was wondering if you could share the story of the black cloud that affected the researcher.
Knapp: I don’t have the exact dates in front of me, I think it was ’97 when Colm Kelleher and another of the NIDS staffers, a PhD guy, a brilliant guy are walking, again the middle homestead. They had two dogs with them; they would use dogs as sort of biosensors. The dogs would often give them advance warning when something weird was going on, that they either smelled, or sensed, or can see in the dark. And they’re walking in the middle homestead and suddenly both of the dogs go behind the legs of the two researchers who are walking through the field. And they’re huddling, they were kind of shaking, they’re scared of something. And these two scientists look up in the trees and one of them notices what looks like a black cloud moving; at the tree’s not level. And it starts getting bigger and bigger, and it gets into the middle of the trees right in front of them. And suddenly, the one scientist, the second scientist is frozen. And out of him, comes a voice and it’s not his voice, and it’s speaking–I’m trying to remember the exact words because there were a couple of experiences similar to this that happened to other people, but it’s something to the effect of “We are watching you.”
Rojas: Wow.
Knapp: “We’re watching you and you’re not really welcome here.” And this guy is speaking this stuff, and within a couple of minutes, he sort of bounces out of it; he was in the trance. It had taken over his brain, and he bounces out of it, he was disoriented for a while. When they went back to the trailer to spend the night, he had terrible nightmares and dreams, and it stuck with him, I guess for a couple of days. But that really happened and if you can make guesses about who it happened to, I’m not going to say it either way, but I mean, that’s a guy who’s worked for major think tanks, and labs, and the U.S. Military, and he’s a brilliant guy and he didn’t make it up. That was one disturbing experience, but some of the other ones that happened later were worse. I mentioned about these commando types; it happened during the BAASS period. I don’t know if it is too soon to get into that or you want to wait?
Rojas: Yeah, we’ve got a couple of minutes before the break, so I think we have time to introduce that in that there were several stages of the investigation. So, if I’m wrong and you can correct me, but it began with Bigelow and his National Institute of Discovery Sciences, correct?
Knapp: Yes. Bob Bigelow funded that study, created NIDS, he paid for the scientists, he hired them, he hired vets and trackers, and physicist, and biologist, and a lot of other folks. And then, he had people like Dr. John Alexander who were part of the team, visited the property, and then, a science advisory board as well. They would fly up, they’d stay for days other times, fly back, and they had hired local people as well, former cops, they had connections with the Ute tribe; that was all funded by Bob Bigelow and that continued through about 2003 when I was allowed to write the first article. So, the activity had gone underground, there wasn’t enough for the team to do, there weren’t enough paranormal incidents, so basically, they gave up. I mean, the phenomena had made it clear that it was not going to cooperate; it destroyed some cameras, it was just not playing ball.
So, that’s when they stopped, basically, with the study. And then, after that, after the book came out in ’05, then, they had personnel on the property, security personal, but not scientists anymore. There just wasn’t enough to do and NIDS went away. So for a couple of years, it was basically fallow. And then, in 2007, a guy from the DIA reached out to Bob Bigelow and said, “I just read this book about The Skinwalker Ranch, I’m really interested in it, can I go?” And Bob Bigelow said, “Yeah. Fly to Las Vegas, I’ll take you out there.” They did. The guy sort of got the idea that what is associated with UFOs might actually be a much broader perspective of paranormal phenomena, that UFOs are not an end to themselves, that it represents the tip of the iceberg, and he wanted to take a look. And he wasn’t there for five minutes, then he had an experience.
Rojas: Wow.
Knapp: And it was meant to be tailored just for him. It was in an angle inside a building, inside the home there that this thing appeared to him. And he was trying to play it cool and not let everybody else know it was there–
Rojas: Well, let’s hold this for a second. We’ve got to go to break, so we’ll be right back. For those of you listening on KGRA with your commercial break, for the rest of you we’ll share a short musical interlude, and then, we’ll be right back into this incredible story from George Knapp.
Rojas: Welcome back. You’re listening to Open Minds UFO Radio, I’m your host Alejandro Rojas and we are here with George Knapp. And I mean, what you shared just now I was not aware of and this is really fascinating, is that this guys from the DIA in 2007 came to visit the ranch, and you were explaining he had his own kind of customized paranormal experience.
Knapp: Yeah. This guy had–he’s a very serious, rock solid, brilliant guy who had read the book and thought that there might be something there of interest to the DIA, and The Pentagon and national security, so he arranged, he called up Bigelow, said, “Can we go?” Bigelow had him fly up to Las Vegas, they flew to the ranch, and this guy had his experience within 5 minutes of getting on the property, in the main ranch house hearing some stories from the caretakers who live there. And this thing appeared inside the house, in broad daylight, and I’m not going to get into details about what it was, but it was pretty distinct and remarkable and it made a very big impression on this guy.
So, he leaves, he tells Bigelow about it later, and he goes back to Washington, and he looks up Harry Reid, who at the time was the senate majority leader. They had some interactions on national security issues already, told him about that experience, and said, “We need to study this. That place is unique.” And Reid went to some of his colleagues, the story that I’ve told on air a couple of times, some of his colleagues in the senate. He made the argument that UFOs deserve to be studied and there could be direct national security implications, that by ignoring them it didn’t go make them go away, it just made them more enigmatic and they agreed.
So, they set up a program that, initially, was AWSAP. It was separate from AATIP, the program that Lue Elizondo was involved with. He wasn’t involved with actually for another year, but AATIP was the study, the occasional encounters that military personnel had with UFOs; that was an informal organization that existed within The Pentagon, different departments and different divisions of the military. And they would exchange information, videos would come in, they do analysis, and create files, and try to figure the stuff out. AWSAP was created to be something else entirely. It was to look at a broader range of paranormal activity. The DIA guy, and Bob Bigelow, and Colm Kelleher, and everyone associated with NIDS knew that UFOs do in fact occur in connection with other strange stuff; that as much as ufologists don’t like to admit it, there is a Bigfoot connection, and there is a crop circle connection, and there is a connection to animal mutilations. It’s not clear what the connections were other than proximity in the same time in place of all those different phenomena. And here, you had a ranch where all of this stuff was going on, and in that ranch, whatever is there, had in essence, given that guy from the DIA an engraved invitation to come back and he did.
And so, the study was launched. Harry Reid secured the funding. They put out bids on the military websites where other contractors to submit bids. I only know of one other entity that tried to compete for the contract. Bigelow created BAASS, that’s Bigelow Advanced Aerospace Systems; and that was a separate organization within Bigelow Aerospace that got the contract and launched the study, and it’s an amazing study. A big part of the focus was the ranch; that’s not the only part of the focus, I mean, they cast a very wide net and teams collecting information from all over the world; from foreign government. They had teams that were zipping around, as you mentioned earlier in the program, they arranged to have an arrangement with MUFON, and I’m sure they’ve had arrangements with other UFO organizations and researchers as well.
Bob Bigelow, a week after he signed the contract for BAASS to deal with AWSAP, he came on coast to coast with me. And he drop some really big hands to anyone who was paying attention. He basically said it, he drew great, big, glowing breadcrumbs about what he was up to, he said, “I launched this new organization, it’s going to cast a very wide net, study UFOs and related phenomena, and I have an unnamed partner, I have a partner in this. I can’t tell you who it is, but they’re providing financial support” and everybody just kind of ignored that, but there it was.
Rojas: That’s really funny. And that’s what’s really weird about this is reflecting upon that time and you’ve had me on coast when we talked about this before, but now that you mentioned it, I remember that interview and I knew, because I didn’t sign the NDA, but I knew there was some sort of partnership that I was not going to be able to disclose, and that’s why I didn’t want to know. But I was like “I don’t want to know,” so that was my attitude at the time, but you’re right. Nobody caught on–and that’s an interesting thing about all this is that all of us are looking for the government program that’s looking into UFOs out there, and none of us knew. I mean, at least in the UFO community, even some of the people who work with Bigelow, nobody knew about this relationship.
Knapp: Well, I did. And again, it’s the same thing, the same deal, is that I’m allowed to know about it, I just can’t talk about it. And I supposed if AWSAP still existed, if somebody hadn’t sabotaged it and taken the money away, it would still be ongoing, I wish it were because they did some amazing things. And the world isn’t going to know about it for a while and I don’t know when or if that information will come out, but it did some really amazing things and it was definitely making progress. And it’s a terrible shame that it went away, but if they were continuing to do the work that they were doing during that time period, I wouldn’t be here talking about it, I would still be keeping my word. And I kept my word for almost 10 years until the story came out. And as I have mentioned before, when the New York Times, when I’m told late last year. the New York Times is on this, if they’re going to break the story, I will sort of miffed about it, so why don’t I get the break of the story? I’m the guy who’s kept this secret for nine or 10 years. I’m not a paid employee of Bigelow, I have no financial relationship with Bigelow, I know people snipe at that all the time, but that is not the case. I didn’t work for him and I didn’t sign an NDA. But my word was my bond, and so, I kept it and I wanted to do the story, I don’t want The New York Times to break it, I want to break it. And they had this sort of, kind of gently let me know in a non-offensive way that I am not The New York Times, well, of course I know that. I knew that The New York Times was a much better idea. There was some risk, they had told people, if anybody else leaks the story, it breaks somewhere else. We’re not going to go with it, we’ll bury it; and that would have been a bad thing because The New York Times covering it, the front page story changes the whole media environment. It meant that the Washington Post then covered it and Fox News has been doing ongoing coverage and many other news outlets who, otherwise, wouldn’t come near it. Suddenly, took it seriously and suddenly it’s not as crazy to be considering that UFOs deserve to be studied.
And so, I’m glad I made the decision, that I figured well, New York Times will have some of it, but they’re not going to have all of it because I’m not saying I know more about UFOs than any journalist, and I certainly do not believe that, but I knew more than any journalist about this particular program, and I knew that I’d be able to have plenty of stories that I break on my own, and I did.
Rojas: Right. You have been and I’m sure you will continue to. One of the stories that you broke was along the lines of what you had just explained, but I just wanted to kind of get back to for a second is you broke the story that Harry Reid had heard from this third party about all of these things and that what inspired him to fund and champion this AWSAP program. But there’s been a lot of assumption that Reid and Bigelow were friends and that Bigelow had relayed what he was up to. Did Bigelow tell him as far as you know anything about the ranch before Reid heard from this other person in the DIA?
Knapp: Yes. Yes, but it wasn’t lobbying. Bigelow was not lobbying Harry Reid for a program. And Harry Reid actually represented Robert Bigelow when they were both young men in a legal matter involving the death of Bob’s grandparents. But they lost contact, they didn’t stay in contact until NIDS was created. And I had remained in contact with Harry Reid, I always had a good relationship with him even though I did stories that whacked him around now and then because I’m a journalist and he was Nevada’s senior senator. So, I knew he had an interest in UFOs because in 1989, after I first met with Bob Lazar and starting digging into Area 51, Harry Reid was the first person I went to tell about it outside of our newsroom.
Rojas: Wow.
Knapp: I thought somebody’s got to know about this, I want to see if he’s aware of this because he had been a supporter of Nellis Air Force Base, I knew we had an interest in Area 51, not UFOs so much, but national security programs out there. And I told him about it, we were in a limo on the way to the airport as he was flying back to Washington. He says, “That’s really interesting.” He didn’t kick me out of the car, so after that, we maintained a dialogue, a sort of secret back channel dialogue about UFOs. I would send him things from time to time that I thought would interest him and he would send me stuff. The Congressional Research Service had prepared a report for Members of Congress on the UFO issue, I’d never seen it and it never been made public, it has since been made public, but he shared that with me. And then, I would fly back to Washington or he would come out to Las Vegas, and whenever I would see him, whatever the topic was, the official topic and the reason for it, we would go off to the side and have a separate conversation about UFO matters, and it drove his staff crazy because he wouldn’t tell them what we’re talking about and it alarmed them, and I wouldn’t tell them what we’re talking about, and they used to ask too. And then, in ’95, after Bigelow had set up NIDS, I told Harry Reid about it. I said, “This Science Advisory Board is pretty amazing. I had been allowed to sit in on a couple of meetings, I interacted with the staff, I even made a presentation to them one time about the Russian UFO files that I brought back. It’s an amazing group of people; PhDs all around, brilliant people, many of which whom did not want their names used. There were two astronauts, I mean, you can guess who one of them was, Edgar Mitchell, Hal Putthoff, and Kit Green, and John Alexander, the people like that who were willing to put their reputations and their careers on the line to investigate this stuff.
So, I told Reid about it. He said, “You think I could get in to sit in on some of those?” I said, “Sure, you could.” So, he did. I don’t know how many of those meetings he sat in on, but there were a couple. And then, it sort of went away. I mean, NIDS went on its way, Harry Reid’s back to Washington, and there was no real ongoing contact between them. Occasionally, Bob Bigelow would donate to Harry Reid’s reelection campaigns which now, people looking to nit pick and to somehow destroy the credibility of the story, I can tell you they’re full of baloney.
Bob Bigelow was a businessman operating in Las Vegas. Harry Reid was the senior senator and the most powerful Nevadan ever elected and sent to Washington. Yes, Bob Bigelow did donate money to Harry Reid’s campaigns; small, tiny amounts compared to the size of the modern election campaigns, but still is enough that somebody that wants to denigrate the whole relationship, they can point to it and say aha, it’s a quid pro quo. Well that’s baloney, it wasn’t. That was in 2007. So, there had been period of contacts and Bigelow and Reid both respected each other and both understood their mutual interest, but Reid had read the Skinwalker book, he was intrigued by it, I think he had some conversations with Bob about it. So, he was aware of the ranch, but until that DIA guy came to him, there had been no proposal from anyone for any kind of federally-funded, Pentagon-funded research program involving Bigelow Aerospace.
Rojas: Now, when it comes to AWSAP another thing that you’ve broke, a story you’ve broke, and I always tell people, “You know if you want the latest breaking breaking on all of this, you got to go KLAS and the I-Team.” But how and why it ended because I think that’s a really interesting story as well.
Knapp: Well, it is. And the full thing has not been told, and I’m not sure–I can tell part of it because I already have shared with you some of the details, but it’s a multilevel bit of intrigue, and how the Pentagon works and how contracts work. In essence though, opposition grew to the AWSAP program. It was interacting with Elizondo and AATIP, there was exchange of information back and forth, and those two programs were separate for awhile, but they were cooperative. And it alarmed some people in the Pentagon who, in particular, there’s a cabal in there.
Nick Redfern had written about them, I figured out what his name for him was, I don’t think that’s the real name, but they’re basically high-level people in different intelligence agencies who are fundamentalist Christians; who think that anything involving UFOs and the paranormal is satanic, that by studying it we invite Satan into this world, and they wanted it killed for those reasons. I know how that sounds, I’m not belittling anybody’s religious beliefs, but man, that kind of a decision-making, deciding to kill a program that’s doing good work because Satan might be involved, I don’t feel better about the Pentagon when I hear that, but it’s true. Now, there were other factors involved, there was political intrigue there at the Pentagon, somebody sees a pile of money that they consider vulnerable, they will go after it just for other reasons. And so, the money was pulled out from under it. I’ll say this, Bob Bigelow continued to fund it for a year on his own, out of his own pocket. He had, I think it was 50, it might have been as many as 90 employees at one time, but at least 50 of these were curious staff member, investigator types who were boots on the ground collecting files, investigating reports, really doing solid research. In addition to that, you had Hal Putthoff sort of overseeing the creation writing of scientific papers, and several of those have now gone public, I made the list public early this year at the full list and their authors, and it was some solid work; it was well-received in aerospace circles, in industry circles, and at the Pentagon. People with all those papers thought wow this is great it’s looking down the road 50 years to what science and engineering and aerospace could be, and space travel. Exciting stuff, but it got yanked. Bigelow continued to fund it for a year, fought his damndest to keep it alive, but in the end it got sunk, and it’s a shame, it’s a shame. And then, whatever was left of AWSAP, sort of merged back into AATIP.
So, when The New York Times breaks the story in December, they are true. There was a program called AATIP. It did study UFOs, but the $22 million didn’t go to AATIP, it went to AWSAP, it went to Bigelow Aerospace.
Rojas: And some other intrigue which I think I find interesting, there’s so much–because it is complicated about this story that people don’t seem to get, but I have confirmed this with Lrslie Kean and she did, I mean, it was okay to say, but The New York Times had other sources than Elizondo, or To The Stars, or some of the other BAASS people. And I don’t think people–I think everybody assumes that it was Bigelow and his group that gave her that information for the New York Times story, but there’s more political intrigue in that there’s other sources we’re not aware of.
Knapp: That’s true. I mean, the primary instigator of that whole thing, the New York Times story is Tom DeLonge. I know that drives some people crazy, but the fact is he deserves credit for what he did. He put together this group of people and they developed the plan and he sold it, and one way to get it off the ground–I mean, by creating the organization To The Stars, he gave Lue Elizondo a place to go. If Lue Elizondo didn’t have a place to go, he might have stayed in the Pentagon and wallow there, we would never have seen this stuff. Now, Lue did start the process forward on a number of videos being released and he went by the book. There’s a paper trail and I’ve seen it, at least, for the first three.
I remember the first time I met Luis, two days after he stepped on stage with Tom in Seattle, and then, after that, he came to Las Vegas. And I had dinner with him and Tom and Mr. B and he had those videos.
Are there more? Oh, yeah, there’s more; it’s in the process. So, I think after he left, whoever was left over, it was ticked off and he had made this stuff public, and he had a lot of people who were really mad at him, who were surprised when he made that announcement, I think they may have turned off the spigot. So, I don’t know if we’ll ever see more videos, but he, at least, started the process. But the fact is TTSA, DeLonge and his crew are the ones who got the attention, then New York Times showed them enough information to verify what they had heard from other sources. And I think they probably would have shared those videos except the New York Times got them on their own, they got them from somewhere else.
Rojas: Right.
Knapp: And that is why to the consternation, I think, of Tom and his crew, New York Times breaks the story and they don’t even give Tom DeLonge or TTSA a mention, they don’t give them any credit at all. But at the time they were launching their organization, they wanted to raise money, they wanted a higher profile and they kind of got burned by it. I think it created some bad feelings. Leslie Kean did amazing work. I mean, she was the rock on that story in shepherding it because she’s not a staff member at New York Times, but she knew more about UFOs than anyone who was there. And I think if she had had her way, they would have written more stories, but after they made the big splash, they didn’t, they stopped.
Rojas: Yeah, yeah. And I still agree with Tom DeLonge getting, needing to be recognized and I have certainly spun that angle with everything that I’ve done, including my talk out here. But we’re running of time, so I guess I have to pull back and to get intrigue into this documentary which is–I mean, I feel that this documentary is very important and I’m sure you do too because finally the information is getting out in a format which you had hoped it would out at the beginning, and it seems to be doing well.
Knapp: Yeah, it was doing really well. I didn’t check today, but I know when the first day that it went public, it was, for a time, the number one documentary on iTunes, number one in the world. And I think the last word I heard Jeremy Corbell, the director, it was on iTunes number 18, not the documentaries, all films on iTunes.
Rojas: Wow.
Knapp: The top 200 films in the world, it was number 18 which is a pretty amazing thing, and it’s just getting started, it’s only been out for two days. So, it’s a bigger audience than the UFO people and the paranormal people who have been waiting to see it for a long time, so they are the ones who jumped on it, but there’s a whole big audience out there that is wondering what the heck is this Skinwalker thing that’s popped up on this list. And I think there’s a chance we could finally reach the broader audience that needs to be aware of this.
It may be too rudimentary and too basic for some UFO poobahs, but the fact is, this is not meant for them, it’s meant for a much bigger audience that wanted to engage and to realize these issues involve all of us. I’m not talking about some alien invasion or something, but the nature of reality and understanding our place in the universe and our spot in the food chain, we need to think about this stuff. And I think we made a breakthrough.
I am frustrated because after 18 years or so of trips out there, there’s a lot of stuff to report, and we had to leave so much out. The original material as well as new things that we’ve shot that Jeremy and Matt and I have collected and witnesses we’ve interviewed fairly recent phenomena including the new owner and his team; there’s a lot to tell. So, I’m hoping that it is successful enough that we can tell it more and I’d like to include the stories of some of the individual researchers who have been drawn to that place on their own and have had their own adventures. And I know we’re taking a lot of shots from ufologists who, for one reason or another, are ticked off to be on the outside looking in, but too bad that’s the way it goes.
Rojas: Right. I feel that way too. You can be excited about information coming out, or you can be upset because you’re not involved, which, I don’t know. It is frustrating to hear these people have these issues. My last question will be, to that larger population that seems to be out there – larger than I think many of us suspect. What I mean is the religious faction, the people who have concerns that we’re dealing with demons, what would you say to people who say “Maybe they should have shut that down. I kind of agree with those people.” How would you argue your point with them?
Knapp: Here are the facts. People can dispute lights in the sky or mistaken identification of different phenomena. We know that 95% of UFO cases, for example, are probably explainable. But the fact is our government has now confirmed there is no question about it. These are real. They are for somewhere else. They are not ours. And if we don’t figure it out, somebody else can figure it out. So even if you are not interested in the cosmic questions of who are they and how do they relate to us, what’s their interest, why are they here, how do we fit into this. Even if you don’t relate to that, and I can’t imagine any human being who would not, there is national security issues to consider. There is sometimes direct personal safety issues to consider. These things are physical. They have demonstrated a physical reality. They take different forms, different shapes at different times,It is real and we need to figure it out. If the Russians or the Chinese figure it out, they will exploit it. And I think that maybe they have made progress. Harry Reid thinks they’ve made progress, and Lue Elizondo believes that there are programs. I believe and have been told that during the BAASS study there were foreign governments in the Uintah Basin that were sniffing around and wanted to know what was going on out there. Now that’s seriously. When somebody uses mumbo jumbo and spooky stories and religious beliefs to put the kibosh on a scientific study or a legitimate inquiry, that is troublesome. You know what, maybe it is Satan. Maybe it’s demons. I don’t know what it is. Inter-dimensional travel, dimensional people, time travelers, all of the above, or crypto-terrestrials, or ultra-terrestrials, I don’t know. But we need to figure it out. If not for national security or personal safety, just for the sheer joy of discovery. It is very bad national security policy to say we don’t want to know about something. That makes no sense at all.
And, more to the point, are any asteroids that might be hidden in the Taurid meteor stream potentially hazardous to Earth?
A Taurid fireball – or exceptionally bright meteor – caught during the unusually strong 2015 shower by Bill Allen.
It’s the time of year for the long-lasting Taurid meteor shower. If you glimpse any, think about this. Last year, a team of researchers from the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic found evidence to suggest Earth is at greater risk than we thought of being hit by an asteroid associated with these meteors. They identified a new swarm of meteoroids – icy debris in space, left behind by a comet – related to the Taurid meteor stream. More importantly, they said, this new meteoroid stream might also contain still-undiscovered asteroids, some good-sized, say, a few tens of meters (yards) or even larger.
Their study was published in 2017 in the peer-reviewed journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Let’s be clear. We are no more in danger of being hit by a space rock from the newly discovered stream of Taurids than we were before scientists discovered it. So there is no imminent danger here. It simply means that scientists will be searching the newly identified streams of meteoroids, with the goal of detecting any medium-sized or even moderately large asteroids with orbits that might bring them near Earth.
What are meteoroids? They’re typically bits of debris in space, often left behind by comets as they orbit the sun. The Taurid meteor shower, for example, is produced by debris of Comet 2P/Encke. When debris from a comet enters our atmosphere, meteoroids vaporize due to friction with the air, leaving streaks of light in our night sky that we call meteors. Sometimes, a random meteor (usually not associated with one of the annual meteor showers) hits the ground, and then its name changes again to meteorite.
There are many comets orbiting the sun, leaving debris behind. As Earth orbits the sun, as our planet encounters these small particles left by comets, we see meteor showers. Some meteoroid streams produce only a few visible meteors, but sometimes Earth passes by a denser swarm of particles, thus causing a more impressive or active meteor shower.
These particles are usually very small, maybe as tiny as sand, or grains of rice, although the sizes do vary. New research suggests some recent Taurid fireballs – or exceptionally bright meteors – were produced by much-larger particles. At least one meteor observed in 2015 had an estimated size of about a meter (3.28 feet). Another very bright meteor – observed in 2015 and recently studied – might have been caused by a space rock 10 times more massive.
The 2015 Taurid shower produced many fireballs, or exceptionally bright meteors. Here’s another one, captured in 2015 by Jeff Dai in Tibet.
The Taurid meteor shower occurs every year, beginning in late October and extending through November. It usually offers only a few bright meteors. However, 2015 was an exceptional year for the Taurids. In November 2015, a network of meteor cameras located in Europe detected about 200 fireballs. Of those, 24 were very bright, and 10 were as bright or even brighter than the full moon.
Since then, astronomers have made an extensive analysis of some of the incoming 2015 Taurids and found that most of the meteors showed a trajectory or orbit that points to the same new branch of meteoroid material. And hence a new meteoroid stream has been found.
Then something else got astronomers’ attention. They realized that some large space rocks, including asteroids 2015 TX24 and 2005 UR, share the same orbits as the newly found swarm of Taurid meteoroids. These asteroids are now assumed to be members of the newly detected meteoroid stream. Asteroid 2015 TX24 – discovered on October 8, 2015 – was closest to Earth 20 days later, on October 28, a date very close to the Taurid meteor shower’s enhanced activity in 2015.
These asteroids are between 200 and 300 meters (656 and 984 feet) in diameter.
And so it appears likely that the newly discovered meteoroid streams contains other still-undiscovered, but relatively large, space rocks.
Remember, some Taurid meteors encounter Earth’s atmosphere each year. Is it possible that larger objects in the newly found Taurid meteor stream might also encounter Earth? For this reason, astronomers speak of these objects as potentially hazardous. They say the objects would be large enough to cause some regional damage if they were indeed to strike Earth, but – as yet – no asteroid has been identified as threatening or having a collision course with Earth.
Clearly, further research and observations are needed.
Some bright meteors were seen during the enhanced Taurid meteor shower of November 2015, including this impressive meteor seen in Thailand:
Bottom line: A new stream of meteoroidal material has been discovered for the Taurids. Some relatively large asteroids are known to be in this same orbit. Could there be potentially hazardous asteroids in the stream as well?
Six Commercial Aircrafts Simultaneously Reported UFO Sightings In Chile
Six Commercial Aircrafts Simultaneously Reported UFO Sightings In Chile
While in flight, 6 commercial airplanes simultaneously sighted 3 moving lights that until now appear to be unidentified objects.
The mysterious story happened last May last, but it was talked about again a few days ago, because the conversations of the pilots on board were released.
At 3:00 am, a Lan flight reported the presence of some lights that were close to the checkpoint, called Livor.
A short time later, a pilot of the Copa airline confirmed it with a photograph:
3 unknown bright objects were captured. In total, 5 flights of Lan Chile and 1 of Copa indicated, almost simultaneously, the 3 sightings that both for the pilots and for those who were in the control post located 380 km east of Antofagasta were something out of the ordinary.
The 'Centro de Investigación de Fenómenos Anómalos de Chile' (Ceifac) published a video with the recordings of the aviators. Due to the movement of the objects, one of the flights had to deviate 20 miles from its route, to guarantee the safety of the passengers.
This is the link too the video with the recordings of the aviators!
Cup 174: We have the lights on the left and apparently one is disappearing. Affirmative, it seems to be at the same altitude as us.
Lan 639: Santiago, Lan Chile 639, can you give us the identification of the traffic that precedes us?
ATC (Air Traffic Controller): The transit that precedes them is the Lan Per 2473.
Lan 639: 2473 ... eeeh, observe (...)
Lan 2473: Forward for 2473.
Lan 639: Position, down. Apparently over the sea. Could you also identify another light?
Lan 2473: Let us be attentive. We have a light in sight, approximately at 4 o'clock in our position. Where 2 was, now there is only one.
Lan 79: Affirmative, now I see clearly, a little further south from (...), at sea level, a very small light appears and disappears.
Lan 2473: exactly
Cup 174: Cup 174, to Livor, 340 and now we have 3 lights. We are on the right of Livor 340 and the lights are on the left, approximately 10 o'clock in our position.
The lights are moving and they increase the intensity and decrease it too.
In fact, we are going to turn right because it looks like they are approaching.
After these first events, the Control Tower decided to communicate with the Oceanic Air Traffic Controller, in charge of verifying the traffic of those ships that move over the sea, beyond what the radars can cover from land.
ATC: Very good day
ATC Oceánico: Good day
ATC: You have a note there with Ufos, at Livor's block
Ocean ATC: Yes, it's full of UFOs there.
ATC: Really?
ATC Oceánico: Of course! That's why the Cup and the Lan 639 and 2473 were also seen.
ATC: Haha! How good!
Minutes later, more flights witnessed the same 3 unique lights.
Cup 174: What a strange phenomenon. Now we have 3 lights in the shape of a triangle.
Lan 501: Lan Chile 501 and there it is, the third light appeared.
Lan 577: Yes, about 60 miles from Livor and we also confirmed (...) Yes, between 2 and 3 o'clock.
It could be about 2 thousand feet below and distance about 20 or 30 miles.
Lan 501: Affirmative, we have them at this moment almost at 3. one more intense than the other and, they are 2 lights.
The control tower opted to inform another aeronautical authority of the facts.
ATC: Good morning, sir, from here at the Oceanic Control Center in Santiago.
COA: Good morning
ATC: Good morning, what happens is that there is a very strange situation in the Livor sector. In the airway, Live For Lima, 780, there are about 5.6 aircraft that have reported light movement. 2, 4 to 4 lights in that sector, to the East. To the east of the Livor sector, at or below their level.
And still that situation is maintained, 3 aircraft passed that notified that. In fact, one aircraft was diverted 20 miles to avoid.
At a height of 32 thousand approximately
Now, there are 2 traffics that come by the same area from the United States and they are flying over the sector and they also have them in sight at 2 or at 3 o'clock; over the sea.
This Is How The Pentagon Tried To Close The Roswell UFO Investigation... And Failed
This Is How The Pentagon Tried To Close The Roswell UFO Investigation... And Failed
This is the official Pentagon Roswell UFO crash press conference from 1997. With this event, the Pentagon tried to end all remaining speculations around the Roswell UFO crash. Stupidly, they showed only recordings of experiments that were done years or decades after the UFO crash.
If these government and scientific experiments happened during the Roswell incident time period (around 1947) I would definitely consider it but there are literally years between them. Jim Marrs does an excellent debunk right after the press conference live on national television.
When the U.S. football field–size, cigar-shaped object ‘Oumuamua entered our solar system last year, it didn’t just give us our first glimpse of an interstellar piece of rock. It also bolstered the plausibility of space rocks spreading life among the stars by ferrying microbes between distant star systems, according to a new study. “Life could potentially be exchanged over thousands of light-years,” says author Idan Ginsburg, a postdoc at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The idea, known as panspermia, has been around for centuries. Some astronomers have even speculated that life on Earth was seeded by microbes that hitched a ride on debris ejected from another life-harboring world in the solar system, perhaps on meteorites from Mars. But it seemed improbable that life could have come from interstellar space.
Take computer simulations in 2003 by planetary scientist H. Jay Melosh, now at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. The analysis revealed that about a third of the meteorites shot off Earth were eventually thrown out of the solar system by Jupiter or Saturn, but that the process took millions or tens of millions of years—a long stretch for even the toughest bugs or spores to be exposed to the vacuum and radiation of space. And vanishingly few rocks would ever be captured by some distant system, Melosh found.
The outlook improves if the receiving system is a binary star, which has a more complex gravitational field than the solar system. Yet any system that’s good at capturing is also good at ejecting, meaning refugees from another system are far more likely to be tossed back out in a game of interstellar hot potato than to settle on a hospitable world.
‘Oumuamua is providing fresh hope for the idea of galactic panspermia. For the telescopic survey that found it, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, to have detected such an object in the region it had scanned, our Galaxy needs to have 1 trillion of them per cubic light-year, according to study published earlier this year. To fill space like this, every star in the Milky Way would have to eject 10 quadrillion such objects, and a few should be passing through our solar system at any given moment.
In the new study, Ginsburg, along with astrophysicists Manasvi Lingam and Abraham Loeb, also of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, calculated the chances of such objects delivering life to an alien world. A binary star such as Alpha Centauri would ensnare a few thousand rocks of ‘Oumuamua’s size every year, and our solar system might snag one a century, the team estimates in a preprint posted last week on arXiv and in a forthcoming paper in The Astronomical Journal.
The researchers then multiplied this capture rate by the number of stars an interstellar object will encounter before whatever bugs it carries all die. If the objects move, like ‘Oumuamua, at a velocity of 26 kilometers per second through interstellar space, 10 million of them will be captured somewhere in the Milky Way in a million years. “If you look at the galaxy as a whole, you expect this to happen fairly often,” Ginsburg says.
Astronomer Jason Wright of Pennsylvania State University in State College says the analysis has merit: “For reasonable numbers, this suggests that planets and asteroids are commonly exchanged between stars.”
But astronomer Ed Turner of Princeton University says the authors may be reading too much into the single example of ‘Oumuamua. “There’s no rigorous mathematical argument you can write about one event evaluated a posteriori,” he says.
And even if our galaxy is thick with ‘Oumuamuas, they are unlikely vectors of panspermia, Melosh says. ‘Oumuamua is way too big to have been ejected from an inhabited planet, he says.
Still, Loeb says more data could settle where galactic panspermia is plausible. Additional discoveries of interstellar interlopers would clarify their prevalence, and Loeb says the detection of life on other worlds would show whether it tends to cluster, as it would if it arose in one place and spread elsewhere by panspermia. If so, he says, our entire galaxy might be considered biologically interconnected, its vast distances offset by vast spans of time and the vast number of objects that set out to cross the void.
*Correction, 16 October, 10:55 a.m.:This story has been updated to note that the new study will appear in The Astronomical Journal. A link to the study has been added.
Record Breaker: 4 Huge Alien Planets Spotted Around Baby Star
Record Breaker: 4 Huge Alien Planets Spotted Around Baby Star
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
An artist's illustration of the very young CI Tau system, which appears to harbor four gas-giant planets.
Credit: Amanda Smith, Institute of Astronomy
In an astronomical first, four gigantic planets have been detected around a very young star, a new study reports.
The star in question is CI Tau, which lies about 500 light-years from Earth. CI Tau is just 2 million years old and is still surrounded by a swirling clump of dust and gas known as a protoplanetary disk.
The star was already known to host one planet, a world about 10 times more massive than Jupiter that circles CI Tau once every nine Earth days. This planet, called CI Tau b, was the first "hot Jupiter" ever discovered around such a young star. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
In the new study, a team of researchers observed CI Tau and its disk with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a network of radio telescopes in the Chilean Andes. ALMA spotted three additional gaps in the disk, at distances of 13, 39 and 100 astronomical units (AU) from the star, the astronomers report. (One AU is the Earth-sun distance — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers).
So it seems that CI Tau b has three siblings. And these newfound worlds are big, too: The team's work suggests the innermost of the three is about as massive as Jupiter, while the outer two have Saturn-esque heft.
Astronomers had never spotted four gas-giant planets around such a young star before, study team members said. And the orbital range — the outermost planet lies about 1,000 times farther from CI Tau than the innermost world does — is extreme as well, the researchers added.
Indeed, it's unclear how the two outermost planets were able to take shape.
"Saturn-mass planets are supposed to form by first accumulating a solid core and then pulling in a layer of gas on top, but these processes are supposed to be very slow at large distances from the star," study lead author Cathie Clarke, of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in England, said in a statement. "Most models will struggle to make planets of this mass at this distance."
It's also unclear what role, if any, the sibling planets played in driving CI Tau b to its super-tight orbit, study team members said. Observing the bizarre system further with other telescopes may help answer these and other questions, study team members said.
Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, appears to have undergone periods of intense geological activity.
Ganymede. Image credits: NASA / JPL.
Among the many things that make the Earth so special, plate tectonics have a special role. We don’t give it much credit, but without it, life on Earth would perhaps not have been able to exist — or at the very least, would have been dramatically different from what we see today.
The Earth’s crust is split into several rigid plates, which move relative to each other at a speed of a few cm/year. It’s not much, but if you multiply that on the scale of millions of years, it becomes quite significant. Plates can move towards each other convergently (as seen in most high mountain ranges such as the Himalayas), away from each other divergently (as seen on rifts, such as the East African Rift), or simply slide by each other in a motion called “strike-slip”. The most famous example of strike-slip movement is the San Andreas fault in California. Now, astronomers have found signs of this type of movement on another celestial body: Ganymede.
“The heavily fractured surface of Ganymede displays many distinctive regions of inferred strike-slip faulting that may be important to the structural development of its surface,” said Marissa E. Cameron, lead author of this study who completed the work as a doctoral candidate in SOEST’s Department of Earth Sciences.
Ganymede is Jupiter’s and the solar system’s largest moon. Like Europa, it is believed to be an ocean world. Although its surface is frozen, researchers believe that beneath its frozen shell there lies an ocean of liquid water heated up by friction stress caused by Jupiter’s tidal forces.
Europa is widely considered the most likely place in the solar system to hold life outside of Earth, but Ganymede is also an interesting candidate. The liquid water would provide the necessary environment for life to develop, while the ice shell would protect the water from radiation.
Several studies have shown that Europa is still tectonically active, whereas Ganymede isn’t — but it used to be. Studying this process along with its causes and effects could teach us a great deal not only about Ganymede’s past and present but also about Europa’s future.
Astronomers were intrigued to see just how much evidence of strike-slip they found.
“The unexpected finding was how commonplace strike-slip faulting was. Indicators of strike-slip were observed at all nine sites, representing various geographic locations on Ganymede,” said Cameron. “Additionally, the similarities between the sites may be indicative of a past, larger scale process. Incorporating our observations with previous studies provides an improved representation of Ganymede’s tectonic history and allows us to learn more about its neighbor, Europa.”
Journal Reference: Marissa E. Cameron, Bridget R. Smith-Konter, Liliane Burkhard, Geoffrey C. Collins, Fiona Seifert, Robert T. Pappalardo. Morphological mapping of Ganymede: Investigating the role of strike-slip tectonics in the evolution of terrain types. Icarus, 2018; 315: 92 DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2018.06.024
WHEN SOPHIA THE ROBOT first switched on, the world couldn’t get enough. It had a cheery personality, it joked with late-night hosts, it had facial expressions that echoed our own. Here it was, finally — a robot plucked straight out of science fiction, the closest thing to true artificial intelligence that we had ever seen.
There’s no doubt that Sophia is an impressive piece of engineering. Parents-slash-collaborating-tech-companies Hanson Robotics and SingularityNET equipped Sophia with sophisticated neural networks that give Sophia the ability to learn from people and to detect and mirror emotional responses, which makes it seem like the robot has a personality. It didn’t take much to convince people of Sophia’s apparent humanity — many of Futurism’s own articlesrefer to the robot as “her.” Piers Morgan even decided to try his luck for a date and/or sexually harass the robot, depending on how you want to look at it.
“Oh yeah, she is basically alive,” Hanson Robotics CEO David Hanson said of Sophia during a 2017 appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. And while Hanson Robotics never officially claimed that Sophia contained artificial general intelligence — the comprehensive, life-like AI that we see in science fiction — the adoring and uncritical press that followed all those public appearances only helped the company grow.
But as Sophia became more popular and people took a closer look, cracks emerged. It became harder to believe that Sophia was the all-encompassing artificial intelligence that we all wanted it to be. Over time, articles that might have once oohed and ahhed about Sophia’s conversational skills became more focused on the fact that they were partially scripted in advance.
Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET and Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, isn’t under any illusions about what Sophia is capable of. “Sophia and the other Hanson robots are not really ‘pure’ as computer science research systems, because they combine so many different pieces and aspects in complex ways. They are not pure learning systems, but they do involve learning on various levels (learning in their neural net visual systems, learning in their OpenCog dialogue systems, etc.),” he told Futurism.
But he’s interested to find that Sophia inspires a lot of different reactions from the public. “Public perception of Sophia in her various aspects — her intelligence, her appearance, her lovability — seems to be all over the map, and I find this quite fascinating,” Goertzel said.
Hanson finds it unfortunate when people think Sophia is capable of more or less than she really is, but also said that he doesn’t mind the benefits of the added hype. Hype which, again, has been bolstered by the two companies’ repeated publicity stunts.
“Sophia and the other Hanson robots are not really ‘pure’ as computer science research systems…”
Highly-publicized projects like Sophia convince us that true AI — human-like and perhaps even conscious — is right around the corner. But in reality, we’re not even close.
The true state of AI research has fallen far behind the technological fairy tales we’ve been led to believe. And if we don’t treat AI with a healthier dose of realism and skepticism, the field may be stuck in this rut forever.
NAILING DOWN A TRUE definition of artificial intelligence is tricky. The field of AI, constantly reshaped by new developments and changing goalposts, is sometimes best described by explaining what it is not.
“People think AI is a smart robot that can do things a very smart person would — a robot that knows everything and can answer any question,” Emad Mousavi, a data scientist who founded a platform called QuiGig that connects freelancers, told Futurism. But this is not what experts really mean when they talk about AI. “In general, AI refers to computer programs that can complete various analyses and use some predefined criteria to make decisions.”
Among the ever-distant goalposts for human-level artificial intelligence (HLAI) are the ability to communicate effectively — chatbots and machine learning-based language processors struggle to infer meaning or to understand nuance — and the ability to continue learning over time. Currently, the AI systems with which we interact, including those being developed for self-driving cars, do all their learning before they are deployed and then stop forever.
“They are problems that are easy to describe but are unsolvable for the current state of machine learning techniques,” Tomas Mikolov, a research scientist at Facebook AI, told Futurism.
Right now, AI doesn’t have free will and certainly isn’t conscious — two assumptions people tend to make when faced with advanced or over-hyped technologies, Mousavi said. The most advanced AI systems out there are merely products that follow processes defined by smart people. They can’t make decisions on their own.
In machine learning, which includes deep learning and neural networks, an algorithm is presented with boatloads of training data — examples of whatever it is that the algorithm is learning to do, labeled by people — until it can complete the task on its own. For facial recognition software, this means feeding thousands of photos or videos of faces into the system until it can reliably detect a face from an unlabeled sample.
Our best machine learning algorithms are generally just memorizing and running statistical models. To call it “learning” is to anthropomorphize machines that operate on a very different wavelength from our brains. Artificial intelligence is now such a big catch-all term that practically any computer program that automatically does something is referred to as AI.
Artificial intelligence is now such a big catch-all term that practically any computer program that automatically does something is referred to as AI.
If you train an algorithm to add two numbers, it will just look up or copy the correct answer from a table, Mikolov, the Facebook AI scientist, explained. But it can’t generalize a better understanding of mathematical operations from its training. After learning that five plus two equals seven, you as a person might be able to figure out that seven minus two equals five. But if you ask your algorithm to subtract two numbers after teaching it to add, it won’t be able to.The artificial intelligence, as it were, was trained to add, not to understandwhat it means to add. If you want it to subtract, you’ll need to train it all over again — a process that notoriously wipes out whatever the AI system had previously learned.
“It’s actually often the case that it’s easier to start learning from scratch than trying to retrain the previous model,” Mikolov said.
These flaws are no secret to members of the AI community. Yet, all the same, these machine learning systems are often touted as the cutting edge of artificial intelligence. In truth, they’re actually quite dumb.
Take, for example, an image captioning algorithm. A few years back, one of these got some wide-eyed coverage because of the sophisticated language it seemed to generate.
“Everyone was very impressed by the ability of the system, and soon it was found that 90 percent of these captions were actually found in the training data,” Mikolov told Futurism. “So they were not actually produced by the machine; the machine just copied what it did see that the human annotators provided for a similar image so it seemed to have a lot of interesting complexity.” What people mistook for a robotic sense of humor, Mikolov added, was just a dumb computer hitting copy and paste.
“It’s not some machine intelligence that you’re communicating with. It can be a useful system on its own, but it’s not AI,” said Mikolov. He said that it took a while for people to realize the problems with the algorithm. At first, they were nothing but impressed.
Image Credit: Victor Tangermann
WHERE DID WE GO so off course? The problem is when our present-day systems, which are so limited, are marketed and hyped up to the point that the public believes we have technology that we have no goddamn clue how to build.
“I am frequently entertained to see the way my research takes on exaggerated proportions as it progresses through the media,” Nancy Fulda, a computer scientist working on broader AI systems at Brigham Young University, told Futurism. The reporters who interview her are usually pretty knowledgeable, she said. “But there are also websites that pick up those primary stories and report on the technology without a solid understanding of how it works. The whole thing is a bit like a game of ‘telephone’ — the technical details of the project get lost and the system begins to seem self-willed and almost magical. At some point, I almost don’t recognize my own research anymore.”
“At some point, I almost don’t recognize my own research anymore.”
Some researchers themselves are guilty of fanning this flame. And then the reporters who don’t have much technical expertise and don’t look behind the curtain are complicit. Even worse, some journalists are happy to play along and add hype to their coverage.
Other problem actors: people who make an AI algorithm present the back-end work they did as that algorithm’s own creative output. Mikolov calls this a dishonest practice akin to sleight of hand. “I think it’s quite misleading that some researchers who are very well aware of these limitations are trying to convince the public that their work is AI,” Mikolov said.
That’s important because the way people think AI research is going will depend on whether they want money allocated to it. This unwarranted hype could be preventing the field from making real, useful progress. Financial investments in artificial intelligence are inexorably linked to the level of interest (read: hype) in the field. That interest level — and corresponding investments — fluctuate wildly whenever Sophia has a stilted conversation or some new machine learning algorithm accomplishes something mildly interesting. That makes it hard to establish a steady, baseline flow of capital that researchers can depend on, Mikolov suggested.
Mikolov hopes to one day create a genuinely intelligent AI assistant — a goal that he told Futurism is still a distant pipedream. A few years ago, Mikolov, along with his colleagues at Facebook AI, published a paper outlining how this might be possible and the steps it might take to get there. But when we spoke at the Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence held in August by Prague-based AI startup GoodAI, Mikolov mentioned that many of the avenues people are exploring to create something like this are likely dead ends.
One of these likely dead ends, unfortunately, is reinforcement learning. Reinforcement learning systems, which teach themselves to complete a task through trial and error-based experimentation instead of using training data (think of a dog fetching a stick for treats), are often oversold, according to John Langford, Principal Researcher for Microsoft AI. Almost anytime someone brags about a reinforcement-learning AI system, Langford said, they actually gave the algorithm some shortcuts or limited the scope of the problem it was supposed to solve in the first place.
The hype that comes from these sorts of algorithms helps the researcher sell their work and secure grants. Press people and journalists use it to draw audiences to their platforms. But the public suffers — this vicious cycle leaves everyone else unaware as to what AI can really do.
There are telltale signs, Mikolov says, that can help you see through the misdirection. The biggest red flag is whether or not you as a layperson (and potential customer) are allowed to demo the technology for yourself.
“A magician will ask someone from the public to test that the setup is correct, but the person specifically selected by the magician is working with him. So if somebody shows you the system, then there’s a good likelihood you are just being fooled,” Mikolov said. “If you are knowledgeable about the usual tricks, it’s easy to break all these so-called intelligent systems. If you are at least a little bit critical, you will see that what [supposedly AI-driven chatbots] are saying is very easy to distinguish from humans.”
Mikolov suggests that you should question the intelligence of anyone trying to sell you the idea that they’ve beaten the Turing Test and created a chatbot that can hold a real conversation. Again, think of Sophia’s prepared dialogue for a given event.
“Maybe I should not be so critical here, but I just can’t help myself when you have these things like the Sophia thing and so on, where they’re trying to make impressions that they are communicating with the robot at so on,” Mikolov told Futurism.”Unfortunately, it’s quite easy for people to fall for these magician tricks and fall for the illusion, unless you’re a machine learning researcher who knows these tricks and knows what’s behind them.”
Unfortunately, so much attention to these misleading projects can stand in the way of progress by people with truly original, revolutionary ideas. It’s hard to get funding to build something brand new, something that might lead to AI that can do what people already expect it to be able to do, when venture capitalists just want to fund the next machine learning solution.
If we want those projects to flourish, if we ever want to take tangible steps towards artificial general intelligence, the field will need to be a lot more transparent about what it does and how much it matters.
“I am hopeful that there will be some super smart people who come with some new ideas and will not just copy what is being done,” said Mikolov. “Nowadays it’s some small, incremental improvement. But there will be smart people coming with new ideas that will bring the field forward.”
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WATCH THE BOSTON DYNAMICS ROBODOG TWERK AND MOONWALK TO “UPTOWN FUNK”
WATCH THE BOSTON DYNAMICS ROBODOG TWERK AND MOONWALK TO “UPTOWN FUNK”
KRISTIN HOUSER__FILED UNDER: ROBOTS & MACHINES
The last time we saw Boston Dynamics’s dog-like robot SpotMini, it was on the job, prancing around a construction site to demonstrate its surveying skills.
But all work and no play makes SpotMini a dull bot. Sometimes, a robodog just wants to dance.
Just Watch
On Tuesday, Boston Dynamics release a video of SpotMini dancing to Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk.”
In the clip, the bot demonstrates a bevy of surprising slick moves. It twerks. It moonwalks. It suggestively gyrates its robot hips while seemingly staring directly into your soul.
Clearly, if things don’t work out in the construction industry, SpotMini could always pursue a career as a backup dancer. And that’s great because even a robodog needs to have options.
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Ik bestudeerde buitenaardse schepen in Area 51. Insider verbreekt na 30 jaar stilte over grootste UFO-verhaal aller tijden
Ik bestudeerde buitenaardse schepen in Area 51. Insider verbreekt na 30 jaar stilte over grootste UFO-verhaal aller tijden
Bob Lazar deed in 1989 heel wat stof opwaaien toen zijn interview met journalist George Knapp over zijn werkzaamheden in Area 51 werd uitgezonden.
Lazar vertelde onder meer dat hij werkte in S-4, een onderdeel van de geheimzinnige basis. Na het interview bleef het bijna 30 jaar stil.
Daar zal spoedig verandering in komen, want de afgelopen jaren liet Lazar filmmaker Jeremy Corbell toe in zijn leven. Binnenkort verschijnt er een documentaire over hem.
Enorme gevolgen
“Dit is het grootste UFO-verhaal aller tijden,” vertelde Corbell aan Daily Star Online. “Het zal de eerste keer zijn dat hij zijn hele verhaal doet.”
“Hij trok aan de bel, verbaasde de hele wereld en toen bleef het stil,” vervolgde hij. “In deze film spreekt Bob openlijk over zijn leven. Hij heeft nog nooit eerder zoiets gedaan.”
De filmmaker zei dat de documentaire voor de nodige ophef kan zorgen in Washington. “Als Bob Lazar de waarheid vertelt, dan heeft dat enorme gevolgen.”
Buitenaardse ruimteschepen
“Hij vertelt dat hij een buitenaards aandrijfsysteem bestudeerde in opdracht van het Amerikaanse leger – buitenaardse ruimteschepen,” zei Corbell.
“En dat de overheid dit voor ons geheim heeft gehouden,” vervolgde hij.
Zijn documentaire, Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers, komt uit op 8 december.
Are you tired of videos and photos of triangles, orbs, triangles made with orbs and other common UFO sighting? Then the past week was a good one for you. In China, thousands of people witnessed what could have been a rocket launch if any rockets had been launched that night. Meanwhile, in France, an outdoor security camera picked up a large green ring in the sky that stayed stationary while clouds seemed to move around it. Have aliens finally updated their equipment?
Let’s start with the luminous green ring since it was so unusual. It was allegedly taken in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, a villa on the northwestern coast of France. From the sole video (see it here) of what was reported to be an all-night phenomena, the glowing circle doesn’t seem to move, not does it reflect on the water below. There are some reports that the orb appeared again the following night on the same camera. With no other videos, no other reports, the orb never moving and disappearing as the sky becomes light, this one seems to be firmly in the camera anomaly zone.
The two-minute light over China (see a video here and photos here) has more substance, at least in numbers of sightings. It was seen the night of October 11 over Beijing, Shanxi province and Inner Mongolia and other areas, with videos and photos popping up on social media almost immediately. This was the same day as the aborted Soyuz launch, but that event occurred three hours before and all debris had fallen from the sky by the time this thing showed up.
After seeing more nighttime launches by both governments and private space companies, most people are getting better at recognizing their glows in the sky and avoid making embarrassing “UFO” or meteor reports. However, this one had movements different than a rocket’s straight-line trajectory that suggest something else. The Chinese government media hinted as such, saying the two-minute flight was made by an undefined high-altitude aircraft, not a rocket.
In the U.S. and Europe, a mysterious high-altitude craft is usually assumed to be the mysterious and unconfirmed TR-3 Black Manta triangular surveillance plane. In China, it’s assumed to be a mysterious hypersonic glide vehicle known as DF-ZF, which will eventually be able to a nuclear payload at Mach 10. Mach 10! It’s not known if it has reached that speed yet but China’s Ministry of National Defense at least confirms its existence and that it has been tested at least 7 – and now possibly 8 – times. The plane is said to be based at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Shanxi province, so the location of the recent sighting matches up.
DF-ZF
The orb in France is not, as some speculated, a portal opened by the folks at CERN. While that would be worrisome, it doesn’t exist. The DZ-ZF does. Was its flight on October 11 deliberately scheduled immediately after the Soyuz launch failure so China could show its space capabilities? Was it a threat or a job audition?
Keep watching the skies and have your cellphone ready.
The drone owner was filming with his GoPro Karma Drone at his former home in Clymer, New York, approx. 25 miles East of Lake Erie when he recorded a UFO (Fastwalker).
The UFO is flying toward the drone with an enormous speed.
The drone owner had to slow down the speed to 10% otherwise you cannot see the UFO due to its speed.
It is another proof that these mysterious objects flying through our skies without we seeing them.
The drone owner was filming with his GoPro Karma Drone at his former home in Clymer, New York, approx. 25 miles East of Lake Erie when he recorded a UFO (Fastwalker).
The UFO is flying toward the drone with an enormous speed.
The drone owner had to slow down the speed to 10% otherwise you cannot see the UFO due to its speed.
It is another proof that these mysterious objects flying through our skies without we seeing them.
Then input data EIT 284 Oct 15, 2018 10:06 I found an earth size UFO near our sun today...how you ask? BECAUSE ITS EARTH SIZE!!! Needles to say, its big. If you use the SOHO earth icon to compare, then its actually a bit bigger than earth, but I want to downsize the fear...and say its earth size. Feel better yet? Gooooooooooood. This UFO is seen on the official NASA-SOHO site using their program. Follow my instructions in the video and you too will see it with your own eyes on their site. How do aliens make something that big? Easy, aliens live forever. They tell a robot to create the spacecraft, tell it the size and requirements. Time is not important in its construction. One robot builds 10 more robots. Those 11 robots build more robots and so on until there is an army of thousand of robots working on getting materials, making tech and putting together this giant ship. Which could take millions of years to finish. But since you don't die, millions of years will pass by fast...so while you are enjoying your life, those little robots of yours are creating a space ship the size of earth. There you have it! Scott C. Waring
Two Weeks Ago We Also Saw The Same UFO Leaving The Sun!
Eerie footage of a white orb of light flying through the sky has been filmed close to South America's highest monument.
An eyewitness captured the dramatic footage on his phone from the observation windows of the 272-foot Cruz del Tercer Milenio - Third Millennium Cross, in northern Chile.
It appears to show a white ball of light in mid-air flying high over the city which at one point appears to shoot at speed towards the camera in broad daylight.
The clip was later posted on social media and video-sharing platforms where it sparked a lively debate and made national headlines.
The UFO was said to have been spotted in Chile
(Image: CEN)
The sighting has sparked a nationwide debate
(Image: CEN)
Some people were virtually convinced that Chile had been visited by extra-terrestrials while others were equally positive it was just a reflection on the glass of the monument's windows.
One viewer said: "Amazing recording of mysterious light, UFO ", while another added: "Now all the channels are talking about the UFO."
But another said: "It's obviously the flash of the mobile phone," and others agreed: "How ridiculous, it's clearly the mobile phone flash, the man goes closer to the window and the UFO does too."
It was seen from the observation window at the Cruz del Tercer Milenio - Third Millennium Cross - in northern Chile(Image: CEN/@Cruzdelmilenio)
Chilean ufologist Marco Antonio Gomez, of the Marcc UFO group, called for caution.
He said: "We cannot say that everything we see is a spaceship.
"We see lot of strange things but 99 percent have an explanation - satellites, meteorological phenomenons or human stuff.
"If you see a UFO, stay calm and film it right until the end.
"A lot of videos cut off too soon and that can mean the cause remains unknown."
Mysterious moving white trail over China sparks UFO fear of TOP-SECRET military experiment
Mysterious moving white trail over China sparks UFO fear of TOP-SECRET military experiment
A MYSTERIOUS white light trail has been spotted in four different regions across China, prompting many onlookers to speculate about alien activity or a top-secret military test.
A mysterious UFO has been captured on camera across a huge region of China on Thursday evening, prompting wide-ranging conspiracy theories.
The unusual sight in the night sky was seen by residents of the Chinese capital Beijing, as well as people in the Chongqing reguion, the Shanxi province and Inner Mongolia.
Onlookers posted videos of the bizarre sightings on popular Chinese social media network Weibo.
Footage shows a bright light swirling above several cities, leaving behind a capitivating spiral effect.
The two-minute phenomenon was described by witnesses as a "massive tail" or "artificial light" slowly moving across the sky.
Many argued that it was the result of trails left by a high-altitude aircraft activity.
However, others suggested that the bright light cloud in the sky was confirmation of alien visitation.
One baffled user posted: "Aliens are coming!"
A mysterious UFO has been captured on camera across a huge region of China (Image: IG)
Aliens are coming!
User on Weibo
Another witness referenced last week's Golden Week holiday when posting: "Is the UFO leaving China after celebrating its national holiday?"
More serious speculation was posted by a respected military magazine editor whose user name was Weaponmagazine-Xiaoning.
He suggested the footage was evidence of China's military testing a top secret hypersonic aircraft, DF-ZF - known to US officials as WU-14.
Leading UFO expert Nigel Watson claimed the footage looked like the trail of a rocket motor, similar to the phenomenon seen following a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on Sunday night.
He said: "In both cases they are night launches where the rocket exhaust gases look very spectacular and can easily make people think this is a UFO."
For the past few years, he has let investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell into his home and life, to tell the full story in a documentary.
And Jeremy, who runs the website Extraordinary Beliefs, told Daily Star Online exclusively: "This is the biggest UFO story of all time.
"This will be the first time he has given his full story.
"He blew the whistle, shocked the world, then went relatively silent, until now
"Over the years, George Knapp would get him to talk for a couple of minutes to remind people of his story. But that’s hard to do. Bob has never liked to be in the public eye.
"In this film Bob has fully opened his life. He’s talking candidly. He has never done anything like this before."
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EXPOSED: Bob Lazar gave his story
And The 41-year-old filmmaker admitted the documentary could rustle some feathers in the US government.
He added: "If Bob Lazar is telling the truth, the implications are huge.
"He is telling us that he studied an alien propulsion system for the US military - extraterrestrial spacecrafts. And that the government has been keeping that secret from us."
Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers comes out on December 3 on iTunes and Vimeo.
And Jeremy revealed he is excited to see how people react.
JEREMY CORBELL
BOB LAZAR: The man claims to have worked at Area 51
JEREMY CORBELL
RESEARCH: Bob Lazar claims to have worked on alien propulsion for the US Military
He detailed: "30 years has passed since Bob Lazar came forward to the world.
“It’s amazing what can be learned through the lens of time.
"You will have more footage of Bob Lazar and his testimony overnight than from the last three decades combined.
"Bob Lazar is the Elvis of ufology – people go crazy for him. Yet - he is a reluctant UFO messiah. He doesn’t like the attention.
"Ultimately it's up to individuals if they believe him but the movie will give you so much information to make that choice."
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AREA 51: The military base is top secret
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BANNED: The public are not allowed inside Area 51
Bob has previously received criticism over his case, after holes appeared in his story.
He claims to hold degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology.
But investigations into his background could not find any records of him ever having attended either institution.
But Jeremy refuses to rule out the possibility of his story being the truth.
JEREMY CORBELL
FILM: Bob Lazar will be released on December 3
He explained: "My film will give you an understanding of the real Bob Lazar, which will make it harder to throw away his claims.
"And not everything makes the movie, some witnesses are not willing to go on camera.
“The more you get to know Bob Lazar, the more you have to face the uncomfortable possibility that he's telling you the truth.
You look at the evidence, you watch my film and you decide for yourself."
In 10 days time, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will embark on an unprecedented journey to the center of the solar system. The probe, destined for the sun, will skim through the sun's atmosphere in the closest flyby around a star to date, marking a historic encounter with the sun's corona.
Scheduled to launch August 11th, 2o18, the Parker Solar Probe will become humanity's first ever mission to visit a star. Inevitably, the probe will endure some of the most extreme conditions ever experienced by a spacecraft; protecting the onboard scientific equipment from the hostile conditions are some of the most sophisticated and robust cooling systems which will prevent the star exploring Parker Solar Probe from melting in the sun's atmosphere.
On its journey, the Parker Solar Probe will provide the first ever close up view of a star as it plunges through the Sun's atmosphere. From a distance of just a few solar radii away (the length of the Sun's radius), the probe will be able to directly observe the sun's atmosphere and grant the opportunity to investigate solar anomalies impossible to witness from the earth.
It will be one of the most autonomous systems ever to be launched and will undoubtedly provide profound and perplexing information about the star at the center of our solar system. But the greatest challenge will be keeping it cool.
The probe has a notable narrow profile and situated in front of most of the craft is a massive 2.5-meter wide heat shield which will keep a majority of the spacecraft out of direct line from the sun. Furthermore, the probe will follow a highly elliptical orbital path which will ensure the spacecraft will not be exposed to the sun long enough to drastically heat it up.
Keeping NASA's Parker Solar Probe Cool in the Sun's Atmosphere
Over the next few months, the Parker Solar Probe will be en route to the sun. The mission is set to last nearly 7 years, and in that time the probe will make 24 close range passes around the sun. It will come closer to the sun than any previous aircraft, and to do so it will employ a combination of thermal protection and cooling systems to keep onboard equipment at nominal operating temperatures.
"Parker Solar Probe will swoop to within 4 million miles of the sun's surface, facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it. To get there, it takes an innovative route," claims NASA.
At its nearest perihelion (closest orbit point to the sun), the probe will come seven times closer than any spacecraft before.
The solar probe will enter the sun's coronal plasma - an atmospheric layer comprised of an ionized gas of electrons, protons, and heavy ions. At its perihelion, the Parker Solar Probe will enter a region of space where temperatures can reach over 500,000 degrees Celsius. However, the atmosphere 6 million kilometers above the sun's surface is rather thin and so a minimal amount of energy will be transferred into the probe. While temperatures may be in excess of half a million degrees Celsius, the probe's heat shield will only have to endure temperatures of up to 1,400 degrees Celcius.
Understanding how the probe does not melt from the sun is a matter of differentiating between heat vs temperature. It is the difference between the measure of how fast a particle is moving (the temperature) versus the total energy particles can transfer (heat). While the temperatures surrounding the probe may be hundreds of thousands of degrees, there are few particles to actually transfer much heat at all. Inside the corona, despite having a high temperature, minimal heat will be transferred into the spacecraft itself.
Parker Solar Probe Heat Shield
Taking on the blunt heat of the sun and acting as the first line of defense is Parker Solar Probe's innovative heat shield. It is comprised of an 11 cm thick carbon foam core which is sandwiched between two panels of superheated carbon-carbon composite. On Earth, the foam core is 97% air, making it extremely light while minimizing heat conduction. In its entirety, the heat shield weighs in at approximately 73 kg - about the weight of the average woman.
Since only a minimal amount of heat will be absorbed through the atmosphere, the greatest concern is mitigating the amount of sunlight which is absorbed as heat by the spacecraft.
The sun-facing side of the heat shield features a highly reflective carbon material intended to deflect as much energy as possible back towards the sun. It is painted with a specially formulated white coating capable of reflecting most of the suns rays, specifically ultraviolet, infrared, and most of the visible spectrum of light.
The material is designed not to deteriorate or crack in the extreme heat of the sun on its low pass by, and on the contrary, it is also minimally affected by the extreme cold experienced at the opposing end of its orbit.
“We learned a lot about solar array performance from the [APL-built] MESSENGER spacecraft, which was the first to study Mercury,” said Lockwood. “In particular, we learned how to design a panel that would mitigate degradation from ultraviolet light.”
Despite the heat shield reaching temperatures in excess of 1000 degrees Celcius, the rest of the spacecraft situated behind the shield will remain at nearly room temperature.
"The eight-foot-diameter heat shield will safeguard everything within its umbra, the shadow it casts on the spacecraft. At Parker Solar Probe’s closest approach to the Sun, temperatures on the heat shield will reach nearly 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, but the spacecraft and its instruments will be kept at a relatively comfortable temperature of about 85 degrees Fahrenheit," claims NASA.
Preventing heat from reaching sensitive equipment requires extensive consideration not only of the material used but also how it should be mounted to the spacecraft.
Each point of contact between the heat shield and the rest of the probe creates a pathway for heat to travel; it is imperative to minimize connection points to prevent the transfer of heat through the truss while ensuring the craft remains structurally sound.
To prevent heat from transferring through the probe, the thermal protection system connects to the truss of the Parker Solar Probe at only 6 points, minimizing the transfer of heat to the rest of the spacecraft.
The thermal shield is a phenomenal defense against the extreme light of the sun, however, it is not designed to protect the whole of the craft. Some other systems, like the probe's solar arrays, must be designed in a way which can withstand direct sunlight from just a few solar radii away.
How the Solar Panels will Survive the Inferno
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is entirely dependent on the sun. While its focal mission is to investigate a star at an extremely close range, conducting such an investigation will require power, power which will also be entirely derived from the sun.
For most of the journey, the Parker Solar Probe's solar array will extend in front of the spacecraft directed towards the sun. But on its close approach, the panels will recess behind the heat shield leaving only a small portion of the outermost edges of the solar array to extend beyond the protection of the thermally protective shield. A small portion of the solar panels will always be exposed to the sun to provide the necessary power to the onboard systems.
"Parker Solar Probe is powered by two solar arrays, totaling just under 17 square feet (1.55 square meters) in area. They are mounted to motorized arms that will retract almost all of their surface behind the Thermal Protection System – the heat shield – when the spacecraft is close to the Sun." describes NASA.
The nature of the extreme range of sunlight the probe will be exposed to introduces problems typically not experienced by ground-based solar operations.
With a fixed solar array, on the close approach the sun, the solar panels would generate enough electricity to destroy themselves with heat, not to mention the heat absorbed from the sun itself.
“Unlike solar-powered missions that operate far from the Sun and are focused only on generating power from it, we need to manage the power generated along with the substantial heat that comes from being so close to the Sun,” said Andy Driesman, project manager from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. “When we’re out around the orbit of Venus, we fully extend the arrays to get the power we need. But when we’re near the Sun, we tuck the arrays back until only a small wing is exposed, and that portion is enough to provide needed electrical power.”
Parker Probe Cooling
Without any cooling systems, the solar panels mounted on the Parker Solar Probe would become severely damaged at its closest orbit in the direct light of the sun. Keeping the panels cool is a relatively simple cooling system; a heated tank which keeps the coolant from freezing during launch, two radiators to dissipate heat during close orbit, aluminum fins to maximize the cooling surface, and pumps to circulate the coolant through the system.
The water will be housed separately in a heated container to prevent it from freezing during launch. One in orbit, the water will return to the cooling systems where it will begin to circulate.
In total, the probe will only require a little less than four liters of deionized water to keep the solar panels cool at all times. In operation, the water will be exposed to temperatures varying between 10 C and 125 C - a range beyond what most liquids are capable of handling as effectively as water.
To prevent the water from boiling at its high range peaking of 125 C, the system will be pressurized to raise the boiling point beyond 125 C.
“Part of the NASA technology demonstration funding was used by APL and our partners at UTAS to survey a variety of coolants,” said Lockwood. “But for the temperature range we required, and for the mass constraints, water was the solution.”
The solar panel systems have already proven their competency to withstand the extreme temperatures expected on its journey through the sun's outer atmosphere.
The panels were tested earlier this year by passing a large current through the array, drastically heating them up to simulate what would happen if the panels were to absorb and generate too much energy.
During testing, each solar cell began to glow red, allowing scientists to examine each individual solar cell for potential defects. Fortunately, the array passed the tests and are expected to survive a near direct confrontation with the sun.
Parker Solar Probe Autonomous Control
On Earth, light travels almost instantaneously, making it a rather convenient tool to use in communications and control. Radio controlled devices act almost immediately once a controller is given an input. However, a few million kilometers away, the speed of light begins to create quite an issue.
The Parker Solar Probe will largely be alone for most of its journey. On the far side of the sun, besides a gigantic fusion ball blocking all chance of a signal getting through, any command given to the probe would take as long as 8 minutes to reach the spacecraft. Effectively, if engineers were required to manually control the probe, each input would take 8 minutes before a signal is read. Worsening the problem still is the fact that if the probe is to relay any information back, it will also take 8 minutes to reach the engineers. In effect, it will take 8 minutes for an issue to be reported, and another 8 minutes before it could be manually corrected. In a dire situation in an environment as hostile as the sun, waiting 16 minutes for each command is not an option. So NASA engineers decided to automate all of it.
Several sensors of about the same size of a cellphone are mounted around the body of the spacecraft, as well as along the edge of the heat shield. Should any detector sense direct sunlight, an alert is sent to the central computer of the spacecraft before subsequent corrections are made to realign the craft and keep the rest of the probe safe from the heat of the sun.
This all has to happen without any human intervention, so the central computer software has been programmed and extensively tested to make sure all corrections can be made on the fly." says NASA.
Keeping the Parker Solar Probe from melting in the sun's atmosphere is a daunting challenge backed by a slew of innovative technologies to bring humanity closer to a star than ever before. While it may raise more questions than it answers, scientists are excited about the journey and the knowledge which will undoubtedly be gained. There is still a long way to go, but there is certainly light at the end of the tunnel, and NASA plans on capturing all of it.
HYBRID HUMANS: Author Daniella Fenton claims ancient ETs engineered human race
Ancient astronauts travelled through a "wormhole" in the Pleiades star cluster but couldn't survive on Earth, it's claimed.
Extraterrestrials decided instead to "alter the genetic make up" of early human ancestors so they became more intelligent.
The proof is in the fusion of Chromosome-2 around 780,000 years ago based on the book Hybrid Humans written by Daniella Fenton.
Chromosone-2 is found in all large-brained humans, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, but no other primate species.
"The three species went on to become advanced humans with art, culture and increasingly complex technologies," said Mrs Fenton.
"The fusions site in on an active gene which expresses itself in brain structure, immunity and reproductive functions - important systems for upgrading to a new human species.
"Instead of a small number of humans having the fusion and a large group not having it, instead there was a rapid total replacement with all humans on Earth having 46 rather than 48 chromosomes, this tells us it gave enormous benefits to become so dominant.
"Approximately 800,000 years ago human brain size went into a sudden rapid increase in size and complexity which has long been a mystery to archaeologists."
DANIELLA FENTON
THEORY: Author Daniella Fenton said the DNA of humans changed dramatically due to alien science
She went on: "This was not the only change at this time and two very extraordinary changes are the sudden appearance of miR-941, which played a crucial role in human brain development.
"The gene is highly active in controlling decision-making and enabling language abilities and appeared suddenly formed out of junk DNA."
What Mrs Fenton claims are the "signature of aliens" is dramatic changes to a neocortex gene called ARHGAP11B – associated with sight and hearing in mammals.
The official explanation for Chromosome-2, the second largest in humans, does not involve aliens.
Researcher JW IJdo concluded Chromosome-2 "marks the point at which two ancestral ape chromosomes fused to give rise to human Chromosome-2."
DANIELLA FENTON
HYBRID HUMANS: The book claims aliens engineered mankind 780,000 years ago
“Approximately 800,000 years ago human brain size went into a sudden rapid increase in size and complexity which has long been a mystery to archaeologists.”
Daniella Fenton
The Australian author, who studied equine genetic and is a spirtualist and certified shaman, claims to have physical evidence to support the ancient alien theory.
Her husband Bruce is also a writer who worked on the research.
They researched a book called Alcheringa which promotes the theory an alien spaceship exploded in our atmosphere hundreds of thousands of years ago and the survivors, who couldn't survive without the mother ship, engineered Homo sapiens.
Mrs Fenton claims the melted wreckage of the crashed craft explains the mysterious Australites tektite buttons, unexplained dark glass objects thought to be ejected in meteorite impacts.
She claimed that geologists have dated the remains of a 1km sized melted object to around 780,000 years ago.
She added: "According to a NASA study the resulting liquid glass (containing around 80% silica from melted quartz crystal) formed spheres in space which then instantly froze and began to fall into our atmosphere.
"As they entered they heated and melted to form unique button shapes before landing right across Australasia.
"These Australite tektite buttons are unique in the 4.5 billion year history of our planet and remain a total mystery to science because they can’t understand how they formed."
The Hybrid Human theory also believes the alien astronauts arrived from the Pleiades star cluster, thought to contain several thousand stars.
It is among the nearest star cluster to Earth and the one which is most visible to the naked eye.
It is believed one planet could exist around the star HD 23514 due to the exceptional number of hot dust particles surrounding it.
Mrs Fenton points to how Pleiades has been referenced repeatedly by various cultures.
She said: "All around the world ancient cultures talk about ancestral beings from the Pleiades and portals that connect those stars with this planet, this includes mythology in Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, American Indians, ancient Egypt, Sumeria and Aboriginal Australia."
Are Aliens in their UFOs paraphysical extradimensional entities?
Are Aliens in their UFOs paraphysical extradimensional entities?
Are Aliens in their UFOs paraphysical extradimensional entities? –
– by Norio Hayakawa,
Personally I believe this to be the case, even though it seems impossible to prove this by science as we understand it.
Therefore this is simply in the realm of personal belief.
I happen to believe in the existence of what I describe as paraphysical extradimensional sentient entities who are capable of temporarily materializing and dematerializing at will to a pre-selected observer or a group of observers (i.e, the “experiencers”) for reasons yet unknown, simply presenting to them as a physical extraterrestrial phenomenon and visitation.
Some people describe them as “interdimensional”, i.e., denoting their ability to interact between their dimension and ours. I like to use the term “extradimensional”, i.e., simply denoting their origin as from outside our physical dimension.
Some researchers point out that these entities with their “UFOs” seem to be able to affect our physical parameters (such as radar, etc.).
However, I personally believe that their intrusion into our physical realm is limited to a very brief period of time (such as a few seconds or a few minutes at a time).
In other words, I am talking about their inability to survive in our physical dimension, except for a very brief period of time.
What are their intentions?
Are some of them benevolent by nature?
Are some of them malevolent?
I have proposed all of the above because, as much as we like to believe, the UFO phenomenon does not seem to represent any conclusive evidence whatsoever of actual physical ET visitations.
So far, there is not a single, physical, tangible, solid as well as credible documentary evidence whatsoever that we have ever been visited by physical extraterrestrial biological entities in any physical extraterrestrial spacecraft of any kind.
The big question is “Are we the only sentient, intelligent physical biological entities in this entire universe?”
Unfortunately, we just do not know yet – – and this is the best answer we can give for right now.
The bottom line is that, so far, we have not come up with any concrete evidence whatsoever that there are intelligent, sentient, physical extraterrestrial biological entities commonly known as “Aliens” anywhere.
But is “life” limited to just physical, sentient, intelligent biological existence in this humongous universe?
Maybe there could be countless number of sentient, paraphysical entities of extradimensional origin in this huge cosmos – – that could include both the benevolent and the malevolent kinds.
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Scientists Have Created Shape Shifting Liquid Metal That Can Be Programmed
Scientists Have Created Shape Shifting Liquid Metal That Can Be Programmed
This metal can be applied to many operations in the future, including soft robotics and even flexible computer displays.
By Danielle De La Bastide
In a terrifying breakthrough similar to the metal morphing villain in Terminator 2, scientists at the University of Sussex and Swansea University have discovered a way to apply electrical charges to liquid metal and coax it into 3D shapes such as letters and even a heart.
This discovery has been called an “extremely promising” new kind of material that can be programmed to alter its shape.
Yutaka Tokuda, the Research Associate, working on this project at the University of Sussex, says: “This is a new class of programmable materials in a liquid state which can dynamically transform from a simple droplet shape to many other complex geometry in a controllable manner.
“While this work is in its early stages, the compelling evidence of detailed 2D control of liquid metals excites us to explore more potential applications in computer graphics, smart electronics, soft robotics and flexible displays.”
The scientists used electric fields to shape the liquid; these areas are created by a computer meaning that both the position and form of the liquid metal can be manipulated dynamically.
Professor Sriram Subramanian, head of the INTERACT Lab at the University of Sussex, said: “Liquid metals are an extremely promising class of materials for deformable applications; their unique properties include voltage-controlled surface tension, high liquid-state conductivity and liquid-solid phase transition at room temperature.
One of the long-term visions of us and many other researchers is to change the physical shape, appearance, and functionality of any object through digital control to create intelligent, dexterous and useful objects that exceed the functionality of any current display or robot.”
The research was presented last month at the ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2017 conference in Brighton.
Carnegie Mellon Metal Alloy
This development is not the only one to emerge within the science community, research engineers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a new metal alloy that exists in a liquid state at room temperature and can capacitate liquid metal transistors, flexible circuitry and perhaps even self-repairing circuits in the far-flung future.
Created at the Soft Machines Lab at Carnegie Mellon by researchers Carmel Majidi, Michael Dickey, and James Wissman, this alloy is the result of a marrying of indium and gallium. It would only take two drops of this liquid metal to form or break a circuit thereby opening or closing an entry, similar to a traditional transistor.Better yet, it only requires a voltage of 1 - 10 volts.
Electronic Blood
These molten metals or “electronic blood” are set to completely change computing for upcoming generations. IBM has also been developing its own form of electric sustenance since 2013, REPCOOL, or Redox flow electrochemistry for power delivery and cooling, is a project modeled after the structure and power supply of the brain, where our blood capillary system both cools and supplies energy to this vital organ. With electronic blood, the researchers believe the same effect can be applied to overheated computers.
"Compared to today's top computers, however, the human brain is roughly 10,000 times denser and 10,000 times more energy-efficient. The research team believes that their approach could reduce the size of a computer with a performance of 1 petaflop/s from the dimensions of a school classroom to that of an average PC, or in other words to a volume of about 10 liters," said Dr. Bruno Michel from IBM Research.
The first applications of this Electronic Blood should take place in 2030.
An Amateur Astronomer Accidentally Caught The First-Ever Photo of an Exploding Star
"It's like winning the cosmic lottery."
MICHELLE STARR
Even with all the photos that have been taken of space, there are still new things to be seen.
And you don't always need to be a scientist to find them.
The first blooming light of a star that went supernova has been photographed for the first time - by an amateur astronomer testing a new camera.
Victor Buso from Rosario, Argentina has become the first person to ever capture the optical (or visible) light before and after the "shock breakout" of an exploding star.
This is the point right when the star explodes - when the supersonic shockwave from the star's core breaks out of the surface of the star, causing the gas there to heat and brighten very quickly.
In other words, that's the very, very first burst of light from a supernova.
They're super-difficult to capture, because the exact timing of a supernova is impossible to predict, and the shock breakout lasts such a short duration of time.
Astronomers have been chasing the phenomenon for years.
"It's like winning the cosmic lottery," said Alex Filippenko of UC Berkeley, who led a team following up observations of the supernova in the months that followed.
Indeed, obtaining the photographs involved a concatenation of lucky circumstances for Buso.
He was testing his camera on 20 September 2016, mounted on a 40-centimetre (16-inch) telescope.
To do this, he picked spiral galaxy NGC 613, located at a distance of about 80 million light-years away in the southern constellation Sculptor - a nice target because it was directly overhead.
Over the course of about one and a half hours, he took pictures of the galaxy at 20 seconds of exposure time, to avoid saturation by nearby city lights. During the first 20 minutes, the photos all appeared the same.
But then Buso noticed something - a single brightening point of light at the end of one of the spiral galaxy's arms.
It wasn't long before astronomers learned of the find, and realised that Buso had captured something extraordinary.
Negatives of Buso's photographs showing the supernova brightening over time.
(Víctor Buso images; Melina Bersten data)
According to the researchers, the chances of such a discovery are one in 10 million - maybe even one in 100 million.
"Buso's data are exceptional," Filippenko said. "This is an outstanding example of a partnership between amateur and professional astronomers."
The research team used the Lick and Keck observatories to monitor the supernova, since named SN 2016gkg, for two months following Buso's discovery.
Spectral data revealed it to be a Type IIb supernova - a massive star that has already lost most of its mass prior to exploding.
The team calculated that SN 2016gkg started at around 20 times the mass of our Sun and lost three quarters of its mass, possibly to a companion star.
By the time it went supernova, it had shrunk down to around 5 solar masses.
The long-sought visual data will help astronomers find out more information about a star's structure just before it explodes, as well as information about the explosion itself.
"Professional astronomers have long been searching for such an event," Filippenko said.
"Observations of stars in the first moments they begin exploding provide information that cannot be directly obtained in any other way."
The research has been published in Nature, with Buso as one of the co-authors.
A space capsule carrying 2 passengers failed during launch, Apollo 7 celebrated its 50th anniversary and 2 missions are getting ready for upcoming target arrivals. These are just some of the top stories this week from Space.com.
Photo Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
1. Crew capsule fails during launch
A Russian Soyuz rocket was beginning its journey to the International Space Station when the spacecraft failed during its ascent on Thursday (Oct. 11). The passengers — Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague — are in good condition after the malfunction sent the capsule falling back to Earth in a steep re-entry.
A spacecraft at the end of our solar system fired its engines briefly on Oct. 3 to speed up towards Ultima Thule, an object found far away in the Kuiper Belt. This is the first maneuver by NASA's New Horizons mission in which it used its own photos to make small path corrections to help arrive at the distant target.
The 50th anniversary of the first crewed Apollo flight happened on Thursday (Oct. 11). In addition to providing a crucial milestone for the program and the subsequent moon landing months later, Apollo 7 was also the first time humans broadcast live footage from space.
Researchers now say that the largest body in the asteroid belt — a dwarf planet named Ceres — experienced "true polar wander." In this phenomenon, the surface of a celestial body drifts over what lies beneath it, because the outer and inner parts of the dwarf planet spin at different rates.
Expert scientists came together to reflect on the field of astrobiology and published a paper on Wednesday (Oct. 10) with recommendations for NASA. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine gathered the panel together, and among many other things, their report emphasized a key challenge: identifying biosignatures, or the chemical changes that characterize life.
SpaceX made its first rocket landing on the West Coast this week. A Falcon 9 rocket launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on Oct. 7 and brought an Argentine satellite into orbit.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to arrive at its target, asteroid Bennu, this December. The spacecraft performed a slowdown maneuver on Oct. 1 to reach it, and should be travelling at one-third of its previous speed as a result.
NASA released a statement on Oct. 8 saying that it expects the Hubble Space Telescope to start working again soon. Last weekend the space agency announced the probe was in safe-mode because of a failure in one of the telescope's steering mechanisms.
The two-stage Space Launch System megarocket is slated to perform a lot of future exploration for NASA. But a new report said the project is behind schedule and several billion dollars over budget.
The U.S. Air Force recently awarded a total of about $2 billion to 3 aerospace companies: Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems. The contracts are in place to bring about competitive launch system prototypes that would support the transport of national security payloads.
Here's What the Failed Soyuz Rocket Launch Looked Like to an Astronaut in Space
Here's What the Failed Soyuz Rocket Launch Looked Like to an Astronaut in Space
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
Current International Space Station Cmdr. Alexander Gerst expected to be welcoming two additional crewmembers to the orbiting laboratory Thursday (Oct. 11) — but instead, he found himself photographing their failed launch.
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin launched aboard a Soyuz rocket at about 4:47 a.m. EDT (0847 GMT) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. But just a couple of minutes after liftoff, a failure in the rocket's booster triggered a ballistic re-entry for the pair of would-be space travelers. Investigations into the Soyuz launch failure will be performed by NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos. [In Photos: The Harrowing Soyuz Launch Abort in Pictures]
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst captured this incredible view of a failed crew launch to the International Space Station on Oct. 11, 2018.
Credit: A. Gerst/ESA/NASA
The astronauts landed safely and were picked up by a search-and-rescue team that was deployed as part of standard launch procedure.
Although the dramatic launch barely made it to space before the capsule tumbled back to Earth, it was certainly visible from space. Gerst was able to spot the rocket's climb from on board its hoped-for destination, capturing a majestic streak of white piercing Earth's atmosphere.
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst photographed the space station's view of a failed crew launch on Oct. 11, 2018.
Credit: A. Gerst/ESA/NASA
"Glad our friends are fine," Gerst wrote in a statement accompanying the image. "Thanks to the rescue force of over 1,000 search-and-rescue professionals! Today showed again what an amazing vehicle the Soyuz is to be able to save the crew from such a failure. Spaceflight is hard. And we must keep trying for the benefit of humankind."
An image of the failed Oct. 11, 2018, launch from the ground near Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
Gerst and his colleagues on the space station were alerted to the launch failure and the safe landing of Hague and Ovchinin in a call from mission control management on the ground. Their schedule was adjusted because they didn't need to help new crewmembers acclimate to the station.
The three astronauts currently in orbit are due to return to Earth and be replaced by a new trio of astronauts in December. However, it's not yet clear how schedules will be adjusted to reflect Thursday's failed launch to ensure continuous staffing of the orbiting laboratory.
You’ll never guess what scientists call the moons of moons — well, you probably would. It’s submoons, but NewScientist’s Leah Carey has a better idea: moonmoons.
Saturn’s moon Iapetus might, in theory, have its own submoon.
Moonmoons
We know that moons orbit planets, planets orbit stars, stars orbit the center of the galaxy, and even galaxies sometimes orbit each other. But are moons also orbited by something, and if yes, then what do you call these objects?
In a new analysis published in arXiv, Juna Kollmeier at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Sean Raymond at the University of Bordeaux,
“Each of the giant planets within the Solar System has large moons but none of these moons have their own moons (which we call submoons).”
The problem with (ahem) ‘submoons’ is that we’ve never seen one. There doesn’t seem to be one in the solar system, or at least we haven’t seen it yet.
“In all known planetary systems, natural satellites occur in a restricted dynamical phase space: planets orbit stars and moons orbit planets. It is natural to ask, can submoons orbit moons? If so, why don’t any of the known moons of the Solar System have their own submoons?”
But this, Kollmeier and Raymond argue, doesn’t mean that they don’t exist.
Could Earth's moon have its own moon? Science says: in theory.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Goldilocks moons
The biggest problem with such objects would be the moon’s planet. Moons are much smaller than their host planets, and therefore they have a much much smaller gravitational pull. If the moon would be too close to the planet, it would risk losing its submoon to the planet’s tidal force; if it would be too far, it might simply not be able to hold its submoon, which could shoot off in space.
So the conditions have to be just right, but they are possible, according to the researchers’ calculations. In theory, the Earth’s moon could have its own submoon, as could Saturn’s moons Titan and Iapetus and Jupiter’s moon Callisto. Except they don’t. So we might have to wait a bit before we can validate the theory.
But if we do identify submoons, it would do much more than just fulfill a stellar curiosity — it could help us learn more about how these systems, and the host planets, form in the first place.
“[..] the absence of submoons around known moons and exomoons where submoons can survive provides important clues to the formation mechanisms and histories of these systems. Further studies of the potential formation mechanisms, long-term dynamical survival, and detectability of submoons is encouraged.”
Regarding the name for these hypothesized objects, researchers would like to stick to ‘submoons’ — but that doesn’t mean they don’t like the alternatives. Taking to Twitter, Kollmeier says she’s also happy with some alternatives, including moonmoon. So as far as I’m concerned, moonmoons are now a thing.
Juna A. Kollmeier@thejunaverse
If you ask me, they are "Submoons" (hence the title of our article!!!) But the internet has brought forth a wide variety of names and associated joy and for this, I'm delighted: Moonlet, Moonmoon, Moonito, Moonette, Moonlet, Grandmoon, Metamoon...#letsasklevi
An artist conception of what the system around Kepler-186f could look like.
Credit: NASA AMES/SETI INSTITUTE/JPL-CALTECH.
Although we’ve yet to find life outside planet Earth, astrobiology has certainly come a long way in the past decade alone. Our once crude assumptions are now more finessed and, thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope, we now know of thousands of exoplanets, some potentially habitable and only a couple light-years away. Bearing recent developments in mind, a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines some of the key steps NASA needs to take in order to bring alien hunting to the next level.
A plan to hunt alien life
The 196-page report starts by making a point of the fact that recent scientific advances have provided opportunities to strengthen the role of astrobiology in NASA. For instance, NASA’s Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found evidence of organic molecules, atmospheric methane, briny surface water, and even an underground Martian lake filled with liquid water. Elsewhere, on Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Europa, scientists found evidence of plumes that shoot up hundreds of miles and which contain water and other organic compounds. In fact, it’s Europa — and not Mars — that is the most promising place where scientists think we’ll find life outside our planet.
It was also recently that biologists found strange Earth lifeforms which live deep underwater or underground, with no direct contact with the sun’s energy input. This means that life may be less capricious than once thought.
The committee that authored the new report, which is chaired by the University of Toronto’s Barbara Sherwood Lollar, claims that we need to expand our search for biosignatures. To this aim, they propose compiling a more “sophisticated catalog and framework will be important to enhance our ability to detect both life that might be similar to terrestrial life, and potential life that differs from life as we know it.”
In particular, the authors of the report call for NASA to focus on exploring the possibility of finding life below the surface of a planet or moon. They also recommend that NASA seeks to deploy better technologies, such as powerful telescopes and starlight-blocking instruments capable of more complex probing of alien planets.
But accurately finding and interpreting biosignatures will be a challenge. For instance, many biosignatures can be produced by abiotic chemical reactions. Methane is often touted as an important byproduct of biological activity, but it could very well be produced by non-biological processes.
The James Webb Space Telescope (artist's concept above) will be one of the primary instruments scientists use to continue the search for planets outside our solar system.
Credits: NASA
The report is also careful to mention how such an ambitious mission is actually a planetary goal. NASA needs to build or strengthen collaborations with other institutions and private organizations, the authors note.
Along with a similar survey of exoplanets released last month, the new report will be included into two decadal surveys covering astronomy, astrophysics, and planetary sciences. These decadal surveys ought to form the backbone of NASA’s decision-making process about which missions to pursue or prioritize.
Stephen Hawking warned superhumans would use gene editing to take over.
The late physicist Stephen Hawking’s last writings predict that a breed of superhumans will take over, having used genetic engineering to surpass their fellow beings.
In Brief Answers to the Big Questions, to be published on Oct. 16 and excerpted today in the UK’s Sunday Times (paywall), Hawking pulls no punches on subjects like machines taking over, the biggest threat to Earth, and the possibilities of intelligent life in space.
Artificial Intelligence
Hawking delivers a grave warning on the importance of regulating AI, noting that “in the future AI could develop a will of its own, a will that is in conflict with ours.” A possible arms race over autonomous-weapons should be stopped before it can start, he writes, asking what would happen if a crash similar to the 2010 stock market Flash Crash happened with weapons. He continues:
In short, the advent of super-intelligent AI would be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. The real risk with AI isn’t malice, but competence. A super-intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours we’re in trouble. You’re probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice, but if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green-energy project and there’s an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants. Let’s not place humanity in the position of those ants.
Earth’s bleak future, gene editing, and superhumans
The bad news: At some point in the next 1,000 years, nuclear war or environmental calamity will “cripple Earth.” However, by then, “our ingenious race will have found a way to slip the surly bonds of Earth and will therefore survive the disaster.” The Earth’s other species probably won’t make it, though.
The humans who do escape Earth will probably be new “superhumans” who have used gene editing technology like CRISPR to outpace others. They’ll do so by defying laws against genetic engineering, improving their memories, disease resistance, and life expectancy, he says
Hawking seems curiously enthusiastic about this final point, writing, “There is no time to wait for Darwinian evolution to make us more intelligent and better natured.”
Once such superhumans appear, there are going to be significant political problems with the unimproved humans, who won’t be able to compete. Presumably, they will die out, or become unimportant. Instead, there will be a race of self-designing beings who are improving themselves at an ever-increasing rate. If the human race manages to redesign itself, it will probably spread out and colonise other planets and stars.
Intelligent life in space
Hawking acknowledges there are various explanations for why intelligent life hasn’t been found or has not visited Earth. His predictions here aren’t so bold, but his preferred explanation is that humans have “overlooked” forms of intelligent life that are out there.
Does God exist?
No, Hawking says.
The question is, is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can’t understand, or was it determined by a law of science? I believe the second. If you like, you can call the laws of science “God”, but it wouldn’t be a personal God that you would meet and put questions to.
The biggest threats to Earth
Threat number one one is an asteroid collision, like the one that killed the dinosaurs. However, “we have no defense” against that, Hawking writes. More immediately: climate change. “A rise in ocean temperature would melt the ice caps and cause the release of large amounts of carbon dioxide,” Hawking writes. “Both effects could make our climate like that of Venus with a temperature of 250C.”
The best idea humanity could implement
Nuclear fusion power. That would give us clean energy with no pollution or global warming.
RUSSISCHE LANCERING VAN DE SOYUZ RAKET GESABOTEERD?
RUSSISCHE LANCERING VAN DE SOYUZ RAKET GESABOTEERD?
Afgelopen donderdag ging het mis met de lancering van een Soyuz raket richting ISS ruimtestation.
Dat is opvallend, want er zijn sinds 1983 geen ongelukken meer geweest met de meest betrouwbare raket ter wereld.
Enkele dagen geleden zagen we de lancering van een Russische Soyuz raket richting ISS ruimtestation die misging waardoor de astronauten een noodlanding op aarde moesten maken.
We schreven over dat voorval in het kader van een ijkpunt dat door remote viewer Ed Dames is genoemd in de aanloop naar de Killshot c.q. komst Nibiru.
Echter, er zit misschien nog een heel ander aspect aan deze zaak. Op de laatste dag van augustus schreven wij onder andere het volgende:
Het internationale ruimtestation ISS is geraakt door een kleine meteoriet, die de nodige schade heeft veroorzaakt. Volgens NASA werd er door een lek lucht weggezogen en de instantie is druk bezig om dit euvel te herstellen. Er zou geen onmiddellijk gevaar zijn.
Hoe zoiets er in de praktijk uit ziet is te zien op de volgende afbeelding, waarop zichtbaar is dat op een bepaald moment alle vijf parkeerplaatsen bij het ISS bezet waren.
Het is de aan het ISS gekoppelde Soyuz module waar de problemen door zijn ontstaan. Volgens de Russische techneuten is er een scheurtje in het schip ontstaan van ongeveer 1,5 mm door de inslag van wat men noemt een micro meteoriet.
Hierdoor wordt lucht en zuurstof vanuit de ISS gezogen, iets dat natuurlijk niet te lang moet duren. Op dit moment bevinden zich zes astronauten aan boord van het ISS en is men druk bezig met het uitwerken van plannen om het probleem op te lossen.
Enkele dagen later kwamen de Russen met de mededeling dat het er veel op leek dat het gaatje in de capsule van de Soyuz niet was veroorzaakt door een meteoriet, maar dat het een geboord gat zou zijn.
We zijn nu bijna zes weken verder en enkele dagen geleden kwamen de Russen inderdaad tot de conclusie dat het geen meteoriet was, geen fabricagefout, maar wel degelijk een met opzet geboord gat.
Dmitry Rogozin, hoofd van de Russische NASA, Roskosmos, vertelde dat een onderzoekscommissie tot die conclusie was gekomen. Dit was de eerste stap van het onderzoek en er zal nu een tweede commissie worden benoemd om uit te zoeken wie dat gat heeft geboord. Eerdere suggesties waren dat dit door één van de bemanningsleden zou zijn gedaan om een zieke collega op die manier terug te krijgen naar de aarde. De bemanning ontkent dit en noemt het verhaal beschamend.
In ieder geval, gaten hebben niet de gewoonte om zichzelf te boren en dus zal ergens iemand dit hebben gedaan.
Dan hebben we enkele dagen geleden de lancering van een Soyuz raket die hopeloos fout gaat. En dat is vreemd, want deze Soyuz raket is de meest betrouwbare raket op aarde en al sinds 1967. Er zijn in totaal 139 lanceringen geweest, waarbij het twee keer is fout gegaan bij lanceringen. Eén keer in 1975 en één keer in 1983. Daarnaast zijn er twee dodelijke ongelukken geweest tijdens terugkeer in de dampkring en die vonden plaats in 1969 en 1971. Sinds 1983 is er niets meer misgegaan met een Soyuz raket tot afgelopen week en dit vlak nadat Rosmoscos heeft vastgesteld dat er met opzet een gat is geboord in de Soyuz capsule van een vorige missie.
Toeval? Of is er iets of iemand in de weer om de Russische ruimtevaart te boycotten?
Rond dezelfde tijd dat er een gat verschijnt in de Soyuz module, verschijn er toevallig dit bericht:
Rusland zal vanaf 2019 geen Amerikaanse astronauten meer meenemen naar het International Space Station (ISS). Dat heeft de vicepremier van Rusland Yury Borisov laten weten.
Uiteraard weten wij ook niet wie erachter zit en met welke motieven, maar het lijken teveel toevalligheden op een rij.
Mochten er lezers zijn met slimme ideeën, laat het ons weten.
Is president Kennedy het zwijgen opgelegd? Wat hij wist over aliens en het mysterieuze Majestic 12
Is president Kennedy het zwijgen opgelegd? Wat hij wist over aliens en het mysterieuze Majestic 12
Werd John F. Kennedy vermoord vanwege zijn interesse in buitenaards leven? Een geheime memo van de Amerikaanse CIA maakt duidelijk dat de president 10 dagen voor zijn dood om inzage vroeg in UFO-documenten.
In een brief geadresseerd aan de CIA-baas vroeg Kennedy om vertrouwelijke documenten over UFO’s en het bestaan van aliens.
De memo is één van de twee brieven aan de Amerikaanse spionagedienst waarin Kennedy om opheldering vraagt.
Veel meer
De interesse van de president in UFO’s en aliens, zo kort voor zijn dood, strookt met complottheorieën over de moord.
Verhalen dat Kennedy omgelegd zou zijn uit angst dat hij achter de waarheid zou komen over het bestaan van aliens, werden bevestigd na het uitlekken van de geheime stukken.
Schrijver William Lester kreeg de documenten voor een boek dat hij heeft geschreven over Kennedy’s interesse in UFO’s.
De brieven voeden de theorieën dat de CIA veel meer over het bestaan van UFO’s weet dan zij ons wil doen geloven.
Duizenden stukjes
Kennedy had bovendien gezegd dat hij ‘de CIA in duizenden stukjes wilde versplinteren en deze door de wind laten wegblazen’.
James Forrestal was een belangrijke mentor van president Kennedy. In 1947 werd Forrestal de eerste Amerikaanse minister van Defensie.
Hij was van mening dat de Amerikanen op de hoogte moesten worden gebracht van het bestaan van buitenaards leven en aanverwante technologieën.
Forrestal moest onder president Truman zijn ontslag indienen omdat hij zijn informatie had gedeeld met verschillende hooggeplaatste functionarissen, waaronder toenmalig congreslid Kennedy.
Direct gevaar
Nadat hij in 1960 de presidentsverkiezingen won, hoorde Kennedy van Eisenhower dat het geheimzinnige agentschap Majestic 12 zijn eigen weg was ingeslagen.
Eisenhower waarschuwde Kennedy dat Majestic 12 een direct gevaar vormde voor de Amerikaanse vrijheden en de democratie.
Dezelfde krachten die de dood van Forrestal orkestreerden, dwarsboomden Kennedy waar ze maar konden.
Kennedy wilde de CIA dwingen geheime informatie over UFO’s te delen met andere overheden, maar dat zou hij nooit voor elkaar krijgen.
Er is iets gaande in de ruimte en wat het ook is, wij mogen het niet weten.
Na de sluiting van zonne-observatorium kortgeleden en het uitschakelen van de webcams bij anders observatoria, worden nu belangrijke ruimtetelescopen in een slaapstand gezet.
Er is de laatste tijd iets bijzonders gaande in de ruimte, want er zijn zoveel “toevallige” gebeurtenissen dat het absoluut geen toeval meer kan zijn. Waar het alle kenmerken van heeft is dat er iets heel bijzonders gaande is in de ruimte en dat er alles aan wordt gedaan om dingen aldaar verborgen te houden.
We hebben enige tijd geleden de onverwachte sluiting meegemaakt van het Sunspot zonne-observatorium in Amerika. Van de ene op de andere dag werd dit gesloten na een inval van de FBI met veel bombarie.
Daarnaast werden ook ongeveer gelijktijdig een fiks aantal webcams van andere observatoria wereldwijd afgesloten, zonder opgaaf van redenen.
Tot op de dag van vandaag is er geen bevredigende verklaring gekomen voor het sluiten van het Sunspot observatorium en de sluiting van al die webcams.
Er zijn ook nog een aantal merkwaardige voorvallen geweest met een paar van de NASA ruimtelescopen.
Zoals met de Hubble ruimtetelescoop die opeens moest worden afgesloten.
De ruimtetelescoop Hubble (Hubble Space Telescope, HST) bestaat uit een aantal precisie-instrumenten voor astronomische waarnemingen. Hij is genoemd naar de Amerikaanse astronoom Edwin Hubble en draait sinds de lancering door NASA op 24 april 1990 als een kunstmaan rond de aarde. De Hubble wordt gebruikt voor optische waarnemingen. De telescoop bezit ook een infraroodcamera. Voor observaties in het röntgengolflengtegebied wordt gebruikgemaakt van het Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
Op 8 oktober kwam het bericht van NASA dat er problemen zouden zijn met de Hubble telescoop en dat deze in een soort slaapstand ging waardoor er geen beelden meer beschikbaar kwamen. De reden dat de telescoop niet meer functioneerde zou worden veroorzaakt door een kapotte gyroscoop.
Het tweede bovengenoemde telescoop platform, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, heeft eveneens problemen en moest ook plotsklaps worden afgesloten. Dit werd afgelopen vrijdag medegedeeld door NASA, alhoewel dit systeem sinds woensdag al niet meer werkt. Hier komen ze helemaal met een vage reden, namelijk een “system complication”.
Dan wordt door sommigen ook nog de crash met de Soyuz erbij gehaald en het feit dat er problemen zijn met de communicatie van de NASA rovers op Mars, maar het feit dat belangrijke telescopen uit de lucht worden gehaald is eigenlijk veel meer sinister.
Dit zijn de ogen waarmee in de ruimte wordt gekeken, net zoals het observatorium dat door de FBI werd gesloten en de webcams van de andere observatoria die plotseling niet meer werken.
Wat bevindt zich daar in de ruimte waardoor opeens al deze paniekmaatregelen worden genomen.
Alles wat met de ruimte te maken heeft en waarmee dingen gezien kunnen worden, worden in grote haast geblokkeerd. In dat kader zijn de volgende foto's die vanmorgen vroeg door een lezer in Kaatsheuvel zijn genomen, heel interessant (dank!).
EEN WOLK IN EEN WOLKENLOZE LUCHT VALT OP ( VIDEO )
EEN WOLK IN EEN WOLKENLOZE LUCHT VALT OP ( VIDEO )
µWanneer buitenaardsen de aarde bezoeken weten ze dat de mens niet erg oplettend is/een beperkt waarnemingsspectrum heeft en daar maken ze handig gebruik van.
Voor buitenaardsen is de meeste geschikte manier om een beetje anoniem over de aarde te surfen om zich voor te doen als een wolk. De meeste mensen lopen tenslotte met hun neus richting grond of met hun ogen vastgeplakt aan het scherm van hun mobiele apparaten waardoor ze toch weinig of niets opmerken van wat er zich boven hun hoofden afspeelt.
Wanneer men wél naar de lucht zou kijken, dan bestaat de kans dat ze dingen ziet zoals het volgende.
Een volkomen wolkeloze hemel met daarin toch één wolk. Een wolk die de vorm heeft van een UFO, die daar op dat moment niet thuishoort.
Andere keren vermommen ze zich niet als een wolk, maar verstoppen ze zich achter bestaande wolken en gaat het soms mis zoals te zien is op de volgende opname die enkele dagen geleden is gemaakt op het eiland Martinique.
Een enorm ruimteschip dat even zichtbaar wordt achter de wolken.
Dan krijgen we het volgende bericht van een lezer (dank!):
Dit is een foto die we gemaakt hebben op 6 oktober 2018 om 10:20 uur in de buurt van Leer; Duitsland.
Dit lijken toch wel verdacht veel op ufo's vermomd als wolk.
En inderdaad, als je goed kijkt, dan zie je drie UFO’s die eruit zien als een wolk en wederom in een lucht waarin die wolken niet thuishoren.
Daarnaast hebben de wolken voor buitenaardse bezoekers nog een functie en wel die van een soort dimensieportaal van waar ze aankomen of vertrekken.
Nog steeds een prachtig voorbeeld daarvan werd gefilmd in 2014 toen enkele mensen ’s avonds hun camera hadden opgesteld in Mexico om daar opnames te maken van een komende maansverduistering.
Dit voorval vond plaats afgelopen 7 oktober en een dag later gebeurt het volgende in Mexico.
Enkele weken geleden, op 8 oktober, is er een maansverduistering in Mexico. Een aantal mensen staat klaar met een mobiele telefoon om hier opnames van te maken, totdat ze een vreemde wolk waarnemen. Dat is vreemd want verder is de lucht onbewolkt.
Het is ook geen gewone wolk, het is klaarblijkelijk een onweerswolk want de bliksemflitsen schieten er doorheen en uit.
Dan, ineens, zie je rechts een sigaarvormige UFO in beeld komen die met een fenomenale snelheid op de wolk afschiet.
Minder dan een seconde later is hij in de wolk verdwenen en komt tegen alle natuurwetten in niet aan de andere kant tevoorschijn.
Volgens de op onze aarde bekende en geldende natuurwetten kan dit niet. Een object wat met een dergelijke hoge snelheid komt aanvliegen kan niet binnen zo'n relatief kleine wolk tot stilstand worden gebracht. En toch gebeurt het; kijk en val niet van je stoel.
Daarom, ruk je ogen los van het smart-scherm en kijk naar boven, je weet nooit wat voor onverwachte dingen zich daar voor kunnen doen.
Super-Fast Stars in the Milky Way May Be Visitors from Beyond
Super-Fast Stars in the Milky Way May Be Visitors from Beyond
By Doris Elin Salazar, Space.com Contributor
The positions and reconstructed orbits of 20 high-velocity stars, superimposed on top of an illustration of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Researchers identified these stars using data from the second release of ESA's Gaia mission. The seven stars in red are shooting away from the galaxy and might be traveling fast enough to someday escape its gravity. But the 13 stars seen in orange represent those that might be racing toward the Milky Way. They could be stars from another galaxy.
Credit: ESA (artist's impression and composition); Marchetti et al. 2018 (star positions and trajectories); NASA/ESA/Hubble (background galaxies); CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
The cosmic "merry-go-round" that is our rotating Milky Way galaxy may not be the reason stars are whizzing by and seemingly flying off at high speeds.
A team of astronomers noticed something interesting when they were sifting through the recently published second data release from the Gaia mission. The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, and the new data release includes observations made between July 25, 2014, and May 23, 2016, according to ESA.
The data offers the positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars, and their motions can tell astronomers a lot about what our galaxy used to be like. Stars travel at different speeds and the very fastest are called hypervelocity stars. Using a level of precision that sometimes "equates to Earthbound observers being able to spot a Euro coin lying on the surface of the moon," ESA officials said in a statement describing the mission, Gaia is able to gather observations about these hypervelocity stars.
The European Space Agency released a new map from the Gaia spacecraft of nearly 1.7 billion stars, giving the best-ever view of the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies in color.
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
Researchers thought the black hole at the center of the Milky Way was responsible for flinging out these stars. They thought the stars originated from the center of the galaxy, and that this black-hole interaction caused their high-speed journeys toward an exit of the Milky Way.
"Of the seven million Gaia stars with full 3D velocity measurements, we found twenty that could be traveling fast enough to eventually escape from the Milky Way," said Elena Maria Rossi, one of the authors of the new study, which was detailed in a recent statement by the Royal Astronomical Society in the U.K.
Or, they could be "intergalactic interlopers."
"Rather than flying away from the Galactic centre, most of the high-velocity stars we spotted seem to be racing towards it," co-author Tommaso Marchetti said in the statement. "These could be stars from another galaxy, zooming right through the Milky Way."
"Stars can be accelerated to high velocities when they interact with a supermassive black hole," Rossi added. "So the presence of these stars might be a sign of such black holes in nearby galaxies. But the stars may also have once been part of a binary system, flung towards the Milky Way when their companion star exploded as a supernova."
Rossi said studying these hypervelocity stars will answer questions about how nearby galaxies behave.
To find out where they come from — some potential origins include the Large Magellanic Cloud or the Milky Way's halo — new data will be needed. Royal Astronomical Society officials said at least two more Gaia data releases are scheduled in the 2020s.
The study detailing these findings was published Sept. 20 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
These Spheres Are Tiny Homes And Take Just A Day To Install
These Spheres Are Tiny Homes And Take Just A Day To Install
An engineer who used to work at Rolls-Royce has designed stunning Conker style living pods that cost only $24,000 to build and which can be installed in only one day. The UK engineer believes that the pods might be a solution to one of the biggest issues in the United Kingdom, housing availability.
Conker Living Pods Might be the Solution to Affordable Housing
More and more young people are struggling to find affordable housing, while those who have managed to obtain a mortgage struggle to meet the monthly repayments each month. University students are often the people who are hit the most with regards to finding affordable housing. Jag Virdie came up with one solution, living pod homes.
Living pods are not something news, we have heard about them before, but typically they are very small and cubicle like. However, the living pods do not have this issue, and they are aesthetically pleasing. Virdie used a quote from Henry Royce when he said, “Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.”
The Living Pod is 3.9 Meters in Diameter
This is just what Virdie did with the Conker style living pods. He designed a living pod that takes on the appearance of a Conker or football. The living pod is constructed from material made in Britain and it is 3.9 meters in diameter along with being 10 square meters in area. The pods offer waterproofing against the inclement weather along with having a heat-retention system that is efficient. The living pods can be customized to the needs of the buyer plus they are fast and easy to install, taking just one day.
Virdie said:
"Our mission is to change the way buildings are designed today, by disrupting the norm, challenging construction practices at their core."
Living Pods Can Link Together to Make Bigger Homes
The living pods can also be linked together so people can make them as large as they need to include additional bathrooms, kitchens or studies. The idea for the design came from an idea that Virdie had when building a tree house for his own children. With him having extensive experience in designing cars for Rolls-Royce this put him in good stead for designing a pod house.
Purchasing the living pod house is very simple, first register interest, check the location, then go onto customizing the Conker home you require. In the future, this may well be the solution for governments to use to do away with homelessness.
The Missing Link: Scientists Discover Fish With 'Feet'
The Missing Link: Scientists Discover Fish With 'Feet'
The oceans are so vast that many parts have yet to be explored. Deep down there are creaturesand fish that have not yet been discovered or which are rarely captured on film. This applies to the Mona Canyon located just off the coast of Puerto Rico when the NOAA Okeanos exploration came across a fish with legs that was walking on the ocean floor.
Species of Angler Fish
The researchers found a deep sea fish with the name of the Pink Frogmouth, which is rarely seen, also given the name of the Sea Toad. This is an anglerfish using fins that have been modified and turned into fins allowing the fish to walk around the seafloor. Scientists believe that the fish has been living on the bottom of the sea for so long that the front along with the back fins have adapted into feet so that the fish could get around on the bottom of the sea floor more easily.
The Pink Frogmouth Can Also Swim in the Ocean
A video was captured showing the Pink Frogmouth fish walking along the bottom of the ocean floor and it one of the strangest things to witness. As fish generally swim about in the ocean this fish with its downturned mouth looks almost alien as it shuffles along on the ocean floor. The fish walks using two smallish fins at the back and front. However, it does enjoy the best of both worlds as it also has larger fins situated in the middle of its body allowing it to swim just as any other fish swims around the ocean.
The Pink Frogmouth fish usually lives in a depth range of between 200 and 978 meters. The fish has been spotted living in the Atlantic along with the Mediterranean Oceans where it dines on shrimp. The Pink Frogmouth fish looks like something straight out of a horror movie. It now only needs to develop further to allow it to breathe on land and it could walk right up out of the ocean.
The United States Space Force is a newly proposed military branch that President Donald Trump announced during a meeting of the National Space Council on June 18, 2018. If the proposal is enacted, it will become the sixth armed forces branch, joining the Navy, Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard.
Trump's announcement took many by surprise, especially in the Pentagon. Some saw the sudden proposal as a strategy to compel Congress and the Department of Defense into supporting a military branch focused solely on space. Others saw it as answering the need to address the growing rivalry and presence of China and Russia in space.
"It is not merely enough that we have American presence in space," Trump said during his public proposal. "We must have American dominance in space."
Vice President Mike Pence officially unveiled the plans for the U.S. Space Force a short two months later on Aug. 9, 2018.
So, what is the Space Force?
As much as it sounds like the Space Force will be astronaut soldiers wielding blaster rifles, the reality is much more mundane. Rather than deploying soldiers in space, the Space Force will focus on national security and preserving the satellites and vehicles that are dedicated to international communications and observation.
Immediately following Pence's announcement in August, the Pentagon released a report that detailed some of the Department of Defense's immediate actions for creating the Space Force:
Establish a Space Development Agency – This is an agency tasked with developing and testing new and improved national-security capabilities and technology in space.
Establish a Space Operations Force – This force will be a collection of space experts from throughout the military who will provide needed expertise to combat commanders and anyone else throughout the Space Force.
Create a United States Space Command – Led by a four-star general or flag officer, the new space command would direct and improve operations for space war fighting.
These three components would later be united to become the final Space Force.
Why is a Space Force needed?
Russia and China are the U.S.'s two greatest space competitors and also potential military threats. And both have demonstrated formidable space capabilities.
In 2007, for example, China launched a missile that climbed skyward for 500 miles until it impacted one of the country's own defunct weather satellites, which rained down in thousands of pieces. In a similar unnerving event in 2014, a piece of supposed Russian space junk called Object 2014-E28 turned out to be an autonomous robot of sorts that was capable of docking onto satellites.
During his August 2018 address, Pence said that China was investing in hypersonic missiles capable of evading U.S. detection. And both Russia and China had integrated anti-satellite attacks as part of their wartime protocols.
Given that the U.S. government and military rely heavily on satellites for forecasting weather, collecting high-resolution images for intelligence and directing missiles with GPS satellites, the threat became obvious.
Does something like this already exist?
China, Russia and the United States have military sectors already dedicated to space. Russia revived the Russian Space Forces in 2015 as a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces. In the same year, China established the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force as the space and cyberwarfare branch of the People's Liberation Army.
The U.S. has the Air Force Space Command, which is integrated into the U.S. Air Force. But many have argued that an independent branch should be established to focus exclusively on space. "Whether it's a Space Force or something else, it is absolutely critical to have someone who thinks about this day and night," Terry Virts, a retired NASA astronaut and former Air Force fighter pilot, told SpaceNews.
Representative Mike Rogers, R-Ala., first made such a proposal. He called it the U.S. Space Corps during the 2016 Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The proposal was eventually included as an amendment to the House of Representatives 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, which spelled out the Department of Defense's budget and policies for the 2018 fiscal year. The House passed the bill with the amendment, but members of the Senate viewed the amendment with skepticism and ultimately vetoed it.
Trump then commandeered the debate in June 2018 and announced the administration would form the U.S. Space Force.
What's next?
Many details remain uncertain, such as how much a new military branch would cost and whether Congress would ever fund it.
"It's hard to see a scenario where the Space Force doesn't need a bunch of additional money to not only fund the reorganization but also all the new programs and capabilities," Brian Weeden, a space policy expert at Secure World Foundation in Washington, D.C., told Politico.
The White House pushed for Congress to invest an initial $8 billion in national security space systems over the next five years. But creating an entirely new branch of the military is expected to cost much more. A leaked memo from the Air Force in mid-September shows estimates of it requiring as much as $13 billion in its first five years.
Because the program would also draw resources and a necessary 13,000 personnel away from other military branches, some fear it would weaken the U.S. military overall.
The Pentagon, nevertheless, immediately got to work on laying out the proposal. Less than two months later, in early August 2018, Pence announcedthat the new branch would be established as soon as 2020.
Planet Earth: Facts About Its Orbit, Atmosphere & Size
Planet Earth: Facts About Its Orbit, Atmosphere & Size
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
Credit: NASA
Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun. It's the only planet known to have an atmosphere containing free oxygen, oceans of water on its surface and, of course, life.
Earth is the fifth largest of the planets in the solar system. It's smaller than the four gas giants —Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — but larger than the three other rocky planets, Mercury, Mars and Venus.
Earth has a diameter of roughly 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) and is round because gravity pulls matter into a ball. But, it's not perfectly round. Earth is really an "oblate spheroid," because its spin causes it to be squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.
Water covers roughly 71 percent of Earth's surface, and most of that is in the oceans. About a fifth of Earth's atmosphere consists of oxygen, produced by plants. While scientists have been studying our planet for centuries, much has been learned in recent decades by studying pictures of Earth from space.
Earth's orbit
While Earth orbits the sun, the planet is simultaneously spinning on an imaginary line called an axis that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole. It takes Earth 23.934 hours to complete a rotation on its axis and 365.26 days to complete an orbit around the sun.
Earth's axis of rotation is tilted in relation to the ecliptic plane, an imaginary surface through the planet's orbit around the sun. This means the Northern and Southern hemispheres will sometimes point toward or away from the sun depending on the time of year, and this changes the amount of light the hemispheres receive, resulting in the seasons.
Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle, but rather an oval-shaped ellipse, similar to the orbits of all the other planets. Our planet is a bit closer to the sun in early January and farther away in July, although this variation has a much smaller effect than the heating and cooling caused by the tilt of Earth's axis. Earth happens to lie within the so-called "Goldilocks zone" around the sun, where temperatures are just right to maintain liquid water on our planet's surface.
Statistics about Earth's orbit, according to NASA:
Average distance from the sun: 92,956,050 miles (149,598,262 km)
Perihelion (closest approach to the sun): 91,402,640 miles (147,098,291 km)
Aphelion (farthest distance from the sun): 94,509,460 miles (152,098,233 km)
Length of solar day (single rotation on its axis): 23.934 hours
Length of year (single revolution around the sun): 365.26 days
Equatorial inclination to orbit: 23.4393 degrees
Earth's formation and evolution
Scientists think Earth was formed at roughly the same time as the sun and other planets some 4.6 billion years ago, when the solar system coalesced from a giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. As the nebula collapsed because of its gravity, it spun faster and flattened into a disk. Most of the material was pulled toward the center to form the sun.
"It was thought that because of these asteroids and comets flying around colliding with Earth, conditions on early Earth may have been hellish," Simone Marchi, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, previously told Space.com. But in recent years, new analyses of minerals trapped within ancient microscopic crystals suggests that there was liquid water already present on Earth during its first 500 million years, Marchi said.
Radioactive materials in the rock and increasing pressure deep within the Earth generated enough heat to melt the planet's interior, causing some chemicals to rise to the surface and form water, while others became the gases of the atmosphere. Recent evidence suggests that Earth's crust and oceans may have formed within about 200 million years after the planet took shape.
Internal structure
Earth's core is about 4,400 miles (7,100 km) wide, slightly larger than half the Earth's diameter and about the same size as Mars' diameter. The outermost 1,400 miles (2,250 km) of the core are liquid, while the inner core is solid; it's about four-fifths as big as Earth's moon, at some 1,600 miles (2,600 km) in diameter. The core is responsible for the planet's magnetic field, which helps to deflect harmful charged particles shot from the sun.
Above the core is Earth's mantle, which is about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) thick. The mantle is not completely stiff but can flow slowly. Earth's crust floats on the mantle much as a piece of wood floats on water. The slow motion of rock in the mantle shuffles continents around and causes earthquakes, volcanoes and the formation of mountain ranges.
Above the mantle, Earth has two kinds of crust. The dry land of the continents consists mostly of granite and other light silicate minerals, while the ocean floors are made up mostly of a dark, dense volcanic rock called basalt. Continental crust averages some 25 miles (40 km) thick, although it can be thinner or thicker in some areas. Oceanic crust is usually only about 5 miles (8 km) thick. Water fills in low areas of the basalt crust to form the world's oceans.
Earth gets warmer toward its core. At the bottom of the continental crust, temperatures reach about 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius), increasing about 3 degrees F per mile (1 degree C per km) below the crust. Geologists think the temperature of Earth's outer core is about 6,700 to 7,800 degrees F (3,700 to 4,300 degrees C) and that the inner core may reach 12,600 degrees F (7,000 degrees C) — hotter than the surface of the sun.
Magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field is generated by currents flowing in Earth's outer core. The magnetic poles are always on the move, with the magnetic North Poleaccelerating its northward motion to 24 miles (40 km) annually since tracking began in the 1830s. It will likely exit North America and reach Siberia in a matter of decades.
Earth's magnetic field is changing in other ways, too. Globally, the magnetic field has weakened 10 percent since the 19th century, according to NASA. These changes are mild compared to what Earth's magnetic field has done in the past. A few times every million years or so, the field completely flips, with the North and the South poles swapping places. The magnetic field can take anywhere from 100 to 3,000 years to complete the flip.
The strength of Earth's magnetic field decreased by about 90 percent when a field reversal occurred in ancient past, according to Andrew Roberts, a professor at the Australian National University. The drop makes the planet more vulnerable to solar storms and radiation, which can could significantly damage satellites and communication and electrical infrastructure.
"Hopefully, such an event is a long way in the future and we can develop future technologies to avoid huge damage," Roberts said in a statement.
When charged particles from the sun get trapped in Earth's magnetic field, they smash into air molecules above the magnetic poles, causing them to glow. This phenomenon is known as the aurorae, the northern and southern lights.
Earth's atmosphere
Earth's atmosphere is roughly 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen, with trace amounts of water, argon, carbon dioxide and other gases. Nowhere else in the solar system is there an atmosphere loaded with free oxygen, which is vital to one of the other unique features of Earth: life.
Air surrounds Earth and becomes thinner farther from the surface. Roughly 100 miles (160 km) above Earth, the air is so thin that satellites can zip through the atmosphere with little resistance. Still, traces of atmosphere can be found as high as 370 miles (600 km) above the planet's surface.
The lowest layer of the atmosphere is known as the troposphere, which is constantly in motion and why we have weather. Sunlight heats the planet's surface, causing warm air to rise into the troposphere. This air expands and cools as air pressure decreases, and because this cool air is denser than its surroundings, it then sinks and gets warmed by the Earth again.
Above the troposphere, some 30 miles (48 km) above the Earth's surface, is the stratosphere. The still air of the stratosphere contains the ozone layer, which was created when ultraviolet light caused trios of oxygen atoms to bind together into ozone molecules. Ozone prevents most of the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching Earth's surface, where it can damage and mutate life.
Water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun, warming Earth. Without this so-called "greenhouse effect," Earth would probably be too cold for life to exist, although a runaway greenhouse effect led to the hellish conditions now seen on Venus.
Earth-orbiting satellites have shown that the upper atmosphere actually expands during the day and contracts at night due to heating and cooling.
Chemical composition
Oxygen is the most abundant element in rocks in Earth's crust, composing roughly 47 percent of the weight of all rock. The second most abundant element is silicon, at 27 percent, followed by aluminum, at 8 percent; iron, at 5 percent; calcium, at 4 percent; and sodium, potassium and magnesium, at about 2 percent each.
Earth's core consists mostly of iron and nickel and potentially smaller amounts of lighter elements, such as sulfur and oxygen. The mantle is made of iron and magnesium-rich silicate rocks. (The combination of silicon and oxygen is known as silica, and minerals that contain silica are known as silicate minerals.)
Earth's moon
Earth's moon is 2,159 miles (3,474 km) wide, about one-fourth of Earth's diameter. Our planet has one moon, while Mercury and Venus have none and all the other planets in our solar system have two or more.
The leading explanation for how Earth's moon formed is that a giant impact knocked the raw ingredients for the moon off the primitive, molten Earth and into orbit. Scientists have suggested that the object that hit the planet had roughly 10 percent the mass of Earth, about the size of Mars.
Life on Earth
Earth is the only planet in the universe known to possess life. The planet boasts several million species of life, living in habitats ranging from the bottom of the deepest ocean to a few miles into the atmosphere. And scientists think far more species remain to be discovered.
Researchers suspect that other candidates for hosting life in our solar system — such as Saturn's moon Titan or Jupiter's moon Europa — could house primitive living creatures. Scientists have yet to precisely nail down exactly how our primitive ancestors first showed up on Earth. One solution suggests that life first evolved on the nearby planet Mars, once a habitable planet, then traveled to Earth on meteorites hurled from the Red Planet by impacts from other space rocks.
"It's lucky that we ended up here, nevertheless, as certainly Earth has been the better of the two planets for sustaining life," biochemist Steven Benner, of the Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology in Florida, told Space.com. "If our hypothetical Martian ancestors had remained on Mars, there might not have been a story to tell."
Mysterious moon swirls have finally been explained
Mysterious moon swirls have finally been explained
"This was the final piece in the puzzle of understanding the magnetism that underlies these lunar swirls."
by Chelsea Gohd, Space.com
Light and dark markings swirl over the moon, looking like cream swirled into coffee or clouds against a slate gray sky. These lunar swirls may result from ancient, magnetic lava just below the moon's surface, according to one new study.
A joint study between researchers at Rutgers University and the University of California, Berkeley, pointed to the moon'sinternally generated magnetic fieldand past volcanic activity to explain the lunar swirls.
An image of the Reiner Gamma lunar swirl from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.NASA LRO WAC science team
Researchers have known for some time that lunar swirls share space with localized magnetic fields and that when those fields deflect particles from solar wind, parts of the moon's surface weather more slowly than other parts. "But the cause of those magnetic fields, and thus of the swirls themselves, had long been a mystery," Sonia Tikoo, co-author of the study and a researcher at Rutgers University-New Brunswick's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said in a statement. "To solve it, we had to find out what kind of geological feature could produce these magnetic fields — and why their magnetism is so powerful."
The researchers developed mathematical models for these localized fields, or "geological magnets" as they're described in the statement. These models showed that each lunar swirl must exist above a narrow, magnetic object located just below the lunar surface.
Even stranger, researchers think that these subsurface magnetic objects are ancient, long, narrow lava tubes formed by flowing lava or lava dikes, which are vertical sheets of magma in the crust of a moon or planet. Past experiments have shown that, when heated above 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit (600 degrees Celsius) in a zero-oxygen environment, certain minerals in moon rocks break down and release metallic iron, making the rocks extremely magnetic.
So, when the moon was erupting lava over 3 billion years ago, these magnetic lava tubes or lava dikes were likely created and became highly magnetic as they cooled down, according to the statement.
"No one had thought about this reaction in terms of explaining these unusually strong magnetic features on the moon," Tikoo said in the statement, referring to the lava becoming magnetic moon rock under the surface and causing lunar swirls. "This was the final piece in the puzzle of understanding the magnetism that underlies these lunar swirls."
This study was published July 26 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
'Definitely Not Aliens': These Photos of SpaceX's Night Rocket Launch and Landing Are Amazing!
'Definitely Not Aliens': These Photos of SpaceX's Night Rocket Launch and Landing Are Amazing!
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti captured this shot of the Falcon 9 plume over the lights of LA on Oct. 7, 2018.
Credit: Office of the Mayor/Eric Garcetti
All rocket launches are spectacular, but SpaceX took things to another level over the weekend.
On Sunday night (Oct. 7), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the SAOCOM 1A Earth-observation satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's Central Coast. And the two-stage booster's first stage landed back at Vandenberg less than 8 minutes after liftoff, pulling off SpaceX's first-ever terra-firma touchdown on California soil.
The plume generated by the Falcon 9 launch from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on Oct. 7, 2018, looked like something NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope might spy in the vast distances between the stars. Photo by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Credit: Office of the Mayor/Eric Garcetti
"Nope, definitely not aliens. What you're looking at is the first launch and landing of the @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the West Coast. The rocket took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 7:21 p.m. and landed safely back on Earth," Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted Sunday night, along with an amazing photo of the Falcon 9 cloud hanging over the city.
Skywatcher Doug Macmillan captured this shot of the plume created by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched Argentina’s SAOCOM-1A radar-imaging satellite from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Station on Oct. 7, 2018. Macmillan was in Del Cerro Park in the Palos Verdes Peninsula, which is near Los Angeles.
Credit: Doug Macmillan
Another photo posted by Garcetti captured the pulses of the first stage's small reaction-control thrusters, which etched a big Wi-Fi symbol in the sky. Those thrusters were firing to keep the booster on course for its historic touchdown. (SpaceX has now pulled off 30 first-stage landings, but all the previous ones had occurred at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station or on robotic "drone ships" stationed in the Atlantic or Pacific oceans.)
The pulses fired by the Falcon 9 first stage’s small reaction-control thrusters as the booster headed back to Earth carved a Wi-Fi symbol into the sky, as captured in this shot by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Credit: Office of the Mayor/Eric Garcetti
Astrophotographer Sean Parker viewed the launch from Joshua Tree National Park in southeastern California and was suitably excited by the sky show.
"That was pretty FN awesome, @elonmusk @SpaceX #falcon9," Parker tweeted yesterday (Oct. 8), along with a photo of himself exulting in the desert beneath the glowing cloud.
This photo captures all of the SpaceX action on Oct. 7, 2018: A Falcon 9 rocket launching the SAOCOM-1A satellite from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Station; the plume created by the liftoff; and the Falcon 9’s first stage coming back to land at Vandenberg (short orange arc at right).
Credit: SpaceX
And then there are the close-up views of the launch and landing, which SpaceX snapped. These photos are spectacular in a different way, highlighting power and precision rather than abstract and ephemeral beauty. But they are spectacular nonetheless.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Argentina’s SAOCOM-1A radar-imaging satellite from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Station on Oct. 7, 2018. The rocket’s first stage came back to Earth for a landing at Vandenberg less than 8 minutes after liftoff.
Credit: SpaceX
SAOCOM 1A, by the way, was developed by Argentina's national space agency. The satellite will observe Earth in radar light from its perch about 385 miles (620 kilometers) above the planet, primarily to measure soil-moisture levels. This information will aid predictions of crop yields and also help planners and emergency-management officials monitor disasters such as floods and fires.
The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket made history with this landing at Landing Zone 4 at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Station on Oct. 7, 2018. The touchdown marked SpaceX's first-ever West Coast landing of a Falcon 9 rocket.
Credit: SpaceX
SAOCOM 1A has a twin, SAOCOM 1B, which will make similar observations. SAOCOM 1B will also launch aboard a Falcon 9, perhaps as early as next year.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall.
Why Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Are A National Security Risk And Also An Opportunity For Progress
Why Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Are A National Security Risk And Also An Opportunity For Progress
A career’s worth of intelligence work for the U.S. Government has taught me one key lesson: national security is a lot like playing a game of chess. You have to anticipate your opponent’s every move in order to remain one step ahead.
Disclosing your strategy will be used against you. But if you recognize certain opportunities, you can win the match.
When I headed the government’s highly sensitive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), I worked with a team to assess whether a particular chess piece — in this case in the form of an unfamiliar aerial technology — was a threat to our side of the chess board.
If it was, we had to know how to counter it.
Since the Government views Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) as a potential national security issue, they’re secretive by necessity. They don’t want to reveal any information to a potential enemy.
But there are risks to keeping that information classified.
Say the person who first learned how to harness fire never shared it with the next generation, or the person who invented the telescope threw it away when he was done using it. What if the creator of the wheel decided it was too labor intensive for others to build and decided, “Forget it”?
As a species, we’re meant to evolve. And we needed those advancements to get to where we are today. Reports of strange crafts with seemingly inexplicable properties have been circulating within the U.S. Government for at least 70 years, which suggests it isn’t going away. There is “something out there.”
Declassifying certain information about UAP and sharing it with the public could lead to new technological discoveries, new forms of medical research, and a broader view of how humanity understands reality.
Here’s why:
A government must assume anything is a threat until it has been proven otherwise.
When determining whether an unknown entity is friend or foe, the U.S. Government looks at factors including capabilities, intentions, vulnerabilities, and exploitability. A close look at these factors reveals just how little UAPs are understood.
Advancements in our understanding of physics at the quantum level have helped shed faint light on the potential science behind UAPs. But these advancements have also shown us that UAPs have superior technical knowledge as well. If these capabilities fell into the hands of a foreign adversary, it would be a decisive game-changer.
Likewise, the intentions of UAPs haven’t been made clear to us at this point. There could be a number of reasons for their presence, ranging from peaceful curiosity to a probe for battlespace preparation. The possibilities are numerous.
UAP vulnerabilities, however, remain a complete mystery. Some have hypothesized that there’s a correlation between UAPs and our nuclear capabilities, while others have suggested that nuclear-generated electromagnetic pulses are a potential weakness.
Regardless, we still don’t really know what vulnerabilities UAPs might have short of speculation. Right now, it’s anyone’s guess.
From a national security perspective, exploitation is the holy grail of endeavors. It’s critical to determine whether UAP technology could be reverse-engineered and used to our benefit, but we can’t exploit such technology unless we first understand it.
When it comes to UAPs, the U.S. knows less than it should, and perhaps much less than our adversaries.
The potential rewards outweigh the risks.
There is always a risk involved when it comes to communicating national security issues to the public. But it’s subjective. The significance of that risk depends on who you ask.
If you ask a military leader, for example, they would say government secrecy about advanced aerospace phenomena is crucial because you want to avoid broadcasting your capabilities and intentions to your potential enemy.
A politician would view UAPs completely differently. They may ask, “Is this something potential voters need to know, or will concealing it cause my constituents to lose faith in me? How does this discussion affect the voters and my ability to represent them?”
A religious figure, on the other hand, would likely be more concerned with the religious and philosophical implications UAPs might have on his or her faith.
There are countless examples throughout history of individuals challenging the prevailing systems of power with radical scientific ideas.
When Galileo told the church hundreds of years ago that Earth was not the center of the solar system, for example, they nearly killed him for it.
As someone without a political or religious agenda, I’m free to say the rewards outweigh the risks in this situation. For example, in December 2017 our team at To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science helped release U.S. military footage of UAPs. No government imploded, no religion dissolved.
Like Galileo, our mission is simple. Collect and disseminate the truth about the unknown. As long as the risks don’t compromise national security, the rewards can benefit all.
Scientific truths help push society forward.
At this point, there’s no question about whether UAPs are out there — they are. People can choose to either continue to live with their heads buried in the sand, or they can take a proactive approach to the phenomenon.
Centuries ago, when mankind first stood on the shores of a beach and contemplated sailing across the horizon, the chorus shouted, “You’re crazy! You’re going to fall off the Earth! There are sea monsters!”
But now, in the 21st century, people travel across oceans every day. What our ancestors thought were sea monsters are great white sharks, blue whales, and giant squid. It turns out that they’re just another part of our natural environment.
Once people committed to discovering the truth for themselves, it was no longer mystical, it was just nature.
But because government processes demand secrecy when it comes to classified information, false knowledge about UAPs spreads rapidly. Secrecy empowers people selling their snake oil and YouTubers profit from peddling their ill-informed narratives about UFOs. Soon people start believing Elvis lives on the mothership — just as they once believed you could fall off the edge of the Earth.
The more knowledge people have, the better they will be able to master their own destinies, and not be held hostage to the monsters of their imaginations.
What if we actually do inhabit a Universe where life, at least complex life is unbelievably rare. So rare that in the immense dark fathoms of deep time, with near infinite real estate, intelligent life arose exactly once. Us. There is no pantheon of intergalactic minds. “We’re first” is one of the three classes of answers to the Fermi Paradox, the other two being “we’re rare” and “we’re fucked.”
Few scientists I’ve spoken to take “we’re first” answers seriously. It seems statistically unlikely; the Galaxy is filled with planets very much like ours orbiting stars very much like ours, and this planet is actually about two billion years younger than average in our galaxy, giving plenty of other places a considerable head start on developing life.
I tend to agree with that understanding but what if? What if it is not true.
What if we are the first? The first (and so oldest) aliens, the first in the time stream who will time travel or the first in the universe who will discover interstellar travel. This would explain why there have not been visitors from the future because we are the very first to invent the time machine and do that. I love author Larry Niven’s thoughts on this: If time travel is possible, the universe will keep being changed (by time-travellers) until a state is reached where time travel is never invented. That universe will not change. And we’re living in it.
It would also explain why we haven’t seen aliens, maybe it’s because WE are the first “aliens” to travel interstellar and colonize the galaxy, only to discover other species who are just a couple million or a couple of thousand years behind us.
I think people (scientists are just people who know science) tend to dismiss the “we’re first” position too easily because it seems born out of hubris, wishful thinking, dreams of exceptionalism, or religious nonsense.
I can see a more plausible scenario, goes like this:
Resources needed to sustain a growing population are always limited to the planet the species is on. Space exploration is great, but it will not produce the additional water, air, carbon dioxide or space needed to grow.
Technology consumes resources, as does population growth.
Societies like ours that are dedicated to growth and consumption eventually deplete their resources and vanish. That kind of conscious, then, might well be deemed an aberration, cosmically speaking.
That tendency is clearly due to a particular kind of “consciousness” that humans have evolved. But rather than being an unequivocally good thing, that kind of consciousness may ultimately be self-defeating.
Societies that thrive are those that learn to live in a mildly-adjusted “harmony” with nature–or homeostasis, really–where they are not taking more from the environment than they are giving back.
A population that is living in that manner (whether consciously, as we know of consciousness), or in a more automatic way, like other species on this planet) do not (or unable to) do much in the way of space exploration or technology development–and in any case they are liable to be limited to a relatively small area, given the size of the universe.
So there are likely to be a relatively large number of planets containing life that have never ventured out looking for others.
Of those that have ventured out, their “visitation possibilities” are extremely limited.
Any such visitation would probably be limited to say, a probe containing automated-interaction systems of some kind. The best design would probably limit the probe’s life to 1,000 years, at most. (Even were it totally self-sustaining, jungle overgrowth, earthquakes, and other natural disasters would inevitably overtake it, in time.) Or it might touch down, stay a few years, and then move on. Either way, any such contact would be fleeting and ephemeral, recorded only in myth and legend.
Any records of such contact would be irretrievably lost by a species such as ours, with the kind of consciousness that goes around burning each other’s libraries on the theory that if what they say is in our religious texts, they’re redundant, and if not, they’re heretical.
But let’s consider the alternatives. If intelligence is common in the Universe, we would have seen signs. Even with interstellar distances what they are, some narcissistic and evangelical civilization would have sent, at the very least, unmanned probes to other stars to bring knowledge of their existence and/or spread their knowledge and principles. There’s no reasonable counter-argument; even if most civilizations destroy themselves before they reach that stage, it is hugely unlikely that all would. Even if most civilizations prefer navel-gazing, it is hugely unlikely that all would.
So intelligence is not common (the only other possibility is that we are under some sort of pointless quarantine). It is really not hard to believe this rarity. It took more than a billion years since life evolved for intelligence to arise. Our Galaxy has roughly 100,000,000,000 stars. If only 1 in 1,000 has planets with conditions to make life possible, and life only starts in 1 out of 1,000 potential incubators, and intelligence only arises in 1 out of 1,000 cases where life starts, well, that makes 100 intelligent civilizations arising in the Galaxy at some point. Say the propensity to self-destruct or navel-gaze accounts for 95% of them (not that unlikely)–now it’s not that hard to begin that of the remaining handful we may be either the first or far enough away for expanding probes of the others to not have reached us.
What about the other 100,000,000,000 galaxies? Here, distances are so immense that almost certainly nobody would attempt to travel or communicate. We can’t know if we’re first. We know we’re rare. So if we self-destruct, it will be a real pity…
Bottom line: The probability that is life out there is enormous. That probability that it evolved technology (and still exists) is very much smaller. The probability that they are within hailing distance is smaller yet. The probability that any such “hailing” would be recognized, and then remembered, is smaller still.
How many times a day do you see a man walking his dog or a friend posting pictures of their cat? why would this be any different for extraterrestrials? There are other types of alien creature that may have been brought to or accompanied aliens on their visits to our planet.
In 1670, skywatchers saw a nova, a star that appeared where none had been before. Today’s astronomers have learned it was a collision between an aging white dwarf star, and less massive brown dwarf.
Astronomers now think this hourglass-shaped image of the object known as CK Vulpeculae is the result of a collision of a brown dwarf and a white dwarf.
In the 1600s, western astronomers were just emerging from centuries of medieval thought, when the heavens were thought to be unchanging. You can imagine their astonishment when – in July of 1670, in what had been a blank, dark sky – some observers witnessed a bright pinprick of light that appeared, faded, reappeared, and then disappeared entirely from view. At that time, astronomers called such an event a nova or new star. This one was located in front of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and so received the name Nova sub Capite Cygni (a New Star below the Head of the Swan). Modern astronomers have learned it wasn’t a new star. It wasn’t even a spectacular collision of two main-sequence stars, as announced in 2015. Instead, using data from the ALMA telescope in Chile, astronomers now believe the event was a collision between an aging white dwarf star and a brown dwarf (star with too little mass to ignite thermonuclear fusion and thereby shine as most stars do).
The new work is based on observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile. The astronomers studied the debris from this explosion, which takes the form of dual rings of dust and gas resembling an hourglass with a compact central object (see image at top). Sumner Starrfield of Arizona State University is a co-author on a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. He said in a statement:
It now seems what was observed centuries ago was not what we would today describe as a classic ‘nova.’ Instead, it was the merger of two stellar objects, a white dwarf and a brown dwarf. When these two objects collided, they spilled out a cocktail of molecules and unusual isotopes, which gave us new insights into the nature of this object.
How did they conclude that the collision was between a white dwarf and a brown dwarf, and not two main-sequence stars, as had been reported earlier? They did it by studying the light from two more-distant stars, shining behind the the dusty remains of the merger. These studies let the astronomers detect the telltale signature of the element lithium, which is easily destroyed in the interior of a main sequence star, but not inside a brown dwarf. Astronomer Stewart Eyres of the University of South Wales (@astrostewey on Twitter) and lead author on the paper explained:
The presence of lithium, together with unusual isotopic ratios of the elements carbon, nitrogen and oxygen point to material from a brown dwarf star being dumped on the surface of a white dwarf. The thermonuclear ‘burning’ and an eruption of this material resulted in the hourglass we see today.
According to the researchers, the white dwarf would have been about 10 times more massive than the brown dwarf, though much smaller in size. As the brown dwarf spiraled inward, intense tidal forces exerted by the white dwarf would have ripped it apart. Starrfield remarked:
This is the first time such an event has been conclusively identified.
The constellation Cygnus the Swan, with Vulpecula.
Bottom line: In 1670, skywatchers saw a nova, a star that appeared where none had been before. Today’s astronomers have learned it was a collision between an aging white dwarf star, and less massive brown dwarf.
Alien Human Hybrids are Amongst Us (Richard Dolan Live)
Alien Human Hybrids are Amongst Us (Richard Dolan Live)
Ok this is Richard Dolan speaking live on his youtube channel - he is a well respected UFO researcher
My thoughts - he is right, aliens hybrids are now living amongst us, he speaks at one point about a train carriage filled with mind reading alien human hybrids, the freaky bit for me is this took place just a few miles from where I live.
As I scour the virtual world for new information on UFOlogy I usually find much of the same. Same stories retold in ever increasing lunacy. So many people claim to know so many things in which they can not know. I see that more often than not people’s imagination gets the better of them. “Gets the better of them” is a polite way to say that their imagination beats them like they owe it money. So many people, in so many places, believe some strongly delusional stuff. Yes… I am looking at you, Stephen Bassett. I fart in your general direction Dr Steven Greer.
If even only 1/10th of one percent of accounts in UFOlogy have some merit beyond delusion and self-interest, there would still be a myriad of alleged craft with varying occupants zipping around our atmosphere. I am a UFO experiencer myself (see my previous writings). I know that something very real and quantifiable is happening to a vast many people. But I do not have the foggiest clue as to who, where, why, and what I and my family saw that fateful afternoon. I would really like to know, as would a billion people would I am sure.
But the big dirty truth is that no one knows who they are. I can say that with a reasonably high sense of certainty.
Spend any amount of time in the waters of mainstream UFOlogy and you will contract the digital equivalent of Malaria. You will have been infected with parasites, heavy nausea, cold chills, and explosive disrupted bowel movements. At least your mind will feel like that. So much nonsense, so many clicks, so little thought. I have seen claims of dozens of different aliens visiting our pale blue dot. Grays, Nordics, Reptilians, and Blue avians for an example short list. There are hundreds of other less popular ones as well. All English language understanding bipedal humanoid aliens. One alien that looks like us is beating insurmountable odds. Parallel evolution is so unlikely to ever occur. It may in a cosmic blue moon occur but for it to happen dozens of times in our little corner of infinity is impossible. Not improbable but outright impossible. Not everything is possible, the Universe has laws that itself follows most of the time.
How can all these aliens be coming to Earth on such a regular timetable and that we do not have any credible evidence to support it? The easy answer is that they are not. All these volumes of alleged aliens mingling on Earth are just fantasy. Not even a good fantasy. This could change in the light of credible verifiable evidence. Anything, a single cell or material scraping from extraterrestrial materials biological or otherwise would be nice. No real evidence has ever come forward that could withstand even the most tertiary scientific examination. There have been many hoaxes in bygone days, and even more ongoing today. Without any evidence, there is no reason to believe any of it.
Several governments have opened up their versions of Area 51 and have released their UFO files. Thousands and thousands of reports of sightings have been released to a fevered UFOlogy community. Many very good descriptions of encounters but not a single word on the origins of these silent thieves in the night. Not one word! There is only one way to interpret that. They do not know. If they knew they would tell us. Why wouldn’t they? It would mean absolutely nothing to most people. Knowing that they come from a star system 89658 light years away, tells us nothing useful. Not even something like that has ever been uttered.
The only time you hear of any explanation of sourcing is from the lunatic fringe. Nothing has ever been uttered by a reputable source… Ever! Not surprising when you really think about it. No one that could possibly know anything has ever uttered one syllable of useful data to help us suss out the source of the UFO enigma.
I am fascinated by the quality of good reports that the gifted UFO researchers such as Paul Dean have deduced and compiled. Some very interesting government documents exist that shed light on the cover-up of information they have waged on us for nearly 60 years.
All those documents are great but they do not hold my interest very long. I already know they are real and exist in our skies. No need to convince me of that. I have the luxury of knowing. None of the big questions is being answered. I believe they can not possibly be answered. At least not yet in our intellectual evolution.
There would be no way for the extraterrestrials to tell us anything of any substance. When two different life forms meet and have no common genetic heritage don’t expect much informative information exchange. A true alien is not going to understand us and we certainly will not understand them. We would have zero things in common. We could sit across a table from them for a year and never get past “My name is Trevor… what is yours?”. A real-life encounter with aliens will be stranger and more baffling than we can imagine. Humans can not even have a meaning conversation with any other creatures besides fellow homo sapiens. We can’t have a good conversation with anything on earth except with ourselves. All those life forms have a common genetic evolutionary heritage with us. We evolved on the same planet, with the same sun, and same moon. We have a lot of things in common with all life forms on Earth and that provides zero help. We would never understand a truly alien intelligence. End of story. Without a galactic “Rosetta Stone” we are hopelessly lost in translation.
Even if we squeezed into a parallel Universe where we could understand each other. How can they reference infinity in a form we can fathom. When we sent Voyager 1 probe out of Earth orbit and shot it into deep space we attached a gold plaque. It contained a graphic representation of pulsars in our vicinity. They provided a pulsar map that has directions to find Earth in the vast blackness. A pulsar map is nice but won’t work if you are too far away. This kind of map is only at best good within our own galaxy. Only works in our backyard.
How could an alien tell us or give us coordinates we could understand without any common language or mutual understanding on how distances and time work. If they are any substantial distance from Earth we will not see anything in common. We may not be able to gather the data due to it being further away then we can usably use in any definition. It possibly is going to be impossible to get any meaningful location information ever. The Universe is a big place and our map is woefully incomplete.
I propose that the source of these visitors does not ultimately matter. It is more important to try to assess intention and purpose. Those two are also more than likely beyond our understanding for the same reasons.
I would not worry about them too much. They are not blasting aeroplanes out of the sky or melting the Presidents face like in Mars Attacks (Unless they are waiting for Trump to win…then I say go for it). I would hypothesize that they are here just for observation and fact gathering. We could be one hell of a strange sociological experiment for some intelligence somewhere. They have been here a long time and we are still here. To our Earthbound brains, we will see gross indifference with the same eyes as we see hostility. Is grave indifference what we are experiencing in UFOlogy? Almost like a scientific detachment… Hmmm.
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10 plekken in de Verenigde Staten die mysterieuzer zijn dan Area 51. Hier moet je geweest zijn
10 plekken in de Verenigde Staten die mysterieuzer zijn dan Area 51. Hier moet je geweest zijn
In de Verenigde Staten bevinden zich talloze vreemde plekken. Zo zijn er stenen die uit zichzelf bewegen in de woestijn en is er een eiland waar de bevolking plotsklaps is verdwenen.
Er bevinden zich dingen op Amerikaanse bodem die zelfs de meest hoogopgeleide wetenschappers niet kunnen verklaren.
Dit zijn 10 plaatsen in de VS die mysterieuzer zijn dan Area 51.
1. Onderwater-Stonehenge, Michiganmeer
Je bent vast bekend met Stonehenge, een prehistorisch monument in Engeland. Een professor zei in 2007 dat hij een soortgelijk monument in het Michiganmeer had ontdekt.
Volgens WhereTraveler is het monument cirkelvormig en bevat één van de stenen een rotstekening van een mastodont.
De enige verklaring die wetenschappers tot dusver hebben is dat de stenen er zijn geplaatst toen het meer droog stond, tijdens de laatste ijstijd.
2. Skinwalker Ranch, Utah
De inheemse Ute-stam blijft ver uit de buurt van de UFO Ranch, beter bekend als Skinwalker Ranch, nabij Ballard in de staat Utah.
Volgens de Utes zijn Skinwalkers wraaklustige wezens die rondwaren op en rond de ranch.
In de jaren negentig werd de Skinwalker Ranch bewoond door een familie die de mythes rond de ranch wilde ontkrachten.
Al na twee jaar ontvluchtte de familie de ranch vanwege onverklaarbare gevallen van veeverminking, graancirkels en zwevende objecten, schrijft Thought Catalog.
3. Horseshoe Canyon, Utah
In de Horshoe Canyon zijn 2000 jaar oude rotstekeningen te vinden. Anasazi-indianen hebben er tekeningen achtergelaten die silhouetten van vreemde wezens laten zien.
Volgens sommigen zijn het tekeningen van aliens, demonen of goden uit de onderwereld, aldus het Natural History Museum in Utah.
4. Coral Castle, Florida
Edward Leedskalnin uit Litouwen zou in de jaren twintig op 26-jarige leeftijd naar Florida zijn verkast. Het enige probleem was dat hij geen huis, geen geld en geen hulp had.
Door de jaren heen bouwde hij in zijn eentje een gigantisch landgoed, zonder gereedschap. Sommige stenen waar Coral Castle (foto) uit bestaat wegen tot wel 27 ton.
De stenen passen perfect in elkaar en bevatten geen cement. Hoe heeft Edward dit voor elkaar gespeeld?
5. Medicijnwiel Bighorn, Wyoming
In Lovell in Wyoming hebben indianen een steencirkel gemaakt die werd gebruikt om astronomische gebeurtenissen te voorspellen, schrijft Atlas Obscura.
De 24 meter grote steencirkel lijkt op een wiel en bevindt zich bovenop Medicine Mountain, die het grootste deel van het jaar bedekt is met sneeuw.
Het bouwwerk wordt tot op de dag van vandaag gebruikt door de indianen en anderen om de zomerzonnewende te voorspellen.
6. Oregon Vortex, Oregon
De Oregon Vortex trekt veel toeristen omdat het daar lijkt alsof je in enkele seconden tijd groter en kleiner kunt worden.
Wetenschappers denken dat deze hotspot een soort draaikolk is bestaande uit magnetische energie, die ervoor zorgt dat het lijkt alsof je groter wordt als je richting het noorden loopt en kleiner als je naar het zuiden loopt, aldus Oregon Live.
7. Georgia Guidestones, Georgia
In Elberton County in Georgia staan de enorme Georgia Guidestones, die ook doen denken aan Stonehenge.
Het zijn enorme granieten zuilen die fungeren als een astronomische kalender.
Het mysterieuze stenen monument, dat gebouwd is in 1979, bevat 10 richtlijnen om de aarde en samenleving opnieuw in te richten in het geval van een apocalyps.
8. Roswell, New Mexico
In juli 1947 zou bij het plaatsje Roswell in New Mexico een UFO zijn gecrasht. Die zomer schreef de Roswell Daily Record dat er een vliegende schotel was geborgen en werd bewaard op een ranch.
Ook de Roswell Army Air Field sprak in een persverklaring van een ‘vliegende schijf’, schreef The Week.
Later werd het verhaal aangepast en beweerde men dat er een weerballon was gecrasht. Volgens complottheoretici is dit één van de voorbeelden dat de Amerikaanse overheid buitenaardse activiteit in de doofpot stopt.
9. Mystery Hill, New Hampshire
Er is een plek in Amerika die ook wel ‘Amerika’s Stonehenge’ wordt genoemd. Op Mystery Hill in New Hampshire staan stenen muren die 4000 jaar oud zouden zijn.
Sommigen claimen dat ze gebouwd zijn door de indianen, terwijl anderen zeggen dat ze zijn achtergelaten door een groep Ierse monniken.
Niemand weet hoe de stenen daar zijn gekomen.
10. Sedona-vortexen, Arizona
In Sedona zouden zich plekken bevinden waar de elektromagnetische energieën van de aarde elkaar kruisen. Deze plekken worden ook wel vortexen of leylijnen genoemd.
Er zijn verschillende plekken aangewezen als hotspots, waarvan Airport Mesa, Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock en Boynton Canyon de populairste zijn.
Gedacht wordt dat het plekken zijn waar intense energie de aarde binnenkomt en verlaat, bericht Visit Sedona.
Over the last few years there have been a spate of reports of unexplained balls of ice falling from cloudless skies, several of which have impacted dangerously close to homes and unsuspecting individuals on the ground. While the prevailing theory seems to be that these mysterious icy meteorites form on the exterior of aircraft overhead, cases have been reported in areas well outside of flight paths – not to mention the fact that reports of these icy deathtraps pre-date the advent of aviation.
A Spanish megacryometeor from 2007.
In the meteorological world, these unexplained balls of ice are known as megacryometeors and have been documented by only a few scientific studies. However, due their rarity, unpredictability, and ephemeral nature, evidence is scant. This week, another incident of a falling megacryometeor adds to the mystery surrounding this icy apparitions and nearly killed an Illinois man. What is causing these fearsome frozen phenomena to fall?
The latest incident occurred in Liberty Township, a small town in rural western Illinois. Dennis Nover was walking his dogs around 6:00 p.m. under clear skies when he heard a “whooshing” sound disturb the air nearby. Immediately after, Nover heard and felt a thud so powerful it reportedly shook his neighbor’s house. “It sounded like a whoosh. I just thought it was the wind in the trees. If that thing had hit me, it would have taken my head off,” Nover told the Chesterton Tribune, adding that his dogs started barking at the object after impact.
Dogs know high strangeness when they see it.
Nover inspected the debris and found a basketball-sized chunk of clear ice lodged in a two-feet-deep crater in his yard. Nover took a sample of the meteor to the Department of Meteorology at nearby Valparaiso University, but researchers there have yet to find any conclusive indicators of where the ice came from. Had it been from an aircraft’s wastewater system, it would have been polluted and or blue from disinfectant; this sample is perfectly clear.
This case adds to the growing body of evidence surrounding these mysterious megacryometeors. While some sort of unknown meteorological phenomenon might be to blame, there aren’t any currently known processes by which atmospheric ice could accumulate in such large masses. The best guess is that these icy projectiles are falling from the exterior of aircraft, but that doesn’t account for the incidents recorded before commercial aviation nor can it explain the recent spike in these mysterious occurrences.
A similar close call was caught on CCTV in London earlier this year.
That is, unless there are more planes flying at high altitude overhead that we don’t know about. With so much unexplained activity going on in the skies or in space lately, there’s no telling what could be causing these megacryometeors.
What’s going on? NASA’s Chandra and Hubble Space Telescopes went into Safe Mode
What’s going on? NASA’s Chandra and Hubble Space Telescopes went into Safe Mode
Remember: At first Sunspot Solar Observatory went down, followed up with the temporarily shut down of the live cams of 6 more observatories.
The Soyuz mission launch failure this week, next the Hubble Telescope goes offline and now the Candra x-ray telescope goes offline.
Besides NASA already has lost contact with the Opportunity Mars Rover and they have a big issue with a data transmission with the Curiosity Mars Rover mainly due to a massive sandstorm on the planet Mars.
According to a news report NASA said that the Hubble Space Telescope has entered safe mode after a gyroscope failure, the agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory has now gone into a similar protective state.
NASA announced the issue Friday, though it happened on Wednesday. When Chandra enters safe mode, it swaps over to hardware backup units, orients its solar panels to gather maximum sunlight and points its mirrors away from the sun.
Instruments go into safe mode to protect themselves during hardware or software failures or glitches, leaving only essential survival systems operating. The space agency is now investigating the cause of the safe-mode transition.
Chandra is designed to make X-ray observations of distant space features, including quasars, supernovas and black holes. It's part of NASA's Great Observatories program, which includes Hubble and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
It is highly unusual that both NASA’s craft are going into safe mode within days and with so many incidents happened the past month it can no longer be a coincidence.
There is something serious going on in space and it seems they do not want us to see.
One year ago this month, To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science launched. The public benefit corporation was founded by Tom DeLonge, the former co-lead vocalist of blink-182 and the current lead guitarist and vocalist of Angels & Airwaves. The corporation is divided into three divisions: aerospace, entertainment, and science. Delonge originally became interested in all things otherworldly while doing research for a series of graphic novels. During a four-hour discussion with several former government officials at the launch of the corporation, he confirmed that UFOs are real.
No, that does not mean that aliens will suddenly invade our ears and switch bodies. An “unidentified flying object” is a vague term; it could mean any number of things, not all of them alien. Given the technology we have, from heat-sensing to enhanced images to metal detection, it’s amazing that anything is unidentifiable anymore.
It Doesn’t Get Much More Official Than This Guy
Luis Elizondo worked for the Department of Defense. He is the former director of programs to investigate unidentified aerial threats and headed the Advanced Aerospace Threats Program. The AATP formed in 2007 with a $22 million budget. The budget may sound big, but in context, it was small enough to go unnoticed by the public and unacknowledged by the government.
The AATP only lasted for five years when funding ran out. Elements of the program remain classified and many speculate that the program may still exist in some capacity. This is basically the plot to Men in Black and we’re obsessed.
“We may not be alone,” Elizondo said publicly this time last year.
Photo: Chris Clor (Getty Images)
Who Killed UFO Sightings?
The number of UFO sightings drastically rose, then declined, over the past 28 years. The National UFO Reporting Center reported only 315 UFO sightings in 1990, but by 1998, the number spiked to 2,000 UFO sightings. The number went up to 4,000 for 2006 and peaked at 8,670 in 2014. It has since gone down drastically, to only 1,329 at the end of June 2018.
There’s a lot to unpack here. What made the UFO sightings go up in the ’90s? Popular films like E.T. and the Alienfranchise? Aging Baby Boomers? (Those who report UFOs are more likely to be elderly.) What’s behind the decline? Millennials killing everything?
Phone Home
Perhaps the advent of cell phones can explain the decline in UFO sightings. According to the Pew Research Center, 90 percent of American adults owned cell phones in 2014. Only 55 percent owned smartphones. Compare that to 2018, when 95 percent of Americans own cellphones and over 75 percent own smartphones. Are we too engrossed with our screens to look up at the sky? Or are UFOs impossible to see due to poor air quality?
Photo: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY (Getty Images)
Now that Tom DeLonge is helping legitimize UFOs, perhaps more research will follow. To The Stars Academy has already released some videos of UFOs. They claim it’s only the beginning. Who knows how much is already known, or how much out there will be forever unknown. These efforts will continue to seek out the truth, whatever it is, but also to discover new technologies, materials, and energy sources.
The universe is huge. This is comforting and also terrifying. Even if no further information is found, the fact that UFOs have been documented is major news. Up until now, the U.S. government has denied all accounts. Going forward, we’re prepared for a number of scenarios: Independence Day, To Serve Man, Mars Attacks!, or even Star Trek. Whatever happens, keep looking up. You don’t want to miss it because your nose is buried in your phone.
UFOs appeared in the sky of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia,Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and more, Oct 2018 UFO Sighting News. Date of sighting: Oct 11, 2018 Location of sighting: Mongolia Source: MUFON This UFO made a remarkable appearance over Mongolia thi
UFOs appeared in the sky of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia,Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and more, Oct 2018 UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 11, 2018
Location of sighting:Mongolia Source: MUFON This UFO made a remarkable appearance over Mongolia this week. The governments of the region will probably claim its a rocket or fireworks or swamp gas, but we its a UFO. Watch the video and see how this amazing craft deliberately makes a trail that glows so that the humans below will see it. This is how alien are doing disclosure, little by little till we are no longer surprised or scared. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
At around 19:00 on October 11th, UFOs appeared in the sky of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. Many onlookers took out their mobile phones and called them "ufo." It is reported that the object appeared in the sky in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and other places during the same period, and it has appeared for the second time.
TOTAL SHUTDOWN Of Space... What Are They Hiding? By Secureteam10 Oct 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
TOTAL SHUTDOWN Of Space... What Are They Hiding? By Secureteam10 Oct 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: Oct 2018 Source:Secureteam10 of Youtube This is Tylor of Securet team ten talking about a serious subject that often goes overlooked...NASA trying to stop humans from seeing whats in space. This is true...NASA Johnson Space Center has a photoprocessing room that has one mission...to edit out alien objects from the photo. Telescopes and satellites are going off line this week and I Scott Waring have been monitoring the Curiosity Mars rover...which has gone off line too! NASA is putting up a wall between the public and space to stop us from learning whats really out there. Its time for them to fess up and tell us why! Scott C. Waring
This is no joke. Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) – objetos voladores no identificados (ovnis) in Spanish – apparently have a flight route established in Costa Rica and use it often, this according to Alejandro Sáenz, an amateur ufologist who has often seen objects in the sky and his wife, Cindy Picado, who regularly observe and photograph the flying objects from their home located in San Isidro de Heredia
Alejandro Sáenz and his wife, Cindy Picado, say they have taken photos and videos of many UFOs in Costa Rica
Sáenz, an architect by profession, says he records his sightings in photos and videos of the peaks of some mountains used by the aliens ships as orientation guides, routes, which according to him, intensify in the month of September, the month with more sightings of the usual.
On the left and below, among the trees, there is a UFO in the Zurquí. Photo: Alejandro Sáenz.
“They emerge from the Barva volcano, from there they head to the Zurquí, then to the Turrialba volcano and Irazú. Then they pass through La Carpintera and descend on Pico Blanco in Escazú and the wind turbines of Santa Ana,” Sáenz said.
A UFO over the Irazú volcano, one of the highest sighting spots. Photo: Alejandro Saenz.
The architect commented that he has pictures of UFOs in each of those places, taken with a Nikon Coolpix 900 camera with a 125x digital zoom. He explained that in his house he has a room with a balcony facing east, to be able to take the opportunity to be aware of the movements of the flying objects.
“From there we look towards the Turrialba and the Irazú volcanoes. We always get up at dawn to take pictures,” he said.
Another room in the house has a view to the south, so from there he locates the other sites he mentioned. He, along with his wife, Cindy Picado, have taken many pictures of UFOs and have a website where they usually share those images.
On the Pico Blanco in Escazú. Photo: Alejandro Sáenz
“In pure observation, we have been able to determine that they use the peaks of the mountains as highways, they pass over the mountain ranges, these points serving as guides. We have already seen them several times bordering the entire perimeter to reach a certain altitude, very close to the mountain, we calculate at about eighty meters,” he explained.
UFO phenomenon investigator, Max Cordero, said that there is a high probability that what Saenz says is true.
“We do not know it with certainty because it is only a theory, but there are many possibilities that these flying objects follow previously traced routes and recharge energy on the road. The mountains, the volcanoes and the hills are known as energetic places, where it is assumed that their ships can be supplied with energy,” he said.
UFO Craziness
The architect points out that September is characterized by the large number of flying objects that are observed. In fact, he pointed out that between September 14 and 15 “it was very moving”.
Sáenz said that they saw one on September 7 and that it caught his attention because it was very striking, so much so that it registered very well in two fixed shots where the object’s advancement can be seen between the Turrialba and Irazú volcanoes.
The wind turbines in Santa Ana. Photo: Alejandro Saénz
“It is very outstanding because the image is in high resolution and perhaps stands out for the landscape and reflection that the unit (UFO) has,” he said.
In summary, the couple (Sáenz who is more into videos and Cindy, who is an expert in photography) saw UFOs on September 7, 13, 14 and on the 15th they grabbed it again with a spectacular video, which according to him, is one of the best he has seen in Costa Rica.
The architect said that on those days they saw multiple objects.
Saenz explained how on the day his “chiquitín” (little kid) was in the (September 14) parades and then dropped him off at school, he took the opportunity to take some shots fo the San Isidro church.
Through La Carpintera. Photo: Alejandro Sáenz.
“I took a picture of Cindy and at that moment I did not see anything, but when I saw the pictures later, I noticed that there was an object behind, where the church clock can be seen,” said Saenz.
Cordero, for his part, commented that the months of most sightings are those of summer, because there are fewer obstacles in the sky, but he does not contradict what Saenz and his wife have seen, especially in September.
“I think when we see more UFOs (which are not necessarily spaceships) when the sky is clearer and in September it does not get that much. Maybe it’s luck they have,” he said.
There’s something undeniably appealing about a good conspiracy theory. I mean, what if there is a secret cabal that’s ruling the world? What if there really is an Illuminati controlling the actions of millions? What if there really are aliens? And they’re among us?!
Self-avowed “world’s leading expert on UFOs, the unexplained and conspiracy theories” Nick Pope acts as writer and on-screen host for the documentary “Aliens At The Pentagon” and it’s an entertaining 66 minutes of paranoia, daft video sequences, and an occasional nugget of information that will make you actually wonder whether there is a seed of truth here after all.
While the film ostensibly revolves around the now infamous New York Times article from 2017 that revealed the various US Military projects investigating unknown aerial phenomena, almost the entire film is actually a tour of the history of UFOs. It all starts back in 1947 at, yes, you guessed it, Roswell, New Mexico. June 24, 1947: Pilot Kenneth Arnold reports seeing 9 unidentified flying objects zipping over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. For the next few weeks, UFO reports come in from all over the USA. July 7, 1947, something crashed into the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, initially reported as a UFO, but then explained away as debris from a weather balloon.
Pope asks “Could the personnel from this elite military unit really have misidentified debris from a weather balloon as a flying saucer?” Apparently, the military wasn’t so sure and created a series of research projects to accumulate and investigate unidentified sightings: Project Sign, Project Grudge and, most famously, Project Blue Book. Project Blue Book investigated over 12,000 sighting reports and ended with over 700 left unexplained. In 1966, researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder were contracted to analyze the Blue Book data, producing “A Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects” in 1968. Their final report: nothing sufficient to justify further funding. And Project Blue Book was shut down.
But what if (cue dramatic music and dopey stock footage) that was just a coverup because they really had found credible evidence of alien life here on Earth? Pope makes sure you get the point: “Are we to believe that from 1970 forward, the United States has ignored all unidentified reports in US airspace? This is ridiculous! UFO’s didn’t go away!”
The entire documentary has this sort of sensibility, with National Enquirer-style breathless, click-bait writing and precious little time allocated to explanations that don’t further the conspiracy theory of UFOs actually existing. Even if you’re a fan or believer (as ‘The X-Files’ would phrase it), the film is hopelessly saddled with video footage that is only a tiny step up from clip-art, sequences of a half-dozen young people “sitting at a press conference, asking questions”, or animations that are the equivalent of what a high school video club could produce. These sequences appear again and again too, so while I appreciate the desire to tell the story visually, it weakens the entire argument as viewers mentally trip up on the amateur editing and video sequences.
Oh, and did I mention the typos and other mistakes in the film? Earlier I cited pilot Kenneth Arnold seeing 9 unidentified objects over Washington State? The animated sequence to illustrate this has 8, not 9, UFOs zipping along. Apparently, accurate counting is not a requirement for UFO conspiracists. Then there’s AATIP, the project created by the military to track unidentified objects through the ’70s, ’80s and onward. It might have been an acronym for Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Project, but it also is explained as the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Project, which is illustrated in the video throughout as the “Advanced Arial Threat Identification Project.
Apparently ,the graphics person had typefaces on the mind: Arial is, of course, a typeface you have included with your PC or Mac system. Having this show up once is disappointing, but this graphic is used again and again in the latter portion of the film, an egregious error that further undermines the legitimacy of the film.
Pope goes on to talk about billionaire and UFO conspiracy believer Robert Bigelow, whose aerospace company builds modules for the space station. He also funds the Mutual UFO Network MUFON; he believes. He wants others to believe too. Bigelow Aerospace was also awarded the AATIP contract 2007-2012 from the Pentagon, which makes this all quite relevant. Running AATIP at Bigelow Aerospace was Luis Elizondo, quoted extensively in the movie after having resigned from AATIP and Bigelow Aerospace. He subsequently revealed that AATIP was all about investigating UFOs. Got it?
Tom DeLonge of rock group Blink 182 is also a believer, and he created the To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science where they seem to work in conjunction with the AATIP team to accumulate reports of UFO sightings, interview people involved, and collect all the data before the government arrives and silences everyone. Paranoia? Oh, yeah, a little bit. It’s about at this point that Pope starts to go on about “secret UFO technology that will let humanity travel to the stars” and posits that these secrets are all held by the deep state.
Yes, by this point you’ve either gone deep, deep down the rabbit hole and start to really wonder about all the “coincidences” in your life, or laughed as you bail on the movie. Which is too bad, because Pope brings up some really interesting questions. While the film might not actually mention the NY Times article until almost 50min into a 66min movie, there are some curious incidents that are hard to explain.
But then again, perhaps there really is a level of random chaos in the universe and while it’s appealing to think of great conspiracies (and yes, Pope also mentions the Illuminati), it’s also possible that people say and do dumb things.
Then again, perhaps this very review is part of a great “false flag alien invasion” where I’m part of the group deliberately creating a belief in aliens and manufacturing a threat that doesn’t exist. Heck, there’s a name for it: Project Bluebeam. Purpose: to “literally” bring about a new world order with no nation-states. Pope talks about this possibility too, kind of blowing the lid off our great and nefarious plot.
But…. now ya know.
Turns out I’m a alien too. Thanks for reading this, puny human. My friends from Planet Znigthar will be showing up any day now…
Inside Story of “Project Blue Book” –The UFO Era & Birth of the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis
Inside Story of “Project Blue Book” –The UFO Era & Birth of the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis
Are we alone in the universe? A new TV series confronts the question that still fascinates humans decades after the end of “Project Blue Book,” during which the U.S. Air Force documented and scrutinized 12,000 UFO sightings from 1952 to 1969, led by J. Allen Hynek, a former astrophysicist at The Ohio State University.
Is the world’s fascination with the possibility of UFOs more a religion or a natural intuitive sense that life is “out there” based on current scientific research and recent planet-search discoveries? Carl Sagan believed that “the interest in unidentified flying objects derives, perhaps, not so much from scientific curiosity as from unfulfilled religious needs.”
Set against a suspenseful undercurrent of political intrigue — the project comes to life in a new dramatic television History Channel series, which shares some of the long-buried secrets of this mysterious initiative.
At a New York Comic Con panel on Oct. 6, actors and creators of the History Channel’s “Project Blue Book” introduced the audience to the story of federal agents hunting UFOs and the manipulation of the truth happening behind the scenes. Based on declassified files in the federal archive — including 700 cases of UFO-related incidents that remain unsolved.
Each of the perplexing and unsettling UFO sightings that appears in the series is based on an actual event described in the recently declassified government records, executive producer and writer Sean Jablonski told the panel audience. “Every case you see — that really happened,” Jablonski explained.
Game of Thrones star, Irish actor Aiden Gillen is playing one of the more polarizing scientists in the murky history of UFO research, cast in the lead role of Hynek, created and written on spec by David O’Leary and produced by Robert Zemeckis (Carl Sagan’s Contact) chronicles the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s.
No one could have foreseen the extent to which the idea of UFOs would pervade popular culture prior to the publication in 1897 of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds (see video below) and Kurd Lasswitz’s On Two Planets –both the vanguard of an enormous number of treatments of the alien theme in science fiction.
The modern UFO era and the birth of the extraterrestrial hypothesis began on June 24,1947, when Kenneth Arnold, flying his private plane near Mount Rainier in Washington, reported nine disk-shaped objects flying in formation at speeds he estimated to be over 1,000 miles per hour.
Arnold, a respected businessman and deputy U.S. marshal, was taken seriously and his description of the objects as flying “like a saucer if you skipped it across the water” led to newspapers to coin the term “flying saucer.”
The alien hypothesis first officially emerged in 1948 with the Air Force “Project Sign,” which concluded that UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin. The report was later declassified and burned by General Hoyt Vandenburg.
If UFOs exist, how do they traverse the universe? According to conventional wisdom, one can only travel through time in a linear fashion at no faster than the speed of light. At that rate, it would take millions of years to traverse the universe, and who has time for that? If there’s a way to manipulate space and time curvatures, then we have all the time we need.
World renowned experts from physicist Sir Martin Rees of Cambridge University to astrobiologist Davies have asked that if we were to encounter alien technology far superior to our own, would we even realize what it was. A technology a million or more years in advance of ours would appear miraculous.
In fact, Davies suggests in Eerie Silence, that advanced technology might not even be made of matter. That it might have no fixed size or shape; have no well-defined boundaries. Is dynamical on all scales of space and time. Or, conversely, does not appear to do anything at all that we can discern. Does not consist of discrete, separate things; but rather it is a system, or a subtle higher-level correlation of things.
Are matter and information, Davies asks, all there is? Five hundred years ago, Davies writes, ” the very concept of a device manipulating information, or software, would have been incomprehensible. Might there be a still higher level, as yet outside all human experience, that organizes electrons? If so, this “third level” would never be manifest through observations made at the informational level, still less at the matter level.
We should be open to the distinct possibility that advanced alien technology a billion years old may operate at the third, or perhaps even a fourth or fifth level -all of which are totally incomprehensible to the human mind at our current state of evolution.
Fast forward to 2017, The Blue Book series follows Hynek, recruited by the U.S. Air Force to spearhead this clandestine operation that researched thousands of cases, many of which were never solved. Each episode will draw from the actual files, blending UFO theories with authentic historical events from one of the most mysterious eras in United States history. “Blue Book is inspired by the true covert events of an era in American history shrouded in mystery,” said Paul Buccieri, President, A+E Studios and A+E Networks Portfolio Group
Hynek served as scientific advisor to UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force under three consecutive projects: Project Sign , Project Grudge, and Project Blue Book. He later developed the “Close Encounter” classification system.
Project Blue Book was the third and longest-lived of three consecutive UFO investigations conducted by the Air Force, officially lasting from 1952 through 1969. It was preceded by Project Sign (1947–1949) and Project Grudge (1949–1952), and Hynek, already established as a brilliant astronomer working the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics during its formative years, was recruited as a scientific advisor on all three.
What makes Hynek so interesting is that his outlook gradually from being a skeptic about the existence and origin of UFOs to eventually becoming convinced that the steady stream of sightings and unexplained phenomena could not be explained away as things like weather balloons, satellites or swamp gas.
By the time Blue Book came into existence, Hynek — while careful not to say definitively that UFOs did exist and were of extra-terrestrial origin — was arguing that the field required serious study, a position that put him at odds with many fellow scientists and the U.S. military.
Hynek grew increasingly disenchanted with Blue Book during his tenure on the investigation, criticizing the Air Force’s research methods and general indifference to the subject. Blue Book was shut down in 1969 having officially determined that UFOs were not a threat to national security and were not of extra-terrestrial origin — a conclusion that Hynek hinted was already pre-ordained.
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Voyager 2, launched in 1977, is now about 11 billion miles (17.7 billion km) from Earth. NASA says the spacecraft has detected an increase in cosmic rays, which might mean it’s close to becoming only the 2nd human-made object, after Voyager 1, to enter interstellar space.
This graphic shows the position of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes relative to the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto. Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, or the edge of the heliosphere, in 2012. Voyager 2 is still in the heliosheath, or the outermost part of the heliosphere.
NASA’sVoyager 2probe, launched in 1977, is on a journey toward interstellar space. NASA says the spacecraft has nw detected an increase in cosmic rays – fast-moving particles that originate outside our solar system – which suggests that the spacecraft might be close to crossing into interstellar space.
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
Voyager 2 is a little less than 11 billion miles (about 17.7 billion km) from Earth, or more than 118 times the distance from Earth to the sun. Since 2007 the probe has been traveling through the outermost layer of the heliosphere – the vast bubble around the sun and the planets dominated by solar material and magnetic fields. Voyager scientists have been watching for the spacecraft to reach the outer boundary of the heliosphere, the beginning of interstellar space as the place where the sun’s constant flow of material and magnetic field stop affecting its surroundings.
Once Voyager 2 exits the heliosphere, it will become the second human-made object, after Voyager 1, to enter interstellar space.
Since late August 2018, the instruments on Voyager 2 have measured about a five percent increase in the rate of cosmic rays hitting the spacecraft compared to early August.
Cosmic rays are fast-moving particles that originate outside the solar system. Some of these cosmic rays are blocked by the heliosphere, so mission planners expect that Voyager 2 will measure an increase in the rate of cosmic rays as it approaches and crosses the boundary of the heliosphere.
In May 2012, Voyager 1 experienced an increase in the rate of cosmic rays similar to what Voyager 2 is now detecting. That was about three months before Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause and entered interstellar space.
However, Voyager team members note that the increase in cosmic rays is not a definitive sign that the probe is about to cross the heliopause. Voyager 2 is in a different location in the heliosheath – the outer region of the heliosphere – than Voyager 1 had been, and possible differences in these locations means Voyager 2 may experience a different exit timeline than Voyager 1.
The fact that Voyager 2 may be approaching the heliopause six years after Voyager 1 is also relevant, because the heliopause moves inward and outward during the sun’s 11-year activity cycle. Solar activity refers to emissions from the sun, including solar flares and eruptions of material called coronal mass ejections. During the 11-year solar cycle, the sun reaches both a maximum and a minimum level of activity.
Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone said in a statement:
We’re seeing a change in the environment around Voyager 2, there’s no doubt about that. We’re going to learn a lot in the coming months, but we still don’t know when we’ll reach the heliopause. We’re not there yet — that’s one thing I can say with confidence.
Bottom line: The Voyager 2 spacecraft has detected an increase in cosmic rays, which suggest it’s close to becoming only the 2nd human-made object, after Voyager 1, to enter interstellar space.
A mysterious light was spotted inChinalast night, leaving residents baffled.
Witnesses shared pictures and videos of an identified object appearing to light up the night sky like a massive torch, seen above the regions of Beijing, Chongqing, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia at about 6:45pm local time.
A UFO expert claimed that the footage looked like the trail of a rocket motor.
Witnesses shared pictures and videos of an object lighting up the night sky like a massive torch, seen above Beijing, Chongqing, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia at about 6:45pm
A leading UFO expert claimed that the footage looked like the trail of a rocket motor
The series of perplexing videos were posted yesterday on Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo as stunned net users discussed what it could be.
They described the two-minute phenomenon as bright white rays shaped either like a 'massive tail' or an 'artificial light' beaming from the clouds and slowly moving across the sky.
'Aliens are coming!' said one user on Weibo.
The perplexing videos were posted yesterday on Weibo as net users discussed what it could be
Net users described the two-minute phenomenon as bright white rays shaped either like a 'massive tail' or an 'artificial light' beaming from the clouds, sparking a UFO scare
'Is the UFO leaving China after celebrating its national holiday?' another asked, referring to last week's Golden Week holiday.
A military magazine editor and blogger by the name of Weaponmagazine-Xiaoning said the footage could be of Chinese military testing a top secret hypersonic aircraft, DF-ZF. The hypersonic glide vehicle was previously known by the Pentagon as WU-14.
However, officials in China have yet to confirm the latest round of testing.
Residents in Beijing were also startled by a similar sighting on April 27, when a strange beam of light was spotted in the night sky, said to be caused by a rocket launch from Taiyuan's satellite launch centre.
Leading UFO expert Nigel Watson said the footage looked like the trail of a rocket motor
A military magazine editor and blogger by the name of Weaponmagazine-Xiaoning said the footage could be of Chinese military testing a top secret hypersonic aircraft
Leading UFO expert Nigel Watson, author of UFOs of the First World War, told MailOnline that the footage looked like the trail of a rocket motor, similar to the phenomenon seen following a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on Sunday night.
'In both cases they are night launches where the rocket exhaust gases look very spectacular and can easily make people think this is a UFO,' Mr Watson pointed out.
'Fortunately, these are examples of terrestrially produced out-of-this-world spectaculars, not the work of the notorious big-eyed greys of UFO legend,' he added.
'Crazy' Rocky Surface of Asteroid Ryugu Revealed in MASCOT Lander Images
'Crazy' Rocky Surface of Asteroid Ryugu Revealed in MASCOT Lander Images
By Megan Gannon, Space.com Contributor
BERLIN — A shoebox-sized European space robot turned up a few surprises when ithopped around on an asteroidlast week.
In newly released images, the surface of the asteroid Ryugu is "even crazier" than expected, said Ralf Jaumann of the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research, the scientific director of the MASCOT mission. "Everything is covered in rough blocks and strewn with boulders," he added inan image release.
With a diameter of about 3,000 feet (900 meters), Ryugu is one of 17,000 known near-Earth asteroids, and it's made up of some of the most primordial material in the solar system. Studying the space rock's properties and composition could help scientists understand the building blocks of planet formation. [These Asteroid Ryugu Photos from the MASCOT Landing are Amazing]
While researchers will be poring over the new data from the DLR-made MASCOT lander in the coming weeks and months, they're already starting to piece together a clearer picture of the asteroid.
MASCOT's first view of asteroid Ryugu's south pole.
"There was a possibility that MASCOT might get stuck in its holding cavity [on Hayabusa2]," Tra-Mi Ho, MASCOT project manager from the DLR, told Space.com during a meeting with reporters in Berlin on Friday (Oct. 12). "When we got the signal that it separated, we were very happy."
MASCOT then made a 6-minute free fall from a height of 167 feet (51 m) to the asteroid's southern hemisphere. After analyzing data from the descent, mission researchers think the robot hit a large boulder and bounced several times before eventually landing on its back like a turtle with its camera pointed at the sky — not an ideal position for collecting data. MASCOT has no wheels or propulsion system, but thanks to its swinging arm, the lander was able to right itself with a little push.
"We also were very surprised that the area of bouncing was much more constrained than it was, based on our simulations," Ho said. The gravity on Ryugu is one-66,500th of Earth's, so even a tiny push off the surface is enough to send the lander hopping (or potentially floating away from the asteroid).
MASCOT points east while descending toward asteroid Ryugu.
MASCOT's battery life lasted a little longer than expected, allowing the robot to collect data over 17 hours and 7 minutes, or more than two asteroid days, at the landing site dubbed "Alice's Wonderland." The lander was carrying four experiments: the MASCAM camera and a radiometer, both made by the DLR; a magnetometer built by the Technical University of Braunschweig; and an infrared spectrometer made by the French space agency, CNES.
MASCAM produced about 66 images with useful scientific content, Nicole Schmitz, a DLR researcher with MASCAM, told Space.com. Pointing to boulders in some of the images, she said, "It's very remarkable how big some of them are."
"The appearance of the surface is extremely surprising, because we have seen on other bodies in the solar system that there is also lots of dust and smooth parts of the surface," Schmitz added. "We don't really see any smooth parts on the asteroid so far. … We will still have to put together what it all means."
Another view from MASCOT as it descended toward asteroid Ryugu.
While the surface of the asteroid appears to be a ghostly gray in the images released by the DLR, its actual color is quite dark.
"The asteroid is extremely dark, close to black," Schmitz said. "When you see these images, we enhanced the illumination, because otherwise you would see nothing."
Hans-Ulrich Auster, a researcher at TU-Braunschweig, said magnetometer measurements indicated that the asteroid has a weak magnetic field and MASCOT's landing behavior offered clues about the stiffness of the asteroid.
"We saw here that 90 percent of the energy was lost [during landing] so that might be an indication that the surface is not as hard as stone," Auster said. "On the other hand, we can see it's not as soft as a comet."
The landing came less than two weeks after Hayabusa2 deployed two other tiny hopping rovers, the Japanese-built MINERVA-II1A and MINERVA-II1B.
"With MINERVA and MASCOT, you have three landers for the first time landing on an asteroid and even jumping across the surface performing several kinds of experiments on quite distant regions, which gives you a more global context for the characteristics of the asteroid," Ho said. "Definitely, it's the most populated asteroid in space history."
The $150 million Hayabusa2 mission launched into space in December 2014. The spacecraft is carrying yet another small rover, MINERVA-II2, which is scheduled to be deployed to Ryugu's surface next year. Hayabusa2 is also slated to collect a sample of Ryugu rock and send it back to Earth at the end of 2020 so that the pristine cosmic material can be analyzed by scientists directly.
Des disques vieux de 10 000 ans découverts dans des grottes chinoises montrent le site d’un crash d’OVNI
Des disques vieux de 10 000 ans découverts dans des grottes chinoises montrent le site d’un crash d’OVNI
Des EXTRATERRESTRES ont régné sur le monde dans des civilisations antiques et une collection de disques vieux de 10 000 ans le prouvent, selon plusieurs affirmations déroutantes.
Des séquences vidéo bizarres montrent des pierres découvertes par l’archéologue Chi Pu Tei en 1937 alors qu’il tentait de trouver refuge dans les montagnes Kunlun-Kette en Chine.
Les membres de l’équipe sont entrés dans les grottes et ont découvert des inscriptions sur les murs.
Au fond de la grotte, ils ont découvert plusieurs tombes, alignées les unes derrière les autres, contenant d’étranges squelettes d’apparence surprenante, chacun ne dépassant pas 1 mètre de haut.
Plus de 700 disques inhabituels, recouverts d’œuvres d’art inexplicables, ont été enterrés à côté d’eux.
Et aujourd’hui, des images vidéo sont apparues pour tenter d’expliquer l’histoire.
La chaîne YouTube ‘We Are If’ a publié un clip affirmant que les disques dépeignent le lieu du crash d’un vaisseau spatial extraterrestre il y a 12 000 ans.
Et les pierres ont apparemment été abandonnées 2 000 ans plus tard.
Le narrateur poursuit en expliquant que les étranges petites figures trouvées à leurs côtés pourraient être des descendants du peuple Dropa Many.
La tribu Dropa aurait été un groupe de plusieurs centaines de nains ne mesurant pas plus de 1m20.
Ils prétendent aussi que les tunnels suggèrent qu’une communauté extraterrestre vivait sous terre.
Et cela peut expliquer les “extraterrestres” qui se trouvent à l’intérieur des disques.
L’histoire a été téléversée sur YouTube hier, où elle a déjà accumulé des centaines de hits.
“Je parie que ces disques contiennent beaucoup plus d’informations qui n’ont pas encore été découvertes”, peut-on lire dans un commentaire.
Un autre a ajouté : “C’est fascinant.”
Et un troisième a dit : “On se pose vraiment des questions sur les extraterrestres.”
Robots and artificial intelligence are rapidly spreading to more and more areas of our daily lives in a sometimes uneasy alliance. Of all these developments, though, the one which most strongly hints at the strange-but-inevitable future in which humans and robots share the Earth as equals is the rise of sex robots. I guess it was inevitable that as soon as we were able to make walking, talking robots, people would begin finding ways to do naughty things them. Our reproductive drives are among the strongest in the human experience, and taking the human element out of the equation somewhat simplifies things.
Emphasis on “somewhat.”
Of course, there are dangers and downsides to sexbots. Like any technology, they can malfunction or be hacked, and sex robots also open the possibility that people will use them for acts which are illegal or dangerous with real humans. Nevertheless, many groups including the Church of Satan believe that sex robots will be a positive development for humankind, offering the “freedom of choice to satisfy your most secret desires with no-one to be bothered” or harmed by whatever you happen to do once your clothes come off. Or stay on, you do you.
QUERY: WAS THE INTERACTION EQUALLY ACCEPTABLE FOR BOTH PARTIES?
While ethicists, roboticists, and psychologists debate the merits and negatives of sex with robots, interesting questions have arisen. For one: if you asked your sex robot to whip you, choke you, pour hot wax on you, or engage in other acts of BDSM play (bondage, discipline, sadism, or masochism), would the robots be able to comply? Should they be able to comply? After all, chief among Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics is that the law “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” The second law states that “a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.” Put these in the context of BDSM sexbots, and it’s easy to see how complicated things could get.
While Asimov’s laws aren’t necessarily followed by everyone in the robotics industry, they have for decades served as a sort of baseline for how we conceptualize human-robot interactions. Thus, these laws can serve as food for thought for how we might shape laws concerning all sorts of robotic companions, including sex robots. This week, Gizmodo surveyed a group of lawyers, ethicists, computer scientists, and philosophers whether or not (hypothetical) BDSM sex robots would violate Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, and the answers, as you might imagine, were mixed and thought-provoking.
Most, however, seemed to center on the fact that “harm” and the types of pain inflicted by BDSM practices aren’t quite the same thing andthat harm inflicted by a BDSM robot would be presumably welcomed by the human user. Should robots be able to whip us if we ask them to? I mean, why not? With a few bucks’ worth of parts from the local hardware store and some duct tape, you could rig up your electric drill to do the same thing. Why not give the drill a human face and natural language processing to make the whole thing more exciting?
While these types of questions might seem silly, commercial sex robots are already available for sale and recent developments suggest it will only be a few users before full-on robot brothels start popping up around the world. We’ll soon have to grapple with questions of BDSM robots, suicide-by-robot, and other ethical gray areas which will appear as robots rise up to take their place alongside humankind.
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Filmmakers Mined the Dangerous Sci-Fi Worlds of 'Alien' and 'Dune' for 'Prospect'
Filmmakers Mined the Dangerous Sci-Fi Worlds of 'Alien' and 'Dune' for 'Prospect'
By Marshall Honorof, Space.com Contributor
The directors and star of Prospect gather for a press panel at New York Comic Con 2018.
Credit: Marshall Honorof/Space.com
NEW YORK — The biggest sci-fi films from the last few years are big, slick affairs. "Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014), "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" (2017), "Star Trek Beyond" (2016), "Ready Player One" (2018), even "Interstellar" (2014) — there's no denying that modern sci-fi has a clean, big-budget feel that's light-years removed from its scrappy, gritty, '70s revival roots.
However, that's not a problem for "Prospect": an indie darling sci-fi film, inspired by the rough, dirty, dangerous worlds of classics like "Alien" (1979), "Dune" (1984) and even the original "Star Wars" (1977). The production won the prestigious Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award at South by Southwest 2018, and is scheduled for a wide release in Regal cinemas on Nov. 2. At New York Comic Con 2018, the film's co-directors, Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell, joined star Sophie Thatcher to discuss the movie in a private press room.
The setup is deceptively simple: Damon (Jay Duplass) and Cee (Sophie Thatcher) are a father-and-daughter prospecting team in the far future. They travel to a planet with a toxic atmosphere to mine rare stones, where they encounter Ezra (Pedro Pascal), a potentially dangerous competitor. The twist: Because of the poisonous dust in the air, every character has to spend nearly the entire film in a bulky environmental suit. [Biggest Space Movies to Watch in 2018]
The overall feeling is a little claustrophobic, a little uncomfortable and more than a little reminiscent of high-intensity classics like "Planet of the Apes" (1968), "THX 1138" (1971) or even "Mad Max" (1979). In order to achieve this feeling, the panelists said, the most important thing was to employ practical effects.
"It's inspired by classic sci-fi films, like 'Star Wars' and 'Alien,' that aren't in front of a green screen," Caldwell said. "Aesthetically, a lot of it is based on the classics: 'Star Wars,' 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner.' But we are very excited and hopeful to be participating in this more intellectual science-fiction. One of the things that we were really striving to do with the film was to capture this feeling where you don't hold the viewer's hand."
Color palette also played a big role in making the world feel lived-in and worn-down. Grays, browns and blacks were the order of the day, mimicking the aesthetic of early space exploration.
"We looked at a lot of the original Hasselblad photography from the early Apollo missions to try to get that texture," Caldwell said. "It's a very digital movie, but we wanted to pull in some of that retro texture. We also had 'the blue rule.' For the most part, only Sophie's suit was allowed to have a strong blue presence. We tried to take that out of the rest of the film."
Prospect is an acclaimed indie sci-fi film that's about to get a wide theatrical release.
Credit: Gunpowder & Sky
Casting choices
Thatcher was impressed with the film's story right from the get-go. In fact, it's what inspired her to sign on.
"Reading the script, that's what drew me in," she said. "[Cee] starts off as more timid. As she grows and is forced to be with Ezra, she starts standing up for herself and speaking for herself."
Pascal — who, unfortunately, could not attend NYCC this year — felt the same way.
"[Pascal] really connected with the script, really liked the language," Earl said. "He loved that challenge to take on.
"That guy is so stupid talented," Earl added. "He surprised us on a continual basis. He's hilarious. He's getting cast in all this big action stuff, but at any point, if he wants to do comedy, he'd have the entire crew cracking up."
Duplass, who made his bones directing weird films like "Baghead" (2008), "Cyrus" (2010) and "Jeff, Who Lives at Home" (2011), wound up pulling double-duty as both an actor and a seasoned indie film on-set consultant.
"Jay Duplass is such a pro," Earl said, relating a story of how Duplass stopped him in the middle of a difficult shoot and insisted that a dehydrated Earl get some more water before continuing. "He was a mentor on set. He connected with the DIY spirit of the whole thing."
Sci-fi on a shoestring budget
Most indie films don't have a ton of money to work with, and Prospect was no exception. In order to create a credible sci-fi world, the trick was to start writing with a small budget in mind — not to imagine something grand, then cut the production down to the bone.
"We had to prove to financiers that this wasn't just a stupid idea," Earl said. "Just like we rewrote the script four times, we rewrote the budget 10 times." Even the movie's signature toxic dust didn't cost much to make; Earl shot it in his own dusty basement, and edited it into almost every other scene in the film.
"This movie is built to be inexpensive," he continued. "It's not like we were taking some story and figuring out how to do it cheap. We were thinking while we were writing about what the implications are on set. It was designed to be that way," Earl said.
"I would encourage people who are trying to get their first feature of the ground to be thinking financially as well, to be strategic in your development," Caldwell said. "Because everything is interconnected. The way that we got a shot to [make a movie] like this was that it was inexpensive."
Drawing inspiration
The movie's filmic inspirations are easy enough to guess, but Earl and Caldwell also drew on their favorite books to develop the world of "Prospect."
"My favorite growing up was 'Dune,'" Earl said.
"I've been digging into 'Foundation' recently, just because it's relevant to some of the ideas we're trying to play with," Caldwell said.
As for the 17-year-old Thatcher, she said that when she was cast, she wasn't familiar with the sci-fi inspirations that delighted her co-directors. But they managed to bond over other films that feature bold women in otherworldly situations.
"The first time I met Zeek and Chris, we drew connections through Miyazaki movies with young female protagonists. I grew up on those films. That was my inspiration for [Cee]." She also cited Carey Mulligan and Michelle Williams, whose acting styles she hopes to emulate.
One journalist asked Thatcher if it was possible that someday in the future, someone might cosplay Cee at an event like NYCC — and if so, what she would think of it.
Her response was both straightforward and hopeful: "I will be flattered!"
I launched a new investigation into the 1973 Coast UFO abduction story. Do you believe?
On October 11, 1973 two Pascagoula residents reported being abducted and examined by extraterrestrials. It was an allegation that sparked a media frenzy, focusing national attention onto the Mississippi Gulf Coast and locals' eyes skyward.
PASCAGOULA - This week will be 45 years since Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson told the world they were immobilized, picked up and examined by a UFO and put back on the banks of the Pascagoula River, just a few blocks from the city’s downtown.
It was a quieter time — no high-rise bridge, no interstate.
I was in high school and remember hearing the story, seeing pictures in the paper of the wrinkly beings that came out of the ship and sensing the massive reaction along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
You could follow it on radio stations at night — people looking for UFOs, people believing they saw them, hundreds of cars jamming an area when it was announced UFOs were expected.
My friends and I visited the site one night on a small road to an abandoned shipyard, but we didn’t get far into the area. Too dark, too creepy.
In town, families were putting aluminum foil in their windows or piling into cars to plow the marsh grass and reeds to check out the site for themselves.
It was scary if you thought about it for long. No one wanted to stay home alone at night. Parents either believed or scoffed and ridiculed.
The national media and talk shows ate it up. Only one of the men, Hickson, 42, made the circuit telling his story.
I remember my mother watching one talk show interview and sighing, embarrassed by his heavy accent, a way of talking that was so unremarkable in Mississippi but so foreign on the national stage.
Within six months, things had died down. I stayed on the fence. I didn’t see any reason to believe them. After all, the bridge tender for the U.S. 90 drawbridge didn’t see anything, and the men had described a ship 8 feet tall, emitting a bright blue light. It was so bright, Parker, 18, thought at first it was the police arriving to make them move off the property.
It’s been 45 years since Charlie Hickson and Calvin Parker reported being abducted by aliens while fishing at the former Shaupeter Shipyard in Pascagoula. The location has changed significantly since then but is near the U.S. 90 bridge in Pascagoula.
Amanda McCoy amccoy@sunherald.com
I didn’t feel the need to defend or deny it happened.
I moved away and went about my life.
In the early 1980s, my father went looking for Charlie Hickson and found him at a home in Gautier. Dad was satisfied that Hickson had met with aliens and was pleased to learn that Hickson, by then, had connected the experience to world peace and the realm of the spirit.
I moved back to the Mississippi Coast, married in 1987 and raised a family.
I hadn’t given the incident much thought until last year, when my 22-year-old son walked into our television room and practically yelled, “Why didn’t you tell me UFOs picked up two guys in Pascagoula?”
A gas station attendant told him about it. He looked it up before confronting us.
First probing
“You know the references to ‘probing’ you see in the movies today? That goes back to these two,” my son said.
Aliens moving a mechanical eye over a helpless human, checking them out in different positions started here? No, it wasn’t the first time aliens had picked up someone, I thought.
However, it appears this is when the idea of probing took off. Hickson and Parker’s story, an early abduction tale, grew legs and ran. Literally overnight, it received attention from around the world and aspects have been “embedded in popular culture” ever since.
So is the tale of Roswell, New Mexico, and its “alien” crash. Authorities say the Roswell UFO incident is the most written about, the most widely known and the most debunked. Still, that city has run with its distinction and draws tourists from around the world – alien eyes on the downtown light posts, a museum and alien-themed stores.
There’s not even a marker here.
Pascagoula is, however, thinking about its alien past. The Main Street coordinator is holding a book signing for Parker’s new book on Thursday. Maybe there will be a guided tour of the site next year.
We are proud to invite the citizens of Pascagoula to come out on October 11 to meet Calvin Parker and hear his story on the 45th anniversary of the encounter. Reserve your book by emailing mainstreetpascagoula@gmail.com before they're gone!
All along, Pascagoula seemed more curious, maybe embarrassed, but it hasn’t really embraced the story. At the time, locals shunned these men.
Oct. 11, 1973, is the anniversary of Hickson and Parker. It’s time to look at one of this area’s deepest mysteries. Here’s what I learned based on interviews with law enforcement, Parker, news reporters, locals and accounts published by Hickson and Parker.
A look at the facts
First, there were two people involved, whose accounts are very similar. And though one began telling his story right away and the other wrote his book 44 years later, the accounts have retained the same basic details.
(Hickson participated in a movie, talk shows and lectures and died in 2011. Parker dropped out of the UFO scene as quickly as he could and returned to Jones County. He pops up only a few times in connection with UFOs. A decade ago, he moved back to the Coast andpublished his account this year.)
The two men were more connected than was originally presented. Both were from Jones County.
Charlie Hickson was a foreman at F. B Walker and Sons Shipyard and hired Calvin Parker, 18, whose father was Hickson’s long-time friend. Their families shared meals when Parker was growing up.
Parker, a welder, had just come down from Jones County for a job and agreed to rent a room from Hickson and his wife at their apartment in Gautier, making Hickson both his boss and his landlord.
Hickson was a Korean War veteran who had experienced battles and Parker was a reticent teenager who respected his elders but thought for himself. He wanted to make extra money before he married a Jones County girl.
He had been on the job only one day.
Two different reactions
We’ve heard Hickson’s story. He would tell it at church gatherings. But Parker is the young man who walked away from the notoriety and went home to work the oil fields with his new wife in tow. He said every now and then someone would recognize him and he’d leave a job.
He wanted to earn a good living and live a normal life. He said he had money in his pocket when he came to the Coast to work and did well after. Though Hickson tried for years to make a living off the incident, Parker, now 64, says there were times when he paid Hickson’s electric bill to help him make ends meet toward the end of his life.
Parker is the one who looked so sullen and withdrawn in the well-known photo that shows them soon after the incident. He’s a dramatic contrast to Hickson.
In this Oct. 18, 1973 file photograph taken in Gautier, Miss., Charles Hickson, left, and Calvin Parker Jr., of Pascagoula, Miss., recount the experience of their alleged abduction by aliens from the banks of the Pascagoula River where they were fishing.
Gary Holland Mississippi Press via AP file
He was the one the sheriff’s deputies said was “climbing the walls” when left alone in an interrogation room to talk with Hickson.
It was Parker’s reaction that convinced law officers that something bad had happened. In the background, deputies could hear Parker begging Hickson, “Don’t talk to them Charlie, those people will come back and get us. They don’t want us to talk.”
Now that he looks back, he says he believes he was drugged by a mechanical creature. He described something like the effects of a date-rape drug that left him unable to move. There was a puncture in his left arm where something grasped onto him and he remembers a sound that went with the injection.
Parker was terrified he had been infected by alien beings or was radioactive and could harm people around him.
He was annoyed and astonished, angry and worn out and felt the incident wasn’t thoroughly investigated with attention to detail.
And when he was through with the interviews and interrogations that happened within days of the incident, he threw away the clothes and shoes he was wearing when it happened and bathed in bleach water before he returned to Jones County and home.
Sheriff’s Capt. Glenn Ryder was on duty when the call came in around 11 p.m.
Glenn Ryder was a captain with the Jackson County Sheriff’s department when he took the call from Charlie Hickson that he and Calvin Parker had allegedly been abducted by aliens. He investigated the call that night of October 11, 1973. He says he believes something happened to the two men that night.
Amanda McCoy amccoy@sunherald.com
The two men had tried the newspaper and say they called Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi before trying the Sheriff’s Office.
Originally, Parker asked Hickson to keep it quiet. He said, “I felt this case was personal and no one needed to know.”
But Hickson was determined to talk about it. They agreed that they would tell the officials that Parker passed out and didn’t remember anything, leaving Hickson clear to tell the story without contradiction.
More recently, Parker said he let that lie stand because “I wasn’t sure what had happened or who it was, so I didn’t want to go back home and say to people … ‘I took a ride on a spaceship.’”
Besides, he said, “I was supposed to be married in November.”
‘These things held me’
They were both devoted fishermen, but they disagree on where they started fishing that night.
They left work at 5 p.m., retrieved Hickson’s fishing equipment in Gautier and headed to the river.
Hickson said they started at the foot of the grain elevator (a huge landmark) and worked their way down to the pier at the old Shaupeter Shipyard.
Parker said they went straight to the Shaupeter pier, arriving about 6 p.m.
The entry road to the shipyard was rough going with high grass so they parked about 100 yards from the water and pushed their way through walking, Parker said.
They both said they had no way of keeping up with the time.
But between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., Parker was fed up with fishing there and wanted to leave.
They were between the U.S. 90 bridge and the CSX railroad bridge when it happened. Both bridges had bridge tenders that did not corroborate the story.
Parker said he turned around, saw “hazy blue lights” and thought police were looking at his car.
Charles Hickson stands at the site along the Pascagoula River where he claims he was abducted by a UFO. Photo taken Dec. 15, 1977 when he was being interviewed by a film crew.
Mike Ramsey Sun Herald file
It turned out to be a large, oval shaped craft about eight feet tall, Parker said, floating two feet off the ground.
When the door slid open, the light was blinding, like a welding arc, he said, and three gray creatures with wrinkled skin were on them in an instant, also floating two feet off the ground.
Two grabbed Hickson and one got hold of Parker’s left arm.
Both said they were paralyzed except for their eyes and were floated into the open door.
Inside was bright with no real fixtures. Both described being given a thorough going over with an electronic-type “eye” and being told through telepathy not to be afraid.
Hickson described a feeling of helplessness.
“These things held me while the eye scanned my whole body,” he has said.
The beings moved him so they could check him in different positions.
Parker reported a smaller, fourth being with big eyes that looked “more human-like” that he speculated had communicated with him.
They were returned to the river bank. Hickson was on the ground and conscious. Parker was standing and unable to put his arms down.
Hickson thought he might be in shock, like a man frozen in battle.
“The craft just went straight up and disappeared out of sight.”
‘I believe them’
The Pascagoula newspaper picked it up the next day from the morning sheriff’s reports, published it by mid-morning and the Associated Press sent it out nationally. But calls were already coming in to the Sheriff’s Office from media, so there’s a belief the incident was leaked.
The men were interviewed and scrutinized by UFO investigators within two days of reporting their story (one of them a professor of astronomy at Northwestern University who had been a consultant with the Air Force unit investigating UFOs called Blue Book). Keesler Air Force Base checked them for radiation and found none.
Their story was clear, reported quickly and believed.
The sheriff said he believed them. Later, Sheriff Fred Diamond modified his statement to say he believed Charles Hickson believed the story he was telling. That’s different from saying he believed two men were picked up by a space craft. But in one of his first press conferences on radio, he said. “I believe them.”
Diamond ordered a 2 ½ hour polygraph test, given by a New Orleans firm less than three weeks after the incident (Oct. 30, 1973).
The agent administering the test signed a statement that said, “It is my opinion that Charles Hickson told the truth” about the following things: He believes he saw a space ship, he believes he was taken into the space ship and he believes he saw three space creatures.
Hickson and Parker were probed, and before 1973, not too many people made that claim.
They were brought in, examined against their will and moved around so an electronic eye could check them out.
They each had a small puncture wound on one arm.
They were pioneers in UFO abduction.
Front page of The Daily Herald, now Sun Herald, on Oct. 12, 1973, after the alleged alien abduction
There was another early story on the East Coast. In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill claimed they were abducted, but it took years to sort out their case and for it to become mainstream. They now have a historical marker. Estelle Parsons and James Earl Jones played them in a 1970s TV movie.
Hickson and Parker told their story, and it blew up overnight. Within weeks, Hickson was on Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett late night talk shows. The Los Angeles Times and The Rolling Stone sent reporters. Papers around the world carried articles. Within seven days, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department logged more than 2,000 calls from the curious and the afraid and were approached for an interview by Tom Snyder’s talk show, “Tomorrow.”
At the time, pranks didn’t help matters. Men wrapped in aluminum foil strolled Beach Boulevard, someone launched shiny balloons in downtown and others rigged floating pranks in neighborhoods. The sheriff asked for help from federal agencies, but got little response.
The whole thing died down within six months and resurfaces on certain anniversaries, when the Associated Press or the Sun Herald would look for Calvin Parker and re-interview Charles Hickson.
Did it happen or not?
Others in town saw weird things around that same time.
Capt. Ryder said there were three sightings of an unexplained flash of light reported the night it happened, but he did not include those in the official police report.
He said the report was simple. He interviewed Hickson and Parker, checked out the site and found nothing.
Ryder said he later learned there had been sightings of unexplained lights all along the Coast in the nights before Hickson and Parker.
The Sun Herald found a retired professional from a local industry, who described in detail something she still can’t explain under the condition that she remain anonymous.
It was before Christmas 1973, about two months after Hickson and Parker.
She was standing outside her car at a gas station near Market Street and Ingalls Avenue in Pascagoula, when she and others saw a flaming object fly along the river.
“I was putting gas in my car and there were two or three others out of their cars. It was about 8 p.m., good and dark.
“For some reason, I was facing north and what I saw was on my left. We all looked … I don’t always remember things, but boy, I remember this.
“It started out up-river, at about the (U.S. 90) bridge and it came down to the beach, always over the river.”
She said it was just above the tree line and disappeared when it reached the beach. It lasted 3-4 seconds. But in that time, the object traveled more than a mile.
It flew over the spot where Hickson and Parker said they were abducted.
The image is so vivid that 45 years later, she can draw it — the shape of a hat with a stubby brim. It had flames all over it moving clockwise, not like a reentry trail. The object moved parallel to the river.
“We just looked at each other, put our eyes down and kept doing what we were doing,” she said. “We were all embarrassed for some reason.
“And to this day, I think why would we be embarrassed?” she said. “It was like somebody walked up and flashed you, and you’re like, ‘No, we didn’t see that.’”
Karen Nelson can be reached at 228-896-2310 or @NelsonNews_atSH
It’s been 45 years since Charlie Hickson and Calvin Parker reported being abducted by aliens while fishing at the former Shaupeter Shipyard in Pascagoula. Since then Calvin Parker, pictured, has kept a low-profile. That is until now. He has recently published a book about his experience. Amanda McCoyamccoy@sunherald.com
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department staff photo from near the time of the alleged alien abduction of Charlie Hickson and Calvin Parker. Courtesy of Glenn Ryder
Calvin Parker walks where he believed that a UFO landed 45 years ago and took him and Charlie Hickson aboard while they were fishing at the former Shaupeter Shipyard in Pascagoula. Parker has recently published a book about his experience. Amanda McCoyamccoy@sunherald.com
Thirty years after he was abducted by aliens on the shore of the Pascagoula River, Charles Hickson stood by his story until his death. His account of the story is told in the book, “UFO Contact at Pascagoula.” John FitzhughSun Herald file
It’s been 45 years since Charlie Hickson and Calvin Parker reported being abducted by aliens while fishing at the former Shaupeter Shipyard in Pascagoula. Since then Calvin Parker, pictured, has kept a low-profile. That is until now. He has recently published a book about his experience. Amanda McCoyamccoy@sunherald.com
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IS DIT DE REDEN DAT VOGELS DOOD NEERVALLEN?
IS DIT DE REDEN DAT VOGELS DOOD NEERVALLEN?
Enkele dagen geleden schreven wij een artikel over de vele vogels die zomaar dood uit de lucht vallen en waarbij het lijkt alsof ze tegen een muur zijn gevlogen.
Dat klinkt natuurlijk een beetje gek: een muur in de lucht of is er toch iets wat dit vreemde fenomeen kan verklaren?
Wij zijn gezegend met vele hele intelligente lezers die stuk voor stuk niet geprogrammeerd zijn door de propagandamachines en die omdat ze open staan voor dingen, vaak in staat zijn om complexe puzzels op te lossen.
Zoals het raadsel van de dode vogels, waarover wij enkele dagen geleden schreven.
Het volgende ontvingen wij van een lezer (dank!):
Sherlock Holmes zei ooit:
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" Ofwel, streep alles door wat géén optie is en je houdt over wat de waarheid is, ookal is die onwaarschijnlijk.
Dus wat gebeurt er NIET met die vogels, dat we weten.
-ze vliegen niet tegen een toren of mast aan -ze vliegen niet tegen een vliegtuig aan -ze zijn niet collectief ziek (waardoor ze op exact hetzelfde moment vallen)
Wat we wel weten is:
-het overkomt alle soorten vogels
-het lijkt te gaan om groepen vogels die op hetzelfde moment iets raken -het verschijnsel is zeer lokaal -ze vliegen tegen iets aan wat onzichtbaar is. -er zijn soms inwendige verbrandingseffecten, wat wijst op een sterk elektrisch veld.
Mijn conclusie daarom is:
Ze vliegen tegen een gecloakt ruimteschip aan, wat een sterk elektrisch veld nodig heeft om te blijven hangen. De vogels raken daartoe eerst het elektrische veld van een schip, daarna wellicht ook nog de romp.
Ik denk eigenlijk dat het veld alleen genoeg is om elektrisch gekookt te worden. Wellicht gaat het om een veld van een miljoen Watt of meer, wat op de grond de bekende 'Close encouters' effecten kan veroorzaken bij apparaten.
Onwaarschijnlijk?
Ja, maar wat is er vandaag de dag nou nog raar. Het vogelfenomeen koppel ik aan het gegeven dat ook steeds vaker vliegtuigen met iets onzichtbaars in botsing komen.
Tot zover de lezer.
Dat klopt inderdaad. Er zijn de laatste jaren ook opvallend veel meldingen van vliegtuigen die op grote hoogte met iets in botsing komen. Vaak veel te hoog om een vogelaanvaring of iets dergelijks te kunnen zijn.
Het verschijnsel doet zich voor van Amerika tot China.
Maar, als dat een mogelijke verklaring is voor de dode vogels, hoe zit het dan bijvoorbeeld met de massale vissensterfte?
Iemand had daarover het volgende idee (dank!):
UFO's zijn ook extreem aanwezig....... onder water! En daar zou ook best eens dit magnetische veld voor problemen kunnen zorgen en dan een volgende stap...... het zou ook wel eens de oorzaak kunnen zijn van de desoriëntatie van allerlei zeedieren die vervolgens stranden.
Inderdaad, want wat wij nogal eens geneigd zijn om te vergeten is dat er ook onderwater grote UFO activiteit plaatsvindt en er waarschijnlijk ook diverse onderwaterbases zijn van waaruit zij opereren.
Milton William Cooper werd ooit omschreven door Bill Clinton als: "De meest gevaarlijke man in Amerika". Dat was ook de reden dat hij uiteindelijk werd vermoord, omdat hij ondermeer bleef hameren op de betrokkenheid van de Amerikaanse regering bij de gebeurtenissen op 11 september dat jaar.
Cooper groeide op in een luchtmachtfamilie en daardoor bracht hij zijn jeugd door op allerlei verschillende plaatsen over de hele wereld. Bill ging later ook zelf in het leger, eerst bij de luchtmacht en later bij de marine. Hij kwam terug uit Vietnam als een onderscheiden veteraan, deed daarna verschillende dingen zoals het besturen van een kleine universiteit, hij opende een kunstgallerij en hield zich bezig met schrijven.
Zijn meest bekende boek is "Behold a Pale Horse", wat een gedetailleerde blik achter de schermen werpt van geheime genootschappen alsmede overheden die contact hebben met buitenaardsen.
Gedurende zijn tijd bij de marine, maakte hij een aantal dingen mee die voorgoed zijn leven zouden veranderen, zoals het volgende:
Hij was een erg avontuurlijke en een beetje gekke, nog jonge man en dacht dat het wel spannend zou zijn om werkzaam te zijn op een onderzeeër, waarvoor hij zich dan ook vrijwillig aanmeldde. Tijdens één van de oefeningen waren ze op weg van Portland/Seattle naar Pearl Harbor en had hij dienst op de uitkijk, waar hij zijn levensveranderende ontdekking deed met wat hij zag. Plotseling zag hij een schotel-achtig object vanuit de zee omhoog komen (ter grote van een vliegdekschip), die om zijn as draaide en meteen tussen de wolken verdween. Omdat wat hij zag gebeuren zich op ongeveer 2 zeemijl afstand van hem afspeelde, leek het langzaam te gaan, maar in feite ging het zeer snel omdat het uit het water kwam, om z`n as draaide en direct uit zicht was.
Hij melde het voorval dat hij iets gezien had bij zijn meerdere, waarop deze ook op dek kwam kijken. En warempel een paar minuten later komt datzelfde DING terug uit de lucht met volle snelheid, en verdween weer in zee zonder ook maar een spetter/plons te veroorzaken. Het was net of de zee zich opende waardoor het object zonder iets te raken erin kon vliegen. U moet zich voorstellen dat wat hij gezien had, zo groot was als een vliegdekschip en zoiets kan NOOIT in zee terechtkomen zonder ook maar een plons.... althans niet in de wereld zoals wij die kennen. Het ritueel herhaalde zich meerdere keren waarvan beide mannen ooggetuige waren.
In juni dit jaar is er opnieuw een rapport uitgelekt waarin inderdaad wordt bevestigd dat UFO’s of AVV’s zoals ze ook wel worden genoemd, net zo makkelijk onderwater bewegen als daar boven. AVV staat voor anomalous aerial verhicle, wat zoveel betekent als “afwijkend vliegend object”.
Zou dit de verklaring kunnen zijn voor de vele dode vogels en vissen? Een verhoogde UFO activiteit op en rondom de aarde, misschien in verband met de komende heftige periode waar deze planeet doorheen zal gaan?
LEES HIER HET EERSTE ARTIKEL!
ALSOF ZE TEGEN EEN ONZICHTBARE MUUR ZIJN GEVLOGEN ( VIDEO )
Sinds een aantal jaren kennen we het fenomeen van vogels die spontaan dood neervallen vanuit de lucht.
Nog steeds doet dit verschijnsel zich voor en de situatie begint alarmerend te worden, want verklaringen zijn er niet en het lijkt alsof deze dieren tegen een onzichtbare muur zijn gevlogen.
Iets waar in de mainstream media weinig of geen aandacht aan wordt geschonken is het fenomeen van dode dieren dat zich overal op onze planeet voor doet. Het is een verschijnsel dat al een aantal jaren bezig is en er lijkt maar geen einde aan te komen.
Iemand die veel ziet en hoort, niet in het minst dankzij zijn talrijke abonnees, is Tyler van het Youtube kanaal Secureteam.
In de onderstaande video vraagt Tyler zich lichtelijk wanhopig af wat er in 's hemelsnaam aan de hand is met/op onze wereld en dan met name de situatie van de vele dode vogels en ook andere dieren.
Zoals hij zegt zijn er de afgelopen jaren miljarden dieren om het leven gekomen en niemand heeft eigenlijk daarvoor een duidelijke reden kunnen vinden. Of als ze die wel hebben, dan wordt die zeker niet met het publiek gedeeld.
Het blijft een mysterieuze zaak met die vogels die zomaar spontaan dood uit de lucht lijken te vallen en soms met honderden tegelijk op een bepaalde locatie neer komen. Het gebeurt niet in een bepaald gebied, maar eigenlijk over de hele wereld en je hebt zelfs mensen die het dode vogels op het dak horen regenen.
Tyler weet te vertellen dat de vogels getraumatiseerd zijn en dat dit niet komt doordat ze op de grond zijn gevallen, maar wel omdat het lijkt alsof ze tegen een onzichtbare muur zijn gevlogen. Zo vliegen ze rond en zo opeens is daar iets dat ze niet zien en waar ze toch tegenaan klappen.
En keer op keer komen er zogenaamde experts die een onderzoek in zullen stellen met evenveel niet bevredigende antwoorden omtrent de oorzaak van dit alles. Dit is ook weer niet zo vreemd, want ze weten het gewoon niet.
Het fenomeen dode vogels is ook niet beperkt tot een bepaald soort vogel; het zijn werkelijk allemaal totaal verschillende exemplaren.
Om een indruk te krijgen waar we over praten, volgt hierna een lijst met gebeurtenissen betreffende dode dieren van de afgelopen maand.
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28th September 2018 - Large die off of various fish in the Cache la Poudre River, Colorado, America. Link
27th September 2018 - Hundreds of crabs washing up dead on Lee County beaches in Florida, America. Link
27th September 2018 - Hundreds of dead fish found in a river in Barco, Portugal. Link
24th September 2018 - 400 cattle dead due to drought and disease in Casitas, Peru. Link
23rd September 2018 - 750,000 fish die in a fish farm in Kolbeinagjogv, Faroe Islands. Link
22nd September 2018 - Tens of Thousands of dead fish wash ashore along a river in Hatay Province, Turkey. Link
21st September 2018 - 43,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Trilistnik, Bulgaria. Link
20th September 2018 - Hundreds of thousands of dead clams wash up on Revere Beach, Massachusetts, America. Link
20th September 2018 - Dozens of birds fall dead from sky, 'a mystery' in Tsawwassen, B.C, Canada. Link
18th September 2018 - 5,500 pigs and 3.4 Million chickens killed by Hurricane Florence in North Carolina, America. Link
17th September 2018 - 350 dead penguins found washed up on beaches in Parana, Brazil. Link
17th September 2018 - 3 dolphins dead after 11 stranded on a beach in Cornwall, England. Link
17th September 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash up due to red tide on Panama City beach, Florida, America. Link
17th September 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash up on a beach in Karachi, Pakistan. Link
14th September 2018 - 26,000 birds killed due to avian flu in California, America. Link
14th September 2018 - Thousands of fish die in a lake in Hanoi, Vietnam. Link
14th September 2018 - 70 dead penguins found washed up on beaches in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Link
13th September 2018 - Hundreds of dead fish wash up on a beach in Texas, America. Link
11th September 2018 - 30,000 birds killed due to bird flu in Tuaran district, Malaysia. Link
10th September 2018 - 33 TONS of dead fish wash up, due to red tide in Pinellas, Florida, America. Link
9th September 2018 - 150 cattle dead from anthrax in 3 villages in Turkey. Link
7th September 2018 - 58 dead whales have now washed up the past 2 months in Ireland and Scotland. Link
4th September 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash up in Provincetown, Mass., America. Link
Tyler heeft nog meer alarmerende berichten over de stand van het wild in de wereld. Zo schijnt het dat over slechts twee jaar tweederde van alle in het wild levende dieren en insecten verdwenen zullen zijn.
Dit zijn meer dan schokkende berichten, want dat betekent dat we letterlijk leven op een stervende planeet.
Iets veroorzaakt dit alles. Is het de mens en de roekeloze manier waarop er met de aarde wordt omgesprongen of is het toch iets anders?
Weird UFO emitting bright light filmed by Beijing Residents
Weird UFO emitting bright light filmed by Beijing Residents
A mysterious UFO emitting a white light was captured on film by stunned onlookers across China on Thursday evening, in what appears to be the result of some unknown high-altitude craft activity over Beijing.
Similar sightings were reported in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and northwestern Shaanxi Province.
According to RT some speculated that it may have been the failed Soyuz mission carrying Roscosmos and NASA astronauts to the ISS, but that took place at 4:40pm China Standard Time Thursday, and the UFO sightings weren't reported until around 7pm local time.
One expert said it resulted from exhaust gas released by a man-made aircraft flying at an altitude high enough to reflect sunbeams while others suggest it was missile test launched from Taiyuan.
Below a video of the captivating spiral effect left in the wake of the unknown craft.
Scientists have built an amoeba-like robot with 32 individually controlled legs in a bid to find the perfect combination of stability and control.
The theory for the unusual robot comes from previous experience with robot building that found a robot with more legs is often easier to control.
The robot is called Mochibot and is based on a shape called a rhombic triacontahedron - a polyhedron with 32 vertices and 30 faces made of rhombuses (or rhombi).
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The robot Mochibot (pictured) and is based on a shape called a rhombic triacontahedron - a polyhedron with 32 vertices and 30 faces made of rhombuses (or rhombi)
The ideal shape for an robot that can travel in any direction at any moment is a sphere.
However, this shape is flawed because they rely on only a single point of contact with the floor, making the machine unstable.
Mochibot is based on a sphere but the team made some improvements to make it easier to control.
Its deformability allows it to adapt to the terrain and how much ground contact it has.
The innovative design moves by retracting the arms inthe direction of motion and simultaneously extending arms on the other side.
To stop it flattens itself out parallel to the ground, as per IEEE Spectrum.
The deformability comes from the individually telescoping legs as each one is made of three sliding rails (which behave like linear actuators).
This allows them to extend to just over half a meter in length or contract to less than a quarter meter.
In practice, these extreme differences are not practical and the maximum diameter of Mochibot is about a meter (40 inches).
It weighs 10 kilograms (22 pounds) including the batteries, and has plenty of room inside for a payload.
A variety of cameras, sensors, or sampling devices could be integrated into the arms.
It’s somewhat similar to one of the tensegrity robots that Nasa has been working on for a while but Mochibot isn’t squishy in the same way that a tensegrity robot is.
The Nasa robot can survive being thrown from a roof, the Mochibot is not quite this durable.
Tensegrity robots locomote by flopping over themselves in a series of motions so complex that it’s taken machine-learning algorithms to figure out how to get them to move efficiently.
This makes them unfathomably complicated and very difficult to steer in a particular direction.
Mochibot’s big advantage over a tensegrity robot is that it can move smoothly and continuously in any direction you like by altering its shape.
Nasa said in a report on its tensegrity robots: 'Nasa desires lightweight, deployable and reliable devices.
'Thus, the long term goal of this work is to develop actively controlled tensegrity structures and devices, which can be deployed from a small volume and used in a variety of applications including limbs used for grappling and manipulating the environment or used as a stabilizing and balancing limb during extreme terrain access.'
The maximum diameter of Mochibot (pictured) is about a meter (40 inches). It weighs 10 kilograms (22 pounds) including the batteries, and has plenty of room inside for a payload. A variety of cameras, sensors, or sampling devices could be integrated into the arms
It’s somewhat similar to one of the tensegrity robots that Nasa has been working on for a while but Mochibot (pictured) isn’t squishy in the same way that a tensegrity robot is. The Nasa robot can survive being thrown from a roof, the Mochibot is not quite this durable
The plethora of legs give the urchin-like robot an advantage over wheeled exploration robots as well as all directions can be optimal for movement, rather than just forward and backward.
The designers also suggest that Mochibot is better at dealing with deformable terrain like sand or loose rock, because its method of rolling locomotion is much less traction dependent.
For applications like planetary exploration or disaster response, Mochibot has the potential to be a versatile platform.
Mochibot has the potential to be a versatile platform. It’s highly mobile, very redundant, and looks like it could manage a hefty science payload
It’s highly mobile, very redundant, and looks like it could manage a hefty science payload.
The next step is to experiment with different kinds of terrain, making sure that Mochibot can roll itself up and down slopes and over rocks and gullies without any problems.
Robots are an integral part of life and they continue to cease the attention of the public with the ever-widening guises and uses they come in.
Boston dynamic's robo-dog went viral when a video surfaced of the machine climbing stais and opening doors.
Since then the company has developed a humanoid robot called Atlas.
According to the company, Atlas is a 'high mobility, humanoid robot designed to negotiate outdoor, rough terrain'.
Atlas measures 1.5m (4.9ft) tall and weighs 75kg (11.8st).
WHAT IS BOSTON DYNAMICS' ATLAS HUMANOID ROBOT?
Atlas the most human-like robot in Boston Dynamic's line-up.
It was first unveiled to the public on 11 July 11 2013.
According to the company, Atlas is a 'high mobility, humanoid robot designed to negotiate outdoor, rough terrain'.
Atlas measures 1.5m (4.9ft) tall and weighs 75kg (11.8st).
The humanoid walks on two legs, leaving its arms free to lift, carry, and manipulate objects in its environment.
Atlas is able to hold its balance when it is jostled or pushed by an external force. Should it fall over, the humanoid robot is capable of getting up again on its own
Stereo vision, range sensing and other sensors allow Atlas to walk across rough terrain and keep its balance.
'In extremely challenging terrain, Atlas is strong and coordinated enough to climb using hands and feet, to pick its way through congested spaces,' Boston Dynamics claims.
Atlas is able to hold its balance when it is jostled or pushed.
If the humanoid robot should fall over, it can get up on its own.
Atlas is designed to help emergency services in search and rescue operations.
The robot will be used to shut-off valves, opening doors and operate powered equipment in environments where human rescuers could not survive.
The US Department of Defence said it has no interest in using Atlas in warfare.
Executive producer and writer David O’Leary told a panel at Comic-Con this week, ‘On the subject of UFOs, part of the story is the cover-up, the lying, the misinformation campaign to control public perception.’
Aidan Gillen participates in History’s “Project Blue Book” panel (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Aidan Gillen participates in History’s “Project Blue Book” panel
(Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
In one chilling encounter, Air Force pilots encountered radar blips which seemed to ‘disappear’ every time their planes got near in 1952.
In Project Blue Book, researchers led by a former astronomy professor, J Allen Hynek (played by Gillen) analysed 12,618 UFO sightings.
While the research officially concluded that there were no aliens, Hynek became a passionate believer in UFOs, who wrote books on the subject and founded the Center for UFO Studies.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said, ‘The USAF set up Project Blue Book on 25 March 1952. It had a policy of demystifying UFO reports and its powers to investigate cases were severely reduced.
‘Blue Book became the public face for official UFO investigations, but it mainly operated as a repository of information and an outlet for debunking cases.
‘After collecting 12,618 sighting reports, of which 701 remained unsolved, it ended on 30 January 1970, based on the view that: “Careful consideration of the record as it is available to us leads us to conclude that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.’It’s worth noting, however, that the Project Blue Book archives are now freely available online – and they don’t contain any evidence of crashed spaceships or alien autopsies.
Watson, says, ‘At least 10,000 UFO reports collected by the US, Project Blue Book, have been put online and many other governments have released their UFO files.
Photo NewsDe lancering in Kazachstan liep gisteren mis.
WETENSCHAPDe twee bemanningsleden van de Sojoez-capsule die gisteren een noodlanding moest maken, zullen in het voorjaar van 2019 opnieuw naar het internationaal ruimtestation ISS kunnen gaan. Dat heeft het Russische ruimtevaartagentschap Roskosmos meegedeeld.
De lancering op de basis Bajkonoer in Kazachstan was gisteren misgelopen. De capsule kon gelukkig wel een noodlanding maken. De twee inzittenden -Nick Hague en Alexey Ovchinin- bleven ongedeerd. Ze keren vandaag terug naar Moskou.
“Die jongens zullen zeker vliegen”, laat de directeur van Roskosmos via Twitter weten. “We plannen hun vlucht in het voorjaar van volgend jaar.”
De bemande lanceringen van Sojoez-raketten worden opgeschort tot de juiste oorzaak van het ongeval bekend is. Daardoor dreigt ook het schema voor de bemanningswissels in het ISS in de war te raken.
Roskosmos benadrukt wel dat het in principe mogelijk is om het internationaal ruimtestation onbemand achter te laten. “In theorie kan het ISS zonder bemanning worden gelaten. Er is een onbemande procedure vastgelegd”, zegt Sergei Krikalyov, de Roskosmos-directeur voor de bemande ruimtevluchten. “Maar we zullen al het mogelijke doen om dat te vermijden.”
Uitstel van experimenten
De verschillende experimenten aan boord van het ISS zullen in ieder geval wel vertraging oplopen. Dat zegt het Europees ruimtevaartagentschap ESA. Hoeveel experimenten exact beïnvloed worden, is nog niet duidelijk. De tests zullen wel degelijk plaatsvinden, maar op een later tijdstip benadruk ESA-topman Jan Wörner.
De drie astronauten die zich op dit moment in het ruimtestation bevinden, voeren onder meer testen uit naar het effect van gewichtloosheid op mensen.
REUTERSAlexey Ovchinin en Nick Hague met tussenin Dmitry Rogozin, de directeur van Roskosmos.
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Chinese soldaat ziet vliegende schotel crashen op legerbasis. Dit zei hij over de inzittenden
Chinese soldaat ziet vliegende schotel crashen op legerbasis. Dit zei hij over de inzittenden
Enkele dagen geleden verscheen op de website van het Amerikaanse National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) een buitengewoon waarnemingsverslag.
Het gaat om een waarneming die op 30 juni 1997 is gedaan op een legerbasis in de Chinese provincie Shanxi, en die op 27 september jongstleden is gemeld door een Chinese oud-soldaat.
De gepensioneerde Chinese soldaat was naar eigen zeggen getuige van een UFO-crash op de basis.
Twee gewonde aliens
De crash trok veel aandacht, gezien de locatie en het feit dat er twee gewonde aliens zouden zijn geborgen.
Op de bewuste dag zag de soldaat van het 28e Leger een vliegende schotel crashen op de basis. Hij rende naar de rampplek en zag een zilverkleurig object ter grootte van een satellietschotel.
Hij schatte dat de UFO zo’n twee meter hoog en zes meter breed was.
De UFO leek aan de buitenkant niet beschadigd te zijn, wat erop wijst dat het object waarschijnlijk niet uit de lucht is geschoten door het Chinese leger.
Vacht
De soldaat dacht dat de UFO mogelijk was geraakt door de bliksem, aangezien het die avond onweerde.
De deur van de UFO was open en ernaast lagen twee slanke aliens, waarvan één dood of bewusteloos leek te zijn. De andere alien was zwaargewond.
De twee aliens waren ongeveer een meter lang en hun huid was bedekt met een vacht. De wezens leken volgens de soldaat een beetje op buidelratten.
Hij voegde toe dat de bewusteloze alien van het mannelijke geslacht was en de zwaargewonde van het vrouwelijke.
Onbekende taal
Toen hij de gecrashte UFO naderde, sprak de gewonde aliens in een onbekende taal tegen hem. Hij was te bang om nog dichterbij te komen.
Later die avond werden de wrakstukken en gewonde aliens geborgen door de militaire politie. De hele basis werd afgesloten.
Alle getuigen kregen te horen dat ze hierover geen informatie naar buiten mochten brengen.
Onderzoek
Wat er met de gewonde aliens en gecrashte UFO is gebeurd, is onbekend. Eén ding is duidelijk: de Chinese overheid doet net als andere overheden onderzoek naar buitenaardse technologieën.
De Chinese overheid heeft nog geen commentaar gegeven op deze vermeende crash.
Disturbing Claim – US Officials Hold Secret UFO Investigations and Tests At Ranch
Disturbing Claim – US Officials Hold Secret UFO Investigations and Tests At Ranch
Alleged leaked documents have revealed that the US Department of Defence has done multiple undercover tests at the widely known UFO sighting area.
Skinwalker ranch has become the hotbed of UFO sightings with residents reporting a series of bizarre incidents.
In 2017, the former secret UFO study under the US Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was first made public.
Now, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) has presented documents revealing the programme also operated a secret investigation at the controversial Skinwalker ranch.
The BAASS manager said that their investigation offered new lines of proof showing that the UFO phenomenon was a lot more than machines that military aircraft encountered.
BAAS claimed that the phenomenon also involved mysterious creatures, invisible entities, poltergeist activity, orbs of light, animal and human injuries and much more.
Jeremy Corbell of Extraordinary Beliefs revealed the more extensive investigation of Pentagon looked into mysteries far more disturbing and profound than alleged alien aircraft. Jeremy explained that Pentagon’s other research focuses on a living laboratory and paranormal hotspot called Skinwalker Ranch.
Last year, American investigative journalist George Knapp revealed the secret document but claimed they left out some critical information.
Mr Corbell and Mr Knapp have produced an exclusive documentary “Hunt for the Skinwalker’ recounting Mr Knapp’s series of investigations at Skinwalker ranch.
Mr Knapp said that the documentary was like a paranormal Disneyland, focusing weird activities that took place on and around the ranch for hundreds if not thousands of years. Sightings include poltergeist-type activity, animal mutilations, unknown creatures, orbs, UFOs and several other inexplicable events.
“We’ve found 20 fast radio bursts in a year, almost doubling the number detected worldwide since they were discovered in 2007.”
They’re ba-ack! Well, actually, they never went away. Neither did the theories (or hopes) that they’re signals from or sign of alien life. We’re talking, of course, about fast radio bursts – those rare and mysterious millisecond pulses from deep space that have baffled astronomers since the first one was discovered in 2007. An excited Dr. Ryan Shannon from the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia co-authored a new studyin Nature describing the recent discovery of more FRBs, including both the closest and the brightest bursts seen so far. Are they any closer to a bright answer as to what they are?
“Our analysis shows that beams used for powering large light sails could yield parameters that are consistent with FRBs.”
In a different study published in 2017, Manasvi Lingam and Abraham Loeb speculated that the fast radio bursts are signs that extraterrestrials think like we do about using light sails and laser beams to traverse the stars, only on a much bigger scale. That’s tough to prove for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that fact that, at the time, only 36 FRBs had been detected. That number is now 56 with the new discoveries by Shannon and his team using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder to scan a much wider piece of the sky than in previous searches. While their cause has not been determined (yet), the new study shed light on where FRBs are coming from.
Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
“Using the new technology of the Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), we’ve also proved that fast radio bursts are coming from the other side of the Universe rather than from our own galactic neighbourhood.”
In a statement from The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Shannon explains that timing the wavelengths as they reached the telescope told them how far the bursts had traveled, along with how much matter they passed through. The big reveal was that the FRBs are coming from galaxies outside of our own. Almost as exciting, when extrapolating what the ASKAP might find if it were able to scan the entire sky at once, they determined that FRBs are arriving at a rate between 30 and 45 per day. Finally, the bursts seem to have an upper threshold of energy, indicating that whatever is creating them has some limits.
So, the discovery of so many more fast radio bursts is big, but far from moving us any closer to determining what … or who … is sending them. “From where?” will probably be solved as the scanning continues. The rest will have to wait … unless a giant sail suddenly shows up.
Throughout human history and across cultures there has been one aspect of the paranormal world that has seemingly always been with us, that of ghosts, wraiths, specters, whatever you want to call them. These apparitions have always roamed about the periphery of our understanding, lurking in the shadows and the spooky places of our world to incite wonder, speculation, and of course fear and terror. Yet for all of their pervasiveness throughout the world and their presence upon the landscape of the human psyche, there has always been a profound question lingering, and that is: just what exactly are ghosts? What is their nature and what place do they hold in reality as we know it? The question of just what ghosts are has been contemplated, discussed, and debated for a very long time, but what answers do we really have, and do you think you know the solution? Here are just some of the musings on what these mysterious entities might be.
The most traditional idea, and the one most pervasive among most people, is the idea that ghosts are the spirits of the dead, that the soul has somehow transcended the death of the physical body to continue on to inhabit our realm for reasons unknown. In this view, ghosts are basically us, just living on into the afterlife while tethered to the world of the living for reasons we cannot comprehend. Maybe they are unwilling to “move on,” or maybe it is that some tragedy or unfulfilled goal has fueled some power to linger on the physical plane. When people think of ghosts, this is perhaps the most common vision that many will have, and how most people would probably define them, that they are our lost dead.
One of the interesting conundrums about this particularly prevalent idea, other than the fact there is no proof at all that anything survives us after death, is that there are innumerable religions, faiths, each with ideas on the afterlife as varied as the cultures who believe them. In some there is a form of Heaven or some form of Hell, some new realm away from the we are in now, while in others we are reincarnated or even become one with the universe. There is often little mention, if any, of wandering spirits loitering about Earth and interacting with it, or details on what those spirits should be like. There is also the oddity that despite all of these different ideas on death and the afterlife, regardless of the differences ghostly phenomena are often remarkably similar across the spectrum in many ways, so what are we to make of this? Is there any chance that ghosts are not the spirits of the living at all, and if not what could they be?
One alternative idea to the theory of ghosts as the spirits of the dead involves the concept that these are not independent entities at all, but rather a sort of echo of what once was. Commonly referred to as “residual hauntings,” the basic idea is that for some reason past events have been imprinted upon the building or the landscape and are merely playing back like images on camera film, or sounds on an audiotape, residual memories of a time lost. In this theory, what we see are not spirits in the traditional sense at all, but more like watching a video, with the film being the area around it.
This theory is especially applied to those cases wherein the apparitions seem to mindlessly repeat the same series of actions over and over again, perhaps for all eternity, and do not seem to realize that they are being watched or that they are dead, no more than an image on film “knows” it is being looked at. Why and how these particular past events should have been transplanted onto the landscape, as well as how they are played back, are unknown, but there has been speculation. For instance, it has been postulated that death, pain, suffering, tragedy, and other events involving strong emotions might somehow stain the location, imprint upon it, and cause these incidents to be replayed, and this fits in with hauntings often occurring at places where something terrible has happened. There is also the idea that the composition of the surrounding soil or rocks itself may have some part to play in these residual hauntings. Are ghosts perhaps, at least in some cases, merely history playing back on an endless loop?
Another intriguing theory is that ghosts do not come from the outside world atb all, but rather from within. In this line of reasoning, ghosts are not a product of supernatural energy or strange forces of nature, but are rather extensions of the mind reaching out through little understood psychic powers, creating seemingly real constructs projected onto the physical world solely through the power of the subconscious mind. These thought forms are often referred to as tulpas, and can even be generated by people who are not even aware that they are doing it, the forms often appearing to materialize or vanish at will, depending on the mental state of the individual or individuals projecting them.
An interesting historical example of a ghost as a tulpa occurred in the 1960s, when a paranormal researcher by the name of Hanz Holzer was looking into a series of hauntings in the building at 12 Gay Street, in New York City, which involved an apparition most commonly described as a tall gentleman dressed in black formal clothing and with a top hat, black cape, and cane. This phantom was said to walk about the darkened premises and surrounding area at night startling people only to disappear, Holzer would go on to publish the case in his 1966 paranormal book Yankee Ghosts, and this is where things get rather bizarre indeed.
According to an author named Walter B. Gibson, he had lived in that very same building not long before Holzer began his investigation. Gibson claimed that he had been living there in order to do research for an installment for his series of novels starring a Batman-like crime fighter called The Shadow. So absorbed was he in his writing and in envisioning The Shadow roaming about the streets and the premises that he would often even hallucinate his character, who just happened to wield a cane and wear formal evening clothes, a cape, and a top hat. The author likely would have attributed this to pure tiredness and obsession with his character if he had not happened to read Holzer’s book. He was immediately taken aback by the similarities between the ghost and his character, as well as the fact that the sightings were taking place in the exact same place he had lived while writing his novel at around the same time, and he became convinced that what had been seen was an actual projection of his character from his mind, which had somehow been transferred into reality.
Related to the idea of these thought forms materializing into reality from the mind are mental powers running amok in other ways. For instance, it is believed even among many paranormal researchers that some poltergeist infestations could be caused by psychokinetic energy, that is, the mind reaching out to touch the physical world, unleashed to cause disturbances such as moving objects or anomalous noises. As with some cases of tulpas, these outbursts can strike out even without the knowledge of the person producing them, but they usually follow some general tendencies, for instance in most cases, psychokinetic poltergeist activity originates with younger individuals, and is most likely linked to some inner turmoil, stress, or emotional strife. This sort of ghostly activity is typically not confined to any one location, as it is tethered to a person or persons, and it could be a possible explanation of “hauntings” that follow a family from place to place.
Even more outlandish than any of those theories is the idea that ghostly phenomena come from neither our physical or mental worlds, but rather a whole other realm beyond ours entirely. The idea has to do with the concept of multiple dimensions, parallel realities beyond our own that may bump up against ours and may even allow us to travel between them. This idea is dependent on the theory that rather than just one reality or physical universe as we know it, there is “multiverse” of many other, possibly even infinite other universes that all lie side by side with each other, but which are generally imperceptible to us. If this is so, then the reasoning is that inhabitants of these parallel dimension may bleed over into ours or even intentionally break through the mysterious veil that separates us from time to time.
The researcher and author John Keel, as well as UFOlogist Jacques Vallée, were among the first in the paranormal world to suggest the link between multiple dimensions and paranormal phenomena when they theorized that UFOs and their occupants may not be from other faraway planets, but rather from parallel dimensions next to our own, beings that he termed “ultra-terrestrials.” This basic concept would later be expanded to include a possible explanation for all manner of paranormal phenomena, from strange entities, to ghosts, demons, and even cryptids or out of place animals. In this case, these phenomena are proposed as being caused by the denizens of these other universes bursting forth into our own, intentionally or otherwise.
With ghostly phenomena this interdimensional angle could go down a few different ways. It could be that these entities are somehow becoming temporarily entangled with our reality, where they are sighted and even interact with our physical world before vanishing back to their own, which could very well be seen as ghosts or phantoms by witnesses. Or it could be that these are basically those ultra-terrestrials Keel spoke of, dimensional travelers coming to visit us for reasons unknown, but in this case rather than coming down in spaceships or UFOs they are appearing as ghosts, wraiths, and specters. It has even been theorized that aliens, ghosts, and other strange entities might all be basically the same thing, merely appearing differently to different individuals depending on witness expectations. So, if they think they are being abducted by aliens, that is what the entities appear as, whereas in a spooky old house they may appear as ghosts because that is what the witness is keyed up for.
With apparitions of recognizable people or those who have died, this could also be indicative of other parallel dimensions that are nearly identical to ours, but a bit different. One of the theories of the multiverse is that there may very well be countless versions of our own dimension, with many of them almost the same but with some subtle or profound differences. For instance, there could be a reality where you wore a red shirt today instead of blue, where you made different choices, have a different job, or where you don’t even exist. Maybe in one reality a different team won the World Series, the Beatles never broke up, or one where dinosaurs never went extinct. Maybe a person who died in your own universe didn’t die in that one, but yet still inhabits the same place, where they go about life overlaid on this version of reality where they died. It this case, it is speculated, they might sort of overflow into our dimension from time to become visible for short durations or with a somewhat intangible or unearthly quality, only to fade away, making us think we’ve seen someone’s spirit rather than just a version of them from a different timeline.
These have so far been ideas that are far from proven and remain mostly in the realm of conjecture and speculation, so what of other, more scientifically grounded explanations for ghosts? One popular theory in recent times has been that ghosts and similar entities could have their basis in naturally occurring phenomena rather than the supernatural, and that the main culprit could be what are known as ultra-low frequency soundwaves, or infrasound. These are sounds that register just below the threshold of human hearing, but which our bodies sense and are affected by all the same. Infrasound is known to create a wide range of physical and mental effects, including disorientation, dizziness, shortness of breath, faintness, increased heart rate and blood pressure, and nausea, as well as emotional and mental effects including fear, sorrow, panic, and anxiety, and also effects on perception, like both aural and visual hallucinations, and since the one being affected cannot actually hear what is causing the disturbances, it could very well seem like the work of supernatural beings. Infrasound is actually quite common in nature as well, created by all manner of physical forces such as earthquakes, volcanoes, waves crashing upon rocks, wind, rain, and thunder, so perhaps the ghosts are really all in our head, the result of natural forces that we can’t hear.
There is also the idea that our minds can play tricks on our perceptions in other ways as well. One good example would be some studies that show that electrical stimulation of certain areas of the brain can create a profound sense of other entities nearby or of “shadow people” lurking about taunting us. There was once interesting case illustrating this in action that was published in the journal Nature, which was carried out by researchers from University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, and described the case of an epilepsy patient who witnessed a separate entity in the room with her when a region of the brain known as the temporoparietal junction was stimulated.
The woman apparently perceived this shadow figure as a very real autonomous entity separate from herself, rather than just a hallucination, and she often complained that the entity would touch her or embrace her. In some experiments this shadow person was described as interfering with her tasks, such as trying to pull cards out of her hands or distracting her in other ways. This strange phenomenon likely has to do with a crossing of the wires in this part of the brain, which distinguishes oneself from others, and one researcher in the study would say of the patient and the study:
Electrical stimulation repeatedly produced a feeling of the presence of another person in her extra-personal space, a shadow who did not speak or move, and whose position beneath her back was identical to her own. The strange sensation that somebody is nearby when no one is actually present has been described by psychiatric and neurological patients, as well as by healthy subjects. Our findings may be a step towards understanding the mechanisms behind psychiatric manifestations such as paranoia, persecution and alien control.
Similarly, ghostly phenomena could be the result of a range of optical illusions or hallucinations that emerge for a myriad of reasons. Psychological circumstances, stress, sleep deprivation, sleep paralysis, hypnagogia, or when a person is in a dream-like state halfway between sleep and waking, schizophrenia, drugs, side effects of medication, these can all combine with trigger visual cues such as a spooky locale to perhaps produce the perception of paranormal phenomena. The phenomenon known as pareidolia, wherein the human brain tries to make sense of random patterns by giving them a recognizable identity, could also play a role, in that something half glimpsed in one’s peripheral vision could be misconstrued as something more supernatural in nature. Combined with an over active imagination, visual cues, and an expectation to see something strange, all of these things could possibly contribute to experiences of ghostly phenomena when in fact there is nothing really there at all. Is it possible that ghosts are just all in our head?
In the end it is perhaps impossible to explain the full range of ghostly phenomena with any one of these factors. Ghosts seem to be an area of the paranormal that is a lot more varied, nuanced, and complicated than it may at first seem, to the extent that to call something a “ghost” might be considered akin to calling a “dog” a “vertebrate.” The permutations and possible descriptions are vast. There are many factors at play here, all equally strange and all intertwined to the point that they may never be unraveled. What we can be sure of is that people since time unremembered have experienced ghostly phenomena, beyond the scope of mere tall tales and hoaxes, and something truly odd is going on, whatever that may be.
During its brief trip through our solar system, the interstellar space object named ’Oumuamua was at one time or another speculated to be an asteroid, a comet or a spaceship that may or may not be occupied by living beings. It has since left the solar system for destinations unknown, but the arguments about what it is continue. The latest theory replaces “none of the above” with “an ejected protoplanetary disk object.” A what?
The interstellar object ’Oumuamua raced through the solar system a year ago. Astronomers continue to argue about what it is made of.
Its rare cigar shape made ’Oumuamua a puzzle from the start, as did its rotation, which American football-loving astronomers described as not a tight quarterback spiral but a botched end-over-end field goal kick. (Female astronomers assumed their best Captain Picard facepalm poses.) This caused speculation that the object may have been involved in a violent interstellar collision. While its seemingly dry surface said ‘asteroid’, the erratic spin said ‘comet’. This theory was strengthened with other observations that the object seemed to accelerate on its way out, implying it was getting some sort of boost from gases released when the icy surface melted on its close turn around the Sun.
Not football references again!
That was accepted for a while, until it was pointed out that comets have tails and ’Oumuamua didn’t even have a Doberman’s nub, let alone a gaseous trail or fuzzy aura about it. Also, that acceleration combined with the tumbling rotation should have broken a cigar of ice and dirt apart. Then there’s the fact that this was the first interstellar object ever discovered. What kind of force could have propelled it across light years from one sun to another?
“Basically, it’s a messenger from a dead star.”
In a new study, Roman Rafikov, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge, proposes that ’Oumuamua is actually a sliver of a planet that was blown to pieces as its sun collapsed and died and transformed into a white dwarf. In an interview with Quanta magazine and in the study’s abstract, Rafikov builds his case by process of process of elimination of other causes combined with a comparison to the behavior of other tidal disruption events like the death of a star and destruction of its planets.
“Based on these arguments, as well as the lack of direct signs of outgassing, we conclude that the classification of ‘Oumuamua as a comet (invoked to explain its claimed anomalous acceleration) is questionable.”
Exploding star captured by Kepler space telescope.
Well … that settles it — ‘Oumuamua is a messenger from a dead star. Or is it? There’s little chance of tracing it back to its white dwarf because the event occurred millions of years ago. The data on it is limited because it showed up unexpectedly, was not detected until it was leaving and passed through in a hurry. At best, astronomers are hoping to spot another one in the future with a better telescope.
In the meantime, Outgassing would make a great name for a band whose first prog-rock album is “Messenger From A Dead Star.”
I thought they’d been shot. I didn’t realize what had happened. There were parts missing — they were mutilated.
Arizona rancher John Mahan discovered a cow and a bull mysteriously killed and mutilated on his property near the Grand Canyon. Both animals had organs removed including their reproductive organs, and both were drained of blood. Curiously, as in similar cases of unexplained cattle mutilations, there were no tracks and very little blood found around the animals’ carcasses. Who could have done this to these cows?
I just assumed they had been shot. I didn’t realize what had happened to them until the inspector showed me. They didn’t take any edible meat, just the genitals.
Why is it always the genitals? In most of these cases, the sex organs of the animals are surgically removed, sometimes including the entire anal or vaginal cavity. Who – or what – would go to such lengths while leaving the other choice cuts of meat?
Maybe things that don’t meat.
Arizona Livestock Inspector Royal Reidhead examined the dead animals, and says he knew right away that something was amiss when he saw the carcasses. “These animals weren’t shot, these animals were mutilated,” Reidhead told Williams-Grand Canyon News, “They were basically killed for their body parts.” Even stranger, the animals’ carcasses weren’t touched by scavenger animals as they lay undiscovered for a week after their brutal mutilation.
Reidhead has seen several similar cattle mutilations in the Grand Canyon area of Arizona, and says that the wounds inflicted on the animals are always surgically precise and leave behind little blood. While Reidhead believes that poachers are mutilating these animals, I just have to wonder why someone would go to the lengths of surgically removing only a few organs and leaving the rest to rot in the sun. Again – why the genitals? Do people eat those?
Livestock mutilations remain one of the weirdest unexplained phenomena.
Even stranger, how could someone go about draining these animals’ blood and removing their organs without leaving as much as a single footprint or drop of blood? As much as I try to remain skeptical about alien abductions and similar alleged phenomena, these cattle mutilations always leave me wondering what on Earth or off Earth is capable of such clean, precise surgeries with no discernible evidence. But why would aliens be so interested in cow genitals?
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An investigation revealed that John Mahan's bull died after being tranquilized and dismembered.
Astronauts escape Soyuz Rocket after major launch failure on way to ISS
Astronauts escape Soyuz Rocket after major launch failure on way to ISS
On August 30 a small leak was spotted in a Russian-made capsule on the International Space Station (ISS) and the astronauts were instructed to search for the air leak. They found it, a 2mm-wide breach and while till now it remains a mystery it is said that the hole has been deliberately drilled in a section of the Soyuz capsule.
Today, October 11, 2018 another and more serious incident has happened with a Soyuz rocket.
According to Russianspaceweb the launch of the Soyuz MS-10 at 4:40 a.m. EDT this morning run into a "booster problem" near the time of the first-stage separation around two minutes after liftoff.
The spacecraft entered a "ballistic reentry mode" according to NASA. Rescue helicopters lifted off from Baikonur in the direction of the projected emergency landing site.
Around 5:20 a.m. EDT The crew, the American Nick Hague and the Russian Alexei Ovchinin were forced to make an emergency landing.
The spacecraft landed about 20-25 kilometers from Zhezkazgan, central Kazakhstan. Reports say both survived.
The live broadcast of the launch appears to show much debris separating from the rocket around two minutes after the launch.
Now these artifacts were found by a close friend of mine and UFO researcher Christian Mace in France. He was looking over a Gigapan Mars Spirit rover photo and found many alien artifacts in high detail. He's got a good eye for finding these things and is one of Frances leading UFO researchers. The things he found will blow you away. Its hard to believe that the rover almost ran over two of the alien faces we see in this photo. Are they there to learn and explore, or are they there to Scott C. Waring Please visit my friend Christian Maces' UFO site by clicking here.
Often I say that storms, lightning, tornadoes and even earthquakes are sometimes caused by alien craft. Here we have proof that the hurricane was created by aliens too. Greys to be exact...were the species that did it. It was a Tweet from Jim Dickey a Morning Meteorologist for ABC7 WZVN Ft. Myers, FL that first noticed the face. Then it spread from there. He caught this and and told the world about it getting loads of attention. Aliens control our planet and in more ways than I can say. They were here long before us, and they will be here long after us. Scott C. Waring
AFPDe Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder of ASKAP
WETENSCHAPAstronomen hebben met een radiotelescoop in het westen van Australië vorig jaar twintig mysterieuze en krachtige “fast radio bursts” alias radioflitsen ontdekt. Dat is dubbel zoveel als het aantal dergelijke signalen dat sinds een eerste waarneming in 2007 is gedetecteerd.
In het vakblad Nature staat donderdag te lezen dat het team met de Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) ook de meest nabije en meest “heldere” snelle radioflitsen heeft waargenomen. “Door de technologie van de ASKAP te gebruiken hebben wij ook bewezen dat snelle radioflitsen eerder van een andere zijde van het universum komen dan vanuit onze galactische omgeving”, schrijft Ryan Shannon van de Swinburne University of Technology. Snelle radioflitsen duren slechts een paar milliseconden. Astronomen weten nog niet hoe ze ontstaan, maar er komen enorme hoeveelheden energie bij vrij: ruwweg 80 keer de totale jaarproductie van onze zon. Volgens Jean-Pierre Macquart van de Curtin University reizen de flitsen miljarden jaren en doorkruisen ze occasioneel gaswolken.
On a day when NASA, Roscosmos and the rest of the world breathed a collective sigh of relief as a Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft and its crew returned safely to Earth after an aborted launch, news emerges of a leading Russian astronomer who believes we are not alone in the universe. How soon can one of these civilizations get here with a replacement?
“I admit the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations.”
Dmitry Bisikalo is the director of the Astronomy Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and a specialist in the gas dynamics of interacting binary stars and accretion disks. How does this qualify him to proclaim that aliens exist? It doesn’t, but his research includes studying the components of a star’s gases and those of any exoplanets around them. As he told Sputnik News, those gases – especially oxygen, ozone and methane – are biological markers that can be indicators of civilizations making things and polluting their atmospheres just like we do.
“It is important to note that many biomarkers appear in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum, which will be studied by the Spektr-UF space observatory, which will be launched into orbit in 2024.”
Spoken like a true bureaucratic astronomer making sure he has a job in a few years by plugging the Spektr-UV or World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) — a proposed joint (Russia, Spain, Germany, Ukraine and Kazakhstan) space telescope that has been planned since 2007 and needed well before 2024 with the gyroscope problems currently being experienced by the Hubble space telescope. While waiting for the launch, Bisikalo is also generating interest in both astronomy and space travel with comments like his recent one.
“After all, if our civilization exists, by analogy there may be others, and probably many of them.”
Bisikalo is channeling American astronomer Frank Drake and his famous equation putting the probability of the existence of alien civilizations at ‘high’. Unfortunately, like Drake, Bisikalo is dealing in possibilities, not proofs, and he brings in his own theory as to why we haven’t seen any extraterrestrials yet.
“[They] do not want to contact.”
Of course they don’t. We’re big polluters just like themselves and are on our way to destroying our planet, just as they may have. All they need to do is sit quietly and wait.
“For example, until the beginning of the twentieth century, our civilization did not radiate anything. Now the Earth is full of electronic signals at different intervals, but the general tendency is to reduce losses and consequently decrease signal level.”
“Decrease signal level.” In other words, die off. That may be what happens (spoiler alert) to all civilizations before they can change their ways or develop the technology to go somewhere else.
Based on the Soyuz incident today and the previous and still unsolved manmade hole found in the Soyuz capsule currently docked at the International Space Station, our signal level may be decreasing before we can leave too.
Bisikalo is still confident he and the rest of us will be around for the launch and usage of the Spektr-UV space telescope.
“Probably with the help of this infrared space telescope we will see something really interesting.”
Let’s hope it’s a starship delivering reliable space vehicles.
Oh boy, it’s been quite a run for Egyptian archaeology. We’ve had the big and spooky black sarcophagus, discoveries of new Sphinxes, pyramid energy focusing allegations, and now a discovery of a tomb built for a mysterious priest named Kaires who, according to the inscriptions on his statue, was the “sole friend of the king” and the “keeper of the secret of the Morning House.” Which king he’s referring to is unknown, just like everything else about this fellow despite his tomb’s insistence that he’s someone to know about.
The remains of the tomb were discovered near a pyramid in Abusir, Egypt. It was found in a small chapel that had been ransacked and looted some time in the distant past. Despite the looting, archaeologists found the statue of Kaires and his laundry list of important roles. Whether these were real titles or just egotistic boasts is unknown, however the tomb and chapel were found to have floors made of basalt, which was reserved only for the most important of people. Here’s the list of titles from a press release by the Czech Institute of Egyptology, and even they had to leave a few out for brevity’s sake:
Kaires was the sole friend (of the king), overseer of all king’s works, keeper of the secret of the Morning House, steward of the royal palace, foremost of the House of Life, inspector of the priests serving in the pyramid complexes of kings Sahure and Neferirkare, priest of the goddess Hathor, mistress of the sycamore, in Cusae (a city in southern Egypt), custodian of the two thrones (i.e. of southern and northern Egypt), as well as a holder of several other titles.
What remains of the entrance to an ancient Egyptian temple.
While Egytologists aren’t sure which pharaoh Kaires says he was the “sole friend” to, the tomb is near the pyramid built for the pharaoh Neferirkare who ruled from 2446 to 2438 BCE and that’s the pyramid Kaires was apparently the inspector of.
Now, as to the secret of Morning House and what “the foremost of the House of Life” could be, the archaeologists had this to say:
The Morning House was a specific location, where the king would come in the morning to eat breakfast and get dressed, whereas the House of Life was an institution, where Egyptians stored texts recorded on papyrus scrolls containing their knowledge and religious-philosophical treatises.
That’s right, he was the keeper of the secret of breakfast. Who knows, maybe that was an important secret to keep. What if the king was a picky eater? Maybe he only ate cream of wheat. That’s no kind of fit ruler. Perhaps society would have crumbled if the secret was ever let out.
But there’s also the matter of the House of Life, which seems far more important. Being the foremost of a massive library where all knowledge and religious writing was stored probably involved more secret keeping than being the breakfast wizard. There have been remarkably few papyrus scrolls discovered from this time period so we don’t know just what was in the House of Life, but it was likely on the extreme side of impressive.
Egyptian temple at Aswan
The ancients had a certain knack for pompous and egotistical titles that we’ve lost in the 21st century. Go around calling yourself the keeper of anything and likely all that will happen is a truck drives by and splashes you with mud while the driver hangs his head out of the and calls you a nerd. The problem with finding these sorts of titles in archaeological excavations is we don’t know whether or not these people were just old nerds. Now we dig up their tombs and we assume some dude’s made up titles have connotations of esoteric importance, which is exactly what he wanted us to think. We may never know how important this Kaires character was, but one thing has been true since time began: if you have to go around saying you’re the god-king’s only friend, maybe you’re just the breakfast wizard.
Record breaking number of new 'alien' fast radio bursts found: Australian study DOUBLES the number of mysterious signals spotted from Earth
Record breaking number of new 'alien' fast radio bursts found: Australian study DOUBLES the number of mysterious signals spotted from Earth
Researchers discovered 19 signals believed to be emanating from deep space, which nearly doubles the total number of known fast radio bursts
Some of the blasts were the closest and brightest FRBs ever found, they said
It's still unclear what causes FRBs, but experts posit they may be coming from a giant cosmic object, such as a neutron star, or a new and far-flung alien race
The latest bursts were picked up by the Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope, which is equipped with 36 dishes total
Researcher also proved the FRBs are coming from the other side of the universe
Australian researchers have discovered a record breaking number of brief but powerful bursts of radio waves emanating from deep space.
CSIRO radio telescopes in Western Australia detected 19 of the mysterious blasts, which nearly doubles the total number of known fast radio bursts (FRBs).
Among the 19 signals observed were some of the closest and brightest FRBs ever detected, researchers from the Swinburne University of Technology found.
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CSIRO radio telescopes (shown in a rendering) in Western Australia detected 19 of the mysterious blasts, which nearly doubles the total number of known fast radio bursts (FRBs)
Fast radio bursts are elusive signals that last just a few milliseconds, and are thought to originate billions of light-years away – but, scientists don’t yet know what causes them.
They also generate an intense blast of energy - enough that it's almost equivalent to the amount released by the sun over the course of 80 years.
'We've found 20 fast radio bursts in a year, almost doubling the number detected worldwide since they were discovered in 2007,' Ryan Shannon, lead author of the study, said in a statement.
The scientists say they've also proved that the FRBs are coming from the other side of the universe, 'rather than from our own galactic neighborhood.'
FRBs typically travel for billions of years, occasionally passing through clouds of gas.
Scientists pay close attention to the arrival of the different wavelengths to learn how much material the burst has traveled through on its journey.
'Each time this happens, the different wavelengths that make up a burst are slowed by different amounts,' Jean-Pierre Macquart, a co-author of the study, noted.
'Eventually, the burst reaches Earth with its spread of wavelengths arriving at the telescope at slightly different times, like swimmers at a finish line.
Artist's impression of CSIRO's Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope observing 'fast radio bursts' in 'fly's eye mode'. Each antenna points in a slightly different direction, giving maximum sky coverage
'...And because we've shown that fast radio bursts come from far away, we can use them to detect all the missing matter located in the space between galaxies - which is a really exciting discovery.'
Scientists now know that FRBs come from about halfway across the universe, but it's remains unclear what causes them or which galaxies they come from.
Astronomers have previously suggested that the bursts could be coming from a giant cosmic object, such as a neutron star.
Others have even wilder theories that they may originate from a far-flung alien race that's yet to be discovered.
Fast radio bursts are elusive signals that last just a few milliseconds, and are thought to originate billions of light-years away – but, scientists don’t yet know what causes them
WHAT ARE FAST RADIO BURSTS AND WHY DO WE STUDY THEM?
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.
Scientists searching for fast radio bursts (FRBs) that some believe may be signals sent from aliens may be happening every second. The blue points in this artist's impression of the filamentary structure of galaxies are signals from FRBs
The first FRB was spotted, or rather 'heard' by radio telescopes, back in 2001 but wasn't discovered until 2007 when scientists were analysing archival data.
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.
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics point out that FRBs can be used to study the structure and evolution of the universe whether or not their origin is fully understood.
A large population of faraway FRBs could act as probes of material across gigantic distances.
This intervening material blurs the signal from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the left over radiation from the Big Bang.
A careful study of this intervening material should give an improved understanding of basic cosmic constituents, such as the relative amounts of ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy, which affect how rapidly the universe is expanding.
FRBs can also be used to trace what broke down the 'fog' of hydrogen atoms that pervaded the early universe into free electrons and protons, when temperatures cooled down after the Big Bang.
The team from the Swinburne University of Technology is now focusing on pinpointing the locations of the bursts on the sky.
'We'll be able to localise the bursts to better than a thousandth of a degree,' Shannon said.
'That's about the width of a human hair seen ten metres away, and good enough to tie each burst to a particular galaxy.'
They added that the latest discovery of FRBs is largely due in part to the Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope used to find them.
ASKAP's massive dish has spotted numerous FRBs over the years, earning it the nickname of Sauron, after the fictional dark overlord that's the 'all-seeing eye' of the Lord of the Rings series.
It's gotten so good at spotting FRBs that scientists say it could soon spot new FRBs every few days.
The latest discovery of FRBs is largely due in part to the Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope used to find them. ASKAP's massive dish has spotted numerous FRBs over the years, earning it the nickname of Sauron, after the fictional dark overlord
The instrument is equipped with 36 dishes in total, which can be used either to look at one point of the sky, or be pointed in different directions to like the segments of a fly’s eye, according to CSIRO.
Using eight dishes, the telescope can see 240 square degrees all at once.
'The telescope has a whopping field of view of 30 square degrees, 100 times larger than the full Moon,' said CSIRO's Keith Bannister, who engineered the systems that detected the bursts.
'And, by using the telescope's dish antennas in a radical way, with each pointing at a different part of the sky, we observed 240 square degrees all at once - about a thousand times the area of the full Moon.
'ASKAP is astoundingly good for this work,' Bannister added.
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Recordaantal mysterieuze signalen uit de ruimte opgepikt. Zoeken aliens contact?
Recordaantal mysterieuze signalen uit de ruimte opgepikt. Zoeken aliens contact?
Astronomen hebben met een radiotelescoop in het westen van Australië vorig jaar twintig mysterieuze en krachtige “fast radio bursts” oftewel radioflitsen ontdekt.
Dat is dubbel zoveel als het aantal dergelijke signalen dat sinds een eerste waarneming in 2007 is gedetecteerd.
In het vakblad Nature staat donderdag te lezen dat het team met de Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASPAK) ook de meest nabije en meest “heldere” snelle radioflitsen heeft waargenomen.
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“Door de technologie van de ASPAK te gebruiken hebben wij ook bewezen dat snelle radioflitsen eerder van een andere zijde van het universum komen dan vanuit onze galactische omgeving,” schrijft Ryan Shannon van de Swinburne University of Technology.
Snelle radioflitsen duren slechts een paar milliseconden.
80 keer
Astronomen weten nog niet hoe ze ontstaan, maar er komen enorme hoeveelheden energie bij vrij: ruwweg 80 keer de totale jaarproductie van onze zon.
Volgens Jean-Pierre Macquart van de Curtin University reizen de flitsen miljarden jaren en doorkruisen ze zo af en toe gaswolken.
Bij de lancering van een raket op weg naar het ruimtestation ISS is iets misgegaan. De twee bemanningsleden aan boord moesten een noodlanding op aarde maken. Dat is goed gelukt, melden de NASA en persbureau AFP.
Meteen na de noodlanding gingen reddingsdiensten naar de plaats waar de mannen geland waren. „Ze zijn daar inmiddels aangekomen en melden dat de bemanningsleden in goede conditie zijn”, zo meldt de NASA.
De Amerikaanse Nick Hague en de Russische Aleksej Ovtsjinin waren op weg naar het internationale ruimtestation ISS. Ze zijn ergens in het midden van Kazachstan geland, in de buurt van de stad Dzjezkazgan. Zoals alle ruimtevaarders zijn ze uitgebreid getraind op zulke omstandigheden.
Het ging mis toen de eerste trap, waarmee de raket loskwam van de grond, moest worden losgekoppeld. Elke raket kan tot een bepaald punt na lancering de vlucht afbreken en terugkeren naar de grond.
Een crash waarbij astronauten zijn betrokken komt zelden voor. Niet dat het onmogelijk is, want in 2003 was er de ontploffing van de Space Shuttle Columbia, waarbij alle zeven bemanningsleden om het leven kwamen.
Na het einde van de Space Shuttle werd een nieuwe Space Shuttle gevonden in de vorm van de Russische Soyuz raketten die nu astronauten op een neer pendelen naar het ISS ruimtestation.
Een crash met een dergelijke Space Shuttle is dermate opvallend dat het kan worden gebruikt om een bepaald ijkpunt op een tijdlijn te markeren.
Iets dat gedaan is door remote viewer Ed Dames, die een aantal zogenaamde ijkpunten heeft geïdentificeerd die aangeven hoe dicht we bij de Apocalyptische toestanden zijn die hij heeft voorzien. In eerste instantie bracht hij datgene wat hij had gezien in verband met een enorme zonnevlam, de zogenaamde Killshot, later veranderde dat in de komst van de planeet Nibiru.
Remote viewing is het (red.: het woord paranormaal halen we hier weg omdat we dat eigenlijk niet meer van toepassing vinden. Het gaat namelijk om een voor iedereen fysiek aanwezige en toegankelijke gave) vermogen om plaatsen, personen en gebeurtenissen waar te nemen die zich niet binnen het bereik van de (ons algemeen bekende) zintuigen bevinden. De CIA en het Amerikaanse leger vonden remote viewing (zien op afstand) geloofwaardig genoeg om miljoenen Dollars van de belastingbetalers uit te geven aan dit project.
Remote viewing is zoals Ed Dames dat uitlegt, iets wat je ziet zoals bijvoorbeeld bergen in de verte, maar waarbij het onmogelijk is om te bepalen hoe ver het van je verwijderd is. Zo is het ook met de rampzalige zonnestormen. Ze zien de gebeurtenis, weten wat er gaat gebeuren en ook dát het gaat gebeuren, maar wanneer dat is de grote vraag. Het beste wat je in dat soort omstandigheden dan kunt proberen is om één of meerdere voorvallen te identificeren die plaatsvinden vóórdat de eigenlijke gebeurtenis plaatsvindt.
In de aanloop naar deze ultieme Killshot (en/of Nibiru) zijn er door Ed Dames in totaal vijf van dit soort "ijkpunten" aangegeven. Hiervan zijn er inmiddels drie uitgekomen en dus twee nog niet.
4) Nog voordat bekend was dat Noord Korea beschikte over kernbommen, vertelde Ed Dames dat één van de aanwijzingen dat de grote zonnestormen op het punt staan los te barsten het moment is waarop Noord Korea daadwerkelijk gebruikmaakt van een kernbom. Geen test, maar daadwerkelijk gebruiken op een agressieve manier. Moet nog gebeuren.
5) De laatste aanwijzing die zal plaatsvinden net voordat de storm komt is de gedwongen landing/noodlanding/crash van een Space Shuttle. Dit is de term die Dames altijd heeft gebruikt, omdat op het moment dat hij kwam met deze voorspelling de Space Shuttle enig in zijn soort was. Inmiddels is de Shuttle met pensioen, maar zijn er talloze andere militaire objecten in de ruimte die er qua uiterlijk hetzelfde uitzien. Het zal dan waarschijnlijk één van deze objecten zijn die Dames heeft gezien. Moet nog gebeuren.
Gezien de recente ontwikkelingen is er steeds minder kans dat Noord Korea daadwerkelijk kernbommen zal gooien, maar toch komt er een opmerkelijk bericht van Ed Dames waarin deze meedeelt dat zijn vierde voorspelling wel degelijk is uitgekomen.
Wat hij stelt, is dat mensen goed moeten kijken naar wat hij heeft gezegd destijds via de nationale radio en ver voordat bekend was dat Noord Korea beschikte over kernwapens.
We geven hier letterlijk de Engelse tekst zoals Dames die destijds op de radio gebruikte:
"North Korea would use a nuke in anger, resulting in the loss of human life".
Wat Dames nu zegt, is dat mensen er altijd gemakshalve maar vanuit gingen dat Noord Korea daadwerkelijk een kernbom zou gebruiken op een tegenstander. Dat heeft hij inderdaad niet gezegd. Sterker nog, Dames heeft zelf op de radio verklaard dat hij zelf dacht dat er een ontploffing ondergronds of op de grond zou plaatsvinden en niet een bom afgeleverd via een raket.
Waarmee er dan nog één voorwaarde blijft open staan en dat is het ruimtevaartuig/object dat een soort noodlanding op aarde zal maken.
We hebben nu vandaag letterlijk een crash met een Space Shuttle want dat is de rol die de Soyuz vervult, een shuttle van en naar het ISS Space Station.
Wanneer de grote gebeurtenis dan echt plaatsvindt dan ziet hij beelden van vechtende soldaten wereldwijd die allemaal naar de lucht staren omdat daar iets heel indrukwekkends gebeurt. Zij zullen dan massaal hun wapens neerleggen en naar huis gaan. Waar Ed Dames vooral de nadruk op wil leggen is dat het niet het einde van de wereld is, maar wel het einde van een leven zoals wij dat nu kennen.
De remote viewers hebben zich ook beziggehouden met “veilige” gebieden op aarde. Daar waar men een betere overlevingskans heeft. Op het zuidelijk halfrond hebben ze er daar heel weinig van gevonden, afgezien van een paar plaatsen in Australië. Op het noordelijk halfrond heeft de bevolking een grotere kans om te overleven. Wel raadt Dames iedereen aan om te zorgen voor een “veilige” plek, weg van de dichtbevolkte gebieden als steden.
Hij zegt, “Misschien zal iedereen je nu voor gek verklaren als je je daarmee bezig gaat houden, maar als het één keer zo ver is, dan zullen familieleden en goede vrienden maar wat blij zijn dat je dat gedaan hebt en dat ook zij een plek hebben waar ze naartoe kunnen”. Als er niet of nauwelijks communicatie mogelijk is en er komt geen gas uit de leiding of het licht gaat niet aan als je de knop omdraait, dan moet je zorgen voor een aantal basisdingen die je absoluut nodig hebt om te kunnen overleven”.
Het allerbelangrijkste volgens Dames is water. Er zal waarschijnlijk een groot tekort zijn aan drinkwater. Zorg dus dat je voldoende hebt en uiteraard ook voedsel en brandstof. Deze hele gebeurtenis zal niet eeuwigdurend zijn. Na verloop van tijd zal de zon zich weer normaliseren en kan weer worden begonnen met de opbouw op aarde. Het zijn de beelden die Ed Dames en zijn ervaren team van remote viewers zien.
Wel heeft Ed Dames kort geleden in een interview op Coast to Coast radio gezegd dat wij als mensheid hulp zullen krijgen van buitenaardsen in deze ongetwijfeld moeilijke periode.
Over de betrouwbaarheid van remote viewing en Ed Dames in hij bijzonder, nog het volgende:
Iedereen kan zich nog de enorme aardbeving voor de kust van Japan herinneren in maart 2011. Er was niet alleen sprake van een aardbeving, maar ook van een tsunami en dien ten gevolge grote schade aan de kernreactoren bij Fukushima. Ook dit werd correct voorspeld door Ed Dames en zijn team en ook dit werd voor de aardbeving uitgebreid besproken bij Coast to Coast. Dit wekte de belangstelling van een Japans televisiestation en zij vlogen naar Amerika om Ed Dames te interviewen. Dit programma werd vervolgens uitgezonden op de televisie in Japan, waarbij ze de voorspelling van de beschadiging aan Fukushima weglieten omdat dit te beangstigend zou zijn.
Let’s say you’re living on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean with a population far larger than the supply of available fresh drinking water, which is limited to rainwater. Let’s say you and your fellow islanders have adapted to drinking brackish, slightly-salty water that occasionally springs from the ground, but those springs and reservoirs are difficult to find. When you do find them, wouldn’t it be a good idea to leave a marker so you can locate it again … a marker big enough to see from remote spots on your island? Believe it or not, that’s the new theory being proposed as to why the people of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) built their huge iconic Moai statues. Does it hold water?
“The porous volcanic soils quickly absorb rain, resulting in a lack of streams and rivers.”
In a study published in Hydrogeology Journal and reported in Newsweek, Binghamton University (New York) Professor of Anthropology Carl Lipo explained the major problem prehistoric Easter islanders faced in trying to survive on Rapa Nui. With no rivers and just two small lakes located in extremely remote areas, one would expect that the first inhabitants would build cisterns or ponds to capture and retain rainwater. While a few small ones were found, they’re not sufficient to support the thousands of residents inhabiting the island at its peak.
While they lacked fresh water, they had brackish water, and the explorers who eventually visited the island saw the residents drinking it without suffering any ill effects. What the islanders also had was a volcano sloped to run any kind of water downhill to the coastal areas. That’s where Lipo and his team found evidence of discharge points where brackish water would have been collected in reservoirs or trenches. That’s where they also found the statues.
nowing the details of the island’s hydrology and understanding that fresh water was a key ingredient in monument location now allows us to start generating hypotheses about the role that statues/monuments played in the community … This may well help unravel the secret to why this island boasts so many massive statues.”
Lots of water holding points … lots of statues. While there is definitely a connection between them, the team isn’t sure if the statues were carved and hauled there as markers, offerings of thanks to some brackish water god or for some other reason. Whatever the case, the water points are symbols of how a large population not only survived but thrived for centuries, growing food and working together to quarry, carve, haul and position the enormous statues precisely at the sources of their success.
“What they did was an incredible feat—but one that has been misinterpreted by outsiders who make European assumptions about what the island ‘should look like.’”
Planet Earth is weird. Some of us might like to think of ourselves as separate from or somehow apart from the Earth, but the fact is we are the Earth. All living things are intertwined in the massive, complex chemical reaction that is planet Earth. Photosynthesis, respiration, decay – all of the various natural processes and reactions all stem from the fact that our home is one big ball of elements being pulled together by their own gravity. As our scientific instruments and techniques continue to improve, we’re beginning to discover that all things living and nonliving are much more interconnected than we think.
Case in point: a new paper published in the journal Current Opinion in Microbiology suggests that massive colonies of microorganisms floating high above us in the stratosphere might actually have a profound influence on the weather down here on the surface. Scientists have been uncovering evidence of this atmospheric bacteria for a few decades, but this study is the first to suggest that this ecosystem has an impact on weather.
The process, known as bioprecipitation, is fairly simple: ice crystals and droplets of water more condense more easily around the membranes of tiny microorganisms; thus, the more microorganisms in the sky, the more precipitation and cloud coverage there is. Understanding this process is difficult, as collecting specimens or even reaching this upper layer of the atmosphere is expensive and doing so without contaminating samples with terrestrial microbes is near-impossible.
Forget HAARP: these are the real weather manipulators.
Even more worrisome, this study suggests that this microbial layer of our atmosphere has the potential to spread diseases around the world – although some scientists think that claim might be far-fetched without more data to support it. Still, as the Earth’s climate continues to change in unexpected ways, understanding and identifying the role of these atmospheric bacteria becomes increasingly important.
This study adds to the growing body of research which suggests tiny microbes play much more important roles in nearly every biological or natural process than we realize. Human beings are basically all singing, all dancing colonies of microbes and our bacterial passengers have been found to exert a profound influence on all sorts of functions like metabolism, immune function, and even mental health. Might human beings merely be the giant exosuits of colonies of intelligent bacteria? It’s a neat thought.
Strange cloud releases bright orbs above Albuquerque, New Mexico
Strange cloud releases bright orbs above Albuquerque, New Mexico
While taking her girls to school the mother noticed several balls of lights in the sky, so she started to record the strange event happened above Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The footage shows a huge cloud in a clear sky when suddenly several bright orbs appear, like they are coming out of the huge cloud, then another cloud being formed by these bright orbs which you can see on the right hand side of the huge cloud.
The following video from Secureteam shows the remarkable event in details (zoomed in) - The original video can be viewed here.
Huge UFO Sighting Above Baja California - Multiple Witnesses And Video
Huge UFO Sighting Above Baja California - Multiple Witnesses And Video
To me this looks like someone on the ground is trying to keep them in a line by remote control? It could be a few drones. That's our opinion here at USF. But still, we could be wrong? Until the Aliens come forward everyone is entitled to an opinion.
Our guess is that the objects are real (wait, keep reading) and the objects are definitely Unidentified Flying Objects - but with the surge of drones and the way that drones can be absolutely tricked out with LED's and other lightweight materials that a simple plus very inexpensive, a drone can get a city on lockdown in an instant. Maybe the reason why this kind of attention wasn't given to this particular "UFO encounter" makes me think that this is nothing more than a few drones with a few teenagers pranking everyone. Knowing that all they need to do is fly a few drones around the city from a concealed vantage point and participate in a few modest maneuvers and the next day they're on the internet on all the big sites like MUFON, and NUFORC's - and the rest as they say, is literally a history story? Or is it, it could be indeed Aliens but probably lost Aliens tapping on their GPS devices and sayings to on another like "hey dude", I think we should of took a left at Neptune brah!
I'm sorry but if it's too good to be true, then it's usually untrue. Don't get me wrong, UFO encounters are always going to be a little extraordinary but this is ridiculous. They're over a city, just high enough not to see them that well, just the lights and well, if it is Aliens then when they come forward and say "yep, it was us" as far as we're concerned it's a hoax and until then we are saying no to this.
UFO Sightings Footage opinion: Not a UFO. Drone or another type of manipulation at play or hoax.
Static glowing objects in the night sky. Ensenada, Baja Norte Mexico Shape:
Light -Duration: 18 minutes Ensenada, (Baja Norte)(Mexico) - 08-29-18 - Multi-witness sighting of multiple nearly static glowing objects in the night sky at the Pacific coastline on 08-29-2018.
Yesterday, evening at approximately 8:17 PM (PDT), I heard our neighbor loudly and urgently calling my wife’s name. When we went outside we were told to come up to the balcony and to hurry. After climbing the steps I could see the line of lights in the sky they were watching.
The line of lights were not in motion and I decided to grab my cell phone to shoot video of the event before it ended. With the phone in hand I quickly climbed the steps to the balcony and began shooting video. Facing west we could see approximately 20 glowing objects aligned north to south.
They were all nearly stationary with some small movement near the center of the line. A second pair of lights appeared above and to the right (north) of the formation and slowly descended near the formation. Shortly afterward, lights began to go off in place. It was only a minute or two before the lights appeared again in the same formation and location they appeared before.
I used the balcony rail to steady my shot but the vibrations of the balcony and movement up or down the staircase were causing vibrations to distort the video clarity. Being fully zoomed in to enhance the view exaggerated the vibrations.
I estimate the distance we stood from the formation of lights to be only 2 miles distant or less. The width of the formation was nearly a quarter mile. No sound could be heard but ambient highway sounds may have drowned out our ability to hear softer sounds.
I have seen videos of similar events and heard there had been a similar sighting near this area only four months earlier. I felt no sense of dread during the event. I noticed no particular pattern in the pulsations that seemed to affect each light simultaneously.
Almost all the event is captured on video between 4 separate clips and a couple of poor quality still shots that I have not posted anywhere online yet. Upon request, I will provide links to the videos captured for your analysis.
NUFORC Note:
Video link forwarded by witness indicates a row of approximately a dozen white lights that appear to be hovering above the surface of the ocean. Witness does not indicate the exact location of the witnesses at the time of the sighting.
Video of the Baja, Norte Mexico. This is a good UFO sighting but if it's real, well I'll leave that up to you to decide but I think this is a few drones with lights on them. The color of the lights give this away big time because they're man made lights. Sorry but they are and what are man made lights doing on a UFO, lol.
The universe has so many galaxies, stars, planets, and moons that many scientists believe intelligent aliens should exist within detectable range of Earth.
Hundreds of billions of galaxies drift through the visible universe, each one harboring hundreds of billions of stars, and each of those stars in turn shelters roughly a handful of planets. Even if the trillion-or-so planets in every galaxy aren’t habitable, countless water-rich moons orbiting these lifeless worlds might be.
And yet, in spite of these numbers, humans have yet to identify any signals from intelligent aliens. The prescient question that physicist Enrico Fermi posed in 1950 – “where is everybody?” – remains unanswered.
However, an upcoming study in The Astronomical Journal, which we learned about from MIT Technology Review, suggests humanity has barely sampled the skies, and thus has no grounds to be cynical.
According to the paper, all searches for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, have examined barely a swimming pool’s worth of water from a figurative ocean of signal space.
“We haven’t really looked much,” Shubham Kanodia, a graduate student in astronomy who co-wrote the study, said during a NASA “technosignatures” workshop in Houston, Texas on September 26.
The study suggests that somewhere in that ocean of space – right now, within the Milky Way galaxy – intelligent aliens might be saying, “hello, we are here.”
But we’d have no way of knowing, at least not yet.
Defining a ‘cosmic haystack’ in the search for aliens
Foto: An illustration of a radio-beam-powered light sail on an alien spacecraft.
sourceM. Weiss/CfA
Over the past 60 years, multiple SETI projects have looked and continue to look for alien signals. Some scan large swaths of the sky for powerful signals, while others target individual star systems for weaker signals.
Yet aside from a few anomaly signals that never repeated (like the “Wow!” detection of 1977), these searches have turned up empty-handed.
Kanodia and his colleagues at Penn State University wanted to know how much of the figurative “cosmic haystack” SETI projects have covered, and to what extent they could improve the hunt for the alien “needle.”
The group agrees with famous SETI astronomer Jill Tarter, who said in 2010 that it’s silly to conclude intelligent aliens do not exist nearby just because we haven’t yet found their beacons. Even if such signals exist and are aimed right at Earth, her thinking goes, we’ve scanned so little of the sky and may not be looking for the right type of signal, or for long enough, to find them.
“Suppose I tell you there’s a cool thing happening in Houston right now,” Kanodia said during his NASA talk. “I do not tell you where it is. I do not tell you when it is happening. I do not tell you what it is. Is it in a book store? Is it a music concert? I give you absolutely no priors. It would be a difficult thing to try and find it.”
He added: “Houston, we have a problem. We do not know what we’re looking for … and we don’t know where to start.”
Foto: sourceNASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt
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In their study, Kanodia and his colleagues built a mathematical model of what they consider a reasonably sized cosmic haystack.
Their haystack is a sphere of space nearly 33,000 light-years in diameter, centered around Earth. This region captures part of Milky Way’s bustling core, as well as some giant globular clusters of stars above and below our home galaxy.
They also picked eight dimensions of a search for aliens – factors like signal transmission frequency, bandwidth, power, location, repetition, polarization, and modulation (i.e. complexity) – and defined reasonable limits for each one.
“This leads to a total 8D haystack volume of 6.4 × 10116 m5Hz2 s/W,” the authors wrote.
That is 6.4 followed by 115 zeros – as MIT Technology review described it, “a space of truly gargantuan proportions.”
How much of this haystack have we searched?
Foto: Instead of asking, “Where is everybody?” we should be asking, “Why are we barely looking?”
sourceSETI Institute
Kanodia and his colleagues then examined the past 60 years’ worth of SETI projects and reconciled them against their haystack.
The researchers determined that humanity’s collective search for extraterrestrials adds up to about 0.00000000000000058% of the haystack’s volume.
“This is about a bathtub of water in all of Earth’s oceans,” Kanodia said. “Or about a five-centimeter-by-five-centimeter patch of land on all of Earth’s surface area.”
Those numbers make humanity’s search efforts seem feeble. But Kanodia views it as an opportunity – especially because modern telescopes are getting better at scanning more objects with greater sensitivity and speed. For example, he said, a 150-minute search this year by the Murchison Widefield Array covered a larger percentage of the haystack than any other SETI project in history.
“That’s the purpose of this haystack … to help better-inform future search strategies,” Kanodia said.
He also noted that the team’s calculations assume there is only one alien civilization within range of Earth, and not any more than that. But more than one may exist relatively close by.
“In the ocean analogy, we do not have to drain the entire ocean to find a fish,” he said. “In the Houston analogy, if there were two cool things, you wouldn’t have to look as hard.”
Still, there’s no guarantee that a figurative fish or needle or cool thing is out there at all.
Another group of scientists, this one at Oxford University, recently took a different approach to the question of aliens. Instead of focusing on the likelihood of finding “technosignatures” that could be detected, they examined the likelihood that intelligent alien life exists at all.
The Oxford researchers examined dozens of authoritative studies about variables in the Drake Equation. The team then analyzed the results and calculated a bleak 2-in-5 chance that humans may be entirely alone in the Milky Way galaxy.
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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]
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
"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."
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)
Alien-Hunting Agents Seek the Truth About UFOs in 'Project Blue Book'
Alien-Hunting Agents Seek the Truth About UFOs in 'Project Blue Book'
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer
Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Aidan Gillen) encounters an alien subject in History's "Project Blue Book."
Credit: Ed Araquel/History
NEW YORK — During the 1950s and 1960s, were extraterrestrials visiting the United States? At the time, a spate of panicky sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) thought to be "alien" in origin were reported across the country, prompting the U.S. Air Force to create a top-secret program dedicated to the investigation of unexplained phenomenon related to UFOs.
Under the code name "Project Blue Book," the Air Force documented and scrutinized 12,000 UFO sightings from 1952 to 1969, led by J. Allen Hynek, a former astronomy professor at The Ohio State University. The project's efforts — set against a suspenseful undercurrent of political intrigue — come to life in a new dramatic television series, which shares some of the long-buried secrets of this mysterious initiative.
At a New York Comic Con (NYCC) panel on Oct. 6, actors and creators of the History channel's "Project Blue Book" introduced the audience to the story of federal agents hunting UFOs and the manipulation of the truth happening behind the scenes. Based on declassified files in the federal archive — including 700 cases of UFO-related incidents that remain unsolved — the series confronts a question that still fascinates humans decades after the project's end: Are we alone in the universe? [9 Strange, Scientific Excuses for Why Humans Haven't Found Aliens Yet]
Each of the perplexing and unsettling UFO sightings that appears in the series is based on an actual event described in the recently declassified government records, executive producer and writer Sean Jablonski told the panel audience.
"Every case you see — that really happened," Jablonski said.
One standout incident took place in Washington, D.C., in July 1952. The repeated appearance of mysterious radar blips prompted the Air Force to launch a group of fighter jets to intercept what they thought were unidentified aircraft, according to Jablonski.
But the blips vanished every time the jet fighters drew close, only to reappear when the jets pulled away from the blips' presumed location, one of the pilots reported in an oral history recorded in 1999.
The founder of "ufology"
"Project Blue Book" stars Aidan Gillen (Littlefinger in HBO's "Game of Thrones") as Hynek, the scientist recruited by the Air Force to investigate UFO sightings and related phenomena. Though Hynek was a UFO skepticwhen he began working for the Air Force, much of what he saw and heard over his years with the project defied easy explanation. Eventually, the experience transformed him into a passionate believer in UFO encounters representing possible contact with alien life, Gillen told the panel audience.
In fact, Hynek went on to become what is now known as a "ufologist" (UFO expert). He authored several books about UFOs, founded the Center for UFO Studies — a private organization for scientific UFO investigation — and served as a technical advisor for one of the most iconic films about UFOs, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977).
The series also reveals that working on Project Blue Book brought unexpected conflicts for Hynek. Even when his investigations of baffling UFO-related incidents raised more questions than they answered, Air Force agents pushed for debunking and quick closure, frustrating his efforts to uncover the facts about what people saw, according to Gillen.
"He just wanted to find the truth," Gillen said.
But was the U.S. government after the truth? In the show, Hynek soon learns that his Air Force colleagues aren't really interested in getting to the bottom of events that seem impossible to understand. Instead, they seek tidy, reassuring explanations that tell the public there is nothing to be alarmed about. The government's deliberate deviation from witnesses' accounts and evidence — essentially creating "the original 'fake news'" — was an integral part of the "Project Blue Book" narrative, executive producer and writer David O'Leary told the panel audience.
"On the subject of UFOs, part of the story is the cover-up, the lying, the misinformation campaign to control public perception," O'Leary said.
"Project Blue Book" premieres on the History channel on Jan. 8, 2019, at 10 p.m. ET/PT, 9 p.m. CT.
Open Minds UFO Radio: In March 1942 the military opened fire on an object that flew over Los Angeles. The incident is referred to as the Battle of Los Angels and is best-known by the icon image of searchlights converging on an object while explosions from anti-aircraft fire erupt nearby. Researcher David Marler has researched this case, and when he puts together all of the facts, media stories from the time and government documents on the incident, it is more mysterious than ever. In this episode of David shares with us what he found and why this case remains unsolved.
David is a UFO researcher and author. He’s had a lifelong interest in the subject of UFOs and joined the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) as a field investigator trainee in 1990. Since then he held several positions within MUFON before becoming an independent researcher. Since then he has written a highly regarded book on triangle shaped UFOs, Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation, and has been featured on several television programs. David has one of the most extensive personal libraries of UFO books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and case files from around the world that covers the last 65 years.
Government Worker Leaks UFO Footage Recorded In Jacksonville
Government Worker Leaks UFO Footage Recorded In Jacksonville
Comparison videos shown first to eliminate doubt. I have never seen anything stay motionless in the sky for 10-15 minutes, only to disappear.
The witness claims to work for the government and said:
"I have never seen anything stay motionless in the sky for 10-15 minutes, only to disappear. We did try to ping it with a laser rangefinder to get a distance on it. It didn't work at all, and they are usually good up to 20-30 km. I work for the government as a defense contractor. I have access to these expensive machines due to my occupation; I'm a depot level FLIR technician."
RUSSIA PLANS TO CLONE EXTINCT ANIMALS AND BUILD A REAL LIFE JURASSIC PARK
RUSSIA PLANS TO CLONE EXTINCT ANIMALS AND BUILD A REAL LIFE JURASSIC PARK
Russian scientists have begun their quest to clone prehistoric animals, including but not limited to a woolly mammoth, hoping that Siberian permafrost will give them a competitive advantage and a good possibility of finding undamaged DNA samples to resurrect the ancient species.
The new laboratory at the Mammoth Museum of the Institute of Applied Ecology at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk has begun searching through its vast library of samples that were found nearly perfectly preserved in the extreme cold conditions of the Arctic, according to Ogonek magazine.
Scientists hope to extract live DNA by carefully scanning through more than 2,000 rare exhibits contained in the lab, which is especially equipped to preserve tissue samples in freezers of -87 degrees Celsius. The new lab will also be used to swiftly analyze any newly found samples, without the risk of damaging them while transferring them to a distant laboratory.
The researchers’ overarching aim is to create a real-life “Jurassic Park” (or scientifically speaking a “Pleistocene Park”) full of extinct animals living in a specially designed nature reserve located on the Kolyma River in Yakutia. The project is currently aiming to recreate the pre-ice age environmental conditions, including the grasslands, by the time the extinct animals are resurrected.
Besides mammoths, scientists will focus their efforts in searching for the DNA of a woolly rhinoceros, early ancestors of bison and bulls, cave bears and cave lions.
After all, the lab’s collection includes a perfectly-preserved mummified puppy, found sealed in the Siberian permafrost after more than 12,400 years, a sample of a pre-historic 4,500 year-old horse, in addition to ancient bison species some 8,000-years-old. One of the world-s best-preserved woolly mammoths, 39,000-year-old Yuka, is also at scientists’ disposal.
Current efforts to clone ancient animals are being conducted by scientists worldwide, including at Harvard and the University of Chicago. So far they have been held back by the quality of their mammoth DNA.
Russian experts hope that they could find live DNA in its samples but anticipation remains bleak as the thawing process can destroy nuclear genetic information. On the other hand, the vast majority of all ancient animals’ soft tissues ever discovered had been found in Siberia.
Scientists hope that once extracted, the DNA would be crisscrossed with an Asian or Indian elephant to give birth to its historic predecessor. The Russian researchers are working with a Korean biotech firm Sooam and the Beijing Genomics Institute in China, utilizing their experience to ensure the success of the project.
2018 Crop Circles - Crop Circles photographed in 2018
2018 Crop Circles - Crop Circles photographed in 2018
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REUTERSEen Belgisch team van wetenschappers van de UGent, de Belgische Geologische Dienst (onderdeel van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen in Brussel) en de universiteit van Luik heeft samen met Japanse collega's als allereerste mogen boren in de heilige meren rond Mount Fuji in Japan.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETEen Belgisch team van wetenschappers heeft samen met enkele Japanse collega’s als allereerste mogen boren in de heilige meren rond vulkaan Mount Fuji in Japan. Zelfs de Japanners zelf hadden nooit toestemming gekregen om er te boren.
Mount Fuji (Unesco-werelderfgoed) is één van de belangrijkste toeristische trekpleisters van Japan, met honderdduizenden bezoekers die de berg jaarlijks beklimmen. Volgens de overlevering moet elke Japanner ooit één keer de berg opstappen.
Maar wat als de vulkaan uitbarst? En wat met aardbevingen? Daar komen de Belgen in het verhaal. Hun boringen moesten de uitbarstingsgeschiedenis van de heiligste berg van Japan in kaart brengen en kaderden in een breder onderzoek naar natuurlijke risico’s zoals aardbevingen.
“Op voorhand schatten we onze kansen om er effectief boringen te mogen doen op ongeveer 0 procent”, lacht professor Marc De Batist van de UGent. “Maar met het juiste team, het juiste voorstel en de juiste timing is het ons toch toegestaan.” In Japan zijn ze ongetwijfeld blij dat ze het Belgische team toelieten. Want het onderzoek bracht enkele opvallende onthullingen.
GettyEen vulkaanuitbarsting zou voor een ramp kunnen zorgen, zeker in de zomermaanden als de wandelpaden naar de top open zijn.
Niet drie maar vijf keer uitgebarsten
In Lake Motusu, één van de vijf meren die de vulkaan omzomen, werd een boorkern uit het sediment gehaald van vier meter. “De aslagen van de meerbodem zijn hier beter bewaard waardoor we de lagen beter konden dateren”, zegt Vanessa Heyvaert van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. “Gelijkaardig onderzoek van de Japanners op de flanken van de vulkaan wordt bemoeilijkt door bodemvorming. Hun dateringen zijn daarom minder accuraat.”
Bij nader onderzoek van de sedimentatie in het meer bleek dat Mount Fuji niet drie maar vijf keer is uitgebarsten in de loop van de voorbije achtduizend jaar. Twee uitbarstingen, respectievelijk 2.458 en 2.438 jaar geleden, waren tussen de plooien van de geschiedenis verdwenen.
Gevaar nog groter dan gedacht
De laatste uitbarsting van Mount Fuji is inmiddels al ongeveer 2.300 jaar geleden. Toch is het onderzoek nu heel relevant voor de veiligheid van de bevolking in de omgeving van de Japanse reus. “Mount Fuji wordt beschouwd als een actieve vulkaan”, zegt De Batist. “Het is een berg die zeer goed gemonitord wordt. De voorbije jaren wordt weer wat meer activiteit vastgesteld. Na de zware aardbeving van 2011 was er zelfs even paniek, omdat men lichte trillingen waarnam onder de vulkaan en men vreesde dat er door de beving een uitbarsting getriggerd kon worden.”
Uit ons onderzoek blijkt dat het gebied rond de vulkaan dat risico loopt veel groter is dan eerst gedacht en dat vulkanische as zich over een veel groter oppervlak kan verspreiden
Een vulkaanuitbarsting zou ook echt voor een logistieke ramp kunnen zorgen, zeker in de zomermaanden als de wandelpaden naar de top open zijn. ”Uit ons onderzoek is immers ook gebleken dat het gebied rond de vulkaan dat risico loopt tijdens een uitbarsting veel groter is dan eerst gedacht en dat vulkanische as zich over een veel groter oppervlak kan verspreiden”, aldus De Batist.
“De Japanners nemen ons onderzoek daarom mee in de aanpassingen die ze momenteel aan het doen zijn van hun hazard maps, met risico-analyses voor aardbevingen en andere natuurrampen.”
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BIJZONDERE UFO VAKER GEZIEN BOVEN NEDERLAND
BIJZONDERE UFO VAKER GEZIEN BOVEN NEDERLAND
De bijzondere UFO die onlangs door verschillende mensen boven de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota is gesignaleerd, blijft de gemoederen bezighouden.
Onlangs publiceerden wij het verhaal van een lezer die een identiek object boven Nederland had waargenomen en hij was niet de enige….
Wat het ook is dat die mensen hebben gezien, gefotografeerd en gefilmd boven de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota enkele weken geleden, het lijkt een bijzonder object te zijn dat ook door andere mensen is gezien in ons land.
Een klein stukje voor degenen die het originele artikel niet hebben gelezen:
Het gaat om drie onafhankelijke waarnemingen in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota van een behoorlijk groot cirkelvormig object dat er als volgt uit zag:
Naar aanleiding van ons artikel, ontvingen wij de volgende mail (dank!):
This evening while looking at your site I saw “Ruimteschip hangt vier minuten boven weg Update”
This gave me the goosebumps! This is exacly what my X wife and myself saw in 1996 From Oeffelt To Our House In Boekel, I didn’t have a camera with me so I didn’t take a picture but now I see it and thank you for that.
Op die website staat inderdaad het hele verhaal wat er die zomeravond in juni 1996 gebeurde tijdens een autorit van Oeffelt naar Boekel, een afstand van zo’n 26 kilometer.
De man in kwestie was samen met zijn toenmalige vriendin op bezoek geweest bij vrienden die in een vrij afgelegen boerderij in de buurt van Oeffelt woonden.
Hij kan zich die avond van 22 juni 1996 nog goed herinneren, want dat was de avond dat Nederland tegen Frankrijk speelde voor de wereldkampioenschappen.
Rond middernacht vertrekt het stel omdat de volgende dag een werkdag was en ze een beetje op tijd in bed moesten liggen. Het eerste wat de man ziet is een rond object met vele lichten dat rondcirkelt boven de boerderij waar ze op bezoek waren. Het was identiek aan die die nu wordt waargenomen in Minnesota.
Nu komt er wederom een verhaal van een lezer die eveneens een soortgelijke ervaring heeft gehad en ook niet zo gek ver van bovenstaande waarneming. Het bovenstaande verhaal speelt zich af rond Oeffelt en het hiernavolgende in de buurt van Posterholt, zo’n 80 kilometer verder naar het zuiden.
Het verhaal van auteur Peter Diepstraten die dit meemaakte vindt plaats enkele jaren na het bovenstaande:
Naar aanleiding van het artikel over de UFO uit Minnesota ook in Nederland gesignaleerd van de datum 04 oktober j.l. het volgende. Het betrof hier een ervaring van een man die met zijn vriendin een bijzondere ervaring had tijdens een autorit naar huis in Boekel. U vroeg onderaan het artikel of er meer mensen zouden zijn die iets dergelijks zich zouden kunnen herinneren dan wel of die iets soortgelijks hebben ervaren. Aangezien het jaartal juni 1996 toch al beduidend lang is geleden is mijn soortgelijke ervaring van iets recentere datum. Dit betreft de zondag 19 december 1999.
Mijn ervaring heb ik in een uitgegeven eigen boek opgenomen. Ik zal u de letterlijke tekst uit mijn boek weergeven. Deze ervaring cq. manifestatie is frappant identiek aan datgene wat in uw artikel werd omschreven.
"Het was op 19 december 1999 in de vroege ochtenduren dat moet geweest zijn tussen 05.45 uur en 06.00 uur, op de weg tussen St. Odiëlenberg en Posterholt, op de provinciale weg de N293. Ik had die nacht dienst gehad en was richting huiswaarts naar Koningsbosch. In die tijd hadden wij nog onze vaste post de dependance in het Bedrijvencentrum te Roermond. Ik had deze weg al talloze malen gereden dus ik ken deze weg op mijn duimpje. Ik weet nog goed dat het die ochtend, een week voor kerstmis trouwens dat het een druilige regenachtige ochtend was. Verder kan ik me nog herinneren dat toen ik de bebouwde kom verliet van Sint Odiëlenberg, ik voorbij hectometerpaaltje 6.0 reed en de lange weg voor mij zag opdoemen.
Op een gegeven moment had ik het idee gekregen dat de combinatie van de koplampen geprojecteerd op de wegdekstrepen alsook de regen alsook het mistige weersbeeld, want het was behoorlijk mistig die ochtend met een beperkt gezichtsveld, mij wat in verwarring bracht. De rustige cadans alsook de statische situatie alsook het monotone rijden was ineens voor mij erg opmerkelijk. Nochthans had ik het idee dat deze factoren gezamenlijk mij het idee gaven dat het effect hiervan mij parten speelde want ik meende hierdoor lichtschijnsels waar te nemen. Ik dacht ook sterk dat de vermoeidheid hierin ook een rol speelde.
Maar toen ik dan ter hoogte van hectometerpaaltje 7.0 van de provinciale weg reed werd ik geattendeerd op een vreemdsoortig lichtverschijnsel. De snelheid die ik had was niet al te hard ik reed rustig, er was die ochtend geen verkeer toen, het was trouwens ook nog op een zondagochtend. Ik bracht de snelheid aanzienlijk terug tot zelfs bijna stapvoets. Vervolgens naderde ik het industriegebied van Posterholt en kwam ter hoogte van [het bedrijf] Cuypers kozijnen en Geelen beton. Daar dacht ik te concluderen dat het vreemdsoortige lichtschijnsel te hebben kunen situeren of plaatsen in de vorm van een mogelijke draaiende bouwlamp of een mogelijke ventilator die voor een lamp aan het draaien was. Dat was aanvankelijk mijn eerste veronderstelling want ik nam waardat het verschijnsel afkomstig was van het terrein van Geelen beton. Door de mist kon ik het terrein niet goed onderscheiden maar ik kon wel vaag de grote mobiele [hijs] kraan waarnemen.
Plotseling zag ik naarmate ik dichterbij kwam dat er een gevaarte [object] boven de mobiele kraan hing [aanwezig was] wat een draaiende [roterende] beweging had. Ik was toen ter hoogte van hectometerpaaltje 7.8. In de verte recht voor mij zag ik uit de weg links een auto stilstaan net of deze voor mij stopte maar dat was totaal niet nodig want ik was daar nog veel te ver voor uit de buurt. Pas later realiseerde ik mij dat dit voertuig daar is blijven [stil] staan om ook naar het vreemde verschijnsel te kijken. Ik stond toen bijna stil en heb mijn hoofd uit het [portier]raam gestoken om goed te kunnen observeren naar wat het zou kunnen zijn wat ik daar zag. Ik had totaal geen idee maar om het te beschrijven is de volgende omschrijving de meest voor de hand liggende. Het zag eruit als een soort tolvormig voorwerp van ettelijke meters hoog, breed uitlopend naar boven en naar beneden toe in een puntvorming. Althans ik kwam tot die analyse omdat er gekleurde, ik noem het maar verlichte ramen of schijnwerpers van verschillende kleuren waren gepositioneerd. Ik schat zo'n 6 lagen onder elkaar met de kleuren geel, groenachtig en paars-roodachtig. De vorm van een driehoekachtige positie, ik kom toch op de term tol, was een soort van obeliskachtige manifestatie van enkele meters hoog. En ik schat de diameter op het breedste punt ook ettelijke meters. Maar dat was absoluut niet te taxeren. Ik blijf erbij dat dit voorwerp enkele meters boven de mobiele [hijs] kraan van Geelen Beton hing en draaide. Ofschoon het ook erg mistig was kon ik toch voldoende het aanschouwen hetgeen toch zeer en zeer afwijkend was en dat het eigenlijk op het griezelige af was.
Maar nu komt het. Ik was inmiddels al zachtjes doorgereden want ik had ook in de gaten dat de auto links er nog steeds stond. Ik hoopte deze automobilist[e] te kunnen aanspreken over het vreemde schouwspel waar hij [zij] ook naar heeft staan kijken. Maar plotseling reed deze auto voor mij weg. We waren inmiddels al verder op de provinciale weg N 293 gevorderd op het gedeelte Karkenerweg, met ook inmiddels links de Vlodropperweg en rechts de Boomstraat van Posterholt. De auto voor mij ging rechtdoor naar Karken richting Duitsland maar ik moest rechtsaf de N 274 op richting Koningsbosch. Nu doet het vreemde zich voor. Nadat ik dacht het verschijnsel achter me te hebben gelaten zag ik ineens op de kruising Vlodropperweg links en rechts de Boomstraat Posterholt, het voorwerp rechts van mij meevliegen. Toen had ik het niet meer dat kan ik je verzekeren. Het voorwerp (manifestatie) had dezelfde snelheid als wat ik reed. Een kleine honderd meter zou ik dan vervolgens rechtsaf de N274 opdraaien in de veronderstelling dat het dan of zou verdwijnen of wellicht rechtdoor zou gaan. Opeens zag ik het voorwerp links van mij meegaan, ik schat zo'n 50 meter hoog alsook zo'n 50 meter bij me vandaan. Ik passeerde hectometerpaaltje 21.3 op de N274 op het gedeelte Brunssummerweg. Deze gaat op een gegeven moment over in de Echterboschbaan. Pas toen ik bij hectometerpaaltje ik meen 18.9 was toen heb ik het voorwerp niet meer waargenomen. Maar al die tijd heeft het links van me meebewogen. Toen ik daar tijdens mijn volgende dienst met collega's over sprak zei men dat ik maar eens met een psycholoog moest gaan praten. Ik had het waarschijnlijk "tussen de oren" niet goed zitten, zo oordeelde men over mijn ervaring."
Tot zover even mijn relaas zoals o.a. opgetekend in mijn boek alwaar ik als beveiliger een reeks van ervaringen heb laten opnemen. Mijn naam is Peter Diepstraten. Inmiddels gepensioneerd.
Tot zover het bijzondere verhaal.
Peter Diepstraten is auteur en dus gewend om zaken goed te observeren en te kunnen beschrijven, waardoor dit een heel waardevolle waarneming is (dank!).
In de volgende video vertelt hij wat meer over het boek dat hij heeft geschreven.
En om het verhaal compleet te maken, vinden wij een 12 seconden durende opname van dezelfde soort UFO, hangende naast/boven auto’s, wederom in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota, maar dit keer gemaakt op 19 januari 2017. Een video die nog door bijna niemand is bekeken op een kanaal waar alleen deze video op staat.
While “Swedish hum” sounds like what you do when you don’t know the words to an ABBA song (how is THAT possible?), it’s actually a mysterious and somewhat seasonal noise heard often in Sweden in multiple locations and generally in the winter (yes, Sweden does have other seasons that last longer than a week). What’s causing these strange sounds and will they be in the next Mama Mia! movie?
“It was a constant sound, it was as if the sound gave vibrations in the air. It was for about 45 minutes and then it was very slow as if the sound moved somewhere else.”
That’s from the YouTube site of Rene Krupinksi, which seems to be fast becoming a repository of Swedish hums and other strange Scandinavian sounds. Krupinksi was describing a sound he heard and recorded (hear it here) in December 2017 – a sound that went on for 45 minutes and felt to him as if it was surrounding him rather than coming from any definitive direction. The recording has been making the rounds again recently, indicating it still hasn’t been resolved.
“Early morning in Gothenburg in Sweden i heard this strange trumpet sound. People was looking up when the sound came.”
That trumpet sound (hear it here) was recorded on August 10, 2018.
“I have heard this sound many times, i the middle of the night at at day time. I was reading in the news, the same sound was too in US and England at same time, and it was raported and many people have taking contact to the police to ask. No one knows what it was, but it also was in northern Germany and Denmark.”
To compete the strange sound triple-play of hum, trumpet and boom, Krupinksi uploaded a recording of a boom in Germanyhe claims to have also heard himself. How is it that one person has personally experienced so many strange sounds? Looking at the rest of his YouTube page, Krupinksi appears to be a fan of (and possibly a producer of) electronic music. Perhaps he just has a sensitive ear and recording equipment ready at a moment’s notice to capture the sounds.
“Strange trumpet sound in the sky!!! (trying to film the aurora in the sky). At 2.34 in this vid, the sound is very close. I was experimenting with my camera this evening to film northern lights.”
Or perhaps he lives in the right place. In his comment on an April 2018 recording (hear it here), Krupinksi reveals he was watching the Northern Lights when he heard a trumpet sound. Researchers admit that so-called ‘aurora sounds’ frequently occur during northern lights activities. However, they’re generally short sounds ranging from crackles to machine gun bursts to claps and booms. Because the intensity of these solar magnetic disturbances varies, the sounds are different as well.
That ‘sounds’ reasonable … except to the millions of people in the north who hear the sounds in the Northern Lights off-season, or in the south where there’s no aurora borealis at all. There’s obviously more to these mysterious hums, trumpets and booms than meets the ear. Help solve the mystery by following the example of Rene Krupinksi and spending time outside with audio and video recording devices.
Three college students in Phoenix have reported having a supernatural experience during a recent hike on Arizona’s Dreamy Draw Mountain. According to the students, a strangely familiar robed, long-haired figure appeared on top of the mountain, only to vanish as the girls appeared. Even stranger, the apparition left them the best gift three college students could hope to receive: an envelope full of cash.
Just think of all the pumpkin spice lattes that could buy!
It all began as Allisa Miller, Jen Vickman, and Kassi Sanchez were having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day in the way that only privileged college students can have. “It was one of those days where as soon as you wake up, nothing really goes as planned,” Miller told AZFamily.com. “We slept through our alarms so we were really late to get here,” said Vickman. “It was already hot, like we didn’t want to hike,” said Sanchez. “Like something we had to do almost, forced fun,” laughed Miller. Poor girls. First world problems sure are the worst.
The girls overcame the unbearable adversity of waking up late and being hot and made it to the mountain where they began their hike. That’s when things got mysterious. The girls saw a curiously Jesus-like figure standing atop the mountain, but when they reached the spot where he stood, he had vanished.
Probably had a pancake to appear on somewhere.
“We just see a silhouette of this man, it looks like he has long hair and he’s in a robe,” said Miller. “He was like right there on the top of the mountain. We were all just kinda shocked, we just kinda sat there.” While just kinda sitting there, the girls spied an envelope stashed between a few rocks. Opening the envelope, the girls discovered a note with a curious, somewhat rambling inscription quoting the Bible and contemporary Christian rock music and signed only with the letter J. Even better, the envelope contained three $100 bills – one for each hiker.
Of course, the girls believe the experience was a miracle and have found religious meaning in it. As such, they say they won’t spend the money but will save it for the right opportunity to help someone in need.
Experiencing miracles is great and all, but something about this one just feels a bit too coincidental: three girls, three $100 bills, a robed, long-haired man and a noted signed “J.” Was this a miracle on Dreamy Draw Mountain, or merely a good Samaritan hoping to lure a few young people into organized religion? Why go through the effort of wearing a robe up to the top of a mountain? Then again, if the girls plan to merely pay the cash forward, why report it to the news?
The coastline of the Carolinas has become a hotspot for mysteries lately. Just this week, a large unidentified object washed ashore not far from Charleston, South Carolina before being quickly whisked away by unnamed officials. A few months ago, a similarly large and unknown object was discovered a few hours to the north in North Carolina’s Outer Banks and has likewise yet to be identified.
To add to these maritime mysteries, a curious video filmed in South Carolina’s popular tourist haven of Myrtle Beach has Carolinians wondering what exactly is going on in the skies over the coastline. MUFON and UFO Stalker both posted the video which seems to depict either a formation of small lights or one massive object flanked with multiple lights, somewhat similar to the Phoenix Lights. The video was reportedly filmed on August 5th but was reported to MUFON on October 4th.
The Phoenix Lights remain among the most widespread mass sightings in UFO history.
The unnamed individual who filmed the time lapse video was photographing a lightning storm over the Myrtle Beach oceanfront strip of hotels and resorts and reportedly didn’t notice the lights until processing the video later. “I was taking the pictures off the edge of a long pier after dark, so there were no reflective surfaces around,” the videographer toldMUFON. “I did not notice the objects until i returned home and checked the photograph and video.”
Like most photographic or videographic evidence, it’s difficult to tell exactly what we’re seeing and reflections or other artifacts certainly are plausible and probable explanations – especially given the amount of bright lights along this stretch of the Myrtle Beach strip. Of course, the comments sections on both Myrtle Beach local news sites and UFO Stalker are full of skeptics and believers alike. On MyrtleBeachOnline.com, the prevailing consensus seems to be that the lights are merely reflections or lens flares. Some commenters have pointed out that the formation of lights is somewhat similar to the arrangement of buildings below.
South Carolina is home to both Joint Base Charleston Air Force North and Shaw Air Force Base, both known to conduct drills and exercises along the coast.
Then again, with so many strange things washing ashore along the Carolinas’ coastlines, who knows what the video might depict? Reflections, a military drill, or something stranger?
Saturn has to be both the coolest and weirdest planet in the solar system. It’s so strange that it’s inspired countless conspiracy theories including the, admittedly awesome, idea Saturn is where demons live. No other planet is cool enough to justify that level of insanity. In 2017, the spacecraft Cassini engaged its final suicide mission, hurling itself with all haste into the gas giant and topping off the slew of astounding images it already sent back Earth-side with a detailed analysis of the chemical composition of Saturn’s atmosphere and its signature rings. And wouldn’t you know it, Saturn got even weirder.
According to a new study published in Science, the chemical composition of Saturn’s rings is a far cry from what scientists initially expected. It was long assumed that the rings of Saturn were composed of almost entirely water, but the data from Cassini shows that amidst all that water are other complex chemicals—including a large amount of organic matter such as methane.
Now, the word organic is a pretty loaded term. We’re not talking organic farming here, and they didn’t find the demons. Organic, in the chemical sense, means chemicals that include carbon in their molecular structure. While they are certainly not saying that they found life in Saturn’s rings, organic compounds do form the basis of all life.
Artist’s depiction of the Cassini spacecraft
According to Thomas Cravens, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas and co-author of the paper:
“What was a surprise was the mass spectrometer saw methane — no one expected that. Also, it saw some carbon dioxide, which was unexpected. The rings were thought to be entirely water. But the innermost rings are fairly contaminated, as it turns out, with organic material caught up in ice.”
The researchers also found that the rings are expelling these chemical compounds into Saturn’s atmosphere, and may be gradually changing the chemical makeup of the planet. According to Cravens:
The material is coming into Saturn at high speeds because the rings are moving faster than the atmosphere quite a bit. It doesn’t just drop in gently. It comes flying in there like a satellite re-entering our own planet. These dust grains moving at satellite speed, depositing energy that can dissociate the atmosphere.
How can you not love this huge, weird, and creepy thing?
According to the scientists, this new understanding of Saturn’s rings and atmosphere can help us better understand the underlying processes of the solar system at large, including how planetary rings are formed in the first place, and how long they last. Unfortunately for old Saturn, the data seems to suggest that the rings are slowly being depleted. They’re expelling matter faster than they’re being refilled. As Cravens put it, there’s “a hole in the bucket.” This may also suggest that Jupiter’s now nearly invisible ring was once as impressive as Saturn’s.
It seems that the more we learn, the more unanswered questions are revealed. With our technology progressing faster and faster, giving us more detailed windows into our mysterious neighbors there’s no telling what we could find. It’s probably demons, though.
Amazing UFO Near Trees At Sterling City, Texas On Oct 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Amazing UFO Near Trees At Sterling City, Texas On Oct 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: October 2018 Location of sighting: Sterling City, Texas, USA Now I passed this by for a second, dismissing it as a fake...but then decided to take a second look and carefully look at the photos. I took the screenshot and added light, which revealed the ground and the trees nearby. I then realised its 100% legit...and that was exciting. Its not often a UFO of this size and focus is captured. The UFO was captured by a UFO researcher channel called Sterling City UFOs...in Texas. Click that name to subscribe to their channel or miss out. I put the screenshots into a gif so you can see me adding light and see the full picture. The first photo in the gif is the original, unaltered. Wow, this reminds me of the legendary Billy Meier UFO photos, which also had UFOs of this detail near trees. So awesome. This made my week. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I awoke at 130 am to shut the window, and this large UFO was sitting close to the trees about 60 meters away. I grabbed my camera put it on a stand and was able to get 2 raw photos with a 2 second exposure. it lit the object up. fantastic clear shot.
UFO Descends From Space and Then Splits Into Two Over Ohio, Oct 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Descends From Space and Then Splits Into Two Over Ohio, Oct 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 2018 Location of sighting: Ohio, USA Source: MUFON #95464 When an object falls from space with a trail this big...it should in world news...yet nothing about this object exists except this one video by an eyewitness. The object is moving too slow to be a meteor or space junk. The speed is slow and controlled...and I don't want to say its aliens...but it's aliens. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
"Thought maybe a plane was crashing saw a light descending then a black piece came off...My daughter and I were driving to the store. We both noticed a light in the sky ahead of us and it looked like it was descending. I said is that a plane crashing ? We couldn’t figure out what the orange like light was. I pulled over and we saw a black piece come off. I thought maybe an explosion was next and we stopped the car to look.
Then the light moved and a trail seemed to follow. But then it hovered. We watched as it began to move again stop and then a trail. It was very slow. We were bewildered. Never saw anything like it. We decided to drive the direction but then lost it in the trees. We were both very confused for quite a while we kept looking for another half an hour. Not sure what it was, seemed to slow for a meteor or fireball. The black piece that came off was also very confusing"
Mysterious Humming Sound in the Sky recorded in Sweden
Mysterious Humming Sound in the Sky recorded in Sweden
A puzzling piece for footage from Sweden features a mysterious humming sound that was said to have reverberated through the air for an astounding 45 minutes. The eerie scene was filmed back in December.
According to the witness, he noticed the odd sound while in northern Sweden at what looks to be a snow-covered mountaintop. He says that the humming noise was constant and seemed to almost vibrate the air.
Although he expressed certainty that the hum was coming from the sky, the witness conceded that he couldn't quite determine from which direction it was emanating as it appeared to be coming from every direction.
He also noted that he has visited the location before and that it is "usually a very quiet place," what made the odd hum all the more mystifying. Eventually, after nearly an hour, he says, the noise dissipated as if it had "moved somewhere else."
The sound heard by the witness in Sweden may be connected to the larger mystery hum phenomenon which has been reported in various parts of the world in recent years.
According to coasttocoastam, theories for what may be causing these sounds range from the conspiratorial, such as clandestine military weaponry, air displacement caused by slow-moving huge UFOs to prosaic possibilities involving natural events surrounding the magnetic field of the Earth.
Atlantis is the Holy Grail of mythical islands and nations. First mentioned by Plato, his writings led those searching for it to the Atlantic Ocean, hoping to find the actual island or one that could have inspired the myth. While it has never officially been found, there’s no lack of ancient maps showing its location in the Atlantic. Many frustrated with finding it there have gravitated to other bodies of water where the lighting is better and the islands are easier to find — suspecting those making the original reports were confused, using it allegorically or perpetrating a hoax. That tendency exists even today, as a historian now claims a small rock island near Ireland is actually Atlantis peeking out from the ocean depths. Is it big enough for a hotel and a cruise ship dock?
“Part of it is still above water.”
Rockall
Matt Sibson, creator of the Ancient Architects YouTube channel, claims in an interview with The Daily Star that he believes the tiny granite island of Rockall in the North Atlantic is the highest point of the sunken Atlantis. Located about 300 km (187 miles) west of Scotland, 420 km (263.0 miles) northwest of Ireland and 700 km (440 miles) south of Iceland, Rockall belongs to the UK as a part of Scotland, although Ireland seems to want this place, which is classified by the United Nations as one of those “rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own.” (Sounds like some places in the U.S. too.) That could change with all of the tourism business generated when Sibson convinces the world it’s Atlantis. If only he had an old map.
The Zeno map showing Frisland (bottom left)
Actually, he does, but on it (and some others, including the infamous Zeno map which is a proven hoax) the spot currently occupied by Rockall is called Frisland or Friesland (which is also the name of an unrelated province of the Netherlands).
“Friesland has never been officially identified but featured in many maps between the 1500s and 1600s, before disappearing completely. Why would they make up an island completely in the middle of the ocean? I think there was something huge there, and there is still something there now to prove it – the last remaining part of Friesland.”
Sibson also has a modern, not mythological, reason for the disappearance of Frisland multiple times dating back to 13,000 years ago when Plato’s Atlantis allegedly was still above water … climate change.
“This was when Earth was coming out of the Ice Age and everything was getting warmer but, all of a sudden, about 12,900 years ago, it went freezing cold again. Then about 1000 years later it warmed again and it has been getting warmer to this day.”
Sibson also works in a comet hit, which is a theoretical but still unproven occurrence about the same time that may have created earthquakes, tsunamis and other stresses to the Earth’s crust, causing … you guessed it … the island of Frisland/Atlantis to sink into the Atlantic. Subsequent environmental changes could explain its alleged reappearance and subsequent disappearance on maps from 1500s/1600s and the existence of all that’s left … Rockall.
1623 map of the Arctic by Gerardus Mercator showing Frisland
That’s a lot of extrapolation (which Sibson admits) between the three remote dots of Plato’s writings, old and potentially unreliable maps of a disappearing island, and a tiny disputed rock islet. Some searches of Rockall and especially the area around it would probably resolve this. Actually, they’ve already taken place. In 2013, surveys by Marine Scotland didn’t find evidence of Frisland or Atlantis but did discover four new species – a sea snail, two clams and a marine worm – living around a cold seep, which is a crack in the ocean floor where hot hydrocarbons leak out.
You don’t suppose that crack could be related to the disappearance of Frisland, do you?
RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY THE “MISSING LINK” IN THE CHEMISTRY OF SATURN’S LARGEST MOON
RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY THE “MISSING LINK” IN THE CHEMISTRY OF SATURN’S LARGEST MOON
Team Titan
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is weird. Really weird. Its atmosphere is unlike that of any other moon in our entire solar system — in fact, it’s a lot like what scientists believe Earth’s was like during its first billion years.
Titan’s atmosphere also includes organic compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), precursors to the molecules that gave rise to life on Earth. Previously, we thought they could only form under high-temperature conditions. But the average surface temperature on Titan is a frigid -179 degrees Celsius (-290 degrees Fahrenheit).
Now, researchers think they’ve found the “missing link” that explains how Titan’s atmosphere could include these compounds. The knowledge could better our understanding of our own planet’s infancy and provide new clues in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Early Earth
In a study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, U.S. and Russian researchers show how gases already known to exist on Titan could have combined to produce PAHs. They did this using a combination of computer simulations and practical experiments.
The finding isn’t remarkable simply because it teaches us something new about Titan — it could also help us better understand Earth’s history.
“The gas make up of Titan is similar to prebiotic Earth — hydrocarbons and nitrogen and the absence of oxygen — hence, scientists are keen to see how chemistry is evolving or has evolved on Titan to provide clues to Earth’s atmospheric content,” Berkeley researcher and study author Musahid Ahmed told Futurism.
The better we can understand the conditions that led to the formation of the Earth as we know it, the better equipped we’ll be to figure out exactly what conditions are necessary for the formation of life — and where we might want to look for it elsewhere in the universe.
Filer’s Files #40 2018 : General Twining UFOs Are Real - PART I
Bloomington, Minnesota circle of lights on September 30, 2018
Filer’s Files #40 2018 : General Twining UFOs Are Real - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: General Twining UFOs Are Real. More Data on UFO Crash at San Augustin, New Mexico, Russian Navy UFO Record Say Aliens Love Oceans, UFO Contact from Undersea, Site Image from NASA Is Alien Tower, and Moon Space Station.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Minnesota, New Jersey, , Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Eire, Slovenia, 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.
On 8 July 1947, General Eisenhower ordered, Lt. General Nathan Twining the commander of the Air Materiel Command (AMC), to go to White Sands to make an appraisal of the reported unidentified objects being kept there. With a team of experts, technicians, and scientists Twining was directed to not only appraise the unidentified flying object, but also to deal with the military, political, and psychological situation surrounding its existence. General Twining flight logs of 1947 have been recently released, so his location between July 7 and July 9th 1947 has been confirmed. This trip to New Mexico was Twining’s only trip during the summer of 1947 to inspect a crashed UFO IPU Summary Page 4 states the following: – 7th July 1947 – Twinning went to Alamogordo AAF for a secret meeting with Army Air Force Chief Of Staff General Spaatz and to view recovered remains of craft from crash landing site 20 miles northwest of Socorro.
8th July 1947 – Twinning went to Kirtland AAF to inspect parts recovered from power plant.
9th July 1947 – Twining went to White Sands Proving Ground to inspect craft being stored there.
10th July 1947 – Twining made inspection of R&D facilities at Alamogordo and then returned to Wright Field.
General Nathan Twining was the commander of the Air Materiel Command that was deeply emerged into research: aircraft design, guided missiles, propulsion, electronics, meteorology and climatology, aviation medicine, armament, winterization and atomic energy. Scientists and engineers of AMC investigated the effects of high speed, high altitude flight upon the human body and aircraft.
Air Materiel Command was the place where much of the new technology for the Air Force would be developed such as the entire guided missile program, and it became the responsibility of the United States Air Force in 1947. This Secret document was downgraded under the Freedom of Information Act.
Air Material Commands Opinion Concerning “Flying Discs” Lt. General Nathan Twining
TO: Commanding General Army Air Forces
Washington 25, D.C.
As requested by AC/AS-2 (General George Schulgen) there is presented below the considered opinion of this command concerning the so-called “Flying Discs.” This opinion is based on interrogation report data furnished by AC/AS-2 and preliminary studied by personnel of T-2 and Aircraft Laboratory, Engineering Division T-3. This opinion was arrived at in a conference between personnel from the Air Institute of Technology, Intelligence T-2, Office, Chief of Engineering Division, and the Aircraft, Power Plant and Propeller Laboratories of Engineering Division T-3.
It is the opinion that:
The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious.
There are objects probably approximately the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft.
There is the possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors.
The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled manually, automatically, or remotely.
The apparent common description of the objects is as follows:
(1) Metallic or light reflecting surface.
(2) Absence of trail, except in a few instances when the object apparently was operating under high performance conditions.
(3) Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top.
(4) Several reports of well kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects.
(5) Normally no associated sound, except in three instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted.
(6) Level flight speeds normally about 300 knots are estimated.
Editor’s Note: While I was giving a speech at the Roswell Museum a young man introduced himself and told me his father had flown alien bodies and debris of the Roswell disc to Wright Field in 1947. He was the co-pilot on Captain Pappy Oliver Henderson’s C-54 crew and was convinced the debris was not from this world. General Twining became the first Air Force Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking military position. http://www.majesticdocuments.com/documents/pre1948.php .
More Data on UFO Crash at San Augustin, New Mexico
From 1980 to 1999, John Andrews sat on the knowledge of the configuration of the crashed discs to resemble the “Wave rider-stingray-cetacean-form” . He died on Good Friday, 1999 of a cancer similar to Ben Rich’s.
Bill McDonald obtained detailed information about the Roswell alien craft from Army counter intelligence personnel he called Rick and Frank who carefully described, sketched and overdrew on my sketches until the lateral profile of the craft was exactingly close to the profile of a harbor porpoise a species of cetacean known as Dall’s Porpoise. The stingray-skate-like diamond triangular wing form profiles were subtly different–But close enough to satisfy a detective’s standards regarding multiple witness composites.
The hexagonal power cell belly tiles were identically described by both men, to include being subducted under a thin rim layer of approximately eighteen inches. There were big hexagons near the nose, shrinking in size towards the tail and trailing wing edges.
John Andrews independently confirmed that Kelly and Ben also described a complex “Power grid” on the ships belly. Likewise for the cockpit canopy/forward sensor array shield–Only subtle variances in shape and placing. Frank thought it was a cockpit canopy. Rick stated it was a cover for a multi-tiered instrument array. The craft carried seven aliens.
Witness “Dutch” Bischoff in Anaheim (Who claimed to be a CIC auxiliary pilot) stated it was a “Half nose cone.”– May 1993—Long before my interviews with Rick and Frank.
My friend Len (Stringfield) stated very surprising things over the phone in December ’94. Len was VERY specific about the skin of the flight crew: He stated that macroscopically, the skin resembled the tiny, granulated smooth beaded scales of the tiny albino Geckos inhabiting the islands of the South Pacific.
He stated that his physicians reported that the skin was NOT the semipermiable layers that hold in moisture and fluids and hold out dangerous rot bacilli. He stated that it was like synthetic screen mesh under a microscope.
He stated that the flight crew members would have leaked like sieves if they were walking around outside the landed craft and not encased in some artificial cellophane-like substance. Infection would have occurred in seconds. They apparently worked together navigating and operating the craft. Rick July 1995 interviews stated that when he crawled through the wreckage he noticed something very odd about the texturing of the floor of the flight deck of the interior crew cabin. He stated that it was the oddest form of “Antiskid” imaginable. He stated that examining experts had compared the deck flooring to rings and swirls like “Fingerprint” and “Coral growth” patterns. Rick stated that in later years, he had occasion to examine a kidney dialysis bag and that when cut open, the microtubule packing was similar to the crystalline layers of microtubes in the floor layers. He also described vented louvers in the flooring edges on either side of the crew compartment which when he drew them reminded me of the gill slits of sharks and rays.
I put the skin and the flooring descriptions together and came up with the fluid life support system / flight ballast inertial dampening buffer. Oxygenated fluorocarbons approximate the weight of water but evaporate fast after a hull breech. Sterile fluids would not only sustain life but would also cushion the flight crew from high “G” aerial maneuvers and death from rapid onset of infections and rapid catastrophic dehydration.
All witnesses told me that the craft was unusually light for its size. Without some form of heavy ballast, it would have fluttered like a kite without a tail in atmospheric flight mode. Trim was critical for a craft of its size and weight. Every seat needed to be filled. Only a fluid fulfills all ballast and all delicate trim requirements for atmospheric flight–Magneto-aero electric propulsion in the air. Certain species of frogs breathe and receive nutrients directly through their skin tissue membranes. They die fast out of the water. Their lungs are partially atrophied from lack of use. Their digestive systems are reduced. Normal defecation is almost never seen. Sound familiar? Thanks to Bill McDonald
Art Campbell has done an incredible job of researching the July 2, 1947 crash of a small, extraterrestrial craft in the Plains of St Augustin, New Mexico not far from the Roswell crash. There is speculation that the two UFOs collided or were affected by radars.
Art Campbell writes, “In May of 2012 a group of 15 people found a great deal of important material near the San Augustin, NM crash site that is thought to have happened at the same time as the Roswell crash. By far the most important finding was this I-beam. It is 2 inches across at the flanges and 13 1/4 inch long. Rather crude flanged holes at each end indicate it may have been a repair. Bottom skin, honeycomb, and I-beam might have been scraped off a craft on the first skip down. Below the I-beam is another piece of 38’oneycomb. This one had some skin attached, believed to be just inside the interior. Some excitement occurred when a faint triangle, circle and other markings were found near the right end of beam. The beam is probably the most significant find at the crash site and wants to make sure everybody knows about it. The beam looks more like an H-beam used to distribute horizontal loads. Crude flanged holes are a mystery. It is possible it was used more than once in a repair of some sort.
Alien beam found at crash site
Art Campbell and his research team found a beam with a metallurgical composition primarily aluminum with high silicon, manganese, copper, and iron. The UFO had the general shape of a Sting Ray and many of the parts seemed to be similar to underwater plants and coral. The team found several pieces of beams that likely were part of a grid of beams that covered the entire bottom of the UFO (probably crisscrossing the bottom of the craft in 10-12″‘ squares) supporting the honeycomb sandwich. The craft when it skipped down lost allot of its bottom and this beam was probably ripped out. Also light weight honey comb material was found at the San Augustin crash site and also at one in Japan.
Honeycombs nearly identical were found 6000 miles apart and 41 years later, Honeycomb on left are from San Augustin, Magdalena Plains, New Mexico crash debris. The Shikoku Island, Japan debris were found in 1971, on the right by Mr. Shioto who saw the UFO explode and found the debris.
All of the samples were tested with a volt-ohmmeter, and were found to conduct electricity. Fifty-six (56) elements were detected in at least one sample. The aluminum contained alloys not available in aluminum in 1947. The coatings on all metals were blended with metal and rich in silica, titania, magnesia, sulfate, phosphate, and chloride, were almost certainly not available in 1947. The coatings are similar to those removed from people claiming alien contact. The samples still emit magnetic and electrical energy indicating these samples include nanotechnological smart metals of probable alien origin. Analysis of some of the metal indicated it was not from Earth.
Campbell found many items which are as follows:++++The major component of the metallic portions of all of the samples proved to be aluminum (Al). All of the samples appeared to be composed of aluminum alloys, with varying amounts of alloying elements. Other elements detected included beryllium (Be), carbon (C), oxygen (O), sodium (Na), magnesium (Mg), silicon (Si), phosphorus (P), sulfur (S), chlorine (Cl), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), titanium (Ti), iron (Fe), and palladium (Pd). The coating layers of the coated samples were much different in composition from the metallic portions of the samples. Aluminum was still a major component of the coatings, but was present to a lesser degree than in the metallic portions of the samples. The amount of oxygen in the coatings was much greater than in the metallic phase of the samples, indicating that the aluminum was probably present as an oxide layer, rather than as free metal. The proportions of carbon, silicon, and chlorine in the coatings were also higher than in the metal, indicating.
Skin of San. Augustin UFO
An artificial 3-layered container about the size of a human fist, believed to be some kind of an artificial body organ.* Seven kinds of unusual foil containing high levels of silicon, iron and manganese (unknown to the foil industry.)* Some strange wax material which may have been some kind of an insulation coating inside the UFO* Also found of a similar material was the remains of a small structural member (possibly a tiny I-beam)/* Possible alien sole shoes were found of different sizes of an extremely narrow width. Art’s book goes into great detail with photographs and analyses of these shoe soles.
The fluid would also allow for near but not quite neutral buoyancy in seawater. Her shape suggests that she could most likely dive into the ocean and fly out again with slightly positive buoyancy easily offset by her magneto-hydrodynamic propulsion modes underwater. The material and buoyancy suggests underwater bases and possible manufacture by aliens who live underwater. Our oceans are obviously an alien world where other forms of human like creatures may have developed.
The UFOs may use holograms to produce misty effects, shape shifting, and other means to camouflage their appearance. They appear to light up that may be part of an electronic shield or the propulsion system. Some UFOs leave radioactive effects and some leave burns on humans. This may come from particle beams used for radioactive control.. They also have the ability to appear and disappear which may be accomplished by time travel. Within the UFO they appear to have an inner space separated from the force of gravity and universal space that allows extra ordinary maneuvers and may overcome time as we know it.
This grid material may form a force field separating the craft from the universal gravitation force field allowing them to maneuver like there is no gravity and reverse time. It is likely a strong electron current flows around and thru the craft. High electron speeds may create a time change. Many reports claim the aliens are able to manipulate time arriving at a destination in minutes or returning to a previous position instantly. Lt Col. Corso explained that in some ways the craft were also time machines. I know this sounds impossible by our standards but they are thousands of years ahead of us. The humming sound often reported indicates that are using alternating current control components causing the surface of the craft to vibrate rather than having large internal machinery. One alternating current component may be the 7.5 Hertz signal sometimes recorded from these craft.
An alternating current component could be a higher frequency component that could cause the outside surface of the craft to emit a light. The energy for the light could come from the neutrinos causing the electrons to move up and down in energy levels as required to produce light. Many of what appears as stars are actually UFOs hovering above. It may be they wish to attract attention. Thanks to Art Campbell Go to www.ufocrashbook.com for his excellent book and more details.
Russian Navy UFO Record Say Aliens Love Oceans
The Russian navy has declassified its records of encounters with unidentified objects technologically surpassing anything humanity ever built, reports Svobodnaya Press news website. The records dating back to Soviet times were compiled by a special navy group collecting reports of unexplained incidents delivered by submarines and military ships. The group was headed by deputy Navy commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov, and the documents reveal numerous cases of possible UFO encounters, the website says. Vladimir Azhazha, former navy officer and a famous Russian UFO researcher, says the materials are of great value.
“Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water,” he said. On one occasion a nuclear submarine, which was on a combat mission in the Pacific Ocean, detected six unknown objects. After the crew failed to leave behind their pursuers by maneuvering, the captain ordered to surface. The objects followed suit, took to the air, and flew away. Many mysterious events happened in the region of Bermuda Triangle, recalls retired submarine commander Rear Admiral Yury Beketov. Instruments malfunctioned with no apparent reason or detected strong interference and numerous planes have been lost. The former navy officer says this could be deliberate disruption by UFOs.
“On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed. Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, or 400 kph. Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development,” Beketov said.
Navy intelligence veteran, Captain 1st rank Igor Barklay comments: “Ocean UFOs often show up wherever our or NATO’s fleets concentrate such as near the Bahamas, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. They are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea.”
Another place where people often report UFO encounters is Russia’s Lake Baikal, the deepest fresh water body in the world. Fishermen tell of powerful lights coming from the deep and objects flying up from the water. In one case in 1982, a group of military divers training at Baikal spotted a group of humanoid creatures dressed in silvery suits. The encounter happened at a depth of 50 meters, and the divers tried to catch the strangers. Three of the seven men died, while four others were severely injured. “I think about underwater bases and say: why not? Nothing should be discarded,” says Vladimir Azhazha. “Skepticism is the easiest way: believe nothing, do nothing. People rarely visit great depths. So it’s very important to analyze what they encounter there.”
The Deepwater Air/Spaceport discovery is located in the Pacific and is at 6,400 ft. depth. The structure measures 80 miles across.
The individual runways are approx 5 miles wide and have spans (shadows) that appear to imply that they are raised above the seabed. Please have a look and give me some feedback in Texas.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UFO Contact from Undersea
In the book “UFO contact from Undersea” by Dr. Virgilio Ocejo and Col. Wendelle Stevens the abductee was taken to an undersea base for examination. Filiberto Cardenas the abductee talked to the aliens. “They told me that they have bases under the ocean near the coast of Florida, also at the North Pole, South Pole, and off the coast of Argentina, all below the sea. They said they would someday show themselves..
Author Lt. Col. Wendelle C. Stevens first learned of the reality of UFOs while in the military.
Unidentified Submerged Objects USOs — have been observed descending into bodies of water all over the World. The abduction experience of Filiberto Cardenas a former Cuban Sergeant who came to Florida and owned a gas station is in a class by itself! When the events originally transpired, Cardenas s story was the lead item on the nightly news on every Hispanic TV station imaginable coming at the height of an unparalleled UFO wave. To a stunned audience of millions, Cardenas told how he was lifted up onboard a craft in front of multiple witnesses. Investigators later backed up his account upon determining that there were anomalies with the engine block of the car that he was driving at the time and which had stalled for no apparent reason.
The expanded version of the book called “UFO Abduction from Undersea,” is Filiberto Cardenas full story as told by Dr Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo and Lt Col. Wendelle Stevens (Ret.). The incident involved two abductions onto the alien spacecraft, elevated aboard in a beam of light, and physical examination by alien beings. He was taken aboard a USO and several varieties of flying vehicles were used. A Submarine base was visited by the witness that included a tour of the alien s facilities. High-technology transceiver was implanted in the witnesses head. He had no problem with underwater pressure or breathing.. Photos of flying discs from under sea, as well as maps of pertinent locations. This is essentially a well documented case that has gained credibility over the years. New evidence is being added all the time that the visitors can come and go in our oceans and lakes at will. We don’t have the foggiest idea of what goes on the bottom of most of the world’s oceans that cover 71 percent of the Earth’s surface and contain 97 percent of the Earth’s water. Various forms of life developed millions of years in the oceans before animals developed on land and a humanoid form may have developed in the oceans that is far ahead of us in technology.
Ronald Nussbeck writes, “The first images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) were published on the July 2, 2009, aimed at the region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds). On July 17, 2009 some images of the Apollo landing sites were released by NASA but a scientist was not so sure NASA had found the Lander? Looking at the image the first thing Scientist Ron Stewart noticed was the size and shape of the shadow produced by the object that NASA points to as the Lander, it is nearly twice the size of the crater in front of it. Using the most scientifically advanced imaging equipment APEP-ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHIC EXTRACTION PROCESS Mr. Stewart decided to look very closely at the object to determine if this was in fact the Lander. Some Astronauts have openly said there were Aliens on the Moon and that their space craft was followed to the Moon by Aliens.
The photo shows the shadow of the Tower very clearly, it is estimated that the Tower is over two miles high. The Tower is also thought to be made of a metal not seen on Earth with manufacturing processes not know to humans. The fact that the Tower is over two miles high and was placed on the lunar surface means it is beyond human capacity to build it? The shadow length and size is incredible when compared to the landscape, the scientist also believes the object next to the Tower and horizontal to the crater has been air brushed to hide its features. If you look closely at the object next to the crater the air brushing is visible? Scientist Ron Stewart invites any Optical Scientist to contact him at rnsuitcase@aol.com Credit: NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and thanks to Ronald Nussbeck
Moon Space Station
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NASA plans to start building a moon-orbiting space station called the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway in 2022. This outpost will be a waypoint for future missions to the lunar surface and more-distant destinations, such as Mars, agency officials say.
Credit: NASA
The moon has not superseded Mars as a human-spaceflight target, despite NASA’s current focus on getting astronauts to Earth’s nearest neighbor, agency officials stressed. The Red Planet remains the ultimate destination, and the moon will serve as a stepping stone along the way, Jim Bridenstine, NASA administrator. “The moon is the proving ground, and Mars is the goal,” Bridenstine said during testimony before the Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, part of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
“The glory of the moon is that it’s only a three-day journey home,” Bridenstine added. “So, we can prove all of the technologies, we can reduce all of the risks, and work on another world. And we can do it all at the moon, where, if there is a problem, if there is an emergency, we know that we can get people home.”
Far from delaying a crewed Mars mission, which NASA aims to execute in the 2030s, the current and near-future moon work should “accelerate our path to get to Mars,” Bridenstine said.
This reassurance is in keeping with the language of Space Policy Directive 1 (SPD 1), which has spurred much of the moon work. SPD 1, which President Donald Trump signed in December of 2017, instructs NASA to return astronauts to the moon as part of a sustainable exploration program that will eventually bring more-distant destinations, such as Mars, within reach. Thanks to Space.com.’
Christine Blasey Ford’s ex-boyfriend says she coached friend on how to take a polygraph:
Christine Blasey Ford claimed that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually groped her 36 years ago when he was 17. (Associated Press/File) more >
By Alex Swoyer – The Washington Times – October 3, 2018, reports, Christine Blasey Ford’s ex-boyfriend has sent a letter to the Judiciary Committee contradicting her claims last week that she never coached anyone about how to take a polygraph test, Fox News reported..
The ex-boyfriend, whose name was redacted from the letter Fox posted, said he dated Ms. Blasey Ford for roughly six years and she never mentioned a sexual assault in her past, nor did she seem afraid of flying or of enclosed spaces. Ms Ford last week testified that she was assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh when they were in high school — and said it left her afraid of tight spaces without escape routes.
She also testified that she had been reluctant to come to Washington to testify because she was afraid of flying. The ex-boyfriend also said he recalled Ms. Blasey Ford, a psychologist by training, coaching a friend, Monica McLeam, on how to take a polygraph test in preparation for a Fbi job interview.
“Dr. Ford explained in detail what to expect, how polygraphs worked and helped Monica McLean become familiar and less nervous about the exam. Dr. Ford was able to help because of her background in psychology,” the man said in the letter.
During the hearing last week Ms. Blasey Ford told Rachel Mitchell, the sex-crimes prosecutor and Senate the GOP hired to question her, that she “never” coached anyone or gave tips about how to take a polygraph.
MITCHELL: Have you ever taken any other polygraphs in your life?
MITCHELL: And I don’t just mean countermeasures, but I mean just any sort of tips, or anything like that.
FORD: No. I was scared of the test itself, but was comfortable that I could tell the information, and the test would reveal whatever it was going to reveal. I didn’t expect it to be as long as it was going to be, so it was a little bit stressful.
MITCHELL: Have you ever given tips or advice to somebody who was looking to take a polygraph test?
Ms. McLean put out a statement, following Fox News’ report, denying she ever had help from Ms. Blasey Ford.
“I have NEVER had Christine Blasey Ford, or anybody else, prepare me, or provide any other type of assistance whatsoever in connection with any polygraph exam I have taken at anytime,” she said.
According to the New York Post, Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley contacted Ms. Blasey Ford’s lawyers once he receive the letter, saying it “raises specific concerns about the reliability of Ford’s polygraph-examination results.”
The committee retweeted the Fox News story Tuesday.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, criticized Republicans for releasing the letter, which also contained details of the relationship between Ms. Blasey Ford and the unnamed man.
“Now, in the midst of an FBI investigation, Republicans are interviewing former boyfriends of both Dr. Fordand Deborah Ramirez in a transparent attempt to discredit them,” she said in a statement. Ford provided the Post with the polygraph results as well as session notes from her couples therapist written in 2012.
The therapist’s notes do not name Kavanaugh but record Ford’s claim of being attacked by students “from an elitist boys’ school” who went on to become “highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington”. The therapist’s notes also say four boys were involved, which Ford attributed to an error by the therapist.
No reports of the Senate Judiciary Committee interacting with a former boyfriend of Ms. Ramirez, who was the second woman to accuse Judge Kavanaugh, have been made public.
Ms. Feinstein said. “The terrible treatment of Dr. Ford and Ms. Ramirez tells every woman in this country to keep sexual assault to themselves.“
Leland Keyser, the “best friend” of Christine Blasey Ford who was allegedly present at the party, told FBI investigators that Ford associate Monica McLean a retired FBI agent had pressured her to change her denial of the alleged assault, which had hurt Ford’s credibility.Christine Blasey-Ford friend in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware was career FBI Agent and they were together during the construction of the accusation letter sent to Senator Feinstein on July 1, 2018
Ford is a registered Democrat who has made small contributions to political organizations.[10] In 2017, she participated in a local Women’s March protesting President Trump[12
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Judge Kavanaugh confirmed by Senate 50 to 48 on October 6, 2018
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Filer’s Files #40 2018 : General Twining UFOs Are Real - PART II
Filer’s Files #40 2018 : General Twining UFOs Are Real - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Santa Cruz — She was outside with her dog on October 2, 2018, and saw a glowing white object. It was not a jet plane which regularly pass over going north to SFO. This object was traveling in different direction and was glowing white and moving slowly from SE to NW. She took one photo on her I-Phone and sent it to me (her friend) via Facebook. I looked at the photo with a strong magnifying glass and saw a glowing white saucer shape with dome center, ‘the classic UFO”. She was especially taken by the whiteness of the object at 6:41 PM PST. Object moved slow enough to grab a camera and take a photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Object
Holmdel — I was flying my drone (A parrot bebop 2) shooting video at 1080p 30 frames per second, just ascending to do a 7 minute flight on September 3, 2018. It wasn’t until I reviewed the video that I saw the object fly in and out of exactly one frame at an incredible rate of speed. At first I didn’t notice it because the speed seems to almost make it invisible. Then something caught my eye. I slowed down the video using movie. If I have the frame rate speed correct that means it moved in 0.04 seconds . Its trajectory would have blown apart the trees or made some sort of sound. It was practically silent. I put in the stills from the video where I circled the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Circle
Bloomington — My husband and I were driving home from Minneapolis, and when we exited the highway on September 30, 2018, we saw a small-ish band of light in the sky. As we continued on the road, the circular “orb-ish” object appeared to get larger, with about a dozen points of brighter light, with a slightly dimmer ring connecting them.
It’s just hovering in the sky, no movement.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oklahoma Object
Wagoner — Image was captured on a trail camera about 1/2 mile from the airport on September 25, 2018.
It was a pick up on the trail cam so I’m not witness. Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Carolina Circle
Myrtle Beach— Taking pictures and time lapse of the incoming storm. I was taking the pictures off the edge of a long pier after dark, so there were no reflective surfaces around.
I did not notice the objects until I returned home and checked the photograph and video.
The pictures were taken on August 5, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Myrtle Beach — We had just finished an early supper at Outback Restaurant on September 9, 2018 with our Little League baseball team and parents around 5:30 pm. We were saying goodbye when one of the players asked me “What’s that?” pointing to the sky. We all looked up and observed a white circular object sitting stationary high in the sky. It was a bright white color and stood out against the clear blue sky. The object remained stationary and was not an early evening star or planet. I zoomed and took a picture.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Craft
Houston — Two large flat crafts with lights shining down. Two objects were projecting light downwards.
No sounds.
Photo was taken December 27, 2013.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
It was a very warm evening on September 28, 2019. My girlfriend and I were sitting in our back yard enjoying looking at the stars. I had my Luna Optics LN-DB60 HD Digital, Night vision binoculars with a recorder and was searching the sky and recording occasionally for practice. My girlfriend noticed a bright light in the sky and at first we thought it was an airplane. I started filming the object and noticed it was moving a bit slower than the airplanes and the light was brighter and steady. It moved across the northern sky from west to east silently. About a minute later, the object started to fade out and completely disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Belgium Lights
La Hulpe— On the evening of September 29, 2018, I decided to perform my night ritual to look for the UFOs, I am used to seeing. But that evening, I saw something different; a round light stagnated in the sky behind trees. So I decided to record this unique moment with my Samsung s6 phone.
During the capture of the video, we see a luminous ball flying over. This UFO emitted a continuous light and was later joined by two other objects. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Object
Baara— A storm was approaching. so I took a picture of the sky and only then saw that a strange object had been registered.
The object was not directly observed.
Photo was taken on February 9, 2018
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Light
Oshawa — Brilliant white UFO over Lake Ontario on September 29, 2018 at 4:43 pm est.
My friend enhanced these still shots from the video. I have just contacted our local media here. We will see if they bite. This would be number 73 UFO sighting for me in 2018. Thanks again for your time and interest into the matter. Enjoy Paul Shishis
Eire Light
Dublin Co — I was having a smoke out my back garden when I notice this really bright star.
I video it and it was moving all over the place.
Photo was taken on October 1, 2018.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Light
Saint Bathans — We pulled into the lake to take photos that is only meters from the “haunted historical St Bathans Hotel”. My partner and I observed the lake and as I’m an avid photographer, took many photos. The only real observation while in the location was the “weird shape” of what we thought was the sun. Something has dawned upon me while writing this, the photos were taken at 14.25. This particular photo was taken on my iPhone with a fast shutter speed.
Using my laptop I noticed this “phenomenon” Much to my partner and I surprise. I have asked many photography friends and they all joked it was the ghost from the hotel or a UFO. I’d really appreciate your feedback to solve this one. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Slovenia Triangle of Lights
Ankaran — Randomly captured a UFO on camera, whilst shooting long exposure photos of 60 seconds duration.
Ankaran is located on the Adriatic Sea near Italy.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ukraine Cigar
Kyiv — The witness sent this photo of a white cigar shaped object.
He did not elaborate on what he saw on September 30, 2018.
Note: The witness did not provide a description of what he saw. This question was posed to the witness, but he did provide any more detail. He said that he “saw the future.”
London — It’s an older video that I’ve just got around to sharing. It’s perhaps nothing but in January 2017 my family and I observed an object at high altitude that appeared flashing and at very high altitude moving steadily across the sky in a northerly direction.
What struck us was that it didn’t appear to be an aeroplane as there was no contrail. In my second video I captured the object and an aeroplane in the same shot and the two are very dissimilar. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Mysterious lights caught on a time-lapse video recorded from a pier in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in early August have triggered conspiracy theorists who claim the footage is evidence of a UFO sighting.
The recording, which shows lights hovering in the night sky above a Myrtle Beach pier, was captured on August 5 and later uploaded onto website Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) on October 4.
The footage was also shared on YouTube on Sunday by user UFO Zone, who stated in the video's description that it shows a "massive ‘spaceship'" lingering above the area during a thunderstorm.
"I was taking the pictures off the edge of a long pier after dark, so there were no reflective surfaces around," the unidentified filmer who shared the recording with the site wrote. "I did not notice the objects until I returned home and checked the photograph and video."
The individual noted that they had been intending to simply capture "pictures and time-lapse [video] of the incoming storm."
Commenters on both MUFON and UFO Zone's page were quick to shut down the claims being made, with some suggesting the lights were "all internal camera lens reflections."
"It's just lens flare from the bright pinpoint lights below in one of the lens elements," Buzz K wrote on YouTube. "Nothing to see here. Move along back to your Bud Light. Dilly dilly."
Another unconvinced user wrote, "I think I saw bigfoot on the ferris wheel."
The latest reporting on puzzling and eyebrow-raising content comes days after a "mysterious object" washed ashore on South Carolina's Seabrook Island. Photos of the suspicious object were uploaded and shared on Facebook by the state's Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network, a nonprofit tasked with increasing awareness and education regarding marine mammals of the Palmetto State.
Look at this mysterious object that washed ashore on Seabrook Island today! What do you think it is?
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"There's no metal on it. The whole thing is just layers of foam," Lauren Rust, founder and executive director of the nonprofit, told the Charleston Post and Courier. "It also doesn't look like it's been in the water that long. You'd think if it were in the water [for a long period of time], it would be covered in barnacles and all sorts of [sea life]."
Officials have since taken the strange object away in order to investigate the matter and possibly solve the mystery of its origins.
A new IPCC report suggests that the world is completely off track when it comes to limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius — instead, we’re more likely to go towards 3 degrees. The window isn’t shut just yet, but we need to act now, otherwise, the worldwide damage would be massive.
The world is heating up. We can put our heads in the sand all we want, but the fact is temperatures are rising as a result of us burning CO2 — and it’s time to act. Three years ago, in Paris, world leaders made a necessary first step: they agreed to take measures to limit at 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. They even snuck in the more ambitious goal of sticking to 1.5C. While many rightfully feel that the Paris Agreement is not nearly enough and we need much more ambitious actions, it was still a critical step in the right direction. Finally, it seemed that the world had come together to tackle climate change. But in the three years that have passed, politicians have not brought about that much change. This is where the new report comes in.
The 33-page report titled ‘Summary for Policymakers’ was published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a scientific and intergovernmental body that provides a scientific view of climate change and its political and economic impacts. The IPCC is essentially the leading body monitoring climate change research, which they use to provide recommendations to policymakers.
The picture this report paints is essentially saying that our planet is feverish because of us, and we need massive investments to curb this heating.
“Scientists might want to write in capital letters, ‘ACT NOW, IDIOTS,’ but they need to say that with facts and numbers,” said Kaisa Kosonen, of Greenpeace, who was an observer at the negotiations. “And they have.”
We must try and stick to 1.5C
Man-made CO2 emissions are the main source of climate change.
Image via NASA.
Although the report bears clear scars of political interference, it still makes a few clear and undiluted points. Among them, it urges leaders to understand that there’s a huge difference between 1.5C and 2C, and we need to aim for the former, not the latter.
“The first is that limiting warming to 1.5C brings a lot of benefits compared with limiting it to two degrees. It really reduces the impacts of climate change in very important ways,” said Prof Jim Skea, who co-chairs the IPCC.
“The second is the unprecedented nature of the changes that are required if we are to limit warming to 1.5C – changes to energy systems, changes to the way we manage land, changes to the way we move around with transportation.”
A 2C warming would likely destroy around 13% of the world’s ecosystems, it would drive coral reefs essentially extinct, and cause dramatic risk for a massive number of animal and insect species. The Arctic would be completely ice-free once or twice a decade, and for most humans, summer temperatures would simply be unbearably hot. By the end of the century, the situation would likely escalate to a full-blown disaster — and considering the scale of things, the end of the century is really not that far off.
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If we manage to stick to 1.5C, that risk would be halved. But according to current projections, we’ll reach 1.5C by 2030. This seemingly small difference of a half a degree is absolutely huge. The world is already 1C warmer than pre-industrial levels, and we’re already seeing the effects.
“It’s a line in the sand and what it says to our species is that this is the moment and we must act now,” said Debra Roberts, a co-chair of the working group on impacts. “This is the largest clarion bell from the science community and I hope it mobilises people and dents the mood of complacency.”
A half of degree
The one good thing the report highlights is that we still can remain in the 1.5C warming interval — but we need massive investments, from both governments and individuals, and we need them as soon as possible.
Using electric cars can make a big difference, the report highlights.
The core of the action is transitioning to renewable energy. A 1.5C scenario requires us to generate around 75-80% of our energy from renewable sources, such as wind and solar. We also need to expand reforestation efforts, to take advantage of trees’ ability to suck out carbon out of the air. This, however, requires 2.5% of global gross domestic product (GDP), the value of all goods and services produced, for two decades, something which most governments don’t seem convinced to invest in.
Even so, this would still require us to develop technologies to take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it safely underground by the end of the century. This technology is already in its nascent stages, and there’s a good chance it will be developed in a few decades, given proper investments.
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The big problem, of course, is the 2.5% GDP figure. However, it’s important to keep in mind that we’re not talking about sending money down the drain. There’s a good chance that much of that figure will be gained back by avoiding damage caused by climate-related events such as droughts and hurricanes. There’s actually a very good chance that we will get a return on this investment.
“Every extra tonne of carbon that we dump into the atmosphere today is a tonne that will have to be scrubbed out at the end of the century,” says Myles Allen, a climate scientist at the University of Oxford, UK, and one of the lead authors of the report.
“I think we need to start a debate about who is going to pay for it, and whether it’s right for the fossil-fuel industry and its customers to be enjoying the benefits today and expecting the next generation to pay for cleaning it up,” Allen says.
Globally, 2.5% of GDP is a huge sum, and as Allen hints, no one will likely want to pay for it — even though, at the end of the day, we all have a lot to gain from it. We just need to convince policymakers to act on it. But it’s not just politicians that need to act.
What all of us can do
The problem of climate change can seem overwhelming. Here’s a huge problem that requires international, large-scale cooperation, and we’re all just one person. But each and every one of us can still make a big difference, as the IPCC report also highlights. We all have the power to change things. Dr. Debra Roberts, the IPCC’s other co-chair, explains:
“That’s a very empowering message for the individual,” she said. “This is not about remote science; it is about where we live and work, and it gives us a cue on how we might be able to contribute to that massive change, because everyone is going to have to be involved.”
“You might say you don’t have control over land use, but you do have control over what you eat and that determines land use. We can choose the way we move in cities and if we don’t have access to public transport – make sure you are electing politicians who provide options around public transport.”
Some simple lifestyle measures include:
buying and eating less meat, particularly beef;
buying and eating less cheese and butter;
eating more locally sourced foods;
wasting less food;
driving an electric or hybrid car;
using public transportation, biking, or walking;
using videoconferences instead of business travel;
using a washing line instead of a tumbling dryer;
insulating houses;
demanding clean energy and low-carbon in every product we consume.
Bizarre footage has emerged showing triangular orbs in the sky above Mexico City.
The video, uploaded by the YouTube channel 'colourufo,' has been dubbed 'absolute proof' of alien life, with the filmer claiming the strange clip shows "multiple" UFOs.
The video reportedly captured on Sunday shows a white light moving from right to left before it speeds up and disappears.
The uploader then replays the video in slow motion, which appears to give the white light a more triangular shape, as if a 'shield' has formed around it.
Pictured: The 'UFO' taking a triangular shape as a 'shield' forms around it
Pictured: Lightning appears to strike as the 'UFO' disappears
Pictured: The strange white orb in the sky above Mexico City(Image: YouTube)
The video was picked up by UFO researcher Scott C. Waring who commented on his UFO sightings blog: "This video was made by a UFO researcher in Australia watching the live Mexico City cam.
"He is famous for his hard work in the field and this time he caught an amazing Pyramid UFO that is semi cloaked moving through the clouds."
"I have heard of pyramid clouds, but very few legit reports come in like this one," his blog post continued.
"As you see the cam takes a photo every few seconds so there is a jump in-between, but the UFO is seen in many still shots.
"Absolute proof that aliens are active in Mexico," he concluded."
Triangular and pyramid UFO sightings have become quite common in recent years, particularly above north and central America, but not everyone thinks they're aliens visiting Earth.
Often referred to as 'Black Triangles', some UFO experts claim people are actually seeing a top secret US spy aircraft known as TR-3B.
One of the most recent sightings occurred above Seattle, Washington in September.
(Image: Universal Images Group Editorial)
TR-3 planes do not officially exist, but according to conspiracy theorists, they are a class of US surveillance aircraft first used during the Gulf War in the early 1990s and developed in complete secret.
If Earth warms by just 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial times by 2100, rather than 2 degrees, we would see fewer life-threatening heat, drought and precipitation extremes, less sea level rise and fewer species lost.
Those findings are detailed in a report, a summary of which was released October 8, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, following its weeklong meeting in Incheon, South Korea. “This will be one of the most important meetings in the IPCC’s history,” Hoesung Lee, a climate economist at Korea University in South Korea and current IPCC chair, said in his opening address October 1.
To compile the report, the scientists sifted through more than 6,000 papers probing the impact of a global temperature hike of 1.5 degrees, sometimes working through the night, says Natalie Mahowald, a climate scientist at Cornell University and one of the report’s coauthors. But the long hours were worth it: The report’s message is compelling and urgent, she says. “Such a small change in temperature will have big impacts on people.”
Three years ago, in 2015, 195 nations signed onto the Paris agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to limit global warming to “well below” 2 degrees by 2100 (SN: 1/9/16, p. 6). Getting all the delegates on the same 2-degree-warming page was a hard-won victory. But many scientists have warned that the 2-degree target isn’t stringent enough to prevent major environmental changes affecting everything from sea level rise to water scarcity to habitat loss. During the Paris talks, more than 100 nations — including many of those most vulnerable to climate change, such as the island nation of the Maldives and drought-stricken Angola — called for a lower warming target of 1.5 degrees.
At the time, Lee noted in his Oct. 1 address, scientists knew relatively little about how to compare the risks of a 1.5-degree-warmer world with a 2-degree-warmer world. So, as part of the decision to adopt the Paris agreement, the nations invited the IPCC to prepare a report assessing those impacts.
As it turns out, the differences are stark between the two warming targets, as outlined in the new report, titled “Global Warming of 1.5° C.” In addition to fewer heat, rain and drought extremes, the impact on future sea levels would be significant. A half a degree less warming means about 0.1 meters less sea level rise on average by the next century. As a result, at least 10 million fewer people would be exposed to such risks as flooding, infrastructure damage and saltwater intrusion into freshwater resources, the report found.
Somewhere between 1.5 degrees and 2 degrees, the planet’s great ice sheets may become increasingly unstable, further increasing the potential for sea level rise. And, in the 1.5-degree warming scenario, the Arctic Ocean is projected to be ice-free during the summer only once per century. That would happen once a decade under the 2-degree scenario.
As for the planet’s other denizens, a lower temperature increase would mean less risk of habitat loss for many insect, plant and animal species compared with a full 2 degrees of warming, the report notes (SN: 6/9/18, p. 6). And other climate-related risks to these species, including forest fires and the spread of invasive species, would be less under that lower warming threshold.
RANGE LOSS Many species, including the pika, are already suffering habitat loss due to climate change.
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Much of the data analyzed in the report has been published in scientific journals over the last two years, and wasn’t available when the Paris agreement was signed. The London-based website Carbon Brief published an interactive infographic on October 4 that summarizes the results of 70 such 1.5-degree studies that show the impacts of warming targets on everything from future sea level rise to heatwaves to hurricanes.
Despite building a case for a lower temperature target, the trick will be how to get there. In 2017, the Paris accords faced a major setback when President Donald Trump announced that the United States, a major contributor to the greenhouse gases that drive warming, would pull out of the agreement. Achieving an even more stringent target seems particularly daunting.
The IPCC report examines various possible paths that scientists have examined to limit the environmental impacts of warming. Among the variables considered in these paths are when emissions are projected to reach net zero, when the amount of carbon released to the atmosphere is balanced by the amount that is being removed. Another variable is how many more emissions will be allowable in the meantime — a concept known as the carbon budget.
But almost all of the projected pathways to 1.5 degrees have one thing in common, says Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist with Carbon Brief: They overshoot that temperature threshold somewhere around 2050. “They all exceed it — and then back down,” he says.
To overshoot the mark by only a small amount, or not at all, requires reducing emissions by about 45 percent relative to 2010 levels by the year 2030, and reaching zero around 2050, the IPCC report notes. In comparison, to get to “below 2 degrees Celsius,” emissions must decline by about 20 percent by the year 2030 and reach zero by about 2075.
Barring such early, deep cuts, it will take “negative emissions” to bring the temperatures back down after overshooting the mark mid-century. Negative emissions are, essentially, a hoped-for reduction in emissions due to future technologies that will be able to remove enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reverse the greenhouse effect.
Those technologies, such as carbon capture and storage, are not yet commercially viable. And reversing the effects of the greenhouse warming is not so straightforward: “By and large, it’s generally true that there’s a linear relationship between warming and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as long as both are increasing,” Hausfather says. “But once you start sucking carbon out of the atmosphere, that linear relationship breaks. You need more negative emissions to reduce temperatures than positive emissions to increase them.”
It’s uncertain how — or if — policy makers will be able to use the findings to reshape the climate accords. During the 2015 Paris talks, a proposed 1.5-degree target was met with strong resistance from nations that would need to be on board, particularly China.
And President Trump’s administration gave a hint of its reaction when, in July, it released an environmental impact statement on the White House’s plan to freeze federal fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks built after 2020. With current levels of greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures are currently on track to rise by 4 degrees compared to preindustrial times by 2100 — and freezing the standards will further increase those emissions, the report acknowledged. But the study recommended the freeze anyway, stating that moving away from fossil fuels to make deep cuts in carbon emissions would require innovations that are “not currently technologically feasible or economically feasible.”
The challenges may seem insurmountable. But this special report — and the two years of intense research that led up to it — has also forced scientists to reassess some assumptions about what’s possible, says Kaisa Kosonen, a Helsinki-based climate policy adviser at Greenpeace International who traveled to South Korea for the meeting. Including certain factors, such as better energy efficiency in the future, can lead to “results you didn’t know even existed,” she says. “I’ve been inspired by how much optimism there still is among scientists.”
Indeed, one of the key messages from the report is that holding warming to 1.5 degrees “is not impossible,” Mahowald says. “But it will require really ambitious efforts, and the sooner the better. We have to start cutting emissions now. We have to be very ambitious on sustainable energy and sustainable agriculture,” she says. And, she notes, achieving the goal will require people to undergo behavioral changes as well, from energy conservation to changes in diet.
But people would also face huge adjustments in a world that’s 2 degrees warmer, or even higher, Mahowald warns. So despite the challenges, “it still might be easier to reach 1.5 than to adapt to those higher temperatures.”
Editor's note: This story was updated October 8, 2018, to include reaction to the report.
I spend a lot of time chasing UFO sightings and talking to alien abductees with the main goal of proving that aliens are visiting Earth. One of the things that I have always wondered about is “what do the aliens want?”. It is pretty obvious to me by now aliens do exist and the do visit the Earth. What they are doing here on Earth is an entirely different problem though. All we can do is make a logical guess based off of the information that we do have.
Learning from Alien Abductees
I have been in contact with a lot of alien abductees over the years. These people have always fascinated me. Most of them describe very similar experiences. We can try to figure out what the aliens want by what they did to these people while they had them. Hopefully their common experiences can shed some light on this mystery.
Aliens are doing Experiments on Humans
One of the common experiences of alien abductees is that they have some memory of being in some kind of exam room. They are usually on a metal table surrounded by instruments and sometimes even the aliens themselves. None of the abductees I have talked to know exactly what the aliens are doing to them but they all agree that they felt like a lab experiment. Some of these people come back with pieces of unidentifiable metal under their skin, in their teeth or even implanted all the way into a bone. These implants prove that the alien abductors have a vested interest into keeping track of these people. What kind of experiments the aliens are doing on these people is what I want to find out.
Why Would Aliens Want to do Human Experiments?
If we can figure out why aliens would want to experiment on humans we may be able to figure out what kind of experiments they are doing. I have come up with some possibilities.
Aliens are Researching Earth Germs and Viruses
Anyone that has seen the movie “War of the Worlds” has heard of the idea that aliens could be threatened by Earthly germs. This is a real possibility! Since humans have spent thousands of years building up resistance to these germs they don’t really harm us. We get sick and feel like crud for a few days and then our bodies kill the invading virus causing us to feel better. If an alien creature had no built up resistance to these viruses then they probably wouldn’t be able to fight these germs off naturally. This would be fatal to the creatures as it was in the movie. The only problem with the movie is that I seriously doubt that a super advanced species of aliens doesn’t know about Earth’s viruses and germs. It is hard to believe that aliens wouldn’t be prepared for such things. That could be one reason that they are abducting people; they are studying our illnesses so they can create vaccinations for themselves. That way they would be much safer spending more time on Earth.
Are Humans Alien Offspring?
Another reason that aliens could be showing so much interest in humans is that we could be their offspring. It is possible that at some point these alien civilizations decided to stop having sex to procreate and switched to using technology to create their children. There are many reasons that could have caused them to make this decision. That subject could be it’s own article.
Aliens could have decided to colonize Earth thousands of years ago by placing their offspring here. Humans could be either an exact copy of the alien race or they could have manipulated the DNA of creatures already on Earth combining it with their own to create an entirely new species. This would explain why they killed off all of the subhuman races besides homo sapiens. They wouldn’t have wanted their offspring to have too much competition.
Why Aliens Look Different
You may wonder why humans and aliens look different if it is possible that we are their children. There is a very simple answer to this question. Our bodies would have evolved and adapted to Earth for the last 20,000 years. This evolution would cause us to look different from our ancestors because we grew up on a different planet than they did. This is the same reason that people look different depending on which continent their family came from.
Aliens Could Want Our Planet
Out of all of the things that the aliens might want this one scares me the most. They could be visiting Earth trying to decide if they want to take it from us or not. Us humans have thought for a long time that the Earth is a very special place. We may not be wrong. We don’t know what kind of planets these aliens come from but we can assume that they require a lot of the same types of elements and minerals that we use here on Earth. It is very possible that the Earth is considered a desirable planet among alien species.
If Aliens Want Earth, What’s the Wait?
You might be asking yourself at this point why aliens wouldn’t just take the Earth if they want it? Why would they need thousands of years to decide to take it for themselves? If they haven’t taken it by now then they probably don’t want it, right?I have asked myself these same questions. There are several different answers that I have come up with.
The first possibility is that the aliens may experience time different than humans do. If they have an average life span of thousands of years, a few hundred years on Earth would seem like a very short amount of time to them. These advanced species of aliens could also be using wormholes or time travel engines in their space ships. What that means is that they could leave their planet during one century but arrive at Earth during a different century. This process could be reversed on their trip back to their home planet. To the aliens this trip could seem like a very short amount of time while thousands of years are passing here on Earth.
An Unknown Plan
Another reason that the aliens might be waiting to take the Earth is because they don’t need it yet. Our planet could be some kind “alien retirement plan”. This idea makes sense when you really think about it. Alien activity has increased since humans created atomic weapons. UFOs are constantly spotted around nuclear weapons sites and power plants. They might be concerned that we are going to blow u their investment. People have suggested that the aliens are interested in our nuclear power because they are interested in keeping the human race alive. I personally think that they are more worried about our planet. If I am right than we should really start worrying more about global warming and carbon dioxide pollution. We don’t want the aliens taking us out just to save the Earth!
Let’s Hope for the Best
When it comes down to it we can speculate all that we want but we will still have no idea what the aliens are doing here on Earth. They may be so far advanced past us intellectually that their reasoning could be incomprehensible to us humans. All we can do is go on with our lives and hope that our alien guests have no intentions of harming us. Maybe one day they will tell us about their plans for humans and the Earth. Until then; remember that the truth matters!
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Intergalactic light beams might be just the ticket for making contact with space aliens
Intergalactic light beams might be just the ticket for making contact with space aliens
The "Trillion Planet Survey" aims to search the sky for signs of light — and life.
by Seth Shostak
Possible signs of alien life haven't been spotted in the Andromeda Galaxy thus far — but that isn't stopping scientists from searching.
Alan Dyer/VWPics / VWPics via AP Images
For more than a half century, we’ve been scanning the skies for radio signals that might be evidence of an alien civilization. Now physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara are trying a different approach: scanning the skies for light beams that are monstrously intense. It’s a promising approach that could uncover aliens that have equipped themselves with the mother of all laser pointers.
The idea of using light beams to signal from one world to another isn’t new — even the Victorians considered it. In 1874, the Finnish mathematician Edvard Engelbert Novius proposed wiring up 22,000 light bulbs and using curved mirrors to focus their glow on Mars, thereby alerting Red Planet residents that they had neighbors on the third rock from the sun. He didn’t get the funding.
The Santa Barbara plan is to reverse Novius’ scheme and look for aliens who might be signaling us. Or, more accurately, inadvertently spilling light in our direction with a light source brighter than a blowtorch. The scientists plan to search for such high-tech luminaries camped out in the Andromeda Galaxy, which at 2.5 million light-years away is the nearest large galaxy to our own Milky Way.
Is it aliens? Scientists detect more mysterious radio signals from distant galaxy
This effort is an offshoot of another project developed at the university. Several years ago, faculty physicist Phil Lubin suggested syncing up a phalanx of high-powered lasers to produce a truly blinding light source. His idea was to use this super-laser to kick matchbook-sized space probes to nearby stars at roughly 20 percent the speed of light. This is difficult, but not impossible, and Lubin’s plan is now getting financial support from NASA and Breakthrough Starshot, a private initiative funded by venture capitalist Yuri Milner. It’s exciting to think we could send probes to the nearest stars fast enough that the project scientists will still be alive when the probes reach their destination.
But Lubin and his students also cooked up an ancillary experiment: a search for alien societies so advanced that they’ve already built powerful lasers for their own interstellar launches. These light sources would be easy to see even at astronomical distances. Indeed, by some reckonings, if you were looking down the beam of such a laser even from very far away, it would outshine stars, quasars, supernovae and — well — anything in the universe. You would notice.
The Santa Barbara team plan to use small telescopes to repeatedly take photos of Andromeda. Then they will compare these pics with older photos to see if any new “star” has appeared — possible evidence of a non-natural source. The process will be automated, and the survey can go on as long as there are interest and support.
Radio telescope antennas like these could be key in discovering life that exists outside of our galaxy.Martin Bernetti / AFP - Getty Images file
Why Andromeda? The reason is simple: choosing a nearby galaxy means the project can quickly reconnoiter a vast swath of extraterrestrial territory.
Andromeda, like the Milky Way, is thought to contain a trillion or so planets, a fact that led the Santa Barbara physicists to inventively dub their effort the Trillion Planet Survey. Most conventional searches for E.T. look for signals from nearby star systems one at a time. By examining an entire galaxy at once, the Santa Barbara scientists aim to greatly increase the chance of finding something.
There are some worries. Even if Andromeda contains a society whose super-bright lasers routinely stab the sky, the rotation of their home planet might cause this beam to sweep over Earth very quickly. If so, it could easily be missed. It’s also worth noting that Andromeda — which you can check out yourself with binoculars — has been studied nearly as much as the Bible. No one has ever seen any puzzling bright lights. In addition, astronomers hunting for supernovae have surveyed millions of other galaxies with automated telescopes. They’ve found many exploding stars, but no super-lasers.
Of course, failure to find these things doesn’t prove they’re not there.
The search for aliens has always assumed that advanced beings will either transmit an unnatural-looking signal or construct some artifact large enough to be seen with a telescope. But few searches have eyed as much cosmic real estate as the Trillion Planet Survey plans to do. And who knows? It just might turn up some society that’s truly enlightened.
Dr. Seth Shostak is senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and host of the “Big Picture Science” podcast.
“Preuve absolue” d’un OVNI ? Des orbes triangulaires repérés au-dessus de Mexico suscitent un débat sur la vie des extraterrestres
“Preuve absolue” d’un OVNI ? Des orbes triangulaires repérés au-dessus de Mexico suscitent un débat sur la vie des extraterrestres
Des orbes triangulaires ÉTRANGES repérés au-dessus de Mexico ont été qualifiés de “preuve absolue” de la vie extraterrestre, car beaucoup pensent qu’un OVNI a été repéré.
Dans le clip, un orbe blanc peut être vu dans le ciel nocturne.
Mais il semble se déplacer vers la gauche quand la caméra ralentit.
Et l’objet semble s’accélérer avant de disparaître vers la droite.
Un plan au ralenti est ensuite présenté, ce qui donne à l’orbe un bouclier triangulaire.
Le commentateur dit : “On dirait un gros OVNI triangulaire volant dans le nuage.”
Une autre photo est ensuite montrée à l’endroit où un éclair a frappé.
Lorsque la séquence est à nouveau ralentie, un très petit objet peut alors être vu s’éloigner.
Ce clip a été tourné à Mexico dimanche.
Il a été téléchargé sur YouTube par la chaîne australienne UFO channel colourufo mais elle a été reprise par le chercheur extraterrestre Scott C. Waring.
Et ces images l’ont amené à revendiquer une forme de vie extraterrestre.
M. Waring a écrit sur son site Web UFO Sightings Daily : “ColourUFO a repéré un OVNI triangulaire étonnant qui est à à moitié occulté et se déplace à travers les nuages.”
“J’ai entendu parler des nuages pyramidaux, mais très peu de rapports légitimes arrivent comme celui-là.”
“Comme vous le voyez, la caméra prend une photo toutes les quelques secondes, il y a donc un saut entre les deux, mais l’OVNI est vu dans de nombreux plans fixes.
“[La] Preuve absolue que les aliens sont actifs au Mexique.”
Ce n’est pas la première fois que l’activité paranormale fait les manchettes récemment.
« Ovni dans la Baltique: de nouvelles informations »
« Ovni dans la Baltique: de nouvelles informations »
Le mystère de l’Anomalie de la mer Baltique, une formation géologique étrange découverte par des plongeurs suédois, intrigue les scientifiques depuis des années.Elle rassemblerait à un Ovni. Dans ce reportage, de nouvelle informations sur cette découverte.
Le mystère de l’«Anomalie de la mer Baltique», une formation géologique étrange découverte par des plongeurs suédois, intrigue les scientifiques depuis des années.
L’équipe Ocean X a inspecté une zone du fond de la mer à l’aide d’un sonar et une photo a toute de suite attiré l’attention.
À une profondeur de 87 mètres, la caméra a capturé un objet en forme de disque qui ne rassemblait ni à une plante, ni à une pierre, ni à un bathyscaphe. Surtout, il ressemblerait à un Ovni, comme l’écrit l’Express.
Son diamètre est d’environ 60 mètres. L’image était plutôt floue, mais il serait possible de distinguer des formes semblables à des escaliers, à des rampes et à d’autres appareils.
Les chercheurs sont allés sur place pour étudier personnellement l’anomalie, mais ont fait face à un phénomène étrange. Lorsque le navire s’est placé au-dessus de l’objet, tous les appareils électroniques, y compris leur téléphone satellite, se sont éteints.
«Lorsque nous nous sommes éloignés de 200 mètres, le téléphone s’est rallumé, mais lorsque nous sommes revenus sur le site, il n’a pas fonctionné», a déclaré Stefan Hoherborn, plongeur professionnel.
Blades of ice rising from the surface of Europa, Jupiter’s frozen moon, will likely pose major hazards for future space missions aiming to land on the satellite.
Europa. Image credits: NOAA.
Water and ice
When it comes to space exploration, few things are as exciting as Europa. Sure, the Earth’s moon or Mars spark our imagination, but Europa is much more likely to host life — beneath its frozen surface.
Slightly smaller than Earth’s Moon, Europa is primarily made of silicate rock, but because it’s so far away from the Sun, its surface is completely frozen. Initially, astronomers didn’t give much attention to it, but the Galileo mission (launched in 1989) showed that there’s much more to Europa than meets the eye.
Current models now show that heat from tidal flexing causes the subsurface to stay liquid, enabling the Jovian moon to host an ocean of liquid water, right beneath its surface. Since liquid water is crucial for life as we know it, this makes Europa a prime candidate — and to make things even better, astronomers provided strong evidence of water plume activity on Europa, suggesting that the ocean is interacting with the seafloor, having tectonic-like activity. All of this makes Europa a prime candidate for searching extraterrestrial life.
But if we want to really see if there’s life on Europa, we need to send a lander mission there, and that’s not gonna be easy. A new paper published today in Nature Geoscience suggests that Europa’s jagged surface will make any landing mission even more difficult due to a phenomenon that’s also present on Earth: the so-called penitentes.
Penitentes
Penitentes in Aconcagua.
The penitentes were formally described by Charles Darwin in 1839: giant, blade-like ice features in the Andes mountains. When the weather is very dry and cold, the sun’s warm rays can cause parts of the ice and snow to undergo sublimation (turn from ice into vapour, without first becoming liquid).
“On Earth, the sublimation of massive ice deposits at equatorial latitudes under cold and dry conditions in the absence of any liquid melt leads to the formation of spiked and bladed textures eroded into the surface of the ice. These sublimation-sculpted blades are known as penitentes,” researchers write in the study.
A similar process has been observed on Pluto, for instance, so we know that it can happen on extraterrestrial bodies. Daniel Hobley of Cardiff University and his team investigated the conditions that could give rise to Penitentes on icy worlds such as Europa.
In a study released Monday, scientists say they've found evidence of huge, jagged "ice spikes," some 50 feet tall, on the moon's surface.
They found that conditions on Europa favour the development of penitentes, particularly at latitudes below 23°, which in turn, could threaten potential future missions.
“Although available images of Europa have insufficient resolution to detect surface roughness at the multi-metre scale, radar and thermal data are consistent with our interpretation. We suggest that penit }entes could pose a hazard to a future lander on Europa,” the study concludes.
Both NASA and ESA have Europa flyby missions scheduled for the 2020s.
BLACK EYED KIDS ALS BOODSCHAPPERS VOOR ONZE TOEKOMST
BLACK EYED KIDS ALS BOODSCHAPPERS VOOR ONZE TOEKOMST
Eenieder die te maken heeft gehad met het fenomeen Black Eyed Kids voelt onwillekeurig een bepaalde angst.
Die angst wordt nog vele malen groter als ze ’s nachts verschijnen in je slaapkamer en jou angstaanjagende beelden van de toekomst laten zien.
We hebben hier in de loop der jaren vele artikelen gepubliceerd over het verschijnsel van de vreemd uitziende kinderen met de pikzwarte ogen. Kinderen, meestal rond de leeftijd van een jaar of tien, die aanbellen met een smoesje om binnen te komen.
Mensen die de deur opendoen krijgen meestal een soort onbestemd angstig voorgevoel en doen heel snel de deur weer dicht.
Er zijn inmiddels ook al een aantal boeken verschenen over dit onderwerp en één van die auteurs is Nick Redfern. Naar aanleiding van zijn onlangs (mei 2018) verschenen boek, The Black Dairy, hebben enkele lezers onafhankelijk van elkaar contact met hem opgenomen.
Het eerste bericht dat Nick ontving was afkomstig van ene Ron die vertelde dat hij het boek had gekocht en gelezen.
Enige tijd daarna werd hij middenin de nacht wakker met een daverende hoofdpijn, een droge mond en uitslag op zijn armen. Hij was wakker, maar kon zich niet bewegen. Dit is een fenomeen dat vaker voorkomt en dat slaapverlamming wordt genoemd.
Zoals gebruikelijk wanneer zoiets zich voor doet voelde degene in kwestie angst. En dat is niet zo vreemd, want aan de rand van zijn bed stonden twee kinderen van een jaar of elf met gitzwarte ogen. Ze hadden een bleke huid en beiden hadden een zwarte capuchon.
Maar, het werd nog veel vreemder, want binnen enkele seconden werd de slaapkamer van Ron als het ware overspoeld door beelden. Apocalyptische beelden van een platgeslagen aarde, miljoenen doden en een zwarte hemel. Ron wist wat de oorzaak was: een geweldige paddenstoelwolk hing boven wat er nog van zijn stad over was.
Plotseling waren de beelden weg, evenals de kinderen. Toen hij ’s morgens wakker werd, was ook de uitslag op zijn armen weg. Dagenlang heeft Ron slapeloze nachten gehad, maar de BEK’s (Black Eyed Kids) zijn niet meer teruggekomen. Ook de nachtmerrie die Ron had met de afgrijselijke beelden is niet teruggekomen.
Een tweede verhaal heeft vorige maand plaatsgevonden bij een man uit Engeland, Adrian Clarke. Het ’s nachts rond drie uur toen hij plotseling wakker schrok en recht naar twee BEK’s keek aan het voeteneinde van zijn bed.
Ook deze kinderen hadden gitzwarte ogen, maar droegen een oranje gewaad. Plotseling zat Adrian midden in een nachtmerrie waarbij hij een wereld zag waar miljarden mensen waren omgekomen en een totaal verwoestte aarde. Ook hij was eerst volledig verlamd, maar vocht ertegen en slaagde er uiteindelijk in om de betovering als het ware te verbreken. De beelden verdwenen van het ene op het andere moment, evenals de BEK’s.
Dan is er nog het geval met een dame uit de Amerikaanse staat Virginia. Zij ontmoette Redfern persoonlijk op een festival en vertelde hem wat haar was overkomen.
Het gebeurde in april van dit jaar en ook zij werd middenin de nacht wakker en keek recht in de gitzwarte ogen van enkele kinderen die aan haar bed stonden. Eén van hen wees naar de muur van haar slaapkamer en deze veranderde plotseling in een geweldig groot televisiescherm.
Op dit scherm verschenen beelden van een kernexplosie. Jennifer vertelde dat ze niet begreep hoe ze het wist, maar dat de stad die werd verwoest door een kernbom Milwaukee was in de staat Wisconsin. Zij is nog nooit in Milwaukee geweest en heeft daar ook geen familie, vrienden of bekenden. Net zoals Ron en Adrian, was ook Jennifer dagenlang overstuur na deze gebeurtenis.
Drie verschillende mensen, zelfs in verschillende landen en op verschillende tijdstippen, die alledrie dezelfde ervaring hebben. Dat ze alledrie BEK’s hebben gezien zou misschien nog verklaard kunnen worden doordat twee van hen het boek van Nick Redfern hadden gelezen, maar dat ook alledrie dezelfde apocalyptische beelden hebben gezien is wel heel merkwaardig.
Mochten er lezers zijn die ook iets dergelijke hebben meegemaakt, laat ons weten.
NASA observeert nauwgezet de activiteiten van de bekende Yellowstone vulkaan omdat er behoorlijk wat ongewone dingen gebeuren.
Nu plotsklaps komen wetenschappers van NASA met een plan om hitte vanuit de vulkaan af te voeren, maar als het mislukt is er grote kans dat deze juist zal uitbarsten.
Het is al jaren onrustig rondom de Yellowstone supervulkaan in Amerika. Regelmatig duiken er berichten op dat een uitbarsting van deze gigant misschien niet zo ver weg is.
Ook nu is er weer een groep seismologen die waarschuwen dat de Yellowstone supervulkaan “onder druk” staat, waarmee uiteraard dan weer de vrees toeneemt dat er een uitbarsting zal volgen.
En verder:
Dat alles toch niet zo normaal is als men wil doen voorkomen blijkt ook uit het feit dat vorig jaar het speciale NASA observatievliegtuig, een Boeing 747 genaamd Sophia en uitgerust met infrarode opname-apparatuur, vluchten uitvoerde boven Yellowstone. En nu is Yellowstone weer in het nieuws en dit keer door de onverwachte uitbarsting van een geiser met de naam Steamboat Geyser. Dit is sinds 2014 niet meer gebeurd en nu zijn er drie uitbarstingen in de afgelopen zes weken. Er zijn ooit een keer eerder drie uitbarstingen in één jaar geweest en dat was in 2003. Maar, dit jaar is pas vier maanden oud en aangezien iedere keer het woord “ongewoon” wordt gebruikt, raken mensen steeds wantrouwiger. Temeer ook omdat vulkanologen zoals Michael Poland, hun uiterste best doen om haastig te zeggen dat er helemaal niets aan de hand is, maar geen verklaring kunnen geven voor deze “ongewone” uitbarstingen. Het enige dat ze kunnen zeggen is dat er geen vast tijdschema bestaat voor dit soort uitbarstingen.
We zijn net twee maanden later en wat eigenlijk niemand voor mogelijk hield, is toch gebeurd en dat is dat Steamboat Geyser nu voor de tiende keer dit jaar is uitgebarsten.
We zijn inmiddels in oktober aanbeland en de Steamboat Geyser heeft net zijn 22e uitbarsting van dit jaar achter de rug. Het hoogste aantal uitbarstingen dat ooit in een bepaald jaar heeft plaatsgevonden was 1963 toen de teller op 29 eindigde.
NASA houdt zich al heel lang bezig met de problematiek rondom Yellowstone en werkt nu aan een plan dat de wereld moet redden van een uitbarsting door deze gigant.
Die plannen bestaan volgens Brian Wilcox van het NASA Jet Propulsion Lab uit het boren van een tien kilometer diep gat in de vulkaan waardoor water naar binnen kan worden gepompt. Op deze manier kan dan de hitte in de vulkaan langzaam afnemen. Tegelijkertijd zou dan de vrijgekomen hitte kunnen worden gebruikt als een soort enorme energiecentrale.
Er zouden dan ook investeerders gezocht moeten worden die hier brood in zien, want de kosten van het boren van een dergelijk gat met bijbehorende acties zou ongeveer 3,5 miljard dollar moeten kosten.
Maar, zegt Wilcox erbij: “Dit alles moet heel voorzichtig gebeuren, want het kleinste foutje kan ervoor zorgen dat deze supervulkaan juist zal uitbarsten”.
En als dat zou gebeuren, dan krijgen we op het noordelijk halfrond een langdurige vulkanische winter met als gevolg onder andere enorme problemen met de voedselvoorziening omdat oogsten zouden mislukken. Volgens cijfers van de Verenigde Naties is de totale reserve voorraad voedsel voor de wereld slechts genoeg voor 74 dagen.
Waar het op lijkt is dat men bij NASA een beetje in de paniekmodus verkeert en dat ze “iets” moeten doen, omdat de dreiging van deze vulkaan met de dag groter wordt.
Over of het massaal ontwaken van vulkanen en andere heftige aardveranderingen moet worden toegeschreven aan een onbekend groot object in ons zonnestelsel of iets anders, schrijft een lezer het volgende:
Om te beginnen, ik ben overtuigd van het bestaan van Niburu. Maar ik sluit mij aan bij de mening van Arend Zeevat betreffende tijdstip van passage en zijn mening over Masters en Lieder.
De reden hiervoor is als volgt, ik heb een nautische achtergrond en mijn hele leven de zeeën bevaren. Zodoende heb ik altijd te maken gehad met getijden en berekeningen etc.
Zoals een ieder met een beetje opleiding weten we dat het moeilijker is om vaste stoffen te bewegen dan vloeistoffen. Dus hoe komt het dat de vaste stoffen op aarde eerder reageren op een verstoring in aantrekkingskracht dat vloeibare stoffen zoals de zeeën? Getijtafels kloppen nog steeds! Dit zou onmogelijk zijn als er een enorm groot object of stelsel al in de buurt van de zon zou zijn.
Ik denk dat net als het klimaat, ook de aardkorst onderhevig is aan cyclussen, relatief gezien is onze observatie geschiedenis erg kort en wat er buiten valt zijn louter theorieën. Van de huidige wetenschap heb ik echt geen hoge hoed op, uitzonderingen daargelaten. Veel van Uw artikelen onderschrijven deze mening.
Voor 1895 waren er (Nobel)geen prijzen en commerciële doelen(industrie) en nu denk ik dat deze prijzen en doelen een prestatie dwang creëren die de basis is van frauduleuze bevindingen.
Wat het ook moge zijn, er gebeuren steeds vaker dingen die normaal gesproken zelden of nooit voorkomen. Zoals het instorten van bruggen.
Dit is iets dat je de laatste tijd misschien nog niet regelmatig komt, maar we hebben de ineenstorting van de brug bij Genua gehad deze zomer en nu stort er een brug in over een spoorweg in Rusland.
UFO UIT MINNESOTA OOK IN NEDERLAND GESIGNALEERD ( UPDATE + VIDEO )
UFO UIT MINNESOTA OOK IN NEDERLAND GESIGNALEERD ( UPDATE + VIDEO )
Onlangs publiceerden wij een artikel waar op drie verschillende tijdstippen in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota een groot cirkelvormig object met talloze lichten werd waargenomen door getuigen.
Het ziet er onmiskenbaar uit als een (buitenaards) ruimteschip en naar nu blijkt, is hetzelfde soort schip ook al eerder in Nederland gesignaleerd.
Update: 9 oktober 2018
In het originele artikel staat het verhaal beschreven van iemand die in Nederland in 1996 een UFO heeft waargenomen die identiek is aan die onlangs door diverse mensen is gezien in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota.
Na zijn verhaal komen wij tot de conclusie dat het dan geen drone kon zijn omdat die er nog niet waren in 1996. Dat is echter niet correct, want een lezer stuurt het volgende (dank!):
Even een kleine opmerking over een zinnetje in de laatste alinea van het UFO-artikel van donderdag 4 oktober. Daarin staat dat het geen drone kan zijn omdat die tot 1996 niet voorkwamen.
Ik woon in Papendrecht maar vrijwel niemand die hier woont weet dat Aviolanda hier vroeger zat en het schijnt dat die in de jaren 50 de eerste Nederlandse drone hebben gemaakt en gebruikt is door de Marine. Dit is wat wikipedia erover te zeggen heeft, de nederlandse wiki-versie bevat nauwelijks zinnige informatie.
Vaag verhaal maar er zaten (en zitten) een aantal onzuivere bedrijven en multinationals hier waar de 35.000 schapen niks vanaf weten.
Tot zover de lezer. Als we wat verder zoeken, dan blijkt echter de drone zelfs nog veel ouder te zijn en gaat eigenlijk al terug tot de Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Het gaat om drie onafhankelijke waarnemingen in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota van een behoorlijk groot cirkelvormig object dat er als volgt uit zag:
Naar aanleiding van ons artikel, ontvingen wij de volgende mail(dank!):
This evening while looking at your site I saw “Ruimteschip hangt vier minuten boven weg Update”
This gave me the goosebumps! This is exacly what my X wife and myself saw in 1996 From Oeffelt To Our House In Boekel, I didn’t have a camera with me so I didn’t take a picture but now I see it and thank you for that.
Op die website staat inderdaad het hele verhaal wat er die zomeravond in juni 1996 gebeurde tijdens een autorit van Oeffelt naar Boekel, een afstand van zo’n 26 kilometer.
De man in kwestie was samen met zijn toenmalige vriendin op bezoek geweest bij vrienden die in een vrij afgelegen boerderij in de buurt van Oeffelt woonden.
Hij kan zich die avond van 22 juni 1996 nog goed herinneren, want dat was de avond dat Nederland tegen Frankrijk speelde voor de wereldkampioenschappen.
Rond middernacht vertrekt het stel omdat de volgende dag een werkdag was en ze een beetje op tijd in bed moesten liggen. Het eerste wat de man ziet is een rond object met vele lichten dat rondcirkelt boven de boerderij waar ze op bezoek waren. Het was identiek aan die die nu wordt waargenomen in Minnesota.
Het was een kilometer of 7 richting snelweg vanaf de boerderij en de weg was verlaten en liep door een vrijwel onbebouwd gebied. De vriendin kon vanuit de auto zien dat het object hen volgde rechts van de auto en exact dezelfde snelheid aan hield. Toen de man gas gaf accelereerde de UFO ook en toen hij een bocht naar rechts maakte volgde de UFO.
De man werd een beetje overmoedig, stopte de auto en stapte uit om beter te kunnen kijken. Het object draaide rond tegen de richting van de wijzers van de klok in en stopte boven een huis aan de rechterkant van de weg. Toen begon het met de richting van de wijzers van een klok mee te draaien en bewoog zich richting auto en de man had het gevoel alsof het object met hem communiceerde. Hij schat de grootte ervan op enkele voetbalvelden, geen kleintje dus. Bovendien maakte het geen geluid. Het vloog enkele keren over de auto en tenslotte stapte de man weer in.
Omdat ze op een gegeven moment onder een bladerdak van bomen reden dachten ze het object kwijt te zijn, maar niets was minder waar. Een minuut later was het weer terug aan de passagierskant van de auto. De vrouw vroeg hem om sneller te gaan rijden en de auto zo snel mogelijk thuis de garage in te rijden, hetgeen geschiedde.
Thuis gekomen was de man toch weer nieuwsgierig geworden, liep naar buiten en zag het object hangen boven het huis van de buren. Omdat het object nu heel dichtbij was en onder een bepaalde hoek hing, had de man heel sterk het gevoel dat ze naar hem keken. De man riep naar zijn vriendin en de babysitter om snel naar buiten te komen en toen ze dat deden schoot het object weg met hoge snelheid. Het verdween van het ene op het andere moment, zonder enig geluid te maken.
De man was een voormalig sergeant bij de luchtmacht en is daardoor wel goed in staat om onderscheid te maken tussen bijvoorbeeld een helikopter en een onbekend object.
Even later kwam het object nogmaals terug en werd toen ook gezien door de babysitter en de buurman die net zelf terugkwam van een feestje. Uiteindelijk verdween het object opnieuw en ze hebben het daarna nooit meer gezien. Wel bleek later dat er die avond veel UFO meldingen waren geweest in dat gebied.
Tot zover het verhaal.
Het mooie van dit verhaal is wel dat hiermee eigenlijk wordt uitgesloten dat het waargenomen object een drone is. Simpelweg omdat die in 1996 nog niet voor kwamen.
Wij hopen dat door het lezen van dit verhaal misschien meer mensen zich iets herinneren, hetzij van die avond of een andere gelegenheid waarbij ze ook dit bepaalde type UFO hebben gezien.
Odd-shaped UFO appears during opening 2018 Youth Olympics, Buenos Aires
Odd-shaped UFO appears during opening 2018 Youth Olympics, Buenos Aires
The 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, is an international sports, cultural, and educational event being hosted in Buenos Aires, Argentina between 6 and 18 October 2018.
During the opening of the 2018 Youth Olympics thousands of people witnessed an unidentified flying object just above the Obelisco de Buenos Aires (Obelisk of Buenos Aires) a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires.
Despite the shaky video, the strange craft is clearly visible.
UFO Creates Spiral Contrail Over Moorpark CA, USA, Video, October 7, 2018 UFO Sighting News.
UFO Creates Spiral Contrail Over Moorpark CA, USA, Video, October 7, 2018 UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 7, 2018 Location of sighting:Moorpark, California, USA Source: MUFON #95416 Here is a very strange UFO as it creates spirals of smoky trail behind it. The trails start high up, not from the ground so we know its not a rocket. This UFO is hard to see at the tip of the trail, but the trail sure makes it obvious that its there. Wow! I would have loved to see that one in person. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I was walking up the street with my dogs when I felt my head want to turn left. I looked up and saw 2 bright lights of different sizes facing each other. White cloud looking objects around them and various colors of pink and green below. The biggest bright light was moving backward, and the smaller light was opening and closing. It was extremely bright. A couple people stopped their car to look as well. My dogs were pulling at me and another woman walking her dogs was trying to manhandle her dogs who were acting up- all while we stared into the sky. None of us said anything to each other, which I thought later was strange. The brightest light did not waver, just kept moving backward- but the smaller light that would open and close started to fade along with the colors and not-clouds.
Then, I saw a bright orange ball what looked to be the size of a basketball (to my eye) drop out of where the smaller light had been and start to drop to the ground. I ran up to try and see where it went but, I missed it. I did not hear any sound during the event, but one of my videos recorded a super strange sound. I have photos and video, which really does not show how bright and intense it was. I felt like I had to watch this, but then started to feel frightened, so I went inside after the orange ball dropped.
White Glowing UFOs Sighted Over Lansing, Illinois October 1, 2018 Video, UFO Sighting News.
White Glowing UFOs Sighted Over Lansing, Illinois October 1, 2018 Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 1, 2018 Location of sighting: Lansing, Illinois, USA
Over a fishing village in Japan several glowing lights maneuvered around catching the attention of local residents. Because of their high speed seen by witnesses, we know they are not man made objects. Also they are near the ocean and these UFOs may have come from an underwater alien base not far away. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
The location is Izumisawa fishing port in Kikonai-cho, Hokkaido Japan. It is the original image of the in-vehicle camera when I went fishing. A semitransparent object appeared at the super high speed from behind the trees on the right side, half turned clockwise around the side of the street pole, stopped at the rear trees stand still, moved rapidly to the upper right with the momentum I will. Immediately after the object on the right side stands at the top of the trees, something flickers from the upper side of the black wig boxer on the left side, something will appear, and if you look at the image often, some shadow of the object is reflected on the top of the wappokuka .
When I saw the picture, I was watching whether insects or someone was doing kite flying, but I have not seen such a person, and I can not confirm the insect on the windowpane of the car It is. The object that appeared from the top of the one box car was confirmed to move instantaneously afterwards and change direction and go up to the sky where the clouds are bright. I also caught the science fiction movie 's spaceship fading away. It was a movie far beyond imagination that can not be imagined on the earth. OMG!!
Photographer Shane Winter captured a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket over the Old Bank District of downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, October 7, 2018, just after the 7:21 p.m. launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Winter tells Inverse he used a Panasonic GH4 camera atop a tripod on his roof in LA. First he set the camera’s built-in intervalometer to capture 600 frames per second. He then framed up the shot, set the exposure, focus, and white balance. Then it was time for the launch, which you see above.
“I tend to process through [auto exposure] as it’ll handle the [raw image format] sequence and gives me options for color over time and movement that I don’t get through image editors; the ‘camera move’ is framing shift done there,” he explains.
The result is a stunner. A version of the animation had received more than 51,000 upvotes on reddit on Monday. The most-upvoted comment? “If I had no clue that was happening and saw it in the sky I would be freaking out,” observed one redditor.
The SAOCOM 1 mission by SpaceX put two satellites into orbit for Argentina’s Space Agency, and the pair will primarily gather data about soil moisture information, according to a mission briefing released by SpaceX.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 after it returned to Earth.
This was the first mission to utilize SpaceX’s new landing pad. The pad was under construction for around four years, with a slow process in part because the company didn’t need the pad before now. It’s the first one SpaceX has built on the west coast, and it will complement the droneship Just Read the Instructions for landing first stage boosters after missions from the Vandenberg Air Force Base. While it’s easier to collect rockets when they return to land, such landings require more fuel than sea-based missions, meaning SpaceX will likely choose the right tool for the mission depending on the circumstances.
REPORT: UNLESS WE MAKE DRAMATIC CHANGES, WE’RE HEADED FOR CLIMATE CATASTROPHE
REPORT: UNLESS WE MAKE DRAMATIC CHANGES, WE’RE HEADED FOR CLIMATE CATASTROPHE
NASA
Worse Than Expected
What an alarming difference a few years can make.
According to a report released Sunday by the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change, the 2015 Paris Agreement won’t be enough to stop the most serious damage from climate change.
“There is nothing opaque about this new data,” former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told The Guardian. “The illustrations of mounting impacts, the fast-approaching and irreversible tipping points are visceral versions of a future that no policy-maker could wish to usher in or be responsible for.”
Worth The Effort
Limiting global temperature increases to fewer than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels — a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement — would have been hard. Now, it looks like we need to shoot for an even tougher limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) if we want to avoid an increase in famine, drought, extreme weather events, and the many other devastating consequences of climate change.
Jim Skea, a co-author of the report, said in a press release that “[l]imiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is possible within the laws of chemistry and physics, but doing so would require unprecedented changes.”
The report suggests several ways we could ensure we don’t exceed the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) limit, and as some experts feared before the report’s release, they might not be entirely realistic. Huge carbon taxes will be politically unpopular in many nations, and while systems to capture carbon might work, the technology to implement them on the necessary scale simply doesn’t exist yet.
Still, while the situation outlined in the report is daunting, we can’t close our eyes and ears to it. We need to view this report as what it is: a wake-up call to the world that we must take immediate and bold action if we don’t want to find ourselves trying to live on an unlivable planet.
UFO technology: Has US military built space ship to travel the universe?
UFO technology: Has US military built space ship to travel the universe?
A MYSTERIOUS craft has been spotted near a US military base which has led some to believe a high tech spaceship could be involved in the new age space race.
Global powerhouses are in a race to get back to the moon, and ultimately to Mars, and conspiracy theorists are speculating the US could be leading the race after spotting something suspicious.
Users of Google Earth have been trawling the online globe to spot any suspicious activity and believe they have found something in New Mexico.
Two triangular crafts have been spotted in the middle of a massive 900 metre circle in the desert of New Mexico.
To make matters more mysterious, the two crafts, one much larger than the other,were found near the Holloman Air Force Base.
The Holloman Air Force Base is something of a UFO hotspot and was centre of a 1974 documentary which claimed experts there had been in contact with aliens.
Now conspiracy theorists believe that authorities at the air force base are using their ET knowledge to get into space.
The narrator of a video uploaded to YouTube by UFO hunting channel Third Phase of the Moon said: “What’s really strange is that when I first searched these coordinates, Google Earth didn’t really work so we had to go through a few different ways of trying to find this location.
“It looks like a craft but whatever it is is very advanced as you can see there is no landing pad.
UFO technology: Has US military built space ship to travel the universe?
(Image: YOUTUBE • GETTY)
“It Could be involved with the space race.”
Some were quick to agree with Third Phase of the Moon’s theory.
One user, Amy Lou, commented on the video: “I do believe a lot of the triangular crafts that appear dark like this are our government’s replicas of alien technology. But I also believe the some are extraterrestrial in origin.”
two triangular crafts have been spotted in the middle of a massive 900 metre circle
(Image: YOUTUBE)
However, other users had more logical theories.
Armond Gillian added: “They look like a couple of shade cloth tarps to keep the sun off whoever is under them. They don't look solid. The two shapes have indentations in them. It's hot as hell out there right now.”
In an age of wild claims churned out by politicians, media and advertisers, perhaps people don’t care as much any more
Philip Jaekl
Are aliens deserting us? Or do we simply not care any more? Photograph: Joe McBride/Getty Images
This month, the two major online sites for reporting UFOs – the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network – both documented steep drops in worldwide sightings. The declines started around 2014, when reports were at a peak. They have since reduced drastically to 55% of that year’s combined total, many UFO interest groups have folded, and numerous previously classified government documents have been disclosed.
Do these declines reveal that UFO interest is becoming a blip on the human cultural radar? Perhaps UFO and alien lore is seeming more like a reflection of human culture, tied to the space age, motivated by conquering new existential frontiers.
It might not be a coincidence that the term UFO (unidentified flying object) and some of the phenomena that surrounds it – abductions and impossible technologies – are relatively recent. Before the 1940s, reports of sightings of objects in the sky were extremely rare. Centuries of recorded history give no clear indication of any such activity. Then, at the predawn of the space-age, around the time of the Roswell conspiracy, UFO culture was born, giving rise to everything from Space Invaders to The X-Files.
Possible answers as to why sightings are decreasing are varied. A key factor, however, may be that more people simply don’t care any more. As we are accustomed to being inundated with wild claims churned out by politicians, media and advertisers, the next report of a UFO is no more believed than the long-range weather forecast.
Before home video, photographs were the staple of UFO evidence. Video evidence, during the height of the 1990s UFO mania, was regarded by many as even more substantial. Amateur footage of glowing objects in the sky, as mysterious as they seemed real, made the cut for appearing on television – they were meant to be taken seriously and they fed an audience hungry for amazement, helped by a healthy dose of conspiracy theorising.
According to the cultural historian Stuart Walton, “Belief in UFOs is definitely in a state of decline, along with much else that could be classed as paranormal. Part of the reason is that the technology for providing documentary evidence of such matters is now widely available to everybody with a smartphone, and such purported evidence as there is on YouTube looks extremely threadbare.”
He adds: “It isn't so much that belief can exist without proof; it's that it must emphatically avoid proof to remain belief. We are in the process, paradoxically, of proving a negative hypothesis with UFOs: there never was any such thing.”
Indeed, indisputable evidence of intelligent life coming to Earth could be the greatest news of all time. Yet, after thousands of anecdotal, photo, and video reports have accrued over decades, what are we to conclude? With the greatest balance of scepticism and “wanting to believe”, all that can confidently be asserted is that some objects, appearing in the sky on film or video, seem unidentifiable.
Furthermore, government disclosure of its own video footage isn’t helping to maintain belief. Joseph Baker, sociology professor at Tennessee State University, says: “It’s actually better for UFOs when ufologists can claim that ‘the powers that be know everything and are hiding it from us’ rather than seeing that the government appears to have basically the same info about UFOs as the public: namely grainy, inconclusive visual evidence.”
Perhaps though, the declines in reported sightings may signify only an end to current trends in ufology. After all, from the 1940s aliens were originally characterised as saviours who could help humans transcend the cold-war paranoia of nuclear annihilation; especially marked at the time, after two world wars. But after events like Watergate and the Vietnam war fuelled distrust in government, UFOs came to be viewed more as a possible threat, and some came to believe their existence was verified in secret military documents.
Sharon Hill, a researcher on the paranormal and pseudoscience, says: “The ideas about UFOs and aliens continue to evolve as we project our social and cultural ideas on them. Since we have no single easy explanation for all these claims regarding the decline in sightings, the future vision of ufology seems rather open-ended. I don't think it's dead, just changing.”
Odd-looking aircraft or lights hovering high in the sky at various times across the U.S. have prompted questions from space enthusiasts: if it's not a bird, plane or even Superman — then what is it? UFO sightings have soared in recent years, leading many to believe it's a sign of alien life.
Reports of UFOs have become so common lately people are starting to bet on when you're most likely to spot on next. Casino.org, an independent provider of online casino reviews and information, tracks the odds on its website. It even includes a history of mysterious spacecraft dating back to 1440 BC.
California alone has reported more than 23,400 UFO sightings since 1940, though the odds of seeing a strange flying object are highest in Wyoming and Vermont.
Whether you live in a state ripe for alien-like space vehicles or not, people who spot questionable objects in the sky are going to snap a picture or take a video — and there's a good chance the content will go viral. Here's a look at some bizarre "UFO sightings" that have spread online in recent years.
1. Myrtle Beach, S.C.
A photographer who was putting together a time-lapse video of a thunderstorm in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in August was shocked to discover mysterious lights hovering over the pier in the footage.
The video, which was first shared with UFO Stalker — a UFO-centric website, was posted to YouTube a month later with a caption that declared a "massive spaceship" was flying over the beach.
“I was taking the pictures off the edge of a long pier after dark, so there were no reflective surfaces around. I did not notice the objects until [I] returned home and checked the photograph and video,” the photographer, who has not yet been identified, wrote on the UFO sighting website.
2. Lake Norman, N.C.
A very shaky video of what many dubbed a UFO flying over Lake Norman in North Carolina went viral in late May.
"I was at work 2018 10:30 a.m it had been raining all morning. Rain finally stopped so we went w pick up a boat from [L]ake [N]orman.. When came around the corner I saw this thing sitting still very close," Jason Swing, who posted the video on YouTube on May 29, captioned the minute-long footage.
Critics questioned whether the curious flying object was simply a large drone or a blimp — with some noting a Goodyear Blimp was spotted in the sky following a NASCAR race.
The manufacturing company later confirmed they were the culprit.
"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."
3. Blue Hills Reservation, Mass.
UFO hunters got stranded for hours in the Blue Hills in Massachusetts in June 2017 after going out for a UFO-finding mission. The group of three was found several hours later, and they didn't come back empty handed.
Ramona DiFrancesco, a member of the group, told The Singular Fortean Society they spotted several UFOs while lost on the hills.
"We saw a couple. We saw some we've never seen before. We saw this one light, well, we saw these two ships that had these bright spotlights, and then we saw this weird orb thing that was like a spotlight sort of," DiFrancesco, then 18, told the paranormal organization.
The teen later showed a local news station a picture of the glowing object she captured.
Glockner claimed in a video the mysterious burst of light was a UFO racing past the International Space Station "at a very high rate of speed," adding it was "as if it knew the camera was watching."
At the time, NASA didn't directly address Glockner's video but clarified the object was likely a "distortion in a lens" and did not signify the presence of extraterrestrial life.
5. Dayton, Ohio
A 13-minute YouTube video sparked rumors of alien life outside of a military base in Dayton, Ohio, back in May 2016.
A mysterious flying object was seen peeking out of the clouds near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
A couple who live near the base captured what they declared was a UFO from their home. The video clip eventually landed in the hands of the aforementioned Glockner, who called the sighting "mind-blowing."
"There is no doubt in my mind this is either an alien craft or a very very strange drone - which I highly doubt," he told the Mirror. "[It could also be] a back-engineered alien craft that's being tested by some black project over at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base."
Fox News' Chris Ciaccia contributed to this report.
Mysterious lights were spotted above Myrtle Beach, SC, in August, raising questions about what the lights were and where they came from.
“UFOs over Myrtle Beach? Video catches mysterious lights over resort town,” reported The State, Columbia’s local newspaper, noting that the video was also posted to UFO Stalker, a UFO-centric website.
The video has also been uploaded to YouTube, with the description noting “A [massive] ‘spaceship’ was spotted apparently hovering over a beach during a thunderstorm.”
The person who submitted the video to MUFON said they were taking pictures and a time-lapse video of the thunderstorm and did not notice the strange lights until they got home.
“Taking pictures and time-lapse of the incoming storm,” the person wrote on the website. “[I] was taking the pictures off the edge of a long pier after dark, so there were no reflective surfaces around. [I] did not notice the objects until I returned home and checked the photograph and video.”
The video was taken on Aug. 5 but was only uploaded to the website on Oct. 4, 59 days later.
The person who submitted the video to the UFO sighting website said they were taking pictures and a time lapse of a thunderstorm from a pier. “I was taking the pictures off the edge of a long pier after dark, so there were no reflective surfaces around. I did not notice the objects until i returned home and checked the photograph and video,” the person wrote.
The video was posted on the UFO Stalker website late last week, but the person said they shot the time-lapse on Aug. 5.
The U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team was doing its annual pyro jump as part of the annual Sun Fun Festival on Friday night, putting off a display in which many in Myrtle Beach thought they were seeing UFOs over the ocean.
The U.S. Army and Myrtle Beach festival organizers chimed in quickly after those reports. It turned out, Sun Fun Festival organizers told The Sun News, the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights parachute team was doing its annual “pyro jump.”
The Army team parachuted from above Myrtle Beach with lights and landed on the beach in the middle of town, festival organizers said.
THIS IS THE CORRELATION BETWEEN TOAD ROCK AND ALIENS
The existence of little green men and extra-terrestrial life is a hotly debated topic, and science has yet to provide a concrete answer as to whether the residents of planet Earth are alone in the galaxy.
And if alien life does exist, has it ever paid us a visit?
UFOs - or Unidentified Flying Objects - have been mentioned in the UK since the 1950s, investigated by the Air Ministry which was then replaced by the Ministry of Defence.
The UK Government has never taken part in any long term monitoring of reports, and the MoD works on the assumption that almost every UFO report has a natural, human, explanation.
The British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) was formed in 1962 to document, and try to explain, sightings up and down the country.
They believe that every report made can be caused by the following sources:
40 per cent of reports are actually aircraft,
33 per cent of reports are actually stars and planets spotted in the sky,
10 per cent of reports are satellites and meteors entering the atmosphere,
8 per cent are described as being caused by 'other' causes, like birds, solar flares and clouds,
5 per cent of reports are actually weather or research balloons,
2 per cent are hoax reports,
2 per cent are chalked up as being hallucinations.
What happened to the last Kent Ufologist?
The inquest into ufologist Max Spiers' death has been adjourned until early 2018(Image: maxspiers.com)
'Ufologist' is the title given to a person who studies reports, evidence and other phenomena related to UFOs.
One such UFO expert was Max Spiers, from Canterbury, who passed away under suspicious circumstances in June 2016.
Max reportedly sent a text message to his mother days before he died, saying: "If anything happens to me, investigate."
An inquest into his death was first opened in December 2016 in Canterbury, and then adjourned. As of November 8, 2017, the coroner had postponed another inquest until 'early 2018' as he still required more information.
An inquest into his death will now take place in January 2019, according to Metro.
A post-mortem examination to establish the cause of death was inconclusive. His death prompted intense speculation among conspiracy theorists that his death was deliberate.
Recent unexplained activity in Kent
The light was visible from all around Tonbridge(Image: Clare Macro)
In September 2017 the people of Tonbridge were mystified when an eerie aura-like light descended upon the town.
Explanations for the eerie phenomenon ranged from aliens, aluminium in the atmosphere, and the Aurora itself.
And in 2012, BUFORA recorded the sighting of a 'rare and unusual shape' flying through the sky in Wingham, near Canterbury.
It was described as: "A solid object - dark grey/black. It was pointed at the front and square like to the back, it had about five sides, like a classic diamond icon.
"There was absolutely no way I can think of to explain what I saw, and I have seen most kinds of aircraft in flight."
Different types of UFO
Low Definition (LD) - a single pinpoint of light, a cluster of lights or a poorly defined shape.
Medium Definition (MD) - a UFO with a well defined shape.
Close Encounters of the First Kind (CE1) - events involving alleged effects on a human, animal, machine or its surrounding area which cease once the UFO leaves the location.
Close Encounters of the Second Kind (CE2) - events where alleged effects on humans, animals, machines or the environment reputedly occur and endure for a period of time following the sighting.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3) - reports which encompass claimed observations of UFO 'entities'.
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (CE4) - so-called UFO 'abductions' or incidents featuring notable psychic elements.
Instrumentally Detected Events (ID) - reports involving a stimulus reported or detected by a device during the sighting, such as a camera or RADAR scope.
Source:British UFO Research Association
Kent Live can reveal every single UFO report made to the Ministry of Defence between 1997 and 2009.
Ashford
Date /Time
Place
Report
26/12/2008 - 7pm
Kennington
Orange shape travelling NW to SW at fair pace, 2000ft plus. Bright orange. Similar shape to inverted light bulb. There was no sound.
The ship/craft moved towards Ashford and then hovered over Ashford for some time. The craft was solid.
21/09/2001 - 5.30am
Ashford
One triangular shaped object. The size of a 747, maybe bigger. It moved N-Easterly, then became stationary.
12/09/1999 - 9.20pm
Sellindge
Bright light, not blinding, was heading South.
13/08/1999 - no time reported
Tenterden
A large, brilliant light was stationary in the sky. It moved away fairly quickly and disappeared.
Bexley
Date/Time
Place
Report
20/04/2007 - 9.30pm
Bexley
There were over fifty lights floating in the sky. They were red/orange in colour.
03/08/1997 - 8.50pm
Bexley
A huge UFO. Part of it came down in the woods near Bexley.
Bromley
Date/Time
Place
Report
26/01/2009 - 6.15pm
Bromley
Three orange lights in horizontal line above the opposite side of the hill. Stopped car but saw only four lights, two separate at the top & two close together at the bottom. Top two rose and disappeared. Second two moved higher then also vanished.
11/04/2009 - 8.30pm
Bromley
A UFO.
16/05/2009 - 9.50pm
Petts Wood
8-10 bright red lights. They were hovering. They moved independently into the distance and disappeared when a light aircraft appeared.
28/07/2009 - 9.30am
Bromley
Saw an orange, yellow object in the sky, with the shape similar to a hot air balloon.
30/08/2009 - 12.10pm
Petts Wood
Saw eight orange single lights in the sky. Lights were very clear, single bright orange spot, which travelled at constant speed slowly higher into the eastern atmosphere. At first four lights in close proximity followed by four more with approx one minute.
19/09/2009 - 7.40pm
Bromley
A bright orange light moving across the sky no noise.
19/09/2009 - 9.01pm
West Wickham
Pilot: Series of 30 or more orange lights which then disappeared after moving at speed.
17/10/2009 - 10.45pm
Orpington
Twenty-five lights red and orange with vapour trail, disappearing into blue green colours, spinning.
17/11/2003 - 2.25am
Bromley
Police Officers/Police helicopter crew: There were 20-30 red flashing lights in the sky accompanied by a whirring noise.
19/05/1997 - 11.17pm
Bromley
One round shaped object, double the size of a star. White (pale), but very bright. It was stationary for a while and then travelled straight and level.
22/11/1997 - 5am
Beckenham
One, round shaped object. Had red, green and blue colours and was very bright. Was moving East.
Three very low, very bright lights were travelling in formation, then breaking off and doing acrobatics. Then a large globe-like object appeared and was changing colours in a pulsating way.
Two objects, five minutes apart heading East to West. They looked like orange fiery balls but made no sound. They travelled at the speed of a plane. They had no tail.
No firm date - 7.15pm
Dover
There were half a dozen glowing lights. They were an orange fire colour and were globular. They were silent. Were moving across the sky at the speed of a helicopter.
14/09/1997 - 10pm
Dover
A bright silver object, with red and green lights at the back. It changed to an egg shape, went bright yellow and then vanished. Moved quickly across the sky.
A bright circular amber light, the size of a 2p coin. It was moving very slowly in a straight line but once it flew over the witnesses' house it accelerated away very very quickly into the distance. It made no noise and left no vapour trail.
Sighting reported on 13/11/2008 but no firm date or time was given
Folkestone
There were lights in the sky that were circling in front of the witness's house. They were in a half moon shape.
28/01/2001 - 9.34am
Folkestone
A silver spin top, bobbing at a height of 300 feet. Was about the size of a football.
25/07/2001 - 2.10pm
Folkestone
One circular object with flashing bright lights. Was at a high altitude.
04/01/1999 - 6.30pm
Folkestone
Squashed oval shaped object. Did not have the usual aircraft lights on it.
22/07/1998 - 11.44pm
Hythe
A squashed, elongated disc with a yellow glow. It faded and then brightened.
09/04/2004 - 7.30pm
Dymchurch
Just said it was an object. That it was flying over very fast and then disappeared.
10/07/1997 - 8pm
New Romney
Two objects. Orange, green and red colours. The object was flashing. It was static.
A huge disc shaped object. Approximately twenty times the size of an aeroplane. It had five or six flashing lights on the underneath in a circular shape.
06/11/2008 - 8.10pm
Rainham
A UFO, that looked like a yellowy light. The object was quite near and fairly low down in the sky. There was no sound.
22/11/2005 - no time recorded
Gillingham
Five lights in the sky, that looked very strange. The lights were flashing.
06/08/2000 - 6.45pm
Rainham
One, possibly two small, flattened figure of eight objects, with links of red. Dull brightness. Was stationary then moved slowly.
Lights rising from the ground into the sky, much like debris from a fire. However lights were too intense to be a fire. Seen in the direction of the North Downs from Maidstone.
02/08/2009 - 9.45pm
Aylesford
Large orange glow in sky, moving slowly than disappeared. Reappeared after five minutes. Knows a bit about astronomy.
26/09/2009 - 8.50pm
Ditton
Three bright orange/red lights, followed by another three.
03/06/2006 - 5.05pm
Maidstone
A large, round, white object, with smaller, round white objects randomly scattered surrounding it. The objects started to fade.
31/12/2006 - 8.55pm
Maidstone
UFO, lights - so many different ones.
09/03/1998 - 7.45pm
Maidstone
Red and white, round flashing lights. Two and sometimes three of them. Moving around.
14/02/1997 - 3.10pm
Maidstone
Two, small, triangular shaped objects. Black in colour. The objects were heading North and then disappeared into cloud.
05/05/1997 - 9.40am
Maidstone
One round shaped object. Green in colour and was very bright. It was very fast.
20/09/1997 - 11.05pm
Maidstone
One object, 20 times the size of a jumbo jet. It was bird shaped, and very bright orange in colour. It was moving in a straight line, banking from left to right.
Sevenoaks
Date/Time
Place
Report
23/02/2009 - 7.17pm
New Ash Green
A ball of light in the clouds, moving slowly and falling apart. Had other white lights coming off it. Made no sound.
12/06/2009 - 11.10pm
Shoreham
Initially two UFOs increasing to six. Bright orange. Last four were bigger and brighter than the first two.
24/01/1997 - 8.07pm
Longfield
Three very bright objects, pulsating - white, green and yellow. They sometimes moved into a triangular formation.
An object was flying around in circles at aeroplane level and sounded like an industrial train. There was a strange flashing on the object.
24/08/2009 - 12am
Tunbridge Wells
Bright orange lights, lasted for two minutes, went out, than four more. Could have been a meteorological balloon. A very bright light.
11/08/1997 - 10pm
Pembury
A luminous, triangular shaped object that was hovering in the sky. There were four other luminous objects flying near it. The first object then disappeared.
An object, much bigger than a star. Looked like a large apple. It exploded and sparkled like a firework and then fizzled out.
11/11/2009 - 8.45pm
Edenbridge
Very bright yellow in the centre surrounded by orange outer edge, a fat boomerang on its side with a fire glow inside. Totally silent and 30-40 ft across.
No specific area reported
Date/Time
Report
05/09/2009 - 9.40pm
Semi-circle of light, golden orange, moved off towards the east. No noise heard.
11/09/2009 - 11.30am
White fixed wing object. Flying over a field. It was squared off with something behind it - no cockpit- silent not a glider.
03/10/2009 - no time reported
Little moon thing.
28/06/2008 - no time reported
A UFO.
27/05/2005 - 3.15pm
Was a small white object, that was moving parallel with an airliner.
04/07/2001 - 7am
One object. Had a bright light too. Was moving from West to East.
Aliens on Mars: Are these NASA photos of ‘ALIEN faces’ on Mars evidence of UFO activity?
Aliens on Mars: Are these NASA photos of ‘ALIEN faces’ on Mars evidence of UFO activity?
NASA pictures of Mars have sparked a frenzy with online conspiracy theorists who claim they can spot what appears to be alien faces and extraterrestrial technology in the images.
Popular UFO hunter Scott C Waring believes he found evidence of alien fossils and spacecraft in NASA’s official photos of Mars.
The conspiracy theorist shared stills of the Red Planet, snapped by one of NASA’ robotic rovers, claiming they were proof of aliens.
Pointing towards a photo of a rock, Mr Waring said: “This object does appear to be technology. Can you see the long tunnels coming out of this? The long tube?
“There’s kind of two round, tubular, larger pieces behind it, almost like a vacuum tube.
Aliens on Mars: NASA's Spirit rover snapped this photo of the Red Planet
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Aliens on Mars: Mr Waring claims these are alien faces and evidence of technology
(Image: SCOTT C WARING)
“I totally agree with you on what you see. Life has existed on Mars and maybe still does, my own opinion.”
The most likely scenario however, is that Mr Waring has fallen for the effects of Pareidolia – a trick of the mind which causes people to see faces and patterns where they do not exist.
Fames astronomer Carl Sagan suggested in 1995 the effect is an evolutionary mechanism, evolved to help people better distinguish friend from foe.
NASA explained: “Pareidolia is the psychological phenomenon where people see recognisable shapes in clouds, rock formations, or otherwise unrelated objects or data.
“There are many examples of this phenomenon on Earth and in space.”
Mr Waring wrote on his website UFO Sightings Daily: “ColourUFO caught an amazing Pyramid UFO that is semi cloaked moving through the clouds.
“I have heard of pyramid clouds, but very few legit reports come in like this one.
“As you see the cam takes a photo every few seconds so there is a jump in-between, but the UFO is seen in many still shots.
“Absolute proof that aliens are active in Mexico.”
UFO sighting: Triangular orb over Mexico City ‘absolute proof’ of alien activity
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Mexico is a hotspot for UFO sightings.
Earlier this year, a video showing a smoking crater next to a motorway lead to speculation it could be a UFO crash site.
The huge 26 feet across burning pit was filmed by shocked onlookers as a thick mist rose into the air by the Torreón to Saltillo highway in the state of Coahuila in north east Mexico.
It was said to be as deep as it was wide and, according to reports, no evidence has been found as to what caused it.
The UFO lit up the night sky
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Online theories have ranged from a crashed spaceship or a meteor falling to Earth.
One YouTube poster said: "Looks like a UFO landed and took off before anyone could see, leaving a crater.”
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see how the recent spate of mystery booms and the concurrent trend of mysterious debris falling from the sky could be completely unrelated. Several strange objects have washed ashore or on the eastern coast in recent months, only to be whisked away by unnamed ‘officials’ before anyone can take a good look at them. With so much talk of an oncoming war in space and so many tests of unidentified new space weapons, something tells me that all of these strange objects are the results of either weapons testing or something darker.
Who really knows what’s going on up there?
Of course, I could be connecting completely unrelated dots. Whatever the case in space may be, another recent example of a mysterious object crashing into a home is causing alarm and confusion and adding yet another case to the mystery-boom-and-debris pile. This week, a “large, heavy object” exploded through the walls of Arlene Silvestri’s home in Jersey City, New Jersey shortly after locals reported hearing a loud boom, and law enforcement agencies can’t yet explain what the object is or where it came from.
“My tenant from upstairs called me and said ‘there was an explosion.’ So when I came here, the fire department was already here,” Silvestri told reporters. Police arrived on the scene shortly after but so far have been unable to identify a source for the object. Whatever the projectile is, it’s oblong with one rounded end and roughly 3 feet (1 meter) in length and was propelled with enough force to blow through a nearly perfectly circular hole in a cinder block wall.
With so much orbital debris in space, it’s only a matter of time these types of events are much more common.
Police believe a nearby scrapyard may somehow be involved but have yet to definitively identify the object or determine how it might have been propelled through the walls of the home. Jersey City released a statement stating the object is a “cylinder of compressed gas or compressed air” but many locals and investigators are skeptical of the claims.
Could this mystery object be related to the others that recently fell from the skies in the Carolinas? Do these cases have anything to do with the weird mystery booms and looming war in space?
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET SpaceX heeft met succes een Argentijnse aardobservatiesatelliet gelanceerd. Bovendien slaagde de Amerikaanse raketbouwer er voor het eerst in om de eerste trap van zijn Falcon-9 draagraket aan de westkust van de VS op land te doen landen.
Vanop basis Vandenberg in Californië vertrok om 04.21 uur Belgische tijd een Falcon-9 van SpaceX. Dertien minuten later kwam de Argentijnse radarsatelliet SAOCOM-1A vrij van de tweede rakettrap. Zo’n acht minuten na de lancering keerde de booster weer terug op de lanceerbasis.
Het terug laten keren van de eerste rakettrap is een belangrijk onderdeel van de plannen van Elon Musk en zijn bedrijf SpaceX. Het is een manier om ruimtevaart efficiënter en betaalbaarder te maken. Na verschillende geslaagde pogingen op Cape Canaveral in Florida was het de eerste keer dat SpaceX dit huzarenstukje aan de westkust lukte. Bij de eerste poging was het meteen raak.
SpaceX✔@SpaceX
Falcon 9 has landed – first West Coast land landing of an orbital class rocket booster.
De geslaagde lancering én terugkeer van de rakettrap is een flinke opsteker voor Musk, die de afgelopen maanden te maken had met productieproblemen bij Tesla en onder meer een stevige boete kreeg van de beurswaakhond. Succesvolle lanceringen betekenen doorgaans ook een flinke boost voor de aandelenkoers van SpaceX. Die schommelt inmiddels rond de 28 miljard dollar (ruim 24 miljard euro), waarmee het de op twee na waardevolste start-up van de VS is. Alleen Uber en Airbnb zijn meer waard.
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Wauw: Finnen getrakteerd op wonderbaarlijk mooi noorderlicht - HLN.be
Wauw: Finnen getrakteerd op wonderbaarlijk mooi noorderlicht - HLN.be
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WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Het noorderlicht levert altijd prachtige beelden op, en ook deze zijn niet anders. De herfst in Finland is het ideale moment om te genieten van dit schouwspel. In Rovaniemi werden de inwoners op een prachtig lichtspel getrakteerd.
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GROTE RUIMTESCHEPEN KOMEN DICHTERBIJ ( VIDEO )
GROTE RUIMTESCHEPEN KOMEN DICHTERBIJ ( VIDEO )
Naarmate de wereld in ieder opzicht turbulenter wordt, zijn er steeds vaker grote ruimteschepen waar te nemen.
Nog steeds zijn deze giganten in de buurt van onze zon te zien, maar nu komen er ook steeds vaker grote UFO’s voor op of nabij de maan.
Wanneer we aan het fenomeen UFO denken, dan is dit meestal een niet al te groot vliegend object, een platte schijf met een soort koepel bovenop, een vorm die ook wel klassieke of retro UFO wordt genoemd.
Er wordt in het algemeen niet snel aan enorme ruimteschepen gedacht. Schepen die zo groot zijn dat er gemakkelijk het grootste deel van de aardse bevolking in zou kunnen verdwijnen.
En toch is dat de grootte van de onbekende objecten die regelmatig in de buurt van onze zon worden waargenomen, zoals wij al jaren schrijven:
Ongeveer tien jaar geleden verklaarden twee Russische wetenschappers dat ze hadden ontdekt dat er op ieder gegeven moment zich honderden UFO’s ophouden in de buurt van onze zon.
Dat niet alleen, maar ook dat ze hun snelheid kunnen verhogen of verlagen zonder aanwijsbare reden en dat ze een rechthoekige draai kunnen maken met onvoorstelbare snelheden, iets dat voor een normaal ruimteschip onmogelijk zou zijn. Zeker voor de waargenomen ruimteschepen die minstens zo groot zijn als onze maan.
Ook nu is het weer raak en heeft Scott Waring een object ontdekt bij de zon. Scott is ervan overtuigd dat het hier gaat om een ruimteschip.
Op de beelden lijkt het misschien niet zo groot, maar het gaat hier wel over een object ter grootte van de aarde.
Het verschijnt op een gegeven moment en accelereert vervolgens met een onvoorstelbaar hoge snelheid.
Niet alleen bij de zon, maar ook op en nabij de maan worden steeds vaker grote objecten waargenomen. Dit komt waarschijnlijk ook doordat steeds meer mensen hun telescopen op de maan richten.
De opname is op 24 september 2018 met een telescoop gemaakt door Jason Callum uit Bracknell in Engeland. Het object is aanzienlijk minder groot dan degene die door Scott is waargenomen bij de zon, maar in vergelijking tot het oppervlak van de maan, gaat het hier nog steeds over een enorm ding.
Dus blijft de vraag: “Waarom zijn al die grote ruimteschepen hier?”.
A large, strange object washes up on a beach in South Carolina. It looks like concrete but feels like foam. A few photographs were taken but, before anyone could conduct a detailed inspection, it was quickly taken away by local officials. Four days later, the speculation on what it is runs rampant while an official announcement is non-existent. And they wonder why conspiracy theories abound!
“Look at this mysterious object that washed ashore on Seabrook Island today! What do you think it is?”
On October 4, this mysterious thing (picture here) appeared on a beach on Seabrook Island, a barrier island near Charleston bordered by the North Edisto River, Bohicket Creek and the Atlantic Ocean, which spit out the strange object. The Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing awareness and education about the marine mammals of South Carolina, was the first to be notified. After determining it wasn’t a marine mammal, it posted a picture on its Facebook page and asked for help identifying it.
Did you see it?
“Check out this mystery item that washed ashore on Seabrook.”
Other than its own Facebook post, it got no help from the Kiawah Conservancy, a similar group on nearby Kiawah Island, nor from the news item in the Charlotte Observer. However, ‘someone’ noticed the postings. The object disappeared almost as quickly as it arrived, reportedly taken away by local government workers, leaving nothing behind but a few photos, a mystery and plenty of room for wild worldwide wondering.
After moving past the usual “aliens” and “alien spaceship” screams, many suggested it was a shielding or insulating part of a rocket, although the idea from some that it came from the space shuttle Challenger disaster 30 years ago is unlikely due to its relatively good condition. Other saw it as part of a marine object such as a buoy, an oil rig, a donut fender used to protect pilings or a pipeline floater. All of these, especially the last one, seem plausible
However, no one seems to have any ideas about why the object was taken away so quickly, especially if it was something as common as a foam fender or floater. Moreover, if it was an ordinary object, why has there been no announcement by any officials – government, military, marine or otherwise?
Is it something dangerous? Terrorism-related? Alien? Why such secrecy?
Will we ever find out? It’s been four days. We’ll keep watching … and wondering.
Saturnus' ringen veroorzaken flinke stortbuien op de gasreus
Saturnus' ringen veroorzaken flinke stortbuien op de gasreus
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Waterijs, maar ook organische verbindingen vallen continu vanuit de ringen in Saturnus’ atmosfeer.
Dat blijkt uit enkele van de laatste metingen die verricht zijn door ruimtesonde Cassini. “Tijdens zijn laatste avontuur dook Cassini in het onbekende gebied tussen Saturnus’ ringen en zijn atmosfeer,” aldus onderzoeker Kelly Miller. “Afgaand op eerdere studies verwachtten onderzoekers dat er water vanuit de ringen in Saturnus atmosfeer viel, dus de ruimtesonde gebruikte zijn radio-antenne als een paraplu om zich te beschermen tegen puin.” En dat was maar goed ook. “Wat blijkt: regen vanuit de ringen is meer een stortbui,” aldus onderzoeker Hunter Waite.
Butaan en propaan Onderzoekers zetten Cassini’s Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) in om meer over de samenstelling van die stortbuien te weten te komen. “Hoewel INMS ontworpen is om gassen te onderzoeken, waren we toch in staat om de ringdeeltjes te meten, omdat ze het ruimtevaartuig met zulke hoge snelheden raakten dat ze verdampten. Waterijs blijkt – samen met de nieuw ontdekte organische verbindingen – veel sneller uit de ringen te vallen dan iedereen dacht.” Al met al blijkt er per seconde tot wel 10.000 kilogram aan materiaal uit de ringen te komen zetten en in de bovenste regionen van Saturnus’ atmosfeer te belanden. “Moleculair waterstof was – zoals verwacht – het meest overvloedig voorkomende atmosferische bestanddeel,” stelt Miller. “Maar de stortbuiten bevatten zowel heel veel water als moleculen zoals butaan en propaan: het type chemicaliën dat je zou gebruiken voor een grill of kampeerfornuis.”
Over Cassini De ruimtesonde werd in 1997 gelanceerd en arriveerde in 2004 bij Saturnus. Daar heeft de sonde zo’n dertien jaar onderzoek gedaan naar de gasreus, zijn ringen en manen. De missie van Cassini kwam in 2017 ten einde toen NASA deze opdracht gaf om zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus te boren. Nieuwsgierig naar de belangrijkste ontdekkingen van Cassini? Je vindt ze hier. Of bekijk hierde mooiste foto’s die de sonde maakte.
Variaties In totaal dook Cassini 22 keer in het gebied tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen. Hoeveel ringmateriaal de sonde tijdens die duik opving, bleek van tijd tot tijd te verschillen. Het wijst erop dat er sprake is van variaties als het gaat om het materiaal in de binnenste D-ring van Saturnus. Die variaties kunnen plaats- of tijdgebonden zijn. Dat weten de onderzoekers niet goed.
Het feit dat de ring zoveel materiaal verliest, wijst er verder op dat deze regelmatig wordt bijgevuld, Mogelijk door de naastgelegen C-ring. Verder valt er zodanig veel ringmateriaal op Saturnus dat de onderzoekers het aannemelijk achten dat de ringen van invloed zijn op de samenstelling van Saturnus’ atmosfeer.
Verre ruimtereizen leveren mogelijk grote problemen op voor maag-darmstelsel
Verre ruimtereizen leveren mogelijk grote problemen op voor maag-darmstelsel
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Kosmische straling zorgt ervoor dat het maag-darmstelsel minder goed functioneert.
Ook lijken astronauten een grotere kans te hebben op maag- en darmkanker. Dat concluderen Amerikaanse onderzoekers in het blad PNAS.
Galactische kosmische straling De beschadigingen zijn het resultaat van galactische kosmische straling (GCR). Deze straling is afkomstig van buiten ons zonnestelsel en bestaat met name uit atomen die hun elektronen verloren hebben (ioniserende straling). GCR bestaat voornamelijk uit protonen, maar ook voor een klein deel uit de kernen van zware elementen. En die laatste zijn de grootste boosdoeners voor astronauten, zo blijkt ook uit dit onderzoek. “Zware ionen zoals ijzer en silicium zijn schadelijk, omdat ze in vergelijking met fotonen zoals röntgen- en gammastraling een veel grotere massa hebben,” vertelt onderzoeker Kamal Datta. “Met de huidige technologie op het gebied van beschermende schilden is het lastig om astronauten tegen de nadelige effecten van straling met daarin zware ionen te beschermen. Hoewel het misschien wel mogelijk is om medicijnen in te zetten om deze effecten tegen te gaan, is er nog niet zo’n medicijn ontwikkeld.” Tot op heden was dat ook niet echt nodig. Tijdens korte ruimtereizen – bijvoorbeeld naar de maan – worden astronauten namelijk niet aan gevaarlijk hoge doses GCR blootgesteld. Anders wordt dat echter als we naar Mars of andere verre bestemmingen gaan.
Muizen Eerder onderzoek van dezelfde onderzoeksgroep wees al uit dat zware ionen tijdens dergelijke verre ruimtereizen een gevaar kunnen vormen voor hersenweefsel. Maar nu kunnen we daar het weefsel in het maag-darmstelsel aan toevoegen. Datta en collega’s trekken die conclusie op basis van experimenten met muizen. Deze muizen werden in drie groepen ingedeeld. De ene groep werd blootgesteld aan zware ionen zoals we die in GCR aantreffen. De andere groep werd blootgesteld aan gammastraling. En de derde groep muizen deed dienst als controlegroep en werd niet aan straling blootgesteld.
Gevolgen Het onderzoek wijst uit dat cellen in de darmen van muizen die aan zware ionen waren blootgesteld niet goed in staat waren om voedingsstoffen op te nemen. Tevens bleken in de darmen van deze muizen veel vaker kwaadaardige poliepen te ontstaan dan in de darmen van muizen die aan gammastraling of helemaal niet aan straling waren blootgesteld. Ook zijn er aanwijzingen dat de zware ionen DNA-beschadigingen veroorzaakten waardoor het aantal senescente cellen – cellen die niet in staat zijn tot een normale celding – toenam. “Deze cellen genereren oxidatieve stress en ontstekingsmoleculen die nog meer schade veroorzaken. Dit is van grote invloed op de migratie van cellen die nodig zijn om de bekleding van de maag en darmen te vervangen en zorgt ervoor dat het maag-darmstelsel trager functioneert,” aldus Datta. Het maag-darmstelsel is bekleed met weefsel dat zeer regelmatig vervangen wordt. De bovenste laag cellen wordt zelfs elke drie tot vijf dagen vervangen. “Elke verstoring van dit vervangingsmechanisme leidt tot een verslechtering van de fysiologische functies, zoals de opname van voedingsstoffen en ligt ten grondslag aan ziekmakende processen, zoals kanker,” vertelt onderzoeker Albert Fornace Jr.
Hoewel de muizen die aan zware ionen werden blootgesteld maar een kleine dosis zware ionen te verteren kregen, lijken de gevolgen daarvan permanent te zijn. En waarschijnlijk beperken ze zich ook zeker niet tot de hersenen, maag en darmen. “Wij geloven dat vergelijkbare schade optreedt in veel organen,” vertelt Datta. “Het is belangrijk om deze effecten van tevoren te begrijpen, zodat we er alles aan kunnen doen om onze toekomstige ruimtereizigers te beschermen.”
Ook Voyager 2 lijkt binnenkort de interstellaire ruimte in te vliegen
Ook Voyager 2 lijkt binnenkort de interstellaire ruimte in te vliegen
Vivian Lammerse
Voyager 2 is – na Voyager 1 – de tweede door mensen gebouwde ruimtesonde die het zonnestelsel verlaat.
Het is slechts een kwestie van tijd voordat ruimtevaartuig Voyager 2 achter zijn broer aan de interstellaire ruimte in vliegt. Al elf jaar lang reist de sonde door de buitenste laag van de heliosfeer (een enorme bubbel rond de zon en de planeten waarin de zonnewind de overheersende stroom van deeltjes is). En nu lijkt het erop dat ook Voyager 2 het diepe onbekende in duikt.
Over de Voyager-missie Ruimtesonde Voyager 2 werd in 1977 gelanceerd, een paar weekjes eerder dan zijn broer Voyager 1. Beide sondes vliegen nu al 40 jaar rond. Daarmee zijn het niet alleen de langst werkende ruimtesonde ooit, ze breken bovendien alle records al het gaat over de afstand die ze tot op heden hebben afgelegd. Geen enkel ruimtevaartuig heeft het zo ver geschopt als Voyager 1 en Voyager 2. Eerstgenoemde sonde bevindt zich inmiddels op een slordige 21 miljard kilometer afstand van de aarde. En Voyager 2 is bijna 18 miljard kilometer van ons verwijderd. Op die enorme afstand van de aarde snellen beide sondes met een onvoorstelbare snelheid van zo’n 48.280 kilometer per uur voort, in een omgeving waar nog geen enkele door mensen gebouwde sonde ooit geweest is.
Kosmische straling Eind augustus detecteerde een van de instrumenten aan boord van Voyager 2 een toename van vijf procent van kosmische straling. Kosmische stralen zijn snel bewegende deeltjes die ontstaan buiten het zonnestelsel. Met dit gegeven, en het feit dat de ruimtesonde al bijna 17,7 miljard kilometer van huis is, gaan wetenschappers ervan uit hij dicht bij de grens van het zonnestelsel is.
Toename Sommige kosmische straling wordt geblokkeerd door de heliosfeer. Maar naarmate de grens naar de interstellaire ruimte dichterbij komt, verwachten wetenschappers dat de kosmische straling alsmaar zal toenemen. In mei 2012 ondervond ook Voyager 1 een toename van kosmische straling. Dat was ongeveer drie maanden voordat de sonde de heliopauze (de buitenste grens van de heliosfeer) passeerde en de interstellaire ruimte in dook.
De afbeelding toont de positie van Voyager 1 en Voyager 2 ten opzicht van de heliosfeer.
Afbeelding: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Vergelijken Nu ook Voyager 2 in de buurt van de heliopauze komt, zijn de onderzoekers voor het eerst in staat om de reis van het ene vaartuig met de ander te vergelijken. Echter merken de onderzoekers nuchter op dat elke interstellaire reis uniek is. Voyager 2 bevindt zich daarnaast op een heel andere locatie in de buitenste regio van de heliosfeer dan zijn broer.
Al met al zijn de verwachtingen hoog gespannen en kijken de onderzoekers uit naar het moment dat de sonde het zonnestelsel verlaat. Wanneer dit precies gaat gebeuren, weten de onderzoekers nog niet. “We zien een verandering in de omgeving rond Voyager 2, daar bestaat geen twijfel over,” zegt onderzoeker Ed Stone. “We gaan de komende maanden hoe dan ook veel leren.”
Nieuwe aanwijzing dat we de allereerste exomaan op het spoor zijn
Nieuwe aanwijzing dat we de allereerste exomaan op het spoor zijn
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Ruimtetelescoop Hubble heeft verschillende aanwijzingen gevonden dat rond Kepler-1625b een maantje draait.
Al in 2017 vonden astronomen met behulp van ruimtetelescoop Kepler een eerste aanwijzing dat Kepler-1625b een maantje bezit. Maar overtuigend was het bewijs niet. “De Kepler-data volstaan niet als we zeker willen zijn van het bestaan van deze exomaan,” zo stelden de onderzoekers. “Pas nadat de observaties met de Hubble Space Telescope hebben plaatsgevonden, zou elke bewering omtrent het bestaan van deze maan geloofwaardiger kunnen worden.”
Nieuwe observaties Die observaties met Hubble hebben inmiddels plaatsgevonden, zo melden onderzoekers in het blad Science Advances. En hoewel we op basis van die observaties het bestaan van de maan niet met zekerheid kunnen bevestigen, wijzen ze er wel sterk op dat er een maantje rond Kepler-1625b draait.
Twee signalen Onderzoekers observeerden het systeem waar de exoplaneet deel van uitmaakt gedurende 40 uur met de Hubble-telescoop. Deze telescoop is zo’n vier keer nauwkeuriger dan Kepler. De onderzoekers zagen hoe de planeet voor zijn moederster langs bewoog en waren daarbij met name op zoek naar twee signalen die op de aanwezigheid van een maantje konden wijzen: een afname in de helderheid van de moederster, veroorzaakt doordat de exomaan er voor langs beweegt. En een aanwijzing dat de exomaan met zijn zwaartekracht van invloed is op Kepler-1625b waardoor deze bijvoorbeeld wat eerder aan zijn overgang – de periode waarin de planeet voor de ster langs beweegt – begint.
Nieuwe aanwijzingen En jawel, beide signalen doken op in de door Hubble verzamelde data. Zo’n 3,5 uur nadat de overgang van Kepler-1625b erop zat, werd bijvoorbeeld een tweede, veel kleinere afname in de helderheid van de moederster gezien. Deze afname kan weleens veroorzaakt zijn door de maan die – terwijl deze achter zijn planeet aanhobbelt – ook een heel klein deel van het sterlicht tegenhoudt. Daarnaast ontdekten de onderzoekers dat Kepler-1625b wat eerder aan zijn overgang begon dan verwacht. Het suggereert dat er sprake is van zogenoemde ‘transit timing variations‘ oftewel TTV’s. En TTV’s worden gezien als een sterke aanwijzing voor de aanwezigheid van een exomaan. Ze kunnen echter ook veroorzaakt worden doordat in het systeem nog een planeet verstopt zit, die met zijn zwaartekracht van invloed is op Kepler-1625b. De onderzoekers benadrukken echter dat Kepler geen enkele aanwijzing heeft gevonden dat dit systeem nog een planeet telt.
Toch houden de onderzoekers een slag om de arm; er zijn meer waarnemingen nodig om het bestaan van de exomaan te bevestigen. Maar Kepler-1625b kan zomaar de plek zijn waar we uiteindelijk – en misschien binnenkort al – de allereerste exomaan gaan aantreffen.
Astronomers might have observed the first moon around an exoplanet, the United Nations displayed a special structure called "Black Marble" Earth and a South African radio telescope array will search a million stars for alien signals. These are just some of this week's top stories on Space.com.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe passed another prominent member of our solar system as it continued onto its ultimate destination, the sun. The probe zoomed within 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) of Venus on Oct. 3.
Astronomers may have found the first evidence of an exomoon, or moon orbiting a planet outside the solar system. NASA's Kepler and Hubble space telescopes, according to new study, provide evidence that a massive moon the size of Neptune may be orbiting a gas giant planet 8,000 light-years from Earth.
Methane is a greenhouse gas that contributes to warming planets, and not a lot was known about how much short-wavelength solar radiation it absorbs. Researchers studied the methane in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn's moon Titan to learn more about its effect.
A student at Emory University is the lead researcher of an alien-hunting galactic scan. This project, which looks for light beams from alien civilizations, is called the Trillion Planet Survey, and it's observing the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies.
On Aug. 30, astronauts noticed a drop in pressure aboard the International Space Station and then found a 0.08-inch-wide (2 millimeters) hole in a Soyuz capsule that docked up there in June. Since then, NASA has conducted an ongoing investigation, and according to Russian media, this was an isolated issue and should not affect future production.
Aerospace and military contractor Lockheed Martin revealed a new moon lander design on Oct. 3. The concept for a reusable spaceship is intended to transport four astronauts between lunar orbit and that moon's surface.
A newly-spotted object in a region far beyond Pluto's orbit may be a sign of Planet Nine, also known as Planet X. Researchers dubbed the object "The Goblin," and they first spotted it using Japan's Subaru telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
When asteroid TB 145 first passed Earth in 2015, scientists took photographs and noticed the angle and indentations on the rock made it look like a solemn skull. This Fall, the "Halloween asteroid" will fly near our planet again, but not in time for Jack-O-Lantern season. It will whiz by on Nov. 11.
The MeerKAT radio-telescope array in South Africa is now partnered with the $100 million Breakthrough Listen Project, significantly expanding its reach. MeerKAT will search for alien signals by searching 1 million stars.
A large, inflatable globe called "Black Marble" Earth was displayed for world leaders at the "Space2030: Space as a Driver for Peace" Sept. 25 gathering within United Nations Headquarters. The Space Trust commissioned the structure, which measured 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) in diameter.
After 41 Years, NASA's Voyager 2 Is Close To Enter Interstellar Space
After 41 Years, NASA's Voyager 2 Is Close To Enter Interstellar Space
No one can hear you scream in space but Voyager 1 changed that and here comes Voyager 2.
Once Voyager 2 exits the outermost layer of the heliosphere, it will become the second human-made object, after Voyager 1, to enter interstellar space.
This video is a stunning presentation concerning Voyager 2's close proximity to leaving our solar system's Heliopause to enter "Interstellar space." Voyager 1 reached Interstellar space a couple of years ago with Voyager 2 slated to reach a similar "exit point" very soon.
There was a very interesting discussion back in 2014 when someone at NASA "leaked" info about Voyager 1's detection of a "WAVE" of energy that was concerning. This sparked several spin-off theories that there was some kind of "COSMIC WAVE" about to reach Earth and give human beings an "upgrade" in their DNA.
6 Things You Should Know About UFOs and the X-Files
6 Things You Should Know About UFOs and the X-Files
The X-Files Revival is still Going Strong
“They’re here, aren’t they?” said Fox Mulder, to his secret informant, known only to viewers as Deep Throat.
“Mr. Mulder,” began the old man, in a reprimanding tone, “They have been here for a long, long time.”
As many of you know, the X-Files came back in 2016 for a tenth season (approximtely 13 years after it went off the air); the revival was so successful that they did an eleventh season and plans are in the work for a season 12.
For those of you who don’t know, the X-Files was one of the most popular US TV series in the 1990s, at its height averaging 20 million viewers per episode. This September marked the 25 year anniversary of the premiere of the show!
The main protagonist Fox Mulder, is an FBI agent whose sister was taken from their room when he was a kid, in what Mulder believed was an alien abduction. This fueled his lifelong obsession with the paranormal and uncovering the truth about UFOs, Extraterrestrials, and a global conspiracy.
I watched the show religiously with friends, staying in on Friday nights when it first came on, before it got really popular and moved to Sunday nights. Years later, when I became an executive producer on the documentary Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take, made by Foster Gamble and Kimberly Carter Gamble (which involved UFOs), I started to do a little research on this subject on my own.
I originally collected this list for friends who knew about the X-File but didn’t know much about the UFO phenomenon that inspired the show. Since then, there has been quite a bit of activity in this field and the mainstream media with a news story in the New York Times (see item #5 below).
1. The X-Files wasn’t purely science fiction, according to Chris Carter.
Like many others fans, I took the X-Files to be “simply” an original work of science fiction from the show’s creator, Chris Carter. While the series is fiction, Carter himself will tell you that that many of the elements are based on real-life accounts.
When I started to investigate on my own, I started to meet people in the UFO community and started asking questions. The stories I heard sounded a lot like what I had seen in the X-files: bright unexplainable lights, triangular craft, missing time, even implants.
In fact, I was told by a mutual friend that Chris Carter discouraged his actors from attending science fiction conventions because the X-Files wasn’t purely science fiction. This is particularly true of the early episodes that involve UFO sightings: If you re-watch the very first X-files episode, Pilot, you’ll see that it says, “The following story is inspired by actual documented accounts” at the beginning of the episode.
I actually met Chris Carter a few years ago, just before they started filming the new season, at a UFO-related conference, and it was clear that he was continuing to research what people had to say on this subject. It turns out a lot of what was discussed at the conference actually made it into the new season.
2.Myth: Only people who wear tinfoil hats and tabloid reporters take UFOs seriously.
One of the persistent myths about UFOs is that people who believe in them are a “fringe” group who “live off the grid” and wear “tinfoil hats”. After having been to a dozen UFO events and meeting hundreds of UFO witnesses, I haven’t seen a single tinfoil hat (OK I saw one but that was for the benefit of reporters who wanted to take a photo of “weird UFO people”).
In fact, I have met intelligent people from all walks of life — scientists, engineers, people who worked for NASA, to independently wealthy businessmen and women. The only commonality I could find was confidence in what they’ve seen and experienced, and a strong belief that the “truth is out there” and that it should be investigated more seriously.
There are many well-known people who have had UFO sightings, and many who support finding out the truth. In Los Angeles, Dan Akroyd is a well known proponent of UFO research. (See Dan Akroyd Unplugged on UFOs).
John Podesta, who served as an advisor to President Obama and Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton, has been very vocal about his interest in the subject and his desire to get the truth out, a process known to UFO enthusiasts as “Disclosure”. John Podesta tweeted in 2014 that his biggest regret in working for the Obama White House was that he was unable to secure disclosure of top secret UFO files.
Hillary Clinton, was asked about UFOs by a reporter in Conway, New Hampshire while campaigning there in 2016. Mrs. Clinton said she believed we might have been visited by aliens in the past, and that if elected president, she would get to the bottom of it.
And UFOs are not just for tabloids. Leslie Kean, a serious investigative reporter, received a copy of a report from retired French generals that said that they believed the UFO phenomena was real and should be investigated seriously (called the “COMETA” report). Kean’s book, UFOs: General, Pilots ,and Government Officials Go On the Record, is a great book for those who know nothing about the phenomenon or are inclined to dismiss it out of hand. There have been many pilots, many members of the military, and many other government officials who have been willing to speak on and off the record and Ms Kean does a great job of presenting about this phenomenon. It’s a shame that this myth is so prevalent that many “serious” scientists and engineers won’t even take the time to read books like Ms Kean’s.
3.Myth: There is no evidence of UFOs.
Many skeptics say there is no evidence that UFOs exist. They’re not quite right.
First of all, let’s start with the tons of photographic evidence — photos of odd “unidentified” objects flying over both rural and urban landscapes. The next argument skeptics make is that these pictures are all photoshopped — a charge that doesn’t hold up when the photos are from the 60’s and 70’s — I’ve seen some of these older photos, some taken by the members of the military, and they are very convincing. Moreover, when there are multiple witnesses that corroborate the photographic evidence (like in the Phoenix lights incident — more on this one below), the skeptic’s view that they must all be doctored doesn’t really hold-up.
And then there are literally thousands of eyewitness reports –ranging from places like O’Hare airport to Rendlesham Forest in the UK (in a famous military sighting).
If that isn’t enough evidence for you, Emeritus Professor of applied physics at Stanford, Peter Sturrock has studied reports and asserts there is “physical evidence”: “radar”, Professor Sturrock tell us, counts as physical evidence of UFOs.
One such well-known incident over Alaska in 1986, where a Japan Air Lines pilot, Kenju Terauchi, was flying near Mt. McKinley when he reported seeing a UFO that was “dazzlingly bright, which stopped in mid air, followed them, and otherwise shot around them …”. Terauchi said there was no way an airplane could have done that.
John Callahan, the FAA Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations branch, had the data from this incident, which covered more than a half hour. Callahan has testified many times about what he saw, “As far as I’m concerned, I saw a UFO chase a Japanese 747 across the sky for over half an hour on radar.”
If that’s still not enough to convince you that there is “some” evidence, in the abduction area, there have been physical objects (known as “implants”) that have been pulled out of abductees bodies. X-rays also count as physical evidence too. In some cases where doctors surgically extracted the implants, the metallic objects somehow evaporated; in other cases they were able to preserve them and found that they have unique “anomalous” structure, some were meant to be housed inside the human body and were only stable when implanted!
Whether you believe in aliens or not, these implants had to have been placed there by someone. The question is who? It’s unlikely abductees would have the surgical skill to put them there themselves — so who put them into their bodies? This question remains unanswered. In the original X-files, implants were a not insubstantial part of the story. Whenever the government got ahold of one, as at the end of the first episode of the X-Files, in a scene reminiscent of Raiders of the Lost Ark (or Warehouse 13 for younger syfy fans), they put it away in the midst of a giant government warehouse, to be lost forever in bureaucracy.
4.Myth: Sightings only happen in the countryside, only in the US, and only since we started flying airplanes.
Again, these are myths. There have been anomalous objects reported in the sky well before the modern era of airplanes, going back to the 1500s and beyond. In their wonderful book, “Wonders in the Sky”, Jacque Vallee ad Chris Aubeck have catalogued these sightings. Jacquee Vallee, a long time French UFO researcher, was in part the inspiration for the French scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, made by another UFO believer, Stephen Spielberg. In one of the most famous pre-airplane incidents, in 1561 a number of spheres and disks, which were red, blue, and back, were seen to come out of two vertical cylinders over Nuremberg, Germany. The residents of the town reported that these objects seemed to be fighting each other — there’s even a well-known drawing of this image.
In recent times, one of the most famous mass sightings was the Phoenix Lights. In 1997, an estimated more than 10,000 people saw a set of triangularly arranged lights not just hovering but moving over the Phoenix metro area from North to South. There were numerous photographs of the incident, and a great book (along with a documentary) by Lynne Kitei, M.D., called called The Phoenix Lights.
At first, Arizona Governor Fife Symington III made fun of the sighting and the military tried to dismiss the lights as “military flares”. But this theory didn’t hold water — the lights stayed equidistance apart, as if they were part of a single, large craft. Later, the Governor admitted that he was lying, and that he too had seen some kind of large anomalous craft in the sky that night. You don’t have to take my word for it — you can go interview people who were living in Phoenix in 1997. One witness told me she looked up, and the stars dimmed and then weren’t visible — it was definitely some type of large craft and not individual flares.
There have been other mass sightings, in Mexico City, in Russia, in South America, and elsewhere. UFO sightings are not a modern phenomenon, they are not a US-only phenomenon. UFOs are a global phenomenon, and as his secret informant told Agent Mulder at the end of the second episode of the X-Files, “They have been here … for a long long time.”
5. The Pentagon and the US Government No Longer Take UFO sightings seriously.
After a wave of UFO sightings in the 1950s and 1960s, the government and DOD put together several high profile projects to collect and investigate sightings. Since project Blue Book was shut down in 1969, the official US government and Department of Defense lines on UFOs has been: We no longer collect or investigate UFO sightings.
Just last December, the New York Times, Glowing Auras and Black Money: The Pentagon’s Mysterious UFO Program , which was covered by media internationally, was the first acknowledgement by the Pentagon since the 1960’s that they were taking UFOs seriously. Luis Elisandro, who was in charge of the program says that they took sightings, particvularly military sightings quite seriously — the Advanced Aerospace Threat Detection Program. They even released some footage and eyewitness accounts of, among other things, a Tic Tac Toe shaped UFO that military pilots were baffled by. This effort was linked to Tom De Long, the former lead singer of the rock group Blink182, who is now a major proponent of UFO Disclosure.
6. Are UFOs top secret military craft that defy gravity?
In the second episode of the X-Files, Deep Throat, and in many episodes later in the series, witnesses at the edge of military bases see UFOs at night performing maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of inertia and gravity.
These scenes are actually based on many eyewitness reports of objects and lights that hold stationary in the sky, have no apparent sound, then “jump” horizontally or vertically to a new position in the blink of an eye. The fact that these sightings have occurred often near military bases has led many, particularly in the skeptic and scientific community, to assert that UFOs are really top secret military craft that the public does not know about.
This of course, begs the question, do we have top secret military craft that can defy the known laws of physics and gravity? If so, why doesn’t the so called “scientific community” know about the science between how these craft work, why are they being hidden, and why aren’t they more curious about them?
A respected NASA scientist, Paul Hill, decided to collect reports from eyewitnesses during his 25 years working for the space agency. He wrote a book (which he wasn’t allow to publish while working for NASA), called “Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis” that was later published by his daughter, in which he categorized these maneuvers (“sudden reversal of direction”, “acute angle turn”, etc.)
If these are top secret military vehicles, where did they get the basic design and aeronautic principles from? This “top secret” military craft has been reported to be disc-shaped, and can seemingly defy both inertia and gravity. This has led the UFO community to say these top-secret craft have “anti-gravity” technology. Where did it come from?
Mark McCandlish, an accomplished aerospace illustrator, was baffled when a friend in the military told McCandlish that he’d stumbled into a hanger that had a round, bell shaped craft that was hovering over the ground. It sounds like a scene out of Independence Day, not just the X-Files. McCandlish, who has illustrated top secret military aircraft based on descriptions for the covers of magazines like Popular Science, drew the components of the ARV, or Alien Reproduction Vehicle, as it’s been called, and his drawings are readily available on-line. It resembles many reports of UFOs, including rumors of the Nazi Bell — new type of bell-shaped flying craft that the Nazis were supposedly working on at the end of World War II.
Is The Truth Out There?
As in the X-Files series, many of these facts are unknown to the general public, or they are ridiculed by so-called “experts”. In fact, the entire premise of the TV series was that a scientist, a medical doctor, Dana Scully, was brought in to de-bunk Mulder’s “unscientific” theories. As she became more involved in the investigations, she came upon more and more items that could only be classified as “unexplained” and was forced to question her own views about science and the universe.
Professor Sturrock of Stanford, who did research on the attitudes of astronomers and members of the American Institute of Aeronautic and Astronautics (AIAA) found that the more time people spent reading this subject, the more they would come to the conclusion that there needs to be more serious scientific study of UFOs. Even many members of the AIAA had seen anomalous “unidentified flying objects” but would only admit this if they were kept anonymous. Why? Because it’s not a “fashionable” area for university research to get funding, and simply telling what you saw truthfully is not acceptable in most academic and scientific circles these days.
Similarly, too many of my friends in the scientific and engineering circles, tend to dismiss UFO lore and stories as simple “crazy stories by crazy people” without having done any research of their own. The less research they’ve done, the more likely they are to dismiss UFOs out of hand. It’s very easy to ridicule or demean a group of people on the internet — but if you take the time to get to know the people that are making these claims, like Dana Scully in the X-Files, you might just find that The Truth is Out There!
While we wait for the new episodes of the X-Files revival on January 24th, I’ll leave you with another great quote from the second episode of the X-Files:
“Mr. Mulder, why are those like yourself, who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life on this earth, not dissuaded by all the evidence to the contrary?” asked the secret informant.
“Because,” began Fox Mulder, pausing for a second, “ … all the evidence to the contrary … is not entirely dissuasive.”
The old man nodded to Mulder in acknowledgement, and walked away quietly.
People have had UFO encounters since the dawn of recorded history (if not before), but with the advent of airplanes, cars, cameras and binoculars, sightings became much more common. Here are some of the most remarkable sightings of the modern era.
1. KENNETH ARNOLD, WASHINGTON STATE
Kenneth Arnold’s UFO Sighting Was Widely Reported
It started as a normal day for Kenneth Arnold in 1947. He was a private pilot, flying himself to Yakima, Washington for business. He took a small side trip, buzzing by Mt. Rainier to see if he could spot a U.S. Marine transport plane that had crashed recently—there was a $5,000 reward.
He didn’t find the plane, but what he did discover changed the world of ufology. During the flight, he saw several bright flashes. At first he thought they might just be reflections, but the “reflections” grew closer and larger, and he realized he was looking at flying objects. Geese? No, geese don’t fly at 1,200 MPH. A new type of jet? There were no contrails.
And, they were the wrong shape—they were, as Arnold put it, thin and convex. He later told reporters that the objects’ movement reminded him of saucers skipping across water, and thus was born the familiar term “flying saucers”.
2. THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES
The Large Triangular Craft That Frightened Los Angeles in 1942
It was 1942 and the United States was plunged into World War II. In February, only two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, anti-aircraft guns started firing over the city of Los Angeles. Lights had appeared in the sky, witnessed by thousands, and everyone’s first assumption was that the Japanese were staging another attack.
Strangely, the anti-aircraft fire brought nothing down, even though radar showed an “unidentifiable aerial target” over the city. Some witnesses said they saw a large object hovering in the air. Later, a journalist’s photo of the battle scene (at right) sparked controversy among UFO skeptics and only deepened the mystery—it appears to show a large black triangular craft.
3. UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL
Sure, you’ve heard of the Roswell Incident. Skeptics like to say it’s the “most thoroughly debunked UFO claim” in the world. We disagree. You can’t “debunk” something by making up explanations.
The Story Made Headlines, But The Air Force Quickly Tried to Cover Up the Incident
It was a hot day in July 1947 when New Mexico rancher Mac Brazel was out on a remote part of the Foster ranch, and when he came across strange wreckage, he wasn’t sure what to think of it. Maybe the guys at the local military base, the 509th airfield, would know something about it. When Brazel took some officers, including Intelligence Officer Jesse Marcel, to see for themselves, the military men were stunned. It was clear to them that this was indeed a crashed vehicle—and that it wasn’t from this planet.
The story hit the news wires, and calls came in from around the world. General Roger Ramey rushed to the 509th base and concocted a story about a downed weather balloon. The story stuck—”General Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer” read the headlines—and those involved were warned to never reveal what they actually saw.
Later, in old age, Jesse Marcel felt compelled to reveal the truth, and the story became the stuff of legend.
4. UFOS BUZZ D.C.
It’s alarming enough for an air traffic controller to spot seven unknown objects on radar. But when Ed Nugent spotted them in Washington D.C. in July 1952, he realized they were headed toward the White House and the U.S. Capitol building—so he raised an alert. His radar unit checked out, not malfunctioning, and the blips showed up on other radar units as well. Then the objects were sighted by pilots in the area, moving at “an unbelievable speed”.
The objects vanished within 15 minutes, but a few days later, they were back. This time, strange flying lights were noticed by the flight crew on a commercial jet over D.C. They appeared yet again the next day. President Harry Truman was so shaken up by these events that he called the head of Project Blue Book, demanding an explanation. Soon after, a standing shoot-down order was given to Air Force pilots: if you see a UFO, fire on it immediately.
You may also be interested in Part One of this two-part UFO series, where we cover other striking encounters with UFOs that landed, crashed, and buzzed by Earth landmarks.
1. UFO LANDING IN RENDLESHAM FOREST, UK
“I’ve gone on record saying Rendlesham might be the turning point in history that leads to the explanation of the UFO phenomenon.” —Nick Pope, UK Ministry of Defense
It was December 1980, and on a US military base in England, a security patrol observed a strange light descending into nearby Rendlesham Forest, and assumed one of their aircraft must have gone down.
Re-creation of the Craft that Landed in Rendlesham Forest
Sergeants John Burroughs and James Penniston were dispatched to investigate, and instead of a downed plane, they discovered a strange craft with glowing yellow and blue lights, approximately nine by six feet in size. Static electricity seemed to be emanating from it. The men stood and stared at the object for about 10 minutes, finally deciding that it did not appear to be a threat. They moved closer and observed strange hieroglyphic markings on the side of the craft.
Suddenly, an explosion of light from the ship knocked both men down; “I thought I was going to die that night,” Penniston said later. Penniston got up and touched the craft; it felt smooth and warm.
The men stayed near the UFO for 45 minutes until it began to rise through the trees, then shot into the night so quickly that Penniston later wrote in his log book, “Speed: Impossible!”
The next morning, investigators found deep, triangle-shaped impressions in the ground where the craft had been sighted. Tests showed high levels of radiation.
The ship returned for two consecutive nights; on the final night, it was witnessed by nearly 60 people.
2. THE KECKSBURG UFO CRASH
At first, they thought it was some kind of crazy meteor. The fireball that streaked across skies over Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania in 1965 dropped metal debris and caused sonic booms. Eyewitnesses in the small town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania saw the UFO crash into a forest, followed by blue smoke that rose from amongst the trees. They called authorities.
Reproduction of What Witnesses Saw Near Kecksburg, PA
Meanwhile, a few brave individuals ventured into the woods to see what had crash-landed. They found the object partially buried in the ground; it was bronze in color and metallic, about the size of a car, shaped like an acorn. The witnesses noticed strange markings on its surface that resembled Egyptian hieroglyphs. Jim Romanesky, one of the observers, said that the UFO was completely seamless, almost as if it had been made of liquid metal that was poured into a mold.
When the military arrived, they cordoned off the area, detaining and removing everyone from the forest. Witnesses saw them load the object onto a flatbed truck and remove it; when an official report was issued, it said that “absolutely nothing” had been found—case closed.
3.PHOENIX LIGHTS
Phones at the police station were ringing off the hook, UFO reporting agencies were inundated with calls, the news media were receiving a flurry of reports, people were standing in the streets and pointing at the sky: there were strange lights hovering over the city of Phoenix! Thousands of people saw the Phoenix Lights that March day in 1997, including police offers, military personnel, and Arizona governor Fife Symington; eye-witnesses said that the lights appeared to be part of a massive black V-shaped craft that moved slowly and silently as it passed over their rooftops.
The first reports of the UFO came from Henderson, Nevada, where witnesses said the craft was drifting along in a southeasterly direction; it passed over other towns until it appeared over Phoenix. Air traffic controllers at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport could see the lights through their window but registered no sign of anything on radar.
The local Air Force base denied that any activity had taken place that night—then later changed the story and said that the lights had been aircraft flares they’d dropped between 9:00 and 10:00 PM that night. Problem is, the UFO lights had appeared over Henderson, Nevada just before 8:00 PM and over Phoenix just after 8:30 PM.
4. UFO OVER O’HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
“I am still in absolute wonder and amazement at what I saw that afternoon.”
—Eye-witness to the O’Hare UFO
It had been a normal afternoon at busy O’Hare International when airport employees began to notice something strange in the sky.
A Strange Disc Hovers Over O’Hare International Airport
On November 7, 2006, a metallic, saucer-like craft appeared above the airport and hovered over Gate C-17. A ramp employee was the first to see it as he helped a jet, flight 446 bound for North Carolina, push back to prepare for takeoff. Chatter on two-way radios alerted a dozen other employees, ranging from pilots to supervisors, who all ran to see the disc hovering in the sky.
The UFO lingered over the airport for about two minutes, then, as witnesses described, shot straight up at an incredible velocity and vanished, leaving a clear, sky-blue hole in the clouds.
The Federal Aviation Administration first denied they had any evidence of the matter. When a local reporter discovered a recording of an FAA official discussing the sighting with a United Airlines employee, the FAA changed the story: it was just a weather phenomenon, and there was no need for further investigation.
Signs of Plant Life May Be Easier to Spot on Older Planets, Scientists Find
Signs of Plant Life May Be Easier to Spot on Older Planets, Scientists Find
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA and NOAA satellites measure vegetation on Earth from space to produce images like this one of plant life between April 2012 and April 2013.
Credit: NASA/NOAA
The rise of plants was crucial in turning Earth from a watery rock into a world where humans could thrive — and our home may not be the only planet where that process has played out.
So scientists decided to investigate Earth's own vegetative history to think through how it could guide our search for habitable exoplanets. The result is a new paper that focuses on what scientists call the vegetation red edge, which just means that Earth happens to reflect back a relatively high amount of near infrared light.
"We use Earth's history as a key for finding life in the universe," research co-author Lisa Kaltenegger, an astronomer at Cornell University, said in a statement. "Looking at how life altered Earth's biosignatures over time helps us to figure out which planets are most likely to show the strongest signs of life, ultimately giving us the best chances of successfully pinpointing life, if it is there." [Earth's Plant Life from Space in Photos: NASA Satellite Images]
The pair of scientists behind the new research looked at how Earth's vegetation red edge as viewed by an alien would change over time as plant life evolved and changed. The first green plants, like mosses, produced a very weak vegetation red edge signal. But now, 400 or 500 million years later, modern plants and trees produce a signal that's about twice as strong. They also feed, house and clothe humans and plenty of other life-forms.
"Our work shows that as plants evolved on Earth, the vegetation signal that reveals their presence became stronger, making older exoplanets really interesting places to look for vegetation," Kaltenegger said in the statement.
And the researchers estimate that the signal will become even more noticeable if Earth continues to become warmer and drier, since cactuses are particularly reflective of this near infrared light. For hopeful astrobiologists, that's not all bad news, since even today, Earth's vegetation red edge would be difficult to catch a glimpse of.
But even taking into account different types of plants and partial cloud cover, the scientists found that Earth looks reliably different from other planets in the solar system — a promising sign for using the technique.
"Observing an exoplanet is more challenging, but telescope technology is getting better at spotting tiny signals," co-author Jack O’Malley-James, also an astronomer at Cornell University, said in the statement. "And factoring Earth's changing landscapes into our models will make it easier to detect vegetation in the future on other worlds."
The research is described in a paper published Sept. 12 in the journal Astrobiology.
Hopes of colonizing Mars rest on the premise that we could terraform the red planet, making it habitable for humans with a breathable atmosphere and clement temperatures. However, a recent study cast doubt on the idea, concluding that terraforming is impossible with present technology.
With colonizing Mars on hold, it's a good time to reevaluate the relationship we have with our nearest cosmic neighbour, the moon. The first successful lander on the moon was the Russian spacecraft Luna 9 in 1966. This mission revealed the barren lunar landscape in fine detail for the first time.
The first close-up images of the moon’s surface, from 1966.
Since the dawn of the space age, there have been over 60 successful missions to the moon, including eight that were manned. The most famous being Apollo 11 in July 1969 which resulted in the first human presence on the moon.
These space pioneers broadened our understanding of Earth and the universe. The Apollo 15 mission of 1971, for example, recovered the so-called "Genesis Rock," one of the oldest rock samples ever found from a crater on the moon. Analysis of other surface samples supported the "giant impact hypothesis," a now predominant view that the moon formed from a giant impact on the Earth some 4.5 billion years ago.
Since then, however, our gaze has shifted away from the moon and onto Mars. In the 1990s, after a string of failures, Mars Pathfinder delivered the first rover onto the surface of Mars. This was the first successful landing on Mars since the Viking probes of the late 1970s. The pictures that the probe returned set the public's imagination aflame, stoking interest in new missions to the red planet.
Rather than mourning the immediate prospect of a manned Martian mission today, we present five reasons why the moon deserves another look – and more than just a flying visit.
The Genesis Rock was formed at least four billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system.
Credit: NASA/Wikimedia Commons
We've only scratched the surface of our moon's potential interest to humanity.
Credit: NASA
1. A staging post in space
To overcome the pull of gravity and reach another body in space you need to achieve a certain speed. A journey to Mars from Earth's surface requires a minimum total speed of nearly 30,000mph (approximately 13.1km/s). This requires large rockets, tonnes of fuel, and complex orbital manoeuvring. Due to the moon's weaker gravitational field, the same journey from the lunar surface would "only" require a speed of 6,500mph (2.9km/s). This is roughly one third of that necessary to reach the International Space Station from Earth.
The mineral troilite, an iron-sulphur compound rare on Earth, is also present in the lunar crust. The sulphur from troilite can be extracted and combined with lunar soil to produce a building material stronger than Portland Cement, meaning a settlement could be constructed on the moon using locally sourced material.
Establishing a lunar base from which to launch deep space missions would massively increase the payload to fuel ratio, allowing us to explore the solar system at a fraction of the current cost and effort.
2. Fuelling the future
Nuclear fusion, the process that fuels stars, could provide our future energy supply. Fusion reactors of the future will use Helium-3, a lighter version of the helium used in party balloons. This isotope is rare on Earth but abundant on the moon where it could be mined, something which has already attracted interest from a number of businesses and governments willing to ship it to Earth.
The core of a nuclear fusion reactor.
Credit: Shutterstock
This initial burst of commercial interest could provide the incentive and finance needed for our first forays into establishing a permanent human presence on the moon.
3. Rock of ages
The moon is an inactive world – no major geological changes have occurred in the last three billion years. On Earth, surface features are weathered by rain, tides, wind or plant growth. The lunar landscape proudly displays a record of its violent past in the form of impact features, offering a preserved history of the solar system which is ready for us to explore.
4. Observing the universe
The atmospheric density of the moon is thin, a ten trillionth of that on Earth. This absence provides the perfect conditions for astronomical observatories across the full breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum. A radio observatory on the far side of the moon would be completely shielded from the radio chatter of Earth.
The low-density atmosphere also makes a ground-based X-ray or gamma ray telescope possible, unlike on Earth where short wavelength light from space is blocked. Such observatories could be maintained and upgraded by a human presence on the moon far more easily than an orbiting telescope.
The lunar observatory could search deeper into space than an Earth-bound equivalent.
Credit: es Bossinas/NASA
5. Humans in space
One of the major hurdles for a Mars mission is understanding how human health is affected by a long-term voyage into space. If anything unexpected occurs, resupply or rescue is over two years away. By testing human tolerances on the moon first and developing technology and experience, further exploration of Mars or beyond will be far more practical. If an emergency occurs on a lunar base, Earth is only three days away.
Another major concern about going to Mars is the inadvertent contaminationof the pristine martian environment by earthly organisms. The Moon is almost certainly sterile, so such concerns are moot.
While the first scientific research conducted on the moon was performed in the late 1960s, in the subsequent half century we have come no closer to a sustained human presence there. This is despite an ever-increasing technological capability which far surpasses what was available to the Apollo missions. Before we can take another giant leap into space, it might be worth taking some small steps closer to home.
Pyramid UFO Caught Over Mexico On Live Internet Cam On Oct 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Pyramid UFO Caught Over Mexico On Live Internet Cam On Oct 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: October 2018 Location of sighting: Mexico City, Mexico Source: Live Mexico Cam
This video was made by a UFO researcher in Australia watching the live Mexico City cam. He is famous for his hard work in the field and this time he caught an amazing Pyramid UFO that is semi cloaked moving through the clouds. I have heard of pyramid clouds, but very few legit reports come in like this one. As you see the cam takes a photo every few seconds so there is a jump in-between, but the UFO is seen in many still shots. Absolute proof that aliens are active in Mexico. Scott C. Waring
I have just received this UFO sighting video through a report form. This happened in Cape Town, South Africa on 24th September 2018.
Witness report:
I have attached part of the video which I had taken yesterday, (Monday, 24 September 2018) at 12:02 of strange activity which I noticed in the sky in the Belville and Brackenfell, Cape Town, South Africa area. It first seemed like flashing lights of possibly an aircraft or even star of some sort, but did it soon became clear that these seemingly flashing lights seemed to be at different places at different times within a fraction of a second, during which I decided to take a video of it with my smartphone. Only after playing the videos back in extremely slow motion, frame for frame, I were amazed to see that this seemed to be only one object but which moved with incredible speed within a fraction of a second! So fast that to the naked eye it will seem like flashing lights appearing at different spots. Please have a look in slow motion especially to see the phenomenal speed with which this thing moves! I could hardly believe my eyes what I had seen on the videos! On the other part of the video, it can clearly be seen that this light orb / flying object will dive at incredible speed after which it will ascent with the same lightning speed, after which it will do some sort of half a circular motion and then dive soon after this at the same incredible speed. I have more footage with even more amazing things which this flying object seemed to be capable of and of which I am sure no aircraft on earth are capable of but could unfortunately only email you this clip due to the size of the full video clip.I would like to know whether there are more people in the Belville area who saw this or if there were anything unusual reported in the skies yesterday at that time.
UFO INVESTIGATION: US officials 'hold SECRET ALIEN TESTS' at ranch - 'DISTURBING'
UFO INVESTIGATION: US officials 'hold SECRET ALIEN TESTS' at ranch - 'DISTURBING'
THE US Department for Defence has carried out a series of undercover tests at the highly controversial UFO sighting ground, the Skinwalker ranch in Utah, leaked documents have claimed.
The video was soon went viral across the web, with many giving their opinions on what it could be.
One person wrote: “In my opinion, its not a satellite, too big if I assume relative distances.
“Its not within the earths atmosphere as would appear to move across the field of view more rapidly and likely be a blur.
“Your focus is on the moon and the object remains in focus. It must also be large!”
UFO sighting: Massive ‘alien spaceship’ seen travelling across the Moon - shock video
(Image: GETTY)
Another person added: “It’s a mother ship!”
YouTuber Ryan Isaaks stated: “No doubt it's a UFO. I’m 100 percent sure.
“We are being watched and don't know how long the government is hiding this from the public.”
However, others believed their was a more natural explanation, with many claiming that it looks like a large rock orbiting the moon or travelling through space.
Which prompted the response: “Looks like a rock, the colour dark and it didn’t turn or change speed.”
Many people believe that there is an alien race living on the moon.
Just last month, conspiracy theorists were sent into a frenzy when a massive structure was spotted on the moon.
Many jumped to the conclusion that it was an alien base or monument, and believe the likes of NASA are covering something up.
The UFO is seen travelling across the moon
(Image: YOUTUBE)
The strange moon-pyramid was spotted using Google’s search tool Google Moon.
The coordinates to find the ‘monolith’ on Google Moon are 20 ° 48'45.54 "N 25 ° 59'50.89" W.
In a video uploaded to YouTube by Argentinian Marcelo Irazusta, the man-made-looking structure seems to be an anomaly on the surface on the moon.
A description from Mr Irazusta alongside the video reads: “A strange elevation of hundreds of meters in the middle of a plain of the Moon is a mystery that must be revealed.
“Everything seems to indicate that it could be a non-natural structure. It is really awesome.”
The huge round body was found on a beach on Seabrook Island, South Dakota, and featured in a Facebook post by Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network (LMMN)
It said: "Look at this mysterious object that washed ashore in Seabrook Island today! What do you think it is?"
The post was inundated with theories about what it is.
Jennifer Passantino posted: “I saw it this morning on my walk.
“I assume it was a buoy, but could also be the remains of an alien spaceship.”
“(It) could also be the remains of an alien spaceship”
Witness
Many said it looked like part of a space capsule or satellite debris, and some speculated it could be a rocket nozzle from the space shuttle Challenger that blew up about 30 years ago.
Many social media users said it looks like a piece of a mooring buoy or a dredge pipe float used in the removal of sediments and debris from the bottom of lakes and rivers.
One commenter said the object appears to be made of concrete, but the Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network said it is "foam-like" and "easily floated in".
The mystery was whisked away by town leaders, according to LMMN.
LMMN
This bizarre object was washed up on a South Dakota beach
THIS 3-MINUTE ANIMATION WILL CHANGE YOUR PERCEPTION OF TIME FOREVER
THIS 3-MINUTE ANIMATION WILL CHANGE YOUR PERCEPTION OF TIME FOREVER
We all know that Earth is old, but it’s hard to put into perspective just how old it is.
After all, what does 4.5 billion years really mean? How do you even comprehend that amount of time with our short-lived human brains?
Well, Business Insider has done a pretty incredible job of it in this 3-minute animation, by displaying the timeline of Earth if time was the distance from Los Angeles to New York. And, oh boy, our world-view will never be the same.
We start our journey in Los Angeles, back when Earth first formed 4.54 billion years ago. But we don’t get very far on our road trip through time and space before the Moon shows up after Earth is hit by a planetary body.
About halfway across the top of Arizona, the world’s largest rock forms 3.95 billion years ago, and then a few miles down the road – 3.8 billion years ago – the first evidence of life shows up, in the form of replicating molecules.
But it’s not until Kansas, 2.7 billion years ago, when oxygen-producing cyanobacteria first emerge, and then 200 million years later that significant amounts of oxygen build up in Earth’s atmosphere.
And then, believe it or not, it’s not until Pennsylvania – halfway across the country – that multicellular organisms evolve, just 600 million years ago.
A lot happens in Pennsylvania, like plants colonising the land and amphibians evolving. And by the time dinosaurs become extinct we’re already in New York State.
So where do humans fit in?
Well we’ll let you watch the video below to find that out, and let’s just say that it will blow your freaking mind. Especially when you see how much we’ve done in just 5.6 feet (1.7 metres) of time.
The Earth is really, really old. Over four and a half billion years old, in fact. How do we begin to comprehend a number that large? It helps to put it on a more fathomable scale. Watch to see where Earth’s major events would fall on a timeline stretching across the US.
Did John Glenn Tell Us the Truth About UFOs & Aliens in a Frasier Episode???
Did John Glenn Tell Us the Truth About UFOs & Aliens in a Frasier Episode???
In a 2001 episode of Frasier, the late senator and astronaut John Glenn had an interesting guest appearance and I think the script had him basically spill the beans about UFOs and aliens to the American people! Glenn was later depicted by Senator Harry Reid has having an interest in UFOs and aliens and the truth about him. What do you think --- was Glenn a believer and was he trying to aid in Disclosure?
Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Listen program said it has added the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa to its global effort to listen for signals from an alien intelligence
First announced in 2015, Breakthrough Listen is an unprecedented $100 million program – backed by Russian high-tech billionaire Yuri Milner – to listen for signals from an alien intelligence. This massive SETI project is already listening via the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and Parkes Telescope in Australia. On October 2, 2018, Breakthrough Listen announced it will also begin listening via the 64 radio dishes of South Africa’s brand new MeerKAT telescope. It made the announcement at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen, Germany, saying it planned to:
… examine a million individual stars – 1,000 times the number of targets in any previous search – in the quietest part of the radio spectrum, monitoring for signs of extraterrestrial technology. With the addition of MeerKAT’s observations to its existing surveys, Listen will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Yuri Milner commented:
Collaborating with MeerKAT will significantly enhance the capabilities of Breakthrough Listen. This is now a truly global project.
Artist’s concept of an extraterrestrial, via Shutterstock.
Yuri Milner funds Breakthrough Listen. He was an early investor in Facebook and Twitter and has funded other large endeavors. For example, he has established the largest award in the world in the field of biomedicine and life sciences, called the Breakthrough Prize.
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) spent part of this year verifying the 64 radio antennas, each 13.5 meters (44 feet) in diameter, of the MeerKAT telescope. SARAO officially inaugurated the telescope in July 2018.
Breakthrough Listen said its involvement:
… adds the capability to search for technosignatures – signals that indicate the presence of technology on an alien world, and hence provide evidence that intelligent life exists elsewhere.
The MeerKAT telescope of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas, located in the remote Karoo Desert of South Africa.
Scientists and engineers from the University of California, Berkeley SETI Research Center have already installed Breakthrough Listen’s special digital instrumentation (much like that installed at Green Bank) at the MeerKAT telescope. The Breakthrough Listen team said its observations will:
… occur in a commensal mode – at the same time as other astrophysics programs. Using sophisticated processing, Breakthrough Listen scientists will digitally point the telescope at targets of interest.
This means that the Breakthrough Listen instrument at MeerKAT will be operating almost continuously, scanning the skies for signs of intelligent life.
The Green Bank telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, is another one of the observatories attempting to eavesdrop on aliens with the help of Breakthrough Listen. Using the Breakthrough Listen digital instrumentation at this telescope, astronomers 3 weeks ago announced they’d found 72 more fast radio bursts from a distant galaxy. Photo via NRAO.
Bottom line: Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Listen program has added the new MeerKAT telescope of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory to its global SETI effort.
Incredibly Weird Microbes Found Deep Underground Could Change Search for Life on Mars
Incredibly Weird Microbes Found Deep Underground Could Change Search for Life on Mars
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
A microscopic view of cyanobacteria, colored fuchsia, growing on a rock fragment.
Credit: PNAS
Life on Earth just got weirder, and that may have intriguing implications for life beyond this planet.
That's one takeaway from new research that identified cyanobacteria — a class of microbes known for turning sunlight into sugar — living deep below Earth's surface, far away from any ray of sunlight.
Because they're so tiny, cyanobacteria don't always get much love, but they're what turned Earth from an inhospitable rock (to us, anyway) into a green, growing world and first put the oxygen we rely on into the atmosphere. "What the cyanobacteria have invented has been brilliantly important through the history of life on Earth," Lynn Rothschild, an astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California not involved in the new research, told Space.com. [Photos: Ancient Mars Lake Could Have Supported Life]
"They were able to turn our Earth into a place that is habitable for the animals that evolved here," Rothschild said. She called cyanobacteria "one-stop shopping" for turning what was easily accessible about 2.7 billion years ago in the early days of Earth — compounds like water and carbon dioxide — into the oxygen and sugar that animals need to survive. Some cyanobacteria can even turn the nitrogen that makes up most of our atmosphere into biologically useful ammonia.
All of that relies on the bacteria getting enough sunlight to conduct photosynthesis, the reaction that allows cyanobacteria, plants and similar organisms to feed themselves. So, deep within the surface of Earth is an unlikely hideout for cyanobacteria. But that's what the authors of the new research say they've found: cyanobacteria living 2,000 feet (600 meters) deep below the surface of a region called the Iberian Pyrite Belt in southwest Spain.
If the new research holds up, it suggests that some cyanobacteria found themselves unable to gather enough sunlight to complete photosynthesis, then threw in the towel and figured out how to feed themselves on hydrogen instead. (Hydrogen also fuels microbes found at the ocean bottom near deep-sea hydrothermal vents, which are also studied as potential analogues of extraterrestrial life.)
That big switch from photosynthesis to chemical subsistence is intriguing, because while Mars today isn't the sort of place life as we know it could thrive, it was many, many years ago. So, if cyanobacteria on Earth snuck below the surface and found a new way to make a living, does that increase the odds something similar happened with hypothetical cyanobacteria-like organisms on Mars?
It's an exciting proposal, Rothschild said. "The idea of surface organisms going underneath [the ground] is something that a lot of us talk about all the time," Rothschild said, but usually not in the context of cyanobacteria, which are considered too reliant on sunlight. "It provides a nice example of a test case of organisms that started at the surface and then were able to adapt to deep biosphere life."
This isn't the first time cyanobacteria have been spotted doing something unexpected, Daniela Billi, an astrobiologist at the University of Rome not involved with the new research, told Space.com. Just this year, a different team of scientists found that certain cyanobacteria could conduct photosynthesis using just infrared light, which is beyond the visible spectrum. The new research goes one step further, Billi said.
"It is a new metabolism that is really very challenging," she said, and an unexpected way of surviving. "It shows that there are pathways that we were not thinking about." [The Search for Life on Mars (A Photo Timeline)]
The new research, which was published yesterday (Oct. 1) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, underscores one of the loudest choruses in astrobiological research: that life is weird, hardy and ubiquitous.
"Every time that we look in strange, extreme environments on Earth, life is always surprising us. We always find a form of life we were not thinking of or thought could not be there," Billi said. "We are very far from knowing life and its extremes."
This controversial footage is causing a stir among UFO fans and conspiracy theorists as records a bizarre conversation between a "nervous" astronaut and mission control.
The outer-space experts claim that during a live feed from the International Space Station the astronaut mentions the word "gospel" as a strange red-coloured UFO appears on the screen.
Blogger Scott C Waring(Image: Secureteam10)
According to Mr Waring, the appearance of the UFO on the ISS live video feed as the astronaut mentions the gospel" was significant and could not be a coincidence."
Talking his viewers through the footage he drew the attention of viewers to the moment in the recording that the astronaut said the word “gospel,” and the moment that ground control replied to the astronaut, saying, “we will pray for you."
Secure Team 10's Tyler Glockne r also noted how odd it was for the astronaut to be talking about religion ans said the conversation was "very unusual".
Is this a UFO?(Image: Secureteam10)
He said: "You can hear the astronaut speaking about God as a UFO appears, which is strange.
“Although it is not strange to think there may be astronauts who may be religious, but I think it would be uncommon due to the training and scientific knowledge they have.”
But his fans asked whether the reference to "gospel" was actually code for "aliens".
Conspiracy theorists have suggested that the astronaut’s statement that he was looking “forward to this partnership with the gospel,” could be coded language and he was actually telling ground control he was about to meet a delegation of extraterrestrials and hold "talks" with them.
UFO over Jacksonville, North Carolina – May 17, 2018
UFO over Jacksonville, North Carolina – May 17, 2018
Case File Information
TBV Investigations Case Number: 595176
Date of Event / Case File: 05/17/2018 Name of Witness: Anonymous
Case File Status: Likely Explainable
Background
The following case was submitted to The Black Vault / TBV Investigations on May 19, 2018. It was assigned to TBV Investigations’ researcher Michael Glenn for analysis.
Witness Testimony
The witness submitted the following report:
“At approximately 19:30 on May 17, 2018 I saw something extremely bright horizontal to the setting sun. I’ve seen sundogs before and have many photographs of them. This was no sundog. It hung in the air. It was huge. It had a shape. I ran inside and grabbed my phone and snapped a few shots. I also manipulated a couple of them and brought out what looks like a glowing cigar shape object of some kind. I took a few close ups and a couple of wide angles. I have to say I was amazed. I also caught a secondary object that looks geometrical with antennae protruding from the corners when you zoom in on one of the frames. Look at the photographs and you tell me what that is in the sky. Feel free to download and examine them for yourselves.”
The Evidence
The witness also submitted many photographs of the event in question. This took place over Jacksonville, NC.
The Analysis
The image was examined using several filters, settings, and adjustments in Photoshop. The object appears to be part of the sky, and has its own brightness, equal to the sunlight. To the left of the large shape is a small, geometric object hanging in the sky. The pixelated nature of the image makes it impossible to tell for sure what we are looking at. The witness stated that the object was not noticed until examining the images later. The witness further states that the cloud shape hung there as the ones around it moved, dissipated. Some swirling can be seen in the image, but again, not definitive shapes. The event lasted ten minutes.
Image Analysis
Gamma Adjusted to 11.
Inverted.
Levels Maxxed for Dark
Conclusion
It is impossible to draw a conclusion for the geometric shape hanging in the air to the left of the elliptical shape as the image is not clear enough. The elliptical shape could be described on first look as a Fallstreak hole (hole punch cloud), but the cloud type is not right for this phenomenon since Fallstreak holes occur in cirro and alto cumulus clouds. A search of images on Google turned up this example of a similar sky effect. This cloud feature is the only conclusion that can be drawn at this time as there is no discernible anomaly in the image.
The Pentagon Is Building An Army Of Insects To 'Protect Crops'
The Pentagon Is Building An Army Of Insects To 'Protect Crops'
The Pentagon has been researching for a program with the title of “Insect Allies”.
The program has the intention of creating insect armies that defend crops; however, they could also be used as a biological weapon with the Pentagon not denying they have the potential for dual use.
DARPA created Insect Allies to protect against threats to the food supply. An opinion piece in @sciencemagazine questions motives & value of the research. Here we reassert the need for Insect Allies and map the efforts we've taken to proceed responsibly.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institution for Evolutionary Biology along with researchers at the University of Freiburg in Germany and the University of Montpellier in France have criticized the program. They believe that the knowledge that has been gained from the research along with the program is limited in the ability to be able to enhance agriculture in the US. They also don’t believe it could be used in response to any national emergency.
Researches believe that the program "may be widely perceived as an effort to develop biological agents for hostile purposes and their means of delivery."
Program Was Developed to Protect Food Supplies
The insect armies are under development by DARPA with the intention of them being able to protect food supplies against any threats. However, the program along with the motives and values of it has been questioned by many researchers.
The program manager of Insect Allies, Dr. Blake Bextine tried to quell any fears by saying that DARPA was "not producing biological weapons, and we reject the hypothetical scenario," though they "accept and agree with concerns about the potential dual use of technology."
While Bextine had tried to persuade people that there were no intentions of using the insect army for bioweapons, a later response by him by way of a two-page document did not have any strong denials about the insect armies becoming bioweapons. He came up with the argument that the program was intended only as a "respond rapidly to threats to the food supply."
Nothing Can Go Wrong With Modified Virus Technology
Bextine was adamant that there was nothing that could go wrong with the program. He put emphasis on "every performer in the program is required to include at least three independent kill switches in their systems to shut down functionality of the technology." Essentially meaning that if the technology, the insects, went rogue they could be killed off.
The aim of the Insect Allies program is to use the modified insects to spread infectious viruses that have been genetically modified to edit the DNA of crops in the fields. Of course, there is nothing to say that they could not be sent out to kill off crops of other countries to bring about famine and death.
After some prompting by Congress, NASA is again getting involved in SETI. Last week, it held a Technosignatures Workshop in Houston, exploring new ways scientists could seek intelligent aliens.
A Dyson sphere megastructure is one type of hypothesized alien technosignature.
Here’s a buzzword you might or might not have heard before: technosignatures. SETI pioneer Jill Tarter has proposed that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) be renamed the search for technosignatures. Although the question of whether we’re alone in the universe is one of humanity’s oldest (are there “others” who share the universe with us or are we all alone?), most searches for advanced alien life have sought radio waves of artificial origin. More recently, astronomers have suggested looking for visible laser pulses; this is called optical SETI. And there’ve been some exotic ideas, like the possibility that an advanced civilization might use neutron star mergers to signal across the cosmos.
But do we really know what to look for, from an alien civilization that might be millions of years ahead of us?
NASA focused on that question last week (September 26-28, 2018), by hosting a NASA Technosignatures Workshop in Houston, Texas.
Technosignatures are any signs of advanced technology in any one of various plausible forms. They’re analogous to biosignatures, which could be any element, isotope, molecule, or phenomenon that provides unmistakeable scientific evidence of past or present life on another world, whether intelligent or not. Technosignatures encompass a much larger conception of alien technology than just intelligent radio or light signals. They could also include such things as massive artificial structures or a planet’s atmosphere full of pollutants. In this way, the search for technosignatures extends beyond the more familiar SETI-type scenarios of looking for radio or light signals.
The workshop was formed after Congress expressed a renewed interest in looking for intelligent alien life last April, urging NASA to expand on its search for technosignatures. The three main facets of the workshop included assessing the current state of the field of research, the most promising avenues of research in technosignatures and where investments could be made to advance the science. Another goal was to determine how NASA could best support the endeavor through partnerships with both private and philanthropic organizations. The workshop had four main specific objectives:
Define the current state of the technosignature field. What experiments have occurred? What is the state-of-the-art for technosignature detection? What limits do we currently have on technosignatures?
Understand the advances coming near-term in the technosignature field. What assets are in place that can be applied to the search for technosignatures? What planned and funded projects will advance the state-of-the-art in future years, and what is the nature of that advancement?
Understand the future potential of the technosignature field. What new surveys, new instruments, technology development, new data-mining algorithms, new theory and modeling, etc., would be important for future advances in the field?
What role can NASA partnerships with the private sector and philanthropic organizations play in advancing our understanding of the technosignatures field?
On September 27, several speakers from the workshop also addressed questions in a Reddit AMA.
The NASA Technosignatures Workshop was recommended by Congress back in April 2018 as means for NASA to expand its search for evidence of alien civilizations.
There may be many ways that an alien civilization, especially one more advanced than us, could affect or alter its environment. Searches for alternative evidence such as this have been done to some extent, but primarily only in the private and philanthropic sectors, not NASA. SETI itself used to be a NASA program until budget cuts ended it in 1993. SETI is now a privately-funded venture. NASA shifted its focus to understanding the origin of life itself, and the potential habitability of other bodies in our solar system and galaxy. This is especially true with its Mars rover missions in recent years, looking for evidence of past habitability, but not life itself. There was even some talk at the conference of the possibility of a technological civilization existing on Earth itself before humans.
Expanding the search to include other possible signs of alien intelligence is a good thing. According to NASA’s2015 Astrobiology Strategy;
Complex life may evolve into cognitive systems that can employ technology in ways that may be observable. Nobody knows the probability, but we know that it is not zero.
SETI is still valuable but limited in scope, currently looking for intentional signals that are strong enough to be detected from many light-years away. Many signals, including ones simply “leaking” out into space, may simply be too weak to be easily detected with current technology. One promising development, however, was noted by Gavin Schmidt on Twitter – it should soon be possible to detect Earth-level leakage of radio waves (not just intentional signals) from nearby stars:
SETI has typically been based on a lot of assumptions about ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence), as Andrew Stewart, a student at Emory University and lead researcher of the Trillion Planet Survey explained in The Current:
First and foremost, we are assuming there is a civilization out there of similar or higher class than ours trying to broadcast their presence using an optical beam, perhaps of the ‘directed energy’ arrayed-type [such as weapons] currently being developed here on Earth. Second, we assume the transmission wavelength of this beam to be one that we can detect. Lastly, we assume that this beacon has been left on long enough for the light to be detected by us. If these requirements are met and the extraterrestrial intelligence’s beam power and diameter are consistent with an Earth-type civilization class, our system will detect this signal.
Traditional SETI effort have used radio telescopes such as the Allen Telescope Array in California.
Image via SETI Institute.
We really don’t know what the first evidence for an alien civilization may look like. It could indeed be radio or light waves, or something even more profound, like a Dyson sphere – a hypothesized massive artificial structure built around a star to harness all of its energy. Or maybe ruins of some now long-dead civilization on some distant planet or moon. Or perhaps intelligent, autonomous probes such as Bracewell probes sent into our solar system.
As one example, Tabby’s Star (aka Boyajian’s Star) has generated a lot of excitement in recent years due to its bizarre episodes of sudden, rapid dimming – up to 22 percent – leading to speculation it may be home to a Dyson sphere or something similar. The sharp dimmings, as well as a much longer overall dimming pattern on the order of decades or centuries, are now thought to be caused by very fine dust, but the origin of the dust and how it’s replenished is still unknown.
The enigmatic Fast Radio Bursts coming from deep space have also sparked much interest, in particular the ones that have now been seen to repeat many times from one single source. They are still unexplained, and probablyhave a natural explanation as per Occam’s razor, but the jury is still out.
Tabby’s Star was an example of what a potential technosignature might look like, although the star’s weird dimmings are now thought to be caused by dust. This artist’s illustration of exocomets orbiting a distant star is suggestive of what might be occurring there.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
The renewed search for technosignatures is fueled in part by the discovery of thousands of exoplanets in recent years, including ones that are Earth-sized and orbit in the habitable zones of their stars. There are also the ocean worlds – moons such as Europa, Enceladus, Titan and others – which have vast subsurface oceans beneath their icy surfaces. What kind of life might be found in such exotic environments? Such findings increase the likelihood that life – at least of some kind – will be found elsewhere.
Bottom line: When it comes to searching for alien technosignatures – evidence of advanced technology – it has mostly been through the efforts of private organizations. But NASA getting involved again would be a hugeboost, increasing the possibility that some kind of signal or other artifact of intelligent alien life will be found in the not-too-distant future.
Intelligent Extraterrestrial Beings Visited Earth in Prehistoric Times, This Contact Is Connected With the Origins or Development of Technologies and Religions (Video)
Intelligent Extraterrestrial Beings Visited Earth in Prehistoric Times, This Contact Is Connected With the Origins or Development of Technologies and Religions (Video)
Why do people believe in the ancient aliens theory? The ancient astronaut theory is:
Ancient aliens is the idea that aliens visited earth in the past. The idea of ancient aliens is not a new one either. Imagination is one of the most powerful tools in humanity’s evolutionary struggle for survival. As a race, we are hardwired to consider important concepts, such as the creation of life on Earth and the history of people on this planet.
At some point, we are all presented with various explanations and theories regarding the expansion of human life on Earth. In the long history of mankind, the majority of these concepts have followed religious teachings, and the power of a spiritual God or Gods. In modern times, many people have come to challenge these claims. The idea of evolution has been used to describe the gradual change of traits that living organisms undergo over time, which is related to the environment, but it doesn’t explain how the biological cells of human’s first ancestor were spawned.
Because of the fact that everyone is interested in the creation of life on Earth, and concurrently we have been taught to believe in the power of religion and the impossibility of alien life, the idea that this article will be examining is controversial.
It will be based around some concepts that have been labeled absurd by the scientific community, but let your imagination go, and have some fun with the list.
The idea surrounding ancient aliens is a basic one. It states that the human population was influenced by a group of extraterrestrials that visited Earth in the past. The ancient aliens were directly involved in the evolution of primates, including humans. It has been suggested that this was accomplished by way of genetic engineering, cross-breeding, or a combination of both, ultimately helping in the development of human cultures, technologies and religion. The idea first gained widespread exposure with the 1968 publication of Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken, but the concept has been around since the middle of the 19th century. A common variant of the idea includes proposals that deities from most, if not all, religions, including angels and demons, are actually extraterrestrials whose advanced technologies were taken by people as evidence of a divine status.
This concept is related to the religious practice of a cargo cult, which can be seen in modern day pre-industrial tribal societies. Especially during World War II, when indigenous people were contacted by soldiers with advanced equipment, such as guns and tanks.
The cults subsequently attempted to obtain wealth through magic and religious rituals and practices. The ancient alien theory states that extraterrestrials purposely tricked the human population into believing they were Gods, creating religion to help people evolve more efficiently.
The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations. It has been proposed that, with the current age of the universe and its vast number of stars, if the Earth was typical, extraterrestrial life should be common. In response to this paradox, the zoo hypothesis has been suggested. It states that aliens generally avoid making their presence known to humanity, or avoid exerting an influence on development, somewhat akin to zookeepers observing animals in a zoo, or experimental scientists observing a study of life.
Adherents of the hypothesis feel that the Earth and humans are being secretly surveyed using equipment located on Earth, or elsewhere in the Solar System. Charles Fort’s unpublished 1915 manuscript, novel X, describes how Martian beings or Martian events control life on Earth.
Fort ultimately burnt the manuscript, but one surviving quote from it is “The Earth is a farm. We are someone else’s property.”
US Air Force: Don't Worry About Those Weird Lights and Booms Sunday, It's Just a Space Ship
US Air Force: Don't Worry About Those Weird Lights and Booms Sunday, It's Just a Space Ship
By Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer
SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Dec. 22, 2017, with bystanders on the ground getting a gorgeous light show.
Credit: Maxwell Harris/Getty Images
If you're in the vicinity of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Sunday evening (Oct. 7), you might hear some strange booming and see some weird lights in the sky. But the Air Force would like you to know that there's no need to worry; something entirely normal is going on — a rocket that heaved its way up into space will be falling back to Earth, correcting its trajectory with "multiple engine burns," and then (if all goes well) settling comfortably back on its landing struts in the vicinity of its launch site.
The Air Force released the warning because, while Floridians have had ample time to grow comfortable with the spectacle of SpaceX landings, this will be the first attempt to land a Falcon 9 rocket on the West Coast. It will not, however, be the first launch from Vandenberg:
The rocket is currently scheduled to launch at 7:21 p.m. local time, carry the SAOCOM 1A satellite into space, and return to Earth shortly afterward.
According to a Facebook post by the Air Force's 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg, "local residents" can expect to see something of the rocket itself as it returns to the base, while people as far as Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties may hear thunderclap-like sonic booms, depending on the weather.
IT’S RAINING, IT’S POURING Up-close views of the “ring rain” falling from Saturn’s rings into the planet’s atmosphere taken by Cassini (shown in this artist’s illustration) have scientists scratching their heads.
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The “ring rain” of material falling from Saturn’s rings into the planet’s atmosphere is a much more intense, contaminated downpour than scientists thought.
For decades, astronomers have suspected that Saturn’s rings pelt the planet with grains of water ice, but some of the final observations from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provide the first detailed views of these celestial showers(SN: 4/14/18, p. 6). Ring rain is highly contaminated with organic matter and other molecules, and hammers Saturnat thousands of kilograms per second, researchers report in the Oct. 5 Science. Understanding the rain’s surprising quantity and quality could help clarify the origins and evolution of Saturn’s rings.
Researchers analyzed data collected by Cassini’s Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer during the spacecraft’s final few orbits in 2017, as it sailed through the gap between Saturn and its innermost ring, known as the D ring (SN Online: 9/15/17). Water constituted only about 24 percent of the material tumbling from Saturn’s ring system into its atmosphere; the rest was methane, carbon monoxide, dinitrogen, ammonia, carbon dioxide and fragments of organic nanoparticles.
The ring rain’s diverse chemical composition “was a big surprise,” because remote observations show that Saturn’s ring system, on the whole, is almost entirely water ice, says Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who wasn’t involved in the study. Researchers aren’t sure why ring rain is so deprived of water.
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The ring rain that Cassini’s Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer caught falling from Saturn’s rings into its atmosphere is only about 24 percent water — a major surprise, given that Saturn’s ring system is almost entirely water ice. The rest of the ring rain is composed of organic material and other molecules.
The chemical breakdown of Saturn’s ring rain
J.H. WAITE JR. ET AL/SCIENCE 2018
A belt of radiation tucked inside Saturn’s rings could be responsible, says study coauthor Jeff Cuzzi, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. Cassini’s end-of-life observations also provided the first closeup views of this band of energetic protons, described in another study in the Oct. 5 Science. The belt’s high-energy radiation may have blasted away much of the water in the D ring very close to Saturn, leaving behind heavier materials like organic compounds, Cuzzi speculates.
Whatever its cause, the ring rain’s peculiar composition may reshape our understanding of the carbon and nitrogen content of Saturn’s atmosphere, says Hunter Waite, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and a coauthor of the ring rain study. Saturn’s presumed chemical makeup may be “just a veneer” created by falling material masking the gas giant’s true composition, he says.
In addition to the ring rain’s chemistry, the Cassini observations also revealed how quickly this material is falling into Saturn’s atmosphere: between 4,800 and 45,000 kilograms per second.
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Observations from Cassini’s final few months revealed a radiation belt composed of high-energy protons tucked inside the gas giant’s ring system. This belt (bright colors below) passes through Saturn’s thin, innermost D ring, and might be stripping water out of the ring material closest to Saturn.
E. ROUSSOS ET AL/SCIENCE 2018
“It’s just an enormous amount of mass flowing into the planet,” Cuzzi says.
Saturn’s rings probably haven’t sustained this rate of rainfall over the course of the planet’s history, he says. If that were the case, the spindly little D ring would have long since eroded away. But a comet or other rogue object may have hit Saturn’s ring system recently, jostling grains out of their usual orbit and making them more vulnerable to Saturn’s gravitational pull.
But if the current deluge is, in fact, Saturn’s normal rate of ring rain, then perhaps the D ring continually siphons material from Saturn’s outer rings, says Kelly Miller, a cosmochemist at the Southwest Research Institute and a coauthor on the ring rain study.
The exact nature of Saturn’s relationship to its rings “is still a puzzle,” Spilker says. But devising more detailed theoretical simulations of what’s going on between the planet’s atmosphere and rings, and testing these theories against the trove of data collected by Cassini could help fill in the picture.
Such work may help scientists better understand not only Saturn, but also any ring-bearing planets that might circle other stars in the universe, she says.
The European Space Agency’s next big planet-hunting mission – the Plato space telescope – will continue the search for rocky and potentially habitable worlds orbiting other stars.
Artist’s concept of ESA’s upcoming Plato space telescope.
The search for exoplanets – planets orbiting other stars – has really ramped up in recent years, with new telescopes, both space and ground-based, being launched, built and on the drawing board. Those efforts have already discovered thousands of exoplanets, both confirmed and additional candidates. On October 4, 2018, the initial construction of one of the latest additions to the exoplanet-hunting family was announced – the European Space Agency’s Plato mission. The announcement was made at the 69th International Astronautical Congress in Bremen, Germany, where the new contract was signed.
The contract includes delivery of the satellite, the testing phase leading to launch, support during the launch campaign and the in-orbit commissioning phase. Plato will be built and assembled by satellite manufacturer OHB System together with Thales Alenia Space (in France and the U.K.) and RUAG Space in Switzerland, as well as by contributors from many other ESA member states. The primary scientific instrument, an array of 26 cameras and electronic units, will observe a large patch of the sky. According to Ana Heras, Plato project scientist at ESA:
Plato is a next-generation exoplanet mission that will monitor thousands of bright stars over a large area of the sky in search of tiny, regular dips in their brightness caused by transiting planets. Since planets only block a minute portion of the light radiated by their parent star, this quest requires extremely precise, long-term photometric observations.
The Thales Alenia Space design for Plato.
Image via ESA.
The EADS Astrium design for Plato.
Image via ESA.
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has found the majority of these new worlds, but that mission is now winding down as the spacecraft runs out of fuel. The TESS telescope, which launched just a few months ago, has already found its first couple of planets after beginning science operations more recently. Kepler focused on finding planets of various sizes and masses around stars many light-years away, and TESS will observe brighter stars much closer to our solar system, focusing on planets about the same size as Earth, including in the habitable zones of their stars, where liquid water could exist on their surfaces.
So how does Plato compare? Plato – the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars mission – won’t launch until 2026, but it should be well worth the wait. Like TESS, its main goal will be to will search for rocky planets orbiting in the habitable zones of relatively close sun-like stars. It will seek to answer a key question, according to Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Director General of ESA:
Does a second Earth exist in the universe? is one of the exciting questions in astrophysics today. With our Plato satellite we are focusing on Earth-like planets orbiting up to the habitable zone around other stars which are similar to our sun. This will be a major step towards finding another Earth.
Comparison of areas of the sky already observed by Corot and Kepler and future Plato targets. The lighter “step-and-stare” target areas are tentative as their exact location has not yet been determined.
While Plato’s focus will be on finding the planets, it will also examine the their masses, sizes and ages with unprecedented accuracy, as well as study the properties of the host stars, even the stars’ seismic activity – known as asteroseismology – which will help scientists better understand stellar interiors and evolution. Plato will be able to determine a star’s mass with 1 percent accuracy. By looking at the properties of the planets themselves in detail, scientists will be able to determine the architecture of exoplanetary systems and whether they might host habitable worlds.
Plato will operate at the L2 Lagrange point in space – 0.93 million miles (1.5 million km) beyond Earth as seen from the sun. Its nominal mission will last for six years, in three stages. The first two will be long-duration observations, focused on two sky fields thought to hold a high density of cold dwarf stars and designed to detect transits with an orbital period similar to Earth’s. The first observation phase will last 2-3 years and the second will last two years. The third and last phase of the mission will be a “step-and-stare” phase, during which different parts of the sky will be monitored for a few months each, and will last for at least one year.
Plato will operate at the second sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2), 0.93 million miles (1.5 million km) from Earth.
Image via ESA.
Plato will be a follow-up mission to Cheops, ESA’s next planet-hunter. Cheops will be launched much sooner – next year – and conduct more detailed studies of already-known exoplanets, in particular super-Earths – rocky planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune – and Neptune-sized analogs.
Studying the planets’ atmospheres is vital in trying to determine which ones may be habitable – or even inhabited. JWST will even be able to look for biomarker gases in the atmospheres, which, if found, would be compelling evidence for active biology.
Plato will search for rocky exoplanets in the habitable zones of their stars.
The start of construction of Plato is exciting, even if the launch is still a long way off. As noted by Filippo Marliani, ESA’s Plato Project Manager:
We are pleased to kick off construction of this exciting mission. With the prime contractor and the support of European space industry, we are looking forward to building a spacecraft that will tackle some of humankind’s most profound questions.
Bottom line: The Plato mission will be an important one in the search for rocky and potentially habitable planets like Earth orbiting other stars. Such worlds are a primary focus for astronomers as they are the ones most likely to be able to support life.
A new simulation by scientists lets you witness supermassive black holes about to collide. One shows them from outside the system, just 40 orbits from merging. The other places you in their midst.
NASA released the two videos on this page on October 2, 2018. Both are based on a new computer simulation by scientists, showing what happens when two supermassive black holes orbit closely, spiraling toward each other before merging. The scientific simulation is described in a paper published this month in the peer-reviewedAstrophysical Journal. The new work depicts three orbits of a pair of supermassive black holes, only 40 orbits from merging. The videos on this page stem from this simulation, and they’re a lot of fun to watch!
Meanwhile, scientists are most excited by new results of the work, showing which kinds of light – mostly ultraviolet (UV) light with some high-energy X-rays – are emitted as two supermassive black holes spiral closer. They’re excited because – if scientists can understand what to look for – they might be able to observe supermassive black holes prior to merging. They haven’t accomplished this yet or anything close to it; in fact, so far, although supermassive black hole mergers should be relatively common in space, astronomers haven’t yet observed one. What’s been seen, so far, are gravitational waves originating in the merger of two stellar-mass black holes. More about that below.
These researchers said that, based on their new simulation, they expect X-rays emitted by a near-merger of supermassive black holes will be brighter and more variable than X-rays seen from single supermassive black holes. NASA also said in a statement that the new simulation:
And that’s why, for example, in the video above, we see complex effects caused by gravitational lensing, when one supermassive black hole passes in front of the other. The degree to which light is bent can be predicted via Einstein’s theory.
Scientists also said some exotic features came as a surprise, such as the eyebrow-shaped shadows one black hole occasionally creates near the horizon of the other.
This next video is a result of the new simulation, too. It’s an interactive 360-degree video, which places the viewer in the middle of two circling supermassive black holes around 18.6 million miles (30 million km) apart with an orbital period of 46 minutes. The simulation shows how the black holes distort the starry background and capture light, producing black silhouettes. A distinctive feature called a photon ring outlines the black holes. The entire system would have around a million times the sun’s mass.
As you may know, scientists have detected merging stellar-mass black holes — which range from around three to several dozen solar masses — using the National Science Foundation’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The mergers produce gravitational waves, which are space-time ripples traveling at the speed of light.
But supermassive black holes should be merging, too, in various places across the universe. Astrophysicist Scott Noble at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland – a co-author on the study – explained:
We know galaxies with central supermassive black holes combine all the time in the universe, yet we only see a small fraction of galaxies with two of them near their centers. The pairs we do see aren’t emitting strong gravitational-wave signals because they’re too far away from each other.
Our goal is to identify – with light alone – even closer pairs from which gravitational-wave signals may be detected in the future.
Stéphane d’Ascoli, a doctoral student at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, is lead author of the new paper. These scientists’ statement further explained:
… supermassive binaries nearing collision may have one thing stellar-mass binaries lack – a gas-rich environment. Scientists suspect the supernova explosion that creates a stellar black hole also blows away most of the surrounding gas. The black hole consumes what little remains so quickly there isn’t much left to glow when the merger happens.
Supermassive binaries, on the other hand, result from galaxy mergers. Each supersized black hole brings along an entourage of gas and dust clouds, stars and planets. Scientists think a galaxy collision propels much of this material toward the central black holes, which consume it on a time scale similar to that needed for the binary to merge.
As the black holes near, magnetic and gravitational forces heat the remaining gas, producing light that astronomers should be able to see.
At least, they hope that will someday be so. At the moment, much is unknown. And that’s one reason co-author Manuela Campanelli, director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, who initiated this project nine years ago, said:
It’s very important to proceed on two tracks. Modeling these events requires sophisticated computational tools that include all the physical effects produced by two supermassive black holes orbiting each other at a fraction of the speed of light.
Knowing what light signals to expect from these events will help modern observations identify them.
Modeling and observations will then feed into each other, helping us better understand what is happening at the hearts of most galaxies.
Bottom line: A new simulation by scientists lets you witness supermassive black holes about to collide. One shows them from outside the system, just 40 orbits from merging. The other places you in their midst.
Mysterious 5-kilometer object on Mars. Great discovery on Mars
Mysterious 5-kilometer object on Mars. Great discovery on Mars
This was published in an important newspaper the Inquisitr. The discovery was made by the Argentine researcher Marcelo Irazusta and he published it in a YouTube video
The images of the supposed UFO are very eloquent. It will be a system error? The fact that the object has more than 5 kilometers in diameter. Because of the shadow it displays, it would be flying over its surface. Amazing, right? Watch the video and broadcast.
A new UFO on Mars has been sighted in NASA images compiled by Google — and easily accessible to anyone using the Google Earth app, in its “Google Mars” setting. Whatever this strange ...
Engine Burn Puts New Horizons on Track for New Year's Flyby of Ultima Thule
Engine Burn Puts New Horizons on Track for New Year's Flyby of Ultima Thule
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
An artist's depiction of 2014 MU69, which New Horizons will flyby on Jan. 1, 2019.
Credit: Steve Gribben/JHUAPL/SwRI
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully completed a brief engine burn on Oct. 3, the first maneuver in which it was able to rely on actual photographs it had already taken of its eventual target.
According to a NASA statement about the engine burn, it was successful and sped the spacecraft up by 4.6 mph (2.1 m/s). At the time, the spacecraft was about 3.95 billion miles (6.35 billion kilometers) away from Earth, temptingly close to its next destination.
That target is a Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69 and nicknamed Ultima Thule, which is about 4.1 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers) away from Earth. In mid-August, the spacecraft was able to take its first image of the object, and its images now help the spacecraft's trajectory team design the small path corrections that will help it reach its target.
"Thanks to this maneuver, we're right down the middle of the pike and on time for the farthest exploration of worlds in history — more than a billion miles beyond Pluto," mission principal investigator Alan Stern, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute,said in the statement. "It almost sounds like science fiction, but it's not. Go New Horizons!"
The flyby is currently scheduled for 12:33 a.m. ET on Jan. 1, 2019, which will still be Dec. 31 in the rest of the U.S. As the flyby approaches, that time estimate will be honed ever more precisely, an important step in ensuring the maneuver's success.
"Since we are flying very fast and close to the surface of Ultima, approximately four times closer than the Pluto flyby in July 2015, the timing of the flyby must be very accurate," Derek Nelson, New Horizons optical navigation lead, said in the statement. "These first images give us confidence that Ultima is where we expected it to be, and the timing of the flyby will be accurate."
L'ASTRONOME CAPTURE UN OVNI AVEC TOUTE LA CLARTÉ QUI PASSE À GRANDE VITESSE DEVANT LA LUNE
L'ASTRONOME CAPTURE UN OVNI AVEC TOUTE LA CLARTÉ QUI PASSE À GRANDE VITESSE DEVANT LA LUNE
Pendant longtemps, certains experts en OVNIS pensent qu'il existe une base extraterrestre de l'autre côté de la Lune. En supposant qu'ils viennent d'une planète lointaine au-delà de notre système solaire, ils devraient disposer d'une base à partir de laquelle ils pourraient se rendre sur Terre. Et quel meilleur endroit que la face cachée de la Lune ? Mais non seulement sur la base d’hypothèses, il existe également des preuves de la présence extraterrestre dans notre satellite naturel. Milton William Cooper, un ancien officier des services de renseignement de la marine américaine, a révélé dans un communiqué de presse en 1989, sous serment, que le gouvernement des États-Unis. J'étais conscient de l'existence de vaisseaux spatiaux extraterrestres sur notre planète.
Et cela allait plus loin, en veillant à ce que la face cachée de la Lune abrite une base extraterrestre. Il a été vu et enregistré par les astronautes Apollo. Selon Cooper, sur cette base, les opérations minières sont menées à l’aide d’énormes machines et d’un grand navire extraterrestre. Aussi connu sous le nom de Bill Cooper, il a écrit sur ses théories dans les livres "Le gouvernement secret: l'origine, l'identité et la raison d'être de MJ-12 (1989)", "Operation Majority (1989)" et "Voici un cheval pâle ( 1991) ". Cooper a été tué par des agents du bureau du shérif du comté d'Apache en 2001 lors d'une descente dans son domicile, en Arizona, pour fraude fiscale. Selon la version officielle, l'ancien officier du renseignement a ouvert le feu.
Y a-t-il une meilleure preuve ? Apparemment, c’est un objet en forme de soucoupe qui a été enregistré par mon astronome qui passe devant la Lune.
La meilleure observation d'OVNI à ce jour ?
Mon astronome amateur a découvert le 6 juillet 2017, un étrange objet qui a traversé la Lune. Je révèle que la vidéo a été enregistrée, et tentais alors d'approcher les cratères lunaires lorsque cette étrange observation a eu lieu.Dans la vidéo, on voit un géant objet se déplacer de bas à haut sur la surface lunaire Aristarchus Crater. Même si j’ai essayé de suivre l'objet volant non identifier, le faible éclairage de la Lune l'a fait perdre de vue. Et comment pourrait-il en être autrement, alors que la vidéo devenait virale, les théoriciens du complot disaient que c'était la meilleure preuve que les extraterrestres avaient une base secrète à la surface de la Lune. Ils ajoutent que les gouvernements du monde entier et les agences spatiales comme la NASA sont très conscients de l'existence d'aliens. Voici quelques images incroyables d'un OVNI se déplaçant à la surface de la Lune. Les images ont été prises avec un télescope en cherchant des cratères. Ce navire noir coïncide avec les nombreux autres OVNIS qui ont été enregistrés en mouvement à la surface de Luna au cours des dernières années. Il y a encore des extraterrestres qui vivent sur notre Lune, même aujourd'hui, qui vont et viennent dans ces navires ... tout le temps en riant de la façon dont l’humanité croit encore qu’elle est seule dans l’univers. " Mais d'autres théoriciens du complot ont une version très différente de l'ovni d'origine extraterrestre. Il serait clair que la US Space Force C'est opérationnel, et ils expliquent que l'augmentation du nombre d'observations d'OVNIS est une autre preuve de leurs activités dans l'espace.
Le vice-président américain Mike Pence, lors d'un discours prononcé au Pentagone en août dernier, a annoncé que le "Corps spatial" ferait partie du ministère de la Défense et s'appellerait la "United States Space Force", qui commenceront à fonctionner en 2020. Mais apparemment, ils avaient déjà commencé ces opérations, sans qu'aucun autre pays ne le sache.
Et les sceptiques qui pensent ? La vérité, c’est qu’ils ont été vraiment surpris par la vidéo, mais ils croient néanmoins qu’il peut s’agir d’un montage ou tout simplement de débris spatiaux. Comme d'habitude. Maintenant, nous avons seulement besoin de connaître votre version.
Est-ce la meilleure vidéo d'OVNI de l'histoire ? Une preuve évidente de l'existence de bases extraterrestres sur la Lune ? La force spatiale Trump ? Ou avez-vous une autre explication ?
WETENSCHAPEen Amerikaan uit de staat Michigan heeft ontdekt dat de steen die hij al tientallen jaar gebruikt als deurstopper, een heel waardevolle meteoriet blijkt te zijn die zo’n 100.000 dollar (87.000 euro) waard is.
Nadat David Mazurek in januari vernam dat kleine stukjes meteoriet voor duizenden dollars verkocht werden, wilde hij weten of die bizarre, tien kilogram zware steen die hij al jaar en dag gebruikte om zijn staldeur open te houden, ook wat zou kunnen opbrengen.
Mazurek trok ermee naar de Central Michigan University. Daar had hoogleraar geologie Monaliza Sirbescu meteen in de gaten dat ze niet zomaar een steen in handen kreeg.
Sirbescu werkt al achttien jaar aan de universiteit van Michigan. Geregeld vragen mensen haar of een steen die ze hebben gevonden misschien een meteoriet is. “Achttien jaar lang was het antwoord altijd nee”, vertelt ze. “Maar nu wist ik dat het iets bijzonders was.” De professor stuurde twee kleine fragmentjes van de steen naar het Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, waar haar bevindingen bevestigd werden.
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Mazurek had de meteoriet al sinds 1988 in zijn bezit. Hij kreeg de steen erbij toen hij een boerderij kocht. Volgens de oorspronkelijke eigenaar was de steen in de jaren 1930 met een zware klap neergestort op het terrein. Toen hij samen met zijn vader de meteoriet gingen uitgraven, was hij nog steeds warm. De kinderen namen de steen wel eens mee naar school voor een spreekbeurt, maar verder deed het ding dienst als deurstopper.
Vroegste zonnestelsel
Uit onderzoek van de steen blijkt dat hij voor 88,5 procent uit ijzer bestaat en voor 11,5 procent uit nikkel. “Dit is het waardevolste dat ik ooit in handen heb gehad, zowel in prijs als in wetenschappelijke waarde”, aldus Sirbescu. “Het is een stukje van het vroegste zonnestelsel dat ons in de schoot viel.”
“Wat er op dit ogenblik meestal gebeurt is dat meteorieten ofwel verkocht en tentoongesteld worden in een museum, of verkocht worden aan verzamelaars en kopers die er winst op willen maken”, aldus Sirbescu.
Zowel het Smithsonian Museum en een museum in Maine zijn geïnteresseerd in het exemplaar, dat naar schatting 100.000 dollar (87.000 euro) waard is.
Mazurek wil een deel van de opbrengst van de verkoop aan de universiteit schenken. “Ik ben het beu om hem als deurstopper te gebruiken. Tijd om een koper te vinden”, zegt de man.
You expect some UFO witnesses, especially those who also encounter extraterrestrials, to be somewhat eccentric. You don’t expect them to be terrorists. Yet that’s what an investigative team in Brazil found out recently while researching 50-year-old unpublished documents concerning terrorist acts discovered they were committed by a group under the direction of a UFO cult leader and used to justify repression by a military dictatorship.
“He was seen as a crazy guy, but he had a relationship with the authorities.”
Vasconcelo Quadros, the investigative journalist who broke the story this week in Publica, released the documents just days before a highly controversial presidential election expected to be won by Jair Bolsonaro, the controversial far-right presidential candidate referred to by many as Brazil’s Donald Trump. Bolsonaro has often praised the time of the dictatorship as being a good thing for Brazil. Well, it wasn’t so good for the victims of the terrorist attacks of Aladino Felix, the paramilitary group leader who claimed to have been contacted by aliens.
“In November 1952 I was touring with a friend in the State of Sao Paulo. On reaching the top of the Angatuba range coming up from Parana, we were confronted by five Flying Saucers hovering in the air. It was a rainy day and visibility was bad. I went back to the same spot later and spent three days and nights there in the hope of seeing a Flying Saucer again. On the last night, after a series of episodes which we will not go into here for fear of digression, a Flying Saucer landed and we were given the chance of going inside it and meeting its crew. We stayed on board for about an hour looking at the various pieces of equipment in the machine. The Captain was kind enough to explain how they all worked. At the end of our visit, this fascinating individual promised to come and see us as soon as he was able. And now, four or five months later, he had come as promised.”
Aladino Félix was the author of the book My Contact with Flying Saucers under the name Dino Kraspedon. Published in Brazil in 1957 and in the US and UK in 1959, it describes his various contacts with the Captain and other aliens who he claimed were from a satellite of Jupiter. In the book, Felix presents detailed drawings and descriptions of the flying saucers, including how they defeat gravity and navigate among the planets. He also relays warnings from the Captain about atomic energy and a second sun entering the solar system.
The Captain talks quite a bit about God, which may have itself been a warning about Felix’s other interests. He declared himself to be the messiah of the Jewish people and founded a UFO cult based on that belief. However, the current investigation found this was or became a front for a right-wing paramilitary organization of police officers which carried out a series of terrorist attacks – bombings, bank robberies, and more – that egged on left-wing groups to do the same, allowing the government to use it as a way to justify repression by force in an era that became known as the Anos de Chumbo, or Years of Lead.
“The Earth is not the center of the planetary system, as was previously believed, but the center of evil. If man were to reform himself, it is possible that the Creator would have compassion on him. Avoid war, because man can thereby destroy his planet with his own hands without the intervention of the forces of Nature. It is not difficult to be good; it is sufficient to do no evil. God will do the rest.”
Do no evil.
Despite that advice from The Captain in My Contact with Flying Saucers, Aladino Félix seemed to have chosen the opposite path. Perhaps that’s why he wrote the book under another name. He was arrested in 1968, spent three years in prison and died in 1985.
Did he ever talk to the Captain again? Did he ever talk to the Captain at all?
Officially, the U.S. Government got out of the UFO issue in 1969 when the Air Force’s Project Blue Book closed its doors. Of course, that doesn’t mean that agencies have not taken an interest in UFOs post-1969. They certainly have. A perfect example is the so-called “Flying Triangle” phenomenon. It took off in the early-to-mid 1980s and reached its peak in the following decade. Although, a careful study of the history of Ufology demonstrates that the large, black, triangular-shaped UFOs have, in fact, been reported since the 1940s – although, admittedly, not on the scale they were reported in the eighties and the nineties.
One of the more interesting documents that demonstrates post-1969 interest in the UFO puzzle focuses on those strange Flying Triangles – specifically over Belgium in the 1989-1990time-frame. It originates with the U.S. Department of Defense and is titled “Belgium and the UFO Issue.” Circulated widely among the U.S. Intelligence community, it reveals the following: “Numerous UFO sightings have been made in Belgium since Nov 89. The credibility of some individuals making the reports is good…Investigation by BAF [Belgian Air Force] continues.”
Then, the document digs into the matter of witness reports. We’re told that…
“Source A cites Mr. Leon Brenig,a 43-year-old professor at the Free University of Brussels in the field of statistics and physics…Mr. Brenig was driving on the Ardennes autoroute in the Beaufays region east of Liege, Sunday, 18 March 1990 at 2030 hours when he observed an airborne object approaching in his direction from the North. It was in the form of a triangle…and had a yellow light surrounding it with a reddish center varying in intensity. Altitude appeared to be 500-1000 meters, moving at a slow speed with no sound. It did not move or behave like an aircraft.”
“Source B,” the document reveals, “…discusses a Belgian television interview with Colonel Wil De Brouwer, Chief of Operations for the BAF…De Brouwer noted the large number of reported sightings, particularly in NOV 89 in the Liege area and that the BAF and MOD [Ministry of Defense] are taking the issue seriously. BAF experts have not been able to explain the phenomena either.”
Moving on, we have the following: “De Brouwer specifically addressed the possibility of the objects being USAF B-2 or F-117 Stealth aircraft which would not appear on Belgian radar, but might be sighted visually if they were operating at low altitude in the Ardennes area. He made it quite clear that no USAF overflight requests had ever been received for this type of mission and that the alleged observations did not correspond in any way to the observable characteristics of either U.S. aircraft.”
We’re then provided with the story of a very credible source: “[Deleted] related a similar UFO sighting which apparently happened to a Belgian Air Force officer in the same area near Liege during November 89. The officer and his wife were allegedly blinded by a huge bright object as they were driving on the autoroute. They stopped their car, but were so frightened they abandoned the vehicle and ran into the woods…The BAF is concerned to a point about the UFO issue and is taking action to investigate information they have…The USAF did confirm to the BAF and Belgian MOD that no USAF Stealth aircraft were operating in the Ardennes area during the periods in question.”
Nick Pope
There ends the document. But, not the interest in the Flying Triangles over Belgium. Following a wave of similar FT encounters in the U.K. in March 1993, Nick Pope – who, between 1991 and 1994, handled UFO reports for the British Ministry of Defense – approached the Belgian military to get its views on the Flying Triangle phenomenon (there is, however, a down to earth explanation for the UK sightings). In a January 1997 interview, Pope told me:
“I approached the Belgians to get a comparison after their sightings. I phoned the Air Attaché at the British Embassy in Brussels and he spoke to one of the F-16 pilots who had been scrambled to intercept a Flying Triangle over Belgium back in 1990. Well, the Air Attaché reported back to me that the corporate view of the Belgian Defense Staff was that they did believe that they were dealing with a solid, structured craft. Apparently, the word from the Belgians was: ‘Thank God it was friendly.’ If it hadn’t been, it was made clear to me that there was very little that the Belgian Air Force could have done anyway – despite the fact that the F-16 is no slouch.”
Pope also approached the U.S. Department of Defense to discuss the Flying Triangle phenomenon. Pope outlined the nature of the discussion: “We decided that we couldn’t ignore the various rumors that were doing the rounds about a supposed Top Secret aircraft developed by the U.S. Government and called Aurora – or, indeed, any hypersonic and/or prototype aircraft operated by the Americans. There had been persistent rumors in the aviation world and among the UFO lobby that the SR71 Blackbird had been replaced by a hypersonic aircraft code-named Aurora and that that was what the Flying Triangles really were.”
Pope continued: “I was well aware that there had been some interesting stories about visual and radar sightings around certain air bases; however, I hadn’t put much store in these rumors – not least because there had been some very definitive denials from the Americans. I know there’s a lot of cynicism about government and the military. And although officialdom may refuse to answer a question and may sometimes give a misleading answer, outright lying is incredibly rare. And when it does occur, if it’s uncovered it almost certainly leads to resignation.
“But with the March 1993 sightings – and in spite of the denials from the Americans that they were responsible for the Flying Triangles – we did contact them to make inquiries. This was because they have the responsibility pertaining to the U.S. presence in Britain. Those inquiries bore absolutely no fruit at all. The Americans said: ‘No. We can shed no light at all on the UFO sightings that have led to your inquiry.'”
Pope told me that the liaison with the Americans was not without its moment of intrigue: “If anything, there was an interesting little hint that the Americans, too, were seeing these Flying Triangles over their territory. As we were making our inquiries, they turned the question around and wanted to know if our Royal Air Force had a triangular-shaped, hyper-sonic prototype aircraft of some sort. So, presumably, the Americans were having Flying Triangle sightings, too.”
Pope’s final words on the matter are well worth keeping in mind: “But this was interesting, in light of the fact that the Americans supposedly got out of UFO investigations back in 1969 when the Air Force’s Project Blue Book closed down. Of course, you may not officially be in the UFO game, but you are certainly going to be aware of – and take an interest in – reports of structured craft in your airspace.”
It was thirty years ago this month that a wave of UFO activity broke out in the skies of the United Kingdom. As October 1988 drew to a close, a puzzling encounter was reported by Tony Silvestri, a mechanic from Ciliau Aeron, Wales. In an interview with a journalist from the Western Mail newspaper, Mr. Silvestri recalled the encounter, which occurred while driving with his wife and daughter. He said: “Gwendoline, my wife, and Allana, who is eight, were both scared stiff by it. The whole interior of the car was lit up by a greenish light. It was so bright that I could not see through the windscreen or out of the windows.”
Tony Silvestri continued: “Fortunately, it only lasted for a few seconds. It couldn’t have been caused by the headlights of other cars because it was too bright and the wrong color. I pulled up and stopped at the side of the road but could see nothing that might have caused the strange light inside the car. Next day I gave the car a complete electrical check and there was nothing wrong with it. I didn’t think there would be because the light was too brilliant to be caused by an electrical fault.”
Sea Hawks at RNAS Brawdy
On October 27, Mr. Silvestri was interviewed by Flight Sergeant Dave Pengilly, of Royal Air Force Brawdy, Pembrokeshire. “Each report of this kind is always investigated,” explained Sergeant Pengilly. “I make checks and then pass it on to the powers that be in the Ministry of Defense, who are now looking into this case. We don’t like unidentified things in our airspace.”
“Until now,” said Mrs. Silverstri, “we’ve had no time for UFO stories. We didn’t really believe in them. But, nothing like this has ever happened to us before and we hope it won’t again. We were terrified.”
The latter part of October 1988 also saw a significant amount of UFO activity in the counties of both Kent and Sussex, England. One incident in particular stands out. It was reported by Police Constables Norman Sells and Robin Buxton. They were driving through High Halden at around 3:45 a.m. on an autumn morning when “the whole of the night sky became as bright as daylight.” The curious light display lasted for three or four seconds before normality was restored. The officers quickly filed a report with police headquarters at Maidstone. Notably, other unusual events were reported by people in the same area for several days.
Teenagers Joanna Dickinson and Julie Jessop were walking near to Julie’s home at Woodlands Caravan Park, Biddenden, when they saw an oval-shaped object displaying four bright white lights, with a red light in the center. Both girls estimated that the object was at a height of around 500 feet; it emitted a deep humming sound. As they watched, the object suddenly climbed vertically into the evening sky.
Shortly after the sighting at Biddenden, Stephen Button, the brother of a Tenterden policeman, reported seeing a strange object while driving his car in the area. When Mr. Button first caught sight of the object, which was likened to “a blue ball,” it was at a height of between fifty and 100 feet, but began to descend as Mr. Button looked on. He finally lost sight of the object as it disappeared behind a line of trees. Staff at Royal Air Force Manston were duly informed and details were passed on to the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense for analysis.
Never a dull moment at Cannock Chase
Then, on October 29, a huge, “Flying Triangle”-type UFO was seen flying – and very briefly hovering – over the Cannock Chase woods, Staffordshire, England. In this case, the witness was a police-officer heading home after finishing up his late-night/early hours shift. He described the craft as being “massively big,” black in color, and giving off a loud hum. The officer watched, stunned, for a few moments as the object flew across the tree-shrouded road at a speed of barely 20 miles per hour. Then, suddenly, the triangular craft shot into the star-filled skies above. The stunned officer chose not to share the story with his colleagues at work, but did give the details to a local UFO group.
Black doughnut-shaped UFO flying above the Moon’s Surface caught by Skywatcher
Black doughnut-shaped UFO flying above the Moon’s Surface caught by Skywatcher
Skywatcher Jason Callum from Bracknell, Berkshire, England pointed his telescope at the moon’s surface when a black doughnut shaped UFO came into view, flying past the moon.
The unknown object has led to much discussion about its origin. Besides the possibility that the object is an alien craft, some people say the UFO could be a craft of the secret space fleet, while others suggest it is the black knight.
It is worth mentioning that in the past similar doughnut shaped UFOs have also been observed in the vicinity of the sun.
The video shows the black UFO flying above the moon’s surface till the moment it disappears into the darkness of space.
Black Arrowhead UFO With Static Charge Seen Over British Colombia, Canada, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Black Arrowhead UFO With Static Charge Seen Over British Colombia, Canada, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 8-9-2012, but reported today.
Location of sighting: Abbotsford, British Colombia, Canada
Source: MUFON #95361
Here is a UFO report just in. It took place back in 2012, but reported today. A black arrowhead shaped UFO shot over Abbotsford. The witness said it had a static charge around it. Such UFOs have been reported before during lighting storms when bolts of lighting were frequent. Its thought the they can deliberately cause a lighting storm in order to use the energy from the bolts in some way.
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
It looked like a dark grey arrowhead with a glowing static charge around it.
Cassini's Death Dive into Saturn Reveals Weird Ring 'Rain' & Other Surprises
Cassini's Death Dive into Saturn Reveals Weird Ring 'Rain' & Other Surprises
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
An artist's depiction of the Cassini mission during its "Grand Finale" in 2017.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
To distant, Earthling eyes, the gap between Saturn and its rings looks calm, like a deep breath of empty space between one beautifully intricate structure and another. But in 11 new papers, born from the demise of one of NASA's most beloved planetary science missions, scientists destroy that illusion, laying out a set of unexpectedly complicated phenomena dancing through that emptiness.
Those papers, published today in two key science journals, represent the first research to be published with data from the Cassini mission's so-called "Grand Finale," a daring set of orbits during which the spacecraft threaded itself between Saturn and its rings. Taken together, the papers paint a detailed picture of what's happening between the planet's innermost rings and its upper atmosphere — surprising, eye-catching phenomena like a pounding hail of compounds pummeling the planet's equatorial region and an electric current produced merely by the planet's winds and magnetic field.
"We really did think of it as a gap," Linda Spilker, project scientist for the Cassini mission at NASA, told Space.com of the region between Saturn and its rings. The team was optimistic about what Cassini could learn during its demise, but the operation ended up producing what she called "a much richer science return than we had imagined" — she went so far as to compare it to a brand-new mission. [Amazing Saturn Photos from NASA's Cassini Orbiter]
The Cassini spacecraft spent a total of 13 years studying Saturn and its moons. But when it was due to run out of fuel, the scientists behind the mission designed a daring trajectory that would send the spacecraft looping through Saturn's rings before burning up in its atmosphere. That destruction ensured that potentially habitable moons in the system wouldn't catch any Earth germs that might have hitched a ride aboard the spacecraft.
But it also let scientists squeeze a little extra data out of its instruments — and pushed the spacecraft further than they thought might be possible, since neither Cassini nor its instruments was designed to accomplish such an incredible feat. Scientists gathered for the first dive, wondering whether the spacecraft would survive long enough to even begin the Grand Finale.
Spilker and other Saturn scientists say the spacecraft's revelations sifted from the data are far from complete, even after the papers published today (Oct. 4). "You look at basically the firehose of data that's come back from Cassini in the past 13 years, really, we've only skimmed the cream across the top of the data set," Spilker said. That work has helped scientists begin to understand individual phenomena taking place at Saturn. "The next step that's happening even now is to take those pieces and put them together into a coherent picture to look across all of the data sets and ask is there one common story," Spilker said.
But in the meantime, here's a peek at what scientists have already learned about the ringed planet.
An artist's depiction of the Cassini spacecraft's view as it completed the "Grand Finale" of its mission in 2017.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
It's raining, it's pouring
One new discovery was prompted by instrument results so strange that scientists on the team and beyond it at first thought there had to be a mistake. That instrument, called the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer, or INMS, can sniff out the chemical composition of material it catches.
Scientists are particularly excited to see these results because word had gotten out that the instrument was onto something. "Since the end of the mission, there's been a lot of talk about these INMS results," Bonnie Meinke, a Saturn scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, who was not involved in any of the new research, told Space.com. "At first glance, it's the kind of thing that you almost don't believe, and as a scientist, you have to do a little gut check," Meinke said.
The instrument had a good track record, having gathered critical data earlier in the mission while Cassini explored moons like Titan and Enceladus. "Then we really got to focus in on Saturn and let it be the star for that final part of the mission," Rebecca Perryman, the operations lead for INMS at the Southwest Research Institute, told Space.com. "We'd done a lot of work to get everything planned initially and had really boasted that INMS would be able to get some fantastic results once we started dipping down into the atmosphere." [In Photos: Cassini Mission Ends with Epic Dive into Saturn]
They had expected those results to be measurements of the masses of "ring rain," which scientists knew as a trickle of tiny particles falling from Saturn's innermost ring down toward the planet's upper atmosphere — some hydrogen and helium mostly — nothing fancy.
But what they seem to have found was far more material than they had expected, coming from far more exotic compounds. The instrument spotted not just hydrogen and helium but also carbon monoxide, methane, nitrogen and the unidentifiable remains of organic molecules.
"The complexity of what was going on there and the amount of material that was infalling was very surprising," Hunter Waite, the principal investigator on INMS and a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, told Space.com. And the discovery doesn't just reveal an intriguing phenomenon about a distant world — scientists say that if the finding holds up, it might have much deeper implications in our own solar system and beyond.
Waite said that the unexpected diversity of compounds in the ring rain might affect scientists' estimates for the composition of the atmosphere, which could in turn mean adapting hypotheses about how Saturn and its neighbors formed and evolved. "It might just have this facade," Waite said of Saturn. "[That might have] been a little bit deceptive in steering our thinking about formation and evolution."
Moreover, because there's so very much of the material, the new results pose a puzzle: Where does it all come from? "This can't be a continuous process, or the rings wouldn't be there," Meinke said. They would run out of material in perhaps tens of thousands of years, leaving Saturn bare. "The real story that [the paper is] telling is about the churn of Saturn's rings … rings can be long-lived because they're constantly moving and turning over."
A planet's magnetic appeal
Cassini was also equipped to measure Saturn's magnetic field. Although scientists had studied the magnetic field before, they were only able to do so briefly during flybys like those done by Pioneer and Voyager, and Cassini's Grand Finale brought them deeper into that field than ever before.
And the measurements gathered during those tight loops have offered their own surprises. Scientists already knew that Saturn's magnetic field seemed to line up awfully well with the axis it spins on — which is a tricky feat, since as far as anyone can figure out, magnetic fields are by definition created by crossing spins. [Cassini's Greatest Hits: The Spacecraft's Best Images of Saturn]
But a new analysis of Grand Finale measurements shows that those two phenomena line up even more perfectly than scientists had expected. That means scientists have to go back to the drawing board, trying to coax an answer out of magnetic-field and gravitational data. "We know there's something weird," Michele Dougherty, a physicist at Imperial College London and lead author on the paper, told Space.com.
She and her colleagues think that there may be something blocking scientists' views of the real magnetic heart of Saturn, creating the illusion of near-perfect alignment and stymying their theories. "We haven't got the answer yet, but whatever answer we come up with is really going to change people's understanding of the interior structure of planets," Dougherty said.
Until they sort out what's going on, scientists won't be able to precisely measure how long it takes Saturn to spin. "It's a bit embarrassing, we were in orbit there for 13 years and we still can't say how long a day on Saturn is," Dougherty said. With neither fixed features on a solid surface nor a magnetic field to track, they're stuck with just an estimate of 10.7 hours.
The hunt for the heart of the magnetic field was muddled in part by another surprise lurking in the magnetic data: a new phenomenon produced by that magnetic field interacting with bands of winds flowing at different rates in Saturn's upper atmosphere — an electric current rippling through a layer of atmosphere called the thermosphere.
Here's how it works: Saturn is wrapped in bands of winds, with the one at the equator traveling fastest and those to the north and south moving more slowly. When a loop-like structure of magnetic field aligns so that one end is in that equatorial band and the other is not, the equatorial wind tugs at the charged particles of plasma around it, which in turn skews the magnetic-field line.
The result that Cassini measured is an electric current as strong as 200 large terrestrial power plants combined. As a side effect, that current also produces heat in the atmosphere around it, which may help explain a long-standing mystery about Saturn. "One of the enigmas of Saturn's thermosphere is, it's hotter than expected," Krishan Khurana, a magnetosphere scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and lead author on the paper, told Space.com. "This provides a part of the answer."
And while Saturn is the star here, the results may explain a second solar system mystery as well. "Jupiter's atmosphere is highly turbulent and so the same phenomenon applied to the magnetic field of Jupiter would create pretty large currents and would heat the thermosphere pretty rapidly," Khurana said. That includes the Great Red Spot, the giant storm that infamously gnarls Jupiter's southern hemisphere, and that scientists have realized is awfully toasty. [Wave at Saturn: Images from NASA's Cosmic Photo Bomb by Cassini Probe]
An artist's depiction of the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn near the end of its mission.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Grand Finale isn't the end
That's just a sampling of the research published today — which is in turn only the beginning of the flood of science that Cassini's Grand Finale will eventually produce. One paper focused on the region of Saturn's atmosphere that produces auroral radio emissions to try to understand how those radio waves are produced.
In another paper, a team of researchers identified a long-predicted but previously unknown radiation belt reaching from the planet's upper atmosphere across its innermost ring. That means it's completely distinct from Saturn's main magnetosphere, trapping charged particles in this stretch of space between upper atmosphere and inner ring. A further study of this new radiation belt shows that because of the interference of the bulky rings, this radiation belt is fairly weak compared to other such structures.
A different instrument on board Cassini measured the density of electrons in Saturn's ionosphere, mapping out two separate layers. The lower layer sports larger neutral and charged molecules around the equator, below the rings and their flood of material; the upper layer features a much more scanty array of tiny, charged particles.
And that same INMS instrument that helped identify so many strange compounds in the so-called ring rain also allowed scientists to calculate the approximate temperatures of the thermosphere layer of atmosphere that Cassini was flying through. Those measurements ranged from 150 to 200 degrees Fahrenheit (67 to 97 degrees Celsius).
Two more papers that weren't quite ready to be published highlight topics like the tiny moonlets embedded in Saturn's rings and gravity measurements taken of the giant planet. And then, of course, there are far more discoveries to be made as scientists continue to dig into and analyze the Grand Finale data and the rest of Cassini's work — not to mention the observations of whatever successor spacecraft the mission's discoveries inspire.
"I think it's a really exciting time," Meinke, the Saturn scientist who is unaffiliated with any of the new research, said. "After 13 years of Cassini data, that last little bit was really the most exciting, the stuff that left us wanting to go back and really taught us even more than we thought we were going to learn."
These Photos of Asteroid Ryugu from the Successful MASCOT Landing Are Amazing
These Photos of Asteroid Ryugu from the Successful MASCOT Landing Are Amazing
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
Another photograph snapped during MASCOT's landing on Ryugu.
Credit: DLR/CNES
Earlier this week, a spacecraft plopped a small lander on a diamond-shaped space rock far, far away — and before that robot ended a marathon 17-hour work session, it sent back some incredible images of its descent.
The lander, called MASCOT, is part of an international mission to explore a primitive asteroid called Ryugu and is the third robot to venture onto the asteroid's surface. And unsurprisingly, the view from a shoebox-size lander being dropped onto a space rock is pretty wild.
Check this out! I took this picture when I was almost on #Ryugu's surface. Look at how sunlight is reflected off me. What a dark surface! Credit: MASCOT/@DLR_en /@JAXA_en#AsteroidLanding
In a tweet, the team behind the lander explained that the photograph includes a faint beam of light reflected off MASCOT itself.
MASCOT was a joint project of the German and French space agencies and was delivered to the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2, which also captured images of the landing. Stitched together into a GIF, they show the lander entering from the upper left corner of the frame, then catching the light in the final image.
MASCOT was designed to gather data for 16 hours, or about two of Ryugu's days. Scientists working on the mission were able to coax an extra hour of work out of the robot after realizing that its battery had enough juice to keep going.
Before the power supply ran out, MASCOT beamed all the data gathered by its four instruments back up to the main Hayabusa2 spacecraft, so the information could be sent home to Earth. Scientists hope the data will help them understand what Ryugu is made of and how the solar system formed.
Humankind has always pursued better ways to more effectively kill each other. It is the nature of the beast for us to want the means to gain the upper hand against our enemies, to better and annihilate them if need be. We have been in a perpetual arms race since time unremembered, practically since the first flickers of consciousness danced within our ancestor’s brains, going from hand, to stick, to stone, to sword, and beyond, ever trying to outdo those who would threaten or oppose us. In a great many tales throughout history there have been those who succeeded in gaining the ultimate weapon, in the form of artifacts of incredible magical might, which decimated the enemy with their supernatural power but which today remain buried and lost in time. Here are tales of fantastical mystical objects of war, weapons with godlike powers, and magical military might.
Some of the most famous and indeed most mysterious mystical weapons of the ancient world are biblical in nature, and perhaps none is as well-known as the fabled Lost Ark of the Covenant, best known to most as the Nazi face melting MacGuffin from the popular film Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it is an actual artifact with a long tradition of mystery. The Ark itself was supposedly an ornate, gold gilded chest that held the stone tablets onto which had been written the Ten Commandments given to Moses by God. The Ark was said to be built around 3,000 years ago based on plans that were revealed in a vision from God Himself that Moses had while Israel was camped at the foot of Mt. Sinai. The Book of Exodus says that after the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, Moses was called to the top of Mt. Sinai by God and was given two tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments, after which he later received his vision outlining the design of the Ark in order to transport the tablets.
The Ark is said to be made up of intricately gold plated acacia wood, and to be adorned with a crown of pure molded gold and two large, golden angels. The Bible describes its dimensions as approximately 131×79×79 cm or 52×31×31 inches. The Ark was carried with the use of two poles that were put through four rings arranged at its four feet. Far from being merely a vessel in which to transport the tablets, the Ark was believed to be the actual throne of God, and that wherever it went, He went as well. The Ark was only carried by powerful priests, and was always totally concealed from view by blue cloth and lamb skins, and not even the priests themselves were allowed to look upon it. The Israelites carried the Ark with them during their 40 year trek across the desert, during which time it was usually carried around 2,000 cubits in front of their army, and it proved to be a powerful weapon in their plight.
There are numerous accounts of the Ark unleashing its alleged mighty, godlike powers. In 1,400 BC, when Joshua led the Israelites across the Jordan River into The Promised Land, the Ark is said to have caused the waters to stop flowing and dry out, allowing them all to pass unhindered. On another occasion, the Israelites besieged the city of Jericho, with God commanding that the Ark be carried around the perimeter of the city once a day for seven days while blowing on trumpets crafted of ram horns. On the seventh day, the Israelites gave out a thunderous shout, and the once formidable and impenetrable walls of the city of Jericho spectacularly collapsed to the ground in a cloud of dust and pieces, allowing the Israelites to enter.
The Ark would go on to be used against the Philistines in battle, with the hopes that this powerful weapon would help the Israelites ultimately win. However, God had not ordered the Israelites to go to war with the Philistine army, and was displeased that the Ark would be used without His consent. Subsequently, the Israelites lost the war and the Ark was captured by the Philistines, who hoped that they would now be able to harness its vast holy powers for their own ends. Unfortunately for them, rather than a great ally, the Ark proved to be more of a curse upon them, causing misfortune wherever it went, such as disease and even a plague of mice. After seven months of the Ark bringing them nothing but misery, the Philistines returned it to the Israelites, and it was taken to the village of Beth-shemesh. Here it would once again display its vast power when a large group of curious villagers decided to look upon it and were immediately struck down dead by its almighty wrath.
The Ark would ultimately end up in Jerusalem, where it was housed in a temple built by King Solomon. In 587 BC, the Babylonians descended upon the city, destroying everything in their path, including Solomon’s Temple, where the Ark had been kept. It is not known what happened to the Ark of the Covenant after this, and it has through the years become one of the most mysterious and most highly sought after ancient relics in the world, with countless quests to try and locate it. Next to the Holy Grail itself, there is perhaps no other Biblical relic that has inspired so many to try and obsessively hunt it down. Was the Ark destroyed? Was it hidden away before the sacking of Jerusalem? Was it stolen? Did it ever really even exist at all? These are questions for which no one has any definitive answers, but there are many who have tried to figure them out.
Since the Ark’s disappearance there have been numerous theories as to its whereabouts, with its location estimated to be in wildly varying places, from Africa to even Japan, and occasional claims to have even found it. One recurring theory is that the Ark was whisked away by the Knights Templar, but where they hid it remains unclear, with the Chartres Cathedral crypt, the Languedoc region of France, or the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland being popular choices. Other theories revolve around the idea that during the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians, the Ark was spirited away and hidden somewhere in a vast warren of passages beneath the First Temple. Since this site is home to the Dome of the Rock shrine, which is sacred in Islam, it is impossible to conduct any sort of excavation here to see if the story has any truth to it.
One very prominent theory is that the Ark was moved to a secure place far from Jerusalem, in Ethiopia. In Aksum, Ethiopia there is a place called the Church of St. Mary of Zion, where the Ark is said to be interred. A lone monk has been given the duty of guarding this sacred relic, never leaving the church and constantly, dutifully keeping watch over it. It is said that the monk devotes his entire life to the Ark’s safekeeping, after which another will be given the duty upon his death. It is difficult to determine just how genuine this claim is, as no one but the solitary monk is allowed to enter the church, and only this one guardian is allowed to lay eyes upon the Ark. The church could be housing anything or nothing at all. No one knows, and the location of the Ark of the covenant and indeed whether it ever even really existed at all remain unknown.
Another fairly remarkable supposed Biblical weapon of potent magical might is the Spear of Destiny, or also called the Spear of Longinus, which is said to have been forged by the ancient Hebrew prophet Phineas, as well as being the very one used by the Roman centurion Longinus to stab Christ during the Crucifixion and which is rumored to grant its wielder the power to rule the world. Indeed, the legend explicitly states, “whosoever possesses this Holy Lance and understands the powers it serves, holds in his hand the destiny of the world for good or evil.” This legend is perhaps why a long list of leaders, kings, emperors, and conquerors throughout recorded history have sought it out and even claimed to have held it, such as Attila the Hun, Herod the Great, Constantine, Maurice the Manichean, Alaric, Theodoric, Charles Martel, Charlemagne the Great, Frederick Barbarossa, Heinrich I the Fowler, Otto I the Great, and Pope John XII, among many others, all of whom reported great successes with the spear.
The problem is, the spear has been lost to history and it is not even certain if these leaders had ever held the actual Spear of Destiny or if it even really existed or not. Indeed, there are scores of conflicting tales of what happened to the spear, where it went, and even what it looked like, all made more confusing by the fact that there were said to be numerous fakes and recreations that had been crafted over the centuries. During Constantine the Great’s alleged tenure with the relic his spiritual advisor, Eusebius of Caesarea, described it:
It was a long spear, overlaid with gold. On the top was fixed a wreath of gold and precious stones, and within this the symbol of the Savior’s name, two letters indicating the name of Christ by means of its initial characters – those letters the emperor was in the habit of wearing on his helmet at a later period. From the spear was also suspended a cloth, a royal piece, covered with a profuse embroidery of most brilliant precious stones and which, being also richly interlaced with gold, presented an indescribable degree of beauty to the beholder. The emperor constantly made use of this sign of salvation as a safeguard against every adverse and hostile power, and commanded that it should be carried at the head of all his armies.
None other than Adolf Hitler himself was long fascinated by the Spear, a fascination which started long before he was even the notorious Nazi leader, back when he was just a humble art student. As he toured the Hofsburg Treasure House in Vienna in 1912, his eyes fell upon one of the lances rumored to be the actual Spear of Destiny, which had been housed there for safekeeping after a long history of changing hands and being lost and found again numerous times. There was no certainty at all that the gilded lance that was in Vienna, which was referred to as the Holy Lance of Longinus, was the actual legendary Spear of Destiny, and in fact there were other such relics around the world that made the same claim at the time, but Hitler himself certainly seems to have been convinced that it was, saying of first time he saw it:
I knew with immediacy that this was an important moment in my life…I stood there quietly gazing upon it for several minutes, quite oblivious to the scene around me. It seemed to carry some hidden inner meaning which evaded me, a meaning which I felt I inwardly knew, yet could not bring to consciousness…I felt as though I myself had held it in my hands before in some earlier century of history – that I myself had once claimed it as my talisman of power and held the destiny of the world in my hands. What sort of madness was this that was invading my mind and creating such turmoil in my breast?
Alleged tip of the Spear of Destiny at Vienna
Believing this artifact to be the real Spear of Destiny, one of the first things he did when the Nazis took Vienna in 1938 was to steal it for himself and have it sent it off to Nuremburg, and there have even been theories that Hitler’s real reason for starting World War II was to get a hold of it. Whether this is true or not, Hitler got his spear, although it does not seem to have granted him great power when he needed it the most, and his planned invasion of England failed, followed by his devastating defeat at the Battle of Normandy on June 6, 1944. After this it is not clear just what happened to Hitler’s supposed Spear of Destiny. It was supposedly returned to Vienna, but there are theories that this was actually a clever fake and that the real one is still out there.
One theory is that it was hidden away in one of the many underground bunkers, caves, caverns and catacombs that the Nazis used to store the numerous treasures they had looted from their enemies. Another is that it was kept by the Allied forces, and the famous general George S. Patton was allegedly obsessed with it, even believing himself to be a reincarnation of someone who had wielded it in the past, and he made great efforts to convince the United States to retain it and give back a fake to Austria. In this scenario the real spear is still in the possession of the United States, and is even the reason why the country has managed to remain such a top world power for so long. Still another idea was that the SS leader Himmler took it and that it now resides in the care of a secret society he formed called “The Knights of the Holy Lance.”
An even wilder theory was put forward in Dr. Howard A. Buechner’s 1988-89 books Hitler’s Ashes – Seeds Of A New Reich and Adolf Hitler and the Secrets of the Holy Lance, in which he claims that the Nazi leader had the spear sent to a secret base out in Antarctica after the war, after which it was recovered again in 1979 by an expedition led by a mysterious individual known as Col. Maximilian Hartmann, which has in turn raised conspiracy theories that the real Spear of Destiny is in the possession of this shadowy cabal bent on world domination. In the end, although we know Hitler did steal this lance, no one has any idea of whether it was the real Spear of Destiny, and in fact we have no idea at all of whether it was ever a real object to begin with, or if it is just where the genuine artifact is located. The Spear of Destiny has become a magnet for various conspiracy theories, and the insane stories of Nazi involvement have gone on to become the stuff of movies, comic books, and legend. The real whereabouts of the Spear of Destiny and whether it really holds its legendary vast powers are a mystery.
Staying on the Biblical theme we come to the legendary Staff of Moses, also called the “Rod of God” or “The Staff of God,” first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and which was according to the lore imbued with powers beyond imagination by God Himself when he encountered Moses at the burning bush atop Mount Horeb. God supposedly began by turning Moses’ staff into a serpent and then back into a staff, upon which it was shown to have an array of powers that would become apparent throughout his journeys. Among the feats Moses was said to perform with the staff were producing water from stone and of course parting the Red Sea, among others.
One of the greatest shows of power Moses demonstrated with the staff was during the Battle at Rephidim, in which the Israelites clashed with the Amalekites. At some point in this fierce melee, Moses is said to have simply held the staff up in the air and proclaiming that they would prevail, which made it so. According to the story, whenever he lowered his staff the enemy would begin winning again, and so he held the Staff of God up high until the enemy was vanquished. In Biblical lore, the brother of Moses, Aaron, is also said to have been in possession of a magical rod, perhaps even the very same one, which he used to turn the Nile blood red and help usher in the Plagues of Egypt.
Of course with such a powerful artifact there has long been speculation as to whether it ever really existed, and where it might be now. The main theory is that it was passed down for generations by the Judean Kings, after which it disappeared when the First Temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar II after the Siege of Jerusalem in 587 BC. In this version of events, the staff was either destroyed itself, or was carried away by the exiled Jews as they fled. The Staff of Moses has also been variously claimed to have been put on display at the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Turkey, along with other Holy relics, or that it was claimed by Muslims and sequestered away along with the Tablet of Moses. In the end no one really knows what happened to this potent weapon of ancient might or whether it was ever real at all.
Of course there are such powerful and legendary weapons outside of the confines of the Bible and from other places in the world, and one of these is a mysterious weapon from ancient India called the Vajra, which appears in ritual object in the lore of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Said to be a weapon of the gods, in particular the Vedic sky-god, Indra, the Vajra is typically described as being fashioned of a material that is as hard as diamond and widely touted as being completely indestructible, as well as being possessed of vast powers such as hurling thunderbolts. It features most notably in the story of Indra’s battle against the evil demons Asuras, Namuchi and Vritra, after being forged by the divine carpenter Tvashta on orders of the supreme god Vishnu. The Vajra is often described as being thrown at enemies to cause mass devastation, and one description says it was an “indestructible thunderbolt blazed like a meteoric fireball across the heavens, in a maelstrom of thunder, fire and lightning.”
The weapon itself is typically said to look like a metal shaft-like handle tipped with an array of sharp prongs like daggers at the end reminiscent of a lotus flower, although it is also said to have been once transformed into a scepter by the Buddha Shakyamuni. It was supposedly forged from iron and gold mixed with bronze or stone in a certain magical combination, and besides its powerful energy bolts and indestructibility, the Vajra was also said to have the ability to cut through any substance, control the weather, and also had the power to banish darkness and bring fertility. Interestingly, legends of very similar weapons can be found in various far-flung cultures, including Chinese, Sumerians, Norse, Slavic, and Irish myths. There have long been claims that the legendary Vajra is housed at some temple or another, but this is unsubstantiated. In the end we don’t know. Is there any truth to the Vajra, and did it even exist? Was it possibly even some form of ancient technological device? Who knows?
The island nation of Japan too has its stories of god-like magical weapons, and perhaps the most popular is the tale of what is known as the Muramasa’s swords. Among the greatest and most legendary of Japan’s famed swordsmiths was the one called Muramasa Sengo, who lived and pursued his craft during the Muromachi period (14th-15th century AD). Both Muramasa and his school of sword making were renowned for the extraordinary quality and sharpness of their blades, which made the weapons highly prized and sought after by warriors and generals. Indeed, Muramasa became well regarded as being one of the finest swordsmiths who had ever lived, but he also became notorious for his rather brash, volatile nature, and a dark curse that was increasingly believed to imbue his famed swords.
Many of such rumors began with the abrasive, venomous personality of Muramasa himself. In addition to being obviously a brilliant swordsmith, he was also purported to be rather insane and prone to flying into sudden fits of violent rage, during which he would lash out at anyone unlucky enough to be nearby. This unbalanced mind, which teetered on the brink of total madness, combined with his relentless perfectionism and unbridled passion for crafting lethal swords to congeal into an unstable mix of genius, bloodlust, intense focus, and insanity, and these qualities were said to be mystically passed on to the katana he forged. Adding to this was Muramasa’s alleged habit of feverishly praying to whoever would listen that his swords become “great destroyers,” and his swords gained a rather ominous reputation despite their popularity and high demand.
Numerous dark and sinister qualities were increasingly attributed to the supposed curse of Muramasa’s swords. Perhaps the most persistent was that the swords had a tendency to possess their wielders in a sense, sending them into a berserk battle rage and in some versions granting them superior swordsmanship, and bestowing them with temporary superhuman strength and resistance to pain and damage. The cursed Muramasa swords were also said to have a thirst for blood, and that if they weren’t sated by that spilled by the enemy then they would turn on their owners, forcing them to commit suicide to appease them. Indeed, it was often said that as soon as a Muramasa blade was drawn it ruthlessly demanded blood before it could be replaced back into its scabbard, meaning almost certain doom for the wielder if there was no one else around to vent the sword’s bloodlust upon. Even when not drawn the swords were said to sometimes hungrily call out to be released, or to try and compel their owners to go out hunting for some poor soul to murder.
Although undeniably potent weapons formidable in battle, this dark curse allegedly made the swords and their wielders dangerous for everyone around them. Many tales sprung up of Muramasa swords turning on their owners, lashing out to strike down and drink in the blood of anyone within reach, including not only enemies, but allies and even family members, which the wielder could do nothing to stop while held in thrall to the sword’s evil frenzy. Tales describing samurai armed with Muramasa swords lashing out at dear friends, allies, and family as they watched helplessly as their own bodies cut them down were numerous. At their most bloodthirsty and rage-fueled the swords were said to hardly discriminate between friend and foe, and used their owners merely as instruments with which to help them kill. It was not uncommon to hear of the owners of Muramasa swords slowly going insane as they were warped and twisted to their weapons’ demonic will, sometimes killing themselves to escape the dark, madness inspiring prison.
This sinister reputation eventually ended up being further fueled when the Tokugawa Shogunate, which was the last feudal government in Japan, was established in 1603 by the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who firmly believed that Muramasa blades were cursed, and blamed them for the deaths of many of his friends, allies, and relatives. Indeed, apparently the shogun’s father, Matsudaira Hirotada, and his grandfather, Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, were both cut down when their retainers were overcome by a murderous trance while wielding such swords. Tokugawa even claimed that he had been badly cut by a Muramasa katana that was being carried by one of his samurai guards as he inspected his ranks. In later days his own wife and adopted son were allegedly executed using a Muramasa blade. All of this stoked rumors that Muramasa swords had it in for the Tokugawa family, and that they had a special affinity for killing members of his clan.
This notion became so prevalent that Ieyasu Tokugawa eventually banned Muramasa katana in his domain. Many of them were subsequently melted down or otherwise destroyed, but since they were so revered for their sheer quality others were hidden or had any distinguishing features altered or removed, even in the face of severe punishment for owning one, typically the forcing of the guilty party to commit ritual suicide, or seppuku. Despite this, Muramasa katana continued their trajectory to legendary status. Considering these katana were thought to be able to seek out and kill the shogun and his family, there was also a renewed demand for the swords among Tokugawa’s enemies, which resulted in some enterprising lesser swordsmiths forging clever fake replicas for profit. In fact, because of the number of such forgeries crafted during this era it is to this day difficult to reliably tell if a purported Muramasa katana is authentic or not. Were there ever magical cursed katanas in feudal Japan. It remains a mystery.
With such stories as we have looked at here, it is nearly impossible to disentangle pure myth and legend from any reality, and these powerful artifacts remain firmly lodged into the world of speculation and the unknown. Were these truly instruments of the great mystical powers they attributed with or are they merely mythical constructs? Did they exist but were exaggerated by spectacular tales? There are many who believe that if they do indeed exist then such artifacts are still out there somewhere, hidden away where we may never find them. With all of the fantastical stories orbiting them, these ancient weapons of magical might will probably retain their secrets until when they are found, if ever.
Back in the late 1990s, I used to speak regularly at the monthly meetings of the now-defunct Staffordshire UFO Group. Another regular speaker was the late Omar Fowler, who died in 2017. On several occasions, Omar shared with me a number of accounts concerning the “Flying Triangle”-type of UFO. And, given the fact that some of those cases were particularly intriguing, I thought I would share with you two cases from Omar that I still have on file and that make for thought-provoking reading. In July 1997, as Omar told me, the Staffordshire, England town of Rugeley was targeted by a Flying Triangle and nothing less than a black helicopter – at the same time and location, no less.
In his letter to me (yes, when letters were just about still written! LOL), Omar stated that on the night in question, the attention of the witness “…was attracted by a noise similar to a high-revving two-stroke engine outside his home. He went outside in the darkness and saw hovering lights approximately one hundred and fifty yards away and one hundred and fifty feet up from the ground. He went indoors and fetched his binoculars and was able to make out the shape of a black helicopter in the vicinity of the lights.
“He had a night vision scope indoors and he returned with this a few minutes later. He then viewed the aircraft again. He saw the helicopter clearly, as it was illuminated by the flashing strobe and navigation lights. He described it as being similar to the Airwolf from the TV series. He then switched on the infrared beam and immediately noticed that there was a completely blacked out, triangular craft adjacent to the helicopter. ‘I couldn’t believe my eyes!’ he commented. The triangle, which was a similar size to the helicopter, reflected light from the strobe/navigation lights and appeared to have no visible means of support in the hovering mode (no noise was heard). He began to approach the two hovering craft, while looking through his night scope.
“It is a foregone conclusion that the helicopter was equipped with night vision equipment, because as [he] approached, the helicopter suddenly moved away at an incredible rate of knots. It disappeared like a rocket. The triangle remained for a moment and then moved away and out of sight.”
In this particular instance, the presence of an apparent military helicopter in close proximity to the UFO suggests the strong possibility that the Flying Triangle was some form of wholly terrestrial aircraft undergoing secret trials. Therefore, can we dismiss the sightings of the similar (albeit much bigger) craft that have been reported for decades (a wave in Belgium in the late 1980s/early 1990s being a perfect example)? I would be willing to accept that possibility except for the one glaring factor that keeps cropping up time and again. The Flying Triangles have been seen for decades prowling around the countryside in the dead of night. They are nothing new. If the bulk of these vehicles are ours, why are we not utilizing such technology on the battlefield? Why keep them hidden?
As further evidence of the fact that the Flying Triangles are not a relatively recent phenomenon, Omar Fowler shared another account with me and which is worth noting. As Fowler explained, it was at approximately 11:00 a.m. on 19 April 1956 and Robin Gibbard of Derby, England – a roofer at the time – was working with a colleague at a house in Allstree, Derby. According to Gibbard, “The day was very clear, with very little cloud about. On hearing an aircraft approaching, I looked up to see a twin radial engine, propeller driven Avro Anson – which even then was becoming a rarity. The aircraft was approaching at a height of about 2,000 feet altitude or less. These aircraft were very slow fliers and used mainly for reconnaissance. I was amazed to see a delta wing plane circling fairly close to the Avro Anson, actually circling around the plane at least twice, at a speed not much more than the plane’s speed but making no audible sound – the only sound came from the Anson.
“After making two circuits, it broke away and then increasing its speed to a phenomenal amount, disappeared upwards on a long curve in about 5 to 10 seconds. My partner also saw this occurrence, but unfortunately he has since died and cannot corroborate this statement. It could not have been a glider, because of its breakaway speed and any possible Delta aircraft of that period always made plenty of noise.”
To illustrate that he was unlikely to have misidentified the object, Robin Gibbard was keen to inform Omar Fowler of one important point: “At the time I was deeply involved in competition model [aircraft] flying in my spare time and was very aware of all aspects of the capabilities of model, diesel and petrol engines in every application and always had an interest in aircraft recognition during World War Two and afterwards. So I was familiar with all aircraft from that period.”
Omar Fowler produced a computer simulation of the object that Robin Gibbard viewed and it fit perfectly the description of the many Flying Triangles that are being reported in ever-increasing numbers today. Of course, if Robin Gibbard caught sight of the unidentified intruder, then it is entirely possible that the crew of the Avro Anson did likewise. If so, there is every possibility that the British Government has had an awareness of the Flying Triangle mystery for decades. Whatever the true nature and origin of the FTs, there’s no doubt that the phenomenon is real.
Mysterious Object washed ashore on Seabrook Island, South Carolina
Mysterious Object washed ashore on Seabrook Island, South Carolina
The organization Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network, which is normally called upon to handle sea creatures in distress found a strange-looking and rather sizeable object that had washed ashore on Seabrook Island.
According to the group, who posted a picture of the object on their Facebook page the outside of the oddity appeared to be foam.
They removed the object away without answering any questions and its current whereabouts are unknown which of course has led to speculation what the object could be.
Some people have suggested that it some kind of construction material or a buoy, others suggest it could be space debris or a broken part of a man-made or alien spacecraft. What do you think it is?
Bizarre ‘UFO Cloud’ Seen In The Skies Above Moscow
Bizarre ‘UFO Cloud’ Seen In The Skies Above Moscow
Strange goings-on in Russia… again.
A cloud has been spotted above a block of flats in the Russian capital city Moscow.
This isn’t just any cloud though, it’s like something out of Independence Day, but less Hollywood looking and more, well, just kinda grey looking.
Still, it’s pretty perturbing to see. A definite flying saucer shape, and definite movement up and away to get out of there, and who’s to blame them.
Check it out:
The unusual sight, which some sceptics are calling a mere weather phenomenon, was filmed by by an eyewitness who spotted the cloud over the city’s Adropov Avenue.
He can be heard in the background of the video asking:
What is that? Aliens? Is it a UFO?
If it is aliens, you’re a bit late guys, the World Cup was last month, but we forgive you for your tardiness after what must have been a long journey.
Now, some people might try to tell you this is just an unusually-shaped cumulus cloud – a particularly fluffy cloud at a particularly low level.
Others might try to tell you it’s a lenticular cloud, which form when air travels along the surface of the Earth and encounter an obstruction like, for example, hills, mountains, or even a tower block of flats.
But don’t let that put you off, young believers. If you think it’s a UFO, who’s to tell you otherwise? Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid in the form of creatures from outer space. Goethe said that.
Eastern Europe seems to be getting more than its fair share of UFO sightings lately.
Earlier this summer, back in the heady days when we were all lost in a football haze, two glowing orbs were reportedly seen lighting up the midnight sky over the west of Kazakhstan, just a few miles from where England were playing Sweden in the World Cup quarter final.
The collision then happened near the village of Bostandyk, around 1,000ft from the Zhalpakatal-Karasi highway, according to police.
The unidentified flying object apparently ‘exploded’ on landing, causing houses in the area to ‘tremble’ while it also ignited a blaze on the land, wiping out bushes and grass over a 100 hectare area.
According to locals, mobile communications were cut out due to the incident, and residents who rushed towards the site of the crash found a silver-coloured object partially buried in the ground, and another similar but smaller object nearby.
Check out the unexplained footage here:
The silver object had a sealed hatch with a protruding valve, which the locals were unable to open. While a law enforcement source said the strange object was like ‘a ball that had been welded shut’.
Residents also reported seeing the object spinning in the sky before it crashed, with bright lights pulsating around it, the Mirror reports.
I’ve no idea why, but once these aliens are seen they don’t seem to hang around long do they? Is Earth just way more disappointing than they were expecting?
From the first human Moon landing to helping launch the Hubble Space Telescope, which has given us unprecedented views of the wonders which loom above Earth’s clouds, NASA has achieved a lot in the 60 years since it was founded. But finding aliens is unfortunately not on that list.
Despite decades of research, intelligent lifeforms have remained elusive. Many experts agree it’s not improbable there is extraterrestrial life out there somewhere—our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is estimated to be home to at least 100 billion planets, with a further one hundred billion galaxies believed to be in the observable universe.
The start of the modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is often pinned to 1959, at a time when the uncertainties stoked by the Cold War were mixed with excitement about the possibilities of space exploration.
In a paper published in the journal Nature, physicists Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison posited that if aliens exist, they would most likely get in touch with other civilizations (like our own) by pinging off electromagnetic signals into space, in the hope they’d be picked up.
Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. is photographed walking near the lunar module during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969.
Another pioneerng implement in the astrophysicists’ toolbox for finding alien life is the Drake equation. In 1960, astronomer Frank Drake conducted what is thought to be the first SETI experiment by directing a radio telescope towards nearby Sun-like stars. Around three years after Cocconi and Morrison presented their findings, Drake devised an equation to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations which might be present in the Milky Way galaxy.
The Drake Equation, as described by SETI:
N = R* ∗ fp∗ ne∗ fl∗ fi∗ fc∗ L
Where:
N = The number of civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy whose electromagnetic emissions are detectable.
R* = The rate of formation of stars suitable for the development of intelligent life.
fp = The fraction of those stars with planetary systems.
ne = The number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life.
fl = The fraction of suitable planets on which life actually appears.
fi = The fraction of life-bearing planets on which intelligent life emerges.
fc = The fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space.
L = The length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space.
“The values of the different terms are very highly uncertain, consistent with both no life elsewhere in the universe on the one hand and lots of civilizations on the other hand,” Dr. Roger C. Wiens, of the Space Remote Sensing Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of New Mexico where he is searching for signs of Martian life, explained to Newsweek.
And it’s one thing to present ways of thinking about discovering little green men, and another to develop the technology and infrastructure to do so.
Official commitment to SETI in the U.S. has been patchy. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, NASA tentatively joined SETI with efforts such as Project Orion, the High Resolution Microwave Survey, the Microwave Observing Project,and Toward Other Planetary Systems.
In 1992, NASA launched a SETI program, only for Congress to abandon it less than a year later. Part of this was continued by the non-profit SETI Institute, with private individuals and universities taking up the gauntlet, including the late Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner in 2015 with their Breakthrough Initiatives. Still, no luck.
The Whirlpool Galaxy is seen on April 25, 2005, as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Involvement in the launch of the telescope is widely considered to be one of NASA's greatest achievements.
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE/NASA VIA GETTY IMAGES
That year, Drake lamented in an interview with Space.com, “The situation with SETI is not good. The enterprise is falling apart for lack of funding."
A lack of money of course makes it harder for scientists to answer fundamental questions which could propel SETI forwards. Astrophysicists agree there are three obstacles standing between us and other intelligent lifeforms: time, distance and a lack of technological advancements.
For instance, scientists can only guess at the frequencies extraterrestrial civilizations would transmit at, said Dr. Michael Garrett, professor in the school of physics and astrophysics at Manchester University, U.K. “Surveying billions of frequency channels for a signal takes a lot of effort and a lot of computing,” he told Newsweek.
And out of the 4.5 billion-year lifetime of Earth and the more than 13 billion years of the universe, cognitive life, such as humans who have access to technology that can communicate and be "heard" in space, has existed for just 100 years, explained Wiens. “That's less than a drop in the bucket in terms of time.”
Astrophysicist Frank Drake speaks onstage during "Are We Alone in the Universe?" at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 7, 2015, in San Francisco, California. Drake's equation is an important tool for physicists looking to explore the universe.
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"Now suppose that there are other civilizations that have developed somewhere else in parallel with us. If they too have been active on the radio waves for just 100 years, we would only detect them if they lived within 100 light years of us.
"If they developed somewhat earlier than us, say 100,000 years earlier, then yes, we could ‘hear’ their radio waves already if the broadcast is strong enough, but only within our own galaxy. The farther away that we want to detect them, the earlier they would have had to have developed, e.g., millions of years earlier if in different galaxies. And that is not to mention the radio strength needed to hear something from that far away.”
As well as waiting to hear from aliens, we can search ourselves. But where to start? Close to home, for now, says Wien. If life developed on Earth, it would have also developed on Mars within the habitable zone of our solar system, said Wiens. The ice moons around Jupiter and Saturn where scientists have found organic molecules necessary for the development of life are another potential site for exploration.
"From my perspective, our exploration of places like Mars and Jupiter's moon, Europa, might yield exciting results in terms of the beginning stages of life. That won't help us find intelligent life, but will help us understand the genesis of life, and the frequency with which life develops."
Thanks to the dedication of physicists, in the past decade techniques for exploring space have advanced rapidly, said Wiens. Now, astrophysicists are now more optimistic we could find intelligent life outside of Earth. “These are tremendously exciting times,” according to Garrett.
“I think over the next 20 to 30 years, we might be able to say something definitive about whether there is life in other bodies on the solar system,” says Garrett. “As for the universe, well the universe is a big place—I doubt we could ever say definitively that life was only present on the Earth.”
A technician stands next to the James Webb Space Telescope during assembly November 2, 2016, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The telescope, designed to be a large space-based observatory optimized for infrared wavelengths, will be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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In April, NASA made a new bid for finding life by launching Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS); a satellite programed to capture 200,000 images of stars, some of which are within 10 light-years of Earth. Its creators hope it will find life by 2020.
So-called super telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), set to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope in 2021, and the Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (Luvoir) could also take us one step closer. As could Habitable Exoplanet Observatory, a concept mission to image the planetary systems around Sun-like stars.
“The TESS mission is currently our most efficient way to search for potentially habitable planets,” Dr. Peter Behroozi, assistant professor in astronomy at the University of Arizona, told Newsweek. “The best method to search for signs of life is currently to look for signs of oxygen, organic molecules and water in planet atmospheres, as respiration by any life forms (no matter how primitive) will change atmospheric composition.”
“Unless we get very lucky, JWST will likely not be powerful enough to do this kind of detection; however, two proposed NASA flagship missions like LUVOIR and HabEx would be able to routinely measure planet atmospheres for signs of life.”
But maybe we're looking at this all wrong, argues Garrett. "Maybe it’s not a technical breakthrough we require. Maybe we have to earn the right to be part of the galactic club—it might be a technical leap that we need to make perhaps hundreds of years in our future or something else. Maybe bythe time we can share resources on this planet, and learn to live together in peace, we’ll have the answer."
Ahead of World Space Week, we talk to SETI Institute chief Bill Diamond about the search for extraterrestrial life and why the idea of aliens coming to Earth to destroy us is 'absurd.'
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These Bizarre Places On Earth Seem To Completely Defy The Laws Of Physics
These Bizarre Places On Earth Seem To Completely Defy The Laws Of Physics
There are some places around the world that are very strange and seem to defy gravity. These are places where weird things happen.
In one instance a soldier from Russia attempts to throw an empty can from a cliff but the can bounces back to him all the time in what seems to be gravity defying. One explanation as to why things cannot be thrown is that there is so much wind coming up ravines it will not allow liquid or cans to fall down as they are blown back.
The Inverted Waterfall
A waterfall also seems to defy gravity as it seems that the water does not flow down the waterfall but up it. The inverted waterfall effect can be seen in many regions including Chile, Iceland, Scotland, and Hawaii. Of course, the water is not going uphill; it is merely wind that is carrying the water from the top of the waterfall along with blowing up and over cliffs.
Kinder Falls in the United Kingdom is another of the waterfalls that seem to defy gravity as the water doesn’t flow down over the rocks; instead, it blows upwards onto the Kinder Scout Plateau.
Rivers can also flow uphill it seems. Mount Aragats in Armenia is one place where this occurs. Locals have said that they find it easier to walk up the hill than down the hill, while some have said if they turn their car engine off the car rolls uphill not downhill, again defying gravity.
The Californian Mystery Spot
The Mystery Spot in California is one place that defies belief along with gravity, messing with the heads of those who go to visit.
The Mystery Spot is located in Santa Cruz in California being opened by George Prather in 1939. Visitors are taken on a tour that includes the Mystery Shack. The shack was built upon a region where many strange effects occur. This is a region where balls can roll uphill, brooms are able to stand at extremely strange angles on their own and the height of people changes when they walk. The strange effects seem to have an effect on gravity along with perspective. A visit does not suit everyone as some people say they feel faint and ill when inside the shack.
GettyDe grootste ondergrondse vulkaan of caldeira bevindt zich in het Yellowstone National Park in de Verenigde Staten.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET De ondergrondse supervulkaan in het Yellowstone National Park staat op het punt uit te barsten en dat zou wel eens het einde kunnen betekenen voor onze beschaving. NASA bedacht intussen een vernuftig plan dat de mensheid kan redden van een mogelijke ondergang.
De grootste ondergrondse vulkaan of caldeira bevindt zich in het Yellowstone National Park in de Verenigde Staten. Om de 600.000 jaar barst de supervulkaan uit. De laatste eruptie vond zo’n 640.000 jaar geleden plaats, wat betekent dat de vulkaan op het punt van uitbarsten staat. En dat baart wetenschappers grote zorgen.
Als de ondergrondse supervulkaan in Yellowstone zou exploderen kan er als gevolg van de enorme hoeveelheid vulkanisch stof die plots vrijkomt, een vulkanische winter of ijstijd aanbreken. Vervolgens is de kans groot dat er een wereldwijde hongersnood uitbreekt aangezien de mensheid slechts voldoende voedselreserves voor 74 dagen heeft. Dat blijkt uit een rapport van BBC. Zelfs NASA beweert dat de supervulkanen één van de grootste natuurlijke bedreigingen vormen voor de mensheid.
Hoe warmer het wordt in de vulkaan, hoe meer gassen er geproduceerd worden. Vervolgens blijft de magma smelten en stijgen. Wanneer de hitte binnenin de vulkaan een bepaalde drempel overschrijdt, is een explosie onvermijdelijk.
NASA heeft een plan
Een logische oplossing zou dus zijn om de supervulkaan af te koelen, maar daarvoor is er wel erg veel water nodig. “Een groot aquaduct bergopwaarts bouwen in een bergachtige regio zou zowel kostbaar als moeilijk zijn. Bovendien willen mensen niet dat hun water op die manier wordt besteed”, aldus Brian Wilcox van NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory aan de BBC. “Mensen zijn wanhopig op zoek naar water over de hele wereld en een groot infrastructuurproject, waarbij water enkel wordt gebruikt om een supervulkaan af te koelen, zou zeer controversieel zou zijn.”
Ondertussen kwam NASA met een alternatieve oplossing. Daarbij zou de organisatie 10 kilometer diep in de supervulkaan boren en het water onder hoge druk naar beneden pompen. Zo zou de temperatuur van de ondergrondse vulkaan langzaam kunnen dalen. Bovendien is het vooral belangrijk om in de zijkanten van de ondergrondse vulkaan te boren in plaats van in het magmareservoir. Als men rechtstreeks in de magma zou boren, wordt een uitbarsting namelijk nog sneller uitgelokt.
Geothermische centrale
Het NASA-plan zou ook nog een ander voordeel hebben: “Door op deze manier te boren, kunnen we een geothermische centrale creëren die elektriciteit genereert voor ongeveer 0,10 dollar per kilowatt”, aldus Brian Wilcox. Bedrijven die zich bezighouden met geothermische energie en in het project investeren, zouden op die manier energie genereren om de omgeving voor duizenden jaren te voorzien van elektriciteit.
De prijs van het baanbrekende, maar noodzakelijke project liegt er niet om: zo’n 3,46 miljard dollar of omgerekend 3 miljard euro is nodig. Als de mensheid op die manier kan worden gered, is de investering volgens NASA op lange termijn zeker de moeite waard.
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Government Worker Leaks UFO Footage Recorded In Jacksonville
Government Worker Leaks UFO Footage Recorded In Jacksonville
Comparison videos shown first to eliminate doubt. I have never seen anything stay motionless in the sky for 10-15 minutes, only to disappear.
The witness claims to work for the government and said:
"I have never seen anything stay motionless in the sky for 10-15 minutes, only to disappear. We did try to ping it with a laser rangefinder to get a distance on it. It didn't work at all, and they are usually good up to 20-30 km. I work for the government as a defense contractor. I have access to these expensive machines due to my occupation; I'm a depot level FLIR technician."
Willem de KamMet dubbele bundels laserlicht worden brokken ruimtepuin aangewezen (hier bij een repetitie op de Maasvlakte). Alle stukken afval groter dan 10 centimeter wegen bij elkaar 8 miljoen kilo.
MILIEUDe Nederlandse kunstenaar Daan Roosegaarde laat vrijdagavond met lasers zien hoeveel ruimte-afval er in het heelal zwerft. Een bewustwordingscampagne, maar hoe zinvol is dat?
Daan Roosegaarde pakt voorzichtig een plexiglazen kubusje waarin een stukje zonnepaneel gegoten is. Het reepje paneel is afkomstig van ruimtetelescoop Hubble en is meegenomen tijdens een vervangingsoperatie. Het is een van de weinige stukken gerecycled ruimteafval.
Gescheiden afvalinzameling mag op aarde gewoon zijn, de ruimte is nog steeds een dumpplek voor allerhande rommel. Van verfsplinters tot gereedschap tot raketonderdelen tot afgedankte satellieten: van alles cirkelt rond de aarde. Meer dan 29.000 stuks groter dan 10 centimeter; 8 miljoen kilogram, ofwel 8.000 Fiats Panda.
“Toen ik voor het eerst een afbeelding zag van al dat afval rond de aarde, dacht ik dat het een kunstwerk was van Jackson Pollock, of een impressie van een waterstofatoom. Maar het bleek space waste”, zegt Roosegaarde in zijn studio in Rotterdam. “Het beeld heeft een haast obscene schoonheid. Maar het is troep, mogelijk dodelijke troep.”
Lab RoosgaardeImpressie van de aarde te midden van het ruimteafval.
De ruimte is toch onmetelijk groot. Wat is het probleem?
“Je kunt denken; het zit op honderden kilometers hoogte, who gives a shit. Maar als een satelliet wordt geraakt en je ineens geen Facebook meer hebt en geen Whatsapp, dan is er ineens wel een probleem. Het lijkt dus ver weg, maar de gevolgen kunnen intiem zijn.”
Tot nu toe valt het mee, internet werkt gewoon. En je haalt dat afval niet zomaar even op.
“Niemand wil ervoor betalen. Maar als we zo doorgaan, zitten we uiteindelijk in het Kessler-syndroom (de Nasa-wetenschapper die eind jaren zeventig berekende dat een kettingreactie van botsend puin ruimtevaart onmogelijk maakt, red.) De meeste mensen hebben nog nooit van dit probleem gehoord. Ik tot een jaar geleden ook niet. Dus toen de stad Almere mij vroeg of ik een project met hen wilde beginnen, dacht ik: ik ga een Space Waste Lab maken.”
Lab RoosgaardePuin in een lage baan om de aarde.
“Al het afval groter dan 10 centimeter is in kaart gebracht en wordt gevolgd. We weten dus precies waar het is. Met groene lasers gaan we stukjes afval aanwijzen die vrijdagavond over Almere scheren.”
Dat gebeurt met twee krachtige groene laserstralen die in een punt in het zwerk bijeenkomen, als een galactische powerpointpresentatie. Met een beetje geluk kunnen toeschouwers een stukje ruimtepuin zien oplichten, als het helder genoeg is en het afval relatief laag zweeft, zegt Roosegaarde.
En dan zien we dat ruimtepuin. Wat hebben we daaraan? Daarmee is het afval nog niet opgeruimd.
“Bewustwording is stap een. Laten zien dat er een probleem is. Hoe we ervan af komen? Nobody knows.”
Stel dat iemand een oplossing vindt, dan is er nog steeds geen geld om het op te ruimen.
“Nu is vervuilen gewoon gratis, ook in de ruimte. Misschien moet er een soort statiegeld op satellieten komen. Ik geloof trouwens niet dat er gebrek aan geld of technologie is, maar een gebrek aan verbeelding.”
ESAEen buts in een van de vensters van het ruimtestation ISS.
Klein snippertje, grote impact
Doordat ruimteafval kilometers per seconde aflegt, kan zelfs het kleinste verfbladdertje al schade aanrichten als het een satelliet raakt. Zo ontdekte astronaut Tim Peake twee jaar geleden een buts in het Cupola-venster waardoor astronauten naar de aarde kijken. Alles groter dan 10 centimeter kan satellieten aan gort knallen, stelt ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA. Er suizen miljoenen verfsnippertjes en metaaldeeltjes kleiner dan een millimeter door de ruimte, en het worden er meer.
Space Waste Lab
Voor ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA is Space Waste Lab een manier om het probleem onder de aandacht te brengen van het grote publiek, dat zich tot nu toe niet bewust is van ruimteafval, zegt Michel van Pelt van ESA. “Als het publiek erkent dat er iets moet gebeuren, wordt het voor politici makkelijker en belangrijker geld vrij te maken voor opruimprojecten. Wij krijgen immers onze fondsen via de politiek.”
In het verleden kon de Spaceshuttle worden gebruikt om gestrande satellieten terug te halen, of een zonnepaneel zoals dat van de Hubble telescoop. Maar de Spaceshuttle is met pensioen. “We staan nu vrij machteloos”, zegt Van Pelt. Er zijn inmiddels wel plannen om grotere en kleinere satellieten terug te halen, maar het ontbreekt nog aan middelen om de projecten ten uitvoer te brengen.
Naast opruimen is het belangrijk het ontstaan van ruimtepuin te voorkomen. Soms met verrassend eenvoudige ingrepen. Bijvoorbeeld door de stuwstoftanks die nodig zijn om satellieten in de ruimte te laten manoeuvreren, te voorzien van ventielen. Die zorgen er aan het einde van het kunstmaan-leven voor dat de stuwstof uit de tank loopt, waardoor deze niet meer kan ontploffen. En een systeem dat de accu’s aan boord ontlaadt en ze loskoppelt van de zonnepanelen. Nu zijn ontploffende accu’s en zuurstoftanks geregeld oorzaak van een enorme wolk zwerkzooi. Het beste is, zegt Van Pelt, als satellieten zichzelf aan het eind van hun leven zelf opruimen. Bijvoorbeeld door af te remmen, waarna ze neerstorten en in de atmosfeer verbranden.
WETENSCHAPWe kunnen voorlopig enkel de ruimte in met speciale, erg dure raketten. Maar het is lang niet zo denkbeeldig dat we binnen afzienbare tijd gewoon de lift kunnen nemen naar een hoogte tot zo’n 35.000 km, waar de satellieten in een geosynchrone baan rondzweven. Japan mikt op 2050, China op 2045 om zo’n kolossale lift te bouwen. Het internationale ruimtestation ISS gaat binnenkort voor het eerst een experiment uitvoeren om de haalbaarheid van het gigantische project te testen.
Volgens NASA klopt het basisconcept van de ruimtelift alvast, en de ruimtevaartorganisatie staat daarin niet alleen. The Obayashi Corp. uit Tokio heeft al gezegd er tegen 2050 een te zullen bouwen, en China pitste daar nog vijf jaar af.
“De ruimtelift is de heilige graal van het ruimteonderzoek”, zegt de bekende futurist Michio Kaku, professor aan het City College of New York. “Beeld je in dat je gewoon op de knop moet duwen en dat de lift je naar de hemel brengt. Het zou de ruimtevaart openstellen voor de gemiddelde mens.” De ruimtelift zou het op een na grootste ingenieursproject ooit zijn, met een kostenplaatje van zo’n 10 miljard dollar (8,6 miljard euro). Maar de kostprijs per pond (453,59 gram) om een object in een baan om de aarde te sturen zou dalen van 3.000 euro vandaag naar nog geen 22 euro. Dat berekende Peter Swan, president van het International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) in Santa Ana, California.
Het idee van een ruimtelift is niet nieuw. Al in 1895 droomde de Russische wetenschapper Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ervan. Vandaag zijn specialisten het erover eens dat de ruimtelift zou bestaan uit gemotoriseerde capsules die op en neer worden bewogen langs een ketting die van de aardbodem naar de ruimte loopt. Meer bepaald van een ruimtehaven op de evenaar tot een ruimtestation in een geosynchrone baan. De centrifugale krachten veroorzaakt door de rotatie van de aarde zouden de ketting strak houden. De lift wordt aangedreven door voertuigen met magnetische lineaire motoren.
Wereldprimeur
Het ISS-experiment STARS-Me van Japanse natuurkundigen zal op kleine schaal de omstandigheden simuleren waarmee de componenten van zo’n systeem zouden te maken krijgen. Met camera’s zullen de wetenschappers de beweging van een paar kleine ‘cubesats’ over een ketting van tien meter in een gewichtloze omgeving onderzoeken. Het experiment dat de beweging van een lift in de ruimte test, is een wereldprimeur.
De proef zal gebruik maken van stalen ketting die veel te zwaar is om zich uit te strekken over tienduizenden kilometers. Meer en meer wetenschappers, onder wie Kaku, zijn ervan overtuigd dat grafeen, een ultrasterk materiaal op basis van koolstof, het meest geschikt is voor de job. Grafeen is 200 keer sterker dan staal. Voorlopig bestaat het nog maar in kleine afmetingen. Maar naar verwachting is het een kwestie van niet zo heel veel tijd om er zo’n enorme liftketting mee te bouwen.
Miracle or Mystery? Hikers saw a figure disappear on a mountain near Phoenix
Miracle or Mystery? Hikers saw a figure disappear on a mountain near Phoenix
Three young women went out hiking in the mountains of Arizona at the Dreamy Draw Mountain in Phoenix and enjoyed much more than the stunning scenery. They had a spiritual experience.
Allisa Miller, Kassi Sanchez and Jen Vickman took time off from college studies to take a relaxing break in the mountains but little did they know they would have a miraculous encounter during their hike.
The friends said that the day had not got off to the best start and they were unsure whether they should go out into the mountains hiking that day. However, something compelled them to make the climb, so they set out.
The women were making an ascent of Dreamy Draw Mountain when they came across a man at the summit that was dressed rather oddly. Miller explained by saying, "We just see a silhouette of this man, it looks like he has long hair and he's in a robe."
At first, the three young women joked that the figure looked like Jesus, but to their surprise just moments later the figure just vanished from the top of the mountain. The women climbed the rest of the way to the top where the figure had been standing, and this is when things got even stranger.
The figure left a note with a surprise.
The three friends claimed to have found an envelope lying down on the rocks. On it was written: "Do you believe in angels?" reports disclosetv.
MEER BEWIJS DAT PIRAMIDES ANTARCTICA ACTIEF ZIJN ( VIDEO )
MEER BEWIJS DAT PIRAMIDES ANTARCTICA ACTIEF ZIJN ( VIDEO )
Dat er geweldige geheimen verborgen liggen op en in het nog steeds bevroren continent Antarctica is zo langzamerhand wel duidelijk.
Ook nu zit de wetenschap weer met de handen in het haar, want er is een soort kosmische straling ontdekt, niet afkomstig vanuit de ruimte, maar ergens vanuit Antarctica.
Het is soms best wel vermakelijk om te zien hoe wetenschappers hun hoofd breken over dingen die niet te verklaren zijn. Maar ja, zij zijn de geleerden, dus moet er toch op een gegeven moment een verklaring komen die past in het mainstream geschiedenis verhaal.
En dat is jammer, want daardoor worden ontzettend veel mogelijkheden gemist die zouden kunnen leiden tot de werkelijke geschiedenis op onze aarde. Tegelijkertijd is ook bekend dat die geschiedenis door allerlei lieden het liefst verborgen wordt gehouden voor de massa.
In een uitgebreid artikel op Scientific American wordt vol verbazing gerapporteerd over een mysterieus deeltje dat afkomstig is van ergens onder het ijs van Antarctica wat de ruimte in gaat. Wetenschappers hebben geen flauw idee over wat het is, behalve dat het een soort kosmische straling is die vanuit de ruimte naar de aarde is gekomen en daar vervolgens op een of andere manier als het ware wordt teruggekaatst de ruimte in.
En dan is er een groot mysterie, want binnen de bestaande kennis van de deeltjesfysica is dat onmogelijk. Je hebt neutrino’s met een lage energie die diep tot in de aarde kunnen doordringen, maar de neutronen met een hoge energie waar we hier over praten, crashen als het ware op de aarde en stuiteren zeker niet terug de ruimte in.
Bijkomend probleem dat de wetenschappers hebben is dat dit bepaalde deeltje op geen enkele manier in de standaard past die ze voor deeltjes hebben gemaakt. Met andere woorden, dit terug stuiterende deeltje van Antarctica zet de wetenschap behoorlijk op zijn kop, want wat er gebeurt kan volgens de door hen gemaakt regeltjes niet. Regeltjes die ons worden voorgehouden als wetenschappelijke feiten.
De volgende video van Secureteam geeft wat meer achtergrondinformatie over dit mysterieuze verschijnsel op Antarctica.
Waar dit verschijnsel heel veel aan doet denken is een fenomeen dat de laatste jaren bij sommige piramides is waargenomen. Een soort felle lichtstraal die zomaar ineens de ruimte in schiet.
Door het verschuivende klimaat op aarde waarbij het in sommige streken veel kouder wordt en andere weer warmer zien we dan ook soms dingen tevoorschijn komen die tot voor kort permanent door, in dit geval, ijs waren bedekt.
En nu, voor de derde keer in korte tijd, ontdekte men een derde mysterieuze (energie)golf op 26 mei 2017.
Niet alleen neemt de frequentie tussen de golven toe, ze volgen elkaar sneller op, maar ook iedere keer schijnt het afkomstig te zijn uit hetzelfde gebied op Antarctica.
Wanneer je een lijn trekt, dan loopt deze langs het Princess Elisabeth Station naar het gebied waar eind vorig jaar een aantal piramides werden ontdekt.
De vreemde golf komt ergens vanuit dat gebied en dat zou het Elisabeth Station kunnen zijn, maar als dat zo was, dan was het ook geen mysterie geweest. En als het daar niet vandaan komt, dan moet er een andere bron niet ver daar vandaan zijn.
Mensen die Google Earth gebruiken om Antarctica te verkennen komen op regelmatige basis piramides tegen en daarmee ligt hun aanwezigheid op dit zuidelijke continent wel aardig vast.
Wetenschappers zeggen nu dat de betreffende mysterieuze deeltjes van diep onder het ijs komen en dan denk je misschien niet snel aan piramides. Maar de ijslaag op Antarctica is heel dik en (formeel) hebben wij eigenlijk nog geen flauw benul wat zich daaronder bevindt.
Nu is er echter een satellietfoto opgedoken die een soort ovale constructie onder het ijs laat zien. Het lijkt een doorsnede van ruim 100 meter te hebben en heeft alle kenmerken van een door mensen gemaakt gebouw.
Als dit inderdaad wordt bevestigd, kunnen de geschiedenisboeken op aarde worden herschreven, want dan blijkt duidelijk dat er hoogstaande beschavingen op aarde waren, voordat dit volgens onze huidige geschiedenisboeken het geval was.
Volgens de hoofdarcheoloog Ashoka Tripathi van de Universiteit van Calcutta, zijn de afbeeldingen duidelijk bewijs van vroegere menselijke nederzettingen onder de dikke laag ijs.
Hij zei, “Dit zijn duidelijk kenmerken van bepaalde door mensen gemaakte structuur. De patronen laten níets zien van wat wij normaal gesproken zouden verwachten bij een natuurlijk gevormde formatie. Wij hebben hier ontegenzeglijk bewijs van menselijke constructie”.
“Het enige probleem dat we hebben, is dat deze foto’s zijn genomen in Antarctica, onder een twee kilometer dikke ijslaag. Dat is duidelijk een puzzel waar we op dit moment geen verklaring voor hebben”
Mysterious ancient peoples seem to have had the habit of leaving behind baffling puzzles in the form of inexplicable, often indecipherable artifacts that serve to be simultaneously both alluring and baffling, and one such discovery has long lurked in the country of Costa Rico. From the late 1920s, a vast area of thick, nearly impenetrable rain forest in the Diquís Valley of Costa Rica was found to have the perfect soil composition for growing an array of different fruit. Considered to be more or less an agricultural gold mine, the United Fruit Company began moving into this uncharted wilderness in order to clear it to make way for banana plantations, but in addition to the hardships of the land itself, disease, and the thick clouds of mosquitos, they found something else out there in the jungle, something that has gone on to become one of the world’s great archeological mysteries.
In the 1930s, workers clearing the land in the valley began coming across something that they struggled to make sense of. There standing amongst the trees and underbrush were found myriad large stones, with some truly massive at up to 7 feet across and weighing around 16 tons. The strange thing was that these were no mere rocks and boulders, but were rather perfectly, or nearly perfectly formed spheres, totally smooth to the touch, and they had obviously been there for a very long time, ancient monoliths from a long forgotten time that were obviously artificial. There were also a lot of them, with around 300 found scattered about the landscape over the years.
Most would have thought of this as a major discovery, but although the workers were without a doubt baffled and awestruck, they nevertheless were not there on an archeological expedition, they were there to clear land for fruit plantation and these strange relics were getting in their way. The workers went about simply moving them out of the way with heavy work equipment and by hand, and some even thought that they perhaps had gold in them, blasting them open by drill and dynamite. This obviously damaged the spheres immensely, and by the time word got out about these magnificent ancient treasures and authorities could move in, many of the spheres were irreparably damaged or even completely destroyed, and still more of them sold off to become lawn ornaments for wealthy curiosity seekers all over the country before serious study could be carried out on them.
The first serious study done on the mysterious stone spheres was carried out in the 1940s by the researcher Doris Stone, who was actually the daughter of one of the executives of the United Fruit Company and future director of Costa Rica’s National Museum. Stone’s findings were then published in 1943 in the esteemed archeological journal American Antiquity, and this caught the attention of other researchers. One of these was Samuel Lothrop, of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, who went about a major excavation and study of the remaining spheres, carefully measuring them and mapping their positions and alignments.
Other expeditions and studies have sporadically been carried out over the years, but the spheres largely remain as mysterious as they ever were. We know their size, that they are comprised of an indigenous hard stone known as granodiorite, and we also know that they are definitely artificial. Other than that there has been much speculation and debate as to how old they are, how they were made, and who made them and for what purpose. Presenting a serious hurdle to answering any of these questions and indeed spawning further questions that could have otherwise perhaps been answered is also the fact that virtually none of the spheres remain in their original positions or alignments, with some of them completely gone, whisked far away to serve as landscape decorations, and many that do remain suffer major damage. The spheres have been rolled away or down ravines, and others have been severely damaged or destroyed by being moved, treasure hunters blowing them up, or brush by burning, which warps, chars, and cracks the otherwise smooth surface of the stones.
As to the age of the spheres, they were originally described as being truly ancient, up to 12,000 years old, but this has since been doubted. It is difficult to use radiocarbon dating methods on solid stone, so the most reliable way of guessing their age is to compare them to the pottery and other artifacts that lie within the same strata, but since many of the stones have since been moved from their original positions even this is not totally reliable. Although it is not known for sure just how old they are, based on the artifacts around and under them, the spheres have been guessed as probably dating back to between 600 and 1500 AD, but by who is also a mystery, as is how they managed to do it with the primitive tools at hand.
It has been speculated that these spheres were likely created by the ancestors of the native Boruca, Téribe, and Guaymí peoples of the area, although this is not known for sure, and there is also the idea that a lost, unknown civilization was perhaps responsible. The methods used to make the spherical boulders are also rather shrouded in mystery, as granodiorite is a very hard rock that is notoriously hard to carve, but there are some clues. Although a good number of the spheres are almost completely smooth, some of them display marks from tools that present hints to how they might have been crafted. It is thought that the people who made them would have chosen boulders that were already somewhat rounded to begin with, likely quarried from the bed of the Térraba River or the nearby Talamanca mountains, after which the heavy rocks were laboriously transported and work would begin.
There have been some ideas that the natives who made them had access to some sort of lost method such as the use of a stone softening potion of some sort, but there is little evidence to support this. The spheres are thought to have been more likely meticulously shaped through a combination of controlled fracturing, in which cracks are intentionally made, grinding, chipping, and pecking with some sort of sturdy, tool made of a similarly hard substance, possibly made of the same kind of rock as the spheres themselves. Interestingly, the outer layers of the mysterious spheres have shown evidence that they were subjected to extremes of hot and cold, likely in order to smooth them out by flaking off bits, with the heat provided by hot coals. When the boulders finally approached a suitably spherical shape, undoubtedly a labor-intensive process that would have taken large amounts of time, they would then be painstakingly polished to a fine smoothness by using materials such as rough leather or even sand. This is the commonly accepted method for the manufacture of the spheres, but it is not certain as no unfinished spheres have ever been found, and so we don’t really know for sure.
So we have sort of a plausible, albeit still uncertain, idea of who made the spheres, how, and when, but even then we are left with the why. Why did these ancient people go through all of the effort of shaping these massive boulders only to leave them scattered about the landscape? What were these enigmatic artifacts actually used for? No one really knows for sure, as there are absolutely no records of them by whoever made them, but there are theories. One is that the arrangement and alignment of the spheres, or at least the estimated positions and alignments of them, in relation to the ruins of walls, structures, and cobbles around them, suggest they may have served as some form of tool for navigation, astronomical observations, or even as a compass. The problem is, as has been mentioned, almost none of the spheres are in their original positions, making this all pure speculation. Another idea is that, because some of them have been found within what would have once been a structure or atop mounds, they may have held some religious significance or been used as status symbols. In the end, it is just as unclear as to why they were made as it is who made them and how. We just don’t know.
Of course with such an alluring mystery there have been more fringe theories presented for the mystery spheres, such as that they were brought from Atlantis or built by refugees from the legendary lost continent, and this theory was most notably proposed in the books Atlantis in America- Navigators of the Ancient World, by Ivar Zapp and George Erikson (1998), and The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization, by Colin Wilson and Rand Flem-Ath (2001). Another idea is that the people who built the spheres had the help of ancient aliens, who used their technology to make the objects, and that the spheres somehow align with similar monuments in far-flung places such as the Moai of Easter Island, Stonehenge, and even the pyramids.
In the end these strange enormous spheres have remained largely as much of a mystery as they always have been, inscrutable monoliths of another lost time and people. Presently most of the intact spheres can be found in various locations throughout the country and in museums all over the world, but being unleashed from their original jungle lair has done little to truly illuminate their origins, with their enigmas in a sense still firmly out in those wilds along with their lone remaining brethren. For now, the mysterious stone spheres offer only fleeting hints as to the meaning of their existence, and it is likely the only ones who will ever know the true answers are the ones who made them
Many UFO researchers are reluctant to address the “aliens are stealing our souls” theory. It is, after all, one of the most controversial aspects of the UFO subject. The fact is, though, that there are far more than a few such reports on record. The problem is, however, that for so many in Ufology, the subject is so troubling and disturbing they choose to outright ignore it. One of the earliest – and most intriguing – cases on record came from a man named Paul Inglesby. His real name was actually Eric Inglesby and his 1978 book, UFOs and the Christian, was published under Eric Inglesby. But, two years later, he changed his name to Paul Inglesby and from then on answered to Paul (and as Father Paul: in 1980 he converted to Greek Orthodox).
Just one year before the Second World War broke out in 1939, Inglesby – who died in 2010 – went down with a very serious case of malaria. So serious was it that for a while Inglesby perilously hovered in that mysterious domain between life and death. It was while in this limbo-like state that Inglesby had a frightening dream. Years later, he recalled how it all went down: it was an undetermined time in the Earth’s future and UFO-like craft were soaring across the fire-and smoke-filled skies of our ruined, radioactive planet and launching nuclear missiles at our major cities – killing billions and causing planet-wide destruction. The UFOs were not piloted by extraterrestrials, though, but by demonic entities whose goal was to suck out the souls of those killed in the fiery inferno, which was rapidly overwhelming the Earth and just about everything on it.
For Inglesby, it was quite literally a wake-up call. The malaria cleared up, Inglesby came out of his unconscious state, and he spent the rest of his life pursuing a career in the church and warning people to avoid the UFO issue – fearing that it would lead people to become ensnared by malevolent demonic monsters, all of which Inglesby described in his aforementioned 1978 book, UFOs and the Christian.
Inglesby’s story dates back to the 1930s, and it was in the 1950s onward that he began talking about his nightmarish dream – after he realized that what he had seen back in 1938 were images of nuclear explosions and “mushroom clouds” of the type that were all too familiar by the 1950s. It’s important to note, though, that the issue of a connection between UFOs, aliens and the human soul didn’t really surface to any kind of meaningful degree until the latter part of the 1980s – which takes us to the issue of Whitley Strieber’s bestseller of 1987,Communion.
When word of Strieber’s planned book first got out, most Ufologists assumed that the book, in terms of its content and its theories, would be fairly akin to John Fuller’s The Interrupted Journey of 1966 and to Budd Hopkins’ 1981 book, Missing Time. Both books adhered to the now-familiar theory that aliens are stealing our DNA to save their waning species. Strieber’s revelations were, in many respects, far removed from the writings of Hopkins and Fuller, which is why the book created such a firestorm in those locales where ufologists hang out. As I saw it, though, Strieber’s book was a thought-provoking breath of fresh air.
In Communion, Strieber made it very clear that his own encounters with “the Visitors” – and those of others he had spoken to – revealed a startling connection between alien abductions and the human soul; even a paradigm-shifting connection. In his book, Strieber talked about how abductees experienced their souls “dragged” from their bodies during abductions. Strieber himself was told by his abductors that they “recycled” human souls. That sounds quite comforting, as it suggests reincarnation may be a reality – something which will ensure us further lives after this one. But, was Strieber being told the entire truth by his captors? Or, was this an attempt on their part to push things down a different, more appealing path? Certainly, Strieber admitted something notable that suggests he recognized that not everything was good and positive.
Strieber said that, the more and more he dig into the matter of his encounters, and as he tried to get a handle on what was afoot, he was unable to banish from his mind the theories of Charles Fort. For those who may not know, Fort was an acclaimed writer on all manner of paranormal phenomena. His books included Lo! and Wild Talents. Fort had darkly suggested that, in Strieber’s own words in his 1988 book, Transformation, we the human race, are “animals here for the slaughter and incapable of seeing the greater and more terrible meanings that surround us.”
As for more on Charles Fort’s opinions, they can be read in his classic title of 1919, The Book of the Damned. Fort wrote: “I think we’re property [italics mine]. I should say we belong to something: That once upon a time, this earth was No-man’s Land, that other worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession, but that now it’s owned by something: That something owns this earth – all others warned off.”
Classic "Flying Saucer" Captured Passing The Moon By Amateur Astronomer. Berkshire, England, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 25, 2018
Location of sighting: Earths moon
This is some incredible footage of a oval UFO moving over the surface of the moon. The footage was taken using a telescope while searching for craters. This black craft matches the many other UFOs that have been recorded moving over the moons surface for the past few years. There are alien still living on our moon even today, coming and going in these ships...all the while laughing at how humanity still believes its alone in the universe.
Scott C. Waring
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This footage was captured on September 25, 2018 and shows the moment Jason Callum from the aimed his telescope at the lunar surface to get a better look at the craters. But what he ended up uncovering left him stunned. The clip, captured from Bracknell, Berkshire, shows the moment a small black object made its way across the screen, zooming from right to left. Jason attempted to follow its journey, but once the light from the moon had gone, it was impossible to track.
The witness and videographer of this strange incident said that he saw a triangle-shaped UFO with blue and grey colour moving above his head in London.
The observer stated he had sufficient time to get his 90x zoom camcorder and capture the strange moments in the video. He also managed to snap still frames of the triangle vehicle.
The UFO appeared to have unique colours and shape. The top of the object in question seems to be off-centre as compared to other reported triangle-shaped UFOs.
However, given the consideration of today’s technology, it is just wise to be sceptical as it is now easy to make something like the one on the video.
The bizarre object has a blue colour along with grey on the other side. Take a look at the video and see what you think.
Check out this footage of a UFO activity in the sky above Australia. This was filmed on 2nd October 2018.
Witness report:
Time: 20:38:47pm Direction: West, next to star HIP – 83858 The movement is very strange, appears to be moving in a curve. It’s very far away given I had to zoom in on the footage that was shot at 300mm.
ESA Just Released Photo Of The Surface Of An Alien World
ESA Just Released Photo Of The Surface Of An Alien World
Today the European Space Agency (ESA) published a fascinating photo.
The bizarre landscape comes from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The photo was taken from ESA's spacecraft Rosetta.
ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA; J. Roger – CC BY SA 4.0
This image shows a portion of 67P/C-G as viewed by Rosetta on 22 September 2014, only one and a half months after the spacecraft had made its rendezvous with the comet.
Explore the full mission image archive yourself at
Scientists Accidentally Blew Up Their Lab By Creating History's Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field
Scientists Accidentally Blew Up Their Lab By Creating History's Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field
Things did not exactly go as planned when researchers at the University of Tokyo set out to create test the properties of a new generator system. Instead, they managed to create the strongest magnetic field ever created indoors, which led to them blowing off the doors to their lab.
Strongest Magnetic Field in a Controlled Environment
A paper in the “Review of Scientific Instruments” revealed the researchers wanted to reach a peak magnetic field with an intensity of about 700 Teslas. However, in reality, they produced 1,200 Teslas. Bear in mind that the standard refrigerator magnet is only about 0.01 Tesla. While they did not mean to do it, they essentially made the strongest magnetic field in a controlled environment indoors.
However, they do have some way to go before they can claim to have generated the strongest ever field. Russian researchers did this in 2001 when they created more than twice the strength at 2,800 Teslas.
Researchers Did Not Use TNT But Still Blew the Door Off
To create the magnetic fields the researchers used “electromagnetic flux-compression”, a technique that researchers have used since the 1940s. A spike that is only brief is caused in the magnetic fields strength as it is squeezed rapidly into a smaller size. During the 1940s this technique relied on large amounts of TNT being used in order to generate an explosion that was powerful enough to cause the magnetic field to compress. The downside to this, of course, was that the technique could only be used once due to the fact the equipment was totally destroyed by the blast caused by the TNT.
The researchers in Japan wanted more control over the explosion to cause the magnetic field to compress so they refrained from using TNT, instead dumping huge amounts of energy by of 3.2 megajoules, into the generator. In order to do this, the researchers had to feed 4 million amps of current in the generator. To put this into perspective it is several thousand times that of a lightning bolt. When the coil is tightly compressed and will not go any further a shockwave is produced destroying the generator along with the coil.
In order to provide themselves with protection to keep them safe, the researchers constructed an iron cage, placing the generator inside it. While this was a good idea, the cage they constructed had only been made to be able to withstand up to 700 Teslas at the most. Of course, things went awry when they produced 1,200 Teslas by accident, which resulted in the door to the iron cage being blown off.
Researcher Admitted He Did Not Expect Magnetic Field to be so high
Shojiro Takeyama was among the researchers at the University of Tokyo taking part in the experiment. He said, "I didn’t expect it to be so high." "Next time, I’ll make [the enclosure] stronger."
A new iron cage was made and the researchers made some adjustments and are giving the experiment another attempt. They are planning to generate only 1,500 Teslas by pumping 5 megajoules of energy into the generator.
In conclusion, the researchers said:
"Only 40 years ago, magnetic fields of the order of 1000 Tesla were only reported in extremely complicated and sometimes unreliable explosively-driven systems, without any of the sophisticated levels of control. Therefore, one can say without any doubt, that the present results represent the beginning of a new era in the quest of producing and using ultrahigh magnetic fields for solid-state studies as well as for plasma fusion related experiments."
THIS will change Everything you KNOW about human history
THIS will change Everything you KNOW about human history
Is it possible that the great prophet Enoch was instructed by aliens with the engineering knowledge necessary to build the great pyramids?
Were these pyramids built at a time before the Great Floods? As new technologies explore unprecedented details of the pyramid, new questions are asked about what remains to be revealed. Perhaps Enoch's lost library remains hidden in a secret chamber inside the great pyramid.
Join Erich of Däniken on an excursion through the Great Pyramid of Cheops as he unveils hidden secrets in the familiar chambers and begins to uncover secrets yet to be discovered.
On both September 19 and 23, Arctic sea ice dropped to its minimum extent of 1.77 million square miles (4.59 million square km). The 2018 minimum ties for the 6th-lowest in the satellite record.
Arctic sea ice likely reached its minimum extent for the year on September 19 and again on September 23, 2018, according to researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA.
Scientists track sea ice in the Arctic as it grows to a maximum extent through the winter and shrinks back in the summer to its minimum extent in September each year. This year’s minimum sea ice extent – the smallest area of ice for the year – reached 1.77 million square miles (4.59 million square km). That tied with 2008 and 2010 as the sixth lowest sea ice minimum since consistent satellite records began 40 years ago.
Researchers at NSIDC noted that the estimate is preliminary, and it is still possible (but not likely) that changing winds could push the ice extent lower.
Arctic sea ice follows seasonal patterns of growth and decay. It thickens and spreads during the fall and winter and thins and shrinks during the spring and summer. But in recent decades, increasing temperatures have led to significant decreases in summer and winter sea ice extents. The decline in Arctic ice cover will ultimately affect the planet’s weather patterns and the circulation of the oceans.
The map above shows the extent of Arctic sea ice as measured by satellites on September 19, 2018. Extent is defined as the total area in which the ice concentration is at least 15 percent. The yellow outline shows the median September sea ice extent from 1981–2010.
Claire Parkinson is a climate change senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. She said in a statement:
This year’s minimum is relatively high compared to the record low extent we saw in 2012, but it is still low compared to what it used to be in the 1970s, 1980s and even the 1990s.
Bottom line: On September 19 and 23, 2018, Arctic sea ice extent dropped to 1.77 million square miles (4.59 million square km) – tied for the 6th lowest minimum in the satellite record.
The MASCOT lander captured this shot of asteroid Ryugu from an altitude of 20 meters (60 feet), just before touching down. More images and data will arrive in the next few days.
(Credit: MASCOT/DLR/JAXA)
The MASCOT has landed.
As of two weeks ago, humans had never put a single robotic explorer on an asteroid. Now we have three of them hopping about on Ryugu, a 900-meter-wide object currently orbiting on the other side of the Sun. On September 20, Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe dropped two little landers, MINERVA II-1a and II-1b. They promptly sent back dizzying images from the surface. Then last night (October 3), the mothership deployed MASCOT, a much larger rover that is now performing a battery of studies during its rushed, 16-hour lifespan. A fourth rover and sample collection are yet to come.
What we are witnessing here is not just a single spectacular mission (though Hayabusa2 certainly is), but the beginning of a new era of solar system exploration. When the New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in 2015, that marked the end of humanity’s initial reconnaissance of the nine classical planets and the beginning of a closer look at the little-explored small objects that hold so much information about the formation and evolution of the solar system, and perhaps about the emergence of life on Earth.
In 2016, the Rosetta probe made spectacular studies of Comet 67P. Later this year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe will visit another near-Earth asteroid named Bennu; other NASA missions to a double asteroid, a metal asteroid, and asteroids caught in Jupiter’s orbit are all on the way. But for now, the story belongs to Haybusa2 and the spectacular work of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). I tracked down a few of the key players to get their firsthand impressions of this historic moment.
The little MINERVA II-1 rovers before launch, and a schematic of their unusual mechanism for hopping around on Ryugu. They are solar powered, so could potentially keep operating for weeks or months to come.
(Credit: JAXA)
I asked Makoto Yoshikawa, mission manager of Hayabusa2 at JAXA, about his reaction to the first results from Hayabusa2 and its two little MINERVA-II rovers (it stands for MIcro-Nano Experimental Robot Vehicle for the Asteroid, in case you were wondering). These innovative robots, each just 18 centimeters (7 inches) wide, use a movable internal weight to jump about on Ryugu. The gravity there is so weak that wheels or legs would be useless. Yoshikawa also previewed the next stages of the mission, when Hayabusa2 will lower itself to the surface of Ryugu and collect samples to send back to Earth.
Yoshikawa: “For me, the biggest surprise was its shape. The shape of Ryugu is a spinning top, which is totally unexpected. We know some asteroids have such shape, but for such asteroids the spin period is short, just 2 to 4 hours. The spin period of Ryugu is 7.6 hours, so it is not rotating so fast. That’s why we did not expect Ryugu to look like a top. And usually the shapes of small asteroids are irregular. Ryugu is very small but has a geometrical shape, so it is very interesting.
The MINERVA II-1A rover saw its shadow on Ryugu. On an asteroid, the forecast is always sunny weather.
(Credit: JAXA)
“I am very happy for this success. I was also working on the Hayabusa mission [JAXA’s previous asteroid probe], and I felt quite pity when we failed to put MINERVA on the surface of asteroid Itokawa. Now we were able to put two small rovers on the surface of Ryugu and they send us marvelous photos. The rovers are very small but they are moving on the surface of Ryugu by hopping. It is very pleasant for me to imagine such a scene.
“The main purpose of MINERVA-II is not science but to demonstrate how to move on a surface with very low gravity. But now we know how the regolith (rocks, pebbles) look like on the surface of Ryugu. I think this will be important information to study the evolution of Ryugu. The most worrying thing is that there are no wide fields on the asteroid without big boulders. Now we are discussing how to make touchdown safely to get the samples.
“The main scientific purpose of this mission is to study organic matter and waters [hydrated minerals] on the surface of Ryugu. We think Ryugu has not changed much since it was born, so if we study such things, we can understand organic matter in the solar system before life on Earth began.”
Surface views of Ryugu from the MINERVA II rovers. The left 2 images are from rover 1B, the final one from 1A.
(Credit: JAXA)
I also contacted MASCOT project leader Tra-Mi Ho of DLR (the German Aerospace Center), the agency that co-developed the rover with the French space agency. Unlike the MINERVA-II rovers, MASCOT (Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout) is designed for maximum science return. Doing that requires a lot of power, meaning that solar cells would not suffice. Instead, it carries a battery, so this is a one-shot deal: 16 hours of science, give or take, and then MASCOT will spend the rest of eternity — millions of years, at least — slumbering on the surface of Ryugu. Ho summarized what the 10-kilogram lander will be doing during its frenzy.
Ho: “MASCOT has 4 scientific instruments: MASCAM, a camera; MMEGA, an infrared hyperspectral imager; MARA, a radiometer; and MASMAG, a magnetometer. With this suite of experiments we would like to understand four main goals.
“First, the geological context of the surface. Second, the global magnetization of the asteroid and any local magnetization at the landing. Third, the mineralogical composition and physical properties of the surface and near-surface material including minerals, organics and detection of possible, near-surface ices. And fourth, the surface thermal environment, by measuring the asteroid’s surface temperature over the entire expected temperature range for a full day-night cycle. This all will give us further understanding on what C-type [carbon-rich] asteroids Ryugu are made of and learn about their evolutionary history.
MASCOT on Earth (top), and as it might appear now on Ryugu.
(Credit: DLR)
“The finding of the MINERVAs and MASCOT are very complementary. The MINERVA rovers landed on the northern latitude of Ryugu. MASCOT will land on the southern latitude of Ryugu. By correlating the observation of the instruments on-board Hayabusa2 with the in-situ measurements performed by MASCOT and the MINERVAs, along with the analysis of the retrieved samples which we foresee will be taken along the asteroid’s equatorial region, the acquired local ground truth on Ryugu can be placed into a global context.
“When I saw the first images from the MINERVAs, I was surprised and astonished at the view of such an extraterrestrial world. It is quite different from asteroid Itokawa, which was visited by Hayabusa. It looks like smoother terrains found on Itokawa are less widespread on Ryugu. The amount of stones and fractured boulders appear more hazardous, so it’s possible that MASCOT could get trapped in an unfavorable condition. It adds excitement to the adventure, though!”
Amid all the excitement over Hayabusa2 and its little companions, I also want to give props to one of the mission’s predecessors. This is the first time anyone has successfully deployed rovers on an asteroid, but this is not the first time anyone has landed on an asteroid. (And, to be fair, there have also been quite a number of comet and asteroid flybys.) The first-touchdown honor goes to NASA’s NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft in 2001. Although NEAR was designed only to orbit the asteroid Eros, mission planners devised a clever plan to crash land it so gently that it might survive. In fact, NEAR kept operating for more than two weeks, returning bonus data about the composition of Eros.
The first intimate portrait of an asteroid, and also the last image taken by NEAR Shoemaker, from 2001. At the time the spacecraft was 120 meters from Eros and falling.
(Credit: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL)
Lucy McFadden of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center was on the NEAR science team. She’s also a veteran of several other small-body missions, including the Dawn mission that is now nearing its end around dwarf planet Ceres. McFadden has some colorful recollections from her time with the NEAR mission.
McFadden: “The NEAR landing on Eros was extremely elegant, as it was not designed to do so. The engineers made it happen, and it provided us with serendipitous results. Now my colleagues will be able to compare two asteroids that vary in size by a factor of 20. Hyabusa2 will provide a lot more information, because it planned on landing and its lander has instruments designed to operate on the surface. We have the bold engineers and mission managers to thank for paving the way for today’s landed space missions.
“After the NEAR landing, we took one of our lead engineers out to dinner (to celebrate his getting a PhD–not for the landing). While at the restaurant, we heard a big uproar at the bar. We asked the waitress what the huzzah was all about. She said, ‘One of the guys had just landed his ping pong ball in a glass of beer at the end of the bar.’ We all looked at each other, and turned to the waitress and said, ‘Oh, that’s nothing. We just landed a 3-meter spacecraft on a 33-kilometer-long asteroid, 135 million kilometers away.’ We were all tremendously amused at ourselves.”
McFadden reflects that then, as now, the triumphs of space exploration provide a welcome counterpoint to the sad and maddening stories that dominate the news headlines. “At times like these, space stories play an important role,” she says. “I call it cosmic relief.”
Just wait, because the Hayabusa2 mission has a lot more cosmic relief coming our way.
NASA Solar Probe Flies By Venus on Its Way to 'Touch' the Sun
NASA Solar Probe Flies By Venus on Its Way to 'Touch' the Sun
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
A NASA sun-studying spacecraft's first Venus flyby is in the books.
The agency's Parker Solar Probe zoomed within 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) of Venus as planned this morning (Oct. 3), getting an orbit-sculpting gravity assist, NASA officials said.
The spacecraft therefore remains on course for its first close encounter with the sun, which is scheduled to take place from Oct. 31 through Nov. 11. During this 12-day stretch, the Parker Solar Probe will gather a wealth of data about the sun's structure, composition and activity.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully made its first flyby of Venus on Oct. 3, 2018 as the spacecraft makes its way toward the sun. The spacecraft will be the first to fly through the sun's outer atmosphere. Six more Venus flybys are planned.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
The spacecraft, which launched on Aug. 12, has many more such encounters on tap — a total of 24 over the next seven years. And there will be six more Venus flybys as well, which will serve to shrink the Parker Solar Probe's orbit, allowing it to get closer and closer to Earth's star over time.
During the final planned solar close approach in 2025, for example, the spacecraft will zoom within 3.83 million miles (6.16 million km) of the sun's surface. For perspective, the current proximity record —which Parker will break late this month, by the way — is 27 million miles (43 million km), set by the German-American Helios 2 mission in 1976.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will use seven Venus flybys over nearly seven years to gradually shrink its orbit around the sun, coming as close as 3.83 million miles to the sun’s surface. The first of these flybys occurred on Oct. 3, 2018.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
When all is said and done, the data gathered by the mission should greatly improve scientists' understanding of the sun and space weather, NASA officials have said. For example, the Parker Solar Probe could help solve two long-standing solar puzzles — why the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is so much hotter than the surface; and how, exactly, the charged particles that make up the solar wind are accelerated to their impressive speeds.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13.
Astronaut Scott Kelly Fought Off Aliens In Space STRONAWith Microsoft’s HoloLens
Astronaut Scott Kelly Fought Off Aliens In Space With Microsoft’s HoloLens
ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY FOUGHT OFF ALIENS IN SPACE WITH MICROSOFT’S HOLOLENS
Think augmented and virtual reality headsets are just for games? NASA astronautScott Kelly thinks otherwise after spending some quality time with Microsoft’s HoloLens aboard the International Space Station during his recent 340-day mission. At a press conference yesterday, the astronaut said: “It worked great. I was really surprised. We messed around with it for, like, two hours, and immediately, I sensed — this is a capability we could use right now.”
Unlike virtual reality headsets, such as the Oculus Rift, Microsoft’s HoloLens overlays images onto the actual environment around you. It accomplishes this by projecting light directly onto the eyeball, literally augmenting your vision.
“It worked great,” he said today during a news briefing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas. “I was really surprised. We messed around with it for about two hours, and immediately I sensed this is a capability we could use right now.”
Microsoft and NASA sent the HoloLens devices up to the ISS to see if it would work as part of Project Sidekick to assist astronauts:
“For example, ground controllers could monitor Kelly’s HoloLens view during a maintenance procedure. “I could say, ‘Hey, is this the bolt or connector you’re talking about?’ And the person [at Mission Control] could just write an arrow in your field of view,” Kelly said.”
It wasn’t all work, however. Kelly got to play RoboRaid, one of Microsoft’s HoloLens games:
“”It has alien spaceships coming inside the space station, and there’s these aliens attacking you,” Kelly said of the game. “You’ve got to shoot them with your finger. … It was kinda fun.”
As Kelly explained, that meant that a “person on the ground could be drawing things in your field of view, and pointing to things, and I could be doing the same thing.” For instance, he added, “I could say, ‘Hey, is this the bolt or connector you’re talking about?’ And [Mission Control] can just write an arrow in your field of view.” Another feature Kelly found useful was the ability to keep track of tasks with a list off to the side of his vision.
Since it’s so difficult to control your body and keep objects from flying around in the micro-gravity of space, it isn’t hard to imagine how something that makes information easily available could be useful aboard the space station.
Of course, that doesn’t mean Kelly and his fellow crew members didn’t play any games with the HoloLens. He tried a game — probably RoboRaid — where you have to fight off incoming swarms of invading aliens by shooting them with your finger. We saw the game at E3, but it’s probably a bit more surreal when you’re actually in space. Kelly said, with a grin, that it was “kinda fun.” The best part, though? This footage (above) of him and fellow astronauts playing the HoloLens game while floating in space. The future is here.
UFO sightings: MUFON’s most bizarre eyewitness alien encounters and testimonies
UFO sightings: MUFON’s most bizarre eyewitness alien encounters and testimonies
UFO sightings are a daily occurrence for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, and the organisation is always on alert for more alien encounters. Here are some of the most bizarre eye-witness accounts of UFOs.
The Mutual UFO Network was established in 1969 and has since grown to become one of the world’s largest bodies of dedicated UFO hunters.
MUFON’s goal is to study, track and gather data on daily UFO encounters from around the world.
The UFO hunters said: “As the world's oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative body we aim to be the inquisitive minds' refuge seeking answers to that most ancient question, ‘Are we alone in the universe?’”
The bulk of MUFON’s work relies on user submitted reports which the organisation claims to meticulously review before publishing.
One of the more recently published UFO sightings, submitted by a witness in Singapore, concerns a “fast moving, boomerang-shaped” object in the sky.
The UFO was seen dashing across the sky under cloud cover on October 6, 2017.
The eyewitness recounted in Case 87184: “It was a very clear and cloudless night when I looked up and saw this boomerang-like, ‘cloud’ flying by.
“The ‘cloud’ had a very faint body and it maintained its shape while speeding past.”
The witness estimated the object was roughly 2km away from their position but managed to cover the entire distance along the horizon in “just a mere couple seconds”.
The witness stressed the UFO was moving to the east – against a northeastern wind.
They said: “There was no light nor sound coming from the object.”
MUFON researcher Robert Spearing has since closed the case as an Unknown UAV, or unmanned aerial vehicle.
MUFON
UFO sightings: MUFO collects eye-witness reports of alleged alien spacecraft
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UFO sighting photo: This alleged alien ship was pictured flying over Nevada, United States
Teardrop UFO in Nevada – Case 83759
Thousands of miles away in North Las Vegas, US, a witness submitted a report of what appeared to be a teardrop-shaped object flying some 500 feet above the ground.
The MUFON testimony claims the witness was outdoors shooting photographs of airplanes landing at Nellis Air Force Base in southern Nevada.
The testimony reads: “The UFO is too far away, about two miles, to say what it was. It was like a bright light, but when I blew it up, it looked like a smoky goldfish cracker.
“I blew it up to about 200 percent and it looked like a cloud of circular smoke. I probably don't have the best equipment to say what it was.
“And with so few pixels, well, we don't have enough solid evidence other than its descending path, which can be calculated by time to say, yes this was a UFO. But the object started up at 1,000 feet and pulled a 45-degree descent.
“And then, just disappeared.”
Nevada MUFON State Director Sue Countiss closed the case as an Unknown UAV.
Square UFO over the Philippines - Case 83456
The next case presents another oddly shaped object floating over a city but this time over Angeles City, northeast of Manila.
This UFO was spotted by a “trained US Marine observer” who was sipping a cup of coffee at 5.45am local time on May 1, 2017, during the encounter.
The witness said in their report: “I heard my dogs carrying on outside and went to investigate.
“At first, I thought they had barked at nothing, when I suddenly caught sight of the object.
“I watched it only for 30 seconds or so before realising that it wasn't a plane, helicopter, or hot air balloon and ran into the house and grabbed my cell phone as it was the closest camera available.”
The case was investigated by Chase Kloetzke who closed it as an Unknown UAV.
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UFO sighting: An eye-witness spotted this strange object over the Philippines
Low-flying triangle over California - Case 83410
A California witness claims to have seen a triangle-shaped object with seven, blinking lights pass over Fresno, US.
After the event, I realized I may have viewed a possible UFO
UFO witness, MUFON Case 83410
The UFO encounter took place on April 26, 207 around 9pm local time.
The eye-witness recollected: “I looked up in the sky and saw a triangle-shaped craft with seven white lights blinking all at the same time heading west.
“It was very clear and seemed too large to be an aircraft.
“I thought it might be a drone at first glance. But it was too large and too high in altitude to be a drone.
“The object made no noise. It seemed to be well above 500 feet at about 80-degrees above the horizon when we first spotted it.”
Adding: “After the event, I realized I may have viewed a possible UFO.”
The case was closed for MUFON by field investigator Hady Felfly as an Unknown UAV.
The aviation industry, only born a little over a century ago, is on the brink of an enormous change. While electric cars and the electric scooters are already dotting city streets, planes are preparing to join the emissions-free club.
On October 1, HES Energy Systems announced plans to craft the first regional hydrogen-electric passenger plane in the world. The company aims for the four-passenger aircraft, named Element One, to take to the skies in 2025.
“We are looking at innovative business models and exploring collaboration with companies such as Wingly,” Taras Wankewycz, CEO of of HES Energy Systems told Inverse in an email. Wingly, a flight-sharing startup, sees a perfect pairing between Element One and France’s underused airfields.
The zero-emission plane boasts a range of 500 km to 5,000 km in service, thanks to its lightweight hydrogen fuel cell technology.
What Makes Today the Moment to Go Electric?
The title of first electric plane to take flight actually goes to Heino Brditschka, an airplane manufacturer who made it 300 meters in the air for about 10 minutes in 1973. But the electric aircraft industry only took off in earnest over the past 9 years, spurred on mostly by start-ups and new players in the aviation, according to consulting firm Roland Berger in a Financial Times report. That’s helped drive more innovation: Companies like Siemens, with its record-breaking 200-plus mile per hour electric 330LE, as well as the new electric face of Boeing 737s are also working on similar initiatives.
Aside from competition, the recent push to electric flight is chiefly motivated by environmental concerns. Aviation makes up 3 percent of global carbon emissions, according to the EU’s Clean Sky 2 initiative. And with air travel projected to increase threefold by 2050, the industry is trying to avoid contributing to the problem of climate change any more than it already is.
See also: NASA Is Developing A Supersonic Plane That Is (Hopefully) Super Quiet
In the context of rising emissions, this makes a plane like Element One — designed to create zero-emissions — absolutely transformative. The aircraft would use ultra-light hydrogen fuel cells (stored either as a gas or liquid) to tackle the industry-wide challenge of battery density not matching traditional fuel density (in other words the weight of batteries needed to power aircraft could be overwhelming). The Element One will also only takes 10 minutes to refuel, and may eventually use solar or wind energy to recharge mid-flight. Although the prototype fits four passengers, the aircraft could scale up to 10-20 passengers or more, according to Wankewycz. Innovations like these allow Element One to outperform other battery-electric airplanes, reaching a range of 500 km (a little longer than the Grand Canyon) to 5,000 km (a little over the distance from L.A. to New York).
Current challenges include certification and testing that faces every new aircraft, but Wankewycz is confident in preparing the Element One for success.
Hydrogen fuel cells could be swapped in as little as 10 minutes, and may eventually be recharged using other forms of renewable energy.
And with the expanded range of Element One, new promising opportunities for regional travel open. Wingly, a French flight-sharing startup collaborating with HES Energy Systems, found the perfect opportunity in France’s unused airfields.
“We analyzed the millions of destination searches made by the community of 200,000 pilots and passengers on our platform and confirm there is a tremendous need for inter-regional transport between secondary cities,” says Emeric de Waziers, CEO of Wingly in a press release. “By combining autonomous emission free aircraft such as Element One, digital community-based platforms like Wingly and the existing high density network of airfields, we can change the paradigm. France alone offers a network of more than 450 airfields but only 10% of these are connected by regular airlines. We will simply connect the remaining 90%.”
In today’s paradigm, small, short-distance flights like the ones de Waziers describes are a luxury of the terrifically rich. But at the intersection of hydrogen-electric technology and forward thinkers of startups like Wingly, passengers from diverse economic backgrounds may soon have a quieter, greener (and sleeker) reason to clap at the end of their flight.
A recent study published discovered that the Great Pyramid in Egypt can store electromagnetic energy.
Reflect On:
This is one of many discoveries being made that the pyramids built all over the world could actually be technologically advanced in ways we can't even imagine.
Humanity is full of strange mysteries and metaphysical discoveries that are being made every single day. These are the types of discoveries that really challenge the accepted framework of knowledge that’s constantly pushed upon the populace. Today we have no shortage of dogma, acceptable belief systems that are put in place that really don’t disrupt what we thought we knew, and every time something does disrupt what we thought we knew, hardly a peep is heard from the mainstream. Perhaps that’s because these discoveries would disrupt our known reality in a way that’s too much for the mind to handle. That being said, the collective mind is indeed opening more and more every single year.
One of the latest examples I recently wrote about is the Bosnian Pyramid Complex, it was discovered in 2005 and multiple global conferences were held in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 with more than 100 experts from various scientific backgrounds. The conferences included leading scientists, archaeologists and anthropologists. They concluded that the Pyramids were without a doubt real and that it now represents the oldest pyramid complex on the planet. You can read more about the Bosnian Pyramids, in-depth here.
Pixabay Composite
I mention the Bosnian pyramid complex within this article because at that location, a team of physicists apparently witnessed an energy beam coming through the top of one of the Pyramids. The beam is continuous and its strength grows as it moves up and away from the pyramid.
This phenomenon contradicts the known lawas of physics and technology. This is the first proof of non-herzian technology on the planet. It seems that the pryamid-builders created a perpetual motion machine a long time ago and this “energy machine” is still working.
– Semir Osmanagic, Ph.D, retired anthropology professor and discoverors of the complex
So, just to make it clear, the idea that these structures served some unknown highly advanced technological function, is not novel, and it is complemented by world researchers that are at the forefront of these discoveries. It makes you really wonder, doesn’t it? Why, and who built these amazing structures so long ago, and why were they built in these time periods and supposedly by civilizations on Earth, that had absolutely no knowledge or contact with each other? And why is serious study about it ignored and/or ridiculed when certain conclusions are hypothesized?
Egypt
The latest example comes from Egypt, in the form of a new study published about the Great Pyramid at Giza suggesting that it might also have its own energy source. Researchers discovered that, due to its shape, the Great Pyramid of Giza can actually focus electronic and magnetic energy, like radio waves for example, into its internal chambers and below its base. Scientists say that if they are able to recreate the concentrated energy on a nanoscale, it could eventually be used to develop a more efficient form of solar cells.
Although the pyramids in Egypt have been known about for a long time, researchers have very little scientific knowledge about their physical properties. We know that there are some strange synchronicities, like their location on Earth, their mathematical properties.
How about the fact that the ratio of its circumference to its original height is equal to the value of pi: 3.14 ? This is something that’s not supposed to have been known for more than another millennium. Their mathematical and astronomical knowledge and the acquisition of it remains a complete mystery to modern-day scholars.
This is why it’s also important to mention all of the research that’s gone into and is going into the Bosnian pyramid complex.
The Great Pyramid can concentrate electromagnetic energy in its internal chambers and under its base, where the third unfinished chamber is located.
Phys.org explains how the researchers came to their conclusions:
They were derived on the basis of numerical modelling and analytical methods of physics. The researchers first estimated that resonances in the pyramid can be induced by radio waves with a length ranging from 200 to 600 meters. Then they made a model of the electromagnetic response of the pyramid and calculated the extinction cross section. This value helps to estimate which part of the incident wave energy can be scattered or absorbed by the pyramid under resonate conditions. Finally, for the same conditions, the scientists obtained the electromagnetic field distribution inside the pyramid.
Scientists had to use some assumptions, however. For example, the assumption that there are no unknown cavities inside, and the building material with the properties of an ordinary limestone is eventually distributed in and out of the pyramid, “with these assumptions made, we obtained interesting results that can find important practical applications,” Said Dr. Sc. Andrew Evlyukhin, scientific supervisor and coordinator of the research.
These seem to be reasonable assumptions that don’t really disrupt the discovery.
The scientists now plan to use the results to again perhaps develop a more efficient energy source.
Choosing a material with suitable electromagnetic properties, we can obtain pyramidal nanoparticles with a promise for practical application in nanosensors and effective solar.
Now, the scientists plan to use the results to reproduce similar effects at the nanoscale.
In this case, the scientists seemed to steer away from making any type of interpretation, but given what we already know about pyramids all over the world, they are, at least in my mind, representations of something we have yet to come to grasps with. Something otherworldly, spiritual, metaphysical and ahead of our time, but also a glimpse of our past.
It’s an interesting finding given what’s already been found in Bosnia.
The Takeaway
It’s important to recognize that what’s written in our history books should not really be taken as truth. We don’t know who built the pyramids, how they were built, or why they were built, but it’s quite clear that metaphysical, spiritual and a high level of technological advancement was probably involved. Our history as we know it has plenty of holes and we should not allow something that disrupts what we believe to be possible to not be taken into consideration, there is more than enough data to suggest what we thought we knew is not correct, and that we can go back to saying “we don’t know.”
Insider claimt meer dan 3000 autopsies te hebben uitgevoerd op aliens. Dit is zijn verhaal
Insider claimt meer dan 3000 autopsies te hebben uitgevoerd op aliens. Dit is zijn verhaal
Insider Emery Smith heeft na 10 jaar zijn ware identiteit onthuld. Hij heeft besloten in de openbaarheid te treden en zijn verhaal te doen. Het is vervolgens aan de kijker om het waarheidsgehalte van zijn verhaal te beoordelen.
In onderstaande video beweert Smith, die recentelijk in meerdere shows is verschenen, dat hij meer dan 3000 autopsies heeft uitgevoerd op aliens.
Hij begon naar eigen zeggen op jonge leeftijd als chirurgisch technicus in het Amerikaanse leger.
Ondergrondse installatie
Smith presteerde zo goed dat hij werd overgebracht naar Kirtland Air Force Base, waar hij in een ondergrondse installatie monsters moest verzamelen en labelen.
In eerste instantie waren de monsters klein en onbeduidend, zoals bijvoorbeeld een zalmfilet.
Elke drie tot zes maanden kreeg Smith een hogere beveiligingstoegang en begonnen de monsters meer ‘intact’ te worden.
Niet van deze aarde
Zo kreeg hij onder meer iets waarvan hij duidelijk kon zien dat het een hand was. Hij mocht alleen geen vragen stellen. “Je deed je werk en sprak daar verder met niemand over,” zei hij.
Na verloop van tijd kreeg de insider lichaamsdelen voor zijn neus die duidelijk niet van deze aarde afkomstig waren.
Reptiel
Over het eerste lichaam waar hij aan werkte zei hij: “Het had de kleur van een luipaard en bestond uit een romp, en het leek alsof het aan stukken was geblazen. Het had de huid van een reptiel en het had normale organen zoals een milt, hart en longen. Het gezicht was helemaal verminkt.”
Op de dag dat hij een volledig lichaam kreeg dat nog warm was, besloot Smith eruit te stappen. Sindsdien wordt hij naar eigen zeggen bedreigd en aangevallen.
It took Emery Smith over a decade of being an anonymous insider to David Wilcock to finally come out into the public and talk about his experiences in black ops projects, where he says that he performed autopsies on over 3000 different ET specimens.
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Does the testimony of Emery Smith seem possible to you? Is it important for the Awakening Community to try to piece together the larger reality of these hidden projects and bases in order to move forward in our quest for sovereignty on the planet?
It took Emery Smith over a decade of being an anonymous insider to David Wilcock to finally decide to come out into the public realm and share his stories in person. You may have heard of him already if you follow the work of David Wilcock, Steven Greer, Corey Goode or others. If you have not, be prepared to hear about a hidden world of laboratories in secret underground bases that seems almost too fantastical to be made up.
The video embedded below is from Emery Smith’s first appearance on David Wilcock’s ‘Cosmic Disclosure.’ If Emery appears to be nervous in the first interview to reveal his identity, he has reason to be. He was aware that he had testimony that powerful people would not want disclosed. Near the end of the interview, they discuss Emery’s decision to reveal himself to the public. Emery gets quite emotional, saying that ‘Recently…it’s gotten a little violent.’
Emery: Been shot at, been stabbed, been jumped by 3 agents, gotten my butt kicked, I mean, I’ve been through it all…They really got angry and that’s where I lost everything. They broke into my house, rammed my gate, my concrete gate, down, you know, where all this stuff was stored, cut into the walls, where things in safes were hidden, that you can only know by satellite, using–these people definitely had perfect satellite imagery, of, you know, I know about the satellites, very well, and the stuff they can do with them, and they can look into every brick, and every wall of the house.
David: Wow, it’s unbelievable. I’m very glad that you made it here alive, that we’re doing this now, we’re gonna try to get as much on camera as we can for your safety.
While David had long been telling Emery that coming forward publicly to reveal what he knows would probably be better for his safety than staying anonymous, Emery finally decided that David was right, after having so much violence inflicted upon him. It seemed to be enough to give him the resolve to expose himself andspeak about this important information. All this and more is spoken about in the video below.
Getting Into The Black Ops World
Starting off as a surgical technician in the military at a young age, he showed great promise with his skill and rapidly growing knowledge. When he was moved out to Kirtland Air Force Base he was offered a special ‘Moonlighting’ job, which he would do part-time at first but eventually became full-time while still being ranked and paid as an above-board active duty service member.
He discusses his first day of work which involved going into an underground facility on the base through a secret elevator that could go down at least 30 levels:
‘On my first day I just remember I was in this little room, kind of like you would see in the movies where the rooms were all white with the little steel table, and all these instruments there, and you’re escorted to this place, and you get in there and there’s this piece of tissue, and it’s all positive-pressure air system, and you do scrub-out just like a surgeon scrubs and puts his gowns on and all that, and you label like you would in biology school a frog–this is a muscle, this is a tongue, whatever–and I was just there to label and take small samples, and put them in these different types of jars and vats and containers, which I would then push through a drawer in a wall, and someone else would take it, and that was it.’
At first, the samples were small and nondescript, at times resembling a piece of salmon filet. But every three to six months Emery would rise to a higher security clearance, and as he did so,
‘…the samples started getting more ‘intact,’ where you could see that, well, this is a hand, you know, and I could not tell you what that is, at that point <ET or not>, I couldn’t even say–and you’re not allowed to ask, anything. You just do that, and you don’t talk to anybody, and that’s your job, and that’s it.
David: What if you told your friends or your family, like, were you given security briefings for that?
Emery: Yes. I would be killed.
Emery began seeing things that were fully not what one would see on the planet, but seemed to look like highly evolved pieces of animal or even insect bodies. He said at this point he didn’t know if he was working with extraterrestrial beings, because there were possibilities that these were hybrids of different animal DNA and even human DNA.
Advancing to Partial And Full Bodies
It did not take too long, about 10 months, for Emery to advance to the point where he was getting large body parts of clearly extraterrestrial beings to autopsy, since he was doing his job well and keeping his mouth shut. Emery describes the first partial body he worked on.
Emery: It was a leopard-colored skin, it was a torso, it looked like it had got blown up, and it had reptilian skin, it had normal body parts like we had on our insides, so I did see a spleen, a heart, lungs, the face was too distorted and destroyed so I couldn’t tell you what the face looked like, but it had perfect, normal bone structure like we do, and it was just the skin, was beautiful, it was iridescent blue leopard skin, it reminded me of growing up in the Everglades, with the leopard frogs, where they had those round circles–and peacock feathers, mixed.
David: Did it scare you the first time you got a partial body, were you, like, ‘Oh my god, what’s going on here?’
Emery: Yeah, I was in shock. They’re measuring my heart rate, by the way, the whole time, they’re measuring how I’m reacting, so I kept cool, and they didn’t ask me ‘How are you doing?’
On the one hand, Emery had an insatiable curiosity about the beings he was working on, about where they came from, how they came to be in the lab, what had happened to them. He was, however, not even allowed to ask questions, and so a bit of disenchantment with the whole process was settling in.
After working with full bodies of extraterrestrial beings for a while, many of which defied description, he started feeling that there was something not right, that he was no longer feeling comfortable with what he had been doing. The day he received a full body that was warm, and which he knew had just died, he started to realized that he no longer wanted to do the work and applied for and received an honorable discharge.
Tip Of The Iceberg
Emery Smith has recently appeared as a guest on many shows, and it becomes clear that his knowledge and understanding of the workings of black projects and a whole world that is hidden from us is quite vast and comprehensive. The fact that he has autopsied extraterrestrial beings could almost be considered the tip of the iceberg, though it gives some indication of the high level of secrecy, compartmentalization, and vastness of this secret world that most human beings are still not aware of.
With the testimony of insiders like Emery Smith and Corey Goode, the Awakening Community has no choice but to evaluate their claims and try to piece together a picture of the vast operations that are being hidden from us, not only on the Earth but deep underground and in space. The more we work together to understand not only the nature of these activities but also the agenda, the closer we will be to getting the truth revealed to humanity at large.
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UFO UIT MINNESOTA, USA OOK IN NEDERLAND GESIGNALEERD
UFO UIT MINNESOTA, USA OOK IN NEDERLAND GESIGNALEERD
Onlangs publiceerden wij een artikel waar op drie verschillende tijdstippen in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota een groot cirkelvormig object met talloze lichten werd waargenomen door getuigen.
Het ziet er onmiskenbaar uit als een (buitenaards) ruimteschip en naar nu blijkt is hetzelfde soort schip ook al eerder in Nederland gesignaleerd.
Het gaat om drie onafhankelijke waarnemingen in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota van een behoorlijk groot cirkelvormig object dat er als volgt uit zag:
Naar aanleiding van ons artikel, ontvingen wij de volgende mail(dank!):
This evening while looking at your site I saw “Ruimteschip hangt vier minuten boven weg Update”
This gave me the goosebumps! This is exacly what my X wife and myself saw in 1996 From Oeffelt To Our House In Boekel, I didn’t have a camera with me so I didn’t take a picture but now I see it and thank you for that.
Op die website staat inderdaad het hele verhaal wat er die zomeravond in juni 1996 gebeurde tijdens een autorit van Oeffelt naar Boekel, een afstand van zo’n 26 kilometer.
De man in kwestie was samen met zijn toenmalige vriendin op bezoek geweest bij vrienden die in een vrij afgelegen boerderij in de buurt van Oeffelt woonden.
Hij kan zich die avond van 22 juni 1996 nog goed herinneren, want dat was de avond dat Nederland tegen Frankrijk speelde voor de wereldkampioenschappen.
Rond middernacht vertrekt het stel omdat de volgende dag een werkdag was en ze een beetje op tijd in bed moesten liggen. Het eerste wat de man ziet is een rond object met vele lichten dat rondcirkelt boven de boerderij waar ze op bezoek waren. Het was identiek aan die die nu wordt waargenomen in Minnesota.
Het was een kilometer of 7 richting snelweg vanaf de boerderij en de weg was verlaten en liep door een vrijwel onbebouwd gebied. De vriendin kon vanuit de auto zien dat het object hen volgde rechts van de auto en exact dezelfde snelheid aan hield. Toen de man gas gaf accelereerde de UFO ook en toen hij een bocht naar rechts maakte volgde de UFO.
De man werd een beetje overmoedig, stopte de auto en stapte uit om beter te kunnen kijken. Het object draaide rond tegen de richting van de wijzers van de klok in en stopte boven een huis aan de rechterkant van de weg. Toen begon het met de richting van de wijzers van een klok mee te draaien en bewoog zich richting auto en de man had het gevoel alsof het object met hem communiceerde. Hij schat de grootte ervan op enkele voetbalvelden, geen kleintje dus. Bovendien maakte het geen geluid. Het vloog enkele keren over de auto en tenslotte stapte de man weer in.
Omdat ze op een gegeven moment onder een bladerdak van bomen reden dachten ze het object kwijt te zijn, maar niets was minder waar. Een minuut later was het weer terug aan de passagierskant van de auto. De vrouw vroeg hem om sneller te gaan rijden en de auto zo snel mogelijk thuis de garage in te rijden, hetgeen geschiedde.
Thuis gekomen was de man toch weer nieuwsgierig geworden, liep naar buiten en zag het object hangen boven het huis van de buren. Omdat het object nu heel dichtbij was en onder een bepaalde hoek hing, had de man heel sterk het gevoel dat ze naar hem keken. De man riep naar zijn vriendin en de babysitter om snel naar buiten te komen en toen ze dat deden schoot het object weg met hoge snelheid. Het verdween van het ene op het andere moment, zonder enig geluid te maken.
De man was een voormalig sergeant bij de luchtmacht en is daardoor wel goed in staat om onderscheid te maken tussen bijvoorbeeld een helikopter en een onbekend object.
Even later kwam het object nogmaals terug en werd toen ook gezien door de babysitter en de buurman die net zelf terugkwam van een feestje. Uiteindelijk verdween het object opnieuw en ze hebben het daarna nooit meer gezien. Wel bleek later dat er die avond veel UFO meldingen waren geweest in dat gebied.
Tot zover het verhaal.
Het mooie van dit verhaal is wel dat hiermee eigenlijk wordt uitgesloten dat het waargenomen object een drone is. Simpelweg omdat die in 1996 nog niet voor kwamen.
Wij hopen dat door het lezen van dit verhaal misschien meer mensen zich iets herinneren, hetzij van die avond of een andere gelegenheid waarbij ze ook dit bepaalde type UFO hebben gezien.
If you’re Jupiter (the planet), moons are a dime a dozen … you’ve got nearly 7 dozen (79) of them. However, if you’re a hot Jupiter — a gaseous Jovian clone circling some other star in a very close orbit – you may not have any moons at all … at least as far as we know. That may have changed this week as two astronomers announced they think they’ve found a Neptune-sized moon attached to an alien planet. If it’s true, this is the first discovery ever of an alien moon … and the way it was found may cause a resurgence in the playing of a certain Cat Stevens song.
A large moon orbits the Jupiter-size planet Kepler 1625b in an illustration.
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“We find evidence in favor of the moon hypothesis, based on timing deviations and a flux decrement from the star consistent with a large transiting exomoon.”
The Flux Decrements would be a great name for a band, but Columbia University astronomers Alex Teachey and David M. Kipping are referring to a change in the light cast by a star when they use it in their new report in ScienceAdvancestouting their proposed discovery – ‘proposed’ because they don’t yet have full confirmation but they definitely have a pile of evidence, starting with their curiosity in 2017 surrounding strange data from the Kepler space telescope which hinted that exoplanet Kepler 1625b orbiting Keplar 1625 – a star similar to our own – was behaving as if it had a very large moon. Unfortunately, Kepler’s data wasn’t solid enough for proof.
Kepler telescope trying hard to follow a moonshadow
Enter the Hubble Space Telescope – four times more powerful than Kepler. Teachey and Kipping scheduled time on the Hubble and in October 2017 were able to watch Kepler 1625b cross in front of its star. Hubble immediately picked up an anomaly — Kepler 1625b showed up 77.8 minutes earlier than predicted (the timing deviation). Then, 3.5 hours later, a shadow passed in front of Kepler 1625 — the flux decrement. Coupled with the timing deviation, Teachey and Kipping concluded that the shadow was cast by a moon about the size of Neptune … maybe.
“We’ve tried our best to rule out other possibilities such as spacecraft anomalies, other planets in the system or stellar activity, but we’re unable to find any other single hypothesis which can explain all of the data we have.”
David Kipping wants to see the phenomena happen again. The next opportunity to observe Kepler 1625b and its alleged giant moon will be in May 2019 when they are next scheduled to pass in front of their star. Will the astronomers see the moonshadow following the exoplanet’s? Teachey hedges his bets while making a pitch to fellow astronomers.
“If we don’t get the time, maybe someone else will get the time. That would be just fine with us. It would be more convincing … if somebody else came along and got the same answer.”
In 1955, one of the most controversial of all the many and varied UFO books published in the fifties was released. Its title was The Case for the UFO. The author was Morris Ketchum Jessup. His book, in part, was a detailed study of the theoretical power-sources for UFOs: what was it that made them fly? How could they perform incredible, aerial feats, such as coming to a complete stop in the skies, hovering at incredible heights? Jessup believed that the answers lay in the domain of gravity. Or, as he saw it: anti-gravity. Jessup may well have been onto something, as it wasn’t long at all before the world of officialdom was taking an interest in him – specifically the U.S. Navy. And it was one particularly intriguing office of the Navy that was watching Jessup – a “special weapons” division. Clearly, someone in the U.S. Navy was intrigued by Jessup’s findings and theories.
In the mid-fifties, Morris Jessup became deeply worried – paranoid, even – that he was being spied on. On several occasions, he noticed that certain items in his office had clearly been moved – strongly suggesting that when he was out of his home someone was having a stealthy look around. The ante was upped when Jessup had a face to face interview with Navy representatives who wanted to speak with him about his book and the theories and the technology referred to in its pages. That wasn’t all they wanted to discuss They also wanted to know what Jessup knew about the so-called Philadelphia Experiment of 1943, in which, allegedly, a Navy ship – the USS Eldridge – was rendered invisible, something that is said to have led to the deaths of some of the crew. I should stress, though, that Jessup’s original source for the story was a man named Carlos Allende. He was a notorious hoaxer in the controversy-filled saga of the vanishing ship, which was not a good sign.
USS Eldridge
Of course, given the fact that Jessup was already in a deep state of fear and paranoia, the meeting with the Navy only increased his anxieties. He saw Men in Black lurking outside of his home. Hang-up calls in the middle of the night became regular occurrences. Mail arrived tampered, opened and resealed. Clearly, someone was trying to derail Jessup and his research.
In the early evening of April 20, 1959, the lifeless body of Morris Jessup was found in his car, which was parked in the Matheson Hammock Park in Miami, Florida. The car’s engine was still running and a hosepipe, affixed to the exhaust, had been fed through the driver’s side window. Jessup was dead from the effects of carbon-monoxide. Jessup’s body was found by a man named John Goode, who worked at the park. He quickly called the police, who arrived in no time at all. While it looked like Jessup had killed himself, not everyone was quite so sure that things were so black and white. The window through which the hose was stuffed with a couple of towels, to prevent air from getting in and carbon-monoxide from getting out. Curiously, Mrs. Jessup — Rubeye – confirmed the towels were not theirs. Why, if Jessup took his own life, did he not take towels from the family home? What would have been the point of buying new towels? And, if he did buy such towels, where was the receipt? It certainly wasn’t in the car, or in any of Jessup’s pockets.
Of course, no one can say what goes through someone’s mind when they decide to end their life, but if nothing else the matter of the towels was perceived as somewhat of a red flag. It should be noted, though, that Jessup’s life was not exactly stable in this period. And that’s putting it mildly. His marriage was in a fraught state, a car accident had limited his activities, and he was having trouble getting published. In other words, we most definitely need to look at both sides of the coin – and carefully and closely, too.
Moving on, there is the fact that on the very night before his death, Jessup spent more than an hour chatting on the phone with one Manson Valentine, expressing his enthusiasm for his latest work and plans for further investigations into the Philadelphia Experiment. Jessup even told Valentine that they should have lunch together the next day. Valentine never saw Jessup again.
NO WAY! - What you are about to see was OBSERVED in the skies above Planet Earth
NO WAY! - What you are about to see was OBSERVED in the skies above Planet Earth
We are familiar with atmospheric phenomena like sundogs, light pillars, and other kinds of halos seen in the sky. They're actually caused by the sun, very high in the sky, shining through a particular type of ice cloud formation.
But lately other phenomena have been observed that are difficult to explain, strange cloud formations, square and rectangular clouds, mysterious glows in the night skies, roll clouds from horizon to horizon, rays of light, straight lines that seem to split the sky, etc.
It makes us wonder whether all these unnatural-looking sky phenomena are still natural or the result of geo-engineering, weather manipulation.
The following video shows some these strange unnatural-looking sky phenomena captured in the last few days.
UFO Caught Over Tucman, Argentina Construction Site on Sept 6, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Caught Over Tucman, Argentina Construction Site on Sept 6, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 6, 2018 Location of sighting: Tucman, Argentina Source: Twitter report This report just came into me on Twitter today. A person in Argentina was hired to make a portable water facility and took two photos to show his boss that he was doing on the job. However the second photo had a UFO over some of his equipment. The UFO...when enhanced clearly has a round dark window for a pilot and this craft is about half the size of a motorcycle, but maybe much bigger if its far back behind the equipment...not over it. Aliens know that the human eye is flawed, there are parts of the spectrum we cannot see and an object moving at a high enough speed would basically appear invisible to us. Absolutely a great photo that has excellent evidence that we are not only being visited by aliens, but also monitored by them. Scott C. Waring
Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Listen program said it has added the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa to its global effort to listen for signals from an alien intelligence.
First announced in 2015, Breakthrough Listen is an unprecedented $100 million program – backed by Russian high-tech billionaire Yuri Milner – to listen for signals from an alien intelligence. This massive SETI project is already listening via the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and Parkes Telescope in Australia. On October 2, 2018, Breakthrough Listen announced it will also begin listening via the 64 radio dishes of South Africa’s brand new MeerKAT telescope. It made the announcement at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen, Germany, saying it planned to:
… examine a million individual stars – 1,000 times the number of targets in any previous search – in the quietest part of the radio spectrum, monitoring for signs of extraterrestrial technology. With the addition of MeerKAT’s observations to its existing surveys, Listen will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Yuri Milner commented:
Collaborating with MeerKAT will significantly enhance the capabilities of Breakthrough Listen. This is now a truly global project.
Artist’s concept of an extraterrestrial, via Shutterstock.
Yuri Milner funds Breakthrough Listen. He was an early investor in Facebook and Twitter and has funded other large endeavors. For example, he has established the largest award in the world in the field of biomedicine and life sciences, called the Breakthrough Prize.
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) spent part of this year verifying the 64 radio antennas, each 13.5 meters (44 feet) in diameter, of the MeerKAT telescope. SARAO officially inaugurated the telescope in July 2018.
Breakthrough Listen said its involvement:
… adds the capability to search for technosignatures – signals that indicate the presence of technology on an alien world, and hence provide evidence that intelligent life exists elsewhere.
The MeerKAT telescope of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas, located in the remote Karoo Desert of South Africa.
Scientists and engineers from the University of California, Berkeley SETI Research Center have already installed Breakthrough Listen’s special digital instrumentation (much like that installed at Green Bank) at the MeerKAT telescope. The Breakthrough Listen team said its observations will:
… occur in a commensal mode – at the same time as other astrophysics programs. Using sophisticated processing, Breakthrough Listen scientists will digitally point the telescope at targets of interest.
This means that the Breakthrough Listen instrument at MeerKAT will be operating almost continuously, scanning the skies for signs of intelligent life.
The Green Bank telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, is another one of the observatories attempting to eavesdrop on aliens with the help of Breakthrough Listen. Using the Breakthrough Listen digital instrumentation at this telescope, astronomers 3 weeks ago announced they’d found 72 more fast radio bursts from a distant galaxy.
Bottom line: Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Listen program has added the new MeerKAT telescope of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory to its global SETI effort.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Hosts Alejandro Rojas and Martin Willis discuss the latest UFO news including the scientific analysis of materials allegedly from a UFO. The materials are in the hands of the To the Stars Academy, who has created a program called the ADAM Project to scientifically analyze materials believed to have come from anomalous sources, especially UFOs. Recently, they released an article regarding material that they say has been debated for decades. Although they do not say for sure, it appears this material was sent anonymously to Art Bell in the 90s and is referred to as “Art’s Parts.” Alejandro and Martin also discuss their interviews with witnesses to a very credible alleged alien encounter in South Africa, and the latest UFO news.
WE JUST LEARNED SOMETHING NEW ABOUT “ONE OF THE WEIRDEST OBJECTS IN THE MILKY WAY”
WE JUST LEARNED SOMETHING NEW ABOUT “ONE OF THE WEIRDEST OBJECTS IN THE MILKY WAY”
The star system SS 433 is something of a celebrity in the world of astronomy.
It’s the first known example of a microquasar — a black hole that feeds off a nearby companion star and emits two powerful jets of material. Plus, at just 15,000 light-years away, it’s relatively close to us.
And now, an international team of researchers has discovered something new about SS 433: it emits a type of electromagnetic radiation known as high-energy gamma rays. This new insight could help astronomers understand what’s going on at the centers of galaxies, where huge quasars sometimes feed on many stars at once.
HAWC features more than 300 water tanks, each about 24 feet across. When gamma rays reach Earth’s atmosphere from elsewhere in the universe, they cause showers of particles that hit the water in these tanks, causing shockwaves of light. Special cameras detect these, and from their recordings, researchers can pinpoint the source of the gamma rays.
For their study, published Wednesday in Nature, the team examined 1,017 days’ worth of HAWC data and determined that SS 433 was a source of gamma rays. Perhaps even more remarkably, they figured out that the rays were coming from the ends of the microquasars’ jets — a source of gamma rays they’d never seen before.
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“This new observation of high-energy gamma rays builds on almost 40 years of measurements of one of the weirdest objects in the Milky Way,” said study co-author Segev BenZvi in an emailed press release. “Every measurement gives us a different piece of the puzzle, and we hope to use our knowledge to learn about the quasar family as a whole.”
Of the roughly one dozen microquasars in the Milky Way, only two appear to emit high-energy gamma rays. The fact that the closest microquasar to Earth also emits these rays — and in a previously unknown way — could afford researchers a better way to study them, all while helping us get to know our favorite microquasar a little bit better.
Cmdr. David Fravor says in 2004 he had an unforgettable encounter with a strange aircraft he believes was defying the laws of physics - maybe a UFO. #Tucker
An American pilot who claims to have chased an alien aircraft has warned world leaders to take UFO sightings seriously.
Elizondo secured the release of previously classified US Defense Department videos of UFO encounters - one of which shows the craft Fravor saw darting off at an incredible speed.
Commander Fravor, 53, was flying one of two fighter jets on a routine training mission about 100 miles into the Pacific ocean off San Diego when they were diverted to check out an aircraft spotted on radar from their navy cruiser the USS Princeton.
The operations operator said they had been tracking up to a dozen mystery aircraft over two weeks but hadn't had manned planes deployed when they showed up.
The object first appeared at 80,000 ft, then hurtled towards the sea, stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering before dropping out of radar.
When Commander Fravor arrived he saw a white aircraft hovering 50 feet above above a disturbance in the ocean.
He said: “It was just moving randomly around - this 40 foot long white tic tac looking thing, with no wings.
“It was a clear day with a blue background and it was perfectly white. We didn't see any windows, no form of propulsion, nothing, just a big white object.
"It was rounded on both ends and had a cylindrical body which rounded in, same front to back.
“I couldn't tell what it was made of, it was bright white but it wasn't reflecting a bunch of light."
Fravor flew towards it and the aircraft began ascending towards him, passing him at about 12,000 ft. He thinks he got within half a mile of it.
He said: “I literally chased the thing and it started to mirror us, it was like it became aware we were there. I cut across to see if I could get closer and it rapidly accelerated and disappeared. Within a matter of a second it was gone.”
Asked what was going through his mind, he said: "I was thinking 'That's pretty strange'. In 16 years of flying I had never seen anything like that. Nothing that can hover and climb at that rate up and then accelerate and just disappear.
“I was more curious then afraid. I wanted to see how close I could get to it, to see what it was.”
The two fighter jets were told to head to a rendezvous point 60 miles away.
However the radio operator on the Princeton then radioed and said the mystery aircraft had turned up before them.
At this point another aircraft was sent to investigate and recorded radar footage of the aircraft. The 90 second video shows the oblong shaped object hovering before it darts off to the left at what appears to be an unprecedented velocity.
Fravor said: “It jammed the radar, you couldn't lock it with a conventional radar, you could passively track it and see it, but if you tried to grab a lock it wouldn't allow you to do that.
“When it takes off and goes to the side that's a significant amount of distance to travel in a very short period of time, we're talking miles, that thing just goes poof and in about a second it's off the side of the screen.
"You look at the video of it there's no exhaust flume, there's no indication of how that thing is moving around. Having seen a lot of different airplanes, you can always at least hot spots where the exhaust is coming out. I was close enough visually to go 'we don't have anything like that'."
He insisted the object was alien in origin.
He said: “I know what I saw, it was impressive, it had incredible performance, obviously I wasn’t in a hostile act with it, you’d have your hands full if you were.
"I honestly don’t think humans have that technology to do what that thing did. Nor could the human body withstand accelerations like that. It’s an incredible technology to be able to go up to space, and back down and hang over the water.
"I know what I saw and the other three people that were there saw at the same time. I think you would be hard pressed to question my credibility flying experience wise. I’m totally sane, in good health, I don’t do drugs.
"We physically saw and chased it and are the only ones that have actually got close to one of these things.”
Fravor is now calling on British space expert Stephen Hawking to view the video and give his take on it.
Physicist Stephen Hawking exits the stage during an announcement of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative with investor Yuri Milner in New York April 12, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RTX29N6G (File photo: Physicist Stephen Hawking exits the stage during an announcement of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative with investor Yuri Milner in New York April 12, 2016.
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He said: “They should be talking to Stephen Hawking. He’s a brilliant man, I would like to hear his thoughts on it. They said they’re talking to some other theoretical physicists like him about the possibilities.”
And in a stern warning to governments around the world he added: “We all need to take these seriously as a species, because right now we don't know the intent of these things, if they're like ET it's great, if they're like War of the Worlds not so much.
“You can ignore them and hope they're just going to observe, or you can do something about it and try to understand what they’re doing and develop technology, in case they do have a bad intention.”
In another video released by the US government into the existence of extraterrestrial life a pilot can be heard muttering: "This is a f****** drone, bro," the New York Post reported.
The footage shows another pilot saying: “There’s a whole fleet of them,” before exclaiming, “It’s rotating!”.
The footage captures a glowing whitish oval and a darker orb as the jets, dispatched from the aircraft carrier Nimitz, chase the craft.
The footage was released by the Defense Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which spent $22 million between 2008 and 2012 to investigate reports from military and commercial pilots of unidentified flying objects.
Lockheed Martin Unveils Plans for Huge Reusable Moon Lander for Astronauts
Lockheed Martin Unveils Plans for Huge Reusable Moon Lander for Astronauts
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
This isn't your grandfather's lunar lander.
Today (Oct. 3), aerospace giant Lockheed Martin revealed its concept for a reusable, single-stage spaceship capable of ferrying four astronauts between lunar orbit and the surface of the moon.
For comparison, the expendable lunar lander that NASA used during the Apollo program carried two people and weighed 4.7 tons (4.3 metric tons) without propellant. Lockheed's craft would weigh 24 tons (22 metric tons) dry and tip the scales at 68 tons (62 metric tons) when fully fueled. [Lunar Legacy: 45 Apollo Moon Mission Photos]
The Lockheed lander would use as its home base the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, a small space station that NASA aims to start building near the moon in 2022.
An artist's illustration of Lockheed Martin's crewed lunar lander, which is designed to let astronauts spend two weeks at a time on the moon's surface.
Credit: Lockheed Martin
The lander would depart from the Gateway, taking astronauts and up to 1.1 tons (1 metric tons) of cargo down to the lunar surface, according to a newly published Lockheed white paper. The craft (and crew) could stay on the surface for up to two weeks, then launch back to the Gateway without the need to refuel. (The lander would be refueled between missions — eventually, perhaps, with propellant derived from water ice extracted from the moon or asteroids.)
The lander design leverages many technologies from the Orion capsule, which Lockheed is building for NASA. Orion and the Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, which is also in development, will help astronauts explore deep-space destinations, such as the moon and Mars, NASA officials have said.
"There's a lot of development that we've accomplished on Orion, so that helps," Tim Cichan, space exploration architect at Lockheed Martin Space, told Space.com. (Cichan presented the lunar-lander concept today at the International Astronautical Congress in Bremen, Germany.)
Orion already has one flight under its belt, an uncrewed test mission to Earth orbit in December 2014. NASA intends to fly the capsule again in 2020, on an uncrewed flight called Exploration Mission 1 that will also serve as the SLS' debut. (The 2014 Orion flight employed a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket.) On EM-1, Orion will loop around the moon and spend about three weeks in space. The first crewed Orion-SLS flight, Exploration Mission 2, is currently targeted for 2023.
An artist's illustration of Lockheed Martin's proposed moon lander attached to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, a small space station that NASA aims to start building in lunar orbit in 2022.µ
Credit: Lockheed Martin
Lockheed's proposed lander could be up and running by the late 2020s, in keeping with the timeline NASA has targeted for getting boots back on the moon, said Rob Chambers, Lockheed Martin Space's director of human spaceflight strategy and business development. The lander would also launch atop the SLS, at least for the foreseeable future, he told Space.com.
The Lockheed concept vehicle is quite a bit bigger than the crewed lunar lander that NASA seems to be envisioning. In March, for example, the space agency asked industry to contribute ideas that would aid in the development of a lander capable of carrying between 0.55 tons and 6.6 tons (0.5 to 6 metric tons) to the lunar surface.
Artist's illustration of Lockheed Martin's proposed lunar lander on the surface of the moon. The lander could carry four people and up to 1 ton of cargo to the surface from lunar orbit.
Credit: Lockheed Martin
But there's a good reason for the extra heft: Lockheed sees the moon lander as a precursor for a Red Planet lander, which is a key part of the company's proposed "Mars Base Camp" exploration architecture. That base camp is a space station in Mars orbit that would serve as an exploration hub as well as a jumping-off point for crewed sorties to the surface (as the Gateway would do at the moon) and for trips to the Red Planet's two small moons, Phobos and Deimos.
Lockheed has long envisioned testing the Mars Base Camp lander at the moon, Chambers said. But the company's Red Planet plans aren't dependent on NASA selecting the vehicle for Gateway operations.
"A precursor lander would be very beneficial but not absolutely required," Cichan said.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+.
Schematic view of the Milky Way showing six isotropic extraterrestrial emission processes forming spherical shells filled by radio signals. The outer radii of the spherical shells are proportional to the time at which the signals were first emitted, while the thicknesses are proportional to the duration of the emissions. In this example, the Earth is illuminated by one of these signals. Credit: Claudio Grimaldi / EPFL
Could there be another planet in the universe with a society at the same stage of technological advancement as ours? To find out, EPFL scientist Claudio Grimaldi, working in association with the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a statistical model that gives researchers a new tool in the search for the kind of signals that an extraterrestrial society might emit. His method, described in an article appearing today in PNAS, could also make the search cheaper and more efficient.
Atrophysics initially wasn't Grimaldi's thing; he was interested more in the physics of condensed matter. Working at EPFL's Laboratory of Physics of Complex Matter, his research involved calculating the probabilities of carbon nanotubes exchanging electrons. But then he wondered: if the nanotubes were stars and the electrons were signals generated by extraterrestrial societies, could we calculate the probability of detecting those signals more accurately?
This is not pie-in-the-sky research — scientists have been studying this possibility for nearly 60 years. Several research projects concerning the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) have been launched since the late 1950s, mainly in the United States. The idea is that an advanced civilization on another planet could be generating electromagnetic signals, and scientists on Earth might be able to pick up those signals using the latest high-performance radio telescopes.
Renewed interest
Despite considerable advances in radio astronomy and the increase in computing power since then, none of those projects has led to anything concrete. Some signals without identifiable origin have well been recorded, like the Wow! signal in 1977, but none of them has been repeated or seems credible enough to be attributable to alien life.
But that doesn't mean scientists have given up. On the contrary, SETI has seen renewed interest following the discovery of the many exoplanets orbiting the billions of suns in our galaxy. Researchers have designed sophisticated new instruments — like the Square Kilometre Array, a giant radio telescope being built in South Africa and Australia with a total collecting area of one square kilometer — that could pave the way to promising breakthroughs. And Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner recently announced an ambitious program called Breakthrough Listen, which aims to cover 10 times more sky than previous searches and scan a much wider band of frequencies. Milner intends to fund his initiative with 100 million dollars over 10 years.
"In reality, expanding the search to these magnitudes only increases our chances of finding something by very little. And if we still don't detect any signals, we can't necessarily conclude with much more certainty that there is no life out there," says Grimaldi.
Still a ways to go
The advantage of Grimaldi's statistical model is that it lets scientists interpret both the success and failure to detect signals at varying distances from Earth. His model employs Bayes' theorem to calculate the remaining probability of detecting a signal within a given radius around our planet.
For example, even if no signal is detected within a radius of 1,000 light years, there is still an over 10% chance that Earth is within range of hundreds of similar signals from elsewhere in the galaxy, but that our radio telescopes are currently not powerful enough to detect them. However, that probability rises to nearly 100% if even just one signal is detected within the 1,000-light-year radius. In that case, we could be almost certain that our galaxy is full of alien life.
After factoring in other parameters like the size of the galaxy and how closely packed its stars are, Grimaldi estimates that the probability of detecting a signal becomes very slight only at a radius of 40,000 light years. In other words, if no signals are detected at this distance from Earth, we could reasonably conclude that no other civilization at the same level of technological development as ours is detectable in the galaxy. But so far, scientists have been able to search for signals within a radius of "just" 40 light years.
So there's still a ways to go. Especially since these search methods can't detect alien civilizations that may be in primordial stages or that are highly advanced but haven't followed the same technological trajectory as ours.
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More information: Claudio Grimaldi et al, Bayesian approach to SETI, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2018). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1808578115
Success! Hopping, Shoebox-Sized Lander Touches Down Safely on Asteroid Ryugu
Success! Hopping, Shoebox-Sized Lander Touches Down Safely on Asteroid Ryugu
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Two tiny, hopping robots now have a companion on the surface of the big asteroid Ryugu.
A shoebox-sized lander called the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) deployed from its mothership, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, as planned at 9:57 p.m. EDT Tuesday (Oct. 2; 0157 GMT on Oct. 3) and came to rest on Ryugu shortly thereafter. The lander's first photo of asteroid Ryugu shows a rocky world, and even MASCOT's own shadow.
"It could not have gone better," MASCOT project manager Tra-Mi Ho, from the DLR Institute of Space Systems in Bremen, Germany, said in a statement. (DLR is the German acronym for the German Aerospace Center, which built MASCOT in collaboration with the French space agency, CNES.) [Japan's Hayabusa2 Asteroid Ryugu Mission in Pictures]
The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) lander captured this photo of asteroid Ryugu during landing operations on Oct. 3, 2018. The lander's shadow is visible at upper right.
Credit: German Aerospace Center (DLR)
"From the lander's telemetry, we were able to see that it separated from the mothercraft and made contact with the asteroid surface approximately 20 minutes later," Ho added.
MASCOT has already started gathering data with its four onboard science instruments — a camera, a radiometer, a spectrometer and a magnetometer — mission team members said. The 22-lb. (10 kilograms) lander must make haste, because its battery is expected to die just 16 hours after touchdown.
MASCOT took 20 photos during its slow descent toward Ryugu, and these images are stored aboard Hayabusa2 at the moment, mission team members said. And observations made by the magnetometer before separation (which occurred when Hayabusa2 was about 167 feet, or 51 meters, above Ryugu) have already made it down to Earth.
"The measurements show the relatively weak field of the solar wind and the very strong magnetic disturbances caused by the spacecraft," MASCOT team member Karl-Heinz Glaßmeier, from the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany, said in the same statement. "At the moment of the separation, we expected a clear decrease of the interference field — and we were able to recognize this clearly."
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully dropped the MASCOT lander on the asteroid Ryugu on Oct. 3, 2018 (Japan Standard Time). Left: Illustration of the MASCOT lander separating from the Hayabusa2 mothership. Right: Illustration of MASCOT landing on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu.
Credit: JAXA
MASCOT is following in the footsteps of MINERVA-II1A and MINERVA-II1B, two 2.4-lb. (1.1 kg) rovers that deployed from Hayabusa2 on the night of Sept. 21. Both of those little robots aced their touchdowns and soon began exploring the surface of Ryugu.
Like the Japanese-built MINERVA-II1A and MINERVA-II1B, the autonomous MASCOT can move by hopping, which it does by manipulating a metallic "swing arm" inside its body. The lander can also use this arm to right itself on Ryugu's surface — an important feature, because MASCOT needs to be right side up to gather data and beam it up to Hayabusa2.
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft descends toward the asteroid Ryugu on the night of Oct. 2, 2018, ahead of the deployment of the MASCOT lander. This photo was taken at an altitude of about 430 feet (130 meters) above Ryugu.
Credit: JAXA
The $150 million Hayabusa2 mission launched in December 2014 and arrived in orbit around Ryugu in late June of this year. The mothership may have one more rover deployment to go: It still carries the "optional" hopper MINERVA-II2, which could make its way to Ryugu's surface next year.
And the orbiter itself will make its way down to the space rock in 2019 as well, after sending a nonexplosive impactor barreling into Ryugu. Hayabusa2 will grab pristine, previously subsurface samples from the newly created crater; this material is scheduled to come down to Earth in a return capsule in December 2020.
Data gathered by the mission at Ryugu and by scientists who examine its returned sample should shed considerable light on the solar system's early history and the role that carbon-rich asteroids like Ryugu may have played in life's emergence on Earth, Hayabusa2 team members have said.
The MASCOT landing site candidate region (light blue area) on the asteroid Ryugu. Since MASCOT was expected to bounce several times after first touching down, a reasonably wide region was selected.
Credit: AXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST, CNES, DLR
NASA has an asteroid-sampling mission of its own in operation, with broadly similar goals. The OSIRIS-REx probe is scheduled to arrive in orbit around the 1,650-foot-wide (500 m) asteroid Bennu on Dec. 31 and return samples to Earth in September 2023.
This story was updated at 2:45 a.m. EDT on Oct. 3 with the news that MASCOT landed safely and has begun gathering data.
“Star Wars,” “Her,” and “iRobot.” What do all these movies have in common? The artificial intelligence (AI) depicted in there is crazy-sophisticated. These robots can think creatively, continue learning over time, and maybe even pass for conscious.
Real-life artificial intelligence experts have a name for AI that can do this — it’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). For decades, scientists have tried all sorts of approaches to create AGI, using techniques such as reinforcement learning and machine learning. No approach has proven to be much better than any other, at least not yet.
Indeed, there’s a catch here: despite all the excitement, we have no idea how to build AGI.
Either way, most experts think it’s coming — sooner rather than later. In a poll of conference attendees, AI research companies GoodAI and SingularityNet found that 37 percent of respondents think people will create HLAI within 10 years. Another 28 percent think it will take 20 years. Just two percent think HLAI will never exist.
Almost every expert who had an opinion hedged their bets — most responses to the question were peppered with caveats and “maybes.” There’s a lot that we don’t know about the path towards HLAI, such as questions over who will pay for it or how we’re going to combine our algorithms that can think or reason but can’t do both.
Futurism caught up with a number of AI researchers, investors, and policymakers to get their perspective on when HLAI will happen. The following responses come from panels and presentations from the conference and exclusive interviews.
Irakli Beridze, Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, UNICRI, United Nations
At the moment, there is absolutely no indication that we are anywhere near AGI. And no one can say with any kind of authority or conviction that this would happen within a certain time frame. Or even worse, no one can say this can even happen period. We may never have AGI, so we need to take that into account when we are discussing anything.
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Executive Director of the Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk
There’s still a lot of work to be done; there are still many things we don’t understand. Given we have this understanding, maybe it’s possible that it happens within 50 years.
I think we should enjoy the technology while it advances. We should be looking out for where to go in the future. But on the other hand, it’s not like we have human-level AI right now and I don’t think it’s going to happen very quickly. I think that if I’m lucky it’ll happen in my lifetime.
A worm’s level of intelligence is actually pretty doable. If you try to look at vision and planning, this is kind of narrowly doable. The integration of planning and learning, planning as its own thing is pretty well solved. But planning in a way which works with [machine learning] is not very well solved.
I think we are almost there. I am not predicting we will have general AI in three years, 30 years. But I am confident it can happen any day.
Ben Goertzel, CEO at SingularityNET and Chief Scientist at Hanson Robotics
I don’t think we need fundamentally new algorithms. I think we do need to connect our algorithms in different ways than we do now. If I’m right, then we already have the core algorithms that we need… I believe we are less than ten years from creating human-level AI.
I don’t think we’re almost there in the technology for General AI. I think general AI is almost a branding for a very general idea. Lifelong learning is an example of that — it’s a very particular type of AI. We know the theoretical foundation of that already, we know how nature does it, and it’s very well defined. There is a very clear direction, there is a metric. I think we can reach it in a close time.
On the last day of the conference, a number of participants participated in a lightning round of sorts. Almost entirely for fun, these experts were encouraged to throw out a date at which they expected us to figure out how to make HLAI. The following answers, some of whom were given by the same people who already answered the question, should be taken with an entire shaker of salt — some were meant as jokes and others are total guesses.
John Langford
Maybe 20 [years]?
Marek Rosa
I really have no idea which year, but if I have to say one year I’d say ten years in the future. The reason is its kind fo vague, you know like anything can happen in ten years.
A sluggish, yet precise robot designed by Japanese engineers demonstrates what construction sites might look like in the future.
Credit: AIST.
The prototype developed at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology was recently featured in a video picking up a piece of plasterboard and screwing it into a wall.
The robot, called HRP-5P, is much less productive than a human worker. However, its motions are very precise, meaning that this prototype could evolve into a rugged model that’s apt for real-life applications in demanding fields such as constructions.
While most manufacturing fields are being disrupted by automation, with robots doing most of the work in microchip plants or car assembly lines, supervised by human personnel, the same can’t be said about construction. This field is way too dynamic — with every project being unique — and filled with all sorts of obstacles that are too challenging for today’s robots to navigate. HRP-5P, however, suggests that automation could one day become feasible in construction works as well.
For Japan, construction bots are not meant to put people out of jobs, but rather to supplement a dwindling workforce. There’s a great shortage of manual labor in the island state, which is suffering from declining birthrates and an aging population.
Previously, a New York-based company demonstrated a mason-bot capable of laying down 3,000 bricks a day — six times faster than the average human, and cheaper too. Elsewhere, such as at MIT, researchers are experimenting with 3-D printing entire homes in one go.
EPADe gelande toestellen hebben een diameter van nauwelijk 18 centimeter. Japanse wetenschappers tonen hoe de landing in zijn werk gaat.
WETENSCHAPTwee kleine robotjeeps van een onbemand Japans ruimtetuig zijn op een asteroïde op 300 miljoen kilometer van de Aarde geland. Dat meldt het Japanse ruimtevaartbureau Jaxa.
De sonde Hayabusa-2 kwam na een reis van 3,5 jaar in juni aan bij de steenklomp Ryugu die een diameter van 900 meter heeft. De nuttige lading bestond onder meer uit twee cilindrische jeeps met een diameter van nauwelijks 18 centimeter. Zij zullen op het hemellichaampje rondhoppen en daarbij foto’s maken van het oppervlak en de temperaturen meten, zegt het Jaxa.
De tweede Hayabusa voerde drie “jeeps” en de tien kilo wegende lander MASCOT van het Duitse en Franse ruimtevaartbureau, DLR en CNES, mee. De Hayabusa-2 werd in december 2014 gelanceerd. De sonde moet tegen eind 2020 stalen van de asteroïde naar onze planeet brengen.
Wetenschappers hopen door het onderzoek van Ryugu meer te leren over het ontstaan en de evolutie van ons zonnestelsel.
EPAEen foto van het oppervlak van Ryugu, doorgestuurd door Rover-1B tijdens een sprongetje op de asteroïde.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETAsteroïde Ryugu, die rond de zon draait, heeft opnieuw bezoek gekregen van de mensheid. Vorige maand landden al twee Japanse verkenners, vandaag kregen die gezelschap van een Duits-Franse sonde, de Mascot. Die landde heel voorzichtig op zijn nieuwe woonplaats, 300 miljoen kilometer van de aarde.
De Japanse sonde en zijn Frans-Duitse broer waren in december 2014 samen gelanceerd. Ze zaten in de satelliet Hayabusa2. Die kwam in juni aan bij de asteroïde. Vandaag vloog de satelliet 51 meter boven het oppervlak van de rots, toen hij de Mascot losliet. Die zakte in 20 minuten naar beneden.
De Mascot heeft genoeg energie aan boord om na de landing zestien uur lang allerlei metingen te verrichten. Daarna zit zijn werk er op. Wetenschappers willen onder meer weten waaruit de asteroïde bestaat.
Vorige maand landden de Japanse verkenners Rover-1A en Rover-1B op Ryugu. Die kunnen rondspringen over het oppervlak, zodat ze meerdere plekken kunnen meten. Ze hebben al een paar kleurenfoto’s van Ryugu naar de aarde gestuurd.
Later deze maand moet de Hayabusa2-satelliet vlak boven de asteroïde gaan vliegen. Hij vuurt dan een kogel op het oppervlak af en vangt de opvliegende stofdeeltjes op. Die moet hij eind 2020 terugbrengen naar de aarde, zodat wetenschappers ze zelf kunnen onderzoeken. Japan deed dat in 2010 ook, met de ruimtesonde Hayabusa. Die haalde stofdeeltjes op bij de asteroïde Itokawa en bracht die naar de aarde.
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Een foto gemaakt door Rover-1A.
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Een foto gemaakt door Rover-1A
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Een foto gemaakt door Rover-1B.
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Foto gemaakt vanuit Hayabusa2.
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De twee Japanse rovers toen ze nog niet op een asteroïde huppelden.
REUTERSAmazon-baas Jeff Bezos - de rijkste man op aarde - wil een permanente maanbasis.
WETENSCHAPHet ruimtevaartbedrijf van Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, is begonnen met de ontwikkeling van een grote maanlander, die geschikt is voor hergebruik.
Amazon-oprichter Bezos, met bezittingen van meer dan 100 miljard de rijkste man ter wereld, heeft het plan opgevat de maan te gaan exploiteren. Als het aan hem ligt, komt er onder meer een permanente basis en zware industrie die op aarde minder gewenst is. Het bouwen van een maanlander, die heen en weer kan vliegen, is een belangrijke stap. Bezos hoopt het ruimtevaartuig al over twee jaar in gebruik te kunnen nemen.
REUTERSEen tekening toont de exoplaneet Kepler-1625b met daarnaast de pas ontdekte exomaan.
WETENSCHAP Astronomen hebben mogelijk een eerste maan buiten ons zonnestelsel - een exomaan - gevonden. Dat bericht de Amerikaanse nieuwszender CNN.
Rond gasgigant Kepler-1625b - een exoplaneet die op 8.000 lichtjaren van ons rond een ster cirkelt - is met de Hubble- en de Keplerruimtetelescoop een object gevonden dat een maan kan zijn. Ze zou de grootte hebben van “onze” planeet Neptunus.
In ons zonnestelsel komen manen veel voor: er zijn er bijna tweehonderd. De zoektocht naar natuurlijke satellieten buiten ons stelsel leverde tot nu toe niets op. Exomanen zijn immers door hun kleinere omvang moeilijker te spotten. “Dit zou de eerste keer zijn dat een maan wordt gedetecteerd buiten ons zonnestelsel”, zegt David Kipping, een van de ontdekkers van de mogelijke exomaan.
Afwijkingen
Kipping ontdekte samen met collega Alex Teachey enkele eigenaardigheden in de data van de Keplertelescoop. “We zagen kleine afwijkingen in de lichtcurve”, legt Kipping uit. Daarom hebben de wetenschappers de Hubble ingezet om het gedetailleerder te onderzoeken.
Toen de planeet Kepler-1625b voor zijn ster (de zonachtige ster Kepler-1625, nvdr.) passeerde, detecteerde de Hubble dat de lichtsterkte van de ster niet enkel verminderde door de passage van de gasgigant, maar dat enkele uren later ook een tweede bron voor lichtvermindering zorgde. “Het was alsof een maan de planeet achtervolgde zoals een hond die zijn baasje volgt”, zegt Kipping. “Helaas eindigde de observatie door Hubble nog voor de volledige doorgang van de maan kon gemeten worden.”
Voorzichtig
De wetenschappers achter de vondst blijven echter voorzichtig en willen nog meer observaties uitvoeren. Zo is de grootte van de kandidaat-exomaan zeer ongewoon en met geen enkele maan uit ons stelsel te vergelijken. Van de aarde bekeken, zou ze twee keer groter zijn dan onze eigen Maan.
“De aanwezigheid van een maan is de simpelste en meest vanzelfsprekende verklaring voor die tweede duik in de lichtsterkte van de ster”, zeggen de onderzoekers. Kipping en Teachey hebben bij NASA een aanvraag ingediend om de Hubble opnieuw in te zetten voor extra observaties, in de hoop dan met zekerheid te kunnen zeggen dat het om een exomaan gaat.
Toekomst
“Als verdere observaties met de Hubbletelescoop aantonen dat het een exomaan is, dan kan dat belangrijke hints geven over de ontwikkeling van planetaire systemen. Mogelijk moeten experts hun theorieën over de ontwikkeling van manen rond planeten herbekijken”, zegt Kipping.
“Dit is niet zoals de exomaan in “Avatar” of Endor van “Star Wars”, benadrukt Teachey. “Maar deze ontdekking kan in de toekomst wel deuren openen naar de vondst van gelijkaardige werelden.”
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'Super Earth' really may lie at the edge of the Solar System: Astronomers spot new mystery object 2.5 times further from the sun than Pluto which suggests Planet X IS orbiting our star
'Super Earth' really may lie at the edge of the Solar System: Astronomers spot new mystery object 2.5 times further from the sun than Pluto which suggests Planet X IS orbiting our star
Object is one of the most distant bodies ever identified within the sun's range
Its unusual orbit supports the theory that a mysterious 'Planet X' exists
The presence of such a planet would pull distant objects into strange orbits
A mysterious tenth planet really may lie at the edge of the solar system, according to new research.
Astronomers have discovered an object two and a half times further from the Sun than Pluto that adds to evidence of the existence of 'Planet X'.
It is one of the most distant bodies ever identified within the sun's gravitational range.
And its unusual orbit supports the theory there is a huge, rocky world ten times bigger than Earth on the outskirts of our star system.
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A mysterious tenth planet really may lie at the edge of the solar system, according to new research. Astronomers have discovered an object two and a half times further from the Sun than Pluto that adds to evidence of the existence of 'Planet X'
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WHAT IS PLANET X?
Astronomers believe that the orbits of a number of bodies in the distant reaches of the solar system have been disrupted by the pull of an as yet unidentified planet.
First proposed by a group at CalTech in the US, this alien world was theorised to explain the distorted paths seen in distant icy bodies.
In order to fit in with the data they have, this alien world - popularly called Planet Nine - would need to be roughly four time the size of Earth and ten times the mass.
Researchers say a body of this size and mass would explain the clustered paths of a number of icy minor planets beyond Neptune.
Its huge orbit would mean it takes between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make a single pass around the sun.
The theoretical Planet Nine is based on the gravitational pull it exerts on these bodies, with astronomers confident it will be found in the coming years.
Those hoping for theoretical Earth-sized planets proposed by astrologers or science fiction writers - which are 'hiding behind the sun' and linked with Doomsday scenarios - may have to keep searching.
Nicknamed 'Planet Nine', the idea first emerged in 2014 when Dr Scott Sheppard and Professor Chad Trujillo sought to explain a strange cluster of six small objects in the Kuiper Belt, a field of icy and rocky objects beyond Neptune.
Their orbits all tilted in the same way, an arrangement that is nearly impossible to generate without the help of some external force.
Dr Sheppard and Prof Trujillo suggested a large planet was lurking in the shadows, warping the orbits of objects that came near.
Now the same team has found a similar body whose orbit is being similarly affected. At about 300 km (186 miles) wide, it is on the small side of being a dwarf planet.
It is about 80 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, a measurement defined as the distance between the Earth and Sun. For context, Pluto is around 34 AU.
Called 2015 TG387, it has a very elongated orbit meaning it never comes close enough to the Solar System's giant planets, like Neptune and Jupiter, to have significant gravitational interactions with them.
Dr Sheppard, of Carnegie Institution of Science, said: 'These distant objects are like breadcrumbs leading us to Planet X.
'The more of them we can find, the better we can understand the outer Solar System and the possible planet that we think is shaping their orbits - a discovery that would redefine our knowledge of the Solar System's evolution.'
Prof Trujillo, of Northern Arizona University, ran computer simulations for different hypothetical Planet X orbits that explained how 2015 TG387 would actually be shepherded by its gravity.
It never comes closer to the Sun, a point called perihelion, than about 65 AU.
Only two other objects, known as 2012 VP113 and Sedna at 80 and 76 AU respectively, have more-distant perihelia.
Dr Sheppard said: 'These so-called Inner Oort Cloud objects like 2015 TG387, 2012 VP113, and Sedna are isolated from most of the Solar System's known mass, which makes them immensely interesting.
Pictured is a predicted orbit of the new dwarf planet, nicknamed 'the goblin' (left). It never comes closer to the Sun, a point called perihelion, than about 65 AU. Only two other objects, known as 2012 VP113 and Sedna at 80 and 76 AU respectively, have more-distant perihelia
'They can be used as probes to understand what is happening at the edge of our Solar System.'
The simulations showed why the most-distant objects in our Solar System have similar orbits that keep them from ever approaching the proposed planet too closely.
Prof Trujillo said: 'What makes this result really interesting is that Planet X seems to affect 2015 TG387 the same way as all the other extremely distant Solar System objects.
'These simulations do not prove that there's another massive planet in our Solar System, but they are further evidence that something big could be out there.'
It follows research by mathematicians at Caltech who found the existence of a massive ninth planet was the only explanation for the sculpting of the orbits of these other, smaller objects.
The object was discovered as part of the team's ongoing hunt for unknown dwarf planets and Planet X. It is the largest and deepest survey ever conducted for distant Solar System objects.
The mysterious object is one of the most distant bodies ever identified within the sun's gravitational range
They first observed 2015 TG387 in October of 2015 at the Japanese Subaru 8-metre telescope located atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Follow-up observations at the Magellan telescope at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile and the Discovery Channel Telescope in Arizona were obtained in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 to determine 2015 TG387's orbit.
The location in the sky where 2015 TG387 reaches perihelion is similar to 2012 VP113, Sedna, and most other known extremely distant trans-Neptunian objects, suggesting that something is pushing them into similar types of orbits.
Its discovery was announced by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Centre in Washington DC.
A paper describing it has also been submitted to the Astronomical Journal.
Astronomen ontdekken mysterieus object aan rand van zonnestelsel. Leidt dit ons naar Planeet X?
Astronomen ontdekken mysterieus object aan rand van zonnestelsel. Leidt dit ons naar Planeet X?
Aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel, ver voorbij alle planeten, bevindt zich een mysterieus object. Het is een klein rotsblok dat er 44.000 jaar over doet om een baan rond onze zon te draaien.
Het object heeft de naam 2015 TG387 gekregen. Hij is ongeveer 300 kilometer in doorsnee. Mogelijk gaat het om een dwergplaneet, net als Pluto.
De ontdekking is dinsdag bekendgemaakt door de Internationale Astronomische Unie.
Verste punt
2015 TG387 draait in een ovale baan rond de zon. Toen hij werd ontdekt, was de afstand tot de zon tachtig keer zo groot als de afstand van de aarde tot de zon.
Als hij het dichtst bij de zon staat, is dat nog altijd 65 keer de afstand zon-aarde, twee keer zo ver weg als Pluto.
En op het verste punt is de afstand tot de zon 2300 keer de afstand van de aarde tot de zon.
Te vaag
Er zijn mogelijk duizenden van zulke objecten in de buurt, maar ze zijn erg moeilijk te vinden vanwege de enorme afstand. Tot nu toe zijn er maar een paar gevonden.
“We konden 2015 TG387 alleen ontdekken toen hij het dichtst bij de zon kwam. Tijdens 99 procent van zijn omloop was hij te vaag om te zien,” aldus onderzoeker David Tholen.
De ontdekkers denken dat er mogelijk een negende, nog niet ontdekte planeet in die uithoek van het zonnestelsel te vinden is.
Planeet X
Rotsblokken als 2015 TG387 zijn volgens hen ‘broodkruimels’ die naar die Planeet X kunnen leiden.
De zwaartekracht van die planeet kan de baan van de rotsblokken namelijk beïnvloeden.
Als ze de omloopbanen van de dwergplaneten weten, kunnen ze uitrekenen waar de mysterieuze planeet zich bevindt.
Min Min lights are a mysterious phenomenon that have spooked many people in the outback of Australia.
But is there any scientific proof that Min Min lights exist? Or is it simply an Aboriginal folktale that has been passed down for generations?
The lights have been described by witnesses as floating, fast-moving balls of colour that glow in the night sky and stalk people, leaving some feeling confused and frightened.
Sometimes the lights are blue and other times they are white or yellow.
In Queensland, the Boulia Shire Council notifies visitors "in the interest of tourism" that they are in the land of the Min Min lights and that they may spot them as they drive for the next 120 kilometres.
In the Kimberley in Western Australia some Aboriginal people believe the Min Min lights are the spirits of elders.
"As a kid growing up the old people used to tell me, they [Min Min lights] were old people's spirits looking after country," Wyndham local James Birch said.
Mr Birch, a Balanggarra ranger, said everyone from his childhood grew up hearing the stories.
"If you've lived in the Kimberley you would have experienced spotting a Min Min light once in your life," he said.
Mr Birch has not seen the Min Min lights for two years but said the lights tend to distract people and take them off their chosen path.
"We were heading back into town after hunting. I was driving towards town when all of sudden a Min Min light appeared," he said.
"We all stared at the light and all of a sudden we were going in the opposite way, going back into the bush and following the light without even realising."
What does science say?
Curtis Roman, a senior lecturer at Charles Darwin University, is gathering stories from Indigenous Australians about Min Min lights as part of an ongoing research project.
Dr Roman said there were several scientific theories that could explain the phenomenon.
"One is that they're a mirage, [caused by] natural gases or warm air and cold coming together," Dr Roman said.
"Some of the other theories are that they are bioluminous insects, owls or birds."
Although he is only in the early stages of his research, Dr Roman said that all the Indigenous people he had interviewed so far had described how frightened they felt when they saw the lights.
Outback lights star in movie
From a young age, writer and director Jub Clerc heard the tales about the Min Min lights and how they would follow people and take them if they stopped to watch the lights.
In 2015, Ms Clerc directed a short film called Min Min Light based upon her own experiences of the lights when she was growing up in the Pilbara.
"When I was a young girl lying in my backyard, these lights came down," Ms Clerc said.
"Two of them came down in front of me and then suddenly shot off. I was in awe.
"It could be our spirits that look after country. Who knows what it is? I like to think there's more to life that what we think."
Hoofdbrekens over mysterieuze lichten die mensen achtervolgen. Is hier een verklaring voor?
Hoofdbrekens over mysterieuze lichten die mensen achtervolgen. Is hier een verklaring voor?
In de Australische outback stellen mysterieuze lichten lokale bewoners voor een raadsel. Veel mensen hebben de zogeheten Min Min-lichten gezien, maar niemand heeft er een sluitende verklaring voor.
Getuigen omschrijven de lichten als zwevende, snel bewegende, gekleurde ballen die de avondhemel verlichten en mensen stalken.
Soms zijn de lichten blauw en op andere momenten wit of geel.
Geesten
In Queensland word je er door middel van een groot bord op gewezen dat je je in het land van de Min Min-lichten bevindt.
In Kimberley in de deelstaat West-Australië geloven sommige Aboriginals dat de lichten geesten zijn van oudsten.
“Als kind vertelden de ouderen me dat de Min Min-lichten de geesten van oude mensen zijn die voor het land zorgen,” zei lokale bewoner James Birch.
“Als je in Kimberley hebt gewoond, heb je vast een keer een Min Min-licht gezien,” voegde hij toe.
Afleiden
Hij zei dat de lichten mensen kunnen afleiden.
“Na het jagen gingen we terug naar huis,” zei hij. “Ik reed richting het dorp, toen plotseling een Min Min-licht verscheen.”
“We keken allemaal in de richting van het licht en voordat we het wisten reden we in tegengestelde richting,” vervolgde Birch.
“We volgden het licht zonder dat we het doorhadden,” klonk het.
Luchtspiegeling
Curtis Roman van de Charles Darwin University verzamelt voor een onderzoeksproject verhalen van Aboriginals over de Min Min-lichten.
Hij zei dat er verschillende wetenschappelijke theorieën zijn die het fenomeen zouden kunnen verklaren.
Zo zou het kunnen gaan om een luchtspiegeling veroorzaakt door natuurlijk gas of warme en koude luchtlagen, aldus dr. Roman.
Volgens andere theorieën zijn het lichtgevende insecten, uilen of vogels.
Volgen
Schrijver en regisseur Jub Clerc hoort de verhalen over de Min Min-lichten en hoe ze mensen volgen al van jongs af aan.
In 2015 maakte ze een korte film over de mysterieuze lichten, gebaseerd op haar eigen ervaringen.
“Toen ik op een dag als jong meisje in mijn achtertuin lag verschenen de lichten opeens,” zei Clerc.
“Twee lichten kwamen omlaag en bleven voor me hangen, om vervolgens weer weg te schieten,” voegde ze toe. “Ik was erg onder de indruk.”
“Het zouden onze geesten kunnen zijn die voor het land zorgen,” besloot ze. “Wie weet wat het is. Ik denk dat er meer is in het leven dan we denken.”
On August 30th, pressure dropped on the International Space Station. While not life-threatening, the Russian space agency, NASA and the crew conducted an extensive search and found a tiny hole in the Soyuz space capsule docked at the station. Initial reports suggested its skin had been pierced by a micrometeorite, but that story quickly changed as evidence strongly suggested the hole was manmade, possibly during assembly of the capsule, and may have been patched to avoid detection during inspections. That sinister theory has continued to hold up and it appears Russia is honing in on the culprit.
“The commission of [Roskosmos] is working. One commission (RSC Energia – TASS note) has already completed its activities, it actually concluded that it excluded manufacturing defects, which is important for finding the truth. Now there is a version of intentional impact, and where this was done, set the second commission.”
Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Russia’s Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, confirmed to the TASS news agency that his organization is treating the incident as a deliberate act, but stopped short of calling it sabotage. However, that charge was tossed around early in the investigation, implying that a US astronaut may have caused the leak to force an early return home. While Rogozin himself has expressed dissatisfaction with dealings between Roscosmos and NASA, he has aimed his recent dissatisfaction at a different American organization.
“Americans have this thing, the X-37. We don’t understand its purposes. Rather, we do understand, but we have not received an official explanation. Essentially, this thing can be used as a weapons carrier.”
The X-37 is the mysterious unmanned Orbital Test Vehicle belonging to the US Air Force whose last launch was handled by SpaceX. As if he doesn’t have enough problems with Tesla, now Elon Musk is possibly being targeted by the Russian space agency for aiding in the militarization of space … as if Russia hasn’t also done this. Could Rogozin be stoking backdoor controversy by criticizing SpaceX for a military connection as a cover for his real frustration … that the US is moving towards using SpaceX as the new ISS shuttle and cutting off Roscosmos’ income spigot as the space Uber?
At this point, anything is possible and more intrigue is probable. A spacewalk is scheduled for November 15, when Russian cosmonauts are expected to remove and inspect a piece of the Soyuz MS-09 anti-meteorite protection shield. We’ll just have to wait for that report … if there is one. Will American astronauts be involved with the inspection? Let’s hope the ISS crew members are not becoming pawns in a dangerous chess game between these two space superpowers.
We know for a fact that India, like Africa, has elephants. Each continent also has lions and monkeys that are distant relatives. However, it doesn’t appear that India ever had any hippos or rhinos (expect for a few remote area). So, how are archaeologists going to explain the thousands of rock carvings discovered on hillocks in the Konkan region of western Maharashtra that show images of hippos, rhinos and other never-seen-in-India creatures interacting with humans 12.000 years ago? There are thousands of large petroglyphs that appear to be the oldest ever found, yet were unknown to the people in the villages where they were discovered. Are there hippos still hiding there too?
All sorts of animals are depicted in the petroglyphs, including sharks, whales, and turtles. They also show human figures and geometrical designs. But, according to the researchers, some of the images include animals that are not found in India, such as hippos and rhinoceroses
The mysterious petroglyphs are located in the narrow Konkan Coast region of the far western state of Maharashtra, with the Arabian Sea (northern Indian Ocean) to the west and the Western Ghats mountain to the east. According to a report by the BBC, in that band are 52 villages near the coastal cities of Ratnagiri and Rajapur whose residents had no idea they were living on so many carvings. Just a very few were exposed and the locals considered them sacred. Those few glyphs provided the curiosity and incentive for archaeologists to look for more.
“We walked thousands of kilometres. People started sending photographs to us and we even enlisted schools in our efforts to find them. We made students ask their grandparents and other village elders if they knew about any other engravings. This provided us with a lot of valuable information.”
Sudhir Risbood and Manoj Marathe led a group of explorers through the area looking for more exposed or partially-exposed glyphs, along with indicators that there were some hidden under the soil. Aerial views seem to indicate that the carvings are smaller but more numerous and more densely packed that the Nazca lines of Peru. (Pictures and videos here and here.) However, it’s not the size that makes these petroglyps so exciting – it’s their age and the strange animals depicted in them, says Tejas Garge, director of the Maharashtra state archaeology department.
“Our first deduction from examining these petroglyphs is that they were created around 10,000 BC. “We have not found any pictures of farming activities. But the images depict hunted animals and there’s detailing of animal forms. So this man knew about animals and sea creatures. That indicates he was dependent on hunting for food. Most of the petroglyphs show familiar animals. There are images of sharks and whales as well as amphibians like turtles.”
And then there’s the hippos and rhinos. It’s possible that the animals lived there prior to 10,000 BCE, although no fossils have been found. It’s also possible that the people who carved the images came to the coast from Africa. Less likely but still a possibility is that they traveled between both continents.
While Garge is excited about determining the answer to their origin, the Indian government has other priorities. The state gave him 240 million rupees ($3.2m; £2.5m) to study 400 of the thousands of petroglyphs. They obviously don’t yet see the tourist potential of the rock carvings.
Did hippos once roam India? Were they sacred like cows or just tasty with curry, leading to their ultimate disappearance?
Last year I wrote four articles here at Mysterious Universe on the matter of numerous people who had experienced nightmares of terrifying nuclear explosions, of cities destroyed, and of civilization in ruins. A number of those same nightmares revolved around a wave of sightings of Mothman-type creatures in the Chicago, Illinois area – also last year. You can find the first article here, the second here, the third here, and the fourth here. There is, however, a new development (well, I assume it’s a new development) on this matter. It all revolves around the issue of the creepy Black-Eyed Children (BEC). A few months back, Lisa Hagan Books published my book, The Black Diary. It details my research – from 2014 to 2018 – into the MIB, the Women in Black, the BEC, the Shadow People and more of a related nature. As is always the case when I have a new book out, I got a lot of feedback from people who read the book.
Ron told me that a week or so after reading my book (it was published in May 2018 and Ron bought his copy a couple of weeks later), he woke up in the dead of night with a pounding headache, a dry mouth, and a rash on his arms (which was gone by morning). Worse still, he was unable to move. This is a real phenomenon that many of you will have heard of: sleep paralysis. As is typical in such cases, Ron immediately found himself filled with fear. This is hardly surprising: standing at the side of the bed were two young children – maybe ten or eleven years in age – who stared at Ron through completely black eyes. Their skin was pale and they were both dressed in black hoodies. In seconds, Ron’s bedroom was flooded with apocalyptic images of a flattened, of millions dead, and of the sky filled with blackness. Ron knew what the cause was: a huge, nuclear mushroom cloud dominated what was left of the city. Suddenly, the image was gone – as were the BEC. Ron told me that he had near-sleepless nights for the next three nights. Thankfully, the BEC did not return. Nor did the nightmare.
Adrian Clarke, of England, told me a similar story. In Adrian’s case, it was around 3:00 a.m. in September 2018 and he too suddenly found himself wide awake and with a pair of Black-Eyed Children looking at him from the foot of the bed. Both had the completely black eyes, but were dressed in orange robes. Suddenly, and similar to Ron’s experience, Adrian briefly found himself deep in the heart of a nightmarish world of billions dead and the Earth devastated. He fought against the paralysis and finally managed to break the spell. In seconds, the image was gone – as were the BEC.
Moving on, there is the account of Jennifer, who I met at the September 2018 Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia – and who lives in Point Pleasant. After I gave my lecture on my The Black Diary book, Jennifer came up to my table and shared with me her experience – which occurred in April 2018. She too was woken from her sleep by a pair of pale kids with huge, dark eyes. One of them pointed to one of the walls in Jennifer’s bedroom, which was suddenly transformed into an approximately eight-foot-by-eight-foot image of a nuclear explosion. Jennifer told me that, for reasons she wasn’t sure, she somehow knew that the city was Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has never been to Milwaukee, nor does she have friends or family there. Like Ron and Adrian, Jennifer was shaken to the core by her experience.
It should be noted that both Adrian and Ron had read my book, which in part does focus on the BEC. And, Jennifer had read about the book online, and which had specifically prompted her to speak with me at the Mothman gig. As a result of this, skeptics might be inclined to say that the nightmares were driven by exposure to the book. Maybe so. On the other hand, though, the almost identical experiences do make me wonder if we are seeing the start of something that mirrors the “nuclear nightmare” phenomenon of last year. Time may tell…
Could there really be a hidden Planet X lurking on the far edge of our solar system? For years, astronomers around the world have been searching for the mysterious planet or whatever it may be, but so far very little definitive evidence has been collected. There are theories that the object is perhaps a rogue star hurtling through our solar system or even that Planet X is on a trajectory to collide with the Earth and split it in half, but you know how theories go. So far, all that’s definitively known is that the orbits of the outer planets and other objects at the edge of our solar system appear to be affected by something with significant mass, like a small planet.
A new discovery announced this week adds to the growing gravitational evidence for Planet X: A small object with a diameter of 300 km (186 miles) has been found lurking at the farthest edges of our solar system with an orbit that suggests the existence of an undiscovered planet several times larger than Earth. Astronomers working with the Carnegie Institution for Science discovered the object, known technically as 2015 TG387, some 80 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun – two and a half times farther away from the Sun than Pluto. 2015 TG387, affectionately referred to as “The Goblin,” lies so far away that it’s difficult to even detect.
One of the astronomers behind the discovery, the University of Hawaii’s David Tholen, says that it’s possible that The Goblin has other neighbors, hard-to-see planetoids or dwarf planets which could be lying at the edge of our Solar System just beyond our ability to detect them:
We think there could be thousands of small bodies like 2015 TG387 out on the Solar System’s fringes, but their distance makes finding them very difficult. Currently we would only detect 2015 TG387 when it is near its closest approach to the Sun. For some 99 percent of its 40,000-year orbit, it would be too faint to see.
The official study of The Goblin has been submitted for publication in The Astronomical Journal. Chad Trujillo of Northern Arizona University adds that while The Goblin does seem to corroborate some of the other existing evidence for Planet X, it’s not the smoking gun we’re all waiting for – yet:
These simulations do not prove that there’s another massive planet in our solar system, but they are further evidence that something big could be out there.
Let’s just hope it is another massive planet and not something far more sinister or mind-meltingly weird. Remember that ball of anti-lifeforce in The Fifth Element? Life imitates art sometimes.
We don’t know where anything comes from. We’re a bunch of self-replicating bundles of confusion, completely unaware of how all this nonsense got here in the first place. We know life took a long and meandering road from the first single-celled organisms to your weird neighbor with way too many bumper stickers, but how did life get here in the first place? Possible answers to life’s origin include the heat and pressure of deep sea thermal vents, a jump-start by lightning strikes, and the structure of DNA falling into place on beds of clay (as boring as that is, many mythologies talk of humans created out of clay, probably because it’s poetic).
Another possible solution is that life was brought here from space by a comet or asteroid. There’s “panspermia,” the idea that Earth was seeded with life from another world. That’s a useless idea, because it just says that life can hop from rock to rock and doesn’t explain the genesis of it. That’s not the only space-centric proposal for the origin of life, however. New research from the University of Hawaii at Manoa provides “compelling evidence” that a key component of life—phosphorous oxoacids, building blocks of chromosomes and crucial for life’s ability to self replicate—came from outer space.
The root cause of all our problems.
Up until this research, it was unclear how these crucial building blocks came to exist. According to this research, the conditions on a comet are just right for creating phosphorus oxoacids: deadly poisonous phosphine, ice and carbon dioxide, hurtling through the dark getting burned and warped by radiation. That’s a recipe for a delicious stew, right there.
The paper, published in the journal Nature Communicationsdetails an experiment in which the researchers recreated the conditions that one might find on a comet. They made some artificial space-ice and blasted it with the same types of radiation found outside the warm blanket of our atmosphere. This caused chemical reactions that ended up spitting out exactly what the researchers hoped to find: phosphorus oxoacids like those that make up chromosomes. Here’s the paper’s lead author Andrew Turner on the experiment:
“On Earth, phosphine is lethal to living beings, but in the interstellar medium, an exotic phosphine chemistry can promote rare chemical reaction pathways to initiate the formation of biorelevant molecules such as oxoacids of phosphorus, which eventually might spark the molecular evolution of life as we know it.”
Phosphorus oxoacids are key to life’s ability to self-replicate.
Cornelia Meinert of the University of Nice in France, who collaborated on the work, elaborated:
“Since comets contain at least partially the remnants of the material of the protoplanetary disk that formed our solar system, these compounds might be traced back to the interstellar medium wherever sufficient phosphine in interstellar ices is available.”
If this is the true origin of life on Earth, it combines a lot of elements from other proposed theories. You’ve got the jump-starting from the sky like the lightning theory, the remote, exotic environment of the thermal vents, and hey, it would mean that at least part of life is extraterrestrial. A little something for everyone. Well, no. We all know what really happened. Say it with me: trans-dimensional, egg-laying bigfoot.
Earth Size UFO Exiting Our Sun On NASA Image, Sept 30, 2018, UFO Sighting Daily News.
Earth Size UFO Exiting Our Sun On NASA Image, Sept 30, 2018, UFO Sighting Daily News.
Date of sighting: Sept 30, 2018 Location of sighting: Earths Sun Source: NASA/SOHO images Photo: EIT 284, 01:06 I was looking through NASA SOHO images and found this earth size object shooting out of our sun at high speed. The objects luminosity indicates that its not the same material seen on the surface of the sun since no white glowing surface areas exist...only yellow. The UFO is huge, since the earth is 109X the diameter of the sun, this UFO is an exact match in size...and yet it shot away so fast that it was not captured on any other photos. That is a mystery...unless it quickly accelerated to light or faster than light speed...then thats called alien technology. Only an ancient alien race could build a ship that could travel inside the sun and withstand such temperatures. Scott C. Waring
UFO Sighted Over Valsad and Vapi Gujarat, India September 26, 2018 UFO Sighting News.
UFO Sighted Over Valsad and Vapi Gujarat, India September 26, 2018 UFO Sighting News.
Above is the photo placed in negative format to better see the edges of the UFO.
Date of sighting: September 26, 2018 Location of sighting: Valsad, India
This is a big UFO! It looks to be over a mile long and has a classic disk shape. It probably came up from the ocean floor, since 75% of the earths surface is covered in water, it just makes sense that they would hide where humans do not go. Also, I placed the first screenshot in negative formate, which made the edges of the UFO more pronounced so its true shape can be more easily seen. Yes this is absolutely a UFO, 100%. There is no doubt at all about this sighting. A alien mothership was caught on video. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Observed the distinctive shape. It is camouflaged by a cloud. It was also leaving a trail of smoke like that of a jet plane.
Metalic Disk Recorded Flying Over London On Sept 29, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Metalic Disk Recorded Flying Over London On Sept 29, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 29, 2018 Location of sighting: London, Great Britain Source: MUFON #95215 This UFO was captured in London this week. Being the size of a car, the object floated and pulsated as it traveled. The object appears disk shape but curved. The dark rectangle area at the top is the pilot area. The lower bottom displays its true color which is a grey metal. Extraordinary catch. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
The object was somewhere between 3 and 5 m large. Difficult to say. It was metallic and glowed a bright blue colour. Very visible because of the pulsating blue light. It was moving fast. The area in Herne Hill is very active in terms of UFOs, orbs, critters and anomalies.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Hosts Alejandro Rojas and Martin Willis discuss the latest UFO news including the scientific analysis of materials allegedly from a UFO. The materials are in the hands of the To the Stars Academy, who has created a program called the ADAM Project to scientifically analyze materials believed to have come from anomalous sources, especially UFOs. Recently, they released an article regarding material that they say has been debated for decades. Although they do not say for sure, it appears this material was sent anonymously to Art Bell in the 90s and is referred to as “Art’s Parts.” Alejandro and Martin also discuss their interviews with witnesses to a very credible alleged alien encounter in South Africa, and the latest UFO news.
Google Moon Maps Apparently Shows Pyramid Structure
Google Moon Maps Apparently Shows Pyramid Structure
A pyramid-like object was spotted on the Moon’s surface on Google, and some UFO hunters believed it was an alien base. Conspiracy theorists were into a frenzy when a vast structure was observed on the lunar surface.
Many immediately concluded that it was an alien base or extraterrestrial monument and thought NASA and the likes are covering something up.
Using Google Moon, the alleged moon pyramid can be seen on coordinates 20 ° 48’45.54 “N 25 ° 59’50.89” W.
Argentinian Marcelo Irazusta uploaded the video to YouTube. The video seemingly shows human-made looking structure on the surface of the moon.
Mr Irazusta wrote in the description that a mysterious elevation on the Moon indicate that it could be a non-natural structure.
Many viewers believed NASA was covering something up. However, others were not so convinced, suggesting that the anomaly was merely rendering issues. One person explained that it was a nice glitch, just like previous other alleged structures on the lunar surface.
Some conspiracy theorists said that aliens occupied the moon, which was the reason NASA did not return since the end of the Apollo missions in the 1970s.
They suspect that anomalies such as the pyramid on the surface of the moon could be monuments built by an ancient alien civilisation just like the pyramids found on Earth.
Shocking Claim – Martian Male Warrior Skull Found On Mars
Shocking Claim – Martian Male Warrior Skull Found On Mars
Many UFO enthusiasts are upbeat with the discovery of alleged alien skull with an antenna on Mars. Some alien hunters believe NASA has missed proof there’s life on Mars or the agency has concealed the truth.
Some conspiracy theorists believe they have discovered something strange from NASA’s Martian Rover.
They believe they have found a skull of an alien being on the Red Planet. The supposed creature is claimed to be a male warrior. What makes the alleged creature even more interesting is the fact that it looks to have an antenna.
Some UFO hunters have been expressing their dismay over NASA of allegedly looking at mathematical stats, measurements, surface pressure, wind speed and hundreds of other stats instead of doing their job to report signs of intelligent life.
They think the skull has an extended cranium, beard, chin, mouth, nose, and eyes. They even believe that it belongs to a male warrior because the helmet can be seen with a ridge down its centre of the forehead area to the centre of the cranium. They also point out a ridge around the broken area.
However, sceptics and NASA have been explaining that the skull and other similar discoveries are just the effects of pareidolia. The pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar shapes or objects in textures or patterns such as a rock surface.
Many UFO enthusiasts are upbeat with the discovery of alleged alien skull with an antenna on Mars. Some alien hunters believe NASA has missed proof there’s life on Mars or the agency has concealed the truth.
Some conspiracy theorists believe they have discovered something strange from NASA’s Martian Rover.
They believe they have found a skull of an alien being on the Red Planet. The supposed creature is claimed to be a male warrior. What makes the alleged creature even more interesting is the fact that it looks to have an antenna.
Some UFO hunters have been expressing their dismay over NASA of allegedly looking at mathematical stats, measurements, surface pressure, wind speed and hundreds of other stats instead of doing their job to report signs of intelligent life.
They think the skull has an extended cranium, beard, chin, mouth, nose, and eyes. They even believe that it belongs to a male warrior because the helmet can be seen with a ridge down its centre of the forehead area to the centre of the cranium. They also point out a ridge around the broken area.
However, sceptics and NASA have been explaining that the skull and other similar discoveries are just the effects of pareidolia. The pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar shapes or objects in textures or patterns such as a rock surface.
A Supermassive Black Hole Is Heading Earth’s Way At 110 Km Per Second
A Supermassive Black Hole Is Heading Earth’s Way At 110 Km Per Second
There is a massive black hole with millions of times more mass than our sun is plunging towards Earth and will one day annihilate life as we know it.This particular black hole is coming towards us at 110 kilometres per second and is at the center of the Great Andromeda Galaxy – the Milky Way’s closest and much larger neighbor.
At the center of the most known galaxies, there exist a supermassive black hole which stars spin around and helps keep everything in formation.
But such is the powerful gravitational pull of the Milky Way and Andromeda that they are being drawn toward each other and will one day crash.
Fraser Cain, publisher of space website Universe Today, wrote for Phys.org:
“There’s a black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. And not just any black hole, it’s a supermassive black hole with more than 4.1 million times the mass of the Sun. It’s right over there, in the direction of the Sagittarius constellation. Located just 26,000 light-years away. And as we speak, it’s in the process of tearing apart entire stars and star systems, occasionally consuming them, adding to its mass like a voracious shark.”
Due to the size of Andromeda however, there is only going to be one winner when it smashes into the Milky Way.
But, as Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away, it will take over four billion years to reach us, so we are safe for now.
Mr Cain said: “Panic will happen when the Milky Way collides with Andromeda in about 4 billion years. “Suddenly, you’ll have two whole clouds of stars interacting in all kinds of ways, like an unstable blended family. “Stars that would have been safe will careen past other stars and be deflected down into the maw of either of the two supermassive black holes on hand. Andromeda’s black hole could be 100 million times the mass of the Sun, so it’s a bigger target for stars with a death wish.”
Filer’s Files #39 – 2018 The UFO Crashes in 1947- PART I
Smederevo. Serbia photo Jasenak Church on September 25, 2018
Filer’s Files #39 – 2018 The UFO Crashes in 1947- PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Russian Cosmonaut Claims UFOs Are Real, The UFO Crashes in 1947 and Antarctica: Newly found entrance to Interior.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, and Tennessee.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Italy, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, 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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Russian Cosmonaut Claims UFOs Are Real
Cosmonaut Alexandr Baladin stated that “flying saucers” have come into close proximity to the MIR space station as well as the Baikonur Cosmodrom. He added there is sufficient evidence to warrant a scientific study of the phenomenon, and that it is time that world governments officially acknowledge the UFO phenomenon’s existence.
Baladin disclosed at Brazil’s First International Ufology Forum, that he and fellow cosmonaut Musa Manarov had seen UFOs. During docking operations between his space capsule and the MIR, Baladin saw a glowing object a short distance away. Manarov managed to capture the strange phenomenon on videotape, that was shown during the UFO congress in Brazil. Baladin claimed that the recording and other evidence presented during the Congress, “must be studied by an international scientific commission.” Baladin insisted that the Russian military has a great contribution to make to UFO research, giving as an example the multiple-witness case at the Kaputsin Yar missile base, whose personnel sighted a semi-circular object flying at low altitude lighting up the bases facilities with a powerful searchlight in June 1989. “Many of my old comrades, who are now working at top-secret military facilities, acknowledge having seen UFOs.
“General Vladimir Ivanov, former commander of Russia’s Military Space Forces, recalls that three objects flew at a considerable altitude over Baikonur Cosmodrome and were picked up on radar. There is no way they could have been airplanes.” insisted the cosmonaut. Thanks to Rubén Sobrino.
Editor’s Note: Forces around the world and in space are asking that the US release information concerning UFOs and visitors from space. The number and quality of UFO reports are increasing. With modern mobile phones millions of people are now carrying both cameras and quick methods of communication.
The UFO Crashes in 1947
Many of the people I interviewed at the Roswell Museum and crash sights felt two saucers had crashed in New Mexico in July of 1947. There is evidence two saucers had a mid-air collision had crash landed some fifty miles apart. Sheep rancher Mack Brazel’s found a plowed up area on his land and debris from a crashed disc on his land and notified the authorities. Major Jesse Marcell the intelligence chief at Roswell was sent to investigate, Marcel confirmed that the crash debris had highly anomalous properties and was “not of this Earth.” Marcel carried much of the debris back home and showed his wife and son before taking it to the base to show the Base commander Col. William Blanchard also spoke of Ramey’s weather balloon cover-up at Fort Worth. , and General Ramey gave highly laudatory post evaluations to Major Marcel who was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and later retired.
Colonel Blanchard had Lt. Walter Haut thc base Public Affairs Officer prepare a press release to Roswell Daily Record. On July 8, 1947 at 5:26 EDT, carried an Associated Press news wire announced that Roswell Army Air Field had reported recovering a “flying disk” from a nearby rancher’s property, first found “sometime last week,” and that it was being flown to “higher headquarters.” The curious base press release triggered a national press feeding frenzy.
Later Brigadier General Ramey the Commander of the 8th Army Air Force It announced that the recovered “disk” was eventually destined for Wright Field, Ohio, home of the Air Materiel Command and the AAF’s aeronautical research labs.
Using the chronicle given in the Daily Illini of 9th July 1947 which o the AP news messages, that afternoon went something like: After the initial reports starting at 3:26 pm (FW time) 4:10 pm (FW time) AP announces it’s going after the story. 4:11 pm ” The war department in Washington had nothing to say immediately about the reported find” Then a very long gap in the news of 42 minutes!!! (?while they got their act together?) until 4:53pm Washington dateline, statement by Brig Gen Roger Ramey “disk” had been sent to Wright Field Ohio. After further “adds” 5:02 pm Full story pulled together and transmitted as “First Lead Disk” The next major item is 1 hour! later at 6:03 pm Dateline Washington, giving the first hint the object found might be a weather device 6:15 pm
Report, Gen Ramey to speak on radio at 6:30pm from Fort Worth – Roswell’s celebrated ‘flying disk’ was rudely stripped of its glamour by a Fort Worth army airfield weather officer who late today identified the object as a weather balloon.”
It’s during that 40+ minute time period just after 4 pm we believe photographer James Bond was in Ramey’s office taking his photo’s for the Fort Worth Star Newspaper. He claimed the debris in the photos smelled of fire, smoke and dead aliens.
It seems probable from Washington’s initial statement of 4:11 pm they hadn’t got a handle on what was happening at that point in either Roswell or Fort Worth. Even by the 4.53 pm AP release they were still not denying they had a “flying disk”. It took Washington almost a further hour before the first hint of a “weather device” surfaced, and a further half hour for the story to filter out of Fort Worth Army Airfield.
Looking at these timings, to me it seems probable that up until Washington’s active involvement sometime after 4:15-4:30pm or even 5 pm, Ramey was playing it straight and open, and as General Dubose maintained it was the direct order from General McMullen together possibly with the revelations held in the Ramey Message that forced him to backtrack, shut the lid down tight on events and come up with the balloon story.
Gen. Ramey message and Col. DuBose.
The fact that Washington seemed to be caught napping by the Roswell events doesn’t mean to say they were totally unaware of other events going on earlier or concurrently with events in Roswell, in fact if the US high command were deeply engrossed with the crash of the other similar disc about a 100 miles to the west of Roswell at San Augustin. It could account for their slow take up not realizing two discs had actually crashed.
General. Ramey began putting out an alternate weather balloon version of the story as ordered by higher headquarters. The press bought the change of story. Just to make sure, the Army and Navy engaged in a debunking campaign during the following days which involved weather balloon and radar target demonstrations. The weather balloons, the public was told, explained not only what was found at Roswell, but also accounted for the numerous “flying disk” or “flying saucer” sightings that preceded the Roswell events.
I personally talked to Mrs. Roger Ramey who would not confirm the Roswell crash. However she indicated, “Her husband was very upset about being forced to make false statements, he did not want to make, he was a very proud man and would never lie unless ordered to do so.” He had been taught never to lie and the order really bothered his integrity.
She confirmed that General Ramey and her and become good friends with President Truman and had dinner with him several times. I suggested it was very unusual for military personnel to become friends with a President and I asked how it happened? She indicated that her husband and the President had worked together on important classified projects. She would not confirm that this was the Roswell crash.
She stated her husband expected to become the Chief of Staff of the Air Force partly because he was a good friend of President Truman and that they had dinner with him at the White House . She felt President Truman had come to Texas and met with Brigadier General Ramey (probably to see the bodies.) She knew General Ramey was very upset about having to lie to the press about the weather balloon. It is known President Truman at the time of the crash flew to his home in Missouri. He was not seen by the press for several days at the time of crash using the excuse is wife was very sick. Its speculated he was picked up in a military plane and flown to Ft. Worth where he saw the alien bodies and issued orders that the alien story should be kept Top Secret. Later. Ramey was transferred to Washington and became a Major General apparently working on the Roswell incident. Ramey was called the AF “saucer man” in 1952.
Analysis of Ramey Message
Photographer James Bond who I became friends with remembered General Ramey was reading and holding a message while he was taking photos of the debris.There is no question that Ramey’s message, even when greatly enhanced by computer is a very difficult read. However, there are various keywords and phrases that can be readily seen by anyone, even in lower resolution scans of the message first analyzed in 1999 by a number of people.
Far and away the most important word of the entire message is “VICTIMS” on the third line (part of phrase “THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK”).
The first paragraph describes what had been found. Ramey starts by acknowledging “THAT A ‘DISK’ IS NEXT NEW FIND.” He then adds that “THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK” and something else (possibly just “A WRECK”) had also been found near the recovery “OPERATION AT THE ‘RANCH’.” At the end it states that “YOU” (i.e. Gen. Vandenberg) had ordered the “victims” and/or the wreckage “FORWARDED”to “FORT WORTH, TEX.”
In the second paragraph, Ramey describes how the situation was being handled. Ramey first states that something “IN THE ‘DISC'”, probably the bodies of the “forwarded” “victims” (and possibly termed “AVIATORS”) would be flown by a B-29 Special Transport or C-47 to the “A1” (personnel director) of some “8TH ARMY****” division, most likely the head flight surgeon at Fort Worth given the context. Wright Field, Ohio, home of the AAF’s aeronautical labs, was to assess the Roswell crash object (possibly referred to as an “AIRFOIL”).
Finally, both the Air Force and General Accounting Office (investigating on behalf of Congressman Schiff) in 1995 reported that air crash records revealed no plane crashes in that area during that time frame that could possibly explain the Roswell incident.
Confirmation by Two U.S. Air Force Generals of RoswellCrash
General Exon
I phoned former Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Commander Brigadier General Arthur Exon before his death. He spoke freely and claimed he had many friends who informed him of the disc and bodies. General Exon has been the highest ranking military officer to come out and say directly that Roswell was the crash of a spacecraft and that alien bodies were recovered. He had to bailout of his plane in World War 11 after 135 missions and spend the rest of the war in a Nazi Prison Camp. He seemed to feel the public should know about the disks.
In 1947 Exon was a Lt. Colonel stationed at Wright Field at the time of the Roswell crash and heard of the incident at that time. He said he also flew over the area of the crash some months later. He observed two distinct crash sites and gouges and tire tracks on the ground leading into the “pivotal areas.”
From 1964-66 he was the Commanding Officer of Wright-Patterson AFB, where crash material was taken in 1947. He said other UFO-related field operations were staged at W-P during his tenure. Teams of men would fly in from Washington on an investigation. W-P would supply them with planes and crews for their operations.
Photo of General Arthur Exon
Exon did emphasize that he was told these things by men who were directly involved and whom he knew well and trusted. He mentioned knowing some of the photographers who photographed the sites.
He also confirmed the existence of the Roswell metal reports.” Exon, the Base Commander of Wright Patterson in the 1960s, related that he was privy to some of the details on the composition of the crash debris and the variety of tests that were performed on it on the base. Exon stated the debris: “It was Titanium and some other metal they knew about, and the processing was somehow different.” Of course, special “processing” of Titanium and the “other metal” that “they knew about” (Nickel) is required to create Nitinol.
Exon added, “And it wouldn’t surprise me if the material wasn’t still around, certainly the reports are.” Exon was likely referring to the Battelle Progress Reports on memory metal done for Wright Patterson in the late 1940’s. Among the things that General Exon was very specific about was that everybody “from Truman on down” had known about the Roswell incident from the day it happened, and that it was known to be an alien spacecraft “almost as soon as we got on the scene.”
I phoned General Exon and explained I was researching the crash he was quite open that he was told the Roswell debris was extraterrestrial and that the issues it raised had been debated in the White House.. In 1948, following completion of a two-year industrial administration course at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, he was assigned to Air Materiel Command Headquarters, as chief of the Maintenance Data Section. He told me the crash of the Roswell UFO was openly discussed as extraterrestrial in the course at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. He arranged to fly out to the crash sights and viewed where the UFO crashed up near a hill.
Wings in Roswell debris.
As base commander he spoke to many personnel, he spoke of the delivery of alien materials, artifacts, and biological remains to Wright Field from the Roswell Army Air Base in the summer of 1947. He felt sure that the existence of these materials and what to do about them had been debated at the highest levels of the government. …In 1991, after I had written Majestic, my uncle put me into contact with a general — an old and trusted friend of his — who knew even more. The general, Arthur Exon, is the cousin of Senator Exon…”]
“We heard the material was coming to Wright Field. [Testing was done in the various labs.] Everything from chemical analysis, stress tests, compression tests, flexing. It was brought into our material evaluation labs. I don’t know how it arrived, but the boys who tested it said it was very unusual.”
“[Some of it] could be easily ripped or changed… There were other parts of it that were very thin but awfully strong and couldn’t be dented with heavy hammers… It was flexible to a degree… Some of it was flimsy and was tougher than hell, and the other was almost like foil but strong. It had them pretty puzzled. …couldn’t be easily ripped or changed …you could change it. You could wad it up, you could change the shape, but it was still there and … there were other parts of it that were very thin but awfully strong and couldn’t be dented with heavy hammers and stuff like that… which at the time were causing some people some concern… again, say it was a shape of some kind, you could grab this end and bend it, but it would come right back. It was flexible to a degree.”
The Crash Sites
“[It was] probably part of the same accident, but [there were] two distinct sites. One assuming that the thing, as I understand it, as I remember flying the area later, that the damage to the vehicle seemed to be coming from the southeast to the northwest, but it could have been going in the opposite direction, but it doesn’t seem likely. So the farther northwest pieces found on the ranch, those pieces were mostly metal. “…I remember auto tracks leading to the pivotal sites and obvious gouges in the terrain.”
” I know people that were involved in photographing some of the residue from the New Mexico affair near Roswell. There was another location where….apparently the main body of the spacecraft was…where they did say there were bodies.”
There would be reports, probably filed in the Foreign Technology Building, that would describe everything learned in the last forty-plus years. There would be photographs, from the debris field and the crash site, of the bodies and of the autopsies, filed away. Everything needed to prove that Roswell represented the crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft would be found, if those reports were ever to be released.
Air Force General George Schulgen (who led Intelligence at the Pentagon at the time of the Roswell incident) authored a previously-marked “secret” draft memo on the flying saucer issue on October 30, 1947- about four months after the crash. In the verified version of this memo is found a section entitled “Items of Construction.” Schulgen instructs his officers to be aware of flying objects and their materials of construction. He specifically notes the “unusual fabrication methods to achieve extreme lightweight” and that the material is of a “composite construction…using various combinations of metals.”
Schulgen is describing precisely some of the very characteristics of Nitinol. Just like the Roswell debris material, it is an “extreme lightweight” intermetallic alloy. As a novel “composite construction,” it is created by an “unusual fabrication” method that “uses a combination of metals”- perhaps like Titanium and Nickel. Thanks to Anthony Bragalia
I spent several days talking with Lt. Walter Haut in his office who was the former Roswell base public information officer who told me his did exactly has he was ordered by Col. William Blanchard. He issued the base press release has Col. Blanchard instructed about the disc. He did say Blanchard wanted publicity to help get him promoted. Haut showed me a model of a roughly disc shaped craft implying it was a model of the crashed craft without actual verification of it being real. He implied he would not have a model of a fictitious craft and I should make my own conclusions. He knew I was speaking at the Roswell Museum and gave me every indication that as far as he knew the craft was alien.
Later, Haut’s “deathbed” sealed affidavit confesses to seeing the spacecraft and bodies in base Hangar 84/P-3 and tells us the mysterious press release was Gen. Ramey’s idea to divert press and public attention away from the closer and more important craft/body site.
Bill McDonald designed this model.
My friend Warrant Officer Joe Stefula interviewed First Lieutenant Chester P. Barton a crypto specialist and assigned to an MP unit, Barton said he was ordered to the crash site 45 minutes north of town to check on the cleanup, saw a football-field-size burn impact area heavily guarded by MPs, scattered metal debris, was told radiation was at the site, heard archeologists had first discovered it, and also heard bodies were taken to base hospital and then to Fort Worth. Because of what he saw, he knew that the balloon explanation was ridiculous and there had been a cover-up. However, Barton was unusual in being a flying saucer crash skeptic, instead thinking that it was maybe a B-29 crash and nuclear accident.
Brigadier General Steven Lovekin (served in the White House Army Signal Corp during Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, 1959-1961) Although like Exon not a direct participant, Lovekin said he received 1959 Pentagon briefings and being shown a metallic beam with symbols from a 1947 N.M. crash (presumably Roswell) plus being told of either 3 or 5 aliens being recovered, one initially alive. He also visited the Library of Congress and shown very compelling photographic and radar evidence of UFOs. He also testified of the threats against military personnel given this information if they were to publicly reveal it. Lovekin is a Disclosure Project witness with me. .
I had lunch with Colonel and Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. who was the 11-year old son of Major Marcel in 1947. He had just returned from a tour in Afghanistan. He said, he remembered the night vividly of how his father woke up his mother and himself in the middle of the night when he returned from the debris field, showing them the pieces of a “flying saucer.” Among other material, he distinctly remembers a small metallic “I-beam” with purplish “hieroglyphics.’ He thought some of the debris may still be under the concrete patio outside the kitchen where they examined the debris. It was nothing like any of them had seen and they were quite familiar with all types of metals.
I personally met the son of Oliver Pappy Henderson who was one of the senior pilots at Roswell. When the first public stories of a Roswell saucer crash began circulating in 1981, Henderson confided to family and friends of being the pilot who flew bodies of the aliens and crash wreckage to Wright Field. He also claimed to have seen the craft and bodies, and provided a description of the aliens. His son moved to Australia due to his intimate knowledge of UFOs and made numerous contacts with me claiming his father was truthful and had firsthand knowledge of the craft. Sgt. Robert E. Smith said he helped load crates filled with debris for transport by C-54’s, including one flown by Henderson and his crew.
I personally phoned Lorretta Proctor neighbor of rancher Mack Brazel who was very friendly. She said Mack Brazel told her and her husband of finding strange material before going to Roswell, and showing them a wood-like piece that could not be cut or burned. They advised him to go to Roswell and report it. Brazel was detained at the base and complained bitterly of his treatment when he returned. She indicated she believed there was the crash of some kind of exterrestrials craft.
Concerning newspaper reports of Roswell base commander Col. William Blanchard who later became a four star general was allegedly away on leave when the story broke in the 1947 newspapers. “Blanchard’s leave was a screen. It was his duty to go to the site and make a determination of what had crashed. Blanchard couldn’t have cared less about a weather balloon.” said Exon.
I personally found that most if the officers’ wives had knowledge of the extraterrestrial craft. Blanchard’s wife told many of the officers’ wives it was alien and likely extraterrestrial. They spoke among themselves and discussed the crashes. The orders came down from headquarters to change the story from a disc to a weather balloon.
“According to Exon, once the nature of the crash at Roswell was understood, the information would have been passed up the chain of command. Ramey probably called the Army Chief of Staff, Dwight Eisenhower.
All witnesses told Exon that the craft was unusually light for its size. Without some form of heavy ballast, it would have fluttered like a kite without a tail in atmospheric flight mode. Trim was critical for a craft of its size and weight. Every seat needed to be filled.. Only a fluid fulfills all ballast and all delicate trim requirements for atmospheric flight–Magneto-aero electric propulsion in the air.
The aliens had skin like certain species of frogs breathe and receive nutrients directly through their skin tissue membranes. They die fast out of the water. Their lungs are partially atrophied from lack of use. Their digestive systems are reduced. Normal defecation is almost never seen. Sound familiar? Thanks to Bill McDonald
General Twining Visited Crashed Disks
The Air Material Command General Twining’s flight logs of 1947 have been released so his whereabouts between July 7th and July 9th 1947 have been confirmed. The Wright Airfield command developed aircraft for the Army Air Force. This flight to New Mexico was Twining’s one and only trip during Summer of 1947. Several key scientists and engineers accompanied him IPU Summary Page 4 states the following:-
7th July 1947 – Twinning went to Alamogordo AAF for a secret meeting with AAF Chief of Staff Spaatz and to view recovered remains of craft from crash landing site 20 miles northwest of Socorro.
8th July 1947 – Twinning and staff went to Kirtland AAF to inspect parts recovered from power plant.
9th July 1947 – Twining and staff went to White Sands Proving Ground to inspect pieces of craft being stored there.
10th July 1947 – Twining made inspection of R and D facilities at Alamogordo and then returned to Wright Field.
President Truman met with Twining on 25th September 1947, probably detailing the technology of the crashed UFOs.
Twining’s pilot said Twining sometimes made secret flights with Truman actually flying the plane.
Art Campbell has done an incredible job of researching the July 2, 1947 crash of a small, extraterrestrial craft in the Plains of St Augustin, New Mexico not far from the Roswell crash. There is speculation that the two UFOs collided or were both affected by radars. Art Campbell writes, “In May of 2012, a group of 15 people found a great deal of important material near the San Augustin, NM crash site that is thought to have happened at the same time as the Roswell crash.
By far the most important finding was this I-beam. It is 2 inches across at the flanges and 13 1/4 inch long. Rather crude flanged holes at each end indicate it may have been a repair. Bottom skin, honeycomb, and I-beam might have been scraped off a craft on the first skip down. Below the I-beam is another piece of honeycomb. This one had some skin attached, believed to be just inside the interior. Some excitement occurred when a faint triangle, circle and other markings were found near the right end of beam. The beam is probably the most significant find at the crash site and wants to make sure everybody knows about it. The beam looks more like an H-beam used to distribute horizontal loads.
The beam has a metallurgical composition primarily aluminum with high silicon, manganese, copper, and iron. It is my guess that a grid of beams covered the entire bottom of the UFO (probably crisscrossing the bottom of the craft in 10-12″‘ squares) supporting the honeycomb sandwich. The craft when it skipped down lost allot of its bottom and this beam was probably ripped out. The honey comb material has been found at two crash sites. Alien beam found at crash site
This is the third apparent entrance into Antarctica that we’ve posted on this website. It measures from 115 to 149 feet across and 71 feet at its maximum height. To put this in perspective, the popular A320 Airbus has a wing span of 117 feet.
Beyond the size of the entrance, there are other indications it might be a secret entrance. First, it is located 215 miles from any known research facility in Antarctica.
Second, when you zoom out, there is a mile-long line of 22 structures. At a distance, the first 18 look a bit like badminton cocks with two seeming to emit a reddish light. Together, they might suggest a lighted airport runway.
You also can CLICK HERE and see an 8:15 minute video by the man who made the discovery which the general public first learned about in a September 13, 2018 article in The Daily Mirror.
It’s harder to imagine the purpose of the third formation which is located between the “runway lights” and the entrance. It looks to be three aligned structures on a shadowy triangular mound.
If you would like to explore this Antarctica mystery for yourself, copy and paste the following coordinates in your Google Earth search bar:
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Filer’s Files #39 – 2018 The UFO Crashes in 1947 - PART II
Filer’s Files #39 – 2018 The UFO Crashes in 1947 - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Mesa– I live 8 miles E of Sky Harbor Airport and our house is under the various flight paths in and out of the airport. I was out on our patio talking to my husband on September 21. 2018, and saw a large white airplane coming in for landing. I also saw numerous bright white objects slightly above the airplane, which I first thought were a large group of balloons floating East. As soon as the plane past I saw 12-15 of these objects, it seemed they had a point to them versus only round like balloons. Each one was moving in all different directions around each other. Then they headed in a S direction in a group. The group began circling S over my house, heading W, they then formed a wide V shape heading to Sky Harbor. It became harder to see them so I am assuming they were climbing to a very high altitude. I managed to get two pics of the objects that were under intelligent control. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Delaware Lights
Hockessin — My friend and I were looking at the stars on August 23, 2018, around 9:45 pm at the Ashland Nature Center and saw what we thought to be a plane crashing in the distance. The plane looked as if it were on fire and plummeting down to the ground. As time passed, we realized that this was no plane. It was flying very close to the ground and had three exterior lights. The vehicle was triangular in shape and the lights were on the corners. There was a lead red blinking light on the front and two solid while lights on the rear two corners. We were sitting on top of a large hill and could clearly see the shape of the vehicle. The surface of it was dark and almost invisible. The size of the machine was larger than most jets but smaller than a commercial air line. There was no noise and it seemed to be looking for something since it was moving very slowly. It flew directly over us and continued in a straight line into the distance. I hid under a bench thinking might be abducted.
I videotaped this object as it got closer you could clearly see the lights and flatness of the vehicle.
Then about 10 minutes later a second one flew over with an extra white light on the rear of the vehicle. This one stopped and hovered about a half mile away from us, shined a light on the ground, and then continued at the same slow pace. There was a third object that was flying extremely high and much faster.
Sara told me she saw what I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Miami— I was on a boat inside the bay when I saw the lights. We were on a bay cruise before night time. I had no idea what they were so I took a photo on May 15, 2009. The lights didn’t seem to be moving so I thought they might just be a reflection of the lights inside the boat but they were not. When I looked back, all of the objects were no longer there. I took the photo through the glass window and didn’t look at the photo until much later. After enlarging the photo. It seemed there was a shape similar to a chevron with the lights at the bottom. It was eerie after realizing that they could be something else other than an ordinary aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Object
casyville — ufo came down from a higher altitude on September 23, 2018. It hovered to the west close to tree top level.
I was driving down Highway 157 heading to Collinsville and used my phone to take pictures when I first seen it.
When it came down I heard a static type of noise that’s what made me try to get the pictures before it was gone.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Lights
Las Vegas — I noticed the object after I chose to go out to our building’s rooftop pool on September 25, 2018. I laid down when I noticed a glinting object high in the sky. We are near Nellis Air Force Base and are used to seeing planes of all types. I paid a bit closer attention as I stared up and noticed the object was not moving across the sky. It seemed to move in one direction or another. It became clear it was staying in a specific area but moving rapidly from side to side within the area. I watched it for a few minutes then decided to try to video it.
A couple hours later I began looking at the video and could see in 36 to 39 seconds and also in the low 50s there was an object moving faster than a weather balloon and higher than typical planes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Disc
Memphis –This happened at 7:40 PM as my wife was driving and I looked up and saw that object on August 19, 2018.
I know it wasn’t an airplane because it was dark and it had no lights anywhere plus it seemed to be still.
As I started to record it the object just vanished.
The object looked like an A7 UFO . Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
Sydney — I took this picture from my window at a hotel I was staying at in September 24, 2018.
I sent it to my partner and it wasn’t too much later in the day my partner called and said to zoom in on the image.
I then noticed this yellow shape in the clouds as she had told me
I noted the planes. Sydney was over cast yesterday.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Object
Nanaimo— My wife and I noticed two orange glowing orbs outside our back window. We both rushed to the deck and tried to take video but were unsuccessful, but was able to take a picture that shows orbs in the distance. I captured on cell phone a not so best quality image. The orbs were moving at a slow pace one was quite low to moving over the Nanaimo harbor while the other was near the cloud line. After reaching the southern end of downtown Nanaimo the low flying orb changed directions and flew high up to the second orb. It followed the same path going east and then out of viewing range.. Two adults saw this clearly for 5 or 6 minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Lights
Termoli, Campobass— I see coming from the west, They arrived at two and three at a time, and after the first small groups, the lights that formed the “pentagon” were launched and all went towards the East and sea. on January 2, 2010. I realized it was a strange event and I ran back to get my Fujifilm MV camera. The most impressive thing is that these last luminous objects flew at a lower altitude than those that had gone before. I was desperate to get the camera working. I finally saw the green LED shine. I do not know how many lights flew above me, I only saw lights darting in the sky. I filmed, but because after a few seconds I did not see other lights, I stopped. Others were coming in droves heading East, while some turned South and began swarming around to the cloud. CMS
Norway Light
Larvik— We were watching TV when I suddenly noticed a bright light on the sky on September 24, 2018.
Staying at one place for about 10 minutes, after it started moving and disappeared out of site in less than one minute.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Serbia Object
Smederevo — I made a photo of local Jasenak Church on September 25, 2018, and spotted something like UFO in the photo. During photo with my Samsung S8 cell phone not see anything. You can see an object in the left upper corner. Because my cell phone has a very good camera.
Church Jasenak is special healing place on hill with endemic creatures. This object hovered right above this place.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Slovenia Triangle
Otočec — Unknown flying object was observed looking into night sky in the direction of Novo Mesto on September 27, 2018. Objects appeared in the night sky at 20:40 local time about 60 degrees elevation. The four lights were dimmed. Several objects were seen by my friend standing beside me. It was fast moving descending with a slight change of direction. It appeared triangular shape with lights in the center and every corner. Seemed as enormous size and rapidly disappeared from the sky flying direction SW. Few seconds later there was a meteorite like object just falling from the sky from same direction and just descending. This time he was standing with me while it happened and observed the objects with me with his own eyes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Lights
Swansea — 1. I was in my garden taking photos of the moon on September 23, 2018. 2. I was looking through my telescope’s finder scope and noticed a moving object come from the moon at about 10 ‘o clock. (NE) 3. I first thought it was a satellite or the ISS. 4. I didn’t see any detail on it as it was far away and happened really quickly, no more than 5 seconds. It moved quickly and in a diagonal direction from the left side of the moon in a straight line, then it disappeared.
5. I felt really excited when I saw it and was able to take a photo immediately. When I studied the picture and was unable to identify what it was I felt really elated at the prospect that it could be a UFO. 6. I lost sight of it and was unable to locate it again. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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NASA Balloon Observes Glowing Blue Clouds in Earth's Upper Atmosphere (Video)
NASA Balloon Observes Glowing Blue Clouds in Earth's Upper Atmosphere (Video)
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
Strange Clouds Spotted at the Edge of Space
A NASA long-duration balloon mission observed glowing blue clouds that ripple at the edge of Earth's atmosphere. The mission aims to help researchers learn about how energy transfers through the atmosphere's layers.
The phenomenon, called noctilucent clouds or polar mesospheric clouds(PMCs), occurs 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth's poles during the summer just after sunset. The clouds form as ice crystals grow on tiny meteor fragments in the region of Earth's atmosphere called the mesosphere. NASA's PMC Turbo mission sent up a huge balloon in July 2018 to study the phenomenon up close and gather information about movement in Earth's atmosphere; the balloon snapped 6 million high-resolution photos as it floated across the Arctic for five days, according to a statement from NASA. The balloon traveled from Sweden to Canada.
"From what we've seen so far, we expect to have a really spectacular data set from this mission," Dave Fritts, principal investigator of the PMC Turbo mission at Global Atmospheric Technologies and Sciences in Boulder, Colorado, said in the statement. "Our cameras were likely able to capture some really interesting events, and we hope [the photos] will provide new insights into these complex dynamics." [Strange Clouds Spotted at the Edge of Space]
The clouds' rippling and flow reflect the movement of air in the upper atmosphere resulting from a phenomenon called atmospheric gravity waves— not to be confused with the gravitational waves created by massive objects colliding in deep space.
A NASA balloon mission examined the rippling, electric blue clouds found high over Earth's poles during twilight in summertime.
Credit: Joy Ng/NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Gravity waves are oscillations in the atmosphere that form as air rises or falls and hits obstacles. This can happen when, for example, atmospheric layers bump up against each other or airflow runs into mountain ranges. Atmospheric gravity waves are normally invisible, but can be seen as they flow through noctilucent clouds.
"This is the first time we've been able to visualize the flow of energy from larger gravity waves to smaller flow instabilities and turbulence in the upper atmosphere," Fritts said. "At these altitudes, you can literally see the gravity waves breaking — like ocean waves on the beach — and cascading to turbulence."
The researchers also used a lidar system to measure, for the first time, the precise altitudes of the clouds and variations in temperature above and below the clouds. By watching gravity waves flow through these vivid clouds, scientists can learn more about how turbulence works in the upper atmosphere, as well as in other fluid systems, such as oceans, lakes and atmospheres on other planets, NASA officials said.
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains.
5 Ancient Petroglyphs & Cave Paintings that depict “Ancient Aliens”
5 Ancient Petroglyphs & Cave Paintings that depict “Ancient Aliens”
Thousands of years ago, ancient people around the globe created a number of petroglyphs and cave paintings. Why ancient man depicted strange beings with 5 or 6 fingers, helmets, sandals, and what appear to be space suits is a mystery no one has been able to answer.
Millions of people around the world firmly believe we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings for millennia.
But if such highly advanced beings visited us in the distant past… how did ancient cultures react 2000-3000 years ago? Did ancient man freak out when ‘highly advanced’ spaceships landed on our planet? Or did ancient cultures glorify the visitors, referring to them as gods? Strangely, many ancient civilizations like the Ancient Chinese, Maya, Aztec and Inca, speak of visitors that came from the heavens bringing great knowledge to mankind.
But even before ancient civilizations recorded their legends and spoke of gods that came down to Earth, people were recording what today is interpreted as ‘alien visitations’.
If we take a look at cave art and petroglyphs around the globe, we will notice that in all corners of the planet, ancient man drew on rock all sorts of important events, and in nearly all petroglyphs found to date, there are representations of mysterious and strange beings that do not resemble human beings.
However, what is even more fascinating is that even though these petroglyphs are found scattered across the entire planet, the depictions of the mysterious creatures are eerily similar. This has lead many to believe that ancient mankind that carved and painted the mystery beings must have seen them at one point in history.
Let us go ahead and take a look at three of the most amazing depictions of ancient aliens discovered to date!
1. The Wandjina cave paintings
The Wandjina cave paintings are one of our favorite cave paintings discovered to date. There are a number of interesting details about the cave art found in Kimberley, Australia, in 1838. First of all the age of the cave paintings has become a subject of debate among numerous researchers. Some even suggest that the mystery art called the Wandjina could be well over 100,000 years old (yes you read right).
Among the numerous pieces of ‘ancient Picasso art’ ancient people depicted beings that measure up to six meters in height.
Locals refer to the mystery beings as the “wandjinas”. These mysterious beings are said to have brought civilization and prosperity to the people, and like many other ancient cultures around the globe indicate, the enigmatic “wandjinas” also came from the sky. Even more impressive is the fact that numerous ancient cultures around the globe have in their destroy a serpent or dragon. Strangely, the “wandjina’s” symbol was a feathered serpent. Quetzalcoatl anyone?
But even more fascinating are other depiction of the Wandjina, who are depicted as strange humanoid figures without mouths, with huge black eyes and pale white faces that are surrounded by strange halos.These mysterious paintings have received all kinds of interpretation: strange representation of human beings, gigantic owls, down to the theory of Ancient Astronauts, as beings who visited Earth in the distant past.
2. 10,000-year-old cave paintings in India depict ancient aliens
Another fascinating discovery of what could be interpreted as ancient aliens can be found in India where researchers discovered a number of strange pieces of ancient art resembling what many have interpreted as otherworldly beings and disc-shaped objects.
According to Indian experts, it’s as if people, 10.000 years ago made these paintings while looking at science fiction movies.
The set of curious ancient art is located inside caves located near the town of Charama in the Kanker district.
One archaeologist from India firmly believes that this art clearly reflects that 10,000 years ago, people knew we were not alone in the universe.
Archaeologist JR Bhagat made some very interesting comments while speaking about the enigmatic cave art: „The paintings are done in natural colors that have hardly faded despite the years. The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features. Especially, the nose and mouth are missing. In few pictures, they are even shown wearing space suits.“
3. Tassili n’Ajjer: Proof of Ancient Astronauts
It seems that there is plenty of evidence of ancient alien visitations.
In addition to the above-mentioned cave paintings, ancient art found in Tassili n’Ajjer seems to illustrate mysterious creatures with helmets gloves and strange suits.
Today, experts have managed to catalogue around 5,000 cave paintings in the region. Regrettably, around 20% of them remain visible today, since most of them were destroyed by erosion.
The age of the cave art is believed to be around 10,000 to 15,000 years old. Among the sheer number of rock art found, ancient man drew giraffes, ostriches, elephants, oxen, alligators and even hippos; demonstrating that the Sahara region was full of life in the distant past. However, the most incredible feature are the mysterious depictions of strange beings with helmets and suits, which according to a number of researchers resemble modern-day astronauts.
Why would the ancient inhabitants of Tassili n’Ajjer depict the humanoid figures with helmet-like objects and spacesuits unless they did not seem them? Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that the natives of the Tassili Caves depicted the ancient astronaut that visited them in the past 10,000 years ago? According to many researchers, it is a possibility.
4. The Toro Muerto Petroglyphs
Another set of intriguing pieces of ancient art depicting strange beings can be found in Peru at the mysterious Petroglyphs of Toro Muerto, which according to many depict strange humanoid figures that do not resemble human beings.
The petroglyphs cover an area of several kilometers in length. Toro Muerto, which translated, means Dead Bull was named because of the herds of livestock that commonly died because of dehydration in the area.
Among the countless carvings at Toro Muerto, there are interesting depictions of what appear to be, shepherds, hunters, and semi-realistic figures, zoomorphic figures like jaguars, condors, camels, and fish. The ancients also depicted sunflowers and trees without branches, geometric symbols, zig-zags, square, diamond shapes and some inscriptions, intaglios, and bizarre writings all over an area of approximately four kilometers.
The most intriguing depictions at Toro Muerto are those of beings that do not share much resemblance to normal human beings. Even more fascinating is the fact that some of the petroglyphs of Toro Muerto bear a freakish resemblance to petroglyphs found in Australia where ancient man also depicted mysterious beings with ‘halos’ around their heads. The beings depicted at Toro Muerto were carved with a number of strange characteristics, like antennas on top of their heads.
5. The Petroglyphs at Karahunj, Armenia’s Stonehenge
This ancient site located in modern-day Armenia is fascinating for a number of reasons. First of all, many researchers claim that the site itself predates both Stonehenge in England and the Pyramids of Giza.
This ancient complex occupies over 7 hectares and offers its visitors a number of strange carvings created by early civilizations that inhabited the region thousands of years ago.
Among the numerous carvings, ancient man depicted what appeared to be strange beings with elongated heads and almond-shaped eyes, eerily similar to ‘modern-day’ representations of Grey Aliens.
In an age of wild claims churned out by politicians, media and advertisers, perhaps people don’t care as much any more
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Are aliens deserting us? Or do we simply not care any more? Photograph: Joe McBride/Getty Images
This month, the two major online sites for reporting UFOs – the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network – both documented steep drops in worldwide sightings. The declines started around 2014, when reports were at a peak. They have since reduced drastically to 55% of that year’s combined total, many UFO interest groups have folded, and numerous previously classified government documents have been disclosed.
Do these declines reveal that UFO interest is becoming a blip on the human cultural radar? Perhaps UFO and alien lore is seeming more like a reflection of human culture, tied to the space age, motivated by conquering new existential frontiers.
It might not be a coincidence that the term UFO (unidentified flying object) and some of the phenomena that surrounds it – abductions and impossible technologies – are relatively recent. Before the 1940s, reports of sightings of objects in the sky were extremely rare. Centuries of recorded history give no clear indication of any such activity. Then, at the predawn of the space-age, around the time of the Roswell conspiracy, UFO culture was born, giving rise to everything from Space Invaders to The X-Files.
Possible answers as to why sightings are decreasing are varied. A key factor, however, may be that more people simply don’t care any more. As we are accustomed to being inundated with wild claims churned out by politicians, media and advertisers, the next report of a UFO is no more believed than the long-range weather forecast.
Before home video, photographs were the staple of UFO evidence. Video evidence, during the height of the 1990s UFO mania, was regarded by many as even more substantial. Amateur footage of glowing objects in the sky, as mysterious as they seemed real, made the cut for appearing on television – they were meant to be taken seriously and they fed an audience hungry for amazement, helped by a healthy dose of conspiracy theorising.
According to the cultural historian Stuart Walton, “Belief in UFOs is definitely in a state of decline, along with much else that could be classed as paranormal. Part of the reason is that the technology for providing documentary evidence of such matters is now widely available to everybody with a smartphone, and such purported evidence as there is on YouTube looks extremely threadbare.”
He adds: “It isn't so much that belief can exist without proof; it's that it must emphatically avoid proof to remain belief. We are in the process, paradoxically, of proving a negative hypothesis with UFOs: there never was any such thing.”
Indeed, indisputable evidence of intelligent life coming to Earth could be the greatest news of all time. Yet, after thousands of anecdotal, photo, and video reports have accrued over decades, what are we to conclude? With the greatest balance of scepticism and “wanting to believe”, all that can confidently be asserted is that some objects, appearing in the sky on film or video, seem unidentifiable.
Furthermore, government disclosure of its own video footage isn’t helping to maintain belief. Joseph Baker, sociology professor at Tennessee State University, says: “It’s actually better for UFOs when ufologists can claim that ‘the powers that be know everything and are hiding it from us’ rather than seeing that the government appears to have basically the same info about UFOs as the public: namely grainy, inconclusive visual evidence.”
Perhaps though, the declines in reported sightings may signify only an end to current trends in ufology. After all, from the 1940s aliens were originally characterised as saviours who could help humans transcend the cold-war paranoia of nuclear annihilation; especially marked at the time, after two world wars. But after events like Watergate and the Vietnam war fuelled distrust in government, UFOs came to be viewed more as a possible threat, and some came to believe their existence was verified in secret military documents.
Sharon Hill, a researcher on the paranormal and pseudoscience, says: “The ideas about UFOs and aliens continue to evolve as we project our social and cultural ideas on them. Since we have no single easy explanation for all these claims regarding the decline in sightings, the future vision of ufology seems rather open-ended. I don't think it's dead, just changing.”
This article by the late Mac Tonnies is from Volume 2 of our Darklore anthology series (available from Amazon US and Amazon UK).
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“We are property.” – Charles Fort
“We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.” – Terence McKenna
Part of the fun of being a Fortean is second-guessing myself. While many endeavors encourage us to trust our first impressions, the study of unexplained phenomena offers no such luxuries. Researchers of the “paranormal” are instead tasked with policing their own streams of consciousness – a process as rewarding as it is laborious.
In my own case, the study of UFOs and occupant encounters has led me to two predominant interpretations, each at odds with the traditionally accepted Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH). In one scenario, the beings sighted since at least the 1950s (and, if folklore is any indication, long before) are the denizens of an invisible landscape: technologically savvy but impoverished hominids I’ve dubbed “cryptoterrestrials.” In the other, the enduring UFO spectacle is the product of an almost inconceivably ancient machine intelligence not unlike that portrayed in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001. I’ll limit the scope of this essay to the latter possibility.
As the human species enters an era of rampant existential threats and finds itself mirrored in the quantum circuitry of would-be artificial intelligences, there’s reason to suspect our existence has been monitored (and perhaps even groomed) by a “post-biological” super-intelligence. Although the galaxy is formidably vast, it’s also ancient. A growing chorus of pundits clamors over the perceived “Great Silence” that greets our arsenal of electronic listening gear; either we’re alone, condemned to solitude on the edge of an unremarkable galactic disk, or we have neighbors. And if even one of these neighboring intelligences has managed to spawn an artificially intelligent offshoot, there’s no end to how expansive it might have become in the ensuing millennia.
Suppose we’ve not only been detected, but catalogued and studied, our very identity eviscerated and infiltrated. What might we expect? Overt acknowledgement on behalf of the overseeing intelligence might be too much to ask, but it seems reasonable to expect an echo imprinted in our mythological and historical records, however faintly. Indeed, our collective psyche itself might bear mute witness to a visitation we don’t dare acknowledge for fear of staring too deeply into the abyss.
UFOs: A Social Engineering Campaign?
Like most proponents of an imminent technological “singularity,” I’m troubled by the seeming absurdity of UFO behavior. But instead of trying to dismiss the mystery outright, I’ve become convinced that the phenomenon is substantially deeper than the “mere” comings and goings of predominantly biologically beings in metal spacecraft How likely is it that UFOs might represent a spectacle enacted by an ET machine intelligence? As noted by acclaimed researcher Jacques Vallee, the ETH fails to account for the phenomenon’s enduring weirdness. Drawing from world folklore, Vallee posits that UFO sightings might be staged events that unfold according to the mythological syntax of any given era.
The UFO puzzle certainly represents an intelligence of some kind. Once we exclude the fashionable notion that all “good” sightings must invariably be the result of misinterpretation or hoax, it becomes apparent that we’re dealing with an extremely adaptable form of technology (or at least compelled to think we are). If the UFO intelligence is ET in origin, it’s conceivable that the enigmatic “flying disks” and apparent “occupants” that have come to populate 21st century mythology are so much theater designed to appeal to our sense of planetary selfhood. (It bears mentioning that the UFO phenomenon has never been exclusively American. Nor did it begin in the 1940s, as often assumed by ufologists and committed skeptics alike.)
As Vallee has argued in books such as Passport to Magonia and Dimensions, we’re witnessing the latest permutation of a richly historical drama that challenges researchers to re-examine the ETH. Like accounts of gods and “little people” before them, UFOs fulfill a significant psychosocial role. Examined superficially, this alone seems like grounds for debunking sightings of unlikely humanoids and their alleged vehicles. Yet UFOs behave in ways that refute a simple psychological explanation. Decades of multiple-witness encounters, complete with anomalous radar returns, leave little doubt that UFOs are a physical reality.
But why would visiting aliens behave in such a maddeningly elusive manner, eschewing open contact yet persistently presenting themselves in the most bizarre context?
While humanoid aliens engaged in a scientific study of our planet might very well inadvertently reveal themselves from time to time, UFO researchers must grapple with the peculiarly theatric flavor that accompanies so many credible sightings. It seems that whatever we’re witnessing is intentionally tricking us, adopting prudent disguises that fit the reigning zeitgeist.
Vallee – and other researchers of an esoteric bent – suspect we’re the recipients of a social engineering campaign that has little or nothing to do with flesh-and-blood visitors. If they’re right, we might be on the cusp of a new way of addressing ET contact that enlivens the UFO debate and casts new light on our own technological future.
Incompetent Alien Overlords
I’ve always been intrigued by the essentially clumsy methods employed by the purported pilots of UFOs. Alien abductors fare little better. Their induced amnesia has a way of crumbling over a curiously brief period of time; almost inevitably, their victims share stories of their experiences that, while often sincere, seem most unlike the machinations of an advanced extraterrestrial task-force.
Worse still, alien craft – which proponents of the ETH would have us believe are arbitrarily more advanced than our own – tend to leave incriminating scars on the terrain, if not crash with worrisome frequency. Coupled with their occupants’ human mannerisms, such seeming anachronisms all but beg that we rethink the standard interpretation offered by the ETH; instead of dealing with beings wielding technology “indistinguishable from magic,” UFO files reveal beings with the seemingly limited capabilities familiar to readers of pulp science fiction.
Indeed, their arsenal of gadgets, while impressive, is only a few decades in advance of our own. This observation, culled from a near-inexhaustible catalog of close encounters, hints that the phenomenon is at least partly physical, yet extraordinarily unlikely to represent the sort of ET visitation we might expect after viewing Close Encounters.
For example, abductee Betty Hill reported a pregnancy test identical to amniocentesis, a technique invented only shortly after her abduction. Similarly, accounts of electromagnetic effects on car engines and appliances are more in keeping with proposed earthly propulsion technologies than the sort of stealthy efficiency in keeping with a species hundreds of thousands of years ahead of us.
Scientists are already creating microscopic robots for use in medicine and industry. Given the inevitability of such devices, the presence of large metallic craft manned by humanoid pilots would appear, at best, a remarkably inept way to go about observing and cataloging life on this planet. Wouldn’t a genuine ET survey mission employ miniaturized surveillance in keeping with its need for secrecy?
Instead, UFOs cruise our skies with an implacable arrogance. If our visitors are indeed extrasolar aliens, then they have a most curious penchant for drama. If, on the other hand, we’re observing the activities of a machine intelligence, the apparent desire to be seen can be readily explained in terms of misdirection.
“Alien” imagery of the sort encountered in science fiction of the 1950s is the perfect cover, as our own military understands all-too-well. Greg Bishop chronicles just one example in Project Beta, a devastating critique of the black-ops underworld and its readiness to exploit ET mythology in order to deflate serious interest in secret Air Force projects.
By utilizing our innate fascination with flesh-and-blood interplanetary visitors in resplendent metallic spacecraft, the operative intelligence has ensured that any “accidental” sightings will be ascribed to the ETH. The mainstream media, quick to “debunk” for fear of inciting ridicule, thus ignores credible sightings and inadvertently assists the overarching agenda. And if by some chance the sighting is undeniable, its cultural connotations will almost certainly relegate it to our collective Fortean attic.
In a related vein, I don’t think it’s accidental that so many UFOs are adorned with mesmerizing flashing lights. While one can always argue that conspicuous lights indicate the presence of some truly unearthly propulsion system, it’s just as possible that they’re a deliberate ploy to appeal to our sense of the unearthly, thereby eliciting the excitement of the very ET enthusiasts whose sightings are certain to be ignored . . . or, at best, published in some obscure journal or website.
As Vallee has astutely noted, many accounts of UFO landings have the undeniable flavor of staged events. The controversial events at Rendlesham Forest, for instance, seem to make sense only if they were intended to be witnessed, perhaps in an attempt to further impress us with the extraterrestrial meme. Similarly, the famous Washington National sightings, in which objects were tracked over Washington, D.C. with ground- and air-based radar and confirmed visually by multiple witnesses, smack of an orchestrated event intended to arrest our attention.
Intriguingly, the objects over Washington were limited to inexplicable sources of light – not the “structured craft” described in other notable cases. Could the UFO intelligence use a form of holography to trick us into thinking we’re observing tangible vehicles? The possibility can’t be easily discounted. Michael Talbot supports the holographic theory in his book The Holographic Universe, noting that some UFO displays have more in common with sophisticated projections than nuts-and-bolts spacecraft.
The same can be said of many close encounters of the third or fourth kind in which witnesses report anomalous spatial effects. Some witnesses have described the interior of apparent alien vehicles as considerably larger than the craft as seen from outside. This odd detail, so bizarre when considered in isolation, might be explained as a perceptual trick enacted by the “aliens” to render their vehicles more impressive than they actually are. Upon exiting, a witness would be more likely to describe her experience in otherworldly terms.
That the ufonauts use a form of mind control is taken as a given by most abduction researchers. But once we concede that our visitors are able to induce or dampen perception at will, where does one draw the line? Who’s to say the bulk of abduction narratives can’t be interpreted as induced hallucinations? Perhaps some incredible abduction reports, while sincere, reflect an intimate brush with virtual reality rather than encounters with humanoid extraterrestrials.
Establishing the Foundations
But what do we know about the phenomenon? What can researchers agree on, if anything? I certainly don’t expect them to abandon the notion of biological visitors in favor of immersive virtual reality. Neither do I expect ufologists to agree on the ever-nebulous Interdimensional Hypothesis, which raises at least as many reality-altering questions as it purports to answer.
At the same time, the Null Hypothesis, maintaining that UFOs can be universally ascribed to misidentified natural phenomena and sightings of unconventional earthly aircraft, has grown decrepit and toothless. Fashionable debunking aside (up to and including the brittle posturing of self-styled “alien experts” such as the SETI Institute’s Seth Shostak) something absolutely fascinating is happening.
Taking stock of the situation, I’m tempted to reduce the UFO riddle to a few guiding tenets which I think can be reasonably supported by the evidence provided since the “modern” era of sightings began 60 years ago.
A list of pertinent characteristics might go like this:
Regardless of their origin, UFOs are physically real.
UFOs are sometimes observed engaged in behavior which can only be described as intelligently directed.
The psychological and sociological impact of the phenomenon is especially enduring and should be a topic of paramount interest for scholars and researchers in fields as disparate as cultural anthropology, aeronautics and neurology.
The sometimes theatrical behavior of unidentified flying objects suggests the possibility of some form of dialogue, whether directed by ourselves or orchestrated by the phenomenon itself. Likewise, military encounters in which weapons systems have been apparently manipulated in intelligent fashion invite the prospect that the UFO intelligence is at least partially amenable to understanding in terms of human psychology.
A Post-Biological Booster
Assume that something very much like the imminent “Singularity” we’ve been hearing so much about from futurists and transhumanist pundits has already happened elsewhere in the galaxy. Now imagine us awash in its wake, scrambling to summon a vocabulary up to the task of making sense of it.
If I’m right, a postsingular intelligence would eschew formal contact for the simple reason that such disclosure would destabilize us, possibly to the brink of obliteration. Lest this sound unnecessarily dire, it’s worth recalling that theorists have attacked the assumptions underpinning radio-based SETI for much the same reason. If our own history is any example, technologically robust civilizations inevitably subsume less sophisticated cultures, not merely by violently dismantling them, but by introducing a virulent strain of apathy. (The infamous Brookings report to NASA, recommending that the potential discovery of extraterrestrial artifacts be covered up for fear of paralyzing research/development enterprises, stands as perhaps most explicit elucidation of this idea.) The UFO/”alien” phenomenon described by Vallee, John Keel and even Whitley Strieber is alarmingly congruent with a “postbiological” hypothesis. We appear to be interacting with an exceptionally patient intelligence which, despite its advantages over terrestrial science, seems limited by a steadfast refusal to make itself widely known. (Whether this indicates a guiding morality or pragmatic necessity remains to be seen.) Contrary to mainstream expectations, our visitors have opted for a much more gradual form of contact, evidenced both by the often theatrical nature of the apparent vehicles in our skies and by the behavior of the presumed occupants (who seem to enjoy letting us assume they’re predominantly human-like, governed by such familiar traits as curiosity and even sexuality).
I propose that this intelligence has played a significant role in hastening our species’ development as well as keeping us in a periodic “standby” state, rendering us less likely to destroy ourselves. In a way, the human legacy has been scripted to conform to an alien template about which we know nothing. But the available historical, mythological and experiential evidence tends to support a largely benevolent raison d’etre. Perhaps we’re being groomed in preparation for our own Singularity, after which the “others” could have no choice but to deal with us as equals.
Accessing the Interzone
I’ve speculated that the diverse humanoid forms encountered by “abductees” and UFO witnesses might be best understood in terms of a “hive society,” replete with “drones” engineered to perform specialized tasks.
Science fiction writers continue to debate what methods we’ll use when colonizing a planet such as Mars. Ultimately, we might choose to terraform the world into a facsimile of our own. But we could just as easily decide to modify ourselves to tolerate inclimate conditions. A space-faring post-biological intelligence could take up residence elsewhere and populate the surface of its designated planet with lifelike, semi-autonomous drones.
Such a civilization might seem remote, but the general concept is already in practice; if our own robotic space probes continue to increase in sophistication and brain-power, they’ll eventually become indistinguishable from living creatures, at which point we will have effectively achieved the “Singularity” advocated by technoprogressives such as roboticist Hans Moravec and inventor Ray Kurzweil. We will have also created the forebear to the very sort of resourceful, self-replicating machine envisioned by John von Neumann, whose idea suggests that our night sky should be veritably illuminated by the comings and goings of ETs (or their technology).
Taken to its logical extreme, telepresence offers an expansive – if tentative – explanation for myriad “occult” phenomena. It potentially explains why we seldom see aliens in the flesh unless they want us to. And we can’t dismiss the possibility that some UFO sightings, while seemingly physical events, might be enacted on a psychological level. Our own neurological dabbling demonstrates that such techniques are less exotic than some may expect; indeed, if neurologist Michael Persinger is correct, radiation emitted from natural phenomena can sometimes result in convincing hallucinatory states.
To be sure, the realm of the UFO intelligence has the visual flexibility of a multimedia installation or high-bandwidth website. It’s conceivable that “trippers” can access this interzone, even if inadvertently. The beings seen – described similarly in both UFO and drug narratives – might be the equivalent of neuropharmacologists and system operators. If so, what role might be in store for us?
A Sort of Amnesiac Stupor…
UFO researchers like their aliens to abide by 20th century preconceptions of what alien beings “should” look like; encounters with “absurd” entities (such as the goblin-like, levitating creatures made famous by the Hopkinsville case) comprise a kind of viral assault on conformist ufology by insinuating themselves into reigning conceits and quietly subverting ETH dogma. Ultimately, their existence is marginalized and becomes less ufological than “Fortean.” We’re asked, in effect, to consider the Hopkinsville visitors and their like as somehow separate and distinct from “hardcore” case-files that more readily suggest “traditional” extraterrestrial visitation. We do so at our peril.
Even UFO cases central to advocates of the ETH sometimes betray a psychosocial agenda. (“Dogfights” and radar-visual engagements with UFOs, while impressive evidence that the phenomenon is anything but simply visionary, also present the specter of an inexplicably “playful” disposition; this clashes with dogmatic assurances that humanoid aliens would refrain from such childish behavior.)
Encounters with “Hopkinsville-type” beings demonstrate an undeniable commonality with both folkloric sources and the contemporary UFO phenomenon. Taken together, these inconvenient similarities force us to question the easy certainties that prevailed in the 1950s, when human-like space aliens in comprehensible spacecraft seemed all-but-inevitable. “Limbo” cases like Hopkinsville allow us to assess the phenomenon in a brighter, less sullied light.
While one can argue endlessly in favor of a traditionalist extraterrestrial interpretation, a holistic approach leads us to consider that the UFO intelligence not only wants to perpetuate itself via dramatic encounters with ostensible “occupants,” but intends to discredit its own machinations: it stages exciting UFO events that infect both the research community and the popular imagination, knowing that the phenomenon’s inherent absurdity will eventually undermine attempts to arrive at an indictment.
We’re thus conditioned to accept the ETH one moment only to succumb to the “giggle factor” the next, never peering past the curtain to see the agenda behind the special effects. We’re kept in a sort of amnesiac stupor, occasionally graced by visits from what can only be structured ET craft . . . and then deflated by the latest bizarre “occupant” report or account of “missing time.”
Our infatuation with the unknown is systematically provoked and dismantled by a memetic campaign that’s never less than astute in its grasp of human belief.
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Is it aliens? Scientists detect more mysterious radio signals from distant galaxy
Is it aliens? Scientists detect more mysterious radio signals from distant galaxy
Some think the “fast radio bursts” could be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization.
by Jeremy Hsu
Researchers using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia announced the detection of 15 pulses of radio energy from an object known to the astronomy community as FRB 121102.
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For the past decade, scientists have been puzzling over powerful, millisecond-long flashes of energy from deep space. Some scientists think these “fast radio bursts,” or FRBs, come from natural sources, such as newborn neutron stars or black holes. Others think they could be signals from alien civilizations.
One thing’s for sure: FRBs are more common than we realized. In the latest discovery, scientists working as part of a $100-million initiative known as Breakthrough Listen used artificial intelligence to detect dozens of additional FRBs coming from FRB 121102, an as-yet-uncharacterized source in a galaxy 3 billion light-years from Earth.
The work is the first step in the initiative’s grander plans for using AI to find hidden patterns in the bigger sea of cosmic signals that come our way — research that could finally provide an answer to that eternal question: Are we alone in the universe?
"It's a great way of developing the kinds of techniques that we ultimately want to use to find other types of signals that might come from extraterrestrial intelligence," says Andrew Siemion, principal investigator for Breakthrough Listen and director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
In August 2017, the Breakthrough Listen team discovered 21 fast radio bursts from FRB 121102 during five hours of observations made by a radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia. In their latest study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal, the researchers deployed a specialized AI technique known as deep learning to see if any signals had been overlooked in their initial research.
Siemion gave Yunfan "Gerry" Zhang, a doctoral student at Berkeley, the job of training a deep learning algorithm to hunt for the additional bursts. The trained AI was turned loose to sort through 400 terabytes of observational data — a huge trove containing about as much data as is contained in 40,000 hours of 4K video.
After a month of work, Zhang strolled into Siemion's office and told his stunned mentor that he had discovered about 100 previously undetected bursts. To be sure Zhang was right, the researchers used standard computer software to clean up the messy signals — and confirmed the existence of at least 72 additional bursts.
The same AI approach could help astronomers find new repeating sources of fast radio bursts closer to Earth than FRB 121102. If closer repeater sources do exist, astronomers might be able to get a better look at them using optical and X-ray telescopes, says Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, the science theory director for all initiatives funded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.
But the Breakthrough Listen team is already looking beyond fast radio bursts. It's developing AI to analyze a wider range of similarly interesting signals coming from nearby stars and galaxies. In this case, AI's broad pattern recognition abilities could prove especially helpful when nobody knows exactly what an alien signal might look like.
"If AI could flag things that don’t look right or don’t look natural, that might be an interesting thing to do," says Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in California who was not involved in the Breakthrough Listen study.
Eventually, AI could do much more than just filter radio signals. Shostak speculates that AI — already enabling Internet searches for cat and dog videos — could someday automatically search telescope images for unusual visual features that might represent huge alien megastructures from either existing or bygone civilizations. As he puts it, "AI can find cats on the Internet, but maybe it could also find Klingons in space.”
Scientists weigh in on cigar-shaped UFO, believed to carry alien life
Scientists weigh in on cigar-shaped UFO, believed to carry alien life
A GROUP of scientists claim to have identified a mysterious object spotted flying through space and thought to have been an alien spaceship.
Rhian Deutrom
Analysis Reveals Elongated, Cigar-Like Shape for First Interstellar Asteroid. Credit - NASA via Storyful
SCIENTISTS have uncovered the truth about a mysterious space rock called Oumuamua which has been hurtling through Earth’s solar system and was spotted last year.
A group of acclaimed astronomers, including members from NASA, the European Space Agency and the German Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, released a report this week on the origins of the cigar-shaped asteroid which was first observed in October 2017.
The name Oumuamua is Hawaiian for “messenger from afar arriving first” and was named by the site who first spotted it.
An artists’ impression of what Oumuamua would look like close up. Screengrab from video produced by Martin Kornmesser, ESA and NASA.
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According to the report, “a fast moving object on an unbound orbit was discovered close to the Earth” by a high-powered telescope, located in Hawaii.
The report claims Oumuamua is a metallic or rocky object, approximately 400 metres in length and about 40 metres wide.
It has a “comet-like density” and a dark red surface.
“(The red surface suggests) either an organic-rich surface like that of comets and outer solar system asteroids, or a surface containing minerals with nanoscale iron, such as the dark side of Saturn’s moon Iapetus,” the report said.
This image shows the journey of Oumuamua through our solar system. Screengrab from video produced by Martin Kornmesser, ESA and NASA.
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The report suggested Oumuamua left its home millions of years ago and was likely sent on its lonely journey when it was “ejected during planet formation and migration” and has been linked to four possible star systems.
It was also calculated that Oumuamua moved faster than the existing laws of celestial mechanics.
The report has been accepted into The Astrophysical Journal.
The discovery of Oumuamua sparked international debate when it was first discovered, as scientists struggled to explain what exactly the long, thin asteroid was and why it was flying so close to Earth.
The discovery even prompted suggestions that the rock was actually an alien spaceship or probe, used to explore our solar system.
Oumuamua is the first-ever object spotted from beyond our solar system. Screengrab from video produced by Martin Kornmesser, ESA and NASA.
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But one fact has remained uncontended: Oumuamua is the first object ever observed travelling into our solar system from deep space.
The report found that Oumuamua is likely “one of many” interstellar objects that pass through Earth’s solar system on a regular basis.
The discovery of rock carvings believed to be tens of thousands of years old in India's western state of Maharashtra has greatly excited archaeologists who believe they hold clues to a previously unknown civilisation, BBC Marathi's Mayuresh Konnur reports.
The rock carvings - known as petroglyphs - have been discovered in their thousands atop hillocks in the Konkan region of western Maharashtra.
Mostly discovered in the Ratnagiri and Rajapur areas, a majority of the images etched on the rocky, flat hilltops remained unnoticed for thousands of years.µ
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Most of them were hidden beneath layers of soil and mud. But a few were in the open - these were considered holy and worshipped by locals in some areas.
The sheer variety of the rock carvings have stunned experts - animals, birds, human figures and geometrical designs are all depicted.
The way the petroglyphs have been drawn, and their similarity to those found in other parts of the world, have led experts to believe that they were created in prehistoric times and are possibly among the oldest ever discovered.
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"Our first deduction from examining these petroglyphs is that they were created around 10,000BC," the director of the Maharashtra state archaeology department, Tejas Garge, told the BBC.
The credit for their discovery goes to a group of explorers led by Sudhir Risbood and Manoj Marathe, who began searching for the images in earnest after observing a few in the area. Many were found in village temples and played a part in local folklore.
"We walked thousands of kilometres. People started sending photographs to us and we even enlisted schools in our efforts to find them. We made students ask their grandparents and other village elders if they knew about any other engravings. This provided us with a lot of valuable information," Mr Risbood told the BBC.
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Together they found petroglyphs in and around 52 villages in the area. But only around five villages were aware that the images even existed.
Apart from actively searching for them, Mr Risbood and Mr Marathe have also played an important role in documenting the petroglyphs and lobbying authorities to get involved in studying and preserving them.
Media captionStunning aerial shots of India's prehistoric art
Mr Garge says the images appear to have been created by a hunter-gatherer community which was not familiar with agriculture.
"We have not found any pictures of farming activities. But the images depict hunted animals and there's detailing of animal forms. So this man knew about animals and sea creatures. That indicates he was dependent on hunting for food."
Dr Shrikant Pradhan, a researcher and art historian at Pune's Deccan College who has studied the petroglyphs closely, said that the art was clearly inspired by things observed by people at the time.
Image copyrightBBC MARATHI
"Most of the petroglyphs show familiar animals. There are images of sharks and whales as well as amphibians like turtles," Mr Garge adds.
But this begs the question of why some of the petroglyphs depict animals like hippos and rhinoceroses which aren't found in this part of India. Did the people who created them migrate to India from Africa? Or were these animals once found in India?
The state government has set aside a fund of 240 million rupees ($3.2m; £2.5m) to further study 400 of the identified petroglyphs.It is hoped that some of these questions will eventually be answered.
IS ANYBODY OUT THERE? The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has been used for decades in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) but has barely made a dent in the space to be searched, new calculations suggest.
COURTESY OF THE NAIC-ARECIBO OBSERVATORY, AN NSF FACILITY
With no luck so far in a six-decade search for signals from aliens, you’d be forgiven for thinking, “Where is everyone?”
A new calculation shows that if space is an ocean, we’ve barely dipped in a toe. The volume of observable space combed so far for E.T. is comparable to searching the volume of a large hot tub for evidence of fish in Earth’s oceans, astronomer Jason Wright at Penn State and colleagues say in a paper posted online September 19 at arXiv.org.
“If you looked at a random hot tub’s worth of water in the ocean, you wouldn’t always expect a fish,” Wright says.
Still, that’s far more space searched than calculated in 2010 for the 50th anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. In that work, SETI pioneer Jill Tarter and colleagues imagined a “cosmic haystack” of naturally occurring radio waves she could sift through for the proverbial needle of an artificial, alien beacon (SN Online: 5/29/12). Her haystack went beyond physical space to include factors such as a possible signal’s duration, frequency, variations and strength, as well as the sensitivity of radio telescopes on Earth that would presumably detect a signal.
She concluded that searches had covered about a drinking glass’s worth of seawater — hardly enough to conclude the ocean is fishless.
Wright and colleagues Shubham Kanodia and Emily Lubar updated Tarter’s calculation by devising a slightly different haystack, including factors like the frequency and bandwidth aliens might broadcast in. It also included more recent SETI searches such as the Breakthrough Listen project(SN Online: 7/20/15).
Converting the volume to liters for the sake of analogy, the researchers concluded that SETI has covered the equivalent of 7,700 liters out of 1.335 billion trillion liters of water in Earth’s oceans.
“We’re finally getting to the point today … that we have a chance of finding something, depending on how much there is to find,” Wright says.
Earth Could Be Crushed to The Size of a Soccer Field by Particle Accelerator Experiments, Astronomer Warns
Earth Could Be Crushed to The Size of a Soccer Field by Particle Accelerator Experiments, Astronomer Warns
Martin Rees, a well-respected British cosmologist, has made a pretty bold statement when it comes to particle accelerators: there’s a small, but real possibility of disaster.
Particle accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider, shoot particles at incredibly high speeds, smash them together, and observe the fallout.
These high speed collisions have helped us discover lots of new particles, but according to Rees, this isn’t without its risks.
“Maybe a black hole could form, and then suck in everything around it,” he writes, as Sarah Knapton reports over at the Telegraph. “The second scary possibility is that the quarks would reassemble themselves into compressed objects called strangelets.”
“That in itself would be harmless. However under some hypotheses a strangelet could, by contagion, convert anything else it encounters into a new form of matter, transforming the entire earth in a hyperdense sphere about one hundred metres across.”
That’s approximately 330 feet, or around the length of a soccer field.
And that’s not all. The third way that particle accelerators could destroy the Earth, according to Reese, is by a “catastrophe that engulfs space itself”.
“Empty space – what physicists call the vacuum – is more than just nothingness. It is the arena for everything that happens. It has, latent in it, all the forces and particles that govern the physical world. The present vacuum could be fragile and unstable.”
“Some have speculated that the concentrated energy created when particles crash together could trigger a ‘phase transition’ that would rip the fabric of space. This would be a cosmic calamity not just a terrestrial one.”
Sounds frankly terrifying. But should we really be worried? Surely the smart people at the LHC can clear this up.
“The LHC Safety Assessment Group (LSAG) reaffirms and extends the conclusions of the 2003 report that LHC collisions present no danger and that there are no reasons for concern,” CERN writes on their website.
“Whatever the LHC will do, nature has already done many times over during the lifetime of the Earth and other astronomical bodies.”
And this is an important point – cosmic rays are basically natural versions of what the LHC and other particle accelerators are doing. And these rays hit Earth constantly.
The team behind the LHC have an answer for strangelets as well.
“Could strangelets coalesce with ordinary matter and change it to strange matter? This question was first raised before the start up of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, RHIC, in 2000 in the United States,” they explain.
“A study at the time showed that there was no cause for concern, and RHIC has now run for eight years, searching for strangelets without detecting any.”
Even the late, great Stephen Hawking gave his blessing to the particle accelerator:
“The world will not come to an end when the LHC turns on. The LHC is absolutely safe. … Collisions releasing greater energy occur millions of times a day in the earth’s atmosphere and nothing terrible happens,” said Hawking.
In a way, Rees is correct. We’re not 100 percent sure, and might never be. But as he explains, many scientific advances can have risks, but that’s not to say we need to stop entirely.
“Innovation is often hazardous, but if we don’t forgo risks we may forgo benefits,” he writes in On The Future.
“Nevertheless, physicists should be circumspect about carrying out experiments that generate conditions with no precedent, even in the cosmos,” Rees writes.
“Many of us are inclined to dismiss these risks as science fiction, but give the stakes they could not be ignored, even if deemed highly improbable.”
We’ll leave that gargantuan task to the particle physicists.
By Gordon Slovut, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
They sat quietly, leaning toward the lectern in a dark-paneled room near Lake Calhoun, Minn., as a professor from New York told of his encounter with one of the mysterious Men in Black.
In the audience were people such as biophysicist Otto Schmitt, a retired professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota; retired aircraft developer and physicist Cecil Behringer; physician Steven Zuckerman and polymer scientist Arthur Coury.Peter Rojcewicz told them there have been hundreds - perhaps thousands - of such encounters over the centuries.
"The Men in Black are part of the extraordinary encounter continuum - fairies, monsters, ETs, energy forms, flying saucers, flaming crosses," said Rojcewicz, a 37-year-old professor of humanities and folklore at New York's Juilliard School.
The modern era of Men in Black - visitations by mysterious, black-clad men who seem evil and threatening - goes back to at least the early 1950s when a man named Albert Bender reported seeing a UFO in Bridgeport, Conn., and was later frightened by a visit from three Men in Black.
Rojcewicz told the audience that his own MIB (Men in Black) experience occurred in 1980. "I have never gone public with this before," he said.
Most of the modern era MIB encounters have followed sightings of UFOs or strange lights. Rojcewicz's encounter involved no sightings. He said he was just sitting in the University of Pennsylvania library, reading a UFO book suggested by another professor who thought that Rojcewicz would be interested in such phenomena.
"Then in the corner of my vision I noticed a black pants leg and a black shoe, scuffed," Rojcewicz said. Standing in front of him, Rojcewicz said, was a very gaunt, very pale man. He wore a black suit, black shoes, black string tie and a bright white shirt.
Rojcewicz told the man he didn't know much about flying saucers and wasn't sure he was very interested in the phenomena.
The Man in Black screamed: "Flying saucers are the most important fact of the century and you are not interested?"
"I tried to calm him," Rojcewicz said. The man got up, once again all in a single awkward movement, put his hand on Rojcewicz's shoulder and said: "Go well on your purpose" and left.
Rojcewicz said he thinks his experience - and that of others who have been exposed to the Men in Black - are somewhere "in the crack" between real life and fantasy. He has been studying anomalous phenomena such as the Men in Black ever since his 1980 experience. He has interviewed many people who have reported UFOs, flying saucers and Men in Black experiences.
You’d think that physicist Stephen Hawking’s favorite place on Earth would be his native England, but it’s actually someplace completely different – as he explains in a new 25-minute documentary from CuriosityStream.
“Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places” is an exclusive offering from the online video-on-demand channel, founded last year by John Hendricks, who was the mastermind behind the Discovery Channel. It’s the first episode in what’s expected to be a series of original “Favorite Places” features, supplementing CuriosityStream’s library of science documentaries from the BBC and other providers.
The real-life Hawking has to use a computer-equipped wheelchair to get around nowadays, but CuriosityStream’s documentary uses CGI magic to put the good doctor into the cockpit of the S.S. Hawking, a spaceship he designed himself.
From that vantage point, Hawking takes viewers on a tour through time and space – and talks about his own journey through life as well.
“My goal is simple: complete understanding of the universe,” Hawking said in a statement. “It’s always been a dream of mine to explore the universe. So, what if I could? Imagine I could go anywhere and see anything.”
Here are the five places that Hawking picked:
1. The Big Bang:
The S.S. Hawking starts its trip with a visit to the beginning of the universe, giving Hawking the opportunity to explain that the Big Bang wasn’t as big of a bang as people think. “There are no fireworks,” he says. “Light won’t exist for hundreds of thousands of years.” But Hawking spins the time dial fast enough to get to a satisfying flash, 380,000 years after the beginning.
2. The Milky Way’s central black hole:
When Hawking gets to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way, fans of the movie “Interstellar” will recognize the scene. It’s a bigger version of Gargantua, the huge black hole in the movie that’s based on calculations by one of Hawking’s pals, Caltech physicist Kip Thorne. To CuriosityStream’s credit, the scene neatly explains the mechanism behind a black hole’s “Hawking radiation” and why Hawking changed his thinking on black hole behavior.
3. Gliese 832 c:
Hawking journeys to one of the likeliest nearby candidates for habitability beyond Earth – Gliese 832 c, a super-Earth that orbits a red dwarf star located 16 light-years from our solar system. “Plants here wouldn’t be green,” he says. “Photosynthesis from the sun’s red light would produce purple or black foliage. There could be animals, too, perhaps intelligent ones.” Hawking notes that Gliese 832 c (like the more recently discovered Proxima Centauri b) is under observation by the Breakthrough Listen SETI campaign. “Finding intelligent life would be the single greatest discovery in history,” Hawking said. “We would be forced to change.”
4. Saturn:
Hawking’s in love with the giant planet’s rings and its more than 60 moons. “I have no doubt in the future it will be a massive tourist hot spot, complete with hot-dog stands and screaming children,” he says. The S.S. Hawking spends a few extra moments zooming past Enceladus, an ice-covered moon that spews geysers of water vapor and may well harbor life in its hidden ocean.
5. Earth:
The whole planet counts as a favorite place for Hawking, but he’s especially fond of sunny Santa Barbara, Calif., where he spent many happy hours with his young family in 1974. At the time, Hawking held a position at Caltech in nearby Pasadena and was coping with the early stages of his neurodegenerative disease. “My home away from home … It was a world away from the gray skies of Cambridge,” he said. “I’ve traveled the globe, but I’ve never found anywhere quite like this.” Even today, he stops by Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, which he calls “the perfect place for blue-sky thinking.”
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WETENSCHAP Aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel, ver voorbij alle planeten, bevindt zich een mysterieus object. Het is een klein rotsblok dat er 44.000 jaar over doet om een baan rond onze zon te draaien.
Het object heeft de wetenschappelijke naam 2015 TG387 gekregen. Hij is ongeveer 300 kilometer in doorsnee. Mogelijk is hij een dwergplaneet, net als Pluto. De ontdekking is dinsdag bekendgemaakt door de Internationale Astronomische Unie, de wetenschappelijke organisatie die over het onderzoek naar het heelal gaat.
2015 TG387 draait in een ovale baan rond de zon. Toen hij werd ontdekt, was de afstand tot de zon tachtig keer zo groot als de afstand van de aarde tot de zon. Als hij het dichtst bij de zon staat, is dat nog altijd 65 keer de afstand zon-aarde, twee keer zo ver weg als Pluto. En op het verste punt is de afstand tot de zon 2300 keer de afstand van de aarde tot de zon. Er zijn mogelijk duizenden van zulke objecten in de buurt, maar ze zijn erg moeilijk te vinden vanwege de enorme afstand. Tot nu toe zijn er maar een paar gevonden. “We konden 2015 TG387 alleen ontdekken toen hij het dichtst bij de zon kwam. Tijdens 99 procent van zijn omloop was hij te vaag om te zien”, aldus de Amerikaanse onderzoeker David Tholen.
‘Planeet X’
De ontdekkers denken dat er mogelijk een negende, nog niet ontdekte planeet in die uithoek van het zonnestelsel te vinden is. Rotsblokken als 2015 TG387 zijn volgens hen “broodkruimels” die naar die ‘Planeet X’ kunnen leiden. De zwaartekracht van die planeet kan de baan van de rotsblokken namelijk beïnvloeden. Als ze de omloopbanen van de dwergplaneten kennen, kunnen ze uitrekenen waar die zwaartekracht vandaan komt en waar de mysterieuze planeet zich bevindt.
Het is ontegenzeglijk het eerdere object, maar wat het is, is een volkomen raadsel. Een buitenaards ruimteschip of, zo blijkt later, een geweldig grote drone die misschien voor een marketingcampagne wordt gebruikt. De tijd zal het leren, hopen we.
Update: 22 september 2018:
De avond voordat de getuige de bijzondere opname maakte van een ruimteschip dat boven de weg hing, is datzelfde object ook door een andere getuige op video vastgelegd.
Dit gebeurde bij de Shakopee Archery Range, eveneens in Minnesota en op ongeveer 85 kilometer afstand van de eerste waarneming.
Er bestaat geen enkele twijfel dat het om hetzelfde object gaat. Maar wat is het?
Origineel artikel: 17 september 2018
Wanneer je ’s avonds laat naar huis rijdt in het donker en je ziet opeens iets vreemds in de lucht, dan doet dat heel onwerkelijk aan.
Maar, als je het met je eigen ogen ziet en je slaagt er ook nog eens in om dit object te fotograferen, dan wordt het wel heel echt. Het volgende voorval speelde zich af op 14 september 2018 in Stillwater in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota en is ingediend bij Mufon onder nummer 94921.
Een man reed samen met zijn vriendin naar huis toen ze plotseling iets vreemds boven de weg zagen.
De getuige is er absoluut van overtuigd dat het geen weerspiegeling of iets dergelijks is omdat nadat dit object een minuut of vier boven de weg had gehangen, dit opeens met grote snelheid wegvloog. Iets dat door hem en zijn vriendin beiden is gezien.
Ufoloog Scott Waring is heel benieuwd of er die avond ergens in de buurt mensen zijn vermist of tijdelijk zoek geweest zijn. Hij denkt namelijk dat wanneer een ruimteschip zo dichtbij de weg komt er een reden voor moet zijn. En die reden zou heel goed kunnen zijn dat ze van plan waren om één of meerdere mensen te ontvoeren.
Something is mysteriously killing the great cows of Argentina and their owners, not to mention the great chefs of Europe and the rest of the world, are getting worried … especially since the cattle appear to be being mutilated with a precision and instrumentation that may be out of this world. Aliens? Chupacabra? Something even worse? Is it worthy of a novel or a movie … or both?
The latest cattle mutilation report came less than two weeks ago from the Argentine media conglomerate Cadena 3. Raúl Báez, a cattle rancher in Villa Ojo de Agua, a village in the Santiago del Estero Province in north central Argentina, told reporters that he went out to find “ten cattle animals of his property were dead and four of them had mutilations.” The death of the cows was strange.
“He told us that it seemed strange to him that he did not observe blood and that it seems that the animals would not have defended themselves.”
The mutilations were even more mysterious, especially to a veterinarian who examined them.
“The cuts attracted his attention because that makes it a kind of laser scalpel because it has scars.”
We demand some answers!
A laser scalpel? What kind of Chupacabra has a laser scalpel, fingers to hold it and the patience to carefully remove eyes, tongues, lips, internal organs and other parts of the cow while making sure no blood was spilled? Yet “Chupacabra!” was the first cry of locals, just as it often is. However, another similarattack and mutilation in August has cattle ranchers fearing something worse … extraterrestrials. The bovines in that case had similar precision cuts and witnesses reported seeing “strange lights” before and after the attacks were believed to have occurred.
However, the residents of Villa Ojo de Agua reported no such lights in the September mutilations. Could they have been caused by something else? Yes, say animal experts … Hocicudo.
Hocicudo? Is this some kind of new cryptid? Not hardly, but people across South America might wish they were as rare as the Chupacabra. The Hocicudo is a long-nosed mouse of the genus Oxymycterus. Its 17 species include the rare Argentine hocicudo (Oxymycterus akodontius) and the more common Paramo hocicudo (Oxymycterus paramensis). Both found in Argentina. Animal expert Juan Calla Fontana says it’s common for animals to die at this time of the year in Argentina (early spring) due to exposure and lack of food. Once they hit the ground, Hocicudo move in and dine on their soft parts.
Paramo hocicudo
While that explanation sounds reasonable, it doesn’t explain the precision of the cuts that were reported in these and other mutilation cases. The cattle industry is huge in Argentina, both in exports and in feeding its beef-loving population. Could this be a party-line explanation to avoid panic among ranchers and citizens?
If you want to know who was killing the great chefs of Europe, check out the movie of the same name or the book it was adapted from. If you want to know what is killing the great cows of Argentina … keep asking questions.
At this point, it seems obvious that it’s become a question of when a war in space will break out, not if. The U.S. Military has been preparing for Space War I for some time now, and the world’s other superpowers aren’t too far behind – or maybe they’re even a step ahead. Observers have noted that many Russian spacecraft and satellites have begun behaving in unknown and unprecedented ways lately, and China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force has been spotted testing unknown low-orbit hypersonic aircraft. Where’s the Space Force when you need it?
To add more fuel to the apparent space war brewing, an unidentified new weapon was recently seen being tested by a MiG-31 aircraft at Zhukovsky Airport outside of Moscow, Russia’s base for testing new aircraft and weapons. In his analysis over at The War Zone, aviation sleuth Tyler Rogoway writes that the weapon appears to be either a hypersonic missile similar to the ones tested in China recently, or an air-to-space rocket designed to blow satellites to orbital smithereens.
The weapon, whatever it is, is labeled “81 Blue” and is nearly the size of the MiG carrying it. There are few details to go on yet, but the weapon appears to be similar to other anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons. Such air-to-space ASAT rockets have been tested by the U.S. Air Force as early as the 1980s, and with so much recent attention paid to the oncoming satellite wars, there’s no telling for what the rocket could be intended.
World superpowers have been testing anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons for decades.
If all of the attention paid to satellites and space supremacy hints at anything, it’s that war in space is coming. Soon. Could all of this recent development and testing of space weapons be related to the recent spate of mysterious booms heard round the world? At this point, I’d be amazed if it wasn’t. Just put those booms alongside other recent developments: increased sightings of fireballs in the sky; unexplained booms rattling the ground; “killer” satellites waking up and acting erratically; the United States creating a Space Force; China and Russia testing new space weapons.
It’s only a matter of time before fiery debris starts raining down around us.
Awesome UFO Footage Of Disk Over Mexico City, Sept 28, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Awesome UFO Footage Of Disk Over Mexico City, Sept 28, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: September 28, 2018
Location of sighting: Mexico city, Mexico
Source: Live Cam
ColourUFO channel of Youtube recorded this outstanding footage of a disk over Mexico City on live Internet cam. The footage clearly shows the classic flying saucer hovering over the city. Lucky for us someone was recording while watching that cam and caught this mind-blowing footage. The UFOs in Mexico City probably come from Colima or Popocatepetl which are both known for UFOs entering and exiting them. I have often said that alien bases sit 4-6km below those to volcanos in Mexico City.
Now I have followed ColourUFO for over five years. I can honestly say he puts in more hours per week than 99% of UFO researchers worldwide.
NASA and Skywatcher caught same Huge Object near the Sun
NASA and Skywatcher caught same Huge Object near the Sun
NASA’s Satellite EI 284 captured on Sep 30, 2018 01.06 AM a huge bright object that seemly leaves the Sun's surface.
On the evening of September 29, skywatcher Stefano Farigu in Italy was witnessing the sunset phase and started to photograph the Sun with a Nikon D800 camera.
Only after viewing the images Stefano noticed the presence of a bright unknown object near the Sun.
Image left: NASA images of the object -
Image right: Skywatcher images of the object.
Stefano talks about a celestial body, like the infamous planet X, Nibiru or planet Nine but since the images from NASA as well as from the skywatcher were taken within the same time frame we may assume that they have captured the same object (UFO?) near the sun.
Smiley UFO with scout fleet above Denmark was a group of unidentified flying objects caught on photo on September 19th 2018 at 3.25 PM local time. They were photographed high in the sky west south-west of Odense city. I did not see them while taking my archive photos of clouds in the sky. But two days later, now in the writing, I discovered them in one of my photos.
I am lucky that I have a Canon EOS 60D with a 300mm zoom lens producing JPEG images in the resolution of 5184 x 3456 pixels (18 Mega Pixels). A smaller resolution would have rendered these objects as fuzzy and nearly invisible blobs. But I caught them with only 190mm focal length and the largest object reveals a surprisingly strange little surprise.
It´s a smiley 🙂 with a big smile 🙂 big surprise! I can further describe this object as a light grey spherical cloud-like object with a horseshoe-shaped glowing white light on it.
Smiley UFO is luminous white
The two pictures above has been filtered with Auto Tone in Photoshop to make the objects more clear for the viewer. But in that process, the large object got a yellow-orange glow which is not the real color. In the original cropped and zoomed version below it is luminous white. It is nearly invisible in the sunlight coming from bottom left in the photo.
Image below has been processed in Photoshop (brightness and contrast adjusted).
My first thought then I saw this thing was “lens flare”. But I have never seen a lens flare with that look (on it´s face) and I have seen many. The object also comes with a small fleet of luminous orb-like objects? It is not a lens flare if you ask me. Space aliens in an extraterrestrial vehicle? We will probably never find out…
NASA’s uncrewed New Horizons probe flew past Pluto, its primary target, in 2015, but its mission is far from over. Soon it will continue on through the Kuiper Belt, and just after midnight on January 1, 2019, New Horizons will perform a flyby of Ultima Thule. The name may sound like a dragon spell from Skyrim or the name of a kindly Norwegian innkeeper, but it’s actually the common name of Kuiper Belt object KBO 2014 MU69, which floats out in space beyond the edges of our solar system. It’s among a class of objects believed to be cosmic leftovers from the early times of planetary formation billions of years ago.
Artist's illustration of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object that orbits 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto. The encounter will occur on Jan. 1, 2019. With public input, the team has selected the nickname Ultima Thule for the object, which will be the most primitive and most distant world ever explored by a spacecraft.
Credit: Steve Grivven/NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
In a live NASA Science Chat on Wednesday, three of the top New Horizons team members explained the plan for the 2019 flyby, which, at a billion miles beyond Pluto, will be the most distant planetary flyby in human history. Given this fact, KBO 2014 MU69’s name is especially fitting, as Ultima Thule is a medieval phrase that means “beyond the known world.” But New Horizons is going to make it part of our known world.
“We’re gonna zoom right up to it, image it, find out what it’s made of, find out if it has moons or rings, and lots more about it,” Alan Stern, the New Horizons principal investigator, told viewers.
What we do know about Ultima Thule is that it’s about 23 miles across and approximately 10 times the size of an average comet. We also know its trajectory, which makes it the perfect candidate for New Horizons’ secondary mission objective.
Despite its status as a secondary mission, though, the Ultima Thule flyby is taking a good deal of prep. When the Earth-based team woke the probe back up in June, they did system checks and performed system updates to support the flyby, Alice Bowman, the New Horizons mission operations manager, told viewers on Wednesday.
“In August, we transitioned the spacecraft into a mode where we could take pictures, so we are taking pictures now of Ultima Thule,” said Bowman. “We call those optical navigation measurements, and we are using those to target the object.” The image below is an example of one such optical navigation measurement.
Left: Composite image taken by New Horizons showing the estimated range of Ultima Thule in the yellow box. Right: A zoomed-in image of the area inside the yellow box, showing Ultima Thule where scientists predicted it would be.
By tracking Ultima Thule, which was only discovered in 2014, scientists have been able to identify it as a classical Kuiper Belt object, which means it’s likely one of the oldest objects in our solar system. But because it is a poorly understood object, scientists need to keep monitoring it to make sure it moves as they expect.
Researchers need to know exactly where Ultima Thule is to get as close as they want. The New Horizons team plans to fly the New Horizons probe 2,200 miles from Ultima Thule, much closer than the 7,800 miles that separated it from Pluto in 2015. Most importantly, though, the simple fact is that we know very little about Ultima Thule, and this flyby will give us some of the first facts about the ancient object.
“This has all the elements of an unbelievable set of discoveries that are justoutside our reach at the moment but will come into view soon,” Jim Green, NASA’s chief scientist, told viewers on Wednesday. “We know we’re gonna flyby January first, that’s a given. It has the excitement of what are we gonna see?”
Unfortunately, it’ll take quite some time before we find out what New Horizons sees. When the probe performs its epic flyby, it will begin sending its data back to Earth, but with the spacecraft sending a low-powered signal over 4 billion miles, the data won’t reach Earth for about a year. It’ll surely be worth the wait, though, to glimpse an object that may be even older than Earth.
THE LIFESPAN OF a typical Berndnaut Smilde sculpture is 10 seconds—just long enough to be photographed. And his sculptures are as unusual as they are ethereal: Smilde makes perfect miniature clouds in a diverse array of indoor locations, from coal mines to cathedrals.
He’s been at for several years now and calls the ever-expanding series Nimbus. Last month, he brought his weather wizardry to Frieze New York. There Smilde allowed onlookers to sit in on two days of his work inside NeueHouse, an upscale co-working space.
His materials are little more than smoke and water vapor, and the results vary with the size and temperature of the location. The space must be cold and damp, with no air circulation. Smilde creates a wall of water vapor with the type of spritzer you might use on houseplants. A smoke machine then sends a puff of faux fog on a collision course. He likes to keep the clouds no bigger than six feet so they don’t fall apart too quickly. "I really like my clouds concentrated, with a lot of texture," he says.
Nimbus Bonnefanten.
BERNDNAUT SMILDE
The artist tinkers with the formula for a few days until he’s created what he believes to be the ideal cloud. For one shoot, he might create 100 clouds to get the image.
The result is stunning, an ephemeral artwork caught just before it vanishes. The bare, often austere locations heighten the drama. While Smilde makes his clouds, he has a photographer right there to capture the moment. He prefers to work with photographers with experience shooting architecture, so the wood, metal and other elements are in sharp focus, a contrast to the soft, fluffy clouds. Smilde likes that his creations last but a moment.
"I see them as temporary sculptures of almost nothing—the edge of materiality," he says. "It looks like you can dive into them or grab them, but they just fall apart. There’s a duality that I really like where you’re trying to achieve this ideal thing that then collapses just moments later."
If he could figure out the technical aspects, Smilde would like to create clouds within the vast Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern. Marketers from cloud computing companies in Silicon Valley have approached him to make sculptures at conventions, but he’s declined. For him, it’s more than a parlor trick.
"Clouds are quite universal," he says. "Everyone can relate to them, but by putting them indoors you kind of change the context. It can become strange or even threatening. They can stand in for the divine, but also for misfortune."
Did a Huge Impact Blast Out Moons of Mars? Old Data Bolsters Theory
Did a Huge Impact Blast Out Moons of Mars? Old Data Bolsters Theory
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
Phobos is the larger of Mars' two small moons and bears the scars of millennia of small impacts.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Scientists have struggled for decades to explain how the two tiny moons of Mars came to be, but a new study relying on old data bolsters one of the two major hypotheses.
That idea argues that Phobos and Deimos formed in the aftermath of a giant impact with Mars itself, which makes an awful lot of sense given their orbital paths. But that explanation hasn't been a perfect fit: Both these tiny moons appear incredibly dark, like a certain class of carbon-rich asteroids, suggesting that they were born in the asteroid belt, flew too close to Mars and got trapped by the planet's gravity. Phobos is about 14 miles (22 kilometers) across, while Deimos is 8 miles (13 km) wide.
"The fun part for me has been taking a poke at some of the ideas out there using an old data set that's has been underutilized," lead author Tim Glotch, a geoscientist at Stony Brook University in New York, said in a statementreleased by the American Geophysical Union, which runs the journal that published the new research. [Moons of Mars: Amazing Photos of Phobos and Deimos]
That old data set was gathered in 1998 by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which measured the heat signature of Phobos, the larger of the two Martian moons. Glotch and his colleagues compared that data with data from a range of terrestrial rocks and a tiny piece of a meteorite gathered near Tagish Lakein western Canada. Scientists think this meteorite broke off from an asteroid of the same type suspected to have formed the moons.
But it turned out that the old Phobos data didn't match that Tagish meteorite very well. "In fact, what matches Phobos most closely, or at least one of the features in the spectrum, is ground-up basalt, which is a common volcanic rock, and it's what most of the Martian crust is made out of," Glotch said in the statement.
"That leads us to believe that perhaps Phobos might be a remnant of an impact that occurred early on in Martian history," he said. That old Martian material would be mixed with other material from the impact.
If the research team is proven correct, the insight would resolve the perceived flaw in the giant-impact theory of Martian moon formation. And conveniently enough, scientists may not have to go fishing through more decades-old data to answer this question.
That's thanks to a planned Japanese mission called Martian Moons Exploration. The spacecraft, which the Japanese space agency hopes to launch in the early 2020s, is being designed to orbit both moons and bring home a sample from one of them. Scientists could then study that sample, as well as asteroid samples brought back by the Japanese mission Hayabusa2and the U.S. mission OSIRIS-REx, to compare the composition of the three different solar system bodies — and, with some luck, solve the Martian moon mystery once and for all.
The new research is described in a paper published Sept. 24 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
Those bold plans include: planning a new Moon landing, long-term human deployment on and around the Moon, reassertion of America's leadership in space, strengthening private space companies, and figure out how to get American astronauts to the surface of Mars.
There are a lot of unknowns built into the plan, not the least of which is whether or not scientists can figure out a way to keep astronauts safe from the many hazards of space.
Those smarties at NASA took that into account when detailing expected timelines for completing each goal in the 21-page report - from low Earth orbit (LEO), to cislunar space and then on Mars.
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Indeed, the timeframe within which NASA expects to reach key milestones along the way to their goals includes dates that NASA expects it will actually figure out certain parts of the plan.
That's important because it means NASA will be able to incorporate what it learns along the way.
Any claims - like the one published in NASA's new report - that astronauts will stroll around on Mars by the 2030s has flexibility built in and could change if NASA researchers hit a snag or two in the process.
For instance, NASA plans to wait until the results of the Mars 2020 mission, during which a rover will collect and analyze samples from Mars' surface, before it will even begin to draft up a budget ask for the crewed mission that is slated for some time in the 2030s.
That's just good thinking.
But before NASA even starts to think about sending astronauts to Mars, there are even more fundamental mysteries to solve.
For instance, NASA will be launching 13 CubeSats into low Earth orbit in 2020 so it can learn how to better prepare payloads for space travel, whether it be to the Moon, Mars, or beyond.
Once those satellites are in orbit, NASA hopes to use what it's learned to put astronauts in lunar orbit by June 2022.
These gaps in NASA's proposed plans aren't an accident - they represent key gaps in our understanding of space and interplanetary travel. Put another way: they represent the things NASA scientists want to learn.
And if NASA sticks to this timeline, it will hopefully achieve it, which will guide us further into exploring space.
The Center for Process Innovation, a British technology research company, thinks they’ve got the next big step in aviation transportation figured out. They want to remove the windows from passenger planes and replace them with OLED touch-screens that extend along the plane’s entire length and display the view from outside through cameras mounted on the plane’s exterior.
According to them, windows are one of the greatest sources of unnecessary weight in passenger planes. Solid walls are stronger and allow the walls to be built thinner as well. The OLED screens that replace the windows would display the view outside and allow passengers to select entertainment and stewardess service.
The technology does have its detractors, however – some are concerned about light pollution inside the cabin, and the panoramic view probably won’t do much to help those who are afraid of flying.
Why Scientists Searched 7,000 Meters Below Sea Level for a Winged Fish
Why Scientists Searched 7,000 Meters Below Sea Level for a Winged Fish
Ten years later, they finally knew where to find them.
Left to right: Purple, pink and blue. (Published in inverse.com)
By Thomas Linley and Alan Jamieson, The Conversation
From an unmanned submersible, protected by a casing of stainless steel almost an inch thick and a window made from super strong sapphire crystal, we can observe the life that thrives at our planet’s most extreme and darkest depths. Thanks to technology and sheer material strength, we can temporarily trespass into this high-pressure environment. But in stark contrast to the robust deep sea imaging equipment we rely on, the creatures our camera records look extremely fragile.
Four-and-a-half miles beneath our research vessel, which was floating on the surface of the Pacific Ocean, we captured footage of several previously undiscovered species of hadal snailfish. With delicate fins and transparent, gelatinous bodies, they are some of this environment’s most enigmatic inhabitants, fish that — at first glance — look like they should be incapable of surviving under such enormous pressures. And yet, it appears they are thriving in this strange world.
In spring, a team of 40 scientists from 17 different nations conducted an expedition to the Atacama Trench, which runs along the west coast of South America. We were there to find a particular snailfish.
The Atacama trench is the dark blue line off the coast of Chile and Peru.
On a previous expedition, our principal investigator (Alan Jamieson) had photographed a snailfish with long, wing-like fins at a depth of 7,000 meters. Only one species, Notoliparis antonbruuni was known to inhabit this area at such a depth. It had been described from a single specimen, so badly damaged that we are not able to use it to identify our images of living animals. We wanted to find this elusive winged snailfish again to learn more about it and observe it in its natural habitat.
These hadal snailfish tend to live at depths between 7,000 and 8,200 meters (“hadal” simply means anywhere below 6,000 meters), but their apparent rarity is perhaps misunderstood. Because of their extreme habitat (at least for humans), they are difficult to observe rather than actually “rare” as we know it. And with the right equipment and opportunity, we were confident, after 10 years of study, that we knew where and how to find them.
The Atacama Trench is part of the Peru-Chile subduction zone, a large 590,000 square kilometer area where one tectonic plate is being forced under another and the ocean floor quickly plunges to more than 8,000 meters. Its volume is almost the same as the neighboring Andes mountain range, which the tectonic subduction zone also creates, and exploring it is no easy feat.
Deep dive.
A Trio of Snailfish
We deployed our freefalling cameras 27 times — from the relative shallows at 2,500 meters to the trench’s deepest point, Richard’s Deep, at just over 8,000 meters. This enabled us to take more than 100 hours of video and 11,000 photographs at the seabed — and the results did not disappoint. The snailfish we were looking for made an appearance — and it wasn’t alone. Two other previously unknown hadal snailfish species were present in the footage. In fact, all three species appeared in the same shot on one occasion. Out of necessity, they were given quick, stand-in names: we called them the “purple”, the “pink,” and the “blue” Atacama snailfishes.
Left to right: purple, pink and blue.
The “blue” appeared to be the “winged” species Jamieson had recorded previously. Its long trailing fins and prominent snout resembled the Ethereal snailfish we had recorded on another expedition to the Mariana Trench, far away on the other side of the Pacific.
The “pink” species, meanwhile, was more robust and was closer in appearance to the Mariana snailfish (Pseudoliparis swirei) that we described in 2017 and which also inhabits the Mariana Trench. To see these two species — with such different body plans — sharing a trench again got us thinking: they must be doing something different to one another down there to both carve themselves a niche.
The third species, a small purple fish, looked more like the snailfish we would expect to see on the shallower abyssal plains — at a depth of around 3,500 meters. But one of these purple snailfish, just 9cm long, followed its invertebrate prey into one of our traps. This small fragile fish is currently the only physical specimen of the new species and should eventually allow us to give it a formal scientific name. And while we much prefer our video of the living animal, only a physical specimen can be deposited in a museum and used to formally describe a new species.
Meet the specimen. It died due to warm temperatures and low pressure long before it reached the surface.
Preservation
Once on the surface, we photographed this specimen while it was suspended in chilled seawater — its body is simply too fragile to support itself in air, and we didn’t want it to suffer the same fate as the poor blobfish, which, for the record, really aren’t that sad-looking (their jelly-like bodies just collapse when exposed at the surface).
Blobfish aren’t sad at all in their natural habitat.
Over the following months, we then put the specimen through several stages of preservation to avoid shrinking its largely gelatinous body. So that scientists (and the interested public) don’t have to fight over access to a single, fragile specimen, it was also CT scanned at the Natural History Museum, London, creating a detailed 3D digital model of it, inside and out. Such digital back ups are gaining traction in science – take the Scan All Fishes project, for example. And disasters like the recent fire at Brazil’s National Museum, which will have wiped out many unique specimens, also show why they are so important.
See also: First Ever Footage of Angler Fish Mating
But what have we discovered about these mysterious creatures? First, as fish approach the absolute extremes of the environmental conditions that they can cope with, they do not simply eke out an existence but thrive. It is also emerging that some trenches support not only a single specialist species but multiple species with body plans that hint at different lifestyles within the trench.
Second, the snailfish family (Liparidae) is not only the absolute winner of the deepest fish award (having been found in multiple other trenches), but species are living in trenches that at times are over 10,000km apart and entirely isolated from one another. Incredibly, snailfish exist at these extreme depths, wherever these extreme depths are, and in numbers never thought possible.
And the snailfish is just one story that emerged from our expedition. Over the coming months, we will continue to process the huge amount of data we collected, the most we have ever gathered on a single voyage. Our assessment of the large mobile animals we filmed will feed into the project’s larger goal to understand the biological and chemical processes within the trench as a whole.
Strange Blobs Beneath Earth Could Be Remnants of an Ancient Magma Ocean
Strange Blobs Beneath Earth Could Be Remnants of an Ancient Magma Ocean
By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Contributor
Credit: Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock
Mysterious blobs deep in the Earth's mantle could be minerals that precipitated out of an ancient magma ocean that formed in the collision that also created the moon.
These blobs, called ultralow velocity zones, are found very deep in the mantle, close to the Earth's core. They are known only because when seismic waves from earthquakes travel through them, the waves slow dramatically. This indicates that the blobs are somehow different from other parts of the mantle, but no one knows how.
Now, new research suggests that the blobs could be an iron oxide-rich mineral called magnesiowüstite. If so, their existence would hint at a former magma ocean that might have existed 4.5 billion years ago, when a huge chunk of space rock rammed into Earth, spun off the material that would become the moon, and possibly melted large portions of the planet. [In Photos: Watery Ocean Hidden Beneath Earth's Surface]
"If one can Identify that these patches do contain an amount of magnesiowüstite that would be an indication that there was a magma oceanand it crystallized in this fashion where the iron-rich oxide precipitated out and sank down to the base of the mantle," said study leader Jennifer Jackson, a professor of mineral physics at the California Institute of Technology.
Odd blobs
The mantle is around 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) thick, and the ultralow velocity zones are less than a mile to up to 62 miles (100 km) thick and wide, Jackson told Live Science. They slow down seismic waves that travel through them from 30 to 50 percent.
Studying these weird blobs directly isn't possible, so Jackson and her colleagues had to mimic the pressures of the deep mantle right at Earth's surface. To find out if the mineral magnesiowüstite has the kind of properties seen in ultralow velocity zones, the researchers took a small sample of the mineral, put it in a pressure chamber and squeezed it hard with a pair of diamond anvils. The whole pressurized apparatus is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand.
"Sometimes I'll say that I'm carrying around the core-mantle boundary pressure in my pocket," Jackson said.
The researchers bombarded the sample with X-rays from different angles and then measured the energy of the X-rays as they exited the sample, looking for how interactions with the crystalline structure of the mineral changed them.
Under pressure
They found that high pressures change everything. At atmospheric pressure, Jackson said, waves exiting a magnesiowüstite sample are always the same, no matter what direction they travel through the crystal. [Photos: The World's Weirdest Geological Formations]
At core-mantle boundary pressures, though, the direction the waves travel matters a lot. There can be up to a 60 percent difference in the speed of a wave going through the crystal depending on how it passes through. A transverse wave traveling through the mineral moves at a little less than 1.8 miles per second (3 km/s) in one direction and a little more than 3.1 miles per second (5 km/s) in another, Jackson said.
The fastest direction of travel for the waves at atmospheric pressure — along the edge of the crystal structure — is the slowest direction of travel for waves at core-mantle pressures, she said. The fastest direction of travel at core-mantle pressures is across the face of the crystal in the lab. These differences in how waves travel depending on the direction and the crystalline structure are called anisotropies.
What does this mean for the real mantle? Well, Jackson said, anisotropies have been observed down there, too. No one has really looked to see if ultralow velocity zones have them, but there's reason to think they might. If the cooling-magma-ocean theory is true and there is magnesiowüstite deep in the mantle, it could be pushed, squished and nudged into an anisotropic configuration by pieces of continental crust that have been pushed deep into the mantle in the process of subduction. (Subduction is when one piece of crust pushes below another and dives into the mantle, as happens along the coast of California today.)
"If we can look for it, it would be really good evidence to suggest this interaction of ancient slab subduction and ultralow velocity zones that contain this iron-rich oxide," Jackson said.
Now, Jackson hopes to work with seismologists to see if seismic waves that enter ultralow velocity zones come out differently depending on the direction of travel. If they do, it will further bolster the magnesiowüstite hypothesis.
"The presence of this mineral, being shaped by the slab, could give us insight to Earth's magma ocean and its crystallization," Jackson said.
Phosphates, essential ingredients for DNA-based life forms, may have originated from space, according to a new study that recreated the formation of the molecules in a laboratory setting. The life-seeding phosphates would have then made their way to Earth through asteroids and comets that impacted the planet billions of years ago.
Phosphate compounds may have arrived on Earth delivered by comets, such as comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM.
Without phosphates and diphosporic acid, living things wouldn’t be able to synthesize DNA. They are the main components of chromosomes, thread-like structures in which the DNA is packaged. Phosphorus is also part of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which stores energy in the cell and powers cellular processes. Bones and teeth are also made up of phosphorus.
A long-standing debate among scientists is whether these chemical compounds were forged on Earth or someplace else in the universe, hitching a ride on cosmic bodies that collided with our planet.
Although the debate sounds impossible to solve, researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manatoa have now offered compelling evidence that phosphates can be generated in space.
For their experiment, the researchers worked with the chemical phosphine, which is derived from phosphorus and can be found in the atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter or Saturn, but also those of comets such as the famous 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, explored by the Rosetta spacecraft in 2016.
First, the team recreated icy grains — the kind typically found in interstellar space — in a vacuum chamber where the temperature sat just 5 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero (-450°F/-267.7°C). Then, they added water, carbon dioxide and — very carefully because it is highly toxic — phosphine. Finally, the researchers fired ionized radiation — the kind found in cosmic rays — at this, triggering chemical reactions that formed phosphoric acid and diphosphoric acid.
“On Earth, phosphine is lethal to living beings,” said Andrew Turner, lead author of the study in Nature Communications, in a statement. “But in the interstellar medium, an exotic phosphine chemistry can promote rare chemical reaction pathways to initiate the formation of biorelevant molecules such as oxoacids of phosphorus, which eventually might spark the molecular evolution of life as we know it.”
In deep space, it’s reasonable to assume such nanoparticles became embedded in large objects like asteroids and comets, which would have eventually made their way to Earth.
“Since comets contain at least partially the remnants of the material of the protoplanetary disk that formed our solar system, these compounds might be traced back to the interstellar medium wherever sufficient phosphine in interstellar ices is available,” said Cornelia Meinert of the University of Nice.
We Just Received More Mind-Melting Photos And a Video From The Surface of an Asteroid
Japan's amazing mission is going down in history.
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Earlier this week, Japan's space agency JAXA made history by landing a pair of hopping rovers on an asteroid known as Ryugu, and sending back the first-ever images from the surface of a space rock.
Tf that wasn't awe-inspiring enough, JAXA has just released not only more images, but even a small video from Ryugu's surface, and all their footage is mind-meltingly wonderful.
Here's what it looks like to be standing on a rocky, rugged asteroid, hurtling through space 100 million miles (160 million km) from Earth, as the Sun's light beams and flares around you.
Rover-1A snapped a photograph of its own antenna and pin! Image taken on September 23, 2018 at 09:48 JST. [5/6] pic.twitter.com/W8zJqo2233
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Rover-1B succeeded in shooting a movie on Ryugu’s surface! The movie has 15 frames captured on September 23, 2018 from 10:34 - 11:48 JST. Enjoy ‘standing’ on the surface of this asteroid! [6/6] pic.twitter.com/57avmjvdVa
The two rovers, Rover 1A and Rover 1B, were launched onto Ryugu's surface on September 21 by their 'mothership' Hayabusa2, which had journeyed three and a half years before finally make it to the asteroid in June.
The rovers weight around 1 kg and are pretty much the size and shape of a cookie tin. They move about the asteroid's low-gravity environment by hopping, fuelled by a solar-powered internal mass that rotates to generate force.
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Twitter user Transferrins created this incredible stop-motion animation of the rover's landing on the asteroid, which shows just how nail-biting that journey was.
These new videos and images show in detail Ryugu's rugged, boulder-covered landscape, and it's the closest look we've had to date at this kind of Solar System object.
Ryugu is 900 metres (2,952 feet) wide and is thought to be a particularly ancient type of asteroid known as a C-type asteroid, dating back to the early days of our Solar System more than 4 billion years ago.
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Researchers hope that by studying it, we could learn more about the evolution of Earth.
As well as taking these breathtaking images and videos, the rovers will be measuring temperatures across the surface of the asteroid, and will also eventually collect underground material.
Ryugu is thought to contain water, which is why it's named after a magical palace at the bottom of the sea; this mission will tell us more about the object's composition.
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"I cannot find words to express how happy I am," said project manager Yuichi Tsuda when the rovers' safe arrival was confirmed earlier in the week.
"By studying asteroids, we learn more about the early Solar System and more about life itself," the 'Science Guy' and Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye tweeted as the rovers made their descent Friday.
"It is amazing to be a human living at this moment in the history of space exploration."
Despite all warnings that it’s probably a horrifically bad idea, NASA seems to be pushing full steam ahead on the search for alien civilizations. At a workshop in Houston, Texas, this week, NASA explored developments and possible investment in the search for “technosignatures” of alien life. Technosignatures refer to to any bi-product of civilization that we may be able to detect, such as radio waves like the unexplained fast burst emissions detected coming from deep space. Other technosignatures could include polluted atmospheres, laser emissions, and artificial structures.
The NASA Technosignatures Workshop looks like it was the real deal. It ran from September 26 through September 28 at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. In person attendance was invitation only and limited to 50 people. The three days consisted of almost 9 hours of back to back talks exploring the current state of the search for alien life and the prospects and predictions moving forward. Organized by NASA scientists in collaboration with scientists from a variety of American universities, it shows that, at the very least, these 50 people are taking the search for not just alien life, butadvanced alien civilizations seriously. Here are the four goals of the workshop, according to the website:
1. Define the current state of the technosignature field. What experiments have occurred? What is the state-of-the-art for technosignature detection? What limits do we currently have on technosignatures?
2. Understand the advances coming near-term in the technosignature field. What assets are in place that can be applied to the search for technosignatures? What planned and funded projects will advance the state-of-the-art in future years, and what is the nature of that advancement?
3. Understand the future potential of the technosignature field. What new surveys, new instruments, technology development, new data-mining algorithms, new theory and modeling, etc., would be important for future advances in the field?
4. What role can NASA partnerships with the private sector and philanthropic organizations play in advancing our understanding of the technosignatures field?
Throughout the three days, presentations addressed topics like “Technosignatures in the context of planetary evolution,” “Future prospects and data mining for structures in transit”, and “Future Projects.” Also listed in the schedule was the ominous sounding daily “Feedback From HQ.” Then again, these scientists wouldn’t have gotten into this field if they didn’t harbor a secret desire to play secret agent.
Pictured: HQ, probably.
The workshop ended on Friday with attendees broken up into groups to discuss and compile responses on three subjects: existing upper limits of our ability to detect alien technosignatures, new initiatives and partnerships, and emerging and future opportunities.
The mentions of private investment and partnering with philanthropic groups are interesting, and while alien research isn’t known as the most lucrative field, it makes sense. What better legacy for a billionaire to buy than first contact with an alien species? If it takes the vanity of a few super wealthy people to expand our understanding of the stars, so be it.
It always comes as a surprise to learn that there are subsets within the scientific communities actually taking the search for alien life seriously. The fact that there was a three day invitation only workshop on the subject shows that top scientists do believe in the possibility of advanced alien civilizations. Although, there still seems to be an assumption that alien civilizations would resemble ours. Just because we love polluting or atmosphere doesn’t necessarily mean aliens would. We really don’t have a frame of reference on what an alien intelligence might look like. Maybe there’s only one alien and it’s a floating ball of hyper-intelligent ooze, we just don’t know.
This is really just the beginning of our exploration into the unknown of space though, and however wise it is to go looking for a species that very well may want to eat us, we seem to be ramping up the search. Only time will tell what we’ll find.
Mystery deepens: Eerie Ring of Lights appears again in the sky over Minnesota
Mystery deepens: Eerie Ring of Lights appears again in the sky over Minnesota
On September 14, a strange ring of lights like a flying saucer type has been spotted in the sky above Shakopee Archery Range, Jackson Township and above Stillwater in the state of Minnesota, see our article here.
The mysterious ring of light has appeared again and this time above Bloomington, Minnesota on September 30, 2018, see image above.
The flying saucer-like object has been photographed by a couple who were driving home from downtown Minneapolis and when they exited the highway in Bloomington, they saw a small-ish band of light in the sky.
As they continued on the road, the circular “orb-ish” object appeared to get larger, with about a dozen points of brighter light with a slightly dimmer ring connecting them. It just hovering in the sky, there was no movement and it was not the moon shining behind a cloud, according to the witnesses. Mufon case 95253.
A strange case, whether someone is joking with a drone equipped with lights or there is more going on with this ring of lights.
Eerie lights in the sky, mystery metallic discs, whizzing 'triangles' being chased by helicopters: It's all been happening in the sky above Devon in recent years.
But are these 'Unidentified Flying Objects' merely bizarre natural phenomenon or proof that we are not alone in the universe?
A recently declassified report reveals that British defence experts and the RAF spent nearly half a century trying to capture an alien spacecraft so they could use its technology to build stealth bombers and superweapons.
And in Devon there has been 10 alleged UFO or alien sightings that have been officially reported to Devon and Cornwall Police in the last three years, a Freedom of Information request revealed.
Year
Location
Summary
2015
Redruth, Cornwall
Caller only taking part of his medication and now seeing aliens
2015
Exeter, Devon
Reporting aliens
2015
Exeter, Devon
Suspicious persons in house, they could be aliens from a space ship.
2015
Plymouth, Devon
Caller states aliens are coming out of wall
2016
Plymouth, Devon
Caller seen a UFO near the woods. It "shot off into the stars" after hovering over his head…
2016
Falmouth, Cornwall
Caller states he has just seen an alien in the sky
2016
Dawlish, Devon
An alien was stood in the corner of callers room
2016
Truro, Cornwall
Further call from caller reporting aliens in her house
2017
Honiton, Devon
Said she has seen a UFO being chased by a Stealth Jet up the M5
2017
Redruth, Cornwall
States she’s been attacked by an alien
Here is a list of the most convincing recent sightings in the skies above Devon.
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Amazing UFO sightings in the skies over Devon
Is this proof of UFO sightings in Exmouth?
A mother and daughter from Exmouth were left baffled after spotting what they believe was a UFO in September last year.
Charlee Davis said: "I recently saw a bright light in the sky at around 10.30pm.
"Me, my friend and my mum went rushing outside and the light stood still for two minutes. We thought it was a plane until we saw that it wasn't moving. It was making no noise, and as it eventually got closer I saw five lights spinning and it was a diamond shape.
"We were thinking that it was a drone at one point, but really could not explain it. I ran off screaming!"
2. Close encounters in Chudleigh
Leslie Linton of Chudleigh had a close encounter with a UFO in March 1999 - the second sighting of a strange object flying over the town.
"It was like a big tube which was gold in colour,'' he said. "The edges seemed to be moving and it was swaying from side to side.''
Leslie, 71, of Moorview, said it was flying from the Exeter direction towards Newton Abbot.
"It frightened me for a minute because it was like nothing I had ever seen before.'
3. Was circle of light in the night sky above Paignton a UFO?
Electrician Neil Krohn didn't believe all the mumbo jumbo about UFOs - until he saw a spectacular apparition from his bathroom window in Paignton in July 2005.
Neil was shocked to see a baffling circle of lights which danced across the night sky to the accompaniment of a curious humming noise.
His 3am entertainment, also watched by his equally amazed wife Jeannette, lasted nearly an hour before the show faded away in the eastern sky at the break of day.
"I've never been taken in by all this UFO stuff you see in the news," said Neil. "I've always been sceptical until now. I really thought I was seeing things."
4. Flying saucer lights spotted in the sky over Teignmouth and Newton Abbot
Strange flying objects were reportedly spotted hovering around in the South Devon skies in December 2008.
Witnesses claimed to have seen a 'flying saucer' type craft with flashing red lights in the skies over Teignmouth and Newton Abbot.
The first sightings were over the skies of Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton.
John Rayner, of Kingsteignton, said: "I could see circular objects following each other up through the sky. They were red lights with a kind of orangy-coloured bottom."
5. Exeter woman captures 'UFO' on camera
Maria Peek spotted something odd in the sky over Exeter on New Year's Eve in 2015.
She said: "It was 3.29pm when, I noticed a strange light hovering above Exeter –I was stood on a hill in Alphington.
"It wasn't an aircraft, it was too low for a plane and it wasn't moving. It wasn't a helicopter either.
"It was silent and the only movement it made was a very slight jigger. It was too big and bright for a drone, however, something odd was in the sky."
6. Mysterious bright lights over Ipplepen on Bonfire Night
While many people were watching fireworks in the night-time sky in 1999, Susan Smith spotted something much more unusual.
Susan and her daughter Charlotte were walking home at around 6.15pm when they saw two very bright lights in the sky.
"We were near Newton Abbot library when we saw these lights over towards Trago Mills or Heathfield," said Sue, who lives in Clarendon Road.
"When we first saw the lights they were not moving but then they moved off," she said. "The two lights quickly became three and then four."
7. Crop circles appeared in fields around Totnes and Dartington
A series of crop circles appeared in fields around Totnes and Dartington in August 2014.
Five circles appeared in neighbouring farms and was the first time since the early 1990s the phenomenon occurred in South Devon.
Crop circles are more normally seen in the Somerset and Wiltshire areas of the Westcountry.
However, a team of paranormal investigators said it appeared some were formed by pranksters and 'wind damage'.
8. Cylinder floating above Torquay
Reports of a mystery cylinder floating in the sky over Torquay emerged in March, 2011.
The incident was included in a release of official files on unexplained phenomena.
Files released by The National Archives reveal how UFOs were discussed at the highest level worldwide. Among the files is a sighting reported by an un-named man from Torquay.
He wrote: "The UFO travelled towards Brixham, where it remained stationary for approximately one hour.
"The object was observed by Brixham Coastguards, which was reported to the RAF in Plymouth. The object, after remaining stationary over the town, proceeded to fly off."
9. UFOs being chased by helicopter above Exmouth
An East Devon man claimed he spotted a pair of UFOs flying above Exmouth in September 2016.
The concerned resident spotted two 'triangle spaceships' in the sky above East Devon.
The man added that he was having a cigarette in his garden when he saw two triangles flying above the Phear Park area of Exmouth.
The two triangles were then followed by what he believed to be a helicopter.
The man, who wished to remain anonymous, said: "I know it sounds crazy but I saw what I saw, I wish I got a picture. I would be very surprised if no one else saw them or heard the helicopter.
"The two of them were bouncing around and then the helicopter turned up and seemed to try chase them through the sky.
They bounced one way and then the other and then headed back in land, not towards the sea. They went off pretty quickly, not supersonic or anything, but faster than a plane.
"The helicopter was trying to follow them but gave up and headed towards Sidmouth."
10. Parachute-like objects landing in Torbay
Douglas Shelley could not believe his eyes as he witnessed two mystery parachute-like objects descend over the Bay in September, 2000.
Olive and Dennis Stairmond were similarly baffled later the same day when they saw an explosion of mystery lights from their Meadfoot Sea Road home
Douglas said: "They were like blue and red parachutes which were descending very quickly side by side at an angle.''
He had earlier heard a plane fly overhead and wondered whether what he saw was debris jettisoned from the aircraft.
"These objects were coming from the east. I don't know where they went or what they were. It's a mystery,'' he said.
11. Weird lights in the sky set pulses racing
UFO fever swept a South Devon town in July 2008 after a series of mysterious lights flitted across the night sky.
The curious heavenly light show was spotted by Wayne and Jo Taylor as they enjoyed a smoke outside their home in Barnsey Gardens, Ashburton.
Wayne said: "I just couldn't believe it. I've never seen anything like it in my life before."
A neighbour told him: "I'm glad you saw them too because I don't want people thinking I'm mad."
12. 'UFO' sightings by golfers in Torquay
The newsroom received telephone calls claiming an unusual object had been spotted in the skies over Torquay on May 24, 2004.
One golfer, playing with four others in Torquay, said the object was of a "cylinder" shape and remained static in the sky for between 10 and 15 minutes.
Another reader rang in to say he had witnessed 'cigar' shaped object in the sky at around the same time.
13. UFO sighting 2004 a hoax?
UFO fever hit South Devon with one amateur photographer snapping a "flying saucer" over Brixham in May 2004.
Some reckoned what they saw was a Jumbo jet-sized party balloon while others accepted it as a UFO.
There was a suspicion the cigar-shaped craft was nothing more harmless than a an "8 Metre Airship" sold for £12.95 by local shops.
Nick Borne from Paignton, who took the main picture, was enjoying a meal out with his family on Tuesday evening when the flying phenomenon strayed into view.
A group of teenagers using an inflatable airship on a Torquay beach claimed they were behind the UFO sightings.
14. UFO riddle of glowing orange disc above Brixham
A bright orange light in the sky above Brixham caught the eye of resident Anthony Sherwood in May 2009, and he was confident that what he witnessed was a UFO.
He watched the illuminated 'disc' from his living room window in Summer Lane.
After seeing it fly in a straight line about half-a-mile above the rooftops, Anthony stood in awe as the object headed up into the skies at a 60-degree angle before vanishing into the clouds.
"I thought at first it was an incredibly bright star but it was so bright it couldn't have been," he explained.
"Then I saw it moving and I thought it was something different. It had a constant orange glow and it wasn't flashing.
"It was definitely an unidentified object."
15. Mid-Devon UFO alert as computer worker spotted balls of light
A Mid Devon man claimed to have spotted mysterious happenings in the Devon skies in October 2009.
The 'balls of light' were spotted by computer technician Shaun Meldon from Shobrooke, near Crediton.
Mr Meldon said he saw five bright spheres as he was driving along Topsham Road, in Exeter.
"The first thing you imagine is a UFO, but they could have been meteors," he said. "They were bright orange and turned to light and dark red before going out like a cinder.
"I'm hoping someone else saw them too and that I am not going mad."
16. Orange 'strange sky thing' over Paignton
Bill and Valerie Bromfield spotted something unusual in the skies over Paignton on August 3, 1998.
The orange-coloured object was photographed by 61-yearold Valerie, of Fortescue Road, using an Olympus AF-1 camera with Agfa 100 ASA film.
"We were in our back garden one night when it was darker in the evening,'' she said.
"We saw this bright light in the sky and it just stayed there, long enough for us to take a picture. It just looked like a bright light in the clouds.
"We went indoors after a while but it hadn't disappeared.
"We didn't think it was a UFO at the time, just a strange sky thing.''
17. MoD investigated Plymouth UFO
A report of a 'pink UFO' in Mannamead in September 2008 was among unexplained sightings examined by the Ministry of Defence.
The account of the sighting says there was a floating 'large bright pink light' from which 'two small pieces' broke off.
The viewer then reports that it 'accelerated and disappeared'.
According to an official report released to the public by the MoD in 2009, other strange occurrences included a 'very bright light' which 'zig zagged across the sky' in Millbrook and Torpoint.
Four reports of weird lights were also received from Delabole in Cornwall, and there was a bizarre sighting in Exeter where a UFO was 'flying around' at 'about 250mph' looking like it was 'having trouble keeping in control'.
18. UFO sightings from across Teignbridge
Retired civil servant Malcolm Parsons was out at Stover Country Park in November 1999 when he saw a cigar shaped object moving quickly over Kingsteignton.
He claims the cigar had an iridescent glow rather than spots of light. Malcolm said it was moving slowly but like the other witnesses he maintains it was not an aircraft or a helicopter.
Dog walker Elaine McDonald was exercising her Spaniel near Dartmeet, Ashburton, when she saw a series of flashes in the sky.
They were pinpoints of light but were two random in the sky to be an aeroplane. She watched them for about five minutes but says they were not accompanied by any sound.
19. 'Amazing evidence of my alien abduction' claimed UFO spotter John Mooner
John Mooner claimed his abduction by a grey alien was caught by Google Earth.
Mr Mooner said the images - which show him 'trying to punch an alien in the face' - are 'amazing evidence' of alien abduction and they left him 'speechless'.
"I thought to myself I will view the area where I spotted a UFO from last year and look for anything out of the ordinary. I was left speechless by what I saw.
"The satellite has captured a real alien abduction taking place. The shocking thing about this was that it's me being abducted by a grey alien and the satellite image clearly shows me trying to fight off the grey alien by punching it in the face.
"Looking at the image it appears that the alien has blocked my punch and has grabbed my fist and must of been able to subdue me.
"The strangest thing about this captured incident is that I do not remember this taking place at all."
20. 'Exmouth UFO sighting rocked my skepticism'
A man who snapped photos of a mystery object above Exmouth in December 2016 said his skepticism around UFO's was rocked.
Tyron Osbourne, shocked by the soaring oval, managed to take a spooky photograph over his Brixington home.
He stared up in awe with neighbours Mark and Clare Emmins at the time, its trail appearing like a jet of flame.
Tyron said: "I have never seen anything like this. As for believing in aliens, I've always thought we are not alone in the universe and hoped to see something that would make me believe they would visit us.
"I didn't expect it to actually happen."
21. 'Orange' UFO in South Hams chase
The Torbay Investigators of the Paranormal received details of a sighting of an orangey reddish glow which was tracked along the Paignton to Totnes road and along towards Thurlestone in the South Hams in January, 2003.
The UFO was first seen by three friends as they travelled along the road.
They noticed it was rugby ball shaped and saw it again as they were driving up the hill towards Totnes. They then saw it over the Loddiswell area before it "shot off" towards Thurlestone and Burgh Island.
Spokesman and founder member of TIP, David Phillips, said: "They were so excited to see something, they travelled and followed it as far as they could."
22. Residents reported 'Strange lights' over Exeter
Residents living in the Cowick area of Exeter reported strange lights in the sky over the city at around midnight in March 2015.
One woman in Somerset Avenue described the phenomenon as a stationary "square of little red lights with a beam of light being directed toward the cattle market area."
She added that it was too large to be a helicopter.
The object was joined by "bright white objects" which after about 20 minutes moved towards Cowick and then disappeared.
She said: "I have never seen anything like it before. We get the occasional late aircraft heading for the airport but nothing like this."
23. Mysterious Brixham light show in the sky
A mysterious light show in the sky over Brixham Harbour in the April of 2006 left a Torquay couple scratching their heads.
Colin Hedworth and his wife watched five red glowing lights moving low and erratically in the sky for half an hour after returning from a night out.
Colin, who lived in Barton, said: "First there were three of them, sort of a soft amber glow like you would get with a flare, but the wind was in the wrong direction.
"Two of them went really close together, and then went away from each other into the clouds at a 45 degree angle.
"Then later, two more lights appeared."
24. Did Lee-anne see a UFO above Torbay?
UFO witness Lee-anne Taylor was baffled by the apparition which transfixed her for 10 minutes above Torquay in September 2007.
She saw mysterious red/orange lights in a Z-shape which hovered in the eastern sky in the direction of Thatcher Rock.
The vision was made all the more mysterious by the appearance of a peculiar cloud immediately above the area where the lights had made their tantalising presence felt.
Lee-anne said: "I asked my friend if he could see what I could because I thought I was going gah gah.
"And above the lights was a perfectly circular cloud, just like a plate. It looked as if someone had drawn it. It was just so weird."
25. Amateur astronomer caught UFO on camera
An amateur astronomer from Mid Devon captured a UFO on camera in October, 2009.
Lee Betts, from Newton St Cyres, said he does not believe in aliens - but he is unable to explain the strange things he saw, and admits he was, 'a bit freaked out'.
At around 8.30pm one evening, Lee went up to his bedroom, which faces north towards Raddon Hills and Cheriton Fitzpaine, and noticed a bright light outside.
Having studied astronomy on and off for years, Lee knew 'nothing pops up in the north' so he fetched his six-inch aperture telescope to take a closer look.
He saw a mysterious shape hovering around 1,000ft off the ground, four miles away. It stayed there for around an hour before disappearing in a flash of light like a shooting star. Lee calculated it was around 100ft long.
26. Unexplained lights mystified readers
There were various sightings of strange lights in the skies over Torbay in May, 2008.
The Webley family were settling in at their home in Thurlow Road when dad Gary called his family out on to the patio to have a look at some lights in the sky.
Gary said: "I was in the garden burning some wood when a bright light came over the top of the houses at a steady pace and stopped.
"It glowed and flickered for a while, moved to the right and shot off over towards Exeter.
"My wife grabbed her phone to video it as she couldn't explain it, and it frightened both my children. I consider myself a rational thinker but could not for the life of me explain what I was looking at."
27. Orange, red and green 'UFO' light show riddle
UFO fever again gripped the Bay in September 2007 when a string of witnesses recounted seeing a display of mystery lights over Paignton.
Ian Davies, manager of the Osborne Hotel in Torquay, revealed wish lanterns released by a wedding party at the hotel's Brasserie may have been responsible for prior sightings, but confirmed that the '100 or so' orange/red/green lights floating over parts of Paignton from the Dartmouth direction in September 2007 were nothing to do with him or his staff.
"I've checked — and it wasn't us," said Ian, who said the wedding guests who launched about a dozen wish lanterns at the beginning of the month had not obtained permission from staff to do so.
28. Mystified Paul claims he saw UFO over Exeter
Paul de Garis spotted something unusual in 2007 when he stepped out into his garden to have a cigarette, as his pregnant wife remained inside
Just as he lit up, a bright orange light came over head.
He said: “I think I saw a UFO or at least something quite strange in Exeter on Tuesday at around 10.45pm.”
“It was heading west to east and looked like an orange triangle-shape — it made no sound. It seemed to generate the orange light itself.”
Mr de Garis said the craft moved with such velocity it was difficult to follow.
After the sighting, Mr De Garis looked through some UFO websites to see if anything similar had been spotted by anyone else.
He said: “The thing I saw was glowing orange and it kind of jumped to the right as it travelled and kept on going in the same direction.”
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Here is a UFO video sent into me on my Twitter account. A person witnessed six or more glowing UFOs flying over their city in Australia on Sept 28th. The UFO video was great, however I did need to add a bit of light and contrast to make the UFOs more visible...as I explained in the video below. Australia is famous for its UFO sightings and the city of Caloundra is on the ocean, so most likely these UFOs came from an underwater alien base not far off shore. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
People staring at the night sky over the Trinity Park a couple of months ago might have seen a UFO.
A local geologist Adam Murfet caught an apparent UFO while recording on video an intense storm activity with his camera.
Mr Murfet said that he saw the strange light in the sky during the end of a lightning storm. He explained that there was no lightning going on by the time he noticed what could be described as an unidentified flying object.
The video shows a small object hovering, zipping around erratically and seemingly vanish before reappearing.
He said that it shot up and disappeared.
Then all of a sudden, the pitch black sky reignites with lightning quickly after the light vanished.
The possible existence of little green men in the skies makes Mr Murfet to consider starting a Northern Beaches UFO watchers group.
He said that he has never created one before, but believes they could form a group together to see what they could see.
He sent the footage to Mutual UFO Network for consideration.
Mr Murfet said that UFOs have always fascinated him, but it was the first time he has seen one.
Un phénomène inexpliqué s'est produit à Sarraltroff à la mi-juin 2018 : l'apparition d'un crop circle dans un champ de céréales. Depuis, les explications les plus variées se succèdent. Fin du suspens : le youtubeur AstronoGeek nous a révélé toute la vérité sur ce sympathique canular.
Par Sophie Gueffier
Mise à jour du 20/09/2018 Et notre équipe est retournée interroger Astronogeek pour boucler la boucle.
Un zeste de mystère, un soupçon de doute et une grosse dose d'inexpliqué.
Visible uniquement depuis le ciel, il suscite de nombreuses questions sur son origine. Le reportage que France 3 Lorraine a diffusé le 14 juin en témoigne:
La précision, la taille et le motif lui-même semblent si parfaits que le commun des mortels se met à douter de l'origine humaine de l'apparition. Car, comme chacun sait : "nul n'est parfait", "la perfection n'est pas de ce monde" et "à l'impossible nul n'est tenu"
C'est AstronoGeek qui a voulu démystifier tout cela.
Ce mosellan a créé sa chaîne Youtube sur ce concept simple : Répondre scientifiquement, aux questions fondamentales qui nous viennent chaque jour à l'esprit :
Avons-nous été visités par un vaisseau extra-terrestre ?
Pourquoi la Terre doit-elle être plate ?
La Sibérie dévastée par une comète.
Sommes-nous vraiment allés sur la Lune ?
Ou encore sommes-nous seuls dans l'univers ?
Mais aussi, plus prosaïquement nous aider à comprendre les basiques de l'astronomie. Le youtubeur compte plus de 300 000 abonnés. Un bon curseur pour juger de sa crédibilité.
Mais patatras !
La science versus les idées reçues
AstronoGeek fait voler toutes les hypothèses paranormales et ufologiques en éclats.
Il a posté vendredi 24 Août un premier volet d'une vidéo en trois parties intitulée : "les Preuves" Vidéo de 45 minutes, dans laquelle il révèle, au grand dam de tous les amateurs de petits-hommes-verts, qu'il est lui-même l'auteur, compositeur, de ce formidable cercle de culture. Ses amis youtubeurs, comme Defakator, qui navigue lui-aussi sur les vagues de la démystification et du démontage de "fake news", ont passé une nuit à reproduire à une échelle géante, un dessin géométrique, imaginé quelque temps avant. Avec l'autorisation du cultivateur du champ de blé.
Une à une, toutes les hypothèses émises pour mettre en doute le caractère humain de la chose, sont démontées scientifiquement.
Ce qui prouve que les extra-terrestres n'ont pas réalisé ces magnifiques dessins.
Heureusement, il n'a pas encore réussi à prouver la non-existence de ces extra-terrestres. Il nous reste bien des questions à nous poser...
Most of the time when we talk about silly scientific papers related to alien life, we're talking about crazy ideas for how to find aliens. But a new study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society proposes a way of hiding from aliens. Humans are so fickle.
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A lot of our search for Earth-like planets (and, by extension, for life as we know it) hinges on transiting planets. These are planets that pass in front of their host star in such a way that the transit is visible from our perspective. The movement of the planet in front of the host star makes the light from that star dim or flicker, and we can use that to determine all sorts of things about distant worlds — including how suitable they may be for life.
Some scientists have suggested that we should hope that Earth is a transiting planet from the perspective of some other world that hosts intelligent life. In other words, our best shot at finding aliens might be hoping that they're using exactly the same methods of planetary detection that we are, and that they can see the passage of Earth in front of the sun with their telescopes. If we made a lot of noise in the direction of those theoretical planets, we might get their attention faster.
Or we could point lasers at them instead.
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Professor David Kipping and graduate student Alex Teachey, both of Columbia University, decided to see how much laser light it would take to mask the dimming caused by our planet's transit. According to their math, it would take about 10 continuous hours of shining a 30 MW laser once a year to eliminate the transit signal in visible light. Actually replicating every wavelength of light emitted by the sun would take about 250 MW of power.
"Alternatively, we could cloak only the atmospheric signatures associated with biological activity, such as oxygen, which is achievable with a peak laser power of just 160 kW per transit. To another civilization, this should make the Earth appear as if life never took hold on our world," Teachey said in a statement.
This assumes, of course, that the aliens in question haven't already figured out more sophisticated (or just very different) methods for detecting a planet's habitability. It's possible that they'd catch on to our little laser show pretty quickly.
There's a big, interdisciplinary debate about whether we should try to contact intelligent life from other planets. To be fair, it's possible that we'd really, really regret it. Humans are kind of the worst, so intelligent life has a pretty bad track record so far.
"Our work offers humanity a choice, at least for transit events, and we should think about what we want to do," Kipping said in a statement.
But it could also be really great. And hey, the chances are slim anyway — especially now that we know it's pretty easy to hide from our best method for detecting Earth-like planets. I already worry that people are ignoring my texts because they hate me. Now I get to wonder if aliens might be pointing lasers at us because they think we're gross, and they just can't even.
'It felt like rape' - Woman claims she was 'aggressively probed' after being abducted by aliens
'It felt like rape' - Woman claims she was 'aggressively probed' after being abducted by aliens
Lisa Tenney also says that she has met with higher beings that feel like members of her family throughout years of 'extra terrestrial experiments'
By Kara O'Neill
A woman who believes she has been abducted by aliens says she was "aggressively probed" by extra-terrestrial beings.
Lisa Tenney, 40, has shared her story and claims a number of different aliens have 'captured' her over the years, since the age of about six.
The life coach, from Idaho, USA, describes meeting both evil and friendly extra-terrestrials and wants to encourage others with similar experiences to openly talk about what they saw and felt.
Talking to Earth Mystery News , Lisa said: "My first experience I can remember is these beings coming through a wall in my room.
Lisa describes her experiences with both friendly and 'evil' aliens
"And somehow I ended up being able to go through the wall with them."
Lisa said she was around age five or six at the time of her first alien abduction.
Lisa says her experiences were sometimes "aggressive"
"I would be in a ship. Like physically be on a metal-ish, solid, cool surface.
Lisa's sketch of the alien coming into her bedroom at night
She believes she's had contact with 'evil beings' from a government project, known as MyLab, as well as visits from other 'higher beings' she considers to be like family members.
Lisa also claims that the MyLab beings would "aggressively" examine her genitals.
Lisa believes she was raped by 'MyLab' aliens
She tells the cameras: "There was no emotional connection. It felt like rape. It was not a good feeling."
Lisa then says that she has been left with physical scarring from the probings. After having three children, she was forced to get her uterus removed - which she believes is a result of the alien examination.
Lisa also says most of her experiences occurred with her twin sister at night after they had gone to bed from when she was six, right through to her teens.
She says some of her experiences were shared with her sister
But while Lisa is comfortable talking about her memories, she admits that her sister won't talk openly about alien abduction.
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Over mijzelf
Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
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Last call if we want to save the planet from devastating climate change, scientists warn
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moon landings were all staged. But these recorded broadcasts could not go on forever. So enter the cold war, and the fear of the communist treat, and then the Vietnam war, then Korean war, etc. There is allot for the public to occupy their minds with. But the space flights never stopped. Now, I want you to admire the picture below. It was taken by John Glenn in 1962. Look at the quality of this image. Beautiful. It has that 60’s look. But more importantly, It is one of the very few pictures that has not been manipulated in any way.
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Yet UFOs behave in ways that refute a simple psychological explanation. Decades of multiple-witness encounters, complete with anomalous radar returns, leave little doubt that UFOs are a physical reality.
